Some ideas for 5.0

[rrra]

Can i suggest some druid buffs?

Fire Claw - The damage is great, however the speed / framerate doesnt do it justice to make a build around it - would be great to have a faster frame attack/ or even like chance to cast fissure or something when using it.

Sages summons- They are great, but die so easily, usually just drift off into the enemy and die in one hit. Also their is very limited gear choice for druid to get the extra +summons - only fullmoon and abyss sphere.

(would also love to see the classic Ribcracker buffed / alternate version miss this awesome wep (2 handers in general)

Yeah the changes to bears and wolves a patch or two back destroyed the attack speed potential for fireclaws bears. The attack speed for wolves doesn't seem too bad though although you definitely wont be getting 6+ attacks/second like you used to be able to do with bears. With azurewrath and the unholy might aura, my druid seems to do about 3 or 4 attacks/second.

That being said, I have no clue at all how attack speed works for shifters now except for what Game said awhile back about wolves being faster.

That being said, fireclaws actually looks like a viable build now. If only I had an azmodan armor and flame horizon to test it with. A full build should be able to get at least 20k base + up to another 40 from enchant and fire damage. Getting to -200 fire shouldn't be too hard with 125 base from azmodan armor and flame horizon. So there's 120k damage per hit.

I find that if I use bo on my summons, they dont die very often. Another trick you can do is use something with a salvation aura (azurewrath, seraphs hymn) on you or your merc. That will make your summons gain immunities.