Diablo 4 - New Best Highest Damage Druid Build - FAST 1-70 - Skills, Aspects & Gameplay Guide!
Being in Tune with Nature
The speaker talks about the beauty of being in tune with nature.
Appreciating Nature
- The speaker expresses their love for being in tune with nature.
Diablo 4 Early Access and Leveling Up
The speaker discusses the release of Diablo 4 as a full game for those with Early Access and shares tips on leveling up.
Hitting Level 50 to Unlock World Tier 3
- The main goal for the first few days of gameplay is hitting level 50 to unlock World tier 3.
- Getting to level 50 quickly is important because it opens up later mechanics.
Choosing Druid Class
- After much deliberation, the speaker chose Druid class as their first class.
- Druid is heralded as one of the weaker leveling classes in early game because it's relatively slow and its damage struggles a bit before legendaries.
Tornado and Companion Combo Druid Build
- The build used by the speaker is a tornado and companion combo Druid build that focuses on crowd control and crits.
- Companions such as wolves, poison creeper, and ravens are utilized to make this build work well in earlier levels.
- Tornado is used as a core skill to apply crowd control and get crits while various skills boost all damage due to enemies at RC seed which affects companions too.
- Spirit Boon and a skill enhancement are used to increase crits.
Level by Level Breakdown
- The speaker goes through the level by level breakdown of where they put their skills.
- They followed their theory crafting with a couple of exceptions.
Skill Tree Overview
This section provides an overview of the skill tree and how to allocate skill points.
Allocating Skill Points
- Allocate skill points in the following order:
- All three ranks of Call of the Wild passive
- First enhancement for wolves
- Enhancement for poison creeper
- Ferocious poison creeper to make it last longer
- Enhanced Ravens
- Brutal Ravens
- One point of Neurotoxin passive
- Unlock passives in ultimate tree:
- Three points into Defiance
- Three points into Circle of Life
- Three points into Resilience
- Unlock keyed passives by putting one point into An Venom.
- Take Perfect Storm, which increases damage and spirit generation.
- Get other two ranks who inventum and back up to the core skill node for some passives here grab heart of the wild is a gateway to let you put three points into abundance and then also three points into wild impulses.
- Put final two ranks into tornado so it's maxed at five higher if you have gear that boosts it like I do then put two points into wolves and get the brutal wolves enhancements.
- Put four points into poison creeper to Max it out.
- Put three points into ancestral fortitude for extra tankiness.
- Put last three points into natural disaster giving more damage to Earth and bulwark.
Spirit Boons
This section explains how to unlock Spirit Boons.
Unlocking Spirit Boons
- Collect spirit offerings since level 15.
- Beat stronghold over on the western side of the map finish a short Quest afterwards.
- Interact with statues in tour dualra and give them spirit offerings.
- Immediately give 25 offerings to the eagle and also to the wolf.
- Unlock two of our strongest Boons:
- Eagle Boon that we want is five percent crit chance.
- Wolf one that we are after is pack leader which gives us a lucky hit chance on critical hits to reset the cooldowns of all of our companion active skills.
- Spend 75 offerings on the deer tree to get the Boon that makes you take 10 reduced damage from Elites.
- Once you've fully unlocked all of the paths by giving all of them the full offerings, you can do a spirit bond which lets you pick a specific Spirit path to get a bonus Boon on bond with the wolf path and then grab the energized Boon for a lucky hit 15 chance to restore 10 Spirit On Any Given instance of damage fuel.
Legendaries
This section explains how to obtain legendaries.
Obtaining Legendaries
- Complete specific dungeons around the map in Codex of power.
- The three legendaries needed for leveling:
- Put them on your amulets and your two rings since they are likely not be replaced if done this way.
- Armor pieces gain a ton of armor as they gain item level leading stronger stat boosts and secondary effects that you really want to beef up weapons decide your.
Core Legendaries for the Build
The speaker discusses the three core legendaries needed for the build and how to unlock them.
Aspects of Mending Stone
- Triples duration of Earth and Bulwark's barrier
- Lets you build barrier backup actively every time you kill an enemy
- Unlocked by completing Sealed Archives dungeon and Dry Steps in Act Three of the story
Aspects of Umbral
- Gives 1 to 4 Spirit when you crowd control an enemy
- Codex of power version is locked to be one Spirit, but still worth it
- Unlocked by completing Champions Demise dungeon in Dry Steps
Shepherds Aspect
- Makes core skills deal 6 to 8 percent bonus damage for each active companion
- Massive damage boost to tornado
- Codex of power aspect can be obtained from Blood-soaked Crag dungeon in Dry Steps
General Gearing Tips
The speaker provides tips on general gearing for the build.
- Aim for stats that boost your damage on crowd control, old or slowed enemies
- Movement speed bonuses are great as Droid can be a bit slow
- Any armor that happens to drop with Boost to the skill rank of active skills that we are obviously using is good to have too
How To Play The Build
The speaker explains how to play the build effectively.
- Pop Earth and bulwark on cooldown just so you can get the damage pop at the end of its active often
- Save Earth and bulwark for more important moments if worried about survival
- Use companion skills on cooldown favoring poison creeper as our strongest one then wolves then Ravens
- Use storm strike to build up Spirits
- Use tornado to spend spirit
Conclusion
The speaker concludes the video and invites viewers to try out the build.
- This was entirely just the build that I chose to get myself here the fastest and it worked
- Once I hit over level 50 and collect some more codex power, I will be changing builds myself
- If you want to see what build I go for next let me know down in the comments
- Hope you enjoy using this build if you try it out for yourself