More top-tier Druid builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame in Season 3

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 3.

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 3.

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 – which is where the game gets really interesting. Here’s our alternative best Druid builds in Diablo 4 Season 3.

Contents

• Best Alternative Druid leveling build
• Best Alternative Druid endgame build

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 (Lightning Storm Druid) to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 3.

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: ‍Swooping Attacks
• Snake Spirit: ‍Masochistic
• Deer Spirit: ‍Warning Signs

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Lightning Bolt (Governing)
• Swift Support (Turning)
• Arching Support (Turning)
• Poison Support (Turning)
  
• Gyrate (Governing)
• Poison Support (Turning) – Making it a total of 2 poison buffs
• Tactical Support (Turning)
• Electrocution Support (Turning)

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 3 currently, the Werewolf Tornado Druid:

Active Skills	Passive Skills
Tornado	Perfect Storm
Wind Shear	Tempest Road
Hurricane	Toxic Claws (1 point)
Grizzly Rage	Neurotoxin
Blood Howl	Envenom
Cyclone Armor	–

This build is essentially the classic Tornado build but focuses all Spirit Boons and shapeshifting abilities on skills that favor Werewolf transformations.

Spirit Boons

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

• Wolf Spirit: ‍Calamity
• Eagle Spirit: ‍Scythe Talons
• Snake Spirit: ‍Calm Before the Storm
• 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

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Lightning Bolt (Governing)
• Arching Support (Turning)
• Mockery Support (Turning)
• Efficiency Support (Turning)
  
• Flash of Adrenaline (Governing)
• Duration Support (Turning)
• Tactical Support (Turning)
• Safeguard Support (Turning)

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 3:

Item name	Item type
Tempest Road	Helm
Fur-lined Robe of Light	Chest Armor
Stormchaser’s Manifest	Gloves
Fur-lined Pants of Disobedience	Pants
Ghostwalker Boneweave Treads	Boots
‍Marauder Axe of Retaliation	Main Hand
Obsidian Totem of the Dampaging Warbeast	Offhand
Amulet of Retaliation	Amulet
Nighthowlers Ring	Ring 1
Accelerating Ring	Ring 2

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