Plant Druid is one of the easiest builds we've ever played in PoE 2's campaign. The build uses
Entangle as its primary skill from level 1 to damage and slow screens full of enemies. Later, you'll combine
Entangle with
Thunderstorm and
Thrashing Vines to gain tons of damage.
Towards the end of the campaign, you can automate casting
Thunderstorm by using
Cast on Critical to achieve a one-button playstyle. This setup is great while mapping and a very simple two-button playstyle on bosses.
By combining
Pounce with Mark for Death, you can break boss' armour and gain a ton of damage throughout the campaign and early mapping. Once you have unlocked
Forced Outcome, ALL of your skills count as critical hits, which combines with
Cut to the Bone to break enemy armour with all of your damage.
This build is also very tanky, due to the heavy slow effect on enemies from
Entangle. You get near-immunity to critical strikes from
The Lesser Harm, and you run tons of Energy Shield at high levels.
Campaign Gearing
Prioritize +Gem Levels on your staff or wand and % Increased Spell Damage to maximize your damage throughout the campaign.
For defensive purposes, maximize Life and Elemental Resistances.
Gem Priority
Here is your priority for leveling and adding support gems to your primary skills.
Entangle
Thrashing Vines
Thunderstorm
What Does "Inevitable Critical Hits" Mean?
By taking
Forced Outcome, ALL of your attacks and spells are critical hits. Your critical strike chance does not get set to 100%. Instead, when your attacks or spells would NOT have crit, the skill is rerolled with 30% Less Critical Damage Bonus. This process repeats until the ability rolls a successful crit.
You'll be rewarded for stacking as much critical strike chance and critical strike damage bonus as possible, and you can take advantage of any effects that work with critical strikes.
For example, using
Gifts from Above guarantees that ALL enemies you kill die from a critical hit, granting an extra 20-30% increased item rarity at all times.
Useful Uniques
Here are a few unique items that interact very well with Oracle Druid's guaranteed critical hits from
Forced Outcome.
Nightscale
Gifts from Above
Seed of Cataclysm






















