Post by MagnateYou have a point - I think I overstated my case. What I meant to say was
that Fury wolves stayed static while all around them got lots of whizzy
synergies in 1.10. So when the monsters suddenly got a lot tougher, the
wolf had a harder time than before. Having said that, the Fury wolf
remains more viable post-1.10 than other favoured 1.09 builds
I'm not sure they became harder to use, just more gear dependent, same as
pretty much every physical damage based char did in 1.10(barbs, wolves,
zealots, bowzons...).
Post by Magnate(I'm thinking of GA zons and Hydra sorcs, neither of which you see much
any more).
We don't see GA zons much anymore? Wha? While zons aren't the build that
everyone and their grandmother runs these days, I still see tons of bowzons
out there, both in duel games and regular pvm play. And based on what I see,
if I were to guess, I'd say 95% of those bowzons on bnet(mine included) max
and use GA as one of their primary skills. Not only watching the zons, but
whenever bowzons are asked about in channel, the suggestion always includes
maxing GA. You just don't see GA a much in general play cause the zon will
use MS/Strafe when leveling because those are mob killers. GA is single
target(and with the pierce bug being fixed, there's now little reason to use
a single target skill over a mob clearing skill, generally speaking), and
generally sees use against bosses and the occasional priority enemy or
running enemy. You're right about hydra sorcs being uncommon now though,
I've only seen a couple beyond my own, though they still do fine(barring the
limitations of the sorc class in general, you can go pure fire and rely on
teammates to kill immunes, or you can hybrid, as I did).
Post by MagnateI think it's still fair to say that the Fury wolf has life less easy since
1.10 than he did before, but I guess I went a bit far in describing it as
screwed.
Depends on the gear, I suppose. Dracs makes them basically invincible in
regular PvE play, couple it with an eBotD(or similar) weapon of some sort
with those nasty 5 digit damage numbers, tack on some CB and DS gear, and
well, not sure that's making things much tougher on em than it was before. I
know my wolf can take down monsters in full 8 player Hell games in a couple
of hits, and with tap he well, doesn't die unless he runs into something
like conviction souls(which can be nasty against most builds, even the
vaunted hammerdins), so I can't really say his life is a lot rougher than
older Fury druids. Although if you're playing untwinked, yeah, you'll
probably wanna avoid playing a wolf.