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PoE 2 Build

Plant Druid (Leveling)

0.4 TLotD
Starter
Speed Leveling
presentationDruid
presentationOracle
Updated on Dec 24, 2025
Dec 24, 2025

Build Overview

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.

  1. Entangle
  2. Thrashing Vines
  3. 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

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Easy to play
  • Looks cool
  • Lots of damage
  • Tanky
  • Very simple
  • Expensive at high gear levels

Build Variants

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 15

Dex 5

Int 20

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1

Entangle

Entangle
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supportmagnifiedareaplayer
2

Volcano

Volcano
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prolongeddurationsupportplayer
3

Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm
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supportmagnifiedareaplayer
4

Pounce

Pounce
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5

Arctic Armour

Arctic Armour
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6

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt
Gem Priority
+8

Passive Tree

main:
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123
set 1:
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20
set 2:
20
20

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