Stormclaw – Druid Build Guide for Diablo 4 (Season 10)

Build Introduction

The Stormclaw Druid is a fast, simple, and tanky Basic Skill build with a melee playstyle, using Greatstaff of the Crone to deliver a high volume of Claw and Storm Strike. Speed between enemies and cleave them down.

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 Stormclaw Druid:

Required Uniques

Greatstaff of the Crone

Required Aspects

Dire Wolf’s Aspect

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

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

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Skill Bar for Stormclaw Druid

Grizzly Rage Cyclone Armor Hurricane Blood Howl Claw Maul

Thanks to Greatstaff of the Crone, Claw also casts Storm Strike, which is not needed on the Skill Bar.

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.

Gift of the Stag is for the Max Spirit Multiplier to Aspect of Adaptability.

Spirit Boons are just one part of the Stormclaw druid. Check how it plays in the Build Mechanics section!

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

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

Seasonal Players, please check out our Season 10 Mechanics Section for information on Chaos Armors and ideal Chaos Armor setups.

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	Aspect	Unique/Legendary Aspect Power
Weapon	Required Unique –Greatstaff of the Crone	Claw is now also a Storm Skill and also casts Storm Strike. Claw and Strom Strike deal 100-250% increased damage.
Helm	Mythic – Heir of Perdition Unique – Tempest Roar Juggernaut’s Aspect	Give in to hatred and earn Lilith’s Favor, increasing your damage dealt by 60%. Slaughter enemies to briefly steal Lilith’s Favor from Nearby allies.
Chest	Mythic – Shroud of False Death Unique – Mad Wolf’s Glee	If you haven’t attacked in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast	The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by 3-10 seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increase your Critical Strike Damage by 5% for the duration, up to a maximum of 100%.
Pants	Tibault’s Will	You deal 10-20% increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource.
Boots	Dire Wolf’s Aspect	Grizzly Rage is now a Werewolf Skill and Shapeshifts you into a Dire Werewolf. Dire Werewolves gain 20-40% Movement Speed and 20-40% Spirit Cost Reduction instead of Damage Reduction. In addition, kills Heal you for 10% of your Maximum Life.
Amulet	Aspect of the Rabid Bear	While Grizzy Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 40-80% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
Ring 1	Aspect of the Moonrise	Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill grants you 4% Attack Speed for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Upon reaching maximum stacks, you enter a Vampiric Bloodrage, gaining 40-60% Basic Skill damage and 15% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.
Ring 2	Aspect of Adaptability	Now: Basic Skills generate 5 additional Primary Resource, once per Skill. Basic Skills deal 0.4-0.6% increased damage for each point of Primary Resource you have.

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. Check the Tempering guide and Masterworking guide for more details about these topics.

Slot	Gearing Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Weapon – Required Unique Greatstaff of the Crone	Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice Damage to Close Enemies Storm Strike Chains to extra Targets Ranks in Basic Skills
Helm – Mythic Heir of Perdition	Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Movement Speed Ranks to Core Skills
Helm – Unique Tempest Roar	Cooldown Reduction Maximum Life Elite Damage All Stats
Chest – Mythic Shroud of False Death	All Stats Maximum Life Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Resource Generation
Chest – Unique Mad Wolf’s Glee	Max Life Werewolf Attack Speed Lupine Ferocity’s Damage Bonus Ranks to Digitigrade Gait
Gloves – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Willpower Chance to make Enemies Vulnerable	Storm Finesse – Storm Critical Strike Chance Nature Magic Innovation – Hurricane Duration
Pants – Unique Tibault’s Will	All Stats Maximum Life Maximum Resource Damage Reduction While Unstoppable
Pants – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Ranks in Basic Skills Ranks in Storm Strike All Resistances Armor	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor% Nature Magic Innovation – Hurricane Duration
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Impicit: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown By 1.5 Seconds Willpower Movement Speed Max Life	Druid Motion – Ranks to Digitigrade Gait or Movement Speed Nature Magic Innovation – Hurricane Duration
Amulet	Willpower% Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Quickshift Ranks to Toxic Claws	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction
Rings – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Max Life Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration OR if Grizzly Rage cooldown is handled, Werewolf Finesse – Werewolf Attack Speed Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction

• 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, or using a Juggernaut’s Aspect.
• Greatstaff of the Crone makes Claw a Storm ability, benefitting from Storm Critical Strike Chance

After gearing, look at progression systems like Paragon next.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

The following Unique Items are required, recommended, or situational for the Stormclaw Druid:

• Required – Greatstaff of the Crone is necessary for the build to function well, making Claw a Storm Skill, boosting Claw and Storm Strike damage, and doubling the amount of Basic Attacks you are able to cast at once. The Damage to Close on the Staff is sufficient to cap Thunderstruck.
• (Before Mythic) Tempest Roar makes Storm Strike, Cyclone Armor and Hurricane into Werewolf Skills, allowing the skill to benefit from multipliers like Lust for Carnage, get ranks from Mad Wolf’s Glee, and be active during Grizzly Rage.
• (Before Mythic) Mad Wolf’s Glee is an excellent offensive Unique Item, giving movement speed and Skill Ranks to Werewolf Skills including Claw.
• Tibault’s Will is a solid damage multiplier with strong gear affixes. The bonus will always be active thanks to Prime Grizzly Rage.

Mythic Unique Items

If acquired, the following Mythic Unique Items are recommended for the build.

• Heir of Perdition has Strong Gear Affixes and a steady damage multiplier. The multiplier can be stolen occasionally from others that also use this helm for a higher damage multiplier. However, this is a utility tradeoff since Storm Skills will not persist during Grizzly Rage without Tempest Roar.
• Shroud of False Death gives +1 rank to all Skill Passives which means several bonuses to Damage Multipliers, Damage Reductions, Resistances, Fortify, Healing and Critical Strike Chance.

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Gems and Runewords

The following are the recommended Gem and Runeword setups for the Stormclaw Druid.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Topaz for Basic Skill damage	Grand Sapphire for Willpower	Grand Amethyst for Shadow Resistance Grand Sapphire for Cold Resistance Grand Ruby for Fire Resistance

Poison and Lightning Resistances are covered by Paragon nodes.

Runewords

Use these Runeword combination options, placed in the 2 Handed Weapon and into one Armor slot.

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Igni Xan	Igni – Gain: 25 Offering. 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 0.25 seconds. Overflow: 0.35% damage per Offering.
Ahu Gar	Ahu – Gain: 15 Offering. Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against non-Healthy enemies. Gar – Requires: 25 Offering. Overflow: Gain Multiple Stacks. Cooldown: 1 seconds. Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.

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 give periodic Critical Overpowers for large damage, and is useful for maintaining Grizzly Rage against bosses.

Gar is a consistent addition to Critical Strike chance. Other triggers like Bac or Cir will also work. Seasonal Players can use Yom over Gar, as Critical Strike Chance is covered by Purge the Infected.

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

• Speedfarm – Use Bac Jah for mobility.
• Quality of Life / Farm – A setup including Yom with Airidah’s Inexorable Will can be easiest for content like Infernal Hordes or other farm content.

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Paragon Board

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

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Season 10 Mechanics

Chaos Perks

Chaos Perks are the latest flavor of seasonal power, offering a selection of one Unique and three other powers of any combination. Perks are acquired from Seasonal Reputation or from Bartuc in Infernal Hordes. Here is the recommended setup for the Stormclaw Druid.

Power	Description
Brawn Over Brains	Gain the following: 100-200% Maximum Life +50-100% Healing Received 75-125% Overpower Damage However, your Maximum Resistances are reduced by 25%, and your damage reduction from Armor is capped at 60%.
Purge the Infected	Your Core Skills also apply 100-200% of their Base damage as Poisoning over 4 seconds. Dealing direct damage to a Poisoned enemy spends 5 Spirit to be a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals 30-60% increase damage.
Overabundance	Every 100 Spirit you generate above your Maximum increases your damage by 50-100% for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks up to 3 times, but does not refresh.
Crazy Brew	Your Healing Potion is infused with the power of Chaos, granting you 100% Resource Cost Reduction, 40-80% increased Attack Speed and 40-80 increased Movement Speed for 5 seconds. Your Healing Potion has a 15 second Cooldown and you can drink it at full Life. Cooldown is now affects by Cooldown Reduction.

Chaos Armors

Chaos Armors are a selection of generic and class Unique Items that can drop as empowered versions in any Armor Slot besides their native slot. For example, a ChaoticFists of Fate could drop as helm, chest, pants and boots. These items open many possibilities but have a very large pool of items with low drop rates and are untradable, meaning a perfect setup may take a while and many combinations will be effective in the meantime.

The best Chaos Armor for the Stormclaw Druid is Greatstaff of the Crone, opening up the weapon slot for a Shard of Verathiel. Other high multiplier options like Malefic Crescent and Fists of Fate will also be strong value.

The following is a recommended Chaotic setup for the Stormclaw Druid. Recommended Masterworks will be in Bold.

Slot	Aspect	Stats	Tempers
Weapon	Shard of Verathiel Ahu Yom	All Stats Ranks to Basic Skills Basic Attack Speed Maximum Resource
Totem	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast	Cooldown Reduction Max Life Willpower	Lightning Augments – Chance for Storm Strike to Hit Twice Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration
Helm	Fists of Fate (Helm)	Lucky Hit Chance Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Lucky Hit: Chance to make enemies Vulnerable
Chest	Paingorger’s Gauntlets (Chest Armor) (Replaced by Shroud of False Death)	Attack Speed Ranks to Basic Skills Cooldown Reduction Lucky Hit Chance to Stun
Gloves	Dire Wolf’s Aspect	Attack Speed Willpower Max Life Chance to make Enemies Vulnerable	Werewolf Finesse – Werewolf Attack Speed Worldly Fortune – Lucky Hit Chance
Pants	Malefic Crescent (Pants) Igni Xan	Ranks to Feral Aptitude Werewolf Critical Strike Damage Willpower% Movement Speed while Shapeshifted into a Werewolf
Boots	Greatstaff of the Crone (Boots)	Damage to Close Enemies Storm Strikes Chains to 2 targets Chance for Storm Strike to hit Twice Ranks to Basic Skills
Amulet	Aspect of the Rabid Bear	Willpower% Ranks to Toxic Claws Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Quickshift	Druid Motion – Ranks in Digitigrade Gait Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration
Ring	Aspect of Adaptability	Attack Speed Willpower Max Life Chance to make enemies Vulnerable	Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration
Ring	Aspect of the Moonrise (Replaced by Ring of Starless Skies)	Attack Speed Willpower Max Life Chance to make enemies Vulnerable	Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration

Other Chaotic Considerations

• Use Song of the Mountain if you are not armor capped.
• Farm – Airidah’s Inexorable Will with Yom can be an acceptable setup. Yom will also help keep Overabundance capped.
• If you need more Spirit Generation to maintain 3 stacks of Overabundance , swap Calamity Spirit Boon for Energize or add Lum.
• Purge the Infected‘s guaranteed Critical Strikes is for any Skill, not just Core so usable for this build, giving a tidy multiplier on top of not having to gear for Critical Strike Chance. This lets us swap out Gar for Yom.
• Other armors such as Tempest Roar will be useable if not best. Try them out as you loot them!
• Dire Wolf’s Aspect is essential for using Claw during Grizzly 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 Stormclaw Druid:

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Skills: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Raheir, the Shieldbearer

• Reinforcement Ability – Crater
• Opportunity – Claw

Hysteria and Bloodlust will both give strong Attack Speed bonuses.

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

1. Prebuild Quickshift by alternating Maul and Claw
2. Maintain Hurricane while engaged with enemies.
3. Enter Grizzly Rage Dire Werewolf Form.
4. Blood Howl for damage bonuses and as needed for healing.
5. Preserving Cyclone Armor to apply Vulnerable and to grip in enemies.
6. Claw your enemies!

Skills, Support, and Synergies

The Stormclaw Druid has simple gameplay. Use Claw to kill your enemies. Greatstaff of the Crone boosts Claw and Storm Strike damage, makes Claw a Storm skill so it can benefit from Nature damage passives and effects, and casts Storm Strike with every Claw cast. Since Storm Strike is a triggered effect from Claw, it does not need to be on the Skill Bar.

Storm Strike can chain back to previous enemies, making it simply excellent in multitarget and completely sus in single target.

Supporting Abilities

Hurricane provides a Damage Reduction debuff on enemies and applies Poison with Overload.

Cyclone Armor grips in enemies, applies Vulnerable, and gives passive elemental defense.

Innate Blood Howl is a persistent damage multiplier. We will be in Werewolf form near constantly.

Alternative Skills that can be flexed in can include:

• Preserving Blood Howl for Attack Speed
• Primal Shred for a strong mobility option.

Ultimate Skill

This build uses Grizzly Rage as its Ultimate Skill. With Dire Wolf’s Aspect, we become the Dire Werewolf.

Dire Werewolf Grizzly Rage grants Unstoppable for its duration, grants movement speed and healing on kill, and a damage buff that grows over time. With Aspect of the Rabid Bear, our damage type for all attacks becomes Poison, which helps unify several multipliers.

Grizzly Rage’s cooldown can be reduced while Grizzly Rage is active. Sufficient duration and cooldown tempers means that you can have full uptime on Grizzly Rage. Any Skill not tuned to Grizzly Rage, such as Earth Skills will be unavailable while Grizzly Rage is active. Certain Skills like Cyclone Armor with a passive effect will still be up, but the Skill will be unavailable for Active Use without Tempest Roar.

Only one point is invested into Grizzly Rage because further points only reduce the cooldown, and we do not need the Rank 5 effect since we should always be already Armor capped without the effect.

Grizzly Rage has a capped duration, but we gain or extend Grizzly Rage duration with:

• Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast gives up to 10 seconds extra duration.
• Kills extend the duration by 1 second.
• Overpowering Bosses extends duration by 5 seconds. We will Overpower with Xan Rune triggers.
• Offensive Tempers on gear give more duration.

If this is not sufficient to maintain Grizzly Rage for most of the time or your downtime becomes too disruptive, consider one or more of the following options:

• Exchange the Swooping Attacks Spirit Boon for Calamity or Calm Before the Storm
• Target your Mastercrafts towards Grizzly Rage Duration or Cooldown.
• Put more Skill Points into Grizzly Rage for cooldown.

Key Passive

Lupine Ferocity provides a reliable Critical Damage multiplier to our primary damage sources Storm Strike and Claw. Storm Strike is a Werewolf Skill thanks to Tempest Roar.

Controller vs Keyboard and Mouse

Stormclaw can play smoother on a controller. Controllers default to allowing movement while holding Basic Attacks. Keyboard and mouse users will find some restrictions in movement while casting and may have to click a lot to retarget. Some ways to improve quality of life on keyboard and mouse can include any of the following in combination:

• Change Keybind settings to deselect ‘Combine Move / Interact / Basic Skill slot’ along with rebinding their Basic Skill to not be left clicked.
• Use Claw on another keybind.
• Change preset movement setting to WASD.

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 Advantage II for Attack Speed and Lucky Hit bonuses.
• 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 10 Updates

The Seasonal Chaos Perks give some significant boost options to Stormclaw; notably moving Greatstaff of the Crone and Armor slots and picking up Shard of Verathiel.. We will swap off Bestial Rampage and Wildheart Hunger to Lupine Ferocity to make room for more Chaos Armors. Grizzly Rage is nerfed but still taken for the strong aspect mutlipliers and easy access to Unstoppable and Poisoned condition. Gameplay should feel similar to previous seasons.

The following list details the important changes in the Season 10 Patch Updates that are specific to the Stormclaw Druid. For general Season 10 information, check out our Season 10 Hub.

Itemization:

• Earth and Sky Damage bonus increased from 10% to 18%.

Skills and Stats:

• Grizzly Rage
  • Base damage reduced from 60% to 40%.
  • Damage bonus per second reduced from 4% to 1% (capping at 25% rather than 100%).
  • Now begins its cooldown when it’s activated rather than after it ends.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where Storm Strike would sometimes fail if the final target in the chain died.
• Fixed an issue where skills were not properly replaced on the Skill bar when using Tempest Roar, Mad Wolf’s Glee, and Dire Wolf’s Aspect.
• Fixed an issue where Grizzly Rage was granting Unstoppable without learning its upgrades.
• Fixed an issue where Grizzly Rage was not removed from the available Skills on your Skill bar while it’s activated.
• Fixed an issue where Grizzly Rage did not periodically increase the player’s damage as expected.

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Changelog

• 21 September, 2025: Updated for Patch 2.4 and Season 10. Seasonal Players please note that the Season 10 Mechanics section has setups that include the seasonal Chaos Armors.
• 15 July, 2025: Updated for Patch 2.3.1 to note Change to Greatstaff of the Crone. No major changes to the build.
• 6 July, 2025: Updated recommendations for rune options, and updated information based on change to how Grizzly Rage can now progress cooldown while active.
• 27 June, 2025: Updated for Season 9 and Patch 2.3.
• 24 April, 2025: Updated to new unified format and for Season 8 Patch 2.2 changes.
• 19 Jan, 2025: Updated for Season 7 and Patch 2.1 updates. Two tab paragon board introduced.
• 15 October, 2024: Updated for new onsite Paragon Tool.
• 29 September, 2024: Updated for Season 6. Changes to Paragon, Skill Tree, Skill Bar, and recommended Uniques.
• 7 August, 2024: Updated for post-launch of season 5. Some changes to Tempering recommendations and improving readability.
• 3 August, 2024: Updated for patch 1.5.0 and Season of the Infernal Horde.
• 17 June, 2024: Updated for mid-season patch 1.4.3.
• 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.
• 9 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.