db_jynx Wrote:the highest dmg will be melee druid if your looking at 1 skill vs 1 skill... however you also have to factor in clicking 50 times on a non-PI character using ~7k+ nados with the 2nd to last fcr bp... if you like to tele and use spells.. a wind druid... if you like melee, then fury druid i guess. they're both fine PvM although windy is a little more versatile (i.e. teleing, rushing, ability to tele away from pack of PIs, etc). If you don't like casting, then go Fury, if you like casters, go Windy.. its pretty simple bro.
And lynch, you really don't play too too much, nor do you know about many builds. Don't take this personally, but a godly windy costs more than you will ever be able to afford. Specifically Ladder, elem lifers/elem FHR gcs cost 5 times as much as any SS gc and 10 times as much as any Summon gc and the FHR/Res Life/Res Life/Mana will cost just as much as ar/lifer or max/ar/lifer scs... the FCR rings you will use will cost 50times as much as any melee ring you use... the ammy itself as Frater suggested will cost what your fury druid costs. the fury weapon, if ANY1 has it on ANY realm will be the sexiest wpn for a dozen classes (ur ccsoq which i have never seen myself.. and i doubt you have)... gl obtaining that even in theory or a comparable sword/zerker. With items that are obtainable by a player, rich or poor, a windy will always cost more. Helm/Ammy/Rings/GCs/SCs all cost an as.sload. Do some research on any great windy vs any great fury druid.... the windy's gear will cost 3-5imes as much and they will also own the game comparedly. Windys are the superior character in all aspects and the more expensive.
Do you have to have a godly windy to survive? PvM wise fury can get away with most stuff because of life leech casters are a little more difficult. You find a fury druid that can beat a good smiter or zealer 85% of the time I'll put cold hard cash on it that his setup equals possibly even doubles that of your own. What makes you think everything a windy uses is so much more? I've seen expensive caster rings and ammys but on the flip side I've seen expensive melee ammys and rings also. Try and think about the cost difference between any average caster vs. any average melee. Melee will easily win that one. Simply put, there is just more things that melee characters need to have that casters don't. I don't see alot of casters walking around with a inventory of 30/20/20 even on nl, I can't imagine the thought on ladder. O yes and btw, all gcs can give extra mods not just elemental gcs. CCSoQ and the other Cruel * of Quickness were made unavailable in the .09 patch when blizzard changed the cube rules for adding sockets to magic weapons. (you can still get the mods but you lose the sockets you must have to make the item godly.) Imagine a .08 Valk, but like 500 x harder to get and you get the cost. These weapons were ULTRA-RARE even in .09, very limited numbers have made it to 1.11b and the price now is almost inhuman.
~Lynch~