Starter Summon Druid - Ravens, Wolves and Bears

Viability / Purpose of the Build

The easiest druid starter build with zero gear requirements. Season 13 heavily nerfed Ravens, doing only cold damage and reducing the early damage numbers.
This impacts early game hard but endgame its still good. You will have to make some earlier gear upgrades to reach the same-ish damage potential, full zoo is better now because you have to compensate. There are a few variations of the Druid Summoner, you can go a standard Zoo with Aldurs Helm, Full Wolves with Athena's and Fenris or only Bears with Denmother.
Check the links below for some videos.

Druid Summoner Normal Run video - In S13 your early damage will lack, suggested to put more points into Spirit Wolves when you can.
Druid Summoner Farm & Ubers video - In S13 you need to rely on you whole Zoo to farm Ubers, but its still very possible.
Druid Summoner Uber Tristram - As you can see, in S13 its a lot hard to run Uber Tristram with very low budget gear. But it's still possible.
Druid Summoner Diablo Clone - Diablo Clone is a lot harder now without Ravens damage. Probably still possible, but the gear requirements have gone up.

Skills

See picture for skills. Start with Ravens, then get 6 Spirit Wolves as soon as possible, start on Heart of Wolverine and alternate until Grizzly Bears.
Max Spirit Wolves, Bears, Heart of Wolverine, Ravens and the remaining points into Gust.

If you want to do bosses, put your remaining points into Lycanthropy and 1pt into Werewolf instead of Gust. Keep 1pt in Gust ofcourse.

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Attributes

Get str/dex for gear, rest in vitality. You can prepare for Athena's Wrath, 82str/82dex and Denmother, 95str.

Gear

For summons its basically all about the +skills so get as many as you can. Season 12 added FCR on Large Charms, use these to get the needed FCR breakpoints early.

Druid summons work with active skills for synergies, unlike necro, so +skills are key for damage (and pre-buff is less useful).

Early Game Gear

Neophyte in a white/regular 2 socket +3 Ravens club, also look out for white/regular 2 socket +3 Grizzly clubs. Same goes for helmet (or pelt), Lore +3 Ravens into Lore +3 Bears. Just make sure its a white/regular 2 socketed one.
Best spots to find these bases is big density areas like cows or flayer jungle. Preferably no MF and a low filter strictness.
+3 Amulet, Sigons shield and a rare +1 Druid armor are all good. Get 46 or 68 FCR for smoother resummoning of Ravens.

Check out THIS LINK for the early game skills and gear. Best slams are sockets and +1 all skills where possible.

Mid Game Gear

Get an Athena's Scythe, Aldurs Helm and Skin of the Vipermagi as soon as possible.
Full Aldurs is alright, less +skills but quite a bit of safety. Ofcourse be on the lookout for a Fenris or Denmother. Both are very good.

Check out THIS LINK for the mid game skills and gear. Best slams are sockets and +1 all skills where possible.

Check THIS LINK for Full Aldurs setup. Best slams are sockets and +1 all skills where possible.

Mercenary

A1 Fire for Vigor. Look for bows with Amplify Damage. Ideally a Witchwild String. Give her IAS/Pierce wherever possible.
A3 Cold for Blizzard DPS with a Spirit paladin shield, Neophyte sceptre, Stealth armor and random 10fcr belt/gloves for 86fcr.
Act 4 Dark for Amplify Damage, give him a Purity or Insight staff, Stealth armor and another piece of gear with 10fcr for 75fcr.
Act 5 for Might aura. Look out for rare weapons with Amplify Damage. Ideally you want a Vile Husk.

Leveling

The build works for SC and HC. In normal Ravens and wolves are all you need, later Bears will tank for you. And even though Ravens have been nerfed hard, they still do a good amount of damage.
Gust gives you the added bonus of a free teleport to move around, you're basically a tanky sorc.

Farming

You can farm Pits, Stony Tomb, Travincal, Chaos and Shenk & Eldritch, get that Athena's asap! With midgame gear you can also easily do Uber Tristram for your own Torch.
You can also kill Diablo Clone with it to get your own Annihilus, but I suggest to get level 35+ summons. Uber Ancients is also a good spot, just keep resummoning your Bears, Wolves and Ravens and keep your mercenary alive.

Patch Notes/Changelog

Updated for Season 13
Updated for Season 12
Updated for Season 11
Created for Season 10

Acknowledgments

TDL (and lots of other people from the Discord)

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