Druid Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch

Primalist is our base class to start this character off with, our goal in this passive tree is to gain some critical stats that will be useful all the way to level 70. We start with Primal Strength, this node is going to grant us the main stat of Strength and some increased Health Regeneration. Strength is going to be used in the majority of our damage skills and grant us a bonus to Armor for each point we have. Next, we want to pick up Harmony of Blades as soon as possible so we can dual wield two melee weapons. After that we will select the node Hunter's Restoration to add to our Health pool, but also grants us some rejuvenation of health every 3 seconds like a mini heal that stays on us permanently. Lastly, we are going to select Survival of the Pack to boost our Melee damage and grant us some Health leech for this melee focused build.

Now that we've completed our the Passive Tree for Primalist, we will be moving on to our Mastery Passive Trees. For this build specifically, we will be focusing a lot of our points into the Druid Passive Tree, as our chosen mastery. This tree will synergize well with our Werebear skills and provide us with powerful boosts to help us with the leveling process.

The Beastmaster tree contains several nodes that will help us while we play this brawling build. Ursine Strength is the first node we are going to heavily invest in, this node grants us Strength and a flat Damage Reduction from nearby enemies. Next, we are going to put 3 points into the bottom pathway on the tree, starting with Savagery then Ambush and Lamprey Teeth. These nodes will focus on amplifying our Melee attacks with added damage, a chance to Aspect of the Shark and Health leech. Now, we are going to on the another unique Aspect to the Beastmaster: Aspect of the Boar. We will be putting points into Boar Heart and the node right after it, as shown in the image above. These will allow us to gain a defensive aspect whenever we are hit. This is will complete our points in the Beastmaster passive tree.

This passive tree will contain the majority of our points. We will be targeting nodes that will increases our damage and survivability, but also our fourth skill: Werebear Form. This is a transformative skill that we will use to brawl with, it is based on rage and has set decay while you are in this form. One of the main components we need from this tree, is the ability to augment our rage decay allowing us to stay in Werebear form for longer periods. Spirit Warden and Primordial Resonance are going to be our first choices, adding damage, health and mana. However, each of them also has a bonus passive when we put 5 points into them. The important one is under Spirit Warden, this grants us our rage/mana cost of any skill to be added to as health to our character - a pseudo-heal. Next, we take Druidic Prowess for the raw stats. Then Focused Wrath and Rancour, these two are going to help keep us in our Werebear form longer - very important. The next two nodes are Wind in the Leaves and Bush Stalker. Lastly, we will be making a heavy investment into Aspects of Might for the raw strength increase, but also the bonus modifier of adding Melee damage per strength that our character has. This tree is now complete.

This is our DPS skill: a wide melee attack that can strike multiple enemies in front of you. This skill is scaled off of Strength, Physical/Melee Damage, Area of Effect and Attack speed. We will be spamming this skill while in and out of our Werebear form, as it carries over into both. We will be taking two main pathways through the Skill tree, the first is on the left hand side building up our Damage, Area of Effect, Health Leech and finally, a kill threshold. This path should be taken and completed first. Then we will move on to the lower pathway, take the nodes that grant us Aspect of the Panther. We keep this skill as a basic physical attack without many modifiers, focusing on our ability to increase its damage through simple gear affixes like Strength and Physical/Melee damage.

This is a traversal skill for us to begin engagements or retreat when needed. This skill is scaled off of Strength, Physical/Melee Damage, Area of Effect and Movement affixes. We will start in the skill tree by taking the upper pathway to the Aspect of the Mantis, this allows us a short reset of the skill when we control how far we jump. Next, we want to get Warrior's Entrance for the bonus damage buff after we land at our targeted location. Lastly, we want to head towards Gravity, taking the immunity node Heorot's Protection just off the pathway.

Warcy is transformed to become a healing and buffing shout for us, this uses a lot of nodes so pay close attention to the skill tree. This skill is scaled off of Physical/Spell Damage, Area of Effect and the Attunement stat as it is technically a spell. We will start by taking the lower left pathway towards Breath of Eterra, then the path through the Berserker node and the other nodes after it to amplify the Berserker buff. Then we can take the upper part of the skill tree to lower the cooldown with Shallow Breath and Apprehend to pull mobs towards us just like  Fury Leap.

 Werebear Form is a key component to our build, not only does it amplify our damage and survivability, but it helps take this build into the mid-game as we gain several new skills to use.  Swipe and  Warcry will be the same while our Druid is in Werebear form or not. Then we use the node Skull Crusher to benefit Maul by allowing it to use our  Fury Leap's skill tree, augmenting its ability. Next, we take Ursine Heart and Frenzied Strikes to gain as much Rage as possible while we attack to stay in Werebear Form infinitely. Rampage is the final skill granted to us in Werebear form and is a fantastic traversal skill that can really speed up your movement around the battlefield. Remember, we will be limited here on points in our skill tree due to the skill not being fully leveled.

The amazing Spriggan; this pet carries a powerful aura that we augment as much as possible to be with us and active at all times. We are going to focus on the lower pathway of the tree first, adding skill nodes like Aura of Life, Aura of Kinship and Aura of Retribution. These are going to all be apart of our companion's Aura that will passively be applied to us at all times. Next, we use the upper pathway to target some defensive capabilities and help our Spriggan with their survivability.