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[0.4] Woolie's WOLFMAN - Druid Leaguestarter

Druid

0.4 TLotD

Oracle

Starter

End Game

Verified

By Woolie

Updated on Dec 13, 2025

Dec 13, 2025

Build Overview

I'm a big hairy man IRL, therefore, I WILL NOT LEAD YOU ASTRAY WITH THE BIG HAIRY WOLFMAN BUILD RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!

I will almost certainly be sticking to the Werewolf form and using the Oracle Ascendancy

I plan on going purely ATTACK-BASED (no cringe human spellcasting stuff lol) but, again, the patch needs to actually be live before I fully commit to anything

basic plan is to attack & move fast (innate to Werewolf form), use Herald of Ice for clear (Wolf skills are all cold-based, so easy freezes) and pray that the 200+ new passives in the Druid area PLUS the OTHER 100+ new ones from Oracle's The Unseen Path will be POGGIN

this guide will be CONSTANTLY UPDATED as I progress!

>> Follow my progress live over on my stream <<

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SKILL ROTATION

Single Target

-------------PRE Cross Slash-------------

spam Shred (Bleed I > Rage I) and use Pounce (Fist of War I > Stomping Ground) and Savage Fury whenever they are off cooldown

-------------AFTER YOU HAVE Cross Slash-------------

open with Ferocious Roar to generate Rage, if necessary

Pounce (to use Freezing Mark - THIS IS A REGULAR SKILL GEM, NOT A SUPPORT)
build freeze with Lunar Assault (and Thunderstorm, if you have it)
once enemy is "primed for freeze" (blue circle indicator on them), use Arctic Howl to freeze them early (60% for rares, 70% for bosses) and trigger Freezing Mark
Shred to generate ice shards (use until the "Final Strike" occurs)
Cross Slash to pop all shards

repeat!

Clearing

Lunar Assault spam and Pounce whenever it's off cooldown!
Herald of Ice does the rest

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CAMPAIGN CHOICES

Valley of the Titans (Act 2)
30% Increased Charm Effect Duration

The Venom Crypts (Act 3)
30% Elemental Ailment Threshold

Halls of the Dead (Act 4)
+5 Strength, Dexterity & Intelligence
%Resistance is fine too

Qimah - 7 Pillars (Interlude Act 2)
12% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

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IF YOU'RE STUCK

remember, you're playing melee (lol), which means your WEAPON is your LIFEBLOOD - if it has low flat damage, that is almost certainly the reason you're getting booty blasted.

gamble for an upgrade or buy a decent one off a vendor and "craft" it (read: also gamble) if you are in dire straits

Strengths and Weaknesses

fast (attack and move speed)
Wolf skills freeze (good AoE clear w Herald of Ice)
RAAAAGGH AWOOOOOOO RAAAAAAGH

untested (obv)
single target may be a bit clunky (generate Rage & ice shards constantly)

Build Variants

will be constantly updated as I progress

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

will be filled more as I progress

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 35

Dex 15

Int 55

Expand all

Shred

Lunar Assault

Pounce

Arctic Howl

Cross Slash

Savage Fury

Herald of Ice

Thunderstorm

Ferocious Roar

Lunar Blessing

Gem Priority

+22

FOR EARLY GAME, BEFORE YOU GET Cross Slash

use Bleed I in Shred (instead of Cold Attunement) and just spam it for single target
you still want Rage I in it

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first Spirit gem is Savage Fury (press on bosses)

get Herald of Ice as your next Spirit gem and manually toggle between Herald of Ice (clearing) and Savage Fury(single target)
once you get +30 spirit, you can leave both toggled on

Freezing Mark is a REGULAR skill gem, NOT a support!

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

some of these passives are HIDDEN UNTIL YOU ASCEND AND GRAB The Unseen Path

alos, note the "Notable Priority" underneath the skill tree for the order to take each passive!

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ASCENDANCY ORDER

THIS IS NOT SET-IN-STONE UNTIL THE PATCH GOES LIVE AND I CAN TEST EVERYTHING!

IF YOU WANT THE SMOOTHEST EXPERIENCE, I RECOMMEND YOU FIRST ASCEND AS A ShamanAND THEN CHANGE OVER TO Oracle LATER

ORACLE NODES
The Unseen Path > The Lesser Harm > Forced Outcome > Converging Paths

SHAMAN NODES
Turning of the Seasons > Sacred Flow > Reactive Growth
change over to Oracle on either your third or fourth Ascendancy trial (up to you!)

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FORCED OUTCOME CRIT BREAKPOINT

Oracle's Forced Outcome node essentially grants you guaranteed crits BUT does-so by re-rolling the chance (think "Lucky") until a crit happens and, for each re-roll, it reduces the bonus dmg of the crit by 30%.

this means that if you use 4 or more re-rolls, you literally get ZERO extra damage from the crit

therefore, according to this chart, the optimal breakpoint is:
CRIT CHANCE (total) = 24-25%
CRIT DMG BONUS (total) = at least 500% (more is better obv)

at these numbers, Forced Outcome provides roughly 44% more damage

note that your BASE Crit Damage Bonus is 200% by default and getting "+x% to Critical Damage Bonus" (suffix on weapon) ADDS to this base value, with all OTHER sources of "%inc crit dmg bonus" MULTIPLYING it.

all-in-all, this means that, once we hit about 25% crit chance, we start primarily stacking crit DAMAGE, instead.
but more crit chance doesn't hurt!

I will update this guide with the specifics once the patch is live and I'm able to figure more things out, such as how Garukhan's Resolve interacts with all of this!

Changelog

12/12 - LEAGUESTART DAY WOO! all early gems & passive tree stuff has been added and also added a brief section on "Forced Outcome Breakpoint" in the Passive Tree section, for when we progress more