In order to distinguish the Druid’s summoning capabilities from the Necromancer’s abilities they execute, to a large degree, in a different fashion. The Druid’s pets are less monster-like, as they are wild animals, called forth from nature, rather than dredged up from a monster corpse. This is where the Druid most resembles the Necromancer, though his minions are rather different than skeletons, golems, or revived monsters. You’ll be able to come and go from town in animal form, if you wish. If when shifted you wish to change into another form or back to human form before the duration of the skill is up you simply recast the skill.Īnother cool aspect of the shape-shifting is that it won’t wear off when you enter town.
But you are able to use Summon skills to boost AR and Hit Points for example, however if you have transformed yourself into a wolf you can only summon wolves and the same with shifting to a Bear. So you could activate a Fissure and Tornado then quickly shift into another form. So if he had a cold-enhanced bow for example and shifted into a grizzly form the damage and cold damage would be transferred to his attack with his paws.Įlemental skills can not be used while shifted into either form but they can be used immediately prior to shape shifting. The properties of the equipped items at the time of shifting are transferred to his new form. These boost his attacking abilities while in the animal form, are appropriate to the type of animal. He has two types of creatures to shift into, and in each form there are related skills that can only be used when in that form. A Druid could play all magical, using only the Summoning and Elemental trees, and he’d be much like a Necromancer with more powerful skills their damage was increased so it balances out. You can see he picks up a decent amount of mana per point in energy, but he needs to feed all of the attributes, more so than any of the other characters. 75 with each level up, even though you won’t see a figure change to x.5 and x.25 the Druid will be benefiting from the fraction of life increase and LoD will round the figured down for display purposes only. With the example above with life increasing by. Statistics and Figures AttributeĪs Diablo 2 rounds down figures displayed you will see a discrepancy at times. Fabulously handy for the Druid but if he’s playing with a Necromancer he won’t be none too happy and it’ll be handbags at dawn. He differs from the Necromancer in that he doesn’t need corpses to raise his summonables but they consume them and on a rather large scale in fact. Carrion Vine for example, which eats corpses to give life back to the Druid, can go through a field of dead and clear what’s left. His minions aren’t as powerful or numerous as the Necromancers’, but he has a number of very powerful elemental attacks, better than the Necromancer’s attack skills, and with the shape shifting he can get into the battle personally and do substantial damage. The Druid is not as passive a “stand around” sort of character as the Necromancer. He also has more combat skills than either the Necromancer or Sorceress, with his various shape-shifting abilities, which allow him to become much more powerful in combat for the duration of the transformation. He can also change his own shape into creatures such as a huge cave bear, or a dire wolf, and then use these forms to call upon further powers.Īs with the Assassin we see Sorceress elements here with his Elemental attacks but also some Necromancer-like tendencies in his ability to raise and command pets. His Primal bond with nature allows him to command many beasts and plants, summoning ravens, wolves, vines, and even natural spirits to do his bidding. His Elemental powers give him control over fire, earth and the winds. The Druid controls both Elemental and Prime magic. The sight of what was thought to be a common beast transforming into a vengeful Druid kept many a potential uprising in check. Because of this ability, the tribes under their rule knew that they could be watched at any time. Perhaps the most notable power of these Druids is their ability to change their form into that of an animal. As masters of the natural world, they were able to control living creatures and the very forces of nature.
They served as the warrior-kings of their tribes, usually living apart from their people in massive stone towers that were covered with vines and ivy. The Druids who inhabit the northern forests of Scosglen developed their magic independently from the eastern mage clans.
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