As you know, each Diablo 4 season has its own seasonal powers and mechanics, and sometimes there will be updates and upgrades in basic mechanics and gameplay. This means that no matter what base class you played in the previous season or what universal builds you used, you need to adjust them in time according to the latest situation after entering the new season.
Take Druid’s Shred Lacerate Druid Build as an example. Not long ago, we showed you how to make this build maximize the benefits of the season by making full use of the limited witchcraft power of Season 7 to help your endgame. This time we will show you how another Druid build that is somewhat similar to Shred Lacerate and equally powerful can work in Season 7, that is Crit Lacerate.
How Does Crit Lacerate Druid Build Work?
As its name suggests, Crit Lacerate mainly uses Lacerate as its main damage output method. However, although this skill is very lethal, it also has a relatively long cooldown. Therefore, most builds centered around this skill need to focus on reducing the cooldown in order to better utilize Lacerate in addition to ensuring their own damage output. Crit Lacerate Druid Build is no exception.
The key to reducing the cooldown of Lacerate in this build is NaguXan Runeword and Flickerstep: the former guarantees crit and suppression, and is activated by keeping companion skills activated, while the latter allows you to reduce the cooldown of Lacerate while dodging enemies.
On this basis, if you want to fully unleash the power of this build, you should try to keep six companions from various summoning skills active at all times, and cast Lacerate when they are on cooldown. While Lacerate is on cooldown, you should trigger Flickerstep by dodging enemies, while using Blood Howl and Debilitating Roar to increase your character’s survivability.
Why Choose Crit Lacerate?
Overall, Crit Lacerate Druid Build isn’t the best build in Diablo 4 Season 7, but it’s unmatched in terms of attack speed when fighting groups, making it a great choice for clearing dungeons like Helltides, Kurast Undercity, or Infernal Hordes.
However, where this build really shines is when it comes to clearing Pit Pushing Tier Lists, where enemies are often packed into a small space, and the build can instantly clear large groups of enemies with Flash Step and other AOE effects from key skills.
In fact, if you use this build well, it can become one of the most effective builds for your Druid character to explore Pit, helping you get as much Diablo 4 Gold or whatever other resources you want in this type of dungeon as possible.
How To Assign Skills?
For Crit Lacerate Druid Build, in addition to the ultimate skill Lacerate, other skills and their coordination are also important, and you need to give them different skill points according to the importance of each skill, as follows:
Basic Skills
- Enhanced Maul (1/5)
Core Skills
- Heart of the Wild (3/3)
- Predatory Instinct (1/3)
- Digitagrade Gait (3/3)
- Iron Fur (3/3)
Defensive Skills
- Innate Blood Howl (1/5)
- Innate Debilitating Roar (1/5)
- Backlash (3/3)
- Ancestral Fortitude (3/3)
- Vigilance (3/3)
Companion Skills
- Ferocious Wolf Pack (1/5)
- Poison Creeper (1/5)
- Brutal Ravens (1/5)
- Feral Aptitude (3/3)
Wrath Skills
- Neurotoxin (1/3)
- Toxic Claws (3/3)
- Envenom (3/3)
Ultimate Skills
- Supreme Lacerate (5/5)
- Defensive Posture (3/3)
- Catastrophe (3/3)
- Natural Fortitude (3/3)
- Quickshift (3/3)
- Heightened Senses (3/3)
Key Passive Skills
- Ursine Strength
How To Choose Spirit Offerings?
After completing the basic composition of the build through skills, it is also important to choose the most suitable Spirit Offering to make the build gain more bonuses. For Crit Lacerate Druid Build, Eagle and Wolf Spirits are more suitable.
These two Spirit Boons can provide 40% critical damage and 35% increase in the duration of the ultimate skill, respectively. Since Lacerate will continue to attack for the duration, and each attack may cause a critical hit, these two buffs will bring you more damage buffs in combat.
- Deer Spirit-Gift of the Stag
- Eagle Spirit-Avian Wrath
- Wolf Spirit-Calamity
- Snake Spirit-Masochistic
- Spirit Bond-Eagle Spirit-Iron Feather
Best Paragon Boards & Glyphs
When choosing and building Paragon boards and glyphs for this build, it is recommended that you focus on improving critical chance and damage, as well as other options that can make the build’s stats better, such as:
- Start-Spirit
- Ancestral Guidance-Dominate
- Lust for Carnage-Shapeshifter
- Heightened Malice-Fang and Claw
- Survival Instincts-Outmatch
It is worth noting that when you use this build in Pit, it is best to continue upgrading Paragon glyphs and follow the following order:
Leveling Order To 15
- Spirit
- Dominate
- Shapeshifter
- Fang and Claw
- Outmatch
Leveling Order to 46
- Spirit
- Dominate
- Shapeshifter
- Wild
- Outmatch
I believe you should have noticed that Fang and Claw was replaced by Wild in two different situations. This is because the damage bonus of Fang and Claw is good in the early stage, but the legendary ability of Wild can bring you more benefits in high Pit levels.
Best Runewords & Gems
In addition to the essential NaguXan Runeword, in fact, if you can insert a second Runeword for this build, the build can bring you more benefits. For this, it is recommended that you give priority to the following options:
- IgniQuax: It can greatly increase the damage of skills by consuming spirit, and it is very useful to help trigger Ancestral Guidance.
- FeoQuax: The advantage is similar to IgniQuax, but it’s triggering is more troublesome.
- NeoMot: It can provide you with more defense.
As for gem selection, it is recommended that you fill all remaining armor slots with Sapphires and use Emeralds in your weapons to increase critical hit damage, while filling resistance with jewel slots can bring you to the armor cap of 1000.
If after reading the above, you can’t wait to use Crit Lacerate Druid Build in the game for combat and dungeon exploration, then act quickly! Good luck!
