Oddities with Rabies

[Crystalion]

Stray thought for PvM: Rabies and flee :)

Yes, in discussing technical (i.e. "workshop" forum) issues I often neglect to emphasize (what to me are) the obvious strategic (i.e. "armory" forum) benefits.

I made a -act 3 clvl 21 druid and twinked him with:
1) cash
2) greater healing potions
3) Khalim's Will

With the cash I shopped Charsi and Gheed and acquired 47% net faster hit recovery (past the 42% stated at Tommi's hit recovery and blocking speed tables for a breakpoint to 4 frame recovery. I distributed most of my stat points into Vit (saving some in case I needed Str or Dex. At 60 mana for clvl 21 I knew I had plenty for what I'd be doing).

I then made a cow portal and left the game (leaving the test Druid in players 1 with access to MooMooFarm).

I put a point into Lycanthropy (for convenience of wereform duration), prereq points, one each, to Werewolf and Feral Rage, as many as I could into Rabies and the rest into Poison Creeper (I then grabbed the Den of Evil point and put it into PC as well).

With this "no uncommon equipment required" build (terrible AC, soso to-hit, little physical damage to speak of and only 1-40 lightning) I totally owned the cows (they at mlvl 27+ and me at 21).

The King never even got to emit lightning. :D

I gained a level and a half doing the clear and also scored a druid hat with +1 to Rabies. B)

Since Poison Creeper is one of the easy early "great race" skills to pump, clearly you could bootstrap this character easily.

The build isn't point intensive (completing in the very early 40s), so you can later add Fireclaws(lots, incl. synergies) or Fury(20)/Grizzly(20 in dire wolf) according to your preference.