What would you think of....

[Mikedok]

1.) High life always helps, but most of the time Stun prevents you from being hit. (please note on how the bear fares against LEBs...I am curious). Therefore, this could definitely be a hell viable build... if you are lucky.

The high life is why I picked druid for this no stats build. With no points in vit, 20 in oak sage, and about 8 in lycanthropy he has about 500hp. LEB's currently are a problem. His regular gear has almost no lightning resist (for now), so he doesn't fight them. He lets his merc kill them. Once he finds better equip I'll let you know how it goes. I hope to find a decent one handed weapon and a 3D shield for his weapon switch. He'll use it use when I think that resistances will be needed. I know one handed stinks for werebear, but in hardcore you can't be too careful.

2.) number 1 could be flawed because my werebear has quite high defense which also prevents him from being hit often.

Considering that I will have low strength, equiping items with high defense will be difficult. I assume this character will end up with a very low defense rating.

3.) Shockwave has uses the go beyond allowing you to stun monsters and beat the crap out of them. It is also a very good way to "park" monsters which you feel will be too difficult to kill.

I certainly plan to invest in shockwave. I've played a werebear who mainly relies on summons for doing damage, shockwave was invaluable to him. It's a great skill that I think is under-valued by most of the B-net community. He is lvl 30 right now, and just put the first point in shockwave.