Best Wind Shear Druid build in Diablo 4 Season 4: Skills, itemization, and glyphs

Modified Jun 22, 2024 18:15 IST

Diablo 4 Wind Shear Druid Season 4 — Wind Shear Druid might not be exciting in Diablo 4, but it is devastatingly powerful (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Wind Shear Druid is a Diablo 4 Season 4 build that’s really taken the internet by storm. It’s powerful for a few reasons. Perhaps the most important one is that the way you unlock its true power doesn’t take a ton of end-game grinding. There is a unique that makes it better, but it’s not a hard requirement. This is a build that puts up a few Wolves to take aggro off your character and poison everything to death.

What makes this really start going is Aspect of the Calm Breeze. There’s a Tempering Manual that makes it more powerful too - giving your Wind Shear a chance to trigger twice. If you want to run around, poison enemies, and watch them die swiftly, Wind Shear Druid is for you in Diablo 4 Season 4.

How to play Wind Shear Druid in Diablo 4 Season 4

With the proper setup, very little can stop your Wind Shear spam (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

To be honest, Wind Shear Druid in Diablo 4 Season 4 is an incredibly boring build - in that you aren’t doing anything exciting. You just use Wind Shear - now with poison action - on everything, and run around. You pop cooldowns to increase your defensive capabilities, and thanks to some buffs from the 1.4.3 patch, it’s in an even better position to be impressive.

Wind Shear is a really interesting ability. It counts as a Basic, Storm, and Nature Magic ability, so it brings a titanic amount of synergy from your other Affixes in the Codex. Once you have Calm Breeze (Grinning Labyrinth) and Rapid (Buried Halls), you can start running this build, quite frankly.

Since you’re using a Basic Skill, you don’t have to worry about it running you out of Spirit. You can just spam Wind Shear to your heart's content, and inflict poison on everyone. By careful use of your buffs (Blood Howl, Trample, Cyclone Armor, Debilitating Roar), and letting your Wolves hold aggro, you can clear the deepest levels of The Pit with ease, and any other challenge that comes your way.

Talents to pick

Wind Shear: 1/3 (Enhanced, Fierce)
Predatory Instinct: 1/3
Digitigrade Gait: 3/3
Iron Fur: 3/3
Cyclone Armor: 5/5 (Enhanced, Preserving)
Blood Howl: 1/5 (Enhanced, Preserving)
Debilitating Roar: 5/5 (Enhanced, Preserving)
Ancestral Fortitude: 3/3
Vigilance: 3/3
Wolves: 1/5 (Enhanced, Ferocious)
Nature’s Reach: 3/3
Trample: 1/5
Defiance: 3/3
Natural Disaster: 3/3
Resonance: 3/3
Quick Shift: 3/3
Heightened Senses: 3/3
Neurotoxin: 2/3
Ursine Strength: 1/1

Spirit Boons:

Deer: Wariness
Eagle: Iron Feather, Swooping Attacks
Wolf: Bolster
Snake: Masochistic

Ideal itemization for Wind Shear Druid in Diablo 4 Season 4

Helm	N/A (uses Godslayer Crown or Tempest Roar)	N/A
Chest	Debilitating Roar Cooldown Reduction, Debilitating Roar Duration, Life, Willpower, +Debilitating Roar	Hectic Aspect
Gloves	Damage to Distant Enemies, Lucky Hit +Stun Chance, Attack Speed, Maximum Life, Willpower	Edgemaster's Aspect
Pants	Debilitating Roar Cooldown Reduction, Debilitating Roar Duration, Life, Willpower, Armor	Aspect of Might
Boots	N/A (Uses Yen's Blessing)	N/A
Amulet	Damage to distant Enemies, Digitigrade Gait, Attack Speed, Movement Speed, Life	Aspect of the Calm Breeze
Rings	Damage to Distant Enemies, Damage, Attack Speed, Life, Willpower	Rapid, Adaptability
Weapon	Debilitating Roar Duration, Debilitating Roar Cooldown Reduction, Life, Willpower, Armor	Aspect of the Moonrise

This build likely will use a few uniques - Godslayer Crown/Tempest Roar, and Yen’s Blessing. The helmet is less of a necessity - I’ve seen people go without, but why not get one if you can? If you're going deep into The Pit, I do recommend it as a must-have, though.

You can also run Tyreael’s Might - and since it’s easier to farm Uber Uniques, it’s far less stressful. If this is the case, put Might on your pants, and just remove Hectic period. There are other pieces of equipment you can run as well when it comes to uniques, but I don’t think they are as necessary.

You don’t need a ton of complicated, hard-to-get Affixes, either. You’ll probably notice that most of your affixes are focused on Debilitating Roar - it’s an incredibly powerful ability, and it allows us to spam Wind Shear safely. You'll also want a series of gems in your gear: Ruby for Armor, Topaz for weapons, and Diamonds for your jewelry.

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Edited by Ritoban "Veloxi" Paul