The Druid is a shape-shifting class in Diablo 4 that can transform into forms like Werebears, Werewolves, and more. They are heavily focused on casting, primarily lightning, and poison spells. The Druid's unique class mechanic has yet to be officially released by Blizzard, but information from the end game closed beta has revealed that it will involve gathering Diablo 4 Gold and Other resources and using them to fuel powerful transformation-based abilities.

 

• Mechanic
• Basic Skills
• Spirit Skills
• Ultimate skills

 

 

Mechanic

The upcoming Diablo 4 will have a unique class mechanic for Druids where they will be able to give offerings to four different spirit animals to get permanent stat buffs. These spirit animals are Deer, Eagle, Wolf, and Snake and players will get druid-specific loot after completing a druid-specific quest which is the offering for the spirit animals. Each spirit animal will offer one passive effect at a time and the effects range from passive stat increases to more substantial buffs. This system is still in the works and maybe heavily changed by the time the game is released. Druids will also have six different categories of abilities which will help shape their builds.

 

Basic Skills

The Druid class has basic skills that are flammable and generate spirit, their main resource. These skills usually do less damage than other classes but have a chance to do a crushing blow, which reduces the target's max health. This system may not be available at launch but is currently the only available information. Ultimate skills can only be used one at a time.

 

Spirit Skills

The druid class in Diablo 4 has a category of skills called Spirit Skills which cost spirit to use. These skills are usually stronger than the other core skills, have more legendary effects, and can hit more targets. An example of a spirit skill is Pulverize which costs 30 spirits.

 

players to build their character with shape-shifting and caster builds. Shape-shifting builds have the ability to deal large amounts of area-of-effect damage with a high spirit cost, while caster builds have the ability to conjure a vortex that moves forward and curves in a random direction dealing damage. The defensive category of skills is focused on keeping the character alive and adding utility, with skills that can increase movement.

 

Cyclone Armor and Earthen Bulwark are two skills that provide damage reduction and immunity to crowd control (CC). Cyclone Armor passively reduces ranged damage and has a 15% chance to knock enemies back when they hit the caster in melee range. Earthen Bulwark creates a shield around the caster for 3 seconds that makes them unstoppable and absorbs a certain amount of damage; when the shield expires, it shatters and deals a percentage of the remaining shield to nearby enemies. Wraith Skills is another skill that provides immunity to CC and also deals area of effect damage.

 

The druid class appears to be focused on caster builds and big, AOE abilities. Examples of skills include hurricane, which has a 15-second cooldown and deals massive damage to nearby enemies, and boulder, which has an 8-second cooldown and knocks back and crushes enemies. Additionally, the druid can summon wolf companions with an 8-second cooldown that passively deals damage and have a 50% increased chance to critically strike their target.

 

Ultimate skills

In Diablo 4, ultimate skills are incredibly strong but have long cooldowns, so they cannot be the complete focus of a build. It is difficult to get cooldown reduction, so they must be used in addition to other builds focused on casting or shape-shifting. An example of an ultimate skill is Vine Creeper, which periodically emerges from the ground and poisons nearby enemies for damage over 8 seconds. The active is Vine's Strangle which poisons and stuns enemies in a target area for a lot more damage over 6 seconds.

 

Conclusion

The Druid is one of the three classes revealed for Diablo 4 but is the only class without its unique class mechanic revealed. The Druid has two cooldowns; Cataclysm 90, where a massive storm follows you for 10 seconds, and Grizzly Rage, where you shape-shift into a werebear for five seconds. There may be ways to increase the duration of Grizzly Rage, which could make for a unique and fun build. Despite having some information on the class, there is still much that is unknown, so it is up to the player if they want to play the Druid as their main or try it out as their first class.