Whether you are looking to start or have already started your journey in Diablo 4 Season 5 Seasonal Realm as a Druid, our Druid best build guide will come in handy to attain an S-tier build to tackle the new Infernal Hordes and other end-game content offered in Season of the Infernal Hordes.
Diablo 4 Season 5 Druid best build guide
Best Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 5
Our best Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 5 is based around Earth and Storm Skills, primarily the Core Skills, Landslide, and Lightning Storm.
It also utilizes the new Uniques, the Earthbreaker Ring, Wildheart Hunger, and The Basilisk. The different Spirit Boons also play a vital role in stacking the damage of our Core Skill and other abilities, boosting the overall DPS.
The Basilisk — Staff
That being out of the way, here’s an overview of the new core items that we will be using in this build:
- Affixes
- + 130% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
- + [16-25]% Earth Attack Speed
- + [80-100]% Critical Strike Damage
- + [125-170]% Physical Damage
- + [21-30]% Critical Strike Chance Against Stunned Enemies
- Power
- When you first hit an enemy when an Earth Skill, Petrify them for 3 seconds. Petrifying an enemy additionally deals [4412-26472] Physical Damage.
Earthbreaker (Unique Ring)
- Landslide causes the ground to erupt in tectonic spikes, which continue to deal 0.6-0.9 damage over 2 seconds. Casting Landslide in this area has a 20-30% chance to cause additional Landslide pillars to spawn within.
Wildheart Hunger (Unique Boots)
- When you Shapeshift into a Werewolf or a Werebear, you gain Wildheart for 5 seconds. Wildheart grants you 1%-1.5% increased damage with Shapeshifting Skills every 2 seconds, stacking 20 times.
Best Druid build — skill setup
Here are the different Skills, Passives, and Ultimate that you must be using for the best Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 5:
| SKILL | RANK |
| Storm Strike | 1 |
| Enhanced Storm Strike | – |
| Landslide | 5 |
| Enhanced Landslide | – |
| Primal Landslide | – |
| Heart of the Wild | 1 |
| Wild Impulses | 3 |
| Lightning Storm | 5 |
| Earthen Bulwark | 1 |
| Enhanced Earthen Bulwark | – |
| Blood Howl | 1 |
| Enhanced Blood Howl | – |
| Preserving Blood Howl | – |
| Ancestral Fortitude | 2 |
| Vigilance | 3 |
| Poison Creeper | 1 |
| Enhanced Poison Creeper | – |
| Ferocious Poison Creeper | – |
| Crushing Earth | 3 |
| Safeguard | 1 |
| Stoneguard | 3 |
| Neurotoxin | 1 |
| Envenom | 3 |
| Petrify | – |
| Prime Petrify | – |
| Supreme Petrify | – |
| Defensive Posture | 3 |
| Defiance | 1 |
| Natural Disaster | 3 |
| Circle of Life | 2 |
| Quickshift | 3 |
| Nature’s Fury |
Best Druid build — best Spirit Boons
When choosing the Spirit Boons, the main goal is to increase our survivability and DMG while reducing the cooldown of our abilities for easy and quick rotations. And so, here are the Boons that we recommend using:
| SPIRIT | BOONS |
| Deer | Wariness |
| Eagle | Swooping Attacks, Avian Wrath or Scythe Talons |
| Wolf | Pack Leader |
| Snake | Calm Before the Storm |
Best Druid build — equipment
Here are the equipment that you can use for the best Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 5:
| EQUIPMENT TYPE | EQUIPMENT |
| Helm | Vasily’s Prayer |
| Chest Armor | Symbiotic Runic Mail |
| Gloves | Unsung’s Ascetic’s Wraps |
| Pants | Tibault’s Will |
| Boots | Wildheart Hunger |
| Weapon | The Basilisk or Bone Blade of the Aftershock Dagger |
| Talisman | Amulet of Natural Balance |
| Ring Slot 1 | Subterranean Ring |
| Ring Slot 2 | Earthbreaker |
| Totem | Ancient Effigy of Retaliation |
Note: If you have a good Totem like Ancient Effigy of Retaliation, instead of using The Basilisk, a dual-handed weapon, you can use the Bone Blade of the Aftershock Dagger with the Totem for better results.
If you don’t have a particular piece of equipment, you can check its affixes and special bonus and equip a different piece that provides something close to it.
Also, while the above equipment is good, considering the build is focused around the Landslide Earth Skill, there are alternatives to the weapons and equipment that you can use without worrying much about the meta.
Best Druid build — Glyph leveling priority
Here is the Glyph upgrade priority that you can use to maximize the buffs you get from the Paragon board:
- Spirit > Earth and Sky > Territorial > Outmatch (remove the Glyph at later stages) > Human (replaced by Fang and Claw) > Undaunted (replaced by Dominate)
That concludes our Diablo 4 Season 5 Druid best build.
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