More top-tier Druid builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame in Season 3

Not liking our main best Druid build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Druid builds for you to sink your fangs into, including both leveling and endgame in Season 3.

Diablo 4 has lots of impressive builds for the Celtic-inspired warriors of Sanctuary who harness the power of nature, aka the Druids, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Druid build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also worth trying in Season 3.

This way, you’ll have a choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Druid in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame – which is where the game gets really interesting. Here’s our alternative best Druid builds in Diablo 4 Season 3.

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The Druid uses the power of nature to smite demons.

Best Diablo 4 Druid build for leveling

Diablo 4’s Druid has lots of mighty builds to use in the current meta, but we found the Shred Druid (Lightning Storm Druid) to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 3.

Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this powerful build:

Level Skill
2 Storm Strike
3 Enhanced Storm Strike
4 Shred
5 Enhanced Shred
6 Raging Shred
7 Fierce Storm Strike
8 Shred
9 Shred
10 Shred
11 Shred
12 Enhanced Earthen
13 Enhanced Earthen Bulwark
14 Poison Creeper
15 Enhanced Poison Creeper
16 Ferocious Poison Creeper
17 Wolves
18 Enhanced Wolf Pack
19 Ferocious Wolf Pack
20 Poison Creeper
21 Poison Creeper
22 Poison Creeper
23 Poison Creeper
24 Call of the Wild
25 Call of the Wild
26 Call of the Wild
27 Blood Howl
28 Enhanced Blood Howl
29 Preserving Blood Howl
30 Heart of the Wild
31 Wild Impulses
32 Wild Impulses
33 Wild Impulses
34 Predatory Instinct
35 Bestial Rampage
36 Abundance
37 Abundance
38 Abundance
39 Digitgrade Gait
40 Digitgrade Gait
41 Digitgrade Gait
42 Predatory Instinct
43 Predatory Instinct
44 Preserving Earthern Bulwark
45 Ancestral Fortitude
46 Vigilance
47 Vigilance
48 Vigilance
49 Quickshift
50 Paragon begins
1 – Renown Heightened Senses
2 – Renown Heightened Senses
3 – Renown Heightened Senses
4 – Renown ‍Natural Fortitude
5 – Renown ‍Natural Fortitude
6 – Renown Natural Fortitude
7 – Renown Defensive Posture
8 – Renown Defensive Posture
9 – Renown Defensive Posture
10 – Renown Invigorating Fury

This build is a great one for using the forces of nature to slay Lilith’s minions in the main campaign, but once you enter the endgame, it may be time for a build with more longevity.

Spirit Boons

The Druid’s Spirit Boons are unique skills to them. For this build, select the following:

  • Wolf Spirit: ‍Packleader
  • Eagle Spirit: ‍Swooping Attacks
  • Snake Spirit: ‍Masochistic
  • Deer Spirit: ‍Warning Signs

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

  • Lightning Bolt (Governing)
  • Swift Support (Turning)
  • Arching Support (Turning)
  • Poison Support (Turning)
  • Gyrate (Governing)
  • Poison Support (Turning) – Making it a total of 2 poison buffs
  • Tactical Support (Turning)
  • Electrocution Support (Turning)
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The Druid can turn into a werewolf or werebear!

Best Druid endgame build

Once you’ve seen the ending of Diablo 4, reached level 50, and entered the endgame, you may decide to switch to an endgame build, one more suited to your next set of tasks. This is completely optional, but if you do choose to change, here’s one of the best endgame builds in the current meta.

Remember, you’ll need to respec your points into new skills, but the below table will tell you which order to apply them, but it’s largely up to you how closely you follow it.

Here’s one of the best endgame Druid builds in Diablo 4 Season 3 currently, the Werewolf Tornado Druid:

Active Skills Passive Skills
Tornado Perfect Storm
Wind Shear Tempest Road
Hurricane Toxic Claws (1 point)
Grizzly Rage Neurotoxin
Blood Howl Envenom
Cyclone Armor

This build is essentially the classic Tornado build but focuses all Spirit Boons and shapeshifting abilities on skills that favor Werewolf transformations.

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The Druid returns from Diablo 2.

Spirit Boons

The Druid’s Spirit Boons are unique skills to them. For this build, select the following:

  • Wolf Spirit: ‍Calamity
  • Eagle Spirit: ‍Scythe Talons
  • Snake Spirit: ‍Calm Before the Storm
  • Deer Spirit: ‍Wariness

Paragon Board

At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Druid build:

  • Starting board
  • Ancestral Guidece board
  • Survival Instinct board
  • Constricting Tendrils board
  • Earthern Devastation board

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

Level 15:

  • ‍Undaunted
  • ‍Exploit
  • ‍Werewolf
  • ‍Territorial
  • ‍Earth and Sky

Level 21:

  • ‍Territorial
  • ‍Exploit
  • ‍Werewolf
  • ‍Earth and Sky
  • ‍Undaunted

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

  • Lightning Bolt (Governing)
  • Arching Support (Turning)
  • Mockery Support (Turning)
  • Efficiency Support (Turning)
  • Flash of Adrenaline (Governing)
  • Duration Support (Turning)
  • Tactical Support (Turning)
  • Safeguard Support (Turning)

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 3:

Item name Item type
Tempest Road Helm
Fur-lined Robe of Light Chest Armor
Stormchaser’s Manifest Gloves
Fur-lined Pants of Disobedience Pants
Ghostwalker Boneweave Treads Boots
‍Marauder Axe of Retaliation Main Hand
Obsidian Totem of the Dampaging Warbeast Offhand
Amulet of Retaliation Amulet
Nighthowlers Ring Ring 1
Accelerating Ring Ring 2

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