Landslide – Druid Build for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

Build Introduction

Unleash a mountain of Landslide, burying your enemies beneath tectonic slams. The Landslide Druid sends out high volumes of Landslides with:

• Aspect of The Aftershock echoes every Landslide hit.
• Subterranean Aspect sends circular waves of Landslides with casts of Poison Creeper
• Earthbreaker recasts Landslides on Tectonic Spikes lingering from previous Landslides.

Just starting on your druid adventure? Try out the Landslide Leveling Build and swap to this one at Level 60.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Earthbreaker

Vasily’s Prayer

Required Aspects

Aspect of The Aftershock

Subterranean Aspect

Get more info on the Uniques supporting this build in the Uniques section.

Quick Navigation

This guide covers everything necessary to get started on the Landslide Druid, including Skill Tree points, Paragon, Gearing, and Seasonal updates. Jump to the sections you’re looking for here:

Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

PetrifyPoison CreeperBlood HowlEarthen BulwarkClawLandslide

If you are missing skill points, complete Renown events in each zone. See how these Skills play in the Rotation and Gameplay section.

Druid Class Mechanic – Spirit Boons

Druids unlock powerful Spirit Boon passives, giving offerings to the animal spirits to receive their Blessing. Once fully unlocked, activate the final Boon by Spirit Bonding with one of the four animal spirits to take two passives from that row.

While leveling and gearing, use the Deer’s Gift of the Stag and the Wolf’s Energize for spirit management, replacing Wariness and Swooping Attacks.

Druid’s primary resource is Spirit. See the Spirit Management Section on how to keep casting!

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

Check these sections for all important Landslide gearing considerations to improve the power of your character in the endgame.

Legendary Aspects

Gear Slots with multiple options are listed in recommended priority. Any slot with a Mythic Unique or Unique Item will include a valid alternative legendary power to use while still leveling and gearing. Combine these with the right stat priorities.

Gear Slot	Gems	Aspect / Unique	Legendary Aspect / Unique Power
Staff	Igni Wat	Aspect of The Aftershock	Landslide’s earth pillars each strike a second time and deal an additional 5.5-15.5% bonus damage per hit.
Helm	Xol Yom	Vasily’s Prayer Juggernaut’s Aspect	Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for 2-5% of your Maximum Health.
Chest	Grand Sapphire	Shroud of False Death Insatiable Fury Aspect of Might	If you haven’t dealt damage in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves	N/A	Subterranean Aspect	Poison Creeper’s active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 15-35% increased damage to Poisoned enemies.
Pants	Grand Sapphire	Skinwalker’s Aspect	When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, Heal for 5-25% of your Maximum Life. If you are at full Life, gain the same amount as Fortify.
Boots	N/A	Wildheart Hunger Aspect of Metamorphosis	Shapeshifting into a new animal form increases the value of your Bestial Rampage bonuses by 2-5%, up to 20-50%. This bonus decays by 2% per second.
Amulet	Grand Diamond	Aspect of Retaliation	Your Core Skills deal up to 35-75% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify.
Ring	Grand Diamond	Earthbreaker Crashstone Aspect	Casts of Landslide leave behind Tectonic Spikes that deal Physical damage over 2 seconds. Spawning a Landslide pillar within Tectonic Spikes has a 20-30% chance to spawn two instead.
Ring	Grand Diamond	Ring of Starless Skies Hunter’s Zenith	Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds, up to 50%.

Staff is chosen for its attack speed. The damage over time inherent on staff will not be much value, but most weapon inherent affixes are low value additives. If another 2 handed weapon type has better gear affixes rolled on it, use that instead.

See how this build compares to the rest at our Endgame Build Tier List.

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Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Each line of affixes is listed in order of importance, and some alternatives are given. The bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. Unique Items cannot be Tempered, but can be Masterworked.  Check the Tempering guide and Masterworking guide for more details about these topics.

Slot	Gearing Affixes	Tempering Affixes
2 Handed Staff – Legendary Aspect	Chance on hit to restore Spirit Willpower Max Life Critical Strike Damage	Earth Augments – Chance for Landslide Projectiles To Cast Twice Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance
Helm – Vasily’s Prayer	Willpower% Maximum Life Armor Ranks to Defensive Posture
Chest – Shroud of False Death	All Stats Maximum Life Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Resource Generation
Chest- Insatiable Fury	Maximum Life Werebear Overpower Ursine Strength’s Bonuses Ranks to Iron Fur
Gloves – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Ranks to Landslide Willpower	Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance Nature Magic Innovation – Petrify Duration
Pants – Legendary Aspect	Max Life Willpower Armor Resistance to All Elements Dodge Chance	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor% Nature Magic Innovation – Petrify Duration
Boots- Wildheart Hunger	Movement Speed Shapeshifting Attack Speed Cold Resistance Ranks to Heightened Senses
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Movement Speed Max Life Willpower Spirit Per Second	Druid Motion – Movement Speed Worldly Fortune – Impairment Reduction
Amulet – Legendary Aspect	Willpower% Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Quickshift Critical Strike Chance Movement Speed	Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance Nature Magic Innovation – Petrify Duration
Ring – Ring of Starless Skies	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Ranks in Core Skills
Ring – Earthbreaker	Chance for Landslide Projectiles to Cast Twice Earth Attack Speed Ranks to Landslide Critical Strike Chance
Ring – Hunter’s Zenith	Willpower Ranks to Predatory Instinct Ranks to Quickshift Ranks to Heightened Senses
Ring – Legendary Aspect	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Max Life Willpower	Earth Finesse – Earth Critical Strike Chance Worldly Stability – Chance on Hit to Restore Spirit

Armor cap is 1000 for up to 85% Physical Damage Reduction. This is generally reached with either one Armor Gear Affix and one Total Armor% Temper, a well-rolled Vasily’s Prayer, or using a Juggernaut’s Aspect.

After gearing, look at progression systems like Paragon next.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

The following Unique Items are required, recommended, or optionally beneficial for the Landslide Druid

• (Required) Vasily’s Prayer is a strong source of Fortify, and makes Landslide a Werebear skill. This enables maintenance of several strong multipliers like Quickshift and Survival Instincts.
• (Recommended) Insatiable Fury is a well rounded unique with good defensive value, that gives ranks in Werebear Skills, which thanks to Vasily’s Prayer includes Landslide.
• (Required) Earthbreaker has incredible Gear Affixes for Landslide, and causes Casts of Landslide to leave behind Tectonic Spikes, which can cause subsequent Landslides to trigger extra pillars.
• (Recommended) Hunter’s Zenith has strong gear affixes and can empower casts to Overpower and Critically Strike.
• Optional Pants can include the following:
  • (Resistances) Tassets of the Dawning Sky can be useful for early gearing to get more Resistances
  • (Spirit) Tibault’s Will are decent for helping manage Spirit. Sources of Unstoppable are Enhanced Earthen Bulwark and if used, Aspect of Metamorphosis.

Mythic Unique Items

The Landslide Druid can benefit from the following Mythic Unique Items:

• Ring of Starless Skies is a powerful Resource Cost Reduction tool and damage multiplier.
• Shroud of False Death gives +1 to all Skill Passives. This includes strong additions to Damage multipliers, Damage Reductions, Fortify Generation, Quality of Life increases and more frequent Overpowers.

Check our Unique Item Target-farming guide for information on where to find everything you need.

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Gems and Runewords

The following are the recommended Gem and Runeword setups for the Landslide Druid:

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Emerald For Increased Critical Strike Damage	Grand Sapphire For increased Willpower	Grand Diamond For All Resistances

Runewords

Use these Runeword combinations for the Landslide Druid, placed in the 2 Handed Weapon and into one Armor slot:

Runeword Combination	Effects
Igni Xan	Igni – Gain: 25 Offering. Stores Offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a Non-Basic Skill to gain the stored Offering. Xan – 300 Offering. Overflow: Increased Duration. Your next attack will cause your hits to be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower for 0.35 seconds.
Lith Yom	Lith – Gain: 25 Offering. Stand still while fighting for 0.3 seconds. Yom – 500 Offering. Cooldown: 5 Seconds. Overflow: Increase Stun Duration. Evoke the Druid’s Petrify, Stunning enemies and restoring 100 Spirit.

Runewords use a conditional Rune of Ritual to generate Offering. The Offering is consumed by the Rune of Invocation to trigger its effect. Runes replace Gems in gear with two sockets. Up to two sets of Runeword Pairs can be placed at a time.

Xan will provide a high volume of periodic Critical Overpowers. Yom will keep enemies stunned and restore Resource.

While leveling and gearing before legendary Runes become accessible, many Magic and Rare runewords such as Gar for Critical Strike Chance will be viable.

Other setups can be used, such as:

• LithXal IgniYom for higher topend Overpower damage, with less frequent casts of Petrify.

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Paragon Board

Use these Glyphs, Boards, and pathing for the Landslide Druid:

The road to max Paragon is long. The above Paragon tabs show the following:

• The BASE SETUP tab spends 50 fewer points than the max 328 points, taking stricter pathing to take all most all Legendary, Rare and Magic Nodes, and activates all Glyph Nodes with their secondary effects.
• The FULL SETUP tab completes the paragon board in its final form, filling in the rest of the board to get the rest of the Magic and Rare Nodes, as well as give additional additive bonuses especially within the Glyph areas.

Glyphs have two significant breakpoint increases. At level 15, the glyph grows in radius and gains a special effect. At level 46, the glyph grows to its max radius and gains a strong conditional damage multiplier.

Glyphs are placed as if they are at least level 15+ in radius. Total Boards placed are now limited to a max of 5; the Starter Board and four Class Boards. Rotate boards as necessary.

For a more defensive glyph setup, exchange Tectonic for Territorial.

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Boss Powers (Season 8)

Season 8: Belial’s Return offers Boss Powers, equipped from the Boss Power tab of the character sheet. One Main Power is chosen, and three modifier powers boost the Main Power or offer smaller bonuses.

Here’s a general recommendation for the Landslide Druid:

Main Power

• Ashava’s Poison Breath

Secondary Modifiers

• Lilith’s Wind of Hate
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste

Many boss power combinations will work and several are only situationally useful. Feel free to adjust powers to your content. For example:

• When Bossing, exchange Wandering Death’s Chest Beam for Torusk’s Rage.
• If pushing high enough Pit that you cannot break the Lilith’s Wind of Hate blister clones, use Torusk’s Rage
• If you have sufficient Critical Strike Chance without Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste from high Greater Affix Critical Strike Chance on gear, use Belial’s Eye Beams.
• For a defensive option, use Blackmailer’s Sabotage.

Mercenaries

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Core Skill: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Raheir, the Shieldbearer

• Reinforcement Ability – Crater
• Opportunity: Landslide

Once unlocked, Mercenaries are followers that aid the Player in combat. A main mercenary is chosen to fight alongside you, granting strong buffs or perks, and a secondary Mercenary is chosen to periodically Reinforce you under a chosen Opportunity condition.

Hysteria and Bloodlust will both give strong Attack Speed bonuses. Crater will help group enemies.

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

The Landslide Druid has straightforward gameplay.

• Maintain attack speed bonuses and werewolf buffs like Bestial Rampage with Blood Howl.
• Petrify enemies to refresh Spirit, Stun enemies and to apply Critical Strike Damage debuff.
• Cast your Landslides:
  • Poison Creeper spawns Landslide around you.
  • Hard cast Landslide, dealing damage and to leave Earthbreaker Tectonic Spikes.
• As needed, Claw to maintain Shapeshifting bonuses and to fish for Pack Leader resets on Poison Creeper.

Use Earthen Bulwark as necessary for Barrier and Unstoppable.

Claw and other Skills that change your Form do not need to hit enemies to gain the Shapeshifting benefits. It can often be beneficial to keybind and tap Force Hold to be able to cast in place.

Skills, Support and Synergies

The primary damage for this build is of course Landslide.

Landslide summons pillars of earth that quickly crash together and crush your enemies. We get a high volume of extra Pillars from several sources:

• Aspect of The Aftershock doubles the amount of pillars summoned.
• With Earthbreaker, Casts of Landslide will leave behind Spikes. When more pillars are placed on those spikes, they have a chance to summon more pillars.
• Subterranean Aspect causes Poison Creeper to summon a circle of pillars around the player, which with Aspect of The Aftershock will reverse and summon another circle afterwards. These do not count as Cast landslides so do not summon Tectonic Spikes, but can trigger extra pillars if placed on top of existing spikes.

Pack Leader spirit boon has a Lucky Hit Chance when Critically Striking to reset your Poison Creeper. With high Critical Strike and Lucky Hit Chance, this will reset often for for a large amount of your total Landslide volume.

Because Subterranean Aspect is used, this is a close to melee playstyle despite Landslide being a ranged cast.

With Primal Landslide, each instance of Immobilize or Stun, or a chance when hitting bosses, adds a Terramote. Terramotes guarantee a Critical Strike with bonus Critical Strike Damage. These immobilizes happen from Enhanced Landslide, casts of Poison Creeper, Stuns from Petrify.

Supporting Skills

• Blood Howl offers attack speed bonuses and helps maintain Werewolf and Shapeshifting maintenance buffs like Bestial Rampage or Quickshift.

• Earthen Bulwark grants Unstoppable and Barrier as needed.

• Claw is a spammable filler basic to generate Spirit as needed or maintain Shapeshifting buffs like Wildheart Hunger or Hunter’s Zenith. With enough Spirit Generation and Management it is fully unnecessary and could be swapped for other utility skills such as Innate Debilitating Roar or whatever suits needs of the content.

• Petrify Stuns enemies, applies a Critical Strike Damage debuff, and Generates Spirit and Terramotes.

The Key Passive for this build is Bestial Rampage, offering a strong damage buff and attack speed bonus. These are further buffed with stacks from Wildheart Hunger. The more attack speed, the more Tectonic Spikes and Pillars that can be spawned, and the more damage events there are for your Pack Leader resets for more casts of Poison Creeper. It’s a tidy feedback loop.

Other Key Passive options can work as well: Ursine Strength can pair with Overpower options like Hunter’s Zenith to focus the build towards Overpower attacks, or Earthen Might can be usable in early endgame for a bit more spirit management.

Overpower

Landslide gets several sources of Overpower for even larger damage, scaling based on Willpower, Fortify and Max life. These include

• Provocation when staying in Werebear Form
• Obsidian Slam Spirit Boon overpowering every 6th Earth skill.
• A natural 3% for any attack to overpower
• If used, Hunter’s Zenith.

Landslides generated from Poison Creeper cannot Overpower.

There are enough Overpower bonuses that you can justify using Ursine Strength for your Key Passive for top-end multipliers. In most content this will be slower, but may be beneficial in push content. To play around this, make the following changes:

• Change Bestial Rampage to Ursine Strength.
• Do not use Wildheart Hunger.
• Use Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt over Subterranean Aspect for higher total multipliers to your Landslide.
• Use the LithXal IgniXan Runeword setup for bigger, more frequent Overpower attacks.

Spirit Management

The Landslide Druid has several layers of Spirit Generation or Cost Reduction:

• Chance to Restore Spirit on the Weapon
• Casts of Petrify, both hard cast and from Runewords
• Cost Reduction on Ring of Starless Skies
• Resource Generation% from Gear and Paragon Nodes
• Spirit On Kill from Paragon Nodes.

If these are insufficient sources while leveling and gearing, consider doing one or several of the following for Spirit Generation

• Use Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon, replacing Wariness.
• Use Energize Spirit Boon, replacing Swooping Attacks.
• Use Tibault’s Will, allowing casts of Enhanced Earthen Bulwark to restore Spirit.
• Use Aspect of the Umbral for Spirit when applying Crowd Control. This can be paired with Aspect of Quicksand to guarantee the Spirit refund.
• Use Runeword setup Poc Lum for Spirit Refunds.
• Get Spirit Per Second on Helm, Chest or Boots.
• Remove Points in Wild Impulses.
• Use Claw as an attack to build Spirit.

Elixirs, Incense and Health Potions

The Alchemist offers helpful consumables at the cost of foraged materials found throughout Sanctuary.

• Craft the highest available Elixir of Fortitude for Maximum Life%. Max Life% is significant for Overpower.
• One of each Incense Category can be used, for a total of three active Incenses at a time. In priority:
  • Defensive – Reddamine Buzz for Max Life, or Song of the Mountain if you need the Armor, up to 1000 armor cap.
  • Core Stat – Blessed Guide for Willpower.
  • Resistance – Soothing Spices for All Resist, All Resist Maximum, and Armor.
• Upgrade your Potion as you level, increasing the instant healing of the potion!

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Season 8 Updates

The changes to Xan mean even more Overpower attacks more frequently, which is a welcome gain for this build, and the Stack Decay reduction to Wildheart Hunger is welcome for easier management. However, the loss of extra Immobilizes from the Worldly Fortune and Constricting Tendrils means far fewer terramotes for our Landslides.

Is the change to Earthen Might sufficient to use? Probably only in very early gearing before you’re managing your Spirit well. The lack of Lucky Hit sources is still a bit rough.

The following list details the important changes in the Season 8 Patch Updates that are specific to the Landslide Druid. For general Season 8 information, check out our Season 8 Hub.

Itemization:

• Xan:
  • Previous: Your next skill critically overpowers. Overflow: 1% damage per 10 Offering.
  • Now: Your next attack will cause your hits to be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower for 0.25 seconds. Overflow: 0.35% damage per Offering.
  • Offering required reduced from 700 to 300.
• Lum – Offering gained increased from 2.5% to 3.5%.
• Worldly Fortune:
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to Apply Crowd Control affixes have been removed.
  • New Affixes: Lucky Hit Chance, Impairment Reduction, Crowd Control Duration.
• Dominate – Legendary max bonus reduced from 20% to 12%.
• Wildheart Hunger – Decay rate reduced from 2% per second to 0.5% per second.

Skills and Stats:

• Blood Howl
  • Previous: Kills reduce the cooldown of Blood Howl Blood Howl by 1 second.
  • Now: Killing enemies reduce the Cooldown of Blood Howl by 1 second and hitting a Boss reduces its Cooldown by 0.3 seconds.
• Poison Creeper
  • Passive damage over 2 seconds increased from 47% to 65%.
  • Active damage over 2 seconds increased from 126% to 180%.
• Earthen Might
  • While the guaranteed Critical Strike buff is active, it now also gains 50%[x] increased Critical Strike damage.
  • Earthen Might can now be procced again while the buff is active after a very short delay.
• Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon – Maximum Spirit reduced from 40 to 30. Spirit generation increased from 5 to 10.
• Sinister Tendrils (Previously Constricting Tendrils) Legendary Node
  • Previous: Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to entangle the enemy with vines, Immobilizing them for 2 seconds and Poisoning them for 300%[x] of the Base damage dealt over 4 seconds.
  • Now: Nature Magic Skills do 35% increased damage against Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to deal [800% weapon damage] Poisoning damage over 4 seconds.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the description for Enhanced Claw displayed its Attack Speed bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Fur would snapshot its bonus when using Insatiable Fury.
• Fixed an issue where the Mending passive did not function when using Insatiable Fury.

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Changelog

• April 24, 2025: Updated to new unified format and for Season 8 Patch 2.2 changes.
• January 16, 2025: Ownership of page transferred.
  • Significant changes to layout. All sections rewritten for accuracy and clarity.
  • Updated for Season 7 and Patch 2.1.
• October 3rd, 2024: Updated for Season 6 (Patch 2.0.2)
• August 10th, 2024: Changed Paragon, Updated Skills, and Made Changes due to current bugs.
• August 4th, 2024: Updated for Season 5 (Patch 1.5.0)
• June 17th, 2024: Updated for Season 4 Midseason (Patch 1.4.3)
• May 10th, 2024: Updated for Season 4 (Patch 1.4.0)
• January 22nd, 2024: Updated for Season 3 (Patch 1.3.0)
• October 17th, 2023: Updated for Season 2 (Patch 1.2.0)
• August 7th, 2023: Updated for patch 1.1.1.
• July 23rd, 2023: Updated Gems section to reflect the presence of Malignant Hearts
• July 18th, 2023: Updated for Season 1 added Malignant Hearts, changed Aspects, updated Skill Tree and Skill Bar.