Wolf Companion – Druid Build for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

Updated for Season 8

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Introduction

The Wolf Companion Druid is a pet playstyle specializing in Single-Target damage. Summon your Wolves and command them to seek and slay your enemies. This build focuses solely on Wolves as the active companion, with supporting companions present only with One With Nature.

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

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Storm’s Companion

Required Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Alpha

Aspect of the Stampede

Shepherd’s 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 Wolves Companion 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

Blood Howl Debilitating Roar Wolves Petrify Maul Shred

If you are missing skill points, complete Renown events in each zone.

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.

Pack Leader is essential for the resetting your Wolves Active skill. Check how the build plays in the Build Mechanics section.

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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 Wolf Companion Druid:

Main Power

• Ashava’s Poison Breath

Secondary Modifiers

• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Beastmaster’s Training

Mercenaries

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.

The following Mercenary options are recommended for the Wolf Companion Druid:

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Core Skill: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Aldkin, the Cursed Child

• Reinforcement Ability – Field of Languish
• Opportunity – Wolves

Hysteria and Bloodlust will both give useful Attack Speed Bonuses.

Raheir can also be used if extra Armor or Resistances are needed.

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Season 8 Updates

Not a lot of change to Wolves this season; Seasonal Boss Powers are largely changed from one flavor to the next, where Grow Crit and damage is now Hatred’s Embrace’s Crit and Beastmaster‘s damage multi. A few welcome bug fixes should clean up some previous issues with build consistency.

The following list details the important changes in the Season 8 Patch Updates that are specific to the Wolf Companion 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 0.35 seconds. Overflow: Increased Duration
  • Offering required reduced from 700 to 300.
• Worldly Fortune
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to Apply Crowd Control affixes have been removed.
  • New Affixes: Lucky Hit Chance, Impairment Reduction, Crowd Control Duration.

Skills and Stats:

• Enhanced 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%.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the NaguCeh combo would sometimes break if the target dies right before the Spirit Wolf tries to do its ice explosion.
• Fixed an issue where the description for Enhanced Claw displayed its Attack Speed bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
• Stormshifter’s Aspect – Fixed an issue where the Stormshifter’s Aspect did not actually grant as many Shapeshifting skill ranks as expected in certain scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where the effect from Mjölnic Ryng could randomly stop functioning.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Airidah’s Inexorable Will did not clearly describe the power.

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Changelog

• 24 April, 2025: Updated to new unified format and for Season 8 Patch 2.2 changes.
• 3 March, 2025: Updates for 2.1.3.
• 16 January, 2025: Updates for Season 7 and Patch 2.1. 2 Tab Paragon introduced, Guide split into separate pages.
• 18 October, 2024: Ownership of page transferred. Significant changes to Paragon, Skill Trees, and Gearing.
• October 3rd, 2024: Updated for Season 6 (Patch 2.0.2)
• August 3rd, 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 27th, 2023: Clarified the Aspects required to transition to this build, in the Build Requirements section.
• July 23rd, 2023: Updated Gems section to reflect the presence of Malignant Hearts.
• July 18th, 2023: Updated for Season 1, adding Malignant Hearts to the guide. Added Active Skill Bar.