Level 89 Druid, struggling to not die in T15 maps, please help

Loving this char, but I cannot consistently survive T15/Juiced T14 maps without getting one shotted. I'm following Woolie's Wolf Druid build, and from what I can tell, I have mostly all of the same gear/passives with specs, yet I am struggling hard and its killing my enjoyment of the game. Any tips or suggestions would be VERY much appreciated. I only have like 25 Divs to my name, so please keep that in mind. Thanks a lot to anyone who can help!

Build Guide: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/woolie-wolfman?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C5#equipment-5

My Build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/fk6q30la

Edit: no idea why Maxroll via Path of Building linked my ranger char with my druid setup....will need to repost this later. Sorry, not at my PC for a couple hours.

Comments

_Gamerssz_2 days ago4

For starters, there are a few variants of the oracle wolf Druid. I personally tried Woolies at first and optimized it isn’t suppose to be giga tanky at the end of the day. So I personally used moxsy’s oracle wolf Druid (you can find his YouTube and Maxroll if you type moxsy oracle Druid in google) and had a lot more success in the tanky department without dipping into blood magic. Moxsy uses a combination of health and leech + energy shield around 3.5-4K with high start of recovery so it begins around 1.5-1.8 seconds after taking dmg + Mind over Matter (MoM) to have around 1.5-2k mana as health as well. Making his effective hp pool pretty substantial but again, not giga tanky just felt more consistent than blood magic for me personally.

However if you want to stick with it you definitely need to get way more life regeneration on your gear. The reason he can tank a lot more is because of his pounce setup combined with zealots oath and all the regeneration he stacks.

TLDR: morior invictus should have life regen per socket Spirit per socket Elemental or chaos resist per socket

I would recommend chaos resist because you can get elemental resist a lot easier on gear with a few chaos resist rolls or cores to hit 75%

Rolls with health on all pieces you can afford

Past that there are Chaos inoculation and other builds that leech energy shied back that have another form of recovery but that would require changing your build a lot more. Hope that helps.

Jaszuni2 days ago2

You have < 1000 life, 800 Es and 9% chaos res. Yeah your gonna get smacked around

PigKnight2 days ago2

I'm assuming the life and ES are wrong and you have decent amounts. I'd get more chaos res. Chaos has very chunky damage and degens. Also juiced maps will kill you. That's the nature of the beast.

tmsjns2 days ago1

I made a ice wolf monk, dont know if it helps but here my guy

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/t0mj0n3s-1003/character/thanamelessguy

Hes no where near finished but he handles most things

trobnor1 day ago1

I started out on woolie but ended up shifting to this as I could not get the life regen to work due to never being full health

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/trobnor-3049/character/Florisch

xmalhafiz1 day ago1

I played Oracle with Bow so my build is quite different, but should be applicable regardless.

Link: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/iqmalhafizbzz-0979/character/Druidcha

  • Go CI so you don't need to worry about Chaos Res
  • Just focus on ES, it's much easier. There's a node on tree that take some % of your ES as stun threshold
  • 3 ways to scale damage; Crit (Oracle, Weapon and Skill Tree), Rage (Berserk, Eternal Rage - you might not even need Eternal Rage with Wolf and the Bear rage generation warcry), and Spell Damage (Crown of Eyes unique helm and skill tree which converts your Rage to Spell Damage). Please note that to maintain Berserk, you need 1 life regen suffix either from ring or body armour.
  • ES Leech with Essentia Sanguis + 1x Leech suffix on rings + 1x 15% Leech is instant from From Nothing diamond.
  • Reaching 7k ES is very easy with just a 800ES body which is cheap (without spirit).
  • You'll need 187 total spirit if you want to implement Eternal Rage (100 spirit). I put Dialla Desire on my Herald so it cost only 27 spirit. You can get spirit from 100 default, 60+15 amulet, up to 30 from corrupted enchantment on helmet, and body armour (expensive and take the ES spot).
  • if you struggle with Ele Res, focus on getting them from max roll Essentia Sanguis + 2 slot, and then 2/3 slot boots, and dedicate 1 "res" rings. That should fulfill all your res already. Your other ring can be your attack + life leech rings. For body, just focus on getting 1x regen, and as much ES as you can afford.
  • Skill tree adjustment is straightforward but very important. Omit the bow tree, and get the shapeshift tree + all the "gain as extra" node. You need to get the splash damage node, and anoint the one that gives you + level to melee strike range. That will give your basic attack a larger AOE, thus indirectly increases your survivability.
  • with a 1100 body you should easily get around 10k ES. But a 800 body should get you around 8k ES which isn't bad.
Nugentwoabout 15 hours ago1

scaling. hit lvl 90 and it will be easier.

partially related- Just hit 97 and now I'm seeing Divs more consistently and better loot than I ever saw at 96.

False_Bus71622 days ago1

global defences on your body armour, iron slippers node, heavy armour node and spiral into depression node. snag a megalomaniac diamond with one of those skills on it

once you hit about 85-89 % armour you notice a huge difference in tankiness.

i run t3 simulacrums all day with this - https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/zZooterZz-6933/character/BurntPP

BoogerTea892 days ago1

Your ehp is too low. 3k is nothing.

The breach ring doesnt have enough like affixes to make use of the 40%

Ditch it for another with more attack modifiers, or get a ring with resistance implicit.

Your weapon should have 2 sockets.

This is my build if you care to look.

boogers build

TrueYahve2 days ago0

I'm following woolie, I got powerful around level 94-95

Also, get a morior with chaos res, you haven't yet maxed out your resistances. That is a major detriment to you. You should have 75% in all four as your number one priority.

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