I’ve recently made some tweaks to my own Pulverize Druid build to make it more aggressive and have better survivability.
Pulverize is Druid’s strongest and best skill in Diablo 4 Season of Blood. Season 2 has Vampiric Powers that enhance this setting’s Skill Tree and Paragon Board.
This build can become unstoppable in a variety of ways: regain health when dealing with damage, gain guaranteed crushing hits, insane critical hits, and more. With it, you will clear Uber Lilith and Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeons easily. And with new updates to Skill Tree and Paragon Board, it gets even better.
Not only is this build capable of meeting endgame requirements, but it’s equally amazing against Helltide, Blood Harvest, Seasonal Bosses, and more. With Overpower, we can one hit or kill them with very few hits.
But we mentioned that almost all Pulverize builds are very similar, and they will all primarily use most of the same Diablo 4 items. So a lot of times these builds will be very similar. So here we’re mainly talking about the skill tree and the standard tree, and what changes in my build made it better.
Skill Tree
Let’s take a look at the skill tree first. For skills, it uses Trample, Pulverize, Debilitating Roar, Wind Shear, Petrify and Ursine Strength. It doesn't even require any Unique gear, which is very beneficial for players on a budget with Diablo 4 Gold.
Pulverize is your damage skill. It combined Umbral and Quicksand to produce some Spirit. Try to hit as many targets as possible with it!
Wind Shear will generate Spirit within a certain range and provide Movement Speed, a source of Vulnerable, and Damage Reduction when using Aspect of Might.
Petrify stuns affected enemies and provides a massive critical damage multiplier for its duration. It has a high cooldown, making it useful against bosses and tough elites.
Blood Howl provides reliable treatment. This treatment is often available at high densities due to Enhanced Blood Howl. It also restores a moderate amount of Spirit and generates Fortify via Enhanced Blood Howl.
Debilitating Roar reduces enemy damage across the screen and can also trigger Aspect of the Umbral through its slowdown.
Trample is your primary movement skill. When activated, it also breaks Crowd Control effect and restores Spirit.
Ursine Strength is a key passive option to increase our damage, especially since this build has many guaranteed Overpowers. Two of these sources of overpowers come from our skill tree, namely Provocation and Enhanced Pulverize.
Paragon Board
We need to upgrade our glyph to activate its perks with surrounding nodes. For some glyphs, we maximize our bonus by assigning every relevant node in the range. On other glyphs, we only use the minimum value required for the additional bonus.
Since level 15 glyphs increase their damage radius, we can prioritize completing Nightmare Dungeons to upgrade them. After that, we prioritized upgrading the strongest glyphs to level 21.
Werebear Armor
Werebear form has an 85% reduction in armor value compared to regular armor. 43% if we transform into human form. So let’s go back to Paragon Board and we’ll delete this node,
If I go into Paragon Board again and delete the actual 50 armor nodes I have, it’s much smaller than the 83% enhanced Werebear Armor nodes we have. So I also lost 1%. But when I enter human form, I drop to 42%. So, in this case, the actual armor nodes are even more valuable than the rare nodes.
We take this rare node to enhance Willpower to unlock glyph slots and move some points to other places. This will give us the biggest overall boost and maximum damage output without really affecting our survivability. Because when we are in humanoid form we lose 1%. And the reality of this build is that you only want to be in humanoid form for a brief period.
Pulverize Druid serves as a ranged powerhouse that combines incredible AOE damage with powerful defense. Dig deep into Nightmare Dungeons with this wide range of play styles. However, unless you focus on overwhelming power and multiple rare unique skills, a single target can feel overwhelming.
