Welcome to our Diablo 4 Season 1 build guide, where we'll be covering one of the strongest endgame builds—the Tornado Druid. This variation of the popular build utilizes The Barber's Wrathful Heart, offering immense power and versatility. In this guide, we'll walk you through the key aspects of the build, including skills, gear, gems, and hearts, to maximize your effectiveness in both solo and group play. Let's dive in!

 

• The Tempest Roar and Mad Wolf's Glee
• Build Planners
• Skill Tree
• Grizzly Rage and Perfect Storm
• Passives
• Legendary Aspects
• Gear and Gems
• Conclusion

 

 

↖ The Tempest Roar and Mad Wolf's Glee

While it excels in speed farming, consider using a legendary chest piece for more challenging content like level 100 nightmare dungeons.

To kickstart the Tornado Build, we need the following essential items:

• Tempest Roar (Helmet): This is a must-have item as it allows us to use Tornado in werewolf form. A bit challenging to acquire, but the rewards are worth it!
• Mad Wolf's Glee (Chest Piece): Grants +4 ranks to all werewolf skills. Although the tooltip says +3 ranks, it's actually +4 when fully upgraded. This is a significant boost to our damage output.

 

↖ Build Planners

https://d4builds.gg/builds/2283cbaa-6670-4ab3-bb3a-d706ddf622d3/

 

↖ Skill Tree

• Wind Shear: Utilize this range generator to cause enemies to become vulnerable, perfect for speed farming.
• Tornado: Your main damaging ability, with a chance to spawn additional tornadoes and cause enemies to become vulnerable.
• Cyclone Armor: Invest a single point for non-physical damage reduction and knockback effects.
• Bloodhound: A primary source of healing, reduce the cooldown for every kill and gain an attack speed increase.
• Hurricane: Offers a slowing effect and reduces enemy damage, making it a potent skill for proccing additional effects.

 

↖ Grizzly Rage and Perfect Storm

Grizzly Rage is a crucial skill that provides significant damage increase and makes you unstoppable for six seconds. Upgrade it to fortify you for every second it's active. Your Capstone, Perfect Storm, grants Spirit and increased damage to vulnerable, immobilized, or slowed enemies, ensuring constant regeneration and damage boost.

 

↖ Passives

Choose Heart of the Wild, Wild Impulses, and Predatory Instinct for increased Critical Strike chance. Invest in increased movement speed in werewolf form for better mobility. Vigilance provides damage reduction for six seconds after using a defensive skill, synergizing well with Bloodhowl.

 

↖ Legendary Aspects

• Grizzly Rage Aspect: Grants up to 75% Spirit cost reduction for tornadoes, enabling infinite casting during Grizzly Rage.
• The Barber's Wrathful Heart: Converts Critical Strike damage into explosive bursts on enemies, amplified by the Barber's unique mechanics.
• Druid Aspect (Pull of the Forest): Pulls up to 50 enemies towards you during Grizzly Rage, setting them up for massive AOE damage with The Barber.

 

↖ Gear and Gems

Optimize your gear with stats like Critical Strike chance, Critical Strike damage, damage reduction while fortified, and damage reduction from poisoned enemies. Use gems like The Exploit Glyph, Heightened Malice, Undaunted, and more to further enhance your damage and survivability.

Slot	Item	Affixes
Helmet	Tempest Roar	Allows Tornado in werewolf form
Chest Piece	Mad Wolf's Glee	+4 ranks to all werewolf skills
Hand Slot	Increased Attack Speed on Critical Strikes	Ramp up Grizzly Rage damage faster
Pant Slot	Disobedience	Additional armor and 3 damage reductions
Boots	While Hurricane is Active	+2 ranks to shapeshifting skills during Hurricane
Weapon	Intercom	30% increased damage while standing still
Amulet	Direwolves Aspect	Continuous Tornado casting without Spirit issues
Rings	Various	Critical Strike Chance, Lucky Hit Chance, Vulnerable Damage, Damage to Close Enemies
Offhand	Tornado Will Seek Out Enemies	Essential affix for the build
Hearts	The Barber / Wrathful Heart	28% increased damage above 60 life for core skills

 

Crucial Hearts and Spirit Boons

Make sure to acquire the following crucial hearts and Spirit Boons:

• Wrathful Heart (1st): The Barber, which enhances Tornado's damage significantly. Alternatively, use a Barbaric Heart for 105 attack speed with Blood Howl.
• Wrathful Heart (2nd): Every 5 seconds above 60% life, core skills cost life instead of primary resources and deal 28% increased damage. This boosts our damage output considerably.
• Wrathful Heart (3rd): A Brutal Heart is recommended for now, but a Vicious Heart would be ideal with extra Critical Strike damage.

For Spirit Boons, focus on reduced damage from Elites, increased Critical Strike chance and damage, extended duration of ultimate skills, and Calm before the Storm to reduce cooldowns when casting Tornado.

 

↖ Conclusion

Congratulations! You are now armed with one of the most powerful endgame builds in Diablo 4 Season 1. The Tornado Druid with The Barber's Wrathful Heart variation excels in both speed farming and handling tougher content. Whether you prefer to tackle hordes of enemies or take on formidable bosses, this build is sure to deliver exceptional results. Remember to fine-tune your gear and Paragon points as you progress through the game, and enjoy the satisfying experience of wielding this mighty build in Sanctuary!