Granted I’m only 78 but here is some gameplay in video and as you can see just melting packs of elites with very Meh gear. Using my Pulverize/landslide hybrid gear that I used to farm all the Druid uniques so its not very good gear. I want to try the Tornado build as well to compare, but this build is so fast, and it basically just teleports you all over blowing up groups instantly. It’s quite fun and fast.
Ive done pulverize, new shred and nado. Nado is lightyears ahead sadly. Once you find out you can poop out 40 tornados in 10 seconds and screen clear an entire room of elites with near 100% cc immunity and constantly healing your health, you wont want to try anything else.
Tried it without tempest roar it is not as good as pulverize not even close
Also without tempest roar you wouldnt be using storm skills, that is going to confuse a lot of people.
edit you can use stromstrike but ur not in this build you’re literally only hitting big elite packs with Grizzly rage up if otherwise u cant keep spirit up and get wrecked in a cc. This would be a pretty decent build if u didnt have a pulverize setup going already. Its pretty fast for 30s farming if you skip over certain NM affixes. I have pretty decent wolf gear as I have been saving for the uber rare tempest keep drop.
The dash thing is buggy you have to dash back and forth and it seems like it doesn’t register unless you’re a certain distance away for the instant poison aspect.
All in all its a decent build but pulverize is better and 100x easier to use.
90% of us are still waiting for tempest roar to drop sadly
honestly for me, once I got Waxing Gibbous, way faster then Pulverize, even without tempest roar. Just watch the part of the Video where I cleared a NM dungeon with no helmet equipped. I was exploding packs of elites in one hit easily. And you still get the movement speed cap when Ultimate is up. And you can still use storm skills, they just don’t count as werewolf, which does make spirit generation a problem, but I acknowledged in the video as well, but it is doable. You just can’t cast storm skills in your Ultimate without TR, which is OK because in Ultimate you don’t’ really have spirit issues thanks to the aspect of the Dire Wolf. Waxing Gibbous enables this build with blurred beast, TR just makes it better.
EDIT: Keep in mind, only level like 78 or whatever and using pretty meh gear that I had leftover from my pulverize/landslide hybrid build. Definitely not optimized for Shred.
Looks fun, but you’re level 78 fighting level 80’s. Basically anything will work in that scenario.
yea i just tried a much higher key that i can push with pulverize and its a no go with this build…
This shred build is pretty fast farming lower sigs and I still dont have the tempest roar helm :d
Yea I have not pushed into higher NM dungeons with this Druid yet, I was just comparing my experience with pulverize optimized vs this build non-optimized going against the same content and it was just not close for me personally. I understand as you get higher levels, because of how scaling and itemization work your class can feel “weaker” so yea. Still for me, for just straight up farming for Uniques and legendaries, this is by far faster then pulverize, for me at least, since im pretty much moving at movement speed cap. But soon I will transition into the Tornado build with TR.
I was using this on my 85 druid. I ran a ton of NM sigils in the 30s and theres a lot of times where you’re out of spirit and waiting on ULT. Some of the NM dungs like kill all the mobs just suck because without Grizzly rage this build is kinda dookie tbh. It was fun playing something other than Pulverize but its not as good not even close.
I can run 40+s pretty easily on pulv but this build is only good on certain dungs. If you were doing reg dungs just killing elite packs then yea its super good.
The season will start before I get tempest keep helm and its one of the biggest reasons I probably won’t play d4 S1 until they stop gatekeeping builds behind uber rare unis
I think they just dropped patch today that added uniques to Helltides, and if i’m not mistaken they said on the live stream today they was adding a higher drop rate on class uniques as of this patch today? I’ve found 2 Tempest roars before level 80 myself, so I got to wonder if some people are bugged. Maybe even better reason to try season 1. I think you will get one bro, at least I hope.
I got Vasily’s off world boss just now. Got a lot more uniques today in nightmares too. So far today got the helm, cleaver, frostburns, and mother’s ring. That’s in like 5-6 nightmares. They boosted something.
I switched to werenado yesterday and got the Vasily’s I wanted to use earthspike with my Pulverize build today. Figures. But can do high 30s to low 40s NM with average nado build at lvl 75 so I guess that’s decent. Seems about 30% faster than Pulv and 3-4 levels higher.
They’ve buffed NM dungeons though, it seems. They were easier last night. Today after patch they seem more difficult with same affixes.
Yea I want to try Nado next, I think it seems like it might be the strongest clearing build, but I have seen a few people running NM dungeon 90’s with Shred, just blasting as well. But I have not played Nado yet so I will try it before moving on to make new content before season 1. Druid has been very fun.
I did the capstone dungeon with both pulv and shred. Pulv is a bit more comfy but really suxx at fighting Elias. Shred was just obliterating him. Was over before I even knew it.
How you setup your para board makes a huge difference. Right now Iam lacking a bit defense for nm 22 (Iam level 62).
Usually when I see Druids struggling with Defense I always take a look at the legs and chest pieces. Here is a video where I explained how to really stack gear in a way that makes you almost Un-Killable. I was face tanking the butcher on NM dungeons 10-14 levels higher then where I should be without taking hardly any damage. Its a little overpowered and I would not be surprised if they nerf this because it appears that these are additive instead of multiplicative which is insane when it comes to defensive stats.
Same I’d got a pretty high roll maxing and tried this at level 62 wt4 and the lack of defense as well as lack of unstoppable make this build a lil wack for trying to push which I am doing but I start my tempest farming lol
bro were not watching a 10 minute video when you could just say get “these” stats on ur chest and legs…
Type it out like how hard is that
I’ve got it and honestly you’re hyper fragile with rage off cooldown and everything just drops when rage is up. It’s kind of boring. I went with a modified nature’s fury build and I can’t just erase bosses anymore but having way more fun.
I run shred (w/companions for Shepherd’s) up through NM 60 w/o Gibbous (out of choice) and TR (not choice). It’s a bit risky in some situations because it’s a melee build that dies if it stops attacking, but I clear MUCH more quickly at NM 55-60 than in that video (assuming it’s due to gear/glyphs). Can kill Kixxarth in ~20 seconds, so it’s not bad for bosses either.
Shred is very good, but a bit squishy.
Good explanation of the build.
Try this on uber lilith. I’m curious to see how it goes