What about a really expensive runeword that gives a level 1 salvation aura (+60% all res to the party?).A shield that gives +3-4 to druid summoning skills plus some other nice stats?.A weapon runeword that has a chance to cast level 8-12 grizzly… Again, if synergy bonuses boost the grizzly, summon druids would get more value than other classes? Maybe this would allow summon druids to have bears AND wolves follow them?.A runeword for axes/maces that has a 15% chance to cast a level 20-25 dire wolf on attack/striking? This way summon druids could invest skill points into bear and spirit wolf so the dire wolf that this weapon procs get’s the synergy bonuses? This would eliminate the need to invest points into dire wolf and free up some points?.A unique druid pelt that has +5 to summon grizzly?.If they made these runewords/items so that they are only BiS for summon druids, they can buff the summon druid without buffing the other druid types by accident (or other classes by accident)… Phoenix is good for fire druids and fireclaw druids…Ī lot of summon druid balance problems could probably be fixed if they created some proper rune words specifically designed to make summon druids stronger.

Shape shifters also have Beast runeword (summon druids often use it, but it’s not specifically for them). Shapeshifters have Cerberus Bite and Jalal’s. What if we changed this discussion and thought about what kinds of new runewords could we introduce that would make summon druids better? This would save the devs a lot of coding trying to make the summon druid stronger…įire druids have Ravenlore and now Flickering Flame. There has been a lot of discussion to make summon druids stronger by improving their skills…īut this presents a lot of balance problems, because so many druid builds use summons to augment their build…

Diablo 2 resurrected druid runewords