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Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)
PoE 2 0.4 Druid Leveling Build - Frost Wolf
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This is a Druid leveling build that focuses on Cold damage using the Werewolf transformation in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Last of the Druids Update. Check out this Druid leveling build, including its progression, equipment, socketables, skills, playstyle, and recommended builds!
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Frost Wolf Druid Build Summary
LazyExile's Frost Wolf Druid League Starter Build
This Frost Wolf Druid League Starter build is based on a build by LazyExile over at LazyExile (Youtube). The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. Check out LazyExile's YouTube and Twitch channel for more Path of Exile 2 content and ask questions about the build!
Druid Leveling Build Overview
| Build Setup | |
|---|---|
 Frost Wolf Druid |
 Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
 Contagion Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos Damage over time. If the enemy dies while affected by contagion, it and all other Chaos Damage over time Debuffs spread to other enemies and refresh their durations. Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by contagion will cause the Minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.
 Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
 Lunar Assault
 Pounce
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 Great Crowd Control High Cold Damage Excellent Mobility Needs Full Skill Slot Usage |
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This Druid leveling build is designed around freezing enemies by dealing Cold damage and shattering them through the use of Lunar Assault and your Shred combo. Make sure to use Pounce to mark your target so you can summon Wolf companions upon kill them.
| Date | Changes Made |
|---|---|
| 12/13/2025 | ・Frost Wolf Druid Build Created for Act 1. |
Frost Wolf Druid Equipment
※ The affixes shown below are arranged based on descending priority.
| Gear | Affixes |
|---|---|
 Vicious Talisman Vicious Talisman Stats:
Damage - 43-71 Critical Chance - 8% Attacks Per Second - 1.25 Requirements: Level - 40 Strength - 47 Intelligence - 34 (Weapon Set 1)  Gelid Staff Gelid Staff Stats:
Requirements: None (Weapon Set 2) |
・Increased Physical Damage
・Add Physical Damage ・Increased Attack Speed ・Gain Life per Enemy Killed ・Increased Spell Damage ・Increased Cold Damage ・Maximum Mana ・Gain Mana per Enemy Killed |
 Martyr Crown Martyr Crown Stats:
Armor - 66 Energy Shield - 25 Requirements: Level - 28 Strength - 23 Intelligence - 23 |
・Armor
・Maximum Energy Shield ・Increased Rarity of Items ・Strength ・Life Regeneration per Second |
 Shaman Mantle Shaman Mantle Stats:
Armor - 100 Energy Shield - 39 Requirements: Level - 28 Strength - 26 Intelligence - 26 |
・Maximum Energy Shield
・Increased Energy Shield ・Maximum Life ・Stun Threshold ・Reduced Poison Duration on You |
 Spiral Wraps Spiral Wraps Stats:
Evasion - 33 Energy Shield - 14 Requirements: Level - 33 Dexterity - 24 Intelligence - 24 |
・Add Lightning Damage to Attacks
・Maximum Life ・Maximum Mana ・Dexterity |
 Braced Sabatons Braced Sabatons Stats:
Armor - 33 Evasion - 28 Requirements: Level - 16 Strength - 14 Dexterity - 14 |
・Increased Movement Speed
・Life Regeneration per Second |
 Rawhide Belt Rawhide Belt Requirements:
None Implicit:20-30% increased Life Recovery from Flasks |
・Lightning Resistance
・Physical Thorns Damage |
 Jade Amulet Jade Amulet Requirements:
Level - 8 Implicit:+10-15 to Dexterity |
・Maximum Energy Shield
・Intelligence |
 Lazuli Ring Lazuli Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:+20-30 to Maximum Mana |
・Add Cold Damage
・Strength ・Life Regeneration per Second |
 Iron Ring Iron Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:Adds 1 to 4 Physical Damage to Attacks |
・Add Physical Damage
・Evasion Rating ・Dexterity ・Fire Resistance ・Increased Mana Regeneration Rate ・Increased Light Radius |
 Colossal Life Flask Colossal Life Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 450 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 4 sec. |
・Gain Charges per Second
・Increased Recovery Rate |
 Colossal Mana Flask Colossal Mana Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Mana Recovered Mana - 165 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 2.5 sec. |
・Gain Charges per Second
・Increased Amount Recovered |
Weapons
Try to get a solid Rabid Talisman with additional modifiers that increase Physical and Cold Damage, and Level of Melee Skills to further maximize your damage output as you progress.
Make sure to keep updating your Talisman with the highest based damage possible while you progress through later Acts to prevent any damage fall offs.
Armor and Accessories
The Druid's main survivability revolves around heavy use of Energy Shields, so prioritize armor pieces that provide Energy Shields except for your Boots. Take note to always prioritize boots with higher Movement Speed modifiers as this can help you traverse the early acts faster and also make evading enemy attacks easier.
As for your Accessories, equip a Jade Amulet to help you meet the Dexterity requirements of your Support Gems. Lazuli Ring will help increase your mana for more skill usages, while Iron Ring will maximize your damage output for faster clear times.
| List of Rings | List of Amulets |
| List of Armors | |
Belts and Charms
| Belt Modifiers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Rawhide Belt Rawhide Belt Requirements:
None Implicit:20-30% increased Life Recovery from Flasks |
・Lightning Resistance
・Physical Thorns Damage |
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| Charm Options | |||||
 Sapphire Charm |
 Antidote Charm |
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Equip a Rawhide Belt to increase your Life recovery from your Life Flasks for better survivability as you progress through the Acts. As for your Charms, make sure to equip a Sapphire Charm to help you survive against Count Geonor in Act 1 and an Antidote Charm with the Gain Charges per Second modifier to remove Poison effects that can go through your Energy Shields.
| List of Belts | List of Charms |
Runes and Soul Cores
| Equipment | Sockets |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Armor |
We recommend slotting in Iron Runes on your weapon to help maximize your damage output across all your skills. As for your Armor runes, use the Elemental Runes to reach the elemental resistance cap for all your resistances so you approach endgame content.
| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Frost Wolf Druid Skills
All Active and Persistent Skills
※ The Support Gems' priority are arranged in a descending order. The first one being the most important and the last being the least crucial.
| Skill | Support Gems |
|---|---|
|
Shred Shred |
 Elemental Armament I Elemental Armament I Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more Elemental damage.
 Rapid Attacks I Rapid Attacks I Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
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Lunar Assault Lunar Assault |
 Ice Bite Ice Bite Supports attacks you use yourself. Freezing an enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Cold damage for a short time.
Rapid Attacks I Rapid Attacks I Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
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Pounce Pounce |
 Fist of War I Fist of War I Supports Slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds.
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Frost Bomb Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
|
 Spell Cascade Spell Cascade Supports Spells that affect an area around you or a target location, causing those spells to also target additional areas on either side of the target area, along a randomly chosen axis. Cannot support Channelling skills or Remote skills.
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Contagion Contagion Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos Damage over time. If the enemy dies while affected by contagion, it and all other Chaos Damage over time Debuffs spread to other enemies and refresh their durations. Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by contagion will cause the Minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.
|
 Unleash Unleash Supports Spells you cast yourself, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support Channelling Skills or Skills with a Cooldown.
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Herald of Ice Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
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 Magnified Area I Magnified Area I Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.
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This Frost Wolf Druid leveling build makes use of Lunar Assault to freeze enemies and spamming your Shred combo to trigger Ice Fragments that can deal great Cold damage against mobs and bosses. Pounce will mark Elites and Bosses allow you to summon Wolf minions on kill that can draw aggro against mobs.
As for your Persistent Skills, we recommend equipping Herald of Ice as early as you can to proc AoE ice explosions on killing frozen enemies.
Frost Wolf Druid Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
The leveling passive tree for the Frost Wolf Druid build focuses on increasing your damage output through Guardian of the Wilds and Harbinger of Disaster. Make sure to get Bastion of the Forest as well to scale your Elemental damage with your Armor and provide faster Shield Recharge.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Ascendancy Options
 Oracle
|
• Unlocks useful Passive nodes for better build variety. |
As of Patch 0.4, we recommend choosing the Oracle Ascendancy and obtaining The Unseen Path Ascendancy node to unlock the class specific passives for the build such as Comradery and Hidden Forms.
You have the option to transition to a different Ascendancy at a later stage of the game if you wish to switch to a different build once you reach the endgame.
Build Progression
| Jump to an Act! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Act 1 | Act 2 (WIP) | Act 3 (WIP) |
Act 1 Progression
To progress through Act 1 and beat Count Geonor using the Lightning Ranger leveling build, follow these steps:
| # | Steps |
|---|---|
| 1 | After beating the
 The Bloated Miller
, talk to Renly and equip the
Lunar Assault
Skill Gem. |
| 2 | Head for the Mysterious Campsite at Clearfell to get an extra Level 1
 Uncut Skill Gem
.
|
| 3 | Complete
Treacherous Ground
and get the
Rapid Attacks I
Support Gem for
Lunar Assault
.
|
| 4 | Defeat
 Beira of the Rotten Pack
to obtain
 Head of the Winter Wolf
for the Cold Resistance to prepare against Count Geonor.
|
| 5 | Find and defeat Areagne, The Forgotten Witch to slot in the
Ice Bite
Support Gem on your
Lunar Assault
.Note: Make sure to loot the Witch Hut to get Medium Flasks. |
| 6 | Defeat
 The Brambleghast
to get a Level 2 Uncut Skill Gem and use it to level up
Lunar Assault
.
|
| 7 | Progress to The Grim Tangle and defeat
 The Rotten Druid
to obtain another Level 1 Uncut Support Gem and slot in
Rapid Attacks I
to your Shred equipment skill.
|
| 8 | Look for the Haunted Treasure Inside the Tomb of the Consort and defeat the rare enemy to acquire a Level 1 Uncut Support Gem and slot in
 Cold Attunement
to Shred.Note: Once you find a Level 3 Uncut Skill Gem, use it to equip Pounce . |
| 9 | Defeat
 The Crowbell
to get a
 Book of Specialisation
for free passive points.
|
| 10 | Search and complete your first Ritual in the same area to get a Level 4 Uncut Skill Gem and use this to upgrade your
Lunar Assault
.
|
| 11 | Start looking for the Dryadic Ritual in the same area to get an extra Level 1 Uncut Support Gem (to be used later).
|
| 12 | Defeat the
 The King in the Mists
to get +30 Spirit and a Level 4
 Uncut Spirit Gem
. Use this to equip
 Herald of Thunder
Spirit Gem, then slot in
 Concentrated Area
from the Support Gem you got earlier.
|
| 13 | Complete The Lost Lute at the Ogham Farmlands to obtain a
Book of Specialisation
for more passive points.
|
| 14 | Search for the Crop Circle in the same area to defeat
and obtain a Level 4 Uncut Skill Gem and use it to upgrade
Lunar Assault
.
|
| 15 | Proceed to Ogham Village and defeat
 The Executioner
to free Leitis and acquire a Level 5 Uncut Skill Gem. Note: Use the Uncut Skill Gem to get Thunderstorm . |
| 16 | Search and defeat the
 Candlemass, the Living Rite
at Ogham Manor to get the
 Candlemass' Essence
for the free +20 Maximum Life.
|
| 17 | Continue and defeat
 Count Geonor
to complete Act 1.Note: Make sure you have Medium Flasks since this boss fight has 2 Phases so you will be spending a good amount of time learning and surviving the mechanics. |
Frost Wolf Druid Playstyle
Bossing Skill Rotation
When against Elites and Bosses, you will adopt a melee playstyle that mainly uses Lunar Assault to buildup freeze and Shred to finish them off. The rotation is as follows:
- Cast Frost Bomb to inflict Elemental Exposure for inflicting Cold damage.
- Use Pounce to apply Mark for the increased damage.
- Spam Lunar Assault until you freeze the mobs.
- Spam the full combo of Shred for decent damage.
- Rinse and repeat.
Mobbing Skill Rotation
For mobbing and general use, you will revolve around spamming Pounce and Lunar Assault to deal AoE damage and fast clear mobs. The rotation is as follows:
- Use Pounce to close gaps and Mark an enemy for summoning Wolf minions.
- Cast Contagion to spread DoT across the mobs.
- Keep using Lunar Assault until you freeze the mobs.
- Spam Shred to finish them off and deal good damage.
- Rinse and repeat.
Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides
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| Volcanic Bear Druid |
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Lightning Wyvern Druid |
0.3 Leveling Builds
 Slam Fissure Warrior |
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 Drain Contagion Witch |
 Lightning Spear Huntress |
 Fireball Sorceress |
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All Build Guides
| List of Builds by Class | |||||||||||
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| Other Build Guides | 0.3 Leveling Builds | How to Make a Good Build | |||||||||
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| Lightning Wyvern Druid
NEW |
Contagion Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos Damage over time. If the enemy dies while affected by contagion, it and all other Chaos Damage over time Debuffs spread to other enemies and refresh their durations. Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by contagion will cause the Minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.
Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
 Entangle
 Thunderstorm
Focus: Dragon, Lightning, Shock |
| Volcanic Bear Druid
NEW |
 Herald of Ash While active, enemies you sufficiently Overkill with attacks will cause an explosion that ignites nearby enemies based on the Overkill damage dealt.
 Furious Slam
 Volcano
 Fury of the Mountain
Focus: Bear, Fire, Slam |
| Frost Wolf Druid
NEW |
Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
Contagion Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos Damage over time. If the enemy dies while affected by contagion, it and all other Chaos Damage over time Debuffs spread to other enemies and refresh their durations. Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by contagion will cause the Minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.
Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
Lunar Assault
Pounce
Focus: Wolf, Cold, Crowd Control |
Druid Class and Ascendancy Guides
| Base Class | |
|---|---|
 Druid
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| Ascendancies | |
 Shaman |
Oracle |
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