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Stone Burst Druid Endgame Build Guide

Season 7 - Season of WitchcraftEndgame

Last Updated:January 21, 2025|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Stone Burst Druid Endgame Guide! This build combines massive AoE damage with a straightforward playstyle. The synergy between Stone Burst and Anticline Burst creates a powerful stone explosion at the max size. Stone of Vehemen increases our damage even further. To optimize damage, aim and hit as many enemies as possible within the explosion radius.

Unfortunately, since Stone Burst is a channeling skill, this build does not benefit from Overpower mechanics. However, it compensates by capitalizing on consistent Critical Strike Chance and high AoE damage, boosted by key multipliers such as Retaliation and Earthen Devastation.

Once you acquire Vasily's Prayer, you gain reliable Shapeshifting bonuses such as Bestial Rampage and Survival Instincts.

Requirements for this build

  • Stone of Vehemen
  • Vasily's Prayer
  • Wildheart Hunger (Must have Vasily's Prayer to turn into Werebear and effectively use Bestial Rampage)
Stone Burst Druid Endgame Setup
Note

This build guide assumes you have a Level 60 Character and unlocked Torment 1. To get there, level up with one of our Druid Leveling Guides. See how this Build compares against others with our various Build Tier Lists.

Season Theme

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Season 7 is the Season of Witchcraft. It features two separate borrowed power mechanics in the forms of Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems. Both Seasonal mechanics are unlocked and improved by new NPCs found at the Tree of Whispers after collecting resources from Headhunt Zones, Seasonal areas similar to Helltide that appear across Sanctuary.

There are 25 Witchcraft Powers, 6 of which can be equipped at a time. Each Power belongs to one of three Schools (Eldritch, Growth & Decay, and Psyche), tags that promote synergies within themselves and with Occult Gems. Each School has a single Unique Witchcraft Power, only one of which can be equipped at a time. These Unique Powers max out and gain an additional effect at rank 5, while the other Powers max at rank 20 and gain their bonus effects at various levels. To unlock and improve Witchcraft Powers, defeat Headrotten or complete Whispers within the Headhunt Zones to collect Restless Rot. Lost Powers are an exception, requiring you to randomly encounter a Forgotten Altar in Dungeons to unlock them.

Best-in-Slot Witchcraft Powers

  • Soul Harvest - This Power increases Core Stats based on monster density and is a reliably strong choice.
  • Decay Augmentation - Stone Burst becomes a Witchcraft "Effect" when converted by Witching Hour, turning this Power into a direct Multiplier! The added damage from this Power for Druids is Poison.
  • Purging Touch - Similarly, Stone Burst becomes an Eldritch effect every second thanks to Witching Hour. So, this Power starts off strong against Headrotten then becomes a multiplier against all enemies once leveled.
  • Wave of Woe - This gives us our third Eldritch power and applies echoing shadow damage to skills, which synergizes well with Stone Burst's large AoE.
  • Poison Frog Servant - This gives us out third Growth & Decay Power that summons a Frog dealing Poison damage as it explodes on death and pulls enemies in.
  • Doom Orb - This Unique is mostly there to round out our Eldritch Powers for Witching Hour.
Stone Burst Druid Witchcraft Powers

Alternate Witchcraft Powers

  • Firebat Servants - This another Eldritch power that could replace Wave of Woe and provide delayed Stunned on stubborn enemies.
  • Aura Specialization - The bonus Critical Strike Multiplier is highly desirable, but you need to give up 2 Witchcraft Powers to incorporate this and an Aura.

Occult Gems

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Rarely, Headrotten Bosses appear with a still-attached Fugitive Head stolen from the Tree of Whispers. Slay these enemies and return the Heads to Gelena to unlock and upgrade Occult Gems. These Gems are socketable in Jewelry and each provide +160 Armor and +8% Resistance to All Elements. More importantly, each Occult Gem grants a unique effect that synergizes with your equipped Witchcraft Powers to provide a variety of Offensive, Defensive, and Utility-based bonuses.

Best-in-Slot Occult Gems

  • Witching Hour - This Gem enables multiple powerful synergies from our Witchcraft Powers by granting Vulnerable the Eldritch tag. This means that, every second, it benefits from Purging Touch and Decay Augmentation!
  • Toadling's Wish - Bolstering the effects of Soul Harvest and Decay Augmentation is extremely powerful.
  • Friend of the Bog - Great overall providing Willpower boost, Life, and the ability move Unhindered through enemies.

Alternate Occult Gems

  • Killing Wind - A straightforward 25% movement speed and 15% Critical Strike Chance when you have at least 3 Eldritch powers slotted.
  • Hungering Void - Proves a way to pull mobs together and requires you to fit an Aura Power.

Learn more details about the season theme in our full Season Guide.

Skills & Gameplay

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  • Stone Burst is your Core Skill, unleashing stone explosions for huge AoE damage. Use Raging Stone Burst to increase your damage in exchange for a higher Spirit cost. Group enemies together before casting the skill to optimize you damage. Anticline Burst will significantly boosts both the damage and area of effect, making your bursts even more devastating.
  • Claw serves as melee-ranged Spirit generator and allows you to easily maintain Shapeshifting bonuses.
  • Shred replaces your Basic Skill once you have 100% uptime on Cataclysm.
  • Cyclone Armor - One point in Cyclone Armor gives you a powerful defensive option; use this to gain passive Non-Physical Damage Reduction.
  • Debilitating Roar provides you with defense and damage during its short duration.
  • Hurricane - Surrounds you with AoE damage that applies slow and reduces enemies damage. Masterworking Hurricane Duration Temper along with Endless Tempest allows us 100% uptime to take advantage of Stormshifter's aspect.
  • Cataclysm is used once you acquire Mjölnic Ryng. It applies Vulnerable to enemies, unlimited Spirit and a huge Damage Multiplier while it's active. Thanks to Calm Before the Storm, Cataclysm cooldown is reduced using Skills with Nature Magic on enemies, allowing you to maintain near 100% uptime on Catastrophe.
Stone Burst Druid Endgame Skill Tree

Skill Rotation

  • Cast Cataclysm.
  • Tap Stone Burst repeatedly to unleash its powerful AoE, making sure to hit as many Poisoned enemies as possible. Continue tapping Stone Burst as your main damage dealer.
  • Claw or Shred to maintain Shapeshifting Bonuses, especially Wildheart Hunger.
  • Cast Debilitating Roar or Cyclone Armor when there are too many enemies around.

Spirit Boons

Druids can choose 5 out of 16 Passive bonuses (Boons) from 4 different spirits. You have to bond with one of the Spirits in Túr Dúlra to activate two of its Boons. The remaining Spirits can only have one Boon each. Use the following Boons:

Deer Spirit: Advantageous Beast
Eagle Spirit: Avian Wrath
Wolf Spirit: Calamity
Snake Spirit: Calm Before the Storm

Bond with the Wolf Spirit and activate Swooping Attacks

Stone Burst Druid Spirit Boons

Learn more details and how to unlock this class specification in our full Druid Spirit Boons Guide.

Paragon & Glyphs

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Important

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 at level 15 and from 4 to 5 at level 46. Some of them cannot be activated before reaching these thresholds! Progress through The Pit to rank up your Glyphs.

Use the slider to see the progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

← Use the slider for progression steps →
Stone Burst Druid Endgame Paragon
Tip

Some Glyph position swaps, board changes and other pathing adjustments may occur as you unlock your full potential. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build before spending additional points that do not significantly impact your character's power.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

To Level 15

  1. Tectonic
  2. Earth and Sky
  3. Headhunter
  4. Spirit
  5. Outmatch

To Level 46

  1. Spirit
  2. Tectonic
  3. Earth and Sky
  4. Outmatch
  5. Headhunter

There are a total of 328 Paragon Points. After reaching level 60, you gain up to 300 Paragon Levels, 24 from Renown and 4 from Altars of Lilith. Check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.

Runes

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You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Stone Burst Duid focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

  • Igni + ‍Wat - ‍Decrepify helps with stagger, defense and allows you to execute enemies at 10% HP. When combined with ‍Xol in your other Runeword, it also generates large amounts of offering.
  • Xol + Zec - This allows you to maintain 100% uptime on Cataclysm

Alternative choices

If you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

  • Lith - Strong Ritual that forces you to stand still.
  • Bac - Another good Ritual, especially for speed farming.
  • Gar - The Crit Chance bonus is great, especially early on.
  • Mot - Dark Shroud is a strong and affordable defensive option.
  • Yul - Another good rune to generate offering by using skills with cooldowns.

Learn more about Runes and how they work in our dedicated Runewords Overview and Runewords Tier List.

Mercenaries

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Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees and abilities. You can have one hired (permanent) mercenary during solo play and a reinforcement who assists you from time to time in certain situations.

  • Hired: Varyana

She provides you with increased Movement Speed as you gain Massacre Stacks. Remember that Massacre stacks reset if you have not killed any enemies after 7 seconds. She also provides Attack Speed and even more Attack Speed when she activates ‍Bloodthirst.

  • Reinforcement: Raheir

Choose Bastion for a surge of Damage Reduction when you need it most.

Stone Burst Druid Mercenaries

Learn more about Mercenaries and how they work in our dedicated Mercenaries Overview.

Stat Priorities & Item Progression

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To enable the Stone Burst to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. Keep in mind that certain stats, such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.

Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds

  • 100%+ Critical Strike Chance (with added Earth
    Critical Chance from Earth Finesse Temper)
  • 100%+ Attack Speed
  • 250%+ Damage vs. Crowd Controlled
  • 3000+ Willpower
  • Armor Capped 1,000
  • Resistance Capped 70%+
  • 8,000+ Life
Starter
Ancestral
Mythic Bestial
Mythic Human

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Stone Burst Druid, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.

Starter
Ancestral
Mythic Bestial
Mythic Human

Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.

Build Variants

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This section is designed to guide your Stone Burst Druid from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the three variants Starter, Ancestral and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.

Starter
Ancestral
Mythic Bestial
Speedfarming
Pit Pushing
Mythic Human

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

Starter Stone Burst Druid Gear
Starter Stone Burst Druid 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.
  • In this Starter variant use Juggernaut's or Disobedience to cap out armor and Might for much needed damage reduction.
  • Work toward obtaining Vasily's Prayer from Varshan and Wildheart Hunger from Zir. These items allow you to switch your Key Passive to Bestial Rampage, granting powerful Shapeshifting bonuses and enhancing your overall damage and survivability.
  • To reach maximum damage potential with the Stone Burst Druid, it’s essential to acquire Anticline Burst, which significantly boosts the damage and area of Stone Burst. Pair this with Stone of Vehemen to further amplify your AoE and burst damage.
  • To consistently spam Stone Burst, it’s crucial to have Lucky Hit Chance: Primary Resource on both your weapons to help maintain Spirit. Earthen Might also generates Spirit through Critical Strikes and Lucky Hits, while Petrify provides a powerful damage boost and crowd control during tougher encounters.

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

Ancestral Stone Burst Druid Gear
Ancestral Stone Burst Druid 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.
  • From the time you reach Earthen Devastation in your Paragon Board, be mindful of your Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies bonus. The target for this stat is 250%, and your personal value will depend on the nodes taken on this board, your Offensive Tempers, and the level of Earth and Sky your glyph. Over time, you'll be able to exchange Offensive tempers from Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies to Earth Critical Strike Chance.
  • Acquire the following Uniques:
    • Stone of Vehemen - Beast in the Ice
    • Mjölnic Ryng - Lord Zir
    • Wildheart Hunger - Lord Zir
    • Vasily's Prayer - Echo of Varshan
  • Once you've acquired the Core Uniques for this build, you can transition to what is essentially the final version, with a skill tree, playstyle, and paragon board slightly different to those described in the main sections of this guide. The addition of Mythic Uniques from this point are more build-enhancing than build-enabling.

This is the final version of the build's progression, including all regular Unique items, Mythic Uniques, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking, leaving you with a great all-rounder build for all content in the game. Additional variants use this as a baseline to optimize around certain activities.

Gear & Skills

Mythic Stone Burst Druid Gear
Mythic Stone Burst Druid Skills
  • Ring of Starless Skies is a very popular choice for its overstatted Critical Strike Chance and Attack Speed rolls and insane Unique effect. The double All Resistance implicit is pretty great, too, with the difficulty changes. Make sure to cast Stone Burst at least every 3 seconds in combat to maintain its bonuses.
  • Shroud of False Death is an excellent addition, as its +1 to All Passive skills implicit is a massive offensive and defensive boon. On top of that, its All Stats roll is helpful for capping Critical Strike Chance, Armor, and Resistances and meeting Rare Node requirements in the paragon board. The stealth is great for moving and setting up between packs. Though not nearly as much damage, Tyrael's Might is always worth consideration as you ascend through Torment Tiers to combat the Resistance and Armor penalties. Socket Skulls in your jewelry if you go this route.

Use Bac instead of Igni.

Gear & Skills

Speedfarm Stone Burst Druid Gear
Speedfarm Stone Burst Druid Skills

There is no change from the Mythic Bestial version.

Gear & Skills

Pit Push Stone Burst Druid Gear
Pit Push Stone Burst Druid Skills
  • When fighting monsters in high tiers of the Pit, remember that after crowd controlling elites for 5 seconds, they become Unstoppable for 8 seconds. This may be the right moment to start kiting them around because your damage done goes way down and they can freely retaliate.
  • In high tier boss fights, beware that many of your conditional damage and damage reduction modifiers cannot activate outside of stagger phases. This means they generally deal more damage against you than regular monsters and you have to prioritize dodging the attacks from shadow bosses while you can barely scratch them outside of stagger bursts.

This setup optimizes for Human form using Nature's Fury Key Passive Bestial Rampage version is has more damage and survivability.

Gear & Skills

Human Stone Burst Druid Gear
Human Stone Burst Druid Skills
  • Replace Vasily's Prayer with Heir of Perdition. You need to switch to Nature's Fury Key passive and switch Survival Instincts paragon board to Constricting Tendrils.
Stone Burst Druid Endgame Paragon

FAQ & Mechanics

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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.

What can I do to improve survivability?

How can I trigger Unstoppable?

What is the best weapon choice?

Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?

Mechanics

Vasily's Prayer

Wildheart Hunger

Stagger

Video Guide

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Summary

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The Stone Burst Druid is a powerful, burst-damage specialist that excels at taking down groups of enemies with high AoE damage. With strong Earth abilities and Shapeshifting bonuses, this build provides a balanced combination of damage and survivability.

  • Tap Stone Burst to unleash continuous AoE damage, taking advantage of Raging Stone Burst for increased damage.
  • Maintain Constant uptime on your Ultimate Skills to maximize damage and Spirit.
  • Maintain your Shapeshifting bonuses with Shred.

Credits

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