Diablo 4 Renown

Due to the postponement of Compass to Carnage event, you could have freely farmed Infernal Hordes in the middle of Diablo 4 Season 10, but now you must prepare to fight until the end of the season.

To fully utilize Infernal Horde bonus from this event before Season 10 ends, you need to choose the most suitable and efficient build to complete the event. If you mainly play Druid, consider Landslide Druid Build!

While you might find this build somewhat outdated, combined with Chaos Perks, it can actually be quite effective in farming densely packed enemies like Infernal Hordes in Season 10. We'll now introduce how to craft this build.

Landslide Druid Build Overview

This build excels not only at clearing groups of enemies but is also effective against single bosses. It's relatively easy to master, even for new Druid players, and once mastered, it can help you progress through the season more steadily.

Of course, no build is perfect. This build's disadvantages lie in its relatively slow speed, requiring a longer initial setup to unleash its full power, and its high gear requirements.

However, these aren't difficult to overcome. You can buy Diablo 4 items to meet Landslide Druid Build crafting requirements and acquire additional armor with good defense or survivability enhancements, allowing you to smoothly navigate the early stages of combat.

The Main Mechanics Of This Build

To ensure this build functions effectively, you need Vasily's Prayer, which converts Druid earth skills into wolf-type skills, allowing you to benefit from the survival node or special passive skills, enabling you to continuously cast Landslide in combat.

In addition, you need to equip this gear with rare affixes and upgrade it regularly to maximize its power. Of course, if you find its Chaos Armor version, even better, you can use it in the helmet slot.

The second essential item for this build is Earthbreaker. It increases Landslide's sustained damage by increasing the ground's physical damage per second. If you place a Landslide pillar within Earth Spike's area of ​​effect, it can also duplicate it.

To further ensure continuous Landslide casting, the third gear needs to provide infinite spirit, combined with Chao Perk Overabundance to prevent resource shortages.

Finally, don't forget to add Aspect of the Aftershock to your amulet. This allows Landslide to attack twice, dealing additional damage with each attack, maximizing your DPS.

While the core of Landslide Druid build revolves around gear, it's not limited to these aspects, and other elements such as skills and seasonal powers are equally important. We'll discuss these in the following sections.

Optimal Skill Rotation

If you're a veteran Diablo 4 Druid player, you should be familiar with the basic skill configuration of this build, as it's been in the game for a long time.

Besides the core Landslide, other important skills include Grizzly Rage, Poison Creeper, Blood Howl, and more. However, what truly makes a build effective isn't just the skills themselves, but also the order and timing of their use.

You need to continuously cast Landslide while using Cataclysm to gain infinite resources. Also, don't forget to use Claw to activate Wild Transformations (Chaos Perk) to further ensure the continuity of Landslide casting.

If you encounter enemy encirclement or are low on health, remember to activate defensive skills and Cyclone Armor immediately - you can activate this by switching to humanoid form using Wild Transformations.

More importantly, activating Cataclysm or Cyclone Armor can continuously gather enemies together, maximizing DPS.

Based on this, further skill tree configurations are as follows:

• 1. First, unlock Claw at the start.
• 2. Unlock the original Landslide and Wild Impulses.
• 3. Unlock all defensive skills.
• 4. Unlock Innate Blood Howl and Debilitating Roar for damage bonuses.

Overall, Landslide Druid Build's skill rotation isn't complicated, which is why we mentioned its ease of mastery from the beginning.

More Gear Options

We've already mentioned some gear when explaining how the build works. Beyond that, you'll need to acquire more powerful items to further enhance the build and your character's overall enemy clearing capabilities.

The first recommended item is Heir of Perdition, which provides a 60% bonus to skill damage, and some affixes significantly increase DPS. It's worth noting that this item can also be replaced with Chaos version of Fists of Fate.

For the chest armor, both Shroud of False Death and Insatiable Fury are good choices, but the former is better. It grants +1 to all passive skills and all attributes, helping you reach Paragon levels.

The ring Earthbreaker's style and effects are perfectly suited to this build. It increases Landslide's level and the attack speed of Earth-type skills, since Landslide's effects are always relatively slow to materialize.

Here are some recommended gear choices for other slots:

• Boots: Dire Wolf's
• Primary Weapon: Dagger
• Amulet: Any perk that provides Willpower and Venom passive skill points

Best Chaos Powers

The essential perks we've already mentioned include Overabundance and Wild Transformations. Their attributes and specific effects are as follows:

• Overabundance - Magic - Druid: For every 50 points above your maximum Spirit, your damage increases by 10-20% for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks but does not refresh.
• Wild Transformations - Legendary - Druid: After transforming into a new form, you can use a free skill and gain an additional bonus for 5 seconds.

Since a maximum of four powers can be used per combat, the other two recommended Chaos Perks are:

• Brawn Over Brains - Unique - All Class: Provides maximum life, healing received, and Overpower damage bonus, while reducing your maximum resistances and armor damage reduction.
• Purge the Infected - Rare - Druid: Your core ability inflicts a poison effect on enemies for 4 seconds, equal to 100-200% of your base damage.

By completing Landslide Druid Build crafting based on the above, you should be able to dominate as a Druid for the remainder of Season 10, earning your character the final wave of honor and loot for the season! Give it a try!

Through the 2.5.0 PTR, we've already learned about the new exclusive items for each class in Diablo 4 Season 11. Hardcore fans know that these new Uniques will essentially determine the trend and popularity of these class builds in the upcoming season. While all data is currently based solely on PTR, some items may be buffed or nerfed, but major changes are unlikely.

Among these new Diablo 4 items, one stands out and has the immense potential to propel Dance of Knives build to the top of the rankings in Season 11: Rogue-exclusive Death's Pavane Unique pants.

Here, we'll discuss the impact of Death's Pavane on Dance of Knives Rogue and why this build was able to completely disrupt the game balance and dominate The Tower endgame event during PTR.

Death's Pavane

First, these unique pants allow you to deal more damage when using Dance of Knives skill, while also significantly improving your survivability.

Death's Pavane's inherent attributes grant you a higher dodge chance when using Dance of Knives skill, which provides a substantial survivability boost. Additionally, it increases your critical strike chance and movement speed, making it very useful.

It's important to note that this item has some unique mechanics. It works by dropping knives when you use Dance of Knives and hit an enemy. Picking them up grants a charge, increasing your damage by 10-20% for 6 seconds, stacking up to three times for a 60% damage multiplier.

Essentially, you'll be in a charged state most of the time, giving you the opportunity to deal infinite damage. This is why Dance of Knives Rogue dominated The Pits and The Tower during the PTR.

While this game-changing stat boost will almost certainly be nerfed after the official release of Season 11, it remains the top build choice for players, especially Rogue players, with its new unique gear.

Build Gameplay

Now let's talk about the gameplay and powerful features of Dance of Knives Rogue build.

Skills

In terms of skills, you'll need to use Puncture or other basic skills to increase damage and accumulate combo points. You can increase the damage and effects of your core skills by stacking combo points, including the damage bonus to your primary attack skill, Dance of Knives. Building combo points is the core mechanism for maximizing damage output, as spending more combo points will produce stronger effects when using core skills.

Next, use Dark Shroud to reduce damage and combine it with Shadow Clone to further increase damage. Additionally, you can choose Shadow Imbuement, Cold Imbuement, or Poison Imbuement depending on your playstyle and build.

Of these, Shadow is best suited for fast farming because it explodes and quickly clears large areas of enemy packs; Cold has very strong single-target damage; and Poison's damage output is also decent, but its damage frequency is relatively low, which is normal across various builds. However, combined with Aspect of Creeping Death, Poison Imbuement's power is quite considerable.

Therefore, you can choose any skill; they are all pretty good now, each with its own unique characteristics.

However, since Shadow Imbuement is better suited for clearing maps, and the latest update has made many changes, now each boss has different areas, I would recommend Shadow if you want to experience more open-world content. Plus, Dance of Knives build itself is suitable for speed runs.

In addition, we have Dash skill, which allows us to significantly improve the build's mobility. It's also another agility skill, which we need to activate for snapshots.

The principle of a snapshot is simple: it's about accumulating combo points. Assuming you have three combo points, you'll need to activate Shadow Clone, Dash, and Shadow Imbuement.

Once all skills are snapshotted, you'll have near-infinite damage output. However, after Shadow Clone expires, you'll need to re-execute the entire combo. This is necessary because activating the ultimate skill grants an additional bonus, and the ultimate skill's damage provides a universal damage multiplier and boosts all damage.

Also Read: Developer Interview Reveals New Changes In Diablo 4 Season 11 | Item Upgrade, Map Unlock And The Tower Endgame

Equipment & Stats

As for the necessary equipment for this build, Heir of Perdition or Harlequin Crest are both good choices in Season 11. Other item options are as follows:

• Helm: Heir of Perdition
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death
• Gloves: Grasp of Shadow
• Pants: Death's Pavane
• Boots: Mangler's Aspect
• Amulet: Umbrous Aspect
• Ring 1: Aspect of Inner Calm
• Ring 2: Aspect of Elements
• Ranged Weapon: Aspect of Star Shards
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Aspect of Apogeic Furor
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Edgemaster's Aspect

Because the item crafting system has undergone a complete overhaul in the new season, not only has the chance of Tempering and Masterworking rolling RNGs been reduced, but another high-risk, high-reward item upgrade mechanism has also been added - Sanctification, although its reputation is not good.

Therefore, in Diablo 4 Season 11, you can essentially regenerate attributes randomly. Ideally, you only need to focus on obtaining affixes like Critical Strike Chance, Movement Speed, and Lucky Hit Chance.

The most important stat for your build is Movement Speed, as this prevents your Dance of Knives skills from easily becoming ineffective. Other important stats include Fortification, Resistance, and Immunity to Crowd Control every 12 seconds.

Runes

Next is the rune section for Dance of Knives Rogue build.

• Bac and Zec: These runes reduce ultimate skill cooldowns, which is extremely useful for a Dance of Knives build that relies on high burst damage.
• Neo: When using normal skills, this Rune of Ritual reduces ultimate skill cooldowns, making your ultimate skills easier to cast and deal continuous damage.
• Vex: This Rune of Invocation provides extra skill points, which is very useful for improving the skill tree and maximizing damage and defense.

Paragon Boards

For Dance of Knives build in Season 11, key Paragon Boards include Exploit Weakness, Danse Macabre, and Headhunter. These boards provide crucial damage bonuses to active abilities, extend the duration of Vulnerable states, and increase damage against controlled enemies - the very control effects that are key to maintaining the build's Cold and Poison Imbuement mechanics.

In short, Dance of Knives Rogue build is so powerful in Season 11 because of the perfect synergy between its core abilities, the new unique Death's Pavane pants, and the new season's mechanics. This combination allows the build to deal massive area-of-effect damage while maintaining high mobility.