Druid Leveling Build

This is a Druid Leveling Guide that lets you clear large groups of enemies by using Poison Creeper and the Subterranean Aspect in Diablo 4 (D4). Read on to learn all the Gear, Skills, and Aspects that you will need, and how to play the build to level from 1 to 50.

Build Overview

Build Summary

Druid Leveling Build Pros and Cons
Clears Large Groups of Enemies Quickly Great for Early Game Speedfarming and Vaults Does Poorly Against Single Targets Relies on Lucky Hit Procs to Reset Cooldowns DPS Aspects are both Non-Codex Aspects

The Druid Leveling build is made to clear large groups of enemies quickly thanks to the Subterranean Aspect which casts Landslide around you whenever Poison Creeper is activated.

As you progress through the season, this effect becomes even more devastating once you're able to pair it with the Aspect of the Aftershock which makes Landslide cast a second time after the first.

Leveling Guide

Skill Progression

Active Skills

Skill		Upgrade Path
Earth Spike (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Earth Spike	Fierce Earth Spike
Landslide (5 Points)	→	Enhanced Landslide	Primal Landslide
Cyclone Armor (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Cyclone Armor	Innate Cyclone Armor
Poison Creeper (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Poison Creeper	Brutal Poison Creeper
Earthen Bulwark (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Earthen Bulwark	Innate Earthen Bulwark
Petrify (1 Point)	→	Prime Petrify	Supreme Petrify

Passive Skills

Druid Leveling Build Passives
Earthen Might (1 Point)	Crushing Earth (3 Points)	Safeguard (3 Points)
Stone Guard (3 Points)	Nature's Reach (3 Points)	Neurotoxin (1 Point)
Envenom (3 Points)	Heart of the Wild (1 Point)	Wild Impulses (3 Points)
Abundance (3 Points)	Defiance (3 Points)	Circle of Life (3 Points)
Defensive Posture (3 Points)	Natural Disaster (3 Points)

Skill Progression Breakdown

Recommended Skill Progression
Lv.2	Lv.3	Lv.4	Lv.5
Earth Spike	Enhanced Earth Spike	Landslide	Enhanced Landslide
Lv.6	Lv.7	Lv.8	Lv.9
Primal Landslide	Fierce Earth Spike	Cyclone Armor	Enhanced Cyclone Armor
Lv.10	Lv.11	Lv.12	Lv.13
Innate Cyclone Armor	Landslide	Landslide	Poison Creeper
Lv.14	Lv.15	Lv.16	Lv.17
Enhanced Poison Creeper	Brutal Poison Creeper	Landslide	Landslide
Lv.18	Lv.19	Lv.20	Lv.21
Earthen Bulwark	Enhanced Earthen Bulwark	Innate Earthen Bulwark	Crushing Earth
Lv.22	Lv.23	Lv.24	Lv.25
Safeguard	Safeguard	Safeguard	Petrify
Lv.26	Lv.27	Lv.28	Lv.29
Prime Petrify	Supreme Petrify	Crushing Earth	Crushing Earth
Lv.30	Lv.31	Lv.32	Lv.33
Stone Guard	Stone Guard	Stone Guard	Nature's Reach
Lv.34	Lv.35	Lv.36	Lv.37
Nature's Reach	Earthen Might	Nature's Reach	Neurotoxin
Lv.38	Lv.39	Lv.40	Lv.41
Envenom	Envenom	Envenom	Heart of the Wild
Lv.42	Lv.43	Lv.44	Lv.45
Wild Impulses	Wild Impulses	Wild Impulses	Abundance
Lv.46	Lv.47	Lv.48	Lv.49
Abundance	Abundance	Defiance	Defiance
Renown Skill Points (Lv50 Onwards)
R1	R2	R3	R4
Defiance	Circle of Life	Circle of Life	Circle of Life
R5	R6	R7	R8
Defensive Posture	Defensive Posture	Defensive Posture	Natural Disaster
R9	R10
Natural Disaster	Natural Disaster

Spirit Boons

Setup is available if you've bonded with the Eagle Spirit.

Most of the Spirit Boons chosen are to increase the damage output of Landslide, especially when cast from Poison Creeper. This is crucial since critical strike chance and critical damage are the main damage boosts for Landslide. The Packleader boon also synergizes well with this since Critical Strikes give more chances to reset Poison Creeper's cooldown, allowing you to use it multiple times in a row.

Spirit Boons Guide

Aspects and Legendary Effects

The most important aspects that players should prioritize are the Subterranean Aspect and Aspect of the Aftershock. The easiest way to get them in Season 3 is to reach level 26 and farm Heralds of Malphas for their guaranteed Legendary drops.

Aspect	Effect and How to Get
Aspect of Cyclonic Force (Defensive)	How to Get: Collapsed Vault (Dungeon Clear) Cyclonic Armor also provides Physical Damage Reduction. In addition, Cyclone Armor will also be applied to all Nearby Allies.
Aspect of Mending Stone (Defensive)	How to Get: Sealed Archives (Dungeon Clear) The duration of Earthern Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. In addition, killing an enemy with Earth Skills replenishes (XX) of your active Earthen Bulwark's Barrier.
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 Umbral (Resource)	How to Get: Champion's Demise (Dungeon Clear) Restore (XX) of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy.
Ballistic Aspect (Utility)	How to Get: Whispering Pines (Dungeon Clear) When you have Fortify your Earth Skills gain +2 Ranks.
Crashstone Aspect (Offensive)	How to Get: Scosglen (Story Campaign) Earth Skills deal (40-50)% more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.
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.

Stat and Affix Priorities

It is good to prioritize looking for items that increase your Critical Strike Chance since Landslide scales well with Critical Damage. Not only that, but Critical Strikes also gives you more chances to reset the cooldown of Poison Creeper.

Willpower is also a good stat to increase since it is Druid's main stat that all of your skills base its damage on. Because of this, it is recommended that your weapon and offhand have Willpower since these items grant the most compared to other items.

Other stats and affixes that would be good are ones that increase Landslide's damage or frequency. The different Damage multipliers against crowd controlled enemies are particularly great since this build crowd controls enemies frequently.

Best Gems

Gem Type	Effect Explanation
Sapphire (Weapon)	+9.0% Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies Provides additional damage since you'll be Crowd Controlling enemies using Poison Creeper.
Ruby (Armor)	3.0% Maximum Life Increases your maximum Life. Since Druids aren't as slippery as other classes, you'll want all the HP you can get to avoid getting one-shot in close quarters.
Diamond (Jewelry)	3.0% Resistance to All Elements Very helpful since a lot of the traps inside the Season 3 Vault Dungeons do elemental damage.

Druid Leveling Build Playstyle

Druid Leveling Build Tips
Recommended Openers and Rotations Aspect of the Aftershock Alternative Use Cyclone Armor to Keep Enemies Away Start Unlocking Aspects at Level 20-30

Recommended Openers and Rotations

Trash Mob Opener and Skill Rotation

Boss Opener

Aspect of the Aftershock Alternative

Since the Aspect of the Aftershock can only be found from Legendary drops, players can use the Aspect of Retaliation as a substitute as it boosts Landside's damage to a max of 20% based on your Fortify.

This Aspect synergizes well with the Safeguard passive since it grants you Fortify whenever you land a critical strike with Landslide.

Always Keep Your Distance Against Enemies

It's always important to keep your distance against enemies since the Nature's Reach passive allows you to have a consistent damage boost against distant enemies.

To keep the effect active all the time, try to be mindful of not being in melee range against any enemies, and utilize the long range of your skills.

Use Cyclone Armor to Keep Enemies Away

With Nature's Reach in mind, use Cyclone Armor to push enemies away and slow them so that they can't easily rush back to you.

To add to that, Cyclone Armor combos well with Poison Creeper since it pushes enemies far enough for the Nature's Reach passive to activate, but near enough for Poison Creeper to hit.

Start Unlocking Aspects at Level 20-30

Players are recommended to start farming the aspects for this build at around Level 20-30 so that they could have an easier time progressing towards Level 50.

This is because enemies start becoming tankier and deal more damage around this stage, and it will become more difficult to progress without aspects.

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