Diablo 4 Season 4: Best Druid Builds Tier List

The Shred Druid is an amazing starter option for the launch of Season 4 as it does not require any specific Unique items or Aspects to be effective. With this build, you are going to be insanely mobile in your Dire Wolf form, quickly moving between different packs, destroying them with combos of melee attacks. We recommend starting with this build, making use of its fast farming potential, and then switching to a stronger endgame build once you find the correct items.

While Shred received a couple of buffs in Season 4, including a damage increase and a buff to the Aspect of the Unsatiated, it will still remain in one of the lower tiers of this list due to the lack of scaling it has in the later stages of the game. It's still a wonderful starter build, so don't shy away from giving it a go.

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While summoner builds have been very weak in the past few seasons of Diablo 4, Blizzard Entertainment has continued to steadily improve them over time, with both direct damage and survivability buffs, as well as a ton of quality-of-life changes. Companion Druid has not received the same love in Season 4 as the Necromancer, but it still has significantly buffed most of the minions, enough to at least make it a competitive option in the earlier stages of the late game. It might take an extra season for this build to start clearing the highest levels of content, but if you want to experiment with it and play around it, it's quite viable at the moment and can be a good stepping stone before you switch to something more powerful.

Season 4 also adds a few other ways to support the build, with the new Tempered Manuals providing cooldown reductions and damage increases to each of the different minion types in the Druid's arsenal.

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The Trampleslide Druid is one of the most satisfying builds for the class, charging in as a Bear and creating multiple shockwaves and lightning storms that deal an insane amount of periodic damage to everything around you. With enough investment, this build is capable of doing all different types of endgame content in the game. It's a bit item dependent, as the build simply does not work without the Trampled Earth Aspect, so we recommend starting out as Pulverize until you manage to find this aspect. Trampleslide is a tanky, mobile, and visually stunning build that we definitely recommend that you try for Season 4.

There are no significant changes made to the Trampleslide Druid build in Season 4 aside from two Tempered Manual affixes that increase its damage and reduce its cooldown. Even though these sound good on paper, they are not going to elevate the build above the rest of the options.

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By far the tankiest Druid build that you can play in Season 4 is the Storm Claw setup. This build is perfect for players who want to try out the Hardcore mode this season or if they just hate clicking on the respawn button. Storm Claw is a melee build that relies on the Greatstaff of the Crone Unique to greatly increase the effectiveness of your Claw, making it a great source of single-target damage. This build will not provide you with the highest damage, but it's consistent enough to deal with most of the endgame content in the game.

The build received a small damage buff in Season 4, but nothing significant enough to push it into the higher tiers in the list. Additionally, the addition of the Pit of Artificers also keeps it down, as the dungeon operates around a timer and the Storm Claw Druid is not the best option if you want to go as fast as possible.

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Boulder Druid is one of the most fun builds available to the class. By using the Dolmen Stone Unique amulet, casting Boulder while Hurricane is active will cause your boulders to rotate around you. This plays very similarly to how Hammerdins used to work in Diablo 2. However, this is another build that is heavily gear dependent, as it simply cannot function without the amulet. If you do manage to find it, this build is capable of clearing every piece of content in the game, both high-tier Nightmare Dungeons as well as the Uber boss gauntlet. This is yet another Druid build variation that we recommend swapping to only if you find the necessary items.

This build is going to be even stronger going into Season 4, as it has three different Tempered Manual affixes that support it. These affixes will increase the rate at which your Boulders spawn while also making them deal a lot more damage.

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The Lightning Storm Druid is one of the fastest builds in the game, capable of completing high-end Nightmare Dungeons and any type of open-world content in a fraction of the time it takes other classes. Its single-target damage is lacking, but the visual spectacle of a huge lightning storm consuming your enemies never gets old. This build has received numerous ways to support it over the last few seasons and it also had a few flat buffs as well. If you are looking for a very fast build that is also capable of doing high-end content, make sure to try the Lightning Storm Druid.

Lightning Storm is going to remain a strong option going into Season 4, and while it has not received any major changes, it was already a very strong option. A new Tempered affix is also available, which will increase the duration of Lightning Storm, making it a lot easier to play around.

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Next on the list of gear-dependent (this time requiring the Shockwave Aspect) Druid builds, we have Pulverize. The Pulverize skill allows you to become a huge bear, hitting the ground and creating huge shockwaves that demolish everything in front of you. Pulverize Druid is very tanky, has amazing AoE clear, and can take care of pretty much any high-end content available in the game. It has some resource issues that you are going to have to take care of with your gear, but once you reach that point, there is nothing stopping you from moving from pack to pack and one-shotting everything in your path.

The Pulverize build has not changed in Season 4, but it remains one of the best endgame options for the Druid. You also have the added benefit of increasing its size with one of the new Tempered Manual affixes that you can craft on your gear.

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