DIABLO 4 - SEASON 9 CHANGING IT UP!
Hail Adventurers! Welcome back to…the Maze!
Just wanted to stop in here and give a quick update about some awesome new Diablo stuff! I ran pulverize to T4 and it is absolutely as good as I thought it would be. The new Rotting Lightbringer is VERY good, it changes the entire build to be one of if not THE best Druid build in the 2 year history of D4 outside of broken/exploit builds. As always, when something is popular, and by god is Pulverize popular, I tend to shy away from it and try something else….
Enter the Earth Spike Werebear! This build is SUPER fun, and with the right gear hits VERY hard, i dont think its as good as a Pulv. build, but it is very strong, and being able to cast spikes at range almost make this a Werebear caster/mage build along the lines of a Stone Burst druid, but you don't have to channel anything. When I get my gear and itemization more tuned, I'll upload some footage here so you guys can check it out, but it's A LOT of fun, I've been having a blast with this new build. It has some flavor of the old Wind Shear basic attack build, but when all those builds died off, this one stayed. Because even though it leverages a Shard of Verathiel for the basic attacks take mana but give +[x] Damage (I don't have a very good drop of this) it still leans into Earth/Werebear damage in the tree and Paragon via the unique Vasily’s Prayer.
On top of this, ive been playing my “Zdps” Full Support Druid for a lot of content with buddies and having a TON of fun with that too. The build funny enough can clear content up to T3 on its own just with passive Cataclysm and Horadric spell damage, but in T4 it still maintains its party slot with sheer utility and support minded abilities. I have a more indepth write up of this build in my last post, but needless to say I've leveled the paragon of it and honed in on higher masterwork ranks and it's been very awesome. My friends who were stuck on ~60-65 Pit tiers can EASILY farm them when I'm rocking the support druid, and are cruising to PIt Tier 80 now.
