Druids are one of the most interesting classes in Diablo 4. They’re not only able to control animals — they can turn into animals (and also cast powerful spells). The result is a class that’s packed with complex ability combinations that can deal massive damage. As such, designing an ideal Druid build is a puzzle in its own right. That’s where we come in, with our suggestions of the best Druid builds for Diablo 4 season 5.
Druids can cast storm spells, control the earth, summon companions, or shapeshift into one of two creatures: a Werebear or a Werewolf. But what makes the class really interesting is its host of Legendaries that can make certain skills behave like others, allowing you to mix and match skills regardless of type. Not to your taste? We also have builds for the Sorcerer, Rogue, Barbarian, and Necromancer classes.
In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ve gathered and simplified the best Diablo 4 Druid builds for season 5. If you need even more information on item affixes or other more complex ideas, we’ve been sure to link out to the more detailed versions of these builds, as well as where to find their original creators.
Best Druid leveling build in Diablo 4 season 5
This build is based on IBoilerUp’s Druid leveling guide at Maxroll.gg, and is purely for leveling: i.e., allocating your 58 skill points between levels 1 and 50. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or which other Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original Maxroll.gg.
Best skills for leveling
One of the easiest Druid leveling guides you can play is the Lightning Storm build, which relies on the Core skill of the same name. In this build, you’ll also be using Wind Shear, Trample, Poison Creeper, Wolves, and Ravens.
Here are the best skills for a Druid leveling build, organized by the exact order you should purchase them in — bearing in mind that some skills require you to allocate a number of skill points in the tree in order to unlock them. As such, you’ll need to unlock new skills before enhancing existing ones.
- Wind Shear / Enhanced Wind Shear / Fierce Wind Shear
- Lightning Storm / Enhanced Lightning Storm / Primal Lightning Storm / Lightning Storm (rank 2-5)
- Heart of the Wild
- Wolves
- Poison Creeper
- Ravens / Enhanced Ravens / Brutal Ravens
- Enhanced Poison Creeper / Ferocious Poison Creeper
- Clarity (rank 1-3)
- Trample / Enhanced Trample / Savage Trample
- Abundance (rank 1-3)
- Wild Impulses (rank 1-3)
- Nature’s Reach (rank 1-3)
- Ursine Strength
- Enhanced Wolf Pack / Ferocious Wolf Pack
- Elemental Exposure
- Charged Atmosphere
- Bad Omen (rank 1-3)
- Defiance (rank 1-3)
- Circle of Life (rank 1-3)
- Natural Disaster
- Ancestral Fortitude (rank 1-3)
- Electric Shock (rank 1-3)
- Resonance (rank 1-2)
- Natural Disaster (rank 1-3)
Best Spirit Boon setup for leveling
Once you unlock the Spirit Boon system for your Druid, you’ll want to use your Druidic Spirit Offerings to select these five Boons in this order:
- Packleader – Wolf
- Avian Wrath – Eagle
- Wariness – Stag
- Overload – Snake
- Scythe Talons – Eagle
Best Legendary Aspects for Druid leveling build
When you first start your new character, complete these eight dungeons first in order to collect their Aspects. Then place them on a piece of gear (ideally jewelry and never weapons). The random drop Aspects are all nice to add to your Codex and your gear if you’re lucky enough to find them on your leveling journey.
- Aspect of Might (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes)
- Shepherd’s Aspect (Bloodsoaked Crag, Dry Steppes)
- Inner Calm (Raethwind Wilds, Scosglen)
- Aspect of Retaliation (Seaside Descent, Dry Steppes)
- Overcharged Aspect (Mariner’s Refuge, Scosglen)
- Aspect of the Protector (Lost Archives, Fractured Peaks)
- Aspect of Disobedience (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
- Ghostwalker Aspect (Broken Bulwark, Scosglen)
- Aspect of the Stampede (random drop)
- Lightning Dancer’s Aspect (random drop)
- Subterranean Aspect (random drop)
Best Druid endgame build for season 5 — Landslide
This build is based off of IBoilerUp’s Landslide Druid endgame guide at MaxRoll.gg, and is a general endgame guide capable of finding success in all activities. This guide assumes that you’re over level 50, have access to all 58 skill points, and are making progress on your Paragon Boards. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or why these Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original MaxRoll guide.
Best skill points for Landslide Druid build for endgame
This build utilizes Landslide as its core skill and main means of dealing damage. It also uses Lightning Storm, Storm Strike, Poison Creeper, Earthen Bulwark, Blood Howl, and Petrify.
Since you need all 58 points for this build, the order you select these skills in doesn’t matter as long as you have the pre-requisite points in the earlier Skill Tree tiers. Here is how you should spend your skill points for this build:
- Storm Strike / Enhanced Storm Strike
- Lightning Storm (rank 1-5)
- Landslide (rank 1-5) / Enhanced Landslide / Primal Landslide
- Heart of the Wild
- Wild Impulses (rank 1-3)
- Earthen Bulwark / Enhanced Earthen Bulwark
- Blood Howl / Enhanced Blood Howl / Preserving Blood Howl
- Ancestral Fortitude (rank 1-2)
- Vigilance (rank 1-3)
- Poison Creeper / Enhanced Poison Creeper / Ferocious Poison Creeper
- Crushing Earth (rank 1-3)
- Safeguard
- Stone Guard (rank 1-3)
- Neurotoxin
- Envenom (rank 1-3)
- Petrify / Enhanced Petrify / Supreme Petrify
- Defiance
- Circle of Life (rank 1-2)
- Natural Disaster (rank 1-3)
- Defensive Posture (rank 1-3)
- Quickshift (rank 1-3)
- Nature’s Fury
Druid Spirit Boons for Landslide build
Here are the five Spirit Boons you want to select for this Druid build:
- Wariness – Stag
- Avian Wrath – Eagle
- Swooping Attacks – Eagle
- Pack Leader – Wolf
- Calm Before the Storm – Snake
Legendary Powers and Uniques for Landslide Druid build
To make this build work, you’re going to need powerful Legendary Powers and Unique items to augment your build.
IBoilerUp recommends these items:
- Helm: Vasily’s Prayer (Unique) or Aspect of Might (dungeon drop)
- Chest: Symbiotic Aspect
- Gloves: Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps (Unique) or Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt (dungeon drop)
- Pants: Tibault’s Will (Unique) or Aspect of Might (dungeon drop)
- Boots: Wildheart Hunger (Unique) or Ghostwalker Aspect (dungeon drop)
- Weapon: Aspect of the Aftershock
- Totem: Aspect of Retaliation (dungeon drop)
- Amulet: Aspect of Natural Balance
- Ring 1: Subterranean Aspect
- Ring 2: Earthbreaker (Unique) or Aspect of the Trampled Earth
If you want to get into the nitty gritty of stat priorities, refer to IBoilerUp’s original guide.
Paragon Boards for Landslide Druid build
The Paragon Board system is very complex, and you’ll want to carefully pair your Glyphs with specific boards for your class:
- Starter Board / Human Glyph
- Heightened Malice / Earth and Sky Glyph
- Inner Beast / Undaunted Glyph
- Earthen Devastation / Outmatch Glyph
- Constricting Tendrils / Territorial Glyph
- Thunderstruck / Spirit Glyph
You should level your Glyphs to 15 in this specific order:
- Spirit
- Earth and Sky
- Territorial
- Outmatch
- Human
- Undaunted
You can path your own way through the Paragon Boards following these basic guidelines. However, for the best results — and for the completed path once you reach level 100 —follow IBoilerUp’s recommendations exactly.
How to make a great Druid build
Druids is Diablo 4’s hybrid caster and melee class, but their most unique trait is their ability to shapeshift into either a Werebear or a Werewolf. Druids have access to six Key Passives, but four builds that primarily stem from them:
- Werebear
- Werewolf
- Storm
- Earth
Werebear is the Druid’s more defensive transformation, although it can be extremely deadly when built out correctly. Werebear’s will take advantage of either the Ursine Strength Key Passive or the Bestial Rampage Key Passive. Werewolf builds are the faster, deadlier Druid builds, but they’re also far less defensive. Werewolf builds will use either the Lupine Ferocity Key Passive or the Bestial Rampage Key Passive.
Druid’s caster builds mimic shapeshifts. Earth builds are the more defensive of the two (and are typically melee-based), and will use either the Earthen Might or Nature’s Fury Key Passives. Storm skills are heavy Spirit spenders, and can be cast from much further away. Storm builds benefit from the Perfect Storm or Nature’s Fury Key Passives.
Many of the class’ Legendaries allow you to transform certain skills into other skills (turning all Storm skills into Werewolf skills, for example). But if you’re building your own Druid class, keep in mind that you’ll end up building either a caster or a shapeshifter and selecting one of these Key Passives. However, it’s also important to keep in mind that — with the use of some powerful Legendaries and Uniques — you can make shapeshifter builds that are also casters.
Looking for other Diablo 4 builds? We have explainers on the Sorcerer, Rogue, Barbarian, and Necromancer classes.
