Season 1 Druid Pulverize Werebear Endgame Build

This is a Season 1 Pulverize Werebear that uses the combination of Earth and Werebear skills to deliver one of the Druid's mightiest builds in Diablo 4 (Diablo IV). Smash your way into groups of enemies with Tempting Fate and the Barber hearts while maintaining a hard-rock defense with the Revenge heart. Read on to learn more about Pulverize Werebear's overview and playstyle!

List of Contents

Pulverize Werebear Build Overview
Build Summary
Pulverize Werebear Build Breakdown
Skill Progression
Aspects and Affixes
Best Gems and Hearts
Paragon Board Setup
Pulverize Werebear Playstyle
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Pulverize Werebear Build Overview

Build Summary

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Summary		Skill Progression		Best Aspects
Gems and Hearts			Paragon

Skills

Build Overview and Summary
Pulverize Werebear	Tier: Focus: PVEPlaystyle: Solo and Party
Active Skills
Passive Skills

Build Overview and Summary
Pulverize Werebear	Tier: Focus: PVEPlaystyle: Solo and Party
Aspects and Uniques
Insatiable Fury (Chest) Vasily's Prayer (Helm) Aspect of Mending Stone (Pants) Aspect of Retaliation (Ring) Aspect of the Ursine Horror (2H Mace) Mighty Storm's Aspect (Gloves) Shockwave Aspect (Amulet) Aspect of the Umbral (Ring) Aspect of Quicksand (Boots)

Build Overview and Summary
Pulverize Werebear	Tier: Focus: PVEPlaystyle: Solo and Party
Stat Priorities	Recommended Gems
・Overpower Damage ・All Damage ・Vulnerable Damage ・Critical Strike Damage ・Critical Strike Chance ・Willpower ・Damage Reduction ・Damage Reduction while Fortified ・Maximum Life ・Damage with Physical ・Energy Cost Reduction ・Damage while Shapeshifted ・Lightning Resistance	Ruby (Armor) Sapphire (Weapon) Tempting Fate (Vicious) Revenge (Brutal) The Barber (Wrathful)

Pulverize Werebear Build Breakdown

Skill Progression

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Summary		Skill Progression		Best Aspects
Gems and Hearts			Paragon

Active Skills

Skill		Upgrade Path
Earth Spike (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Earth Spike	Fierce Earth Spike
Pulverize (5 Points)	→	Enhanced Pulverize	Primal Pulverize
Earthen Bulwark (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Earthen Bulwark	Preserving Earthen Bulwark
Hurricane (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Hurricane	Natural Hurricane
Trample (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Trample	Natural Trample
Grizzly Rage (1 Point)	→	Prime Grizzly Rage	Supreme Grizzly Rage

Passive Skills

Pulverize Werebear Passives
Heart of the Wild (1 Point)	Wild Impulses (3 Points)		Predatory Instinct (3 Points)
Iron Fur (3 Points)	Crushing Earth (3 Points)		Safeguard (3 Points)
Stone Guard (3 Points)	Mending (1 Point)		Provocation (3 Points)
Defiance (3 Points)	Natural Disaster (3 Points)		Resonance (3 Points)
Defensive Posture (3 Points)		Earthen Might (1 Point)

Spirit Boons

Pulverize Werebear Spirit Boons
Wariness (Deer)	Take 10% Reduced Damage to Elites
Avian Wrath (Eagle)	Gain X30% Critical Strike Damage
Calamity (Wolf)	Extend the Duration of Ultimate Skills by 25%
*masochstic** (Snake)	Critical Strikes with Shapeshifting Skills Heal you for 3% of Maximum Life
Calm Before the Storm (Snake)	Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 10% chance to reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 2 seconds

Setup is available if you've bonded with the Snake Spirit.

Avian Wrath is used for a whopping 30% increase to your critical damage. Wariness, masoch*stic are chosen for increased survivability. While Calamity and Calm Before the Storm are to increase the uptime of Grizzly Rage which boosts your overall damage and survivability.

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Recommended Skill Progression
Lv.2	Lv.3	Lv.4	Lv.5
Earth Spike	Enhanced Earth Spike	Pulverize	Enhanced Pulverize
Lv.6	Lv.7	Lv.8	Lv.9
Primal Pulverize	Fierce Earth Spike	Earthen Bulwark	Enhanced Earthen Bulwark
Lv.10	Lv.11	Lv.12	Lv.13
Preserving Earthen Bulwark	Pulverize	Pulverize	Pulverize
Lv.14	Lv.15	Lv.16	Lv.17
Pulverize	Heart of the Wild	Wild Impulses	Hurricane
Lv.18	Lv.19	Lv.20	Lv.21
Enhanced Hurricane	Natural Hurricane	Trample	Enhanced Trample
Lv.22	Lv.23	Lv.24	Lv.25
Natural Trample	Heart of the Wild	Grizzly Rage	Prime Grizzly Rage
Lv.26	Lv.27	Lv.28	Lv.29
Supreme Grizzly Rage	Defiance	Defiance	Defiance
Lv.30	Lv.31	Lv.32	Lv.33
Wild Impulses	Crushing Earth	Crushing Earth	Crushing Earth
Lv.34	Lv.35	Lv.36	Lv.37
Earthen Might	Safeguard	Safeguard	Safeguard
Lv.38	Lv.39	Lv.40	Lv.41
Stone Guard	Stone Guard	Stone Guard	Mending
Lv.42	Lv.43	Lv.44	Lv.45
Provocation	Provocation	Provocation	Predatory Instinct
Lv.46	Lv.47	Lv.48	Lv.49
Predatory Instinct	Predatory Instinct	Iron Fur	Iron Fur
Renown Skill Points (Lv50 Onwards)
R1	R2	R3	R4
Iron Fur	Natural Disaster	Natural Disaster	Natural Disaster
R5	R6	R7	R8
Resonance	Resonance	Resonance	Defensive Posture
R9		R10
Defensive Posture		Defensive Posture

Aspects and Affixes

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Summary		Skill Progression		Best Aspects
Gems and Hearts			Paragon

Best Weapons

Weapon	Aspects and Affixes
2H Axe	Shockwave Aspect Pulverize creates a shockwave that travels forward, dealing (60-100)% of its damage to targets in the path. ・+X% Damage to Healthy Enemies (Inherent) ・+X Main Stat ・+X% Core Skill Damage ・+X% Critical Strike Damage ・+X% Vulnerable Damage

Best Armor

Equipment	Aspects and Affixes
Helmet	Vasily's Prayer Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for (XX) . ・+X% Damage while Shapeshifted ・+X% Overpower Damage ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Lightning Resistance
Chest	Insatiable Fury Werebear form is now your true form, and you gain +3 Ranks to all Werebear Skills. ・+X% Physical Damage ・+X% Overpower Damage ・+X% Damage Reduction while Fortified ・+X% Total Armor while in Werebear Form
Gloves	Aspect of Retaliation Your Core Skills deal up to (20-30)% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify. ・+X Willpower ・+X Ranks Pulverize ・+X% Critical Strike Chance ・+X% Critical Strike Damage
Pants	Aspect of Mending Stone The duration of Earthern Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. In addition, killing an enemy with Earth Skills replenishes (XX) of your active Earthen Bulwark's Barrier. ・While Injured, Potion Grants X% Max Life as Barrier (Inherent) ・+X Willpower ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Damage Reduction
Boots	Aspect of Quicksand Damage from Earth Skills Slow enemies hit by 25% for 5 seconds. ・+ Evade Briefly Grants X% Movement Speed (Inherent) ・+X% Movement Speed ・+X Willpower ・+X% Movement Speed for X Seconds After Killing an Elite

Best Jewelry

Equipment	Aspects and Affixes
Necklace	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by (XX) seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increases your Critical Strike Damage by 10% up to a maximum of 200% for the duration. ・+X% Resist All(Inherent) ・+X% Resource Cost Reduction ・+X% Maximum Life ・+X% Damage
Ring	Aspect of the Ursine Horror Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After casting Pulverize, tectonic spikes continue to deal (XX) damage over 2 seconds. ・+X% Resistance (2 Elements) (Inherent) ・+X% Damage to Slowed Enemies ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Vulnerable Damage
Ring	Aspect of the Umbral Restore (XX) of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy. ・+X% Resistance (2 Elements) (Inherent) ・+X% Critical Strike Damage ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Vulnerable Damage

Best Gems and Hearts

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Summary		Skill Progression		Best Aspects
Gems and Hearts			Paragon

Item Type	Effect
Sapphire (Weapon)	+% Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
Ruby (Armor)	+% Maximum Life
The Barber	Type: WrathfulCritical Strikes and all subsequent damage within 2.0-4.0 seconds is absorbed by your target. Then, the absorbed damage erupts onto surrounding enemies. Stored damage is increased by 10% per second.
Revenge	Type: Brutal10-20% of incoming damage is instead suppressed. When you use a Defensive, Subterfuge or a Macabre skill, all suppressed damage is amplified by 250% and explodes, dealing up to 1360-2040 Fire damage to Nearby enemies.
Tempting Fate	Type: ViciousYou gain 40-60% Critical Strike Damage but your Non-Critical Strikes deal 20-15% less damage.

This is the best gem setup for this build as Sapphire increases your critical damage to crowd-controlled enemies which is further boosted by the Tempting Fate and Barber hearts; ultimately allowing you to breeze through mobs in a few casts of Pulverize.

Paragon Board Setup

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Summary		Skill Progression		Best Aspects
Gems and Hearts			Paragon

No.	Board	Essential Nodes
1	Starting Board	Exploit (Glyph) Prime (Rare) Impel (Rare)
2	Earthen Devastation	Earthen Devastation (Legendary) Werebear (Glyph) Resolve (Rare) Earthen Power (Rare) Slayer (Rare) Oppress (Rare)
3	Survival Instinct	Survival Instinct (Legendary) Earth and Sky (Glyph) Battleworn Hide (Rare) Grizzly (Rare) Spearhead (Rare)
4	Constricting Tendrils	Outmatch (Glyph) Courage (Rare) Nature's Will (Rare)
5	Ancestral Guidance	Ancestral Guidance (Legendary) Undaunted (Glyph) Harmony (Rare)
6	Inner Beast	Spirit (Glyph) Determination (Rare) Shapeshifter (Rare)
7	Thunderstruck	Tempest (Rare)

Pulverize Werebear Playstyle

Pulverize Werebear Build Tips
Pulverize Close to the Enemy Maintain Grizzly Form as Often as Possible Activate Hurricane Before Using Grizzly Rage

Pulverize Close to the Enemy

It is advantageous to cast Pulverize near the enemy, as you will get two hits instead of one: the Pulverize itself plus the Shockwave. Take advantage of this by casting it close to the enemies as much as possible.

Maintain Grizzly Form as Often as Possible

Grizzly Rage is one of our highest source of damage as you will keep on ramping up Critical Strike Damage when you're in this form. Don't forget to take Calamity and Calm Before the Storm Spirit Boons to have this form up as often as possible.

Activate Hurricane Before Using Grizzly Rage

You won't be able to use Hurricane as you switch into Grizzly Rage so you must cast it before changing forms. This is a great skill to activate Vulnerable and slow to enemies, as well as to easily increase the Critical Strike Damage stack you get in Grizzly Rage since it's a multiple-hit skill.

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Season 1 Druid Pulverize Werebear Endgame Build | Diablo 4 (D4)｜Game8 (2024)