Earth Bear Landslide Caster Druid Endgame Build for Diablo 4 (Season 3)

Build Introduction

The Earth Bear Landslide Druid build is based around using Legendary aspects to increase the damage Landslide deals while also automating it off the Werebear skill Trample. This is your guide to building a character for endgame activities in Diablo 4, with the optimal setup for skills, gear and Paragon points.

Landslide is the highest base damage Core Skill that Druid has access to and we do everything we can to not only make it stronger, but also through the use of Trample make it a true screen-wide clear. Aspect of The Aftershock removes the Spirit cost for the recast of Landslide while also increasing the damage dealt by each successive hit. Aspect of the Trampled Earth causes Trample to cast six waves of Landslide along the path you travel with it. When you combine these two Aspects, you get a total of 12 waves of Landslide, filling your entire screen with earth-shattering AoE damage.

These Aspects, combined with the Skill Tree, Paragon Boards and some optional Uniques will make you a rampaging Bear of Destruction capable of clearing full packs with the press of one button. This build is capable of taking you into the endgame, achieving Level 100, and beyond.

This endgame build guide assumes your character is at least Level 50. Check the Druid Leveling Guide if you need help getting there.

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Vasily’s Prayer

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Aspect of the Trampled Earth

Aspect of The Aftershock

The only required Aspects for this build are Aspect of the Trampled Earth, Aspect of The Aftershock, and Subteranean Apsect. You want to have as much DR and Lucky Hit on your gear as possible in order to increase the chance of Earthen Might activating as well.

You will want to get a Vasily’s Prayer as soon as possible so your Earth Spike can be used while in Bear form, but it is not required to start the build you will just use Maul until you get it.

Strengths and Weaknesses

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

Season of the Construct

Season 3 Patch Notes

The following list details the changes in the Season 3 Patch Update that are specific to this build. Check the Changelog for all the other guide updates.

• Aspect of Retaliation
  • Bonus damage reduced from 20–40% to 20–30%

Or check out our Season 3 guide here:

Seneschal Construct Companion Powers

The Season 3 theme introduces a Seneschal Construct Companion that can deal damage or provide support to complement your character. Equip the Seneschal with two Governing Stones to activate their abilities, and then link them to three Tuning Stones each to augment the abilities. There are 12 different Governing Stones and 27 different Tuning Stones that can be found in Vaults scattered across Sanctuary. Fuse together duplicate stones to level them up, increasing the potency of Governing Stones or adding augments to Tuning Stones.

Listed below are the recommended Governing Stones and their linked Tuning Stones for Companion Druid Leveling, ranked by importance. The actual damage and stat values of these stones were not provided in the season preview, so the rankings will be updated as the season is playtested.

Note: The Tempest Governing Stone currently interacts with DoT damage in interesting and overpowered ways, accumulating stacks of DoT at a very fast rate and ramping in damage. We do not know if this mechanic is intended or not, but until then, it is the best damage you can get on a pet.

1. Flash of Adrenaline: Administers a quick flash of adrenaline into the player, granting bonus damage for a duration.
   • Genesis: Increase the effectiveness of the supported Skill.
   • Tactical Support: Decrease the cooldown of the supported Skill.
   • Duration Support: Supported Skills have their durations increased.
2. Tempest – Electrically charge an enemy causing it to deal damage to themselves and additional each second over time. If the enemy is killed, Tempest spreads to another enemy gaining for additional time and bonus damage. These bonuses are also applied if Tempest is reapplied onto the same enemy.
   1. Burning Support – A portion of the supported Skill’s damage is applied as Burning damage over time. Burning enemies take bonus Critical Strike Damage from the Seneschal Construct.
   2. Bleeding Support – A portion of the supported skill’s damage dealt is applied as Bleeding damage over time. Enemies take bonus Bleeding damage from all sources while moving.
   3. Poison Support – A portion of the supported skill’s damage dealt is applied as Poison damage over time. This poison has a chance each second to spread all Poison damage to an additional enemy.

Skill Tree Points and Skill Bar

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

Poison Creeper Earthen Bulwark Trample Grizzly Rage Earth Spike Landslide

The following tables show the full allocation of Skill Points for the Earth Bear Landslide Druid build. The first table has the most important 48 points to start the build. The second table has the remaining 10 points that are allocated once you obtain all Skill Points from Renown.

Priority Skills	Cluster
Earth Spike, Enhanced Earth Spike, Wild Earth Spike	Basic Skill
Landslide Level 5, Enhanced Landslide, Primal Landslide, Heart of the Wild , Abundance Level 3, Wild Impulses Level 3,Predatory Instinct Level 3, Iron Fur Level 3	Core Skill
Earthen Bulwark, Enhanced Earthen Bulwark, Preserving Earthen Bulwark	Defensive Skill
Poison Creeper, Enhanced Poison Creeper, Brutal Poison Creeper	Companion Skill
Trample , Enhanced Trample, Savage Trample, Crushing Earth Level 3, Safeguard Level 3, Stone Guard Level 3	Wrath Skill
Grizzly Rage, Prime Grizzly Rage,Supreme Grizzly Rage, Defiance Level 3	Ultimate Skill
Earthen Might	Key Passives

Remaining Renown Points	Cluster
Ancestral Fortitude, Vigilance Level 3	Defensive Skill
Defensive Posture Level 3, Natural Disaster Level 3	Ultimate Skill

Spirit Boons – The Druid Specialization

Below is the order in which you should unlock your Spirit Boons. Only offer enough Druidic Spirit Offerings to unlock the first 4 listed Boons and then fully unlock the rest to activate the final Boon with Spirit Bonding.

Paragon

The Paragon progression system unlocks at Level 50 and provides a vast amount of character power. On the Paragon Board, bonuses range from minor stats on Magic Nodes to more powerful Rare Glyphs and Legendary Nodes.

As you path towards Glyph Sockets and Legendary Nodes, you should prioritize Damage, Willpower, Resistance, and Life for Normal and Magic Nodes. Glyph radius increases as you level them up. Therefore, if you cannot fulfill Additional Bonus requirements early on, skip allocating extra Nodes for now.

Listed below are images of the pathing you should take along with the locations of the glyphs and order you should choose your Paragon Boards past the initial starter board.

Starting Board

For the Starting Board path up along the right side, heading upward to place a WerebearGlyph into the glyph slot while allocating all the Willpower Nodes within the radius. Follow this up by grabbing most of the Magic Nodes and both Rare Nodes before exiting at the top and attaching Survival Instincts.

Survival Instincts

Rotate the Survival Instincts Paragon Board until it is oriented the same as in the image above. Head left, grabbing the Rare and Magic Nodes on your way towards the Survival Instincts Legendary Node. Once this Node has been nabbed, head back to the start and grab the Rare and Magic Nodes on the right before taking the left side path up and placing Spirit in the glyph slot, grabbing all the Rare and Magic Nodes within the radius. Finish by heading to the left while grabbing the Rare and Magic Nodes along the way. Exit on the left side and attach Earthen Devastation.

Earthen Devastation

Rotate the Earthen Devastation Paragon Board until it’s oriented the same as in the image above. Path downward to grab the Rare and Magic Nodes, then left and upward to grab the Earthen Devastation Legendary Node. From here, head towards the glyph slot and place Undaunted in the slot, taking all the Intelligence and all the Magic and Rare Nodes shown in the image above. Finally, head back to the Survival Instincts Paragon Board and head out the right side of it, this time grabbing the Rare and Magic Nodes along the way.

Constricting Tendrils

The final board, Constricting Tendrils, should be rotated it until it is oriented the same as in the image above. First, we head down and to the right to grab the Rare and Magic Nodes, then continue as shown to get the Constricting Tendrils Legendary Node. Path upward and grab the Rare and Magic Nodes as we path to the glyph slot to place Territorial into the glyph slot and allocate all the Dexterity and all the Magic and Rare Nodes shown in the image above.

Paragon board images courtesy of d4builds.gg.

Mechanics and Playstyle

The Earth Bear Landslide Druid build utilizes multiple Legendary Aspects that work together to allow us to quickly and safely destroy any enemies in our way. If you can get them, Vasily’s Prayer and Insatiable Fury will increase our damage and defensiveness immensely.

The build is centered around making Landslide as strong as possible; to do this we try and get as many ranks of it as possible to increase its base damage. Talents like Primal Landslide and Earthen Might are taken to guarantee Crits, and talents like Crushing Earth are used to increase damage against Slowed, Stunned, Immobilized, and Knocked Back enemies.

There is one more way we scale all of our Earth skills; Fortified. Due to our Legendary Aspects, Uniques, and some of our skill choices, we should almost always have the Fortified status active.

Fortify

Once the Fortify amount is greater than or equal to current Life, you become Fortified and gain a starting default of 10% Damage Reduction. Obtain additional Damage Reduction while Fortified on gear affixes and Sapphire socketed into armor for more effectiveness.

Rotation

Our damage rotation is actually a priority system and it is the same for AoE and Single Target situations:

1. Poison Creeper if off cooldown and enemies aren’t Immobilized;
2. Grizzly Rage if it is not active and you are about to fight an elite pack;
3. Earthen Bulwark if you are overwhelmed and surrounded by too many enemies;
4. Trample if off cooldown;
5. Landslide if you have Spirit;
6. Earth Spike if out of Spirit and everything else is on cooldown.

Best in Slot Aspects, Powers & Uniques

Listed below are all the best-in-slot Aspects found on Unique and  Legendary Items that are important for the Earth Bear Landslide Druid build. Aspects from the Codex of Power can be used if you cannot find the proper Legendary drops, but they have weaker effects. Extract Aspects from lower level Legendary Items and imprint them onto better Rare Items with preferred stats.

Slot	Unique/Aspect Name	Unique/Legendary Aspect Power	Rarity
Head	Vasily’s Prayer	Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for X.	Unique
Amulet	Aspect of The Aftershock	Landslide’s earth pillars each strike a second time and deal an additional [6 – 12]% bonus damage per hit.	Legendary
Ring 1	Subterranean Aspect	Poison Creeper’s active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 10-20% increased damage to Poisoned enemies.	Legendary
Ring 2	Aspect of Retaliation	Your Core Skills deal up to x[20 – 30]% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify.	Legendary
Chest	Insatiable Fury	Werebear form is now your true form, and you gain +2 Ranks to all Werebear Skills.	Unique
Gloves	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast	The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by X seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increase your Critical Strike Damage by x10% for the duration.	Legendary
Legs	Aspect of Mending Stone	The duration of Earthen Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. In addition, killing an enemy with Earth Skills replenishes X of your active Earthen Bulwark’s Barrier.	Legendary
Boots	Ballistic Aspect	When you have Fortify your Earth Skills gain +2 Ranks.	Legendary
2-Handed Weapon	Aspect of the Trampled Earth	Trample now summons 6 Landslide pillars of earth during its duration that deal [70 – 80]% normal damage. Trample is now also a Nature Magic and Earth Skill.	Legendary

Gear Choice and Stat Priority

Make sure to pick up all Rare Item drops that may be upgrades while you are farming with Earth Bear Landslide Druid. Save Legendary Items with useful aspects in your stash to be used later for extraction and imprinting onto well rolled Rare Items.

Stat Priority List

Listed below are the affixes to prioritize on gear for Earth Bear Landslide Druid. Affixes for each gear slot are listed in order of importance. Bolded stats are the most important and sometimes vital for the build to function properly.

Note: We have given the optimal stats for an Off-Hand in case you find a 1-Handed Weapon and an Off-Hand give more DPS when combined than your best 2-Handed Weapon would. This will mainly occur when you are going from World Tier 2 to 3 and 3 to 4.

Gear Slot	Important Affixes
Head	Unique (Vasily’s Prayer)
Chest	Unique (Insatiable Fury)
Main hand (Mace)	Weapon DPS Core Skill Damage Critical Strike Damage Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies Damage to Close Enemies Overpower Damage Willpower
Off Hand	Weapon DPS Cooldown Reduction Lucky Hit Chance Lucky Hit Chance while You Have a Barrier Willpower
Gloves	Lucky Hit Chance Attack Speed Ranks of Landslide Critical Strike Chance Critical Strike Damage Willpower
Pants	Life Damage Reduction Damage Reduction from Close Enemies Damage to Elites Willpower
Boots	Damage Reduction while Injured Fortify Generation Spirit Cost Reduction Movement Speed Willpower All Stats
Amulet	Cooldown Reduction Damage Reduction Damage Reduction from Close Enemies Werebear Skill Damage Lucky Hit Chance while You Have a Barrier
Rings	Lucky Hit Chance Maximum Spirit Resource Generation Vulnerable Damage Critical Strike Chance Critical Strike Damage

Gems

Listed below are the best Gems to socket into gear for each slot type.

• Weapon: Royal Sapphire for + Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
• Armor: Royal Sapphire for Damage Reduction While Fortified
• Jewelry: Royal Diamond for all Resistance or any gem that provides you with the resistance type you lack the most up to the cap of 70%.

Elixirs and Health Potions

To gain an edge in your adventures, head to the Alchemist in any major town, and craft Elixirs that enhance your stats and experience gain for 30 minutes. Remember to gather the necessary crafting materials by foraging plants. Select an Elixir that provides the resistance you need most, or try the Assault Elixir to boost your Attack Speed.

Return to the Alchemist again when you reach Level 20, 30, 45, 60, 70, 80 and 90, to upgrade your potion. The extra healing is essential to survival.

Changelog

• January 22nd, 2024: Updated for Season 3 (Patch 1.3.0)
• October 17th, 2023: Updated for Season 2 (Patch 1.2.0)
• August 7th, 2023: Updated for patch 1.1.1.
• July 23rd, 2023: Updated Gems section to reflect the presence of Malignant Hearts
• July 18th, 2023: Updated for Season 1 added Malignant Hearts, changed Aspects, updated Skill Tree and Skill Bar.