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PoE 2 Build

FROZEN LIGHTNING Werewolf Build (Leveling & Endgame)

Druid

0.4 TLotD

Shaman

Starter

End Game

Creator

Featured

By italianspartacus

Updated on Dec 26, 2025

Dec 26, 2025

Build Overview

"Strange, an unexpected eclipse." - Diablo 2 Druid

There Druid Shaman builds relies on heavy rage build up to stack damage buffs to both melee and spell damage. This build relies heavily on being shapeshifted into a werewolf, using Lunar Assault, Shred, Cross Slash, Arctic Howl to do massive amounts of Cold damage. Then, when things are frozen, we use Cast on Elemental Ailment to trigger Thunderstorm which will guarantee shock things. The result is a build that you can use leveling and cascades into a strong end game map pusher with near no reliance on gear.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strong early leveling build
Great endgame damage
Multiple elements: Cold, Lightning, and Physial
Werewolves

Going heavy into damage passives can result in moments where you feel weak.
Heavy reliance on skill rotation to maximize damage output
Not a werebear

Build Variants

Default

Endgame

There really are no variants to this build, what I'm going to show you is the "base" variant with the absolutely required skill passives and gems. The "Endgame" Variant is just additional passive choices I've decided to go with that fits the build. You'll have 20 or so points to flex around with, so use them as it makes the most sense.

Equipment

Default

Endgame

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Skill Gems

Default

Endgame

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 20

Int 50

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Shred

Lunar Assault

Pounce

Cross Slash

Arctic Howl

Lunar Blessing

Herald of Ice

Cast on Elemental Ailment

Gem Priority

+24

You'll progress through these skills roughly in order, so grab them as you can. Remember, Shred is dictated by your Talisman. Always make sure you that you have a Werewolf Talisman with "Werewolf" selected. If you choose any of the other animals, it'll replace Shred.

Skill Gems

These skill gems are your top priority. If you find a syngergy that makes sense, feel free to swap it in, but I wanted to play as heavily into Werewolf as I could:

Shred - You bread & butter. You'll be using this to annihilate targets that you freeze. We use Rapid Attacks II to amp up speed. DO NOT USE LEVEL 3! IT HALVES THE DAMAGE. Rage I generates more early rage for us, and Rending Apex helps break armor so we can punch into physical resist better.
Lunar Assault - This is your primary vehicle for delivery frost build up and freezing targets. We want Ice Bite II because it will amp up our damage after we freeze a target. Freeze helps us freeze targets faster. Brittle Armour will help us prime armor break for when we use Shred. Elemental Armament I is just gravy by adding more cold damage.
Pounce - This is your big opener that you use to close gaps. Fist of War I ancestrally boosts our pounce so that it does more damage. It's already on a 6 second cooldown, so this just plays into the the cooldown. Freezing Mark is HUGE because it's going to give us a ton of buffs and focus for our damage and Cross Slash. Mark for Death II just further helps with armor breaking.
Arctic Howl - This is a buff that'll always help our damage, but you'll be killing things so fast that this is really used for single target freezing. Tireless since this skill empowers your next attack after freezing a target this has a chance to give us more value out of the empower. Ice Bite II Further increases our damage when we freeze. Deep Freeze this is clutch for bosses to help the freeze last longer so we can Shred them down.
Cross Slash - This is used after Pounce to detonate the Freezing Mark to help amplify cold damage as well as help freeze build up. It also does a LOT of AoE damage after we put Magnified Area II on there. To help ramp up damage when targets are weaker, we use Execute II for ALL targets on low life, and Culling Strike II for unique/rare monsters.
Lunar Blessing - Your final ability and a real damage amp that helps you REALLY scale that heavy end game damage. In order to maintain uptime on it though, you'll need these support gems: Second Wind II makes it so we can cast this multiple times. Prolonged Duration II keeps the skill up for longer, helping to do more damage. Cooldown Recovery I helps the uses come back online quicker.

Spirit Gems

There are plentyyyy of Spirit Gems to choose from, and I haven't tested them all, but the priority here is:

Herald of Ice - This is our first pick because it helps us significantly in our early map clearing and leveling. Upgrade this with whatever gems you want to get the most of out of it, but Clarity I is going to help you the most with your mana regeneration issues.
Cast on Elemental Ailment - This is your second big pick and you won't be able to get it until level 58 and 103 intelligence. So, as you get close to 58, make sure to plan on grabbing the intelligence. Also note, it'll take 100 spirit. This is what triggers out Thunderstorm, thus putting Drenched on targets to help with freezing targets which triggers this again AND for Shock Conduction II for guaranteed shock which gives us 30% more damage from our passives.
Savage Fury - This might seem like the first one you should take, but you don't have any early rage generation or ramp so it'll just cost you DPS and survivability. You can jump into it after 58 as you see fit, but it'll require some tweaking.

Passive Tree

Default

Endgame

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

This is your base tree. you'll have left over skill points, invest them how you see fit, but the Endgame variant will have the additional skill points invested.

Any Notable or Passives that are Energy Shield/Armor related can be invested in at points where you feel like your survivability is suffering. I've put them in at the end "priority" wise, but they can be accessed as early as level 5 or level 50 - it's up to you!

Atlas Tree

Default

Endgame

I don't have a set Atlas tree just yet!

How it Plays

This build relies on heavy mobility by jumping into combat with Pounce, triggering Marks with Cross Slash then doing lots of Freeze Build up. It's going to rely on you really focusing on your rotation to make sure you maximize your potential though.

It'll quickly clear maps, but you need to be clever and fix gaps in the build with your extra passives/flexing resists around to shore up any weaknesses that come up.

How it Works

Map Clearing Rotation:

Lunar Blessing | Pounce > Cross Slash > Shred > Lunar Assault > Shred until dead.

Before you even engage anything, cast Lunar Blessing! You'll open up with Pounce to cast Freezing Mark. You'll explode that mark with Cross Slash. After that, just use Shred ONCE to immediately leap back into the fray. After that, you'll use Lunar Assault to freeze targets in a cone in front of you. This will trigger Thunderstorm, but anything frozen is then bursted down with Shred. Realistically, you'll have killed stuff with Lunar Assault and shouldn't need to Shred 80% of the time.

Single Target/Boss Rotation:

Lunar Blessing | Pounce > Cross Slash > Shred > Lunar Assault until 75% Freeze Buildup > Arctic Howl > Shred until unfrozen then repeat the rotation.

The rotation is almost exactly the same, but the target will have much more health. So when we get to Lunar Assault, once we get 75% freeze build up on the boss (this is the little glacier under the targets name on the left hand side), we pop Arctic Howl. It'll automatically freeze the target and give us a damage buff that we then use Shred until the target is unfrozen. Shred is going to rip down their armor in conjunction with all of the other armor break, so the damage will QUICKLY ramp. Once they break out of freeze, repeat the entire rotation. We want to make sure the target is frozen though as that's where all of our damage comes from.