Best Druid builds in Diablo 4 season 4 (2024)

Druids are one of the most interesting classes in Diablo 4. They’re not only able to control animals — they can turn into animals (and also cast powerful spells). The result is a class that’s packed with complex ability combinations that can deal massive damage. As such, designing an ideal Druid build is a puzzle in its own right. That’s where we come in, with our suggestions of the best Druid builds for Diablo 4 season 4.

Druids can cast storm spells, control the earth, summon companions, or shapeshift into one of two creatures: a Werebear or a Werewolf. But what makes the class really interesting is its host of Legendaries that can make certain skills behave like others, allowing you to mix and match skills regardless of type.

In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ve gathered and simplified the best Diablo 4 Druid builds for season 4. If you need even more information on item affixes or other more complex ideas, we’ve been sure to link out to the more detailed versions of these builds, as well as where to find their original creators.

Best Druid leveling build in Diablo 4 season 4

Best Druid builds in Diablo 4 season 4 (1) Image: Blizzard Entertainment

This build is based off browncoats’ Druid leveling guide at IcyVeins, and is purely for leveling: i.e., allocating your 58 skill points between levels 1 and 50. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or which other Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original IcyVeins guide.

Best skills for leveling

One of the easiest Druid leveling guides you can play is the companion build. It relies heavily on summoning allies like Wolves to fight alongside you, which reduces your own dependency on your Spirit resource, which is in short supply in those early levels. In this build, you’ll also be using Storm Strike, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Landslide/Tornado/Pulverize, and Cyclone Armor.

Here are the best skills for a Druid leveling build, organized by the exact order you should purchase them in — bearing in mind that some skills require you to allocate a number of skill points in the tree in order to unlock them. As such, you’ll need to unlock new skills before enhancing existing ones.

Note: browncoats’ guide recommends investing entirely in Storm Strike, Tornado, and Cyclone Armor until level 15. Then, once you unlock Spirit Bonds, you should reset and follow this order:

  1. Storm Strike / Enhanced Strom Strike / Fierce Storm Strike / Storm Strike (ranks 2-4)
  2. Cyclone Armor
  3. Blood Howl
  4. Enhanced Cyclone Armor / Preserving Cyclone Armor
  5. Enhanced Blood Howl
  6. Poison Creeper
  7. Wolves
  8. Landslide or Tornado or Pulverize (the Core skill is dependent on player preference)
  9. Enhanced Poison Creeper / Brutal Poison Creeper
  10. Enhanced Wolf Pack
  11. Enhanced Landslide or Tornado or Pulverize
  12. Brutal Wolf Pack
  13. Passive Choice for Landslide or Tornado or Pulverize
  14. Call of the Wild (rank 1-3)
  15. Predatory Instinct (rank 1-3)
  16. Preserving Blood Howl
  17. Poison Creeper (rank 2-5)
  18. Wolves (rank 2-3)
  19. Ursine Strength
  20. Wolves (rank 4-5)
  21. Cyclone Armor (rank 2-5) or Blood Howl (rank 2-5)
  22. Blood Howl (rank 2-5) or Cyclone Armor (rank 2-5)
  23. Storm Strike (rank 5)
  24. Digitigrade Gait (rank 1-3)
  25. Ancestral Fortitude (rank 1-3)
  26. Vigilance (rank 1-3)
  27. Quickshift
  28. Heightened Senses (rank 1-3)

Best Spirit Boon setup for leveling

Once you unlock the Spirit Boon system for your Druid, you’ll want to use your Druidic Spirit Offerings to select these five Boons in this order:

  1. Packleader – Wolf
  2. Scythe Talons – Eagle
  3. Wariness – Stag
  4. Overload – Snake
  5. Swooping Talons – Eagle

Best Legendary Aspects for Druid leveling build

When you first start your new character, complete these three dungeons first in order to collect their Aspects. Then place them on a piece of gear (ideally jewelry, when possible). Just keep in mind that you should replace these Legendaries with new versions using the imprint system every few levels.

  • Nighthowler’s Aspect (Forbidden City in Fractured Peaks) — Blood Howl increases Critical Strike Chance X%. In addition, Blood Howl also affects nearby companions and players for 3 seconds.
  • Aspect of Cyclonic Force (Collapsed Vault in Kehjistan) — Cyclone Armor also provides Physical Damage Reduction. In addition, Cyclone Armor will also be applied to all nearby allies
  • Aspect of Might (Dark Ravine in Dry Steppes) — Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for X seconds.

Best Druid endgame build for season 4 — Werewolf Tornado

This build is based off of IBoilerUp’s Werewolf Tornado Druid endgame guide at MaxRoll.gg, and is a general endgame guide capable of finding success in all activities. This guide assumes that you’re over level 50, have access to all 58 skill points, and are making progress on your Paragon Boards. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or why these Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original MaxRoll guide.

Best skill points for Werewolf Tornado Druid build for endgame

This build utilizes Tornado as its core skill and main means of dealing damage. It also uses Trample, Poison Creeper, Raven, Debilitating Roar, and Wolves.

Since you need all 58 points for this build, the order you select these skills in doesn’t matter as long as you have the pre-requisite points in the earlier Skill Tree tiers. Here is how you should spend your skill points for this build:

  • Wind Shear / Enhanced Wind Shear
  • Tornado (rank 1-5) / Enhanced Tornado / Raging Tornado
  • Heart of the Wild
  • Wild Impulses (rank 1-3)
  • Predatory Instinct (rank 1-3)
  • Iron fur (rank 1-3)
  • Digitigrade Gait (rank 1-3)
  • Debilitating Road / Enhanced Debilitating Roar / Preserving Debilitating Roar
  • Ancestral Fortitude
  • Vigilance (rank 1-3)
  • Wolves
  • Poison Creeper
  • Ravens / Enhanced Raven / Brutal Ravens
  • Trample / Enhanced Trample / Savage Trample
  • Neurotoxin
  • Toxic Claws
  • Envenom (rank 1-3)
  • Defiance (rank 1-3)
  • Circle of Life (rank 1-3)
  • Natural Disaster (rank 1-3)
  • Quickshift (rank 1-3)
  • Heightened Senses (rank 1-3)
  • Bestial Rampage

Druid Spirit Boons for Werewolf Tornado build

Here are the five Spirit Boons you want to select for this Druid build:

  • Wariness - Stag
  • Avian Wrath - Eagle
  • Iron Feather - Eagle
  • Bolster - Wolf
  • masoch*stic - Snake

Legendary Powers and Uniques for Werewolf Tornado Druid build

To make this build work, you’re going to need powerful Legendary Powers and Unique items to augment your build.

IBoilerUp recommends these items:

  • Helm: Tempest Roar (Unique)
  • Chest: Vigorous Aspect (dungeon drop)
  • Gloves: Stormchaser’s Aspect
  • Pants: Juggernaut’s Aspect
  • Boots: Wildheart Hunger (Unique) or Wind Striker (dungeon drop)
  • Two-handed axe: Shepherd’s Aspect (dungeon drop)
  • Amulet: Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt (dungeon drop)
  • Ring 1: Hunter’s Zenith (Unique) or Aspect of Retaliation (dungeon drop)
  • Ring 2: Aspect of the Stampede

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of stat priorities, refer to IBoilerUp’s original guide.

Paragon Boards for Werewolf Tornado Druid build

The Paragon Board system is very complex, and you’ll want to carefully pair your Glyphs with specific boards for your class:

  1. Starter Board / Werewolf Glyph
  2. Ancestral Guidance / Exploit Glyph
  3. Lust for Carnage / Undaunted Glyph
  4. Thunderstruck / Earth and Sky Glyph
  5. Heightened Malice / Legendary Node only, no Glyph
  6. Constricting Tendrils / Territorial Glyph

You should level your Glyphs to 15 in this specific order:

  1. Undaunted
  2. Exploit
  3. Werewolf
  4. Territorial
  5. Earth and Sky

You can path your own way through the Paragon Boards following these basic guidelines. However, for the best results, follow IBoilerUp’s path exactly.

How to make a great Druid build

Best Druid builds in Diablo 4 season 4 (2) Image: Blizzard/Activision via Polygon

Druids is Diablo 4’s hybrid caster and melee class, but their most unique trait is their ability to shapeshift into either a Werebear or a Werewolf. Druids have access to six Key Passives, but four builds that primarily stem from them:

  • Werebear
  • Werewolf
  • Storm
  • Earth

Werebear is the Druid’s more defensive transformation, although it can be extremely deadly when built out correctly. Werebear’s will take advantage of either the Ursine Strength Key Passive or the Bestial Rampage Key Passive. Werewolf builds are the faster, deadlier Druid builds, but they’re also far less defensive. Werewolf builds will use either the Lupine Ferocity Key Passive or the Bestial Rampage Key Passive.

Druid’s caster builds mimic shapeshifts. Earth builds are the more defensive of the two (and are typically melee-based), and will use either the Earthen Might or Nature’s Fury Key Passives. Storm skills are heavy Spirit spenders, and can be cast from much further away. Storm builds benefit from the Perfect Storm or Nature’s Fury Key Passives.

Many of the class’ Legendaries allow you to transform certain skills into other skills (turning all Storm skills into Werewolf skills, for example). But if you’re building your own Druid class, keep in mind that you’ll end up building either a caster or a shapeshifter and selecting one of these Key Passives. However, it’s also important to keep in mind that — with the use of some powerful Legendaries and Uniques — you can make shapeshifter builds that are also casters.

Looking for other Diablo 4 builds? We have explainers on the Sorcerer, Rogue, Barbarian, and Necromancer classes.

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Best Druid builds in Diablo 4 season 4 (2024)

FAQs

What is the strongest Druid build in Diablo 4? ›

Best Druid Endgame Builds for Diablo 4
  • Hurricane Druid - Exceptional AoE, strong survivability.
  • Lightning Storm Companion Druid - Speed farming caster powerhouse with Companions.
  • Werewolf Tornado Druid - Extremely high damage and survivability, Crowd Control negation.
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What is the best stat build for a Druid? ›

+1 Wisdom and +2 to Dexterity can have several applications and start one of the best possible Druid builds in 5e. One of the branches of Dwarves is currently available in the PHB, and it's the only one that gives the character a +2 to any stat they choose. Wisdom is the obvious choice but Constitution is also ideal.

What is the best companion for a Druid in Diablo 4? ›

If you're going to combine the Poison Creeper, arguably the best of the individual companions, with another companion, the Raven is the best option. The Raven, by itself, might be the worst Companion choice, but the Poison Creeper and Raven are a killer option together.

Does weapon matter in Diablo 4 Druid? ›

Though passive skill upgrades and Spirit boon optimization matter, gear selection best maximizes a Druid's power. Especially pivotal are weapon choices, as these directly impact damage output, regardless of the build. For any character, and Druids particularly, weapons are the most essential gear pieces.

What is the most powerful Druid? ›

Archdruid makes the D&D 5e druid class one of the most powerful in the game. It gives unlimited Wild Shapes and lets druids ignore their spells' verbal and somatic components.

Which Druid spec is best for DPS? ›

DPS less dependant on big cooldowns

Feral Druid's DPS is less bursty, meaning it had more consistent damage. With 1.96% less difference in lowest and peak DPS during a fight when compared to Balance Druids.

What is the best Druid specialization? ›

Best Leveling Spec for Druid in Dragonflight

Guardian is the tank specialization for Druid, this is our suggested leveling spec, as the damage difference is not a large drop from the damage dealing specs and your tankiness allows you to pull enormous amounts of monsters and AoE them down comfortably.

What race goes best with Druids? ›

Wood elves and high elves are common, but a druid might also try the Shadar-Kai elf race. The Shadar-Kai are associated with the grim Shadowfell plane, though they can also be found in the Material Plane.

What are the best Druid skills to choose? ›

Due to druids generally being at their best in the great outdoors, skills such as nature, perception and survival are all probably good bets. However, insight and medicine are much more common when dealing with other people, which might make for a more well-rounded character.

What weapon should a druid use? ›

Druids can use Staves, one-handed maces, two-handed maces, daggers, and fist weapons in Classic World of Warcraft.

What stat is most important for druid? ›

Wisdom increases are crucial, and increases to Dexterity and Constitution can help with the Druid's relatively poor durability compared to classes like the Cleric. Innate spellcasting is often helpful, but the usefulness of most traits will vary depending on your subclass.

What can druid turn into Diablo 4? ›

Druids can cast storm spells, control the earth, summon companions, or shapeshift into one of two creatures: a Werebear or a Werewolf.

What's the best Druid build for D4? ›

Our Pulverize Druid build is one of Diablo 4's strongest endgame builds, with huge damage potential and the ability to tank through enemy hits without fear of frequently dying. It's a rather simple build, with most of the damage coming from the titular Pulverize Core skill, so it's a perfect option for beginners.

What is the best gem for a Druid in Diablo 4? ›

Diablo 4 Druid Best Gems

For the Druid, Topaz and Ruby gems are highly recommended. Topaz gems are ideal for increasing your Basic Skill Damage, while Rubies boost your Life. Furthermore, selecting any gem that increases your Resistance is a smart move for the Druid.

Can Druids dual wield in Diablo 4? ›

You can use Staves, Two-handed and One-handed, when playing as a Druid. Druids can inflict Physical, Lighting, and Poison damage on any of their enemies.

What is the strongest class Diablo 4? ›

The best Diablo 4 class is the Necromancer due to their frontline action abilities and huge AoE damage potential.

Are Druids the strongest class? ›

“The Druid is actually one of our strongest classes, at least according to our internal tests.

What is the best Druid build in Diablo 4 season 3 reddit? ›

The Bouldercane Shred Druid is one of the best Druid Build in Season 3 in Diablo 4. You want to speed around the map while everything dies in your Hurricane of chaos and havoc? Then this is the right build for you. You Have enough Damage and enough defense to achieve a good highscore in the upcoming gauntlet.

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