Welcome to the Landslide Druid Leveling Guide! Landslide will use the earth to smash your enemies to dust! This build has solid single target, but lacks in AoE until you have access to Poison Creeper.
Landslide is a ranged build that calls up pillars of earth to crush your enemies. Your AoE is small, so you have to target enemies right next to each other to get the most out of it. If you obtain Aspect of the Trampled Earth, then it causes Trample to fill your screen with Landslides when used.
Wind Shear generates Spirit and inflicts Vulnerable to make enemies take extra damage, as well as grants movement speed. Blood Howl and Trample provide you with Spirit to continue using Landslide.
This guide teaches you all about how to reach the endgame in Diablo 4 with the Landslide Druid. Let's get started!
This build guide takes you through the Campaign up to Level 50. Endgame guide Trampleslide is in our Druid Guides section. Go check it out!
- Ranged Combat
- Decent Single Target
- Easy To Understand
- Healing and Unstoppable
- Low Mobility
- Slow Start
- Small Area of Effect
- Intensive Spirit Management
Season 3 - Season of the Construct
In Season 3, you obtain the Seneschal Construct through the Season Questline, then collect Governing Stones or Tuning Stones to add attacks and augment them to support your build. Only certain Tuning Stones work with a particular Governing Stone. Look at the bottom of any Tuning Stone tooltip to see if it is compatible with your Construct's currently equipped Stones. Lastly, they can be leveled up by getting duplicates to max out their power. Check out our full Season 3 guide for more information.
Recommended Stones
- Gyrate - Attack around the Construct
- Resource Support - More Spirit!
- Swift Support - Faster attacks enables the Resource Support to provide more Spirit!
- Mockery Support - Taunt.
- Lightning Bolt - Good way to hit many monsters at once
- Arcing Support - Even more enemies get chained!
- Efficiency Support - Increased Critical means more Packleader resets.
- Fortify Support - Fortify increases our Overpower damage.
Alternative Stones
- Gripping Support - Druids of all classes know how effective grouping mechanics like this one can be.
- Breaking Support - Application of Vulnerable for increased damage.
- Voluminous Support - Improving the coverage will affect more monsters.
If you are lucky enough to get either Evernight or Genesis from Uber Malphas, you want to swap them in on your Construct for their powerful effects.
Skill Showcase
Skill Tree & Gameplay
Getting Started
To start off, we have to put 2 points into Basic Skills to unlock the Core Skill section. Wind Shear is our choice because it is a ranged skill that generates Spirit. Enhanced Wind Shear increases your damage output significantly by making enemies Vulnerable.
Unlocking Landslide
Landslide is our main ability. It deals massive damage in an area around your target location. It deals damage on a slight delay, so you may need to lead your target. The Spirit costs are pretty high, so make sure that you hit as many targets with it as possible. With the Primal Landslide node we gain a Terramote when Stunning or Immobilizing enemies, which guarantees a critical strike. Fierce Wind Shear increases our movement speed, allowing us to reposition or travel to the next group of enemies.
Healing & Poison
Blood Howl grants us an additional way to heal other than our potion and provides more casts of Landslide with the Spirit we gain from Innate Blood Howl.
Use the slider on the bottom to see the Skill progression
Poison Creeper is the Druid's highest damage ability in the early game, Poisoning and Immobilizing enemies in a massive area of effect around you!
Mobility & Damage
Trample is the only real mobility Skill on the Druid. Trample has the incredible 40 Spirit per cast through the Savage Trample node! We also boost our Poison Creeper skill to really make it sting!
Ultimate & Key Passive
Now we can obtain our Ultimate skill, Petrify. This skill stuns enemies and with the Supreme Petrify node we gain massive amounts of Spirit back on enemies who are killed while petrified. This Ultimate doesn't unlock the Key Passive, so we need a few passives to help get us there. Resonance provides the highest amount of damage of our passives when we alternate between Wind Shear and Landslide. This back and forth usage of Earth and Storm skills works well with our Key Passive: Nature's Fury.
Improving Landslide Damage
As an Earth and Core skill, Landslide has many passives that improve its damage, so lets take a look at some more of those. A direct increase in our damage comes from Wild Impulses, but it does increase the Spirit cost, so it's good that we have most of our generators at this point. There's a whole cluster of passives that improve Earth skills starting with Crushing Earth, and we'll grab all of these. Then finish off with Natural Disaster naturally.
Spending Renown
After gathering all Renown in Diablo 4, you have 10 extra Skill Points to spend on every character. Your first priority is to spend them toward the leveling progression we've shown above. Once you've reached the end, put them into these nodes to build toward the Trampleslide Druid Endgame Build Guide. Some of these skills may not be reflected in the Endgame build because certain legendary affixes are required which aren't obtainable through the Codex of Power.
Check out our Renown Guide to unlock all your additional rewards efficiently.
Druid Spirit Boons
Packleader is used to reset Poison Creeper. This is the most important ability for leveling early. Scythe Talons, Obsidian Slam, and Swooping Attacks provide some extra damage, whileWariness is there for defense. Your main focus is to unlock Packleader as soon as Level 15.
Unlocking Spirit Boons
Once you reach level 15, you have to complete a short questline starting in Túr Dúlra, Scosglen. To gain access to the Priority Quest, you first have to defeat the Stronghold of evil forces that has overrun Túr Dúlra. You receive 25 Druidic Spirit Offerings to unlock your first Boon when you complete the questline.
Each Spirit has 4 Boons that are unlocked with 25 Druidic Spirit Offerings each. On 3 of the Spirits, they unlock in a specific order. The outlier is the Snake Spirit - You have to unlock all his Boons simultaneously, meaning you need to collect 100 Druidic Spirit Offerings to gain access to its Boons.
Learn more details in our full Druid Spirit Boons Guide.
Gear Progression & Stat Priorities
Ultimately, the best weapon for a leveling Landslide Druid is a Two-Handed Mace for as much damage as possible. Always go for higher DPS over the rest of a weapon's stats during leveling.
If you have multiple weapons with the same DPS, prioritize these stats:
- 2-Handed Weapon: Preferably Maces, prioritizing Weapon Damage, then Willpower, Core Skill Damage, Damage to Stunned, Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable Damage
Hint: Press SHIFT over an item to compare it to what you're wearing!
Only upgrade your Weapon at the Blacksmith and fill weapon sockets with Sapphire.
Armor
Armor pieces typically grant us Defense and Utility stats, except the Gloves which offer a tidal wave of Offense. Here are the important stats to look for:
- Helm: Life, Cooldown Reduction, Willpower, Ranks to Poison Creeper
- Armor: Life, Physical Damage, Earth Skill Damage, Damage Reduction from Close Enemies
- Gloves: Ranks to Landslide Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Damage with Earth Skills
- Pants: Life, Ranks to Trample, Damage Reduction while Fortified, Damage Reduction from Close Enemies, Willpower
- Boots: Movement Speed, Spirit Cost Reduction, Willpower
Jewelry
Jewelry provides powerful Offensive stats that help us on our leveling journey. Pay close attention to the rolls as higher leveled pieces aren't always better:
- Amulet: Spirit Cost Reduction, Cooldown Reduction, Damage, Earth Skill Damage, Movement Speed
- Rings: Life, Critical Strike Chance, Vulnerable Damage, Damage to Stunned Enemies, Physical Damage, Critical Strike Damage
Do not upgrade Armor or Jewelry while leveling. Socket Armor with Rubies and Jewelry with Any Gem to boost your lowest Resistance.
Read more about itemization in our Damage Explained, Defense Explained, and Stats Explained articles.
Legendary Aspects
The Codex of Power is a collection of Legendary Aspects you can imprint onto Rare or Legendary items at the Occultist. They unlock after completing specific Dungeons located around Sanctuary. For leveling, there are a few aspects that can help us significantly if we have the Gold to imprint them and take the time to unlock them.
Codex Leveling Aspects in Order of Priority:
| Aspect | Dungeon |
| Offensive Aspect of Retaliation | Seaside Descent - Dry Steppes |
| Crashstone Aspect | Stockades - Scosglen |
| Rapid Aspect | Buried Halls - Dry Steppes |
| Ballistic Aspect | Whispering Pines - Scosglen |
| Aspect of the Protector | Lost Archives - Fractured Peaks |
| Aspect of Disobedience | Halls of the Damned - Kehjistan |
| Defensive Aspect of Might | Dark Ravine - Dry Steppes |
| Utility Aspect of Quicksand | Feral's Den - Scosglen |
Warning: DO NOT imprint your Weapons unless you have the materials, as they are constantly replaced while leveling. Put Offensive Aspects on your Amulet, Rings, or Gloves instead.
Learn more details in our article covering the Codex of Power.
Helpful Legendary Aspects
Here are all helpful Legendary Aspects for the Blight Corpse Explosion Necromancer that can either be found in the Codex of Power or Extracted from an item drop. Note that all Legendary Aspects can be found from item drops, and that these can roll better and often significantly better than ones sourced from the Codex of Power.
- Aspect of the Trampled Earth
- Gamble Totems
- If you get this, use it to replace Ballistic Aspect
- Subterranean Aspect
- Gamble Totems
- If you get this, use it to replace Rapid Aspect
- Symbiotic Aspect
- Requires having Aspect of the Trampled Earth first
- Apply it to your amulet
- Gamble Boots
- Aspect of The Aftershock
- Gamble Totems
- If you've acquired the other helpful aspects above, then this will replace Crashstone Aspect
Discover every Druid Legendary Aspects in our Druid Overview.
How To Level
You level in Diablo 4 by completing the Campaign, collecting Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, grinding Dungeons, or interacting with Seasonal mechanics. While there are many ways to level up in Diablo 4, not all of them are made equal.
Campaign Leveling
- For your first character in Diablo 4, completing the Campaign provides the best gameplay experience and gives you access to key unlocks like your Mount.
- If you don't have your Mount, you MUST progress the Campaign until you complete the quest Donan's Favor at the start of Act 4.
- After obtaining your Mount you can skip the remainder of the campaign at any time.
- The Campaign is the slowest way to level, but it's worth experiencing the Campaign and Diablo 4's storyline at least once.
- To play Seasonal Content you need to have completed or skipped the Campaign.
Seasonal/Alt Leveling
- Complete the Season questline, progress your Seasonal Journey to unlock Legendary Aspects, and work on your Seasonal powers.
- If your account is below Rank 5 Renown in each zone, focus on completing your Renown.
- This only needs to be done once.
- Complete the Dungeons needed for any Legendary Aspects from your Codex of Power.
- From level 1-50 you should focus on getting experience, by completing dungeons with high monster density like the Domhainne Tunnels, or Sirocco Caverns.
- If you get bored of the dungeon grind, you can farm Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers or complete Gathering Legion Events.
- After level 50 you need to balance leveling up, Glyph Experience, and participating in endgame activities like Helltide, and Bosses.
- The fastest experience possible is completing Nightmare dungeons with monsters up to 10 levels above your current level.
- Check out our Nightmare Dungeon Tier List for the best layouts!
- Around level 45-50 you should move to World Tier 3.
- Around level 60-70 you should move to World Tier 4.
- The fastest experience possible is completing Nightmare dungeons with monsters up to 10 levels above your current level.
- Alternatively: Get boosted by a friend to World Tier 4 then leech experience/loot and Glyph exp (post 50), in Nightmare dungeons.
Leveling Tips and Tricks
Let's look at some tips and tricks to remember when leveling up!
- Level Up Your Potion. You need to farm materials to upgrade your character's potion.
- Make sure you collect all materials as you explore Sanctuary, especially Gallowvine which is used in many Elixir recipes!
- Compare your Items... Literally. Press Shift over an item in your inventory to compare it to what you're wearing.
- This makes it easy to determine what is and isn't an upgrade.
- Don't Imprint Your Best Aspect Onto Your Weapon. The most critical piece of gear while leveling up is your weapon, which gets replaced constantly.
- This makes imprinting a Legendary Aspect that CANNOT be found in the Codex of Power onto your weapon a bad idea in the long run.
- While leveling, only imprint Legendary Aspects from the Codex of Power onto your weapon if any at all.
- It is a better idea to put your best Offensive Aspect on your Amulet, which can be used for a long time.
- Sacred is just better. Between level 45 and 50 you're able to beat the Capstone Dungeon and enter World Tier 3, you gain access to powerful Sacred items which have higher item power and better stats. Getting a Sacred weapon significantly improves your farming speed.
- There's little point to entering World Tier 3 before 45 because that's the minimum level where you can equip Sacred items.
- The same happens with World Tier 4 and Ancestral gear at level 60.
Next Steps
Druid Guides
Summary
- The Landslide Druid is a fun build, combining decent single target damage with incredible crowd control. Area of Effect is not its strong suit until after finding a few key aspects.
- Use your skills to balance your Life, Spirit, and cooldowns.
- Focus on improving your 2-Handed Weapon more than any other item. Make sure it is always a Mace to increase your Overpower damage.
- Look out for helpful Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power, especially those that generate Spirit and buff your damage/damage reduction.
Credits
Written by Jymnasium
Reviewed by IBoilerup