Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide

Skill Tree Progression

Spirit Boons

Stat/Affix Priority

Legendary Aspects

Best Way to Obtain Druid Build Aspects From The Purveyor

Malignant Hearts

Druid Leveling Tips

Introduction

Skill order for leveling

Finished Skill Tree

Stats

Affixes

Build defining

Highly Recommended

Legendary Loadout Example

Teamplay

Skill Rotation Tips

Legendary Aspects from Dungeons

General Tips

Alternative Choices

Welcome to our Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide. In this guide we will show you exactly what skills to take to bring Druid to the next level. We will be utilizing the skill called Landslide and with that dealing massive damage in a small AoE.

Below we will go over the skill tree progression for this Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide. Focusing on the active abilities first and taking the passives where we need to fill up to reach the next active ability.

1-5	Storm Strike 1/5 – Enhanced Storm Strike – Landslide 1/5 – Enhanced Landslide – Primal Landslide
6-10	Fierce Storm Strike – Earthen Bulwark 1/5 – Enhanced Earthen Bulwark – Preserving Earthen Bulwark – Debilitating Roar 1/5
11-15	Enhanced Debilitating Roar – Poison Creeper 1/5 – Preserving Debilitating Roar – Enhanced Poison Creeper – Ferocious Poison Creeper
16-20	Landslide 2/5 – Trample 1/5 – Enhanced Trample – Savage Trample – Landslide 3/5
21-25	Landslide 5/5 – Heart of the Wild 1/3 – Abundance 2/3
26-30	Abundance 3/3 – Crushing Earth 3/3 – Defiance 1/3
31-35	Circle of Life 1/3 – Natural Disaster 2/3 – Earthen Might 1/1 – Natural Disaster 3/3
36-40	Safeguard 2/3 – Stone Guard 2/3 – Natural Disaster 3/3
41-45	Safeguard 3/3 – Stone Guard 3/3 – Resonance 3/3
46-50	Defiance 3/3 – Wild Impulses 3/3
51-55	Predatory Instinct 3/3 – Neurotoxin 1/3 – Envenom 2/3
56-58	Envenom 3/3 – Circle of Life 3/3

This will give you all the active abilities in the most effective way possible. Granting you the Key Passive – Earthen Might as soon as it is available. See the finished skill tree below!

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Spirit Boons are another very important part of this Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide. We will take the following Spirit Boons specializing in the Wolf.

Deer – Wariness – Take 10% reduced damage from Elites
Eagle – Avian Wrath – Gain x30% Critical Strike Damage
Wolf – Packleader – Critical Strikes have up to a 20% chance to reset the Cooldowns of your Companion Skills + Energize – Lucky Hit: Dealing damage has up to a 15% chance to restore 10 spirit
Snake – Calm Before the Storm – Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 15% chance to reduce the cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 2 seconds.

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Below we will go over the stats and affixes that you should prioritize for this Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide. We will list them from most important to least. For a more in-depth view make sure to check out our Stats and Affix guides!

Willpower – 0.1% healing Received, 0.25% Overpower damage per point, and 0.1% Skill Damage
Strength – +1 Armor per Stat
Intelligence – +0.05% All Resistance per point and 0.1% Resource Generation
Dexterity – 0.025% Dodge Chance per point and 0.02% Critical Strike Chance

+X Rank(s) to Landslide
+X% Earth Skill Damage
+X% Vulnerable Damage
+X% Damage While Fortified
+X% Damage While Healthy
+X% Damage Reduction While Fortified
+X Max Life
+X% Spirit Cost Reduction (Druid Only)
Grants X Spirit per Critical Strike

As a side note it is very important to keep up your resistances, as content becomes more difficult it will require higher resistances to compensate, the following affixes can become very important:

+X% Cold Resistance
+X% Fire Resistance
+X% Lightning Resistance
+X% Poison Resistance
+X% Resistance to All Elements
+X% Shadow Resistance

Legendary Aspects are one of the most powerful parts of any build. Below are the Legendary Aspects that go well with our Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide. Each build has a limited amount of Offensive, Defensive, and Utility Aspects that it can use. Here is a reminder of the slot limitations for Legendary Aspects:

Offensive – Amulets, Gloves, Ring, Weapons
Defensive – Amulets, Chest, Helm, Legs, Shield
Mobility – Amulets, Boots
Resource – Rings
Utility – Amulets, Boots, Chest, Gloves, Helm, Shield

Aspect of the Aftershock (Offensive) – Landslide’s earth pillars each strike a second time and deal an additional [6 – 12%] bonus damage per hit
Aspect of the Trampled Earth (Offensive) – Trample now summons 6 Landslide pillars of earth during its duration that deal [70 – 80%] normal damage. Trample is now also a Nature Magic and Earth Skill

Unfortunately both of these only drop on Legendary items, getting them might prove difficult. They are considered build defining because of the way they increase the damage output of the build. Keep your eyes open for these aspects on any legendary items you might find!

Subterranean Aspect (Offensive) – Poison Creeper’s active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal [10 – 20%] increased damage to Poisoned enemies.
Aspect of Mending Stone (Defensive) – The duration of Earthen Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. Additionally, killing an enemy with Earth Skills replenishes [X] of your active Earthen Bulwark’s Barrier
Crashstone Aspect (Offensive) – Earth Skills deal [40 – 50%] more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies
Aspect of Retaliation (Offensive) – Your Core Skills deal up to [20 – 40%] increased damage based on your amount of Fortify

Aspect of Might (Defensive) – Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for [2.0 – 6.0] seconds
Ghostwalker Aspect (Mobility) – While Unstoppable and for 4 seconds after, you gain [10 – 25%] increased Movement Speed and can move freely through enemies
Aspect of Disobedience (Defensive) – You gain [0.25 – 0.50%] increased armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to [15 – 30%].

This is just an example of a way these Legendary Aspects can fit together. Each build has a limited amount of Offensive, Defensive, and Utility Aspects that it can use. Make sure to use the following guideline when setting up your build!

Thanks to Don The Crown for the information!

Malignant Hearts, a new addition to Diablo 4 through the first Seasonal experience act as a huge boost to your build capabilities. As a result, we recommend using the following Malignant Hearts for this build:

Dark Dance (Vicious, Offensive): Every 5 seconds while above 60% Life, Core Skills cost 51 – 68 Life instead of your Primary Resource. Skills that consume Life deal 10% – 20% increased damage.
The Barber (Wrathful, Super): Critical Strikes and all subsequent damage within 2.0 – 4.0 seconds is absorbed by your target. Then, the absorbed damage erupts onto surrounding enemies. Stored damage is increased by 10% per second.
Tempting Fate (Vicious, Offensive-World Tier III): You gain 40-60% Critical Strike Damage but your Non-Critical Strikes deal 20-15% less damage.

Prudent Heart (Brutal, Defensive-World Tier III): You become Immune for 2.0-4.0 seconds after you lose more than 20% Life in a single hit. This effect can only occur once every 110 seconds.
Determination (Devious, Utility): Resource draining effects are 40-50% less effective. In addition, gain 3.0-8.0% increased Resource Generation.

Our first tip for this Diablo 4 Druid Leveling Guide is to team up with someone, be it a friend or someone you meet in Diablo 4. Teaming up greatly improves the leveling process and allows you to progress faster and easier.

Use your vines to immobilize and poison your enemies, following up with Landslide for massive damage.

Keep an eye on your Fortify, having this above 50% increases your survivability but also your damage. Pairing Fortify and Earthen Bulwark together gives both defense and offense, use Earthen Bulwark off cooldown in every fight.

When available go ahead and collect the following aspects by completing their dungeons:

– Aspect of Mending Stone (Defensive) from Sealed Archives in Dry Steppes
– Aspect of Might (Defensive) from Dark Ravine in Dry Steppes
– Ghostwalker Aspect (Mobility) from the Broken Bulwark in Scosglen
– Aspect of Retaliation (Offensive) from Seaside Descent in Dry Steppes
– Crashstone Aspect (Offensive) from Stockades in Scosglen

Best Gambling Option

Offensive

Offhand (focus)

Defensive

Resource

Utility

Mobility

Sticking to the Campaign and leveling through completing it will be the best option for your first character. For alternative characters this might be different as the Developers have shown there is a “Skip Campaign” button after doing the campaign once.

After some testing it seems that Tier 1 will be faster for leveling through the campaign, allowing you to reach the end-game faster.