Best Diablo 4 Druid builds for leveling, endgame & PvP in Season 3

❘ Updated: 2024-03-18T06:00:00

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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 3.

The Druid in Diablo 4 Season 3 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 3.

Contents

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

The Druid is nature’s chosen warrior against evil.

Best Druid leveling build

The best Druid leveling build in Diablo 4 Season 3 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 Pulverize Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 3:

Level	Skill
3	Pulverize
4	Enhanced Pulverize
5	Fierce Wind Shear
6	Primal Pulverize
7	Pulverize
8	Pulverize
9	Pulverize
10	Pulverize
11	Heart of the Wild
12	Poison Creeper
13	Enhanced Poison Creeper
14	Ferocious Poison Creeper
15	Clarity
16	Clarity
17	Trample
18	Enhanced Trample
19	Savage Trample
20	Clarity
21	Earthen Bulwark
22	Enhanced Earthen Bulwark
23	Preserving Earthen Bulwark
24	Mending
25	Provocation
26	Provocation
27	Provocation
28	Grilly Rage
29	Prime Grizzly Rage
30	Supreme Grizzly Rage
31	Quickshift
32	Quickshift
33	Quickshift
34	Abundance
35	Ursine Strength
36	Abundance
37	Abundance
38	Ancestral Fortitude
39	Ancestral Fortitude
40	Ancestral Fortitude
41	Poison Creeper
42	Poison Creeper
43	Poison Creeper
44	Poison Creeper
45	Wild Impusles
46	Wild Impulses
47	Wild Impulses
48	Predatory Instinct
49	Crushing Earth
50	First Paragon point
1 – Renown	Crushing Earth
2 – Renown	Crushing Earth
3 – Renown	Safeguard
4 – Renown	Safeguard
5 – Renown	Safeguard
6 – Renown	Predatory Instinct
7 – Renown	Stone Guard
8 – Renown	Stone Guard
9 – Renown	Stone Guard
10 – Renown	Wild Impulses

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

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.

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:

Gyrate (Governing)
Resource Support (Turning)
Swift Support (Turning)
Mockery Support (Turning)
Lightning Bolt (Governing)
Arching Support (Turning)
Efficiency Support (Turning)
Fortify Support (Turning)

The Druid can turn into a werewolf or werebear!

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 reallocated.

Here’s the best endgame Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 3, otherwise known as the Lightning Storm Druid, and the skills that need to respec to.

Active Skills	Passive Skills
Lightning Storm	Toxic Claw
Wind Shear	Envenom
Debilitating Roar	Earthern Might
Grizzly Rage	–
Cyclone Armor	–
Hurricane	–

Spirit Boons

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

Dear Spirit – Wariness
Eagle Spirit – Avain Wrath
Wold Spirit – Calamity
Bolster – Calm before the Storm

Select Eagle Spirt for your extra Boon with Iron Feather.

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:

Glyphs

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

At Level 15:

‍Keeper
‍Fulminate
‍Earth and Sky
‍Electrocution
‍Spirit
‍Territorial

From Level 21:

‍Keeper
‍Fulminate
‍Earth and Sky
‍Electrocution
‍Spirit
‍Territorial

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 2 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build.

First, chase down the following Aspects:

‍Retaliation – Seaside Descent (Dry Steppes)
‍Overcharged – Mariner’s Refuge (Scosglen)
‍Edgemaster’s – Oldstones (Scosglen)
‍Umbral – Champion’s Demise (Dry Steppes)
‍Disobedience – Halls of the Damned (Kehjistan)
‍Ghostwalker – Broken Bulwark (Scosglen)
‍Rampaging Werebeast – Endless Gates (Hawezar)
‍Eluding – Caldera Gate (Fractured Peaks)
‍Protector – Lost Archives (Fractured Peaks)
‍Mending Stone – Sealed Archives (Dry Steppes)
‍Might – Dark Ravine (Dry Steppes)
‍Wind Striker – Shivta Ruins (Kehjistan)

Buy the following Aspects by gambling Obols:

Dire Wolf’s
‍Lightning Dancer’s
‍Mighty Storm’s
‍Dark Howl

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

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)
Resource Support (Turning)
Efficiency Support (Turning)
Arching Support (Turning)
Flash of Adrenaline (Governing)
Duration Support (Turning)
Tactical Support (Turning)
Fortify Support (Turning)

The Druid returns from Diablo 2.

Endgame item build

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

Item name	Item type
‍Runic Skullcap of the Protector	Helm
Runic Mail of Disobedience	Chest Armor
Edgemaster’s Steadfast Gloves	Gloves
Runic Leggings of Might	Pants
Ghostwalker Steadfast Boots	Boots
Shepherd’s Archon Staff	Main Hand
Obsidian Totem of the Rampaging Werebeast	Offhand
Necklace of Retaliation	Amulet
Band of the Umbral	Ring 1
Overcharged 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: