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Dire Wolf Druid Build (Level 70+ Build)

The Dire Wolf Druid Endgame Build is a burst and AoE DPS Diablo 4 Druid Build, which is a continuation of the Shredder Build. Here, you’ll focus on shifting into a Werewolf and using the Shred Ability.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Claw, Shred, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Hurricane, Grizzly Rage
• Passive Skills: Heart of the Wild, Wild Impulses, Predatory Instinct, Digitigrade Gait, Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance, Nature’s Reach, Call of the Wild, Neurotoxin, Envenom, Toxic Claws, Lupine Ferocity
• Spirit Boons: Wariness, Scythe Talons, Avian Wrath, Energize, Masochistic
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Staff like the Waxing Gibbous
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses like Mad Wolf’s Glee
• Bonuses Wanted: Cooldown Reduction, Ranks of Poison Creeper, Werewolf Skills, Shred, and Envenom Passive; Maximum Life, Total Armor, Physical Damage, Poison Damage, Damage Reduction from Enemies That Are Poisoned, Movement Speed, Attack Speed, Lucky Hit Chance, Critical Strike Chance, Damage Reduction while Injured, Dodge Chance, Spirit Cost Reduction, Movement Speed for 4 Seconds After Killing an Elite, All Stats, Vulnerable Damage, Core Skill Damage, Willpower, Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies, Damage while in Human Form, Damage Reduction from Close Enemies, Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Damage to Close Enemies, 
• Legendary Aspects: Vigorous Aspect, Aspect of the Blurred Beast, Aspect of the Protector or Aspect of Disobedience, Stormshifter’s Aspect, Stormclaw’s Aspect, Accelerating Aspect, Dire Wolf’s Aspect, Aspect of the Umbral or Starlight Aspect
• Paragon Boards: Lust for Carnage, Ancestral Guidance

So to recap, this Diablo IV Build focuses on using Shred with the help of 2 aspects, namely the Stormclaw’s Aspect and Aspect of the Blurred Beast. The Stormclaw’s Aspect lets you deal huge damage upon landing crits with Shred while the Aspect of the Blurred Beast allows you to use Poison Creeper to absolutely obliterate them. But the problem is it takes some setup since Poison Creeper has a long cooldown. Additionally, you have to let Rabies spread around so your clear speed will take a hit. As such, we also use the Stormclaw’s Aspect to jump right into enemies and deal huge damage whether they’re Poisoned or not. 

Every Druid has issues managing their Spirit, especially early on. First is by getting the Spirit Cost Reduction Stat, around 16-17% off your Amulet and 7.5-8% off Boots minimally. This significantly lowers the cost of Shred to spam it a lot more easily. Second is by taking the Energized Spirit Boon, which makes it so Lucky Hit dealing damage has up to a 15% chance to restore 10 Spirit. This is a good amount of resources and it’s going to trigger sometimes even without you knowing it. 

The third is by using the Aspect of the Umbral, which makes it so that when you crowd control an enemy, you get up to 4 Spirit. This is done with Poison Creeper and also from any Poison you do because of the Neurotoxin Passive to Slow down enemies. So any time you Poison them, they’re effectively CCed. Alternatively, the Starlight Aspect would be better since it restores a huge chunk of Spirit when you heal yourself, which happens often while you’re attacking targets.

Nature's Fury Druid Build (Level 50-70 Build)

The Nature's Fury Druid Midgame Build is a tanky DPS Diablo 4 Druid Build that makes use of Earth and Storm Skills to deal massive burst and AoE Damage while remaining extremely durable on the battlefield!

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Landslide, Tornado, Earthen Bulwark, Cyclone Armor, Trample, Cataclysm
• Passive Skills: Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance, Crushing Earth, Safeguard, Stone Guard, Defiance, Quick Shift, Heightened Senses, Nature's Fury
• Spirit Boons: Wariness, Scythe Talons, Avian Wrath, Energize, Obsidian Slam
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Staff with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Core Skill Damage, Basic Skill Damage, Willpower, Dexterity, Maximum Life, Damage Reduction, Barrier Generation, Lightning Damage, Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed, Damage Reduction while Injured, Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies, Spirit Cost Reduction, Movement Speed, Damage to Close Enemies, Damage, Storm Skill Damage, Ranks of All Defensive Skills
• Legendary Aspects: Symbiotic Aspect, Aspect of the Trampled Earth, Aspect of the Aftershock, Aspect of Natural Balance, Aspect of Mending Stone, Earthguard Aspect, Aspect of the Protector
• Paragon Board Glyphs: Shapeshifter with the Ancestral Guidance Druid Paragon Board

So let's start off by taking a look at Nature's Fury, which makes it so that when you cast an Earth Skill, you have a 20% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category. This time, if you cast a Storm Skill, it has a 20% chance to activate a free Earth Skill of the same cluster. As such, you're rewarded for using both Earth and Storm Magic. 

Now there are a couple of Legendary Aspects to make this Diablo IV Build particularly deadly, and the first one is the Symbiotic Aspect. When you trigger that free Skill we've been talking about, your Non-Ultimate cooldowns of the opposite type are reduced by up to 8 seconds. For instance, let's say you're standing there, spamming away with Storm Strike and you activate Earth Spike. You'll end up triggering the Nature Series Passives so then all the other Earth Skills would gain the 8-second cooldown reduction. If it were the other way around with Earth Spike first, and then Storm Strike, then all the cooldown of your Storm Skills will have been considerably lowered. 

For this Nature's Fury Diablo 4 Druid Build, you have Storm Strike in order to apply Vulnerable and to reduce the cooldown of Earth Skills to make Earthen Bulwark and Trample work effectively. Earthen Bulwark gives you a huge damage shield and makes you Unstoppable so you're near unkillable, especially in the later parts of the game. By refreshing this constantly, you'll gain a constant damage shield that protects you and prevents you from taking damage while allowing you to move around since you're not crowd-controlled.

Because you have the Aspect of the Trampled Earth, Trample becomes a Nature Magic and Earth Skill, and it's able to summon 6 landslides to pummel enemies with huge AoE. The idea here is that when you go into combat, you're going to initiate with Earthen Bulwark for protection and then follow through with Trample in the middle of a group to hit them with landslides that go behind you. 

Stormwolf Druid Build (Beginner Build)

The Stormwolf Druid Beginner Build is a hybrid Diablo 4 Druid Build that utilizes Werewolf and Lightning Skills to effectively manage Spirit while dealing huge Critical Strike Damage.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Lightning Storm, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Rabies, Cataclysm
• Passive Skills: Clarity, Elemental Exposure, Charged Atmosphere, Electric Shock, Bad Omen, Neurotoxin, Envenom, Defiance, Circle of Life, Perfect Storm
• Spirit Boons: Wariness, Scythe Talons, Avian Wrath, Energize, Overload
• Weapons: Highest DPS Staff with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Dexterity, Strength, Maximum Spirt, Spirit Cost Reduction, Ranks of Poison Creeper and Rabies, Poison Damage, Damage Reduction from Close Enemies, Critical Strike Chance, Lucky Hit Chance, Movement Speed, Core Skill Damage, Lightning Damage, Vulnerable Damage Bonus
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of Inner Calm, Nighthowler's Aspect, Aspect of the Protector, Aspect of the Umbral

The general strategy with this efficient Diablo 4 Stormwolf Druid Build involves alternating between Storm Strike and Lightning Storm while activating  Blood Howl every now and then to keep up your Spirit high enough. You won't encounter resource issues as much compared to using a Werewolf Diablo 4 Druid Build, for example. Here, you can go back and forth when it comes to transforming into a Werewolf and then becoming a human again to keep casting powerful Skills in no time.

A great passive for this Stormwolf D4 Druid Build is Bad Omen, which you should max out as soon as you get enough points. This makes it so that when you Lucky Hit up to a 30% chance when you deal damage to a Vulnerable, Immobilized, or Stunned enemy that a lightning bolt deals extra damage for 55% of your Weapon damage. You're dealing damage to Vulnerable enemies constantly because of Storm Strike or Immobilized because of Poison Creeper, so this is a decent way to get out extra damage early on in the game.

Next is the Perfect Storm Key Passive, which will also increase your damage against Immobilized and Slowed enemies. So Immobilize is really your best friend as a Lightning Druid trying to get as much damage as possible, and if not that, then at least there's Slowed in order to get the benefit from a Staff and from the Key Passive as well. 

When it comes to Legendary Aspects, you should be on the lookout for the Aspect of Inner Calm, which increases your damage by up to 10% per second for each second you stand still by up to 30%. So every second it would add up to 10% should you get the max roll. You can acquire this as a random drop or via the Codex of Power by doing the Raethwind Wilds Dungeon in Scosglen. Aspect of the Inner Calm is important because you tend to stand still a lot while you're casting Lightning Storm.

Howlstorm Druid Build (Level 50-70 Build)

The Howlstorm Druid Midgame Build is the evolved version of the Stormwolf Build, and one that effectively combines Werewolf and Lightning Skills!

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Lightning Storm, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Rabies, Cataclysm
• Passive Skills: Nature's Reach, Elemental Exposure, Charged Atmosphere, Electric Shock, Bad Omen, Neurotoxin, Envenom, Defiance, Circle of Life, Natural Disaster, Perfect Storm
• Spirit Boons: Wariness, Scythe Talons, Avian Wrath, Energize, Overload
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Staff with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses like the Mad Wolf's Glee Unique Item
• Bonuses Wanted: Core Skill Damage, Basic Skill Damage, Willpower, Damage to Poisoned Enemies, Maximum Life, Ranks of Poison Creeper, Lightning Storm, and Rabies, Poison Damage, Damage Reduction from Enemies That Are Poisoned, Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies, Movement Speed, Attack Speed, Damage to Injured Enemies, Critical Strike Chance Against Injured Enemies, Spirit Cost Reduction, Critical Strike Chance, Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Damage to Slowed Enemies, Damage Over Time, Life Regeneration while Not Damaged Recently
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of the Umbral, Assimilation Aspect, Overcharged Aspect, Aspect of the Protector, Protecting Aspect, Eluding Aspect, Lightning Dancer's Aspect, Accelerating Aspect
• Paragon Board Glyphs: Tracker with the Ancestral Guidance or Thunderstruck Druid Paragon Board

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Howlstorm Druid Build is similar to the previous Stormwolf Druid Build, which means that you're still going to use Lightning Storm as your primary means of attack. So first off, you're going to hit enemies with Rabies to put Poison all over everything and then you're going to Immobilize them in place with Poison Creeper. Next, you're going to town with Lightning Storm to get that extra damage against Immobilized enemies that Storm Druids gain.

Moreover, you still have the Neurotoxin passive, which makes it so that Slow enemies that are poisoned take extra damage. So it's great to have Damage versus Slowed Enemies, especially since your Perfect Storm Key Passive performs extremely well against them. Another Staff bonus you'll want is the Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies to amplify the damage against Slowed targets further, making it very helpful for this D4 Druid Build. Even if they come out of being Immobilized, they're still Poisoned, and therefore subject to crowd control so they still take bonus damage.

In World Tier 3, this Howlstorm Druid D4 Build will still have an issue with Spirit regeneration. Like any Druid, you're going to struggle with resource management for a bit, especially if you don't have the Aspect of the Umbral yet. This makes it so that you gain Spirit every time you CC an enemy. Once you have this on a Ring, you'll no longer have any resource problems. You can get the base version of the Aspect of the Umbral by completing the Champion's Demise Dungeon in Dry Steppes.

Pulverizer Druid Build (Beginner Build)

The Pulverizer Druid Beginner Build is a tanky melee-focused Diablo 4 Druid Build that uses Pulverize to decimate enemies in one Overpowered swing, as well as other Werebear Skills in order to pound enemies to a pulp!

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Maul, Pulverize, Debilitating Roar, Poison Creeper, Trample, Grizzly Rage
• Passive Skills: Predatory Instinct, Iron Fur, Mending, Provocation
• Spirit Boons: Obsidian Slam
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Weapon with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Willpower, Critical Strike Chance, Overpower Damage, Damage to Close Enemies, Damage to Healthy Enemies, Life on Kill
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of Ursine Horror, Rapid Aspect

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Pulverizer Druid Build is to lead off with an Overpowered Pulverize often wiping out an entire pack of enemies in one swing or close to it, or using Poison Creeper to root enemies and then Pulverizing them. Pulverize can Overpower so you'll need to ensure you have high Maximum Life, and you'll need to mitigate damage and heal with Potions as needed. Overpower damage is extra damage equal to the sum of the player's current and Fortified Life, and has a native 3% chance to occur naturally when attacking, but can be increased. Because Enhanced Pulverize does this guaranteed if you're over 80% HP once every 12 seconds, this is particularly deadly and synergizes well with how Overpower works, since you need high HP to get the most out of it anyway. But if you're wondering why you see Overpower (blue numbers) damage sometimes when not using Pulverize, this is why.

But this is not the only way we get Overpower damage from this D4 Build, in fact, there are a few. Another way is by using the Obsidian Slam Spirit Boon in conjunction with the Aspect of the Ursine Horror, which not only makes your Pulverize deal damage over time after it is used but also converts it to an Earth Skill which makes this Spirit Boon apply to it. You need to only defeat 10 enemies before using Pulverize to get this to trigger, and often times you will Overpower and kill 10 enemies in one swing, which will result in an immediate second Overpower.

The last is by using Provocation, which allows you to Overpower every 20 seconds if you've remained in Werebear form for 20 seconds. This is not easy to do, but not impossible either, as the timer does stop for a few seconds if you return to human form, so you do have some leeway before it is wiped entirely. You can also simply swing with Maul to keep yourself in Werebear form if necessary.

Maintaining close to max HP is vital for this Diablo IV Build because that's how you're going to get Overpowered Pulverize attacks regularly, which drastically boosts damage so there is also a big focus on mitigating damage through resistances and Fortify, which subsequently boosts Overpower damage anyway. Ursine Strength also boosts your damage by 30% while over 80% HP.

Permabear Druid Build (Level 50-70 Build)

The Permabear Druid Midgame Build is a melee / ranged Diablo 4 Druid Build that focuses on dealing incredible burst damage through Werebear and Earth Skills, by triggering the Overpower effect regularly.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Maul, Pulverize, Earthen Bulwark, Trample, Boulder, Petrify
• Passive Skills: Predatory Instinct, Iron Fur, Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance, Mending, Provocation, Crushing Earth, Safeguard, Stone Guard, Defensive Posture, Earthen Might
• Spirit Boons: Obsidian Slam, Masochistic
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Mace with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses like the Vasily's Prayer and Insatiable Fury Unique Items
• Bonuses Wanted: Overpower Damage, Overpower Damage with Werebear Skills, Core Skill Damage, Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Damage Bonus, Damage Reduction, Maximum Life, Lucky Hit
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of the Ursine Horror, Aspect of Doom, Quicksand Aspect, Shockwave Aspect, Crashstone Aspect, Aspect of the Trampled Earth, Ballistic Aspect
• Paragon Board Glyphs: Spirit, Outmatch, Fang and Claw, Dominate

The general strategy with this Diablo 4 Permabear Druid Build is to trigger the Overpower effect to increase the damage of your Pulverize, Trample, and Boulder attacks, and we do this in a few ways. First is by remaining Healthy, which means over 80% of our Max HP. When we accomplish this, we automatically Overpower with Pulverize once every 12 seconds.

Another way is by using the Obsidian Slam Spirit Boon which makes this Diablo IV Druid Build's next Earth Skill after 10 kills automatically Overpowered. When used in conjunction with Legendary Aspects that change Trample and Pulverize into Earth Skills, and also the remaining Werebear Skills, they benefit from this Spirit Boon.

And lastly, by having a max rank of the Provocation passive Skill we will Overpower with any attack once every 20 seconds simply by remaining in Werebear form. All of this D4 Build's Earth Skills are now Werebear Skills thanks to the Unique Item Vasily's Prayer, and our default form is now Werebear form thanks to the Unique Item Insatiable Fury.

All of these things lead to a chain reaction of Overpowered attacks that generally prompt further Overpower attacks since you tend to kill everything when you Overpower with Pulverize, which then triggers Obsidian Slam, which then generally triggers it again. This leads to very easy trash clears and good burst DPS during Boss fights.

Stormcaller Druid Build (Beginner Build)

The Stormcaller Druid Beginner Build is a Nature Magic-focused Diablo 4 Druid Build that predominantly uses Lightning Skills as well as Lucky Hit to trigger an assortment of different effects to deal sustained AoE damage while also keeping enemies at arm's length.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower  & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Lightning Storm, Cyclone Armor, Poison Creeper, Hurricane, Cataclysm
• Passive Skills: Elemental Exposure, Charged Atmosphere, Bad Omen
• Spirit Boons: Calm Before the Storm
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Weapon with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Cooldown Reduction, Lightning Damage, Storm Skills Damage, Damage to Slowed Enemies, Vulnerable Damage Bonus
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of the Umbral, Aspect of Inner Calm

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Stormcaller Druid Build is not only to manage your Spirit so you can continue to channel Lightning Storm, which gets stronger and stronger the longer you cast it, but also to trigger various effects with Lucky Hit procs that help to further boost your damage. These include making enemies Vulnerable, dealing extra Lightning Damage and Immobilizing enemies, summoning additional Lightning Bolts, restoring Spirit, and more! Lucky Hit is a huge part of this Diablo IV Druid Build!

Once you've gained the Key Passive Perfect Storm you will deal increased damage to Vulnerable, Immobilized, and Slowed enemies, but more importantly, you will gain 1 Spirit back for each enemy struck with one of these effects. This allows you to continue your channel of Lightning Storm more easily, but only if these conditions are met. It is here that Skills like Hurricane, Cyclone Armor and Poison Creeper come in, as they all contribute to these conditions, as does Storm Strike.

There are not a ton of Legendary Aspects that are good for this Diablo IV Stormcaller Druid Build early on in the game, though there are some great ones later. But the Aspects that can help you are Aspect of the Umbral which gives you Spirit whenever you Crowd Control an enemy, which you do constantly with this D4 Build. And, Aspect of Inner Calm which increases your damage the longer you stand in place. Since you do it a lot with this Diablo 4 Druid Build when channeling Lightning Storm, this works perfectly. The only downside is you have to progress the Act 2 story to a certain point before you can get it, but note that you don't have to finish Act 1 to do this.

Tempest Druid Build (Level 50-70 Build)

The Tempest Druid Midgame Build is an advanced version of the Nature Magic-focused Diablo 4 Druid Build, the Stormcaller. Here, you continue to use Storm Skills and Lucky Hit to deal massive AoE damage.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Lightning Storm, Cyclone Armor, Hurricane, Boulder, Cataclysm
• Passive Skills: Nature's Reach, Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance, Elemental Exposure, Endless Tempest, Bad Omen, Charged Atmosphere, Electric Shock, Perfect Storm, Defiance, Circle of Life, Natural Disaster
• Spirit Boons: N/A
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Staff with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Damage to Distant Enemies, Vulnerable Damage Bonus, Core Skill Damage, Damage Reduction, Maximum Life, Lucky Hit, Ranks of Lightning Storm and Boulder, Critical Strike Chance, Lightning Damage, Critical Strike Damage Bonus, Ranks of Storm or Nature Skills, Cooldown Reduction
• Legendary Aspects: Overcharged Aspect, Aspect of the Lightning Dancer, Runeworker's Conduit Aspect, Aspect of Natural Balance, Mighty Aspect, Aspect of the Protector
• Paragon Board Glyphs: Fulminate, Earth and Sky, Human, Spirit, Exploit with the Thunderstruck Druid Paragon Board

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Tempest Druid Build is similar to the Stormcaller Druid Beginner Build, which is a Build that focuses on the use of Storm Skills and more specifically, Lightning Damage. Lightning Storm is your bread-and-butter Skill just like before, and here, we find even more ways to take advantage of its extremely good AoE damage.

We've changed out Poison Creeper in exchange for the Boulder Skill, and the reason for that is because of the Aspect of Natural Balance, which provides your Storm Skills Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds after casting an Earth Skill. You can cast this Skill every 10 seconds, so you'll have about a 40% uptime on this bonus, and higher if you have any Cooldown Reduction. Boulder also deals significant damage, and pushes enemies away from you, giving you some breathing room.

As with the Stormcaller Druid Beginner Build, Lucky Hit still plays a large role in the Tempest Midgame version, as there are many synergies that benefit from it in this D4 Build. Overcharged Aspect, Energize, Overload, Elemental Exposure, Bad Omen, Electric Shock, and Execute (on your Weapon) are all parts that require Lucky Hits to trigger, which is far more than your average Diablo IV Build. Because of this, you will have to look out for Jewelry and Gloves that have Lucky Hit Chance, to further increase the likelihood of these triggering.

Crowd Control is also a large part of this Diablo 4 Storm Tempest Druid Endgame Build since Storm Druids gain increased damage to Stunned and Immobilized enemies, as well as Slowed, and Knockbacked enemies via various passive Skills that they have. So Crowd Controlling enemies not only protects them but also fuels their damage even further, so it's best to apply these effects before going to town with Lightning Storm.

Packleader Druid Build (Beginner Build)

The Packleader Druid Beginner Build is a Companion and Critical Strike Damage-focused Diablo 4 Druid Build that deals very high burst damage, as well as sustained damage with Companions.

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower  & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Shred, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Wolves, Ravens
• Passive Skills: Predatory Instinct
• Spirit Boons: Packleader & Masochistic
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Weapon with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Damage, Core Skill Damage, Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Damage to Slowed Enemies
• Legendary Aspects: Nighthowler's Aspect, Shepherd's Aspect, Stormclaw's Aspect, Aspect of the Unsatiated

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Packleader Druid Build has two parts. First is using Shred to AoE enemies down quickly, and second is to use your Companions' Skills to help wear down enemies. Companion Skills don't consume any Spirit, and Poison Creeper is one of the best AoEs Diablo 4 Werewolf Druid Builds have. Additionally, we will have a chance to refresh our Companion Skills via a Lucky Hit, thanks to the Packleader Spirit Boon. This will give you some serious firepower when this happens! 

Nighthowler's Aspect boosts both your own and Companion (as well as nearby players') Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds. This makes you all deal more damage, which is fantastic, and you will spam this often due to how fast things die, which also helps to keep your HP topped off.

Another Legendary Aspect you can get, though kind of far, but definitely worth the trip is Shepherd's Aspect. This increases the damage of Shred by a percentage based on how many Companions you have out. We have a total of 2 out at any given time with this Diablo IV Build, which makes Shred deal anywhere from 16% to 32% more damage depending on whether or not you put it on Armor or your Two-Handed Weapon. That's a lot of damage!

The synergies don't end there, however, as the Masochistic Spirit Boon heals you when you Critically Strike with Shapeshifting Skills, in this case Shred, and Scythe Talons and Avian Wrath boost your Critical Strike Chance, and <a "="wiki_link" title="Diablo 4 Critical Strike Damage" href="/Critical+Strike+Damage">Critical Strike Damage. Make sure you bond to the Eagle in order to get both of these Spirit Boons!

Stormclaw's Aspect makes you AoE for more damage when you critically hit with Shred, and Aspect of the Unsatiated will boost subsequent Shred attacks when you kill enemies, which helps propel you further and further into a damage-dealing machine. Both of these Aspects can be found in relatively early dungeons, so they are easy to get to!

Shredder Druid Build (Level 50-70 Build)

The Shredder Druid Midgame Build is a Damage Over Time Diablo 4 Druid Build that focuses on dealing huge Poison and Critical Strike Damage, allowing you to decimate enemies with ease!

Overview

• Class: Druid
• Primary Stats: Willpower & Dexterity
• Active Skills: Storm Strike, Shred, Blood Howl, Poison Creeper, Ravens, Rabies
• Passive Skills: Predatory Instinct, Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance, Call of the Wild, Clarity, Nature's Reach, Neurotoxin, Envenom, Toxic Claws, Quickshift, Heightened Senses, Lupine Ferocity
• Spirit Boons: Packleader, Scythe Talons, Masochistic
• Weapons: Highest DPS Two-Handed Staff with Best Bonuses
• Armor: Highest Armor with the Best Bonuses
• Bonuses Wanted: Critical Strike Chance, Damage Over Time, Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, Damage to Poisoned Enemies, Lucky Hit, Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies
• Legendary Aspects: Aspect of the Blurred Beast, Stormclaw's Aspect, Exploiter's Aspect, Nighthowler's Aspect, Mighty Aspect, Vigorous Aspect, Aspect of the Umbral, Accelerating Aspect
• Paragon Board Glyphs: Shapeshifter, Spirit, Bane, Exploit, or Fang and Claw with the Lust for Carnage Druid Paragon Board

The general strategy for this Diablo 4 Shredder Druid Build is to set the Poison status effect on many enemies, and then teleport to enemies using Shred which triggers the Aspect of the Blurred Beast, instantly dealing up to 150% (if you have it on a Two-Handed Weapon) of the Poison Damage on them instantly. This is a HUGE amount of damage when you pair it with other Skills that deal Poison Damage like Rabies, Poison Creeper, and Toxic Claws. 

Critical Strikes also play a large part in this D4 Build thanks to the Stormclaw's Aspect, which makes you deal Lightning Damage to the target and around the target when you crit against them. And since we have the Packleader Spirit Boon, we can often cast back-to-back Poison Creepers, stacking tons of Poison Damage on enemies, before one-shotting them with Shred thanks to the Aspect of the Blurred.

Nighthowler's Aspect boosts our Critical Strike Chance further for this Diablo IV Shredder Druid Build, as does the Scythe Talons Spirit Boon, and the Shapeshifter Glyph from the Paragon Board. Shapeshifter makes your next Shapeshifting Skill have a +20% Critical Strike Chance when you change into a Werewolf or Werebear to use a Skill, in this case, Shred. This is made possible because we use Storm Strike often, which transforms us back to a human, so this is a near-constant 20% Critical Strike Chance upgrade as long as you alternate between Shred and Storm Strike.

You also gain a 20% Critical Strike Chance against Entangled enemies from Poison Creeper if you take the Brutal Poison Creeper upgrade as well, and Predatory Instinct provides you with a 6% Critical Strike Chance against Close Enemies. All these add together granting you at least 56% Critical Strike Chance against enemies trapped in your vines that are close to you, and that's not factoring in any Critical Strike Chance on gear you have.

The synergies don't end there, however, as the Masochistic Spirit Boon heals you when you Critically Strike with Shapeshifting Skills, so you should stay topped up on Health constantly. And Lupine Ferocity makes Shred attacks guaranteed to Critically Hit and for more Critical Strike Damage every so often, while Lust For Carnage provides you with 2 Spirit every time you Critically Strike with Werewolf Skills.