In Season 4, the Season Theme revolves around helping out the Iron Wolves. Compared to past themes, this one does not offer any borrowed power as the entire game has been redesigned with new itemization and crafting options, increasing player power substantially across the board. Instead, you can gather reputation similar to the Vampire Bounty Board from Season 2 to unlock rewards that supercharge your leveling journey to 100 with extra items, crafting materials and eventually even a Resplendent Spark to craft an uber unique.

Your general gameplay rotation goes like this: Activate Hurricane and Earthen Bulwark then spam Boulder to have them rotate around Hurricane. Use Shred to move yourself so that the boulders hit enemies. Keep using Earthen Bulwark and Hurricane on Cooldown. Use Trample and Earthen Bulwark to recover Spirit when in need. For the most part, your Spirit should stay up thanks to your low cooldowns, resource per second, resource cost reductions and the Umbral. Use Petrify when in need of extra Damage or use it Defensively.

Managing your Resources is easy with this build once we get the right affixes.

With a good roll of this Aspect, resource management becomes a walk in the park. Thanks to your many Knockbacks from Boulder and Trample, as well as Slow from Enhanced Hurricane and Neurotoxin, your Spirit constantly fills up. On top of that, Petrify also provides another method of gaining Spirit thanks to its Stun.

Your goal is to require only one activation of Symbiotic to have permanent uptime on Hurricane. A good roll on Dolmen Stone helps a lot ( try to hit a masterwork upgrade on the Nature Skill Cooldown that rolls on the Dolmen Stone). We can also roll the Hurricane Cooldown Affix on our rings to make sure Hurricane can always be up. Assuming a perfect Symbiotic, make sure the Cooldown on Hurricane is less than 13 seconds. The required amount of Cooldown required is over 35%, but since not all stats show up on your character stat sheet, looking at the Cooldown value on Hurricane is preferred.

We are aiming to roll this affix on our rings, and totems. Also the new Inner Beast will give us up to 45% Spirit cost reduction on its own.

You gain a small amount of Spirit on Lucky Hit with your Storm Skills with this Unique Helm. By casting Boulder, you proc Storm Skills thanks to Nature's Fury.

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!

We need to level up our Glyphs to increase their power and activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. Glyphs have a radius of 3 by default, this increases to 4 at Glyph level 15. Complete Nightmare Dungeons to obtain Glyph experience.

Note that there are some Glyph position swaps and a few adjustments to surrounding Paragon nodes once they reach level 15. See the last steps in the Paragon progression above for details. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build.

When you start diving into the Endgame, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final version of the build. Let us guide you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build.

Many of your Skill choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. While we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the progression might be different for everyone!

Follow the build's gearing progression from level 50 to 100, including the changes that need to be made as you obtain Legendary Aspects and Uniques.

Note: This build does not have a Starter variant since it requires Endgame items and Aspects.

Hardcore requires you to build into more defenses. Here are some tips to successfully navigate this build through potentially dangerous situations:

Learn about the important build scaling mechanics and stat weights.

To enable your build to perform optimally, you need to reach certain Stat "Breakpoints". Some examples are reaching 100% Chance to Critically Strike, or 20 Resource per second. Since there are many values of these stats on different pieces of gear, read the checklist below and refer to the recommended Tempered Affixes ⚒️ and Masterwork Crits ↑. Desirable Greater Affixes will always be the top three recommended Affixes.

Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

Learn all you need to know about how to scale this build in the endgame.

The Boulder Druid is a tanky and powerful build with good AoE and consistent single target damage. Dolmen Stone, Symbiotic and Metamorphic Stone are mandatory for the build to function. It excels at all content, whether it be Uber Lilith, Speed Farming, or the highest level of Nightmare Dungeons, which is Tier 100. The build features high defenses through multiple Legendary Aspects, as well as a ton of stackable Damage Reductions on gear. Its unique playstyle revolving around Dolmen Stone makes it very enjoyable and as close as you can get to a classic Hammerdin in Diablo II... except for those moments when you encounter a Suppressor Elite.

Written by Moxsy
Reviewed by IBoilerUp, Tenkiei