Landslide Druid Leveling Guide

Diablo 4 Season 2 introduces a new questline to hunt down the Shadow Vampire forces of Lord Zir across Sanctuary. With Lilith's blood still residing within our bodies, the infliction put upon us is harnessed throughout our leveling, granting access to new Vampiric Powers. Completing the seasonal questline, partaking in the seasonal Blood Harvest event and collecting Potent Blood are the main ways of obtaining and empowering these abilities. Check out the full Season 2 Guide from Chewingnom to learn more!

With this in mind, let's look at the top 5 best Vampiric Powers and how they impact this build:

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.

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. 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! But to get there we need to level up Landslide a couple of more times.

Trample is the only real mobility Skill on the Druid. To be able to reach it on the Skill Tree, we finish leveling our main ability: Landslide. Now we can acquire Trample and the incredible 40 Spirit per cast through the Savage Trample rune! We also boost our Poison Creeper skill to really make it sting!

At level 15, you gain access to Spirit Boons - the unique class mechanic of the Druid. Check out the Spirit Boon Progression below!

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.

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.

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.

The Druid Spirit Boons allow you to select a total of 5 Boons from 4 Spirits that act as a Passive buff to your character. You can select 1 Boon per Spirit by default. The 5th Boon can be allocated once ALL Spirit Boons have been unlocked. This requires you to bond with one of the Spirits by interacting with it in Túr Dúlra.

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.

Leveling up in Diablo 4 is similar to most other ARPGs and MMOs - we're at the mercy of what drops. For the most part this means replacing Rares with better Rares all the way up to 50. If you're lucky enough to find some Legendaries or Uniques they can provide a significant power boost (discussed in the next sections). Assuming you don't find any of those, let's look at some key stats to look for along the way:

Hint: Press SHIFT over an item to compare it to what you're wearing!

Always use your highest DPS 2-Handed Weapon available for more damage.

Only upgrade your Weapon at the Blacksmith and fill weapon sockets with Sapphire.

Do not upgrade Armor or Jewelry while leveling. Socket Armor with Rubies and Jewelry with Skulls.

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.

If you're lucky enough to find a Legendary while leveling, chances are it'll be an upgrade for you and you should equip it immediately. However they are not all created equal, and some of them can accelerate your journey tremendously. Let's look at additional Aspects you could find and how to take advantage of them:

Before we end this leveling guide, let's look at some general tips and tricks to remember for all classes and specs!

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.

Renown is your Friend. While exploring the different zones, take time to gather Renown along the way. It has long-term benefits for your entire account, including more Skill/Paragon points and Potion charges. Renown is gained by activating Waypoints, finding Altars of Lilith, completing Side Quests/Dungeons and rescuing Strongholds.

Be Careful with Gold. A lot of endgame processes, like extracting and imprinting Legendary Aspects, are extremely expensive for a brand-new character. Don't spend all of your Gold along the way!

Don't Imprint Your Weapon. The most critical piece of gear while leveling up is your weapon, which gets replaced constantly. This makes imprinting a Legendary Aspect on it a waste of resources. Instead, put your best offensive Aspect on your Amulet, which can be used for a long time.

Written by Jymnasium
Reviewed by IBoilerup