Hurricane Druid Endgame Build Guide

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols.

Gear & Skills

• Early on in your progression, focus on Armor & Resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a penalty of -250 Armor and -25% all Res and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70+ Res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.
• The Hurricane Druid Starter build prioritizes using Poison Creeper and Ravens as its Companion Skills. These skills do not require targets to cast, allowing you stack Clarity outside of combat. They also provide a good source of Damage Reduction when paired with Spirit Bond.
• Since you have yet to acquire Mjölnic Ryng, slot in Petrify as your Ultimate Skill to make use of its large damage multiplier. Utilize Accursed Touch and Metamorphosis to apply Vulnerable, or to become Unstoppable when threatened by Crowd Control effects.
• Early on, make sure to prioritize your resources. Imprint sparingly, don't exhaust your resources with tempering or rerolling perfect gear as it is very likely to get replaced later on. Focus on the major power increases from Paragons and Glyphs until you begin collecting Uniques. As you acquire more Clarity ranks, replace the Critical Strike rolls on your gear in favor of Overpower damage.
• Upon reaching Thunderstruck in your Paragon Board, be mindful of your Damage to Close and Damage to Distant bonus. The target for this stat is 300%, and your personal value will depend on the nodes taken on this board and on your gear.

The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.

Gear & Skills

• As you upgrade your gear to Ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher paragon, you can focus more and more on replacing Armor & Resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in.
• During this phase of your journey, it is important to work your way up the Boss ladder to unlock powerful Uniques. Begin with Grigoire, The Galvanic Saint as he drops Insatiable Fury. This unique possesses fantastic defensive proprieties in Max Life and Iron Fur ranks, as well as strong offensive capabilities by enhancing Ursine Strength's bonuses. It is also responsible for keeping us in Werebear form once our Hurricane Duration is north of 20 seconds, as we can no longer cast Maul when Provocation is fully stacked.
• Next, set your eyes on claiming Tempest Roar. This Unique can be found after defeating Duriel, King of Maggots. While this version of the build can still function without Tempest Roar, it is recommended to enable the Werewolf Shapeshifting synergies as soon as possible.
• Visit Lord Zir for the Mjölnic Ryng. At this point replace Petrify with Cataclysm and invest fully into Endless Tempest. Temper Cataclysm Cooldown on your amulet and ring to help with Cataclysm uptime.
• Prioritize improving your Hurricane Duration tempers, as these directly scale Tempest's damage. Ensure you have Hurricane size tempered to take advantage of Distant bonuses when dealing damage with the outer edges of your Hurricane.
• Upon reaching Thunderstruck in your Paragon Board, be mindful of your Damage to Close and Damage to Distant bonus. The target for this stat is 300%, and your personal value will depend on the nodes taken on this board and your Glyph level.

This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

• The Speedfarming variant of the Hurricane Druid concentrates on speed and efficiency.
• Replace Earthen Bulwark with Wolves and slot in Metamorphosis to provide you with on demand Unstoppable.
• A triple Companion Skill setup is much quicker to stack Clarity. As such, invest skill points into Provocation to reduce its timer down to 12 seconds. Altogether, your snapshot bonuses are available sooner and enable a faster Hurricane rotation.
• Swap out your legendary ring with Airidah's Inexorable Will and replace Xal with Yom. This combination Stuns and pulls monsters towards you when moving through endgame content.
• Lastly, replace the Cataclysm Cooldown temper on your amulet with Movement Speed to help you reach the cap when Cataclysm is active.

This setup optimizes the Hurricane Druid to its absolute limits. We do NOT recommend you play this variant outside of Pit Pushing as it is very clunky and punishing, requiring near-perfect execution to function properly.

Gear & Skills

• We remove Insatiable Fury in favor of Shroud of False Death's extra passive ranks. However, Provocation doesn't synergize well with Shroud. The inability to cast Maul once Provocation is ready restricts us from Shapeshifting back to Werebear form and refreshing our buffs. As a result, we no longer use Provocation and rely on the Lith + Xan rune combination to Overpower our Hurricane. This way we are able to cast Maul without restrictions, providing a steady stream of Fortify and refreshing our Shapeshifting bonuses.
• Earthen Bulwark provides extra damage from Resonance when cast before Hurricane, and provides a much needed source of Unstoppable as this variant stands still to charge the Lith rune.
• The major damage upgrade of this variant comes from the Feo + Qax rune combination. When Injured or Crowd Controlled, our next cast of Hurricane deals up to 250% more damage! This is a noticeable boost over Qax's un-overflowed base 100% bonus, but is very high-risk and sometimes impossible to trigger, leading to a very clunky experience.
• To help satisfy Qax's conditions with less risk involved, we opt for greater affix Maximum Life on gear, and supplement the missing armor required to reach the 1000 armor cap using Song of the Mountain.
• Aldkin's Mercenary Reinforcement is replaced with Varyana's Bloodthirst for a little more Attack Speed, helping Maul generate Fortify quicker when we injure ourselves. Raheir remains our Hired Mercenary to save us in near-death situations.

Skill Rotation

1. Begin by casting your Poison Creeper and Ravens to stack Clarity. Stand still while doing so to charge Xan using Lith.
2. NOTE: DO NOT ACTIVATE your Xan rune if you have either Cataclysm or Hurricane active, as it is possible to consume the rune with the old-ongoing Hurricane/Cataclysm casts, and not have it available for your new Hurricane. Always make sure to edge your Xan rune to 99% ready and only trigger it moments before you want to cast a new Hurricane, after you've made sure all your ongoing damage has stopped.
3. Become Injured or Crowd Controlled to activate Qax, then use Earthen Bulwark to activate Resonance and escape the Crowd Control via Unstoppable.
4. Next, cast Hurricane to snapshot everything. Replenish the Spirit consumed by Qax using Lust for Carnage or Maul.
5. Use Cataclysm halfway through your Hurricane duration to apply Vulnerable and trigger Mjölnic Ryng's damage bonus.
6. Cast your Companion Skills as they come off Cooldown to stack Clarity for your next Hurricane.
7. Practice makes perfect, take the time to master the rotation as you will have to repeat this rotation every 40 seconds (more or less depending on your Hurricane Duration).