Let's take a look at the Druid Talent Guide. The Druid has access to a multitude of abilities, most of which revolve around bears and wolves.
Until now Diablo 4 betaIn , Druid fell a little short for most players. While most people find the Druid's skills strictly from an aesthetic point of view, there is a growing consensus that the skills are generally poor, especially when compared to the other four classes. However, if players want to try and increase the Druid's strength, they should look into spending skill points for Abilities. Abilities are passive abilities that allow players to further customize their build and increase the power of their active skills.
Below you can see all of the Druid's available Abilities and which we recommend for a few key builds.
Diablo 4 Druid Skill Guide
Similar to other classes, Druid has Abilities grouped in different categories. For example, there are some Abilities that you cannot acquire without learning the Abilities that preceded it. Relatively, they work like other skills where you need to spend a certain number of skill points to access certain Skills. We've broken everything down below so you can see exactly which Abilities fall where for the Druid.
Basic Skill Abilities
- Heart of the Wild - Maximum Spirit is increased.
- Abundance – Basic Skills generate more Souls.
- Wild Impulses – Your Basic Skills cost more Spirit but deal more damage.
- Ferocious Instincts – Increases Critical Strike Chance against melee enemies.
- Digitigrade Gait – While in Werewolf form, you gain movement speed.
- Iron Fur – Gain damage reduction while in Werebear form.
Defensive Skill Abilities
- Ancestral Fortitude – Increase your non-physical resistances.
- After using the Vigilance - Defense skill, you gain damage reduction for 6 seconds.
Complementary Skill Abilities
- Call of the Wild - Companions deal bonus damage.
- Clarity – Gain 2 Spirits while transforming into Human form.
- Nature's Reach – Deal more damage to distant enemies. Also double this bonus if they are slowed, stunned, immobilized or knocked back.
Wrath Skill Abilities
- Elemental Exposure – Lucky Hit: Your Storm Skills have a chance to make enemies vulnerable.
- Charged Atmosphere – Every 18 seconds, lightning strikes a nearby enemy for damage.
- Endless Tempest – Extend the duration of Hurricane and Cataclysm.
- Bad Omen – Lucky Hit: Chance for a lightning strike to hit for damage while damaging a defenseless, immobilized, or stunned enemy.
- Electric Shock – If the target is already stationary, the lightning damage dealt to them is increased instead.
- Crushing Earth – Earth skills deal increased damage to enemies that are slowed, stunned, immobilized, or knocked back.
- Protection – Critical attacks with Earth skills empower you by a percentage of Basic Life.
- Stone Guard – While you have Fortify a percentage of your Maximum Life, your Earth skills deal more damage.
- Neurotoxin – Poisoned enemies are slowed.
- Envenom – Poisoned enemies take additional critical strike damage.
- Toxic Claws – Critical hits with Werewolf skills deal damage over time as poisonous damage.
Ultimate Skill Abilities
- Challenge – Nature magic skills deal more damage to elites.
- Circle of Life – Spirit-consuming nature magic skills heal you for a percentage of Maximum Life.
- Resonance – Nature magic skills deal more damage. If a World skill is the next skill used after a Storm skill, or if a Storm skill is the next skill after a World skill, triple this bonus.
- Natural Disaster – Your world skills deal more damage to defenseless enemies. Your Storm skills deal more damage to enemies that are stunned, immobilized, or knocked back.
- Defensive Stance – Increases the amount of Fortification you gain from all sources.
- Thick Skin – When stunned, immobilized, or knocked down, Empower for a percentage of Basic Life.
- Nature's Resolve – A chance when hit to Reinforce for a percentage of Elementary Life.
- Unlimited – Decrease the duration of Control Break effects by one percent. Triple this effect while having Fortify for more than 50% of Max Life.
- Quickshift – When a shapeshifting skill transforms you into a different form, it deals more damage.
- Natural Fortitude – Shapeshifting Strengthens you for a certain percentage of Basic Life.
- Heightened Senses – After shapeshifting into a Werewolf or Wolf Bear, gain damage reduction against elites for a short time.
Key Passive Abilities
- Perfect Storm – Your Storm skills deal Spirit and deal more damage when damaging a defenseless, immobilized, or slowed enemy.
- Using Nature's Fury – One World skill has a chance to trigger a free Storm skill from the same category. The chance to trigger a free World skill has also been increased.
- Earthen Might – Lucky Hit: Dealing damage to enemies with Earth skills has the following chance: restores all Spirit, allowing your attacks to guarantee critical hits for a short time.
- Lupine Ferocity – Some Werewolf abilities critically strike and deal greatly increased damage.
- Bestial Rampage – After being a Werewolf for a while, gain bonus attack speed for a few seconds. After being Werebear for a while, gain more damage for a few seconds.
- Ursine Strength – Gain extra Max Health while in Werebear and a few seconds after leaving form. While healthy, deal increased damage.
Now that we've gone through each of the Abilities for the Druid one by one, we have a list of a few recommended Abilities for your builds that you should unlock. In Druid fashion, these two lists are based on the Werebear and Werewolf forms, and the Abilities included are exclusive to those forms.
Werebear Build Capabilities
- Iron Fur (Predatory Instincts required)
- Elevated Senses (Quickshift required)
- Natural Courage (Quickshift required)
- Ursine Power (Passive Key)
Werewolf Building Abilities
- Digitigrade Walk (Predatory Instincts required)
- Call of the Wild (while the Companion of the Wolves skill is active)
- Neurotoxin (with Fierce upgrade for Basic Claw Skill)
- Poison (Neurotoxin required)
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- Animal Attack (Passive Key)
The Druid Skill Guide is a much more enjoyable class when you have the right Abilities for you. But to make the class even better in Diablo 4, you can check out our recommended build guide for Druid. Find all our Diablo 4 guides in one place.