How To Play The Insane Human Storm Grinder Druid Build In Diablo 4? – Best Druid Endgame Build Guide

Why doesn’t anyone seem to be talking about this baffling Druid build in Diablo 4? This Human Storm Grinder Druid build is excellent. He can clear large rooms of mobs with ease, combining excellent survivability with a ton of AOE damage. Meanwhile, we made full use of Lucky Hit and Chain effects to make the build even more powerful.

Best of all, this build requires very few Diablo 4 Unique items to run. Even low-budget players will pull off this build with ease. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Abilities

Now let’s talk about which we use abilities in this build.

• Storm Strike & Earthen Bulwark: This is our security blanket. It prevents us from getting a one-shot while jumping into the hordes of enemies we’ll encounter.
• Earthen Bulwark: Provides us with 45% of our life base as a barrier, making us Unstoppable. And it will give us an extra 18% of life as Fortify.
• Tornado: While this Cataclysm is on cooldown, Tornado will be our primary damage dealer. It also gives us another way to spread vulnerability to more enemies.
• Hurricane: Another defensive skill, when upgraded, it reduces the damage of enemies hit by Hurricane by 20%.
• Trample: This is our launch tool, but we can also use it as an escape tool in poor engagements or unexpected enemy situations.
• Poison Creeper: This CC provided by Poison Creeper is also a very nice build addition. It works nicely with several glyphs and legendary nodes in Paragon Board.
• Cataclysm: It’s our major source of damage. It deals with a lot of lightning damage, which pairs perfectly with the build’s Malignant Hearts. Cataclysm makes this build capable of killing almost any monster in the game.

Aspects

Next, we focus on the following Aspects.

• Overcharged Aspect: Dealing Lightning damage has up to a 20% chance to Overcharge the target for 3 seconds. Any direct damage dealt to them deals with bonus damage to surrounding enemies.
• Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect: Storm skills you cast deal a critical strike, filling the surrounding air with energy for up to 2 seconds. This causes Lightning Bolt to hit enemies in the area, dealing with lightning damage. It’s worth noting you can also boost the critical damage and extend the duration by throwing in additional Diablo 4 Gold.
• Symbiotic Aspect: When Nature’s Fury Key Passive triggers a free skill, it reduces the cooldown of your opposite type non-ultimate by up to 5 seconds. This Aspect will help us increase our uptime in Cataclysm by reducing the cooldown every time we use Nature’s Fury Key Passive skill to trigger a free skill.
• Aspect of Mending Stone: Increases the duration of Earthen Bulwark by 6 seconds. Also, killing enemies with Earth skills replenishes your active Earthen Bulwark’s barrier.
• Stormchaser’s Aspect: Tornado will look for up to 3 targets.
• Aspect of The Tempest: It increased Hurricane damage by up to 18% per second while active. When combined with Hurricane Duration in our skill tree, Hurricane can start doing a lot of damage and area around the player.

Skill Tree

Now let’s look at Skill Tree. First, we invested a little in Storm Strike upgrade, then we went with Wild Storm Strike upgrade. This increases the number of enemies Storm Strike chains to, giving us more chances to trigger Lucky Hit’s lightning damage.

Then, we dropped threes on both Abundance and Wild Impulses. We’ll find three levels of Wild Impulses on our amulet later on.

We’ll get two points in Predatory Instinct when we talk about core skills, and then we’ll move into Earthen Bulwark. It’s about upgrading and keeping the Bulwark.

We will devote our next three points to Nature’s Reach for increased damage to enemies at a distance. These passive skills are perfect for this build, extending the duration of Cataclysm and Hurricane. Meanwhile, it also enhances our lightning damage and its additional Lucky Hit effect.

Next we get Hurricane and its upgrades and Savage Hurricane, which reduces the damage of enemies affected by it by 20%. We don’t need to do any upgrades for this.

Then we’ll pick up three points of Defiance to increase our damage output against elites. Then, we’ll choose a Cataclysm, its two upgraded versions. When it is combined with some Diablo 4 items, it can enhance Lucky Hit effect. Finally, our Key Passive will feature Nature’s Fury.

Spirit Boons

Now about our Spirit Boons.

For Deer, we take Wariness, so we take 10% less elite damage.

For Eagle, we’re going to use Avian Wrath, which does 30% more crit damage.

For Wolf, we’ll be casting Calamity, which increases the duration of ultimate abilities by 25%.

For Snake, we’re going to take Overload, a Lucky Hit that deals Lightning damage, and deals 20% Lightning damage to surrounding enemies.

Malignant Hearts

It’s worth mentioning that the new Malignant Hearts in Diablo 4 have a nice synergy with this build. First up, we have Caged Heart of The Barber. Now they have fixed Barber and it can handle things like Lucky Hit and Poison.

Second, Caged Heart of Inexorable Force is pretty much required. When you activate your ultimate, it pulls up to 50 distant enemies towards you. You can quickly clear the screen and harvest a lot of Diablo 4 Gold in a short amount of time.

You can then select Caged Heart of The Picana, which causes the critical strike to inflict an electric shock on enemies that lasts 3-5 seconds. Meanwhile, there is an Arc of Lightning between them and any other charged enemies dealing with additional lightning damage.

Alternatively, you can choose this Caged Heart of Tempting Fate. You get critical hit damage, but non-critical hit damage is reduced.

How To Play?

Now you might be wondering, how do I use this version?

First, it will start each pull by using Earthen Bulwark, which will give us barriers and fortifications. It prevents us from being hit by some annoying critical strike mechanics.

Next cast Cataclysm. Now, it’s important to note this. Be careful with monster types and the death effects they inflict. So, pull everything around you onto you. Be prepared to avoid the middle if you have to. Once you’re safe, spam tornadoes immediately. This inflicts slow and vulnerability to many enemies around you.

That’s all for this guide. Let me know what you think and why no one is covering this baffling Human Storm Grinder Druid. See you next time.