Did anyone test this?
We’ve got a legendary to make Boulder a core skill dealing significantly more damage, unfortunately boulder by its design doesn’t fit any druid build, we have very limited options to deal significant damage to distant targets, pushing them away counters most of the druid builds other than the companion oriented ones.
Using Boulder in an earth - storm build feels like I am forced to get a viable core skill to support boulder, and there is no reason not to pick landslide instead since it is actually capable of creating combos with other skills.
I messed around with the legendary but 60 spirit is way too much for a core skill
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It has to be some variant of the Dire Wolf Legendary aspect (spirit cost reduction) with maybe wind shear?
Nah, it doesn’t have enough uptime to be a good aoe option and it does ruin real aoe builds like hurricane and landslide. Earth bear doesn’t need it either, because pulverize is just way better.
It seems like a waste of a button.
Im running it now. Actually have a fairly usable build. Suppressor sucks a lot, though. Whenever the boulder pushes them away from you and out of the bubble, it stops doing damage
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My thinking is you pretty much have to run it on a 2h at max roll for 200% increase damage with +wrath skills and +boulder on gear.
I think you could run the earth/bear unique helmet if you want to get the 30sec overpowers on to the build. Mix in the earth skills slow and the passing of CC to other targets when you hit them and you could use the umbral ring to really ramp up some spirit with those boulders.
With the unique helmet you could run grizzly rage and potentially run the aspect that gives spirit generation during rage. In theory this would amplify the umbral power a lot. Alternatively you could run petrify for spirit.
Theres a lot of potential here.
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1h is far better for boulder because of the spirit generation from faster attack and reduced spirit costs(get basic attack speed and reduced spirit costs everywhere you can) so put it on your amulet. The +wrath skills stops working for boulder when you equip the aspect which makes it a core skill. Human form is better than earth bear because of giving up two slots for aspects and other important stats
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I’m a Werebear/Earth Druid, haven’t actually gotten the aspect for Boulder being used as a Core skill but that sounds interesting. I do have Boulder in my rotation due to my stats focus on Earth skills, it’s decent enough as is with some CDR.
Because Werebear skills/aspects kind of marry into Earth skills endgame, it made more sense to use the aspect for making Pulverize into an Earth skill - it was already a damage powerhouse without that aspect. I’ll stick with that as my Core skill.
Very unoptimized gear and paragon but the damage is acceptable. It’s not going to be doing high tier nightmare dungeons though
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What is causing your lightning strikes? Is it just lucky hits for bad omen?
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Testing out nature’s fury instead of earthen might since I’m not having much issues with spirit and boulder already has well over 50% crit rate with what I have equipped
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Yes this is my main build right now, I can kill most things with a single boulder cast. even world bosses get a full bar segment chunked by a single boulder cast.
I have boulder in my skills as Lighting Storm build and its great but this aspect you are talking about …i have tried a couple of times to make a viable build with no luck…
You can definitely make a viable build with it, just not going to be the absolute best possible druid build there is
Druid bowling at tis best
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Any chance you can share some of the main points of how you built this out? I’m really interested in giving it a try at some point. Everywhere else I’ve looked, people are saying it’s garbage, but it doesn’t look like garbage here.
For example, what’s spiking your Spirit regen? Is that just from Umbral? Or are you using the Earthen Might key passive?
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it’s actually okay. You can get enough spirit if you have a big group of mobs. The problem with it is that 60 is too much to use as a single target DPS option.
Fair. You’d kind of be dependent on Earthen Might to proc the instant Spirit refill and have that happen often. Man I really want it to work. 
Level 93 here. I tried full bowler bear with Vasilys and Insatiable. Tried Earthen Might first, it SUUUUUCKED. Boulder inherently feels terrible for clearing anything that’s not perfectly lined up. Sometimes it 1 shots entire packs of elites, other times it does absolutely no damage due to pathing, terrain, whatever I’m not really sure but it felt inconsistent.
Next I tried Nature’s Fury and noticed a significant improvement in clear speed due to tornados and primarily LIGHTNING STORM. This got me thinking. What if we’re looking at this wrong. Instead of self-casting boulder, you trigger boulder off of lightning storm. This makes the stand stil channeling a bit “safer” due to boulders randomly shooting out pushing things back.
I suspect that’s the intent, though I have to theory-craft it a bit more to come up with the “final version”, I believe a trigger-based boulder build would feel more consistent… though boulder dmg is unlikely to be the main source, more of a utility. Perhaps that’s why it costs 60 spirit, it’s n ot supposed to be self-cast, but “free” cast through Nature’s Fury!
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Interesting. Since the aspect makes it a core skill, lightning storm could proc it with Nature’s Fury. Though it could also proc landslide instead. 
