Boulder – Druid Build Guide for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

Build Introduction

Unleash an Avalanche to bury your enemies! Hurl Boulders at your foes, obliterating those that stand in your path. The Boulder Druid build uses the Unique Item Dolmen Stone and Aspect of Metamorphic Stone in combination to let your Boulders do massive damage in a large area around you.

This guide covers everything necessary to get started on your Boulder adventure including Skill Tree points, Paragon, Gearing, and Seasonal updates.

Just starting on your druid adventure? Check our Druid Leveling Guide for options on how to level, and swap to this one at Level 60.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

The following Unique Items and Legendary Aspects are required for build functionality to get started on the Boulder Druid:

Required Uniques

Dolmen Stone

Mjölnic Ryng

Vasily’s Prayer

Required Aspects

Aspect of Metamorphic Stone

Get more info on the Unique items supporting this build in the Unique Items section.

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Skill Bar for Boulder Druid

Cataclysm Hurricane Poison Creeper Earthen Bulwark Claw Boulder

The Boulder Druid has options for its Key Passive and Ultimate Skill combination:

• Cataclysm and Bestial Rampage is smoother play, with easier boulder and Spirit maintenance, and is the default choice.
• Petrify and Ursine Strength loads more into Overpower attacks and topend multipliers, and requires more management. This has the potential to push higher into The Pit. Check the Petrify Variant section to see what changes to make for this build.

If you are missing skill points, complete Renown events in each zone. See how these Skills play in the Rotation and Gameplay section.

Druid Class Mechanic – Spirit Boons

Druids unlock powerful Spirit Boon passives, giving offerings to the animal spirits to receive their Blessing. Once fully unlocked, activate the final Boon by Spirit Bonding with one of the four animal spirits to take two passives from that row.

While leveling and gearing, use the Wolf’s Energize over Calamity and Gift of the Stag over Wariness. This is helpful for Spirit Management.

Make sure to check the Build Mechanics sections on Cataclysm and Spirit Management, as well as Hurricane Management to fine tune making the build work for the gear level and progression of your character.

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

The following are the recommended Legendary Aspects, Gear Affixes, Gems, and Elixirs for the Boulder Druid.

Legendary Aspects

Gear Slots with multiple options are listed in recommended priority. Any slot with an Optional Mythic Unique or Unique Item will include a valid alternative legendary power to use while still leveling and gearing. Combine these with the right stat priorities.

Slot	Gem	Aspect	Unique/Legendary Power
2 Handed Polearm	Igni Xan	Aspect of Metamorphic Stone	Boulder is now a Core Skill and costs 40 Spirit to cast dealing 90-130% of normal damage.
Head	Bac Xal	(Recommended Unique) Vasily’s Prayer Juggernaut’s Aspect	Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear skills and Fortify you for 2-5% of your Maximum Health.
Chest	Grand Sapphire	(Recommended Mythic) Shroud of False Death (Recommended Unique)Insatiable Fury Aspect of Might	If you haven’t attacked in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves		Aspect of Retaliation	Your Core Skills deal up to 35-75% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify.
Pants	Grand Sapphire	Stormshifter’s Aspect	While Hurricane is active, gain +5 Ranks to your Shapeshifting Skills.
Boots		(Recommended Unique) Wildheart Hunger Aspect of Metamorphosis	Shapeshifting into a new animal form increases the value of your Bestial Rampage bonuses by 2-5%, up to 20-50%. This bonus decays by 2% per second.
Amulet	Grand Diamond	(Required) Dolmen Stone	Casting Boulder while Hurricane is active will cause your boulders to rotate around you, up to a maximum of 10 boulders. Each rotating boulder increases their damage by 20-40%
Ring 1	Grand Diamond	(Recommended Unique) Mjölnic Ryng Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt	While Cataclysm is active, you gain unlimited Spirit and deal 40-100% increased damage.
Ring 2	Grand Diamond	(Recommended Mythic)Ring of Starless Skies (Recommended Unique) Hunter’s Zenith Accelerating Aspect	Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds, up to 50%.

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier lists.

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Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Each line of affixes is listed in order of importance, and some alternatives are given. The bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. Unique Items cannot be Tempered, but can be Masterworked.  Check the Tempering guide and Masterworking guide for more details about these topics.

Slot	Gearing Affixes	Tempering Affixes
2 Handed Polearm – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life Critical Strike Damage Chance on Hit to Restore Spirit	Earth Augments – Chance for Boulder Projectiles To Cast Twice Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance
Helm – (Required Unique)Vasily’s Prayer	Willpower% Maximum Life Armor Ranks to Defensive Posture
Chest – (Recommended Mythic) Shroud of False Death	All Stats Maximum Life Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Resource Generation
Chest-(Recommended Unique) Insatiable Fury	Maximum Life Werebear Overpower Ursine Strength’s Bonuses Ranks to Iron Fur
Gloves – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Ranks to Core Skills Willpower	Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance Nature Magic Innovation – Hurricane Duration
Pants – Legendary Aspect	Max Life Willpower Armor Resistance to All Elements Dodge Chance	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor% Nature Magic Innovation – Hurricane Duration
Boots- (Recommended)Wildheart Hunger	Movement Speed Shapeshifting Attack Speed Cold Resistance Ranks to Heightened Senses
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Movement Speed Ranks to Boulder Max Life Willpower Spirit Per Second	Druid Motion – Movement Speed Worldly Fortune – Impairment Reduction
Amulet – (Required)Dolmen Stone	Movement Speed while Hurricane is active Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction Ranks to Wrath Skills Ranks to Crushing Earth
Ring – (Recommended)Ring of Starless Skies	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Ranks in Core Skills
Ring – (Recommended) Mjölnic Ryng	Willpower Critical Strike Chance Movement Speed While Cataclysm is Active Ranks to Endless Tempest
Ring – (Recommended Unique) Hunter’s Zenith	Willpower Ranks to Predatory Instinct Ranks to Quickshift Ranks to Heightened Senses
Ring – Legendary Aspect	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Max Life Willpower	Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance Ultimate Efficiency —  Cataclysm Cooldown Reduction

• Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction is the most important affix to roll high and target for Greater Affix and Mastercraft. It will help the most in maintaining both Hurricane and Cataclysm. Ranks in Endless Tempest will also be significant.
• Hurricane duration tempers are useful for maintaining your Boulders.
• Armor cap is 1000 for up to 85% Physical Damage Reduction. This is generally reached with either one Armor Gear Affix and one Total Armor% Temper, a well-rolled Vasily’s Prayer, or using a Juggernaut’s Aspect.

After gearing, look at progression systems like Paragon next.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

These Unique Items are recommended or optional for the Boulder Druid

• (Required) Dolmen Stone causes Boulder to rotate around the player while Hurricane is active. It is required for this playstyle. Boulders caught in the Hurricane will do less knockback.

• Vasily’s Prayer is a strong source of Fortify, and makes Boulder a Werebear skill. This enables maintenance of several strong multipliers like Quickshift and Heightened Senses.

• Insatiable Fury is a strong defensive Unique Item, and grants skill ranks to Werebear skills, including Boulder, because Vasily’s Prayer makes Boulder a Werebear Skill.

• Wildheart Hunger gives a stacking bonus to Bestial Rampage. This is naturally maintained with the Claw and Boulder rotation.

• The Mjölnic Ryng gives a strong damage multiplier and makes all spenders cost zero when Cataclysm is active. This is a strong addition to our damage, and worth playing around. See the Cataclysm and Spirit Management Section for more information.

• Hunter’s Zenith provides periodic Critical Overpowers.

Mythic Unique Items

The Boulder Druid can benefit from the following Mythic Unique items:

• Ring of Starless Skies is a powerful Resource Cost Reduction tool and damage multiplier.
• Shroud of False Death gives +1 to all Skill Passives. This includes strong additions to Damage multipliers, Damage Reductions, Fortify Generation and Quality of Life increases like longer Cataclysm and Hurricane.

Check our Unique Item Target-farming guide for information on where to find everything you need.

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Gems and Runewords

The following are the recommended Gem and Runeword setups for the Boulder Druid:

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Emerald for Critical Strike Damage	Grand Sapphire for Willpower	Grand Diamond for resistance to all elements

Runewords

Use these Runeword combinations for the Boulder Druid, placed in the 2 Handed Weapon and into one Armor slot:

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Igni Xan	Igni – Gain Offering: 25. Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering. Xan – Requires: 300 Offering. Your next attack will cause your hits to be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower for 0.35 seconds. Overflow: Increased Duration
Bac Xal	Bac – Gain Offering: 50. Travel 5 Meters. Xal – Requires: 300 Offering. Gain 20% Maximum Life for 6 seconds. Overflow: Gain more Max Life. Cooldown: 3 seconds.

Runewords use a conditional Rune of Ritual to generate Offering. The Offering is consumed by the Rune of Invocation to trigger its effect. Runes replace Gems in gear with two sockets. Up to two sets of Runeword Pairs can be placed at a time.

Xan will provide even more Overpowers for our Boulders. Xal will give boosts to Max Life, which improves our Overpower damage.

Other combinations can also situationally work well; adjust to the content you are running. These can include:

• (Offering Efficiency) other Ritual options such as Lith for Stand Still or Cem for Evade.
• (Defensive) Que Invocation for Earthen Bulwark can be strong Barrier and Unstoppable.
• (Spirit Management) Poc Lum in combination can give strong Spirit Refund.
• (Farm Quality of Life) Kry for casts of Vortex can be a strong convenience in farm content.
• (Early Gearing) While leveling and gearing before legendary Runes become accessible, many Magic and Rare runewords such as Gar for Critical Strike Chance will be viable.

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Paragon Board

The following are the preferred Glyphs, Boards, and pathing recommended for making the most of the Boulder Druid.

The road to max Paragon is long. The above Paragon tabs show the following:

• The BASE SETUP tab spends 50 fewer points than the max 328 points, taking stricter pathing to take all most all Legendary, Rare and Magic Nodes, and activates all Glyph Nodes with their secondary effects.
• The FULL SETUP tab completes the paragon board in its final form, filling in the rest of the board to get the rest of the Magic and Rare Nodes, as well as give additional additive bonuses especially within the Glyph areas.

Glyphs have two significant breakpoint increases. At level 15, the glyph grows in radius and gains a special effect. At level 46, the glyph grows to its max radius and gains a strong conditional damage multiplier.

Glyphs are placed as if they are at least level 15+ in radius. Total Boards placed are now limited to a max of 5; the Starter Board and four Class Boards. Rotate boards as necessary.

For a more defensive glyph setup, exchange Tectonic for Territorial.

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Boss Powers (Season 8)

Season 8: Belial’s Return offers Boss Powers, equipped from the Boss Power tab of the character sheet. One Main Power is chosen, and three modifier powers boost the Main Power or offer smaller bonuses.

Here’s a general recommendation for the Boulder Druid:

Main Power

• Ashava’s Poison Breath 

Secondary Modifiers

• Lilith’s Wind of Hate
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste

Many boss power combinations will work and several are only situationally useful. Feel free to adjust powers to your content. For example:

• For a defensive option, use Blackmailer’s Sabotage.
• In high push content where you cannot kill the Lilith’s Wind of Hate Blood Boils in time, use Torusk’s Rage.

Mercenaries

Once unlocked, Mercenaries are followers that aid the Player in combat. A main mercenary is chosen to fight alongside you, granting strong buffs or perks, and a secondary Mercenary is chosen to periodically Reinforce you under a chosen Opportunity condition.

The following Mercenary options are recommended for the Boulder Druid:

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Skills: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Raheir, the Shieldbearer

• Reinforcement Ability – Crater

Hysteria and Bloodlust will both give strong Attack Speed bonuses.

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

Before Combat:

1. Claw in place for Bestial Rampage.
2. Maintain Hurricane.
3. Pre-build a few Boulders. This will also give the other half of Bestial Rampage.

When engaging enemies:

1. Maintain Hurricane.
2. Maintain Cataclysm.
3. Poison Creeper to apply Poison and Immobilize enemies. This can be cast while moving.
4. Cast Boulders, pushing against your priority enemies as they are knocked back. Up to 10 Boulders can be maintained at at time.
5. As needed, filler attack with Claw.

Use Earthen Bulwark as necessary for Barrier, Fortify and Unstoppable.

Claw and other Skills that change your Form do not need to hit enemies to gain the Shapeshifting benefits. It can often be beneficial to keybind and tap Force Hold to be able to cast in place.

Skills, Support and Synergies

This build has lots of moving parts that come together to make a powerful storm of abilities.

Boulder is our high-damage main Skill. When Hurricane is active, Dolmen Stone causes the Boulders will revolve around the player. Aspect of Metamorphic Stone turns Boulder into a Core Skill, removes the cooldown, and adds a Spirit Cost to the skill. Keep several of these rotating around you at a time, and refresh them as they run out. Boulder does Physical damage, but is a Nature Magic Skill, The Earth Tags will be included in anything that asks for Nature, such as Defiance. Up to ten Boulder can be maintained at a time, with a damage multiplier from Dolmen Stone for each active Boulder.

Supporting Skills

Claw is a filler Basic Attack that can help maintain Werewolf buffs like Heightened Senses or Bestial Rampage, and applies a single target Poison with Fierce Claw.

Earthen Bulwark is a defensive tool for Barrier and Unstoppable.

Poison Creeper applies wide Immobilize Crowd Control and Poison to enemies. It can be cast while moving so is not disruptive to play. It is a strong enabler for Heightened Malice.

Poison Creeper and Earthen Bulwark are flexible skill options.

• Poison Creeper is a flex point for a strong immobilize and wide Poison debuff application.
• Earthen Bulwark is a strong defensive and source of Unstoppable.

Other options include:

• Trample as another source of Unstoppable and mobility. Insatiable Fury will let you take the skill without spending points in it. The point can go to Resonance.
• Cyclone Armor for a more passive defensive option.
• Preserving Blood Howl for Attack Speed. Take points from Defensive Posture or Natural Disaster to fill out the Skill.
• Primal Shred as a stronger mobility tool. Take points from Defensive Posture or Natural Disaster to fill out the Skill.

There’s several Shapeshifting buffs that are maintained throughout the fight. Bestial Rampage, Quickshift, Heightened Senses. They are easily maintained with Claw and Boulder, just try not ever be in Human form for longer than three seconds. Wildheart Hunger requires shifting to Werebear and Werewolf forms to maintain stacks, which is done easily with our standard rotation.

Ultimate Skill and Key Passive

Cataclysm casts Tornado and Lightning Storm and makes enemies struck Vulnerable. The Unique Item Mjölnic Ryng gives a strong multiplier while Cataclysm is active, and makes all Spenders cost zero Spirit. Items like Ring of Starless Skies will still stack. Cataclysm uptime is maintained by extending the buff with skill passives like Endless Tempest and cooldown reductions like Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction on Dolmen Stone or from skill ranks like from Stormshifter’s Aspect. If these arent sufficient sources for cooldown reduction, consider changing the following:

• Use Calm Before the Storm Spirit Boon, replacing Obsidian Slam.
• Use Airidah’s Inexorable Will over Hunter’s Zenith. Mastercraft the Ultimate Cooldown Reduction.

Our Key passive is Bestial Rampage. We use Claw for Werewolf, and Boulder for Werebear. Vasily’s Prayer makes Boulder a Werebear Skill. This is a strong damage multiplier and attack speed buff. This is most effective in a speed farm content.

Petrify Variant

Petrify Ultimate Skill with Ursine Strength Key Passive. Ursine Strength can pull ahead in the highest push content from large Overpower attacks with stronger Critical Strike Multipliers. Boulders are Overpowered for the entire duration of that boulder. However, this playstyle will require significant buffwatching of all Overpower Sources to make sure you do not clip any Overpower Boulders. To use this variant:

• Change Bestial Rampage to Ursine Strength.
• Exchange ranks in Cataclysm for Petrify.
• Change Swooping Attack Spirit Boon to Iron Feather. In General Max Life gains will be desirable.
• Take Energize Spirit boon over Calamity.
• Take Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon over Wariness.
• Use Legendary Boots with ranks to Boulder over Wildheart Hunger. Mastercraft the Ranks to Boulder.
• Take points from Endless Tempest and Heightened Senses to take points in Provocation and Mending. Make sure you have enough Hurricane Duration and Cataclysm Cooldown Reduction to not need the ranks to Endless Tempest.
• Overpower Boulders are your significant damage; sources include from Obsidian Slam Spirit Boon, Provocation, Xan and Hunter’s Zenith. Watch the timers on those.
• Use Hunter’s Zenith over Mjölnic Ryng.
• Use Utility Tempers for Petrify Duration.
• (Optional for Resource) Use Tibault’s Will and Aspect of Metamorphosis on Boots to help manage Spirit. Make sure boot implicit is Attacks reduce Evade Cooldown.
• (Optional for Resource) Consider using the Yom Rune for Spirit Generation.

Cataclysm and Spirit Management

With the Unique Item Mjölnic Ryng, many Druid builds will play around Cataclysm for the significant Damage Multiplier and full Spirit Cost Reduction while Cataclysm is active. We make several choices on Spirit Generation and Spirit Boons that enable or make this choice shine. This also means Downtime can be punishing, so we want to keep Cataclysm up to avoid Spirit problems.

Cataclysm Maintenance

To Maintain Cataclysm we use:

• Ranks in Endless Tempest and Calamity Spirit Boon extend the duration of Cataclysm.
  • Targeting the Ranks in Endless Tempest on Mjölnic Ryng and the Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction on Dolmen Stone for Greater Affix and Mastercrafting is significant for this build.
• Ultimate Efficiency  – Cataclysm Cooldown Reduction on the 2nd ring slot if using a Legendary Aspect.
• Ranks in Cataclysm reduce cooldown, such as from Stormshifter’s Aspect.

If this is not sufficient for uptime, we can optionally:

• Use Airidah’s Inexorable Will, mastercrafting Ultimate Cooldown Reduction. replaces Hunter’s Zenith.
• Use Calm Before the Storm Spirit Boon for Ultimate Cooldown Reduction. Replaces Obsidian Slam.

Spirit Management

In Early Gearing and Leveling, or before using the Mjölnic Ryng with strong uptime, consider doing the one or several of following for Spirit Generation and Management:

• Take the Wolf’s Energize Spirit Boon, replacing Swooping Attacks or Calamity.
• Take the Deer’s Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon for Spirit Per Second.
• Use Aspect of the Umbral or Starlight Aspect for Spirit.
• Use Runeword setup Poc Lum for Spirit Refunds.
• Mercenary – Use Raheir’s Iron Wolf’s Call Iconic Passive for periodic free casts of Boulder.
• Remove points in Wild Impulses, placing them in Ancestral Fortitude, Digitigrade Gait or Vigilance.
• Adjust Gear affixes: Resource Cost Reduction on Weapon, and Resource Generation on Rings. Spirit on Kill on weapon, or Spirit Per Second on Helm, Chest, or Boots can all be useful.
• Use Claw as an attack to build Spirit.

Hurricane Maintenance

For the Boulder Druid to play smoothly, Hurricane should be a longer duration than its cooldown. If Hurricane Uptime is not complete, any spinning Boulder will shoot out from the relative direction and be lost, spilling all the meatballs from the plate, making a mess, and the Boulder count will restart back at zero next Hurricane. This is a significant issue for maintaining gameplay momentum. There’s a number of ways that we extend the duration, and reduce the cooldown. Sources include:

• The Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction on Dolmen Stone is a large source for Cataclysm and Hurricane Cooldown Reductions. Getting these Mastercrafted and Greater Affixed are significant.
• Hurricane Duration Utility Tempers on Gloves, Pants, and Amulet can make Hurricane duration more than long enough.
• Ranks in Endless Tempest extend duration from Skill Points and on the Mjölnic Ryng.
• Any Cooldown Reduction on gear.

Elixirs, Incense and Health Potions

The Alchemist offers helpful consumables at the cost of foraged materials found throughout Sanctuary.

• Craft the highest available Elixir of Fortitude II for Max Life, which is significant for Overpower damage.
• One of each Incense Category can be used, for a total of three active Incenses at a time. In priority:
  • Defensive – Reddamine Buzz for Max Life, or Song of the Mountain if you need the Armor, up to 1000 armor cap.
  • Core Stat – Blessed Guide for Willpower.
  • Resistance – Soothing Spices for All Resist, All Resist Maximum, and Armor.
• Upgrade your Potion as you level, increasing the instant healing of the potion!

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Season 8 Updates

The new Xan will be a welcome increase to damage for the Boulder druid, but will not shift its standings significantly. The lower decay rate on Wildheart Hunger will be easier management which is welcome.

The following list details the important changes in the Season 8 Patch Updates that are specific to the Boulder Druid. For general Season 8 information, check out our Season 8 Hub.

Itemization:

• Xan
  • Previous: Your next skill critically overpowers. Overflow: 1% damage per 10 Offering.
  • Now: Your next attack will cause your hits to be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower for 0.35 seconds. Overflow: Increase duration.
  • Duration increased from 0.25 to 0.35 seconds.
  • Offering required reduced from 700 to 300.
• Lum – Offering gained increased from 2.5% to 3.5%.
• Worldly Fortune
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to Apply Crowd Control affixes have been removed.
  • New Affixes: Lucky Hit Chance, Impairment Reduction, Crowd Control Duration.
• Dominate – Legendary max bonus reduced from 20% to 12%.
• Wildheart Hunger – Decay rate reduced from 2% per second to 0.5% per second.

Skills and Stats:

• Enhanced Blood Howl
  • Previous: Kills reduce the cooldown of Blood Howl Blood Howl by 1 second.
  • Now: Killing enemies reduce the Cooldown of Blood Howl by 1 second and hitting a Boss reduces its Cooldown by 0.3 seconds.
• Cataclysm – New effect – Rank 5: Casting Cataclysm Slows surrounding enemies by 70% for 8 seconds.
• Poison Creeper
  • Passive damage over 2 seconds increased from 47% to 65%.
  • Active damage over 2 seconds increased from 126% to 180%.
• Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon – Maximum Spirit reduced from 40 to 30. Spirit generation increased from 5 to 10.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the Poc rune effect did not consistently trigger when using Unlimited Spirit granted by Mjölnic Ryng.
• Claw – Fixed an issue where the description for Enhanced Claw displayed its Attack Speed bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
• Fixed an issue where Hurricane damage displayed would not increase with duration bonuses.
• Fixed an issue where the Mending passive did not function when using Insatiable Fury.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Fur would snapshot its bonus when using Insatiable Fury.
• Fixed an issue where the Stormshifter’s Aspect did not actually grant as many Shapeshifting skill ranks as expected in certain scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where the effect from Mjölnic Ryng could randomly stop functioning.

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Changelog

• 24 April, 2025: Updated to new unified format and for Season 8 Patch 2.2 changes.
• 19 January, 2025: Updated for Season 7 and Patch 2.1 updates. Two tab paragon board introduced.
• 15 October, 2024: Updated for new onsite Paragon Tool.
• 28 September, 2024: Updated for Season 6. Changes to Paragon, Skill Tree, Skill Bar, and recommended Uniques.
• 7 August, 2024: Significant rework of the main build due to season 5 bugs. Cataclysm Boulder changed to main build and Nature’s Fury Shred Boulder retired for now.
• 2 August, 2024: Updated Guide for changes with Patch 1.5.0 and Season of the Infernal Horde. Shepherd Boulder variant removed. Cataclysm Boulder variant added.
• 17 June, 2024: Updated for mid-season patch 1.4.3. Updates to Spirit Boons, Gear Affixes and Paragon Board for better total damage.
• 15 May, 2024: Small changes in gear affixes to adjust for season launch changes from PTR.
• 5 May, 2024: Guide reworked for the significant 1.4.0 changes to gearing and for season 4 speculative changes. Format changed to frontload basic build information and offer extra information and options afterwards.
• 10 March, 2024: Guide created, fully replacing previous guide.
  • Ownership transferred.
  • Adjusted Gear, Skills, and Paragon sections to hit defensive stats targets and improve overall damage output.
  • Improved readability, explanations, and options.