Best early druid Build - WOLF or BEAR

From ZiggyD's presentation, it became clear that at the beginning of the campaign, the bear and wolf skill “packages” work best together with strong and consistent synergies. While building a build that destroys at the beginning of Whyvern is a little more complicated, and a Magic Druid is dependent on more resources that you only have available later in the game.

For this reason, I am putting together two bulletproof builds for you to run through the campaign without any major problems. One Slam bear build and one Ice Wolf build. Enjoy!

BEAR BUILD

Right at the beginning, we unlock Maul and Furious Slam. Maul is our basic attack, our Rage generator. Furious Slam is used when your rage is almost at its maximum, increasing your damage and killing enemies in the area.

Use Pounce for better mobility and to weaken your enemies.

For elite enemies or bosses, use Volcano to boost your damage. It gets even better when you unlock Shockwave Totem, which will synergize with both Volcano and your Furious Slam.

Next, we unlock the @Fury of the Mountain skill, which will be our basic attack, replacing Maul. Replace the support gems with each other.

Ferocious Roar will buff our attacks. And at gem level 13, we end up releasing @Walking Calamity, which should be active whenever possible.

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WOLF BUILD

Right at the start, we unlock @Lunar Assault and @Shred. @Lunar Assault is usually your first move, use it to freeze your enemies.

Once frozen, use Shred to finish them off. When you use Shred on frozen enemies, you generate Ice Fragments around them.

The next skill you will unlock is Pounce, your main movement skill. When you have spare gems, put @freezing mark on Pounce to make freezing easier and deal more damage.

The next skill you will unlock is @artic Howl. Use it and maintain your buff to increase your damage.

At this point in the game, you should have @thunderstorm and @Entangle unlocked. These are persistent skills that last a few seconds. You'll have to test whether or not it's worth your time to use them, but I imagine they'll help you against bosses and elites in the beginning. It gets better when we unlock Thrashing Vines.

Finally, we get @Cross Slash, which is the finishing skill of the combo. It will activate the enemy's marks and Icefragments, dealing much more damage.

With that, our combo is: @artic howl for buff, @pounce on the enemy, @lunar assault until frozen, @shred until the enemy comes out of the freeze, and finish with @Cross Slash.

And when you reach level 13 gems, you unlock @Lunar Blessing, which is another buff for the build.