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Druid

Diablo 4 Druid BuildShred the Big Dipper

Season 2
End Game
Shred the Big DipperDruid build
Skills and Gear
Skill Tree
Paragon Board

Assigned skills

Primary
Secondary

Spirit Boons

Deer
Eagle
Wolf
Snake

Equipment

HelmTempest Roar
Chest ArmorAspect of Disobedience
GlovesStormclaw's Aspect
PantsVigorous Aspect
BootsAspect of the Dark Howl
AmuletAspect of the Blurred Beast
Ring 1X'Fal's Corroded Signet
Ring 2Aspect of Retaliation
WeaponAspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
OffhandDire Wolf's Aspect

Gems

WeaponEmerald
ArmorRuby
JewelryDiamond

Vampiric Powers
divinity6
ferocity7
eternity4

Anticipation
divinity1
Metamorphosis
divinity2
eternity2
ferocity2
Flowing Veins
divinity2
eternity2
ferocity2
Ravenous
ferocity3
Anticipation
divinity1

Skills

Basic

Storm Strike
1
Enhanced Storm Strike

Core

Shred
5
Enhanced Shred
Primal Shred
Predatory Instinct
3
Digitigrade Gait
2

Defensive

Blood Howl
1
Enhanced Blood Howl
Preserving Blood Howl
Cyclone Armor
1
Enhanced Cyclone Armor
Preserving Cyclone Armor
Debilitating Roar
5
Enhanced Debilitating Roar
Preserving Debilitating Roar
Ancestral Fortitude
1
Vigilance
3

Wrath

Neurotoxin
1
Envenom
3
Toxic Claws
3
Elemental Exposure
1
Endless Tempest
3
Hurricane
1
Enhanced Hurricane
Savage Hurricane

Ultimate

Grizzly Rage
1
Prime Grizzly Rage
Supreme Grizzly Rage
Defensive Posture
3
Nature's Resolve
3
Unrestrained
3

Passive

Lupine Ferocity
1
2
Storm Strike
3
Enhanced Storm Strike
4
Predatory Instinct
5
Predatory Instinct
6
Predatory Instinct
7
Cyclone Armor
8
Enhanced Cyclone Armor
9
Preserving Cyclone Armor
10
Blood Howl
11
Enhanced Blood Howl
12
Preserving Blood Howl
13
Ancestral Fortitude
14
Vigilance
15
Vigilance
16
Vigilance
17
Elemental Exposure
18
Endless Tempest
19
Endless Tempest
20
Endless Tempest
21
Hurricane
22
Enhanced Hurricane
23
Neurotoxin
24
Envenom
25
Envenom
26
Envenom
27
Toxic Claws
28
Grizzly Rage
29
Prime Grizzly Rage
30
Supreme Grizzly Rage
31
Defensive Posture
32
Defensive Posture
33
Defensive Posture
34
Nature's Resolve
35
Nature's Resolve
36
Nature's Resolve
37
Unrestrained
38
Unrestrained
39
Unrestrained
40
Shred
41
Enhanced Shred
42
Primal Shred
43
Toxic Claws
44
Toxic Claws
45
Shred
46
Shred
47
Shred
48
Shred
49
Debilitating Roar
50
Debilitating Roar
51
Debilitating Roar
52
Debilitating Roar
53
Debilitating Roar
54
Enhanced Debilitating Roar
55
Preserving Debilitating Roar
56
Digitigrade Gait
57
Digitigrade Gait
58
Lupine Ferocity
59
Savage Hurricane

Build Details

How It Works
Summary

Another build around the unique Tempest Roar, allowing you to stay in wolf form and dish out copious amounts of damage with shred and poison.

Feng is the original creator of this build, in my opinion, his greatest idea was to not use Vulnerability in the build as it creates more problems than it solves, Feng's solution was to focus on double dipping mechanics rather than using more multipliers like Vulnerability.

This build will have mana issues if you miss play, playing without a generator is fine but requires you to understand how mana is generated in the build. Hurricane is a huge source of mana for the build, every critical strike will generate mana, that gets increased with increased spirit generation from our rings. As long as you don’t spam Shred without hitting enemies, you shouldn’t suffer. It feels pretty bad at the start when you are inexperienced, I'd recommend removing Debilitating Roar for Storm Strike until you get better at it.

Here's how the build Double Dips, we apply poison with Shred with our passive Toxic Claws (+2 on our amulet is very important) and the poison will proc thanks to the Blurred Beast Aspect. When the proc happens your Shred will have dealt more damage than normal, and that damage will re-apply poison, so repeating this entire process will increase our damage infinitely. All our damage multipliers that affect poison will also likely dip twice and massively increase our damage.

Grizzly Rage is a core part of the build as it provides us with Unstoppable and additional Crit Damage Multipliers, it’s also the reason we don’t run too much Critical Damage as it will be provided by the Rampaging Werebeast Aspect. To use Grizzly Rage we use the Dire Wolf Aspect that turns this bear skill into a Werewolf Skill.

Be sure to have Grizzly Rage up for Bosses, as you will have mana issue on a single target without it. On Elites and Trash, you don’t really need GR to have sufficient Spirit.

In-Depth Explanation

Core Skill

For our core skill, we use Shred, it’s a bit of a special skill because it requires a fine touch from the player, the Blurred Aspect will only activate the jump when you are not in melee with the target, so to play this build it will require your to perform an Orb walk similarly to how you would play an AD carry in a MOBA.

Gameplay Loop
  • Pop your Grizzly Rage
  • Activate Hurricane
  • Activate Blood Howl
  • Leap onto Enemies with Shred
  • Attack enemies a few times in melee to stack the poison, walk a few steps backwards and use Shred Again, it will then activate Blurred Beast Aspect, repeat this step till enemies are dead.
  • Activate Debilitating Roar when facing strong enemies, you should have close to 40% uptime, so feel free to spam it as it also gives your Fortify.
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