Best Diablo 4 Druid builds for leveling, endgame & PvP in Season 1

Diablo 4‘s Druid is a force of nature that calls on the spirits of animals and the natural world to aid them in battle. Here are the best Druid builds for leveling, endgame, and PvP in Diablo 4 Season 1.

The Druid in Diablo 4 Season 1 is a returning class from the expansion of Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Resurrected. While not as physically imposing as the Barbarian, the Druid is still a powerful melee fighter. Their main skills involve using the powers of nature to do their bidding.

The Druid is for players who want a strong and powerful battlemage, but one that also has some unique spells that can differentiate the class from the more standard casters. They can burn enemies with scorching spells, but just as easily turn into a werewolf and rip demons asunder with their claws.

However, there is more than one way to play as the Druid in Diablo 4, as the class comes with a variety of builds. Picking the right one for you is important if you’re going to survive the hordes of Hell in the game.

Here are the best Druid builds in Diablo 4 in the current meta for leveling, endgame, and PvP during Season 1: Season of the Malignant.

Contents

• Best Druid leveling build
• Best Druid endgame build
• Best Druid PvP build

Best Druid leveling build

The best Druid leveling build in Diablo 4 Season 1 is the Pulverize Druid, an A-Tier build that not only shreds in leveling, it also gets some love in endgame and PvP too.

Of course, the build mostly makes use of the Druid skill Pulverize – but this is just the backbone of the build. It also makes use of the Druid’s shapeshifting abilities for maximum carnage!

Here’s how to assemble the Druid Pulverize build in Diablo 4 Season 1:

Level	Skill
2	Storm Strike
3	Enhanced Storm Strike
4	Pulverize
5	Enhanced Pulverize
6	Primal Pulverize
7	Fierce Storm Strike
8	Pulverize
9	Pulverize
10	Pulverize
11	Pulverize
12	Earthern Bulwark
13	Enhanced Earthern Bulwark
14	Preserving Earthern Bulwark
15	Hearts of the Wild
16	Abundance
17	Abundance
18	Trample
19	Mending
20	Provocation
21	Provocation
22	Provocation
23	Abundance
24	Poison Creeper
25	Grizzly Rage
26	Prime Grizzly Rage
27	Supreme Grizzly Rage
28	Wild Impulses
29	Wild Impulses
30	Wild Impulses
31	Predatory Instinct
32	Predatory Instinct
33	Predatory Instinct
34	Iron Fur
35	Ursine Strength
36	Crushing Earth
37	Crushing Earth
38	Crushing Earth
39	Defiance
40	Defiance
41	Defiance
42	Stone Guard
43	Stone Guard
44	Stone Guard
45	Iron Fur
46	Iron Fur
47	Defensive Posture
48	Defensive Posture
49	Defensive Posture
50	First Paragon point
1 – Renown	Safeguard
2 – Renown	Safeguard
3 – Renown	Safeguard
4 – Renown	Enhanced Trample
5 – Renown	Natural Trample
6 – Renown	Earthern Bulwark
7 – Renown	Earthern Bulwark
8 – Renown	Earthern Bulwark
9 – Renown	Earthern Bulwark
10 – Renown	Circle of Life

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: ‍Obsidian Slam
• Deer Spirit: ‍Wariness

Best Caged Hearts

Here are the best Caged Hearts to use for the Druid Pulverize build in Season 1:

• Caged Heart of Creeping Death
• ‍Caged Heart of the Picana
• ‍Caged Heart of the Lionheart
• ‍Caged Heart of Determination
• ‍Caged Heart of Inexorable Force
• ‍Caged Heart of the Moonrage

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Offensive Aspect of Retaliation – (Seaside Descent, Dry Steppes)
• ‍Utility Aspect of Quicksand – (Feral’s Den – Scosglen)
• Offensive Aspect of the Ursine Horror – (Belfry Zakara, Hawezar) – Combine with the above Aspect for best results
• ‍Defensive Aspect of Mending – (Stone Sealed Archives, Dry Steppes)
• ‍Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt – (Conclave, Kehjistan)
• ‍Defensive Aspect of Might – (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry. This way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame.

Best Druid endgame build

Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, things will ramp up as you’re pushed into the endgame. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be sufficient, and to make the most of the endgame content, you’ll need a build.

Remember, if you want to switch from the above leveling build to the below endgame build, you’ll need to respec your skill points. The below table will show you where to put them, but you’ll already have them unlocked and ready to be re-allocated.

Here’s the best endgame Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 1, otherwise known as the Werewolf Tornado Druid.

Spirit Boons

The Druid’s Spirit Boons are unique skills to them. For this build, select the following:

• Deer Spirit: ‍Wariness
• Eagle Spirit: ‍Swooping Attacks
• Wolf Spirit: ‍Calamity
• Snake Spirit: ‍Calm Before the Storm (Bond and then activate ‍Masochistic)

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:

Once you acquire the ‍Tempest Roar helm, you can start using the Werewolf Form board before jumping to the Starter, ‍Inner Beast, then ‍Thunderstruck boards.

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

At Level 15:

• ‍Undaunted
• ‍Exploit
• ‍Werewolf
• ‍Spirit
• ‍Earth and Sky

From Level 21:

• Werewolf
• ‍Exploit
• ‍Spirit
• ‍Undaunted
• ‍Earth and Sky

Best Caged Hearts

Here are the best Caged Hearts to use for the Druid Werewolf Tornado build in Season 1:

• Caged Heart of Tempting Fate
• ‍Caged Heart of the Inexorable Force
• ‍Caged Heart of the Malignant Pact
• ‍Caged Heart of Prudent Heart
• ‍Caged Heart of Revenge
• ‍Caged Heart of The Barber

Legendary Aspects

As this is an endgame build, it pays to unlock as many Legendary Aspects for the class as possible. Try to unlock these Aspects as soon as possible in Season 1 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build.

First, we’d recommend using the Stormchaser’s Aspect on weapons. If you have it, this will give your Tornado skill a damage buff. Then you can chase down the following Aspects:

• ‍Mending Stone in Sealed Archives (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Might in Dark Ravine (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Cyclonic Force in Collapsed Vault (Kehjistan)
• ‍Shepherd’s in Bloodsoaked Crag (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Umbral in Champion’s Demise (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Expectant in Underroot (Scosglen)
• ‍Edgemaster’s in Oldstones (Scosglen)
• ‍Ghostwalker in Broken Bulwark (Scosglen)
• ‍Rapid in Buried Halls (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Nighthowler’s in Forbidden City (Fractured Peaks)
• ‍Retaliation in Seaside Descent (Dry Steppes)

You’ll also be able to track down the various Gamble Totems from farming Nightmare Dungeons and Helltides.

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Druid build in Diablo 4:

Item name	Item type
‍Tempest Roar	Helm
Fur-Lined Robe of Light	Chest Armor
Stormchaser’s Manifers	Gloves
Fur-Lined Pants of Disobedience	Pants
Ghostwalker Boneweave Treads	Boots
‍Marauder Axe of Retaliation	Main Hand
Obsidian Totem of the Rampaging Werebeast	Offhand
Direwolf’s Amulet	Amulet
Nighthowler’s Ring	Ring 1
Accelerating Ring	Ring 2

Best Druid PvP build in Diablo 4

Just because a build works in PvE, it doesn’t mean it’s well-suited to battles against other players. This is where PvP builds come in. These are the best Diablo 4 builds for taking down other players using the skills available to the Druid.

The best PvP build for the Druid in the current meta is the Landslide Druid build. Here are the skills you’ll need:

Basic Skills:

• Earth Spike (Fully upgrade)
• Enhanced Earth Spike
• Wild Earth Spike

Core Skills

• Landslide (Fully upgrade)
• Enhanced Landslide
• Primal Landslide
• Heart of the Wild (Fully upgrade)
• Abundance (Fully upgrade)
• Wild Impulses (Fully upgrade)

Defensive Skills:

• Earthen Bulwark
• Enhanced Earthen Bulwark
• Preserving Earthen Bulwark

Companion Skills:

• Poison Creeper
• Enhanced Poison Creeper
• Brutal Poison Creeper

Wrath Skills:

• Hurricane (Fully upgrade)
• Enhanced Hurricane,
• Natural Hurricane
• Trample (Fully upgrade)
• Enhanced Trample
• Savage
• Savage Trample
• Crushing Earth (Fully upgrade)
• Safeguard (Fully upgrade)
• Stone Guard (Fully upgrade)

Key Passive:

• Earthern Might

Renown Points

• Clarity x2
• Elemental Exposure
• Endless Tempest x3
• Safeguard x3
• Defiance x3

We’d also recommend using the Paragon boards and items from our endgame build. This will create the most powerful PvP Druid until Season 1 potentially changes the meta.

That wraps up everything we know about the best Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 1, and if anything changes, we’ll be sure to update this guide.

If you’re not feeling these builds, check out our alternative Druid builds guide.

In the meantime, check out some of the other Diablo 4 guides we’ve put together for you:

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