Blightning Shred Druid (WT4)

Diablo IV Druid Guides

Build Overview

This is one of the fastest builds in the game allowing you to infinitely teleport to your enemies with fast poison and lightning damage.

Skills & Spirit Boons

Spirit Boons:

  • Wariness
  • Iron Feather & Swooping Attacks
  • Calamity
  • Calm Before The Storm

Hurricane will provide us with DR, make enemies vulnerable with exploit, proc lucky hits to return our grizzly rage, and increase the damage of our shred.

Blood Howl will be spammable with its 1s cooldown reduction on kill to help us heal and increase our attack speed.

Grizzly Rage gives us big heals and allows us to face tank elites

Grizzly Rage is our Ultimate which your goal is to live in. This skill allows us to infinitely stack our crit damage per use, while also giving us unstoppable. We will be using an aspect with this build that will make this skill turn us into a Werewolf.

Storm Strike is our basic that will be used to get vulnerable on enemies that live past the exploit proc.

Shred is our main damage skill and will be what allows us to teleport to enemies.

Skill Tree

Basic Skills

  • Storm Strike

    1/5
  • Enhanced Storm Strike
  • Fierce Storm Strike

Core Skills

  • Shred

    5/5
  • Enhanced Shred
  • Primal Shred
  • Heart of the Wild

    1/3
  • Wild Impulses

    3/3
  • Predatory Instinct

    3/3
  • Digitigrade Gait

    3/3

Defensive Skills

  • Debilitating Roar

    5/5
  • Enhanced Debilitating Roar
  • Preserving Debilitating Roar
  • Ancestral Fortitude

    1/3
  • Vigilance

    3/3
  • Blood Howl

    1/5
  • Enhanced Blood Howl
  • Preserving Blood Howl

Wrath Skills

  • Hurricane

    1/5
  • Enhanced Hurricane
  • Savage Hurricane
  • Neurotoxin

    2/3
  • Toxic Claws

    3/3
  • Envenom

    3/3

Ultimate Skills

  • Grizzly Rage

    1/1
  • Prime Grizzly Rage
  • Supreme Grizzly Rage
  • Defensive Posture

    3/3
  • Unrestrained

    3/3
  • Nature's Resolve

    3/3

Key Passive

  • Ursine Strength

Aspects & Uniques

  1. Tempest Roar (Unique Helm)
  2. Mad Wolf’s Glee (Chest) or Quad DR Chest With Damage Reduction While Shapeshifted
  3. Aspect of Retaliation (Gloves)
  4. Aspect of Disobedience (Pants)
  5. Aspect of The Dark Howl (Boots)
  6. Dire Wolf Aspect (Offhand)
  7. Accelerating Aspect (Ring)
  8. Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast (Ring)
  9. Stormclaw Aspect (1-Hander (Axe))
  10. Aspect of the Blurred Beast (Amulet)

Paragon Board

Glyphs: Exploit, Tracker, Fang & Claw, Spirit, Werewolf

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Stat Priorities

Helmet:

  1. Tempest Roar (If not Cooldown, Health, Willpower, Armor)

Chest:

  1. Damage Reduction from close
  2. Damage Reduction from poisoned
  3. Damage Reduction While Fortified
  4. Armor/DR

Bracers:

  1. + Ranks Shred
  2. Attack Speed
  3. Crit Chance
  4. Lucky Hit

Pants:

  1. Damage Reduction from close
  2. Damage Reduction
  3. Damage Reduction from poisoned
  4. Damage Reduction from distant/Armor

Boots:

  1. Spirit Cost Reduction
  2. Total Armor While in Werewolf Form
  3. Movement Speed
  4. Damage Reduction/Dex

Weapon:

  1. Vulnerable
  2. Close/Core
  3. Willpower
  4. Crit

Offhand:

  1. Cooldown
  2. Spirit Cost Reduction
  3. Crit Chance
  4. Resource Gen/DR/Lucky

Rings:

  1. Vulnerable Damage
  2. Crit Chance
  3. Lucky Hit
  4. Max Health/Resource Gen

Amulet:

  1. + 3 Envenom/+3 Toxic Claws
  2. Spirit Cost Reduction
  3. Cooldown
  4. Armor

Gems

  1. Armor – Ruby’s or Sapphire
  2. Jewelry – Barber, Revenge, Dark Dance/Inexorable
  3. Weapons – Emerald (Crit Damage vs Vulnerable)