Not liking our main best Druid build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Druid builds for you to sink your fangs into, including both leveling and endgame in Season 4.
Diablo 4 has lots of impressive builds for the Celtic-inspired warriors of Sanctuary who harness the power of nature, aka the Druids, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Druid build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also worth trying in Season 4.
This way, you’ll have a choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Druid in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame. Here’s our alternative best Druid builds in Diablo 4 Season 4.
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Best Diablo 4 Druid build for leveling
Diablo 4’s Druid has lots of mighty builds to use in the current meta, but we found the Shred Druid to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 4.
Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this powerful build:
| Level | Skill |
| 2 | Storm Strike |
| 3 | Enhanced Storm Strike |
| 4 | Shred |
| 5 | Enhanced Shred |
| 6 | Raging Shred |
| 7 | Fierce Storm Strike |
| 8 | Shred |
| 9 | Shred |
| 10 | Shred |
| 11 | Shred |
| 12 | Enhanced Earthen |
| 13 | Enhanced Earthen Bulwark |
| 14 | Poison Creeper |
| 15 | Enhanced Poison Creeper |
| 16 | Ferocious Poison Creeper |
| 17 | Wolves |
| 18 | Enhanced Wolf Pack |
| 19 | Ferocious Wolf Pack |
| 20 | Poison Creeper |
| 21 | Poison Creeper |
| 22 | Poison Creeper |
| 23 | Poison Creeper |
| 24 | Call of the Wild |
| 25 | Call of the Wild |
| 26 | Call of the Wild |
| 27 | Blood Howl |
| 28 | Enhanced Blood Howl |
| 29 | Preserving Blood Howl |
| 30 | Heart of the Wild |
| 31 | Wild Impulses |
| 32 | Wild Impulses |
| 33 | Wild Impulses |
| 34 | Predatory Instinct |
| 35 | Bestial Rampage |
| 36 | Abundance |
| 37 | Abundance |
| 38 | Abundance |
| 39 | Digitgrade Gait |
| 40 | Digitgrade Gait |
| 41 | Digitgrade Gait |
| 42 | Predatory Instinct |
| 43 | Predatory Instinct |
| 44 | Preserving Earthern Bulwark |
| 45 | Ancestral Fortitude |
| 46 | Vigilance |
| 47 | Vigilance |
| 48 | Vigilance |
| 49 | Quickshift |
| 50 | Paragon begins |
| 1 – Renown | Heightened Senses |
| 2 – Renown | Heightened Senses |
| 3 – Renown | Heightened Senses |
| 4 – Renown | Natural Fortitude |
| 5 – Renown | Natural Fortitude |
| 6 – Renown | Natural Fortitude |
| 7 – Renown | Defensive Posture |
| 8 – Renown | Defensive Posture |
| 9 – Renown | Defensive Posture |
| 10 – Renown | Invigorating Fury |
This build is a great one for using the forces of nature to slay Lilith’s minions in the main campaign, but once you enter the endgame, it may be time for a build with more longevity.
Spirit Boons
The Druid’s Spirit Boons are unique skills to them. For this build, select the following:
- Wolf Spirit: Packleader
- Eagle Spirit: Scythe Talons
- Snake Spirit: Masochistic
- Deer Spirit: Prickleskin
Best Druid endgame build
Once you’ve seen the ending of Diablo 4, reached level 50, and entered the endgame, you may decide to switch to an endgame build, one more suited to your next set of tasks. This is completely optional, but if you do choose to change, here’s one of the best endgame builds in the current meta.
Remember, you’ll need to respec your points into new skills, but the below table will tell you which order to apply them, but it’s largely up to you how closely you follow it.
Here’s one of the best endgame Druid builds in Diablo 4 Season 4 currently, the Werewolf Tornado Druid:
| Active Skills | Passive Skills |
| Tornado (5 points, Enhanced, Raging) | Toxic Claws |
| Trample (Enhanced, Savage) | Bestial Rampage |
| Debilitating Roar (Enhanced, Preserving) | Defiance (3 points) |
| Ravens (Enhanced, Brutal) | Neurotoxin |
| Wolves | Envenom (3 points) |
| Poison Creeper | Circle of Life (3 points) |
| Wind Shear (Enhanced) | Quickshift (3 points) |
| – | Natural Disaster (3 points) |
| – | Heightened Senses (3 points) |
| – | Ancestral Fortitude |
| – | Vigilance (3 points) |
| – | Heart of the Wild |
| – | Wild Impulses (3 points) |
| – | Predatory Instinct (3 points) |
| – | Iron Fur (3 points) |
| – | Digitigrade Gait (3 points) |
This build is essentially the classic Tornado build but focuses all Spirit Boons and shapeshifting abilities on skills that favor Werewolf transformations.
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Spirit Boons
The Druid’s Spirit Boons are unique skills to them. For this build, select the following:
- Wolf Spirit: Bolster
- Eagle Spirit: Iron Feather
- Snake Spirit: Masochistic
- Deer Spirit: Wariness
Paragon Board
At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Druid build:
- Starting board
- Ancestral Guidece board
- Survival Instinct board
- Constricting Tendrils board
- Earthern Devastation board
Glyphs
Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:
Level 15:
- Undaunted
- Exploit
- Werewolf
- Territorial
- Earth and Sky
Level 21:
- Territorial
- Exploit
- Werewolf
- Earth and Sky
- Undaunted
Legendary Aspects
Add the following Legendary Aspects after unlocking them:
- Retaliation – Seaside Descent (Dry Steppes)
- Umbral – Champion’s Demise (Dry Steppes)
- Rapid – Buried Halls (Dry Steppes)
- Expectant – Underroot (Scosglen)
- Edgemaster’s – Oldstones (Scosglen)
- Disobedience – Halls of The Damned (Kehjistan)
- Mending Stone – Sealed Archives (Dry Steppes)
- Ghostwalker – Broken Bulwark (Scosglen)
- Might – Dark Ravine (Dry Steppes)
- Changeling’s Debt – Conclave (Kehjistan)
- Vigorous – Steadfast Barracks (Hawezar)
The following Aspects can be found by gambling Obols/Totems:
- Stormchaser’s
- Juggernaut’s
- Accelerating
- Shepherd’s
- Stampede
The following Aspects can be found by gaming bosses:
- Tempest Roar
- Wildheart Hunger
- Mad Wolf’s Glee
Endgame item build
Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 4:
| Item name | Item type |
| Runic Skullcap of Might (Socket with Ruby) | Helm |
| Runic Mail of Mending (Socket with Rubys) | Chest Armor |
| Edgemaster’s Runic Gloves | Gloves |
| Runic Leggings of Disobedience (Socket with Rubys) | Pants |
| Ghostwalker Runic Cleats | Boots |
| Archon Staff of Retaliation (Socket with Sapphires) | Main Hand |
| – | Offhand |
| Rapid Amulet (Socket with Sapphire) | Amulet |
| Band of the Expectant (Socket with Emerald) | Ring 1 |
| Circle of the Umbral (Socket with Amethyst) | Ring 2 |
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