The Diablo IV lightning shredding wolf druid build to advance in the final difficulty levels of the nightmare dungeons!

Many thanks to Leelith for his build!

Update for Season 2

Take these five vampire powers :

• Anticipation D - Ultimate CDR, additional damage enemy functions with damage over time
• Sanguine Brace DE - gain fortification when killing a target, critical chance when fortification greater than half your max life
• Prey on the Weak FF - extra vulnerable damage, opponent under vampire curse vulnerable
• Ravenous FFF - chance to increase attack speed by 40% of your movement speed on an attack
• Relilience EE - 1% damage reduced for every 2% life missing

Principle of the build

What this build is based on:

• the use of lightning and poison
• very good resistance

Skills and Equipment

Here are the skills with their associated legendary power:

• Thunderclap, basic attack
• Shred, damage skill
• Hurricane, buff
• Cyclone armor, resistance
• Blood Howl, attack speed
• Grizzly's Rage, Damage Ultimate and Resist

Equipment and statistics

Consider these aspects:

• unique helmet: transforms your lightning skills into transfiguration
• unique armor: wolf skill buff
• gloves: deals poison damage while dashing
• two-handed weapon: damage increased depending on fortification
• amulet: critical hits cause lightning (amulet)
• boots: increases your transfiguration skills
• ring 1: transforms the ultimate into a wolf skill
• ring 2: increases the duration of the ultimate

Take these statistics:

1. willpower, luck and critical damage
2. main skill damage
3. damage to nearby enemies and anything that can reduce your damage
4. luck stroke on glove and rings

Specialization

For spirit blessings, take:

• Stag - reduced damage taken from elites
• Eagle - attack speed
• Wolf - ultimate duration
• Serpent - heal on crit in wolf form and reduce the time of the ultimate

Gems

For gems put:

• in sapphire armor for reduced damage under fortification
• in emerald weapons for critical damage on vulnerable enemies
• in the accessories specific element resistances or diamonds

Paragon

Here is what you need to take for the paragon:

1. Territory Glyph
2. Wolf Crit Spirit Gain Tray - Wolf Damage Glyph
3. Damage Tray after using Spirit - Fang and Claw Glyph
4. Storm Plateau (without taking the node) - Glyph of Fortification
5. Damage Tray when Poisoned Targets - Glyph of Vulnerability
6. Chance tray to poison targets on a lucky hit (without taking the node) - Glyph of Critical Damage

To go even further

Below are the points to improve compared to the character presented:

• lucky hit on gloves, rings
• ult duration passives from 3 to 5 seconds
• helmet with the armor gain aspect instead of the unique helmet if you want to go further in nightmare dungeons

Builder

Find the skill tree and the paragon on the Builder Druid Shredding Diablo 4.

History

Find below the build versions and modifications:

• 1.1.1 : creation. For hearts season 1 critical damage (orange), reduced damage taken (blue) or main skill damage when using life (orange), attract enemies (pink).