Diablo 4 Resplendent Spark

Dear Druid fans, have you prepared your best build in Season 9? If you are still hesitant, perhaps our build guide today can bring you new inspiration!

Here we are going to share a reliable leveling build, which is Pulverize Druid Build. This is a powerful ranged build with amazing ranged damage and powerful defense. With this ranged play, you can go deep into the Pit and farm XP quickly.

However, the flaws of this build are also obvious. Unless you specialize in Overpower and multiple Uniques, its single-target attack will always make you feel powerless when facing Pinnacle Boss.

But overall, Pulverize Druid Build is still a great choice for leveling, and combined with our ultimate skill Grizzly Rage, Aspect of the Rabid Bear, and the new Rotting Lightbringer unique Two-Handed weapon, this is definitely Druid Build you should try in the new season!

Next, we will explain how to build this build at the beginning of the season to bring you some more realistic game experience as soon as possible, and briefly share leveling tips so that you can reach the endgame and rush through Torment 4 as soon as possible! Let’s get started.

Pulverize Buffs

Before we dive into this build, let’s first understand the buffs that Pulverize gets, so you can clearly see how powerful this build is and why it is also very suitable for leveling.

First of all, Pulverize’s base damage buff is now from 110% to 150%, which means that its attacks will be more powerful from the beginning. And when we put the first point into the skill tree, we get Enhanced Pulverize, and then Pulverize will trigger Overpower every 10 seconds.

In addition, it now deals 30% more damage to enemies and bosses with Crowd Control. This is a vast change as it stacks more damage on top of our skills.

We can then also upgrade it to Raging Pulverize. Previously it dealt 75% more Overpower damage and stunned affected enemies for 3 seconds, but now it will continue to crit enemies and gain an additional 20% Overpower damage.

So, what does this mean? In short, the updated 20% extra damage applies to everything, which is better than just 70% Overpower damage.

Aspects

However, these buffs tend to work best with Aspects in the endgame. So, I recommend that you grab any Pulverize Aspects you can find early on, which can help a lot with damage and AOE at the beginning.

Remember that Aspects you choose now are more focused on Utility than Offensive, so we can put them on boots or pets, which can also help us maximize damage.

Although it’s not like using Offensive Aspects like Aspect of Retaliation or Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt on our gloves later on, which can greatly enhance the player’s offensive capabilities and increase damage, critical chance, or other damage-related properties, just these two Aspects can already help a lot with damage in the early stages.

However, what I really recommend is Aspect of the Umbral, which helps you regenerate more Spirit. This way the build won’t be as slow as Spiritborn at the beginning, because this Aspect will give you more stacks of Spirit and Energy, which helps replenish Spirit as you deal damage.

In addition, talents like Willpower, Maximum Life, and Attack Speed ​​are best for early leveling, so remember to pay attention to the seasonal questline as soon as possible to unlock and add new seasonal powers and gems, which help get more XP, equipment, and crafting materials.

Overall, this build is very powerful in the early stages and is known for having a good start, and you shouldn’t have any big problems.

Equipment

Let’s talk about equipment. Keep in mind that gear will change throughout the season, so you’ll want to optimize it as the season progresses to get the most out of this build. This is of course only if you have more Diablo 4 gold, but if your budget is low, you can refer to our gear options for now.

In addition, your gear should strike a balance between offense and defense. So, you can look for affixes such as Willpower, Maximum Life, and Armor on items like helmets, chests, pants, and boots, or all Resistance affixes on weapons, rings, and amulets.

So, for Pulverize Druid Leveling build, the gear we recommend is as follows:

• Helm: Heir of Perdition
• Mainhand: Rotting Lightbringer
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death
• Amulet: Aspect of the Rabid Bear
• Gloves: Shockwave Aspect
• Left Ring: Ring of Starless Skies
• Right Ring: Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
• Pants: Tibault’s Will

Skill Tree

Next, let’s take a look at the skill tree.

First, the base skill for this build is Storm Strike, which unleashes a chain of lightning that damages up to 3 nearby enemies and grants damage reduction for a short period of time.

Our core skill is Pulverize, which allows Druid to transform into a powerful bear man and slam the ground, damaging nearby enemies. The upgraded Raging Pulverize is also a good defensive skill, which guarantees Overpower damage and increases the damage taken by enemies by 20%.

Debilitating Roar has excellent damage output and provides some damage reduction. Upgrading it to Preserving Debilitating Roar will restore 6% of your maximum life per second for the duration of the skill.

Poison Creeper is very effective in the early season, poisoning enemies to give us an advantage. The passive effect of this skill causes the vine creeper to deal continuous poison damage to the enemy, temporarily immobilizing them.

Grizzly Rage is your ultimate endgame skill. Unlike other Werebear form skills, Grizzly Rage not only lasts longer, but also replaces all normal skills with Werebear form during the duration. Therefore, maintaining its duration is crucial for both damage and defense.

Horadric Spells

Finally, the new Horadric Spells in Season 9 are a key element to customize our build power. So for now, the best pairings in the early stages are:

Catalyst

• Celestial Surge: Its periodic group effect is very powerful, and paired with Pulverize to maximize its AOE damage.

Infusion

• Corrosive Vapor: When paired with Elemental Brand Gem, each of Pulverize’s attacks applies poison to enemies.

Arcana

• Bloody Charm: Provides a significant Execute threshold to Celestial Surge and reduces cooldown on executions.
• Sapping Crux: Your Catalyst applies more Vulnerable damage for 3 seconds, +1 per level.
• Shifting Powder: Allows you to reach the movement speed cap very early.

That’s it for this Pulverize Druid Leveling build, there are a lot of variations on this build, and you can definitely rework it to suit your playstyle and playstyle. But follow our recommended settings and you can definitely have a great ranged survival build in the early game!

Excited! The much-anticipated Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim is expected to enter Diablo 4 at 10:00 AM PST on July 1, bringing some new game mechanics, a significantly improved Nightmare Dungeons, and some changes to existing classes.

Among the six classes at this stage, Necromancer has always been recognized as the top class by players with its super strong damage ability, both in leveling content and endgame content. Although S9 has weakened its Overpower, Soul Rift and Blood Wave to some extent, it is relatively stable overall.

Therefore, choosing a stronger class from the beginning and picking some suitable build options for it will make your exploration in the new season more efficient. With that in mind, this guide will recommend some of the best Necromancer builds you can try, based on previous PTRs and recent developer updates and patch notes, as well as some things to keep in mind when using them.

1. Necromancer Builds Focused On Summon Minions

The most popular Necromancer builds have always relied on summoned minions to perform dual attacks, and with the help of the exclusive Unique added to Diablo 4 Season 9, the effectiveness of this type of build will be greatly improved.

What needs to be paid attention to here is that you need to change your minions from Skeletal Warriors and Golems to Skeletal Mages, so that they can be converted into Skeletal Arch-Mages with more powerful damage capabilities in subsequent difficult battles with Diablo 4 Gold.

In this type of build, you can choose Ring of Mendeln and Blood Moon Breeches to match Skeletal Mages accordingly, such as increasing the attack speed, skill level and damage capabilities of the minions.

But since Necromancer class itself has some poor survival attributes, you may need to put some Mythic Uniques in it to increase your character’s tankiness. Or use Horadric Spell combos added in Season 9 to improve this situation.

Here are the ones I can recommend to you: Smoldering Ember+Bloody Charm+Fractured Core+Invigorating Helix and Cosmic Anomaly+Corpse Explosion, they will make your minions more and more, and the combat ability will become stronger and stronger. But the specific attributes and statistics may have to wait for the official release of the new season to be determined.

2. Blood Wave Necromancer Build

Yes, you read that right. Although Blood Wave has been weakened a bit in this new season, it is still very stable and can be the focus of your attention. However, what I can recommend here is to try to use Blood Wave with Cosmic Anomaly.

In this combination, the combination of Alien that can perform continuous explosions and Blood Wave skill that can deal extremely high bleed damage, making it extremely efficient at clearing out groups of enemies in Nightmare Dungeons, Helltide, and Infernal Horde.

Additionally, choosing some Horadric spells that can increase your bleeding damage and attack speed will help your character smoothly and easily kill all low to mid-level monsters and bosses within a safe ranged attack area, allowing you to earn more loot.

For the gear you can put in it, Kessime’s Legacy is a recommended option. Similarly, this Blood Wave Necromancer build will also need some Mythic Uniques to complete safe exploration objectives.

3. Blood Spear Necromancer Build

Of course, Blood Spear with the same damage type is also an important skill you should pay attention to in Diablo 4 Season 9. However, to deal the most damage, you’ll need the help of Uniques like Memory of Indira, Path of Trag’Oul, and Face of the Undying. So it will cost a little more than Blood Wave in terms of the amount of D4 Gold invested.

But this is not without a way out. You only need to use Smoldering Ember, Fractured Core, Bloody Charm, and Tranquil Stone to form your Horadric Spell to create a perfect combination of Bone Prison with strong control ability and Bone Spear with strong penetration ability.

Thanks to this combination, you can see those enemies trapped in the solid Bone Prison in the battle, and then defeat them directly with those projectiles that are enough to disintegrate the enemy instantly. This process basically does not exceed 10 minutes, so you can use it as the most important rotation in the leveling stage where efficiency is more valued.

4. Necromancer Builds Focused On Damage Over Time

This type of Necromancer Build seemed to be very popular before Season 5, but gradually faded out of the spotlight due to the changes in various skills and item attributes. However, the addition of Horadric Spells has brought this type of build back to life.

For example, use Corpse Explosion skill with Decompose and Blight to cause a lot of continuous shadow damage, and then use a Horadric Jewel called Tyrant Bane to cause more continuous damage until the enemy disappears.

This is very useful for kiting strategies when dealing with enemies or bosses with vigorous defenses and high health: you just need to watch the enemy’s attack moves at every step and dodge in time, and wait for them to slowly die.

These are Necromancer builds worth trying in Diablo 4 Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim, which is expected to be released on July 1. And after the new season starts, here will continue to provide you with quest guides or build guides in S9 so that you can easily create a powerful build that suits you best. I wish you a happy game!