Diablo 4 Druid Beginners Guide

Introduction

Welcome to our Diablo 4 Druid beginners guide! Interested in summoning tornadoes, big rocks to pulverize your enemies or shapeshifting? Then Druid is the Diablo IV class for you! In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the Druid including the Druid’s Skill, available Equipment, and more.

Pros

Very flexible and versatile
One of the best survivability toolsets
Crowd control through stuns etc.
Great in groups with a lot of debuffs

Cons

Slower start than other classes
Higher difficulty than other classes
Resource management can be tough

Resources

The Druid uses spirit to fuel their attacks, using generators to gain spirit and spenders to deliver damage to their opponents, managing your resource is a key aspect to playing the Druid successfully.

Weapons

The druid uses a few different weapons, here are your options:

One-handed Weapons
Two-handed Weapons
Staves
Totems (offhand)

With the options of melee or caster, as a Druid you choose your weapons accordingly, one or two-handed weapons for melee combat and one-handed + totem or staves for casting magic.

Equipment Slots

Below is a list compiling the item slots available to your druid:

One-handed Weapon + Totem
Two-handed weapon
Head
Chest
Hands
Legs
Feet
Amulet
Ring 1
Ring 2

When you first begin the journey as a Druid, picking up everything that gives you an upgrade is the best way to progress. Later on you will want to start filtering out the “good/bad” items.

Stats

Below we give a you a rundown on the stats, the Druid gains different benefits from the Core Stats below and as such are a important part of creating a powerful Druid:

Core Stats

Intelligence – 1 = 0.1% Resource Generation
Willpower – 1 = 0.1% Skill Damage
Dexterity – 1 = 0.02% Critical Strike Chance

Offensive Stats

The stats you choose as a Druid are very dependent on the style you choose, be it a shapeshifting Werebear/Werewolf or a caster that stands back from a distance. Some stats are always good and benefit both playstyles:

Critical Strike Chance
Critical Strike Damage
Other Stats that are build dependent

Defensive Stats

Much like the Class-Specific stat benefits you can receive, your Core Stats also assist your base defensive stats. However, this applies the same to all classes:

Strength – +1 Armor per Stat
Intelligence – +0.05% All Resistance per point
Willpower – 0.1% Healing Received and 0.25% Overpower damage per point
Dexterity – 0.025% Dodge Chance per point

To see more options for your Druid such as Utility Stats, PvP stats and more Defensive stats such as elemental resistances – check out our full Stats Guide!

Class Skill Groups

Diablo 4 does a great job of grouping sets of Skills to show their synergies and playstyle mechanics. Druid has the following groups:

Basic – Spirit generating abilities
Core – Abilities that consume Spirit to deal damage
Defensive – Abilities such as shields, buffs and debuffs
Companion – These abilities allow us to summon allies to fight beside us
Wrath – Nature abilities dealing high amounts of damage
Ultimate – the more powerful attacks you have access to, as a result, they have longer cooldowns

Skills are also grouped into four key aspects:

Earth
Storm
Werebear
Werewolf

For beginners and leveling, we suggest the following skills:

Wind Shear – Resource generator and spam-able skill
Landslide – Crush your foes in between rocks for a small but painful AoE
Cyclone Armor – Provide yourself with an extra layer of protection against attacks
Earthen Bulwark – Gain unstoppable and a shield for 3 seconds
Vine Creeper – Companion that passively damages enemies and when activated grants entangle and poison to enemies.

Class Mechanic – Spirit Animals

The class mechanic for Druid is called “Spirit Animals” and even though not part of the previous beta, the developers of Diablo 4 have shared what the mechanic is. Here is a quick overview:

There are 4 Spirit Animals from which to choose, Snake, Hawk, Deer and Wolf. Each of them will require 100 Spirit Offerings to unlock their passive bonuses known as “boons”, Spirit Offerings can be found by defeating mobs of that type.

After unlocking the Spirit Animal of choice you now get granted one of their four boons, the remaining boons will be unlocked at specific level intervals.

When all four Spirit Animals are unlocked you get to choose 2 boons from one Spirit Animal and 1 boon from the remaining 3 Spirit Animals, giving you a total of 5 granted bonuses.

Because we have not been able to test the boons there is no further info, but this will make the Druid even stronger then it was before!

Aspects

Aspects are legendary powers that can be extracted or also imprinted onto items. You can grab these Aspects through dungeons, the Codex of Power, and finding Legendary items. We will also update this section in the very near future with all currently known Aspects for the Druid!

Druid Builds