Landstorm – Druid Build for Diablo 4 (Season 11)

Build Introduction

Earth and Sky collide with the Landstorm Druid! This is the Dual-Core Landslide Lightning Storm build, sometimes called Lightningslide, Slidestorm, or the LSLS druid. Using hard casts of Landslide with Key passive Nature’s Fury, this build unleashes a high volume of empowered Lightning Storm in a wide coverage.

This is a throwback build excelling in Infernal Hordes and tailored for that content, and will excel in the rest of open world content. Updates to Nature’s Fury allow the build to shine again. This will be a Human Petrify version of the build by default.

Just starting on your Druid adventure? Try out any of our Druid Leveling Builds and swap to this one at Level 60.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Gathlen’s Birthright

Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps

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 Landstorm 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

PetrifyBlood HowlCyclone ArmorEarthen BulwarkLightning StormLandslide

Nature’s Fury will favor triggering a Skill assigned to the Skill Bar. With Lightning Storm on the Bar, this means more Lightning Storms and fewer Tornadoes.

Eternal players complete Renown events in each zone for additional Skill Points, while Seasonal Players engage with the Season Journey and Rank for these Skill points.

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.

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 Landstorm 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.

Slot	Aspect	Description
Staff	Aspect of Natural Balance	Casting a Storm Skill grants your Earth Skills 50-70% Critical Strike Damage for 4 seconds. Casting a Earth Skill increases the Critical Strike Chance of Storm Skills by 10- 15% for 4 seconds.
Helm	Unique – Gathlen’s Birthright	While in Human form, every [300 – 150] Nature Magic Critical Strikes, or [60 – 30] against Bosses, grant Anima of the Forest for 15 seconds. Anima of the Forest grants the Perfect Storm and Earthen Might Key Passives.
Chest	Mythic – Shroud of False Death Juggernaut’s Aspect	If you haven’t dealt damage in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves	Unique – Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps	Lightning Storm gains 1 additional strike each times it grows. Lightning Storm Critical Strikes cause lightning to strike twice, dealing 60-100% increased damage.
Pants	Unique – Tibault’s Will	You deal 10-20% increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource.
Boots	Unique – Khassim Steppewalkers Aspect of Metamorphosis	Now: Damaging 150-100 Enemies with Nature Magic Skills grants Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 4-8 seconds. Enemies you run through are Immobilized for 1 second.
Amulet	Aspect of Retaliation	Your Core Skills deal up to 35-75% increased damage based on your amount of Fortify.
Ring	Unique – Earthbreaker Crashstone Aspect	Casts of Landslide leave behind Tectonic Spikes that deals Physical damage over 2 seconds. Spawning a Landslide pillar within Tectonic Spikes has a 20-30% chance to spawn two instead.
Ring	Mythic – Ring of Starless Skies Accelerating Aspect	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 of 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, with some alternatives given. The bolded affixes are the most important targets for Greater Affixes and Masterwork Critical Increases. Check the Tempering guide and Masterworking guide for more details about these topics.

Slot	Stats	Tempering
Staff – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life Spirit Cost Reduction Critical Strike Damage	Earth Augments – Chance for Landslide Projectiles to Cast Twice
Helm – Unique Gathlen’s Birthright	Willpower% Ranks to Humanity Armor Movement Speed while in Human Form
Chest – Mythi Shroud of False Death	All Stats Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Maximum Life Resource Generation
Chest – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life All Resistance or Armor Spirit Per Second	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor%
Gloves – Unique Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps	Ranks to Lightning Storm Damage to Distant Enemies Critical Strike Chance Ranks to Defiance
Pants – Unique Tibault’s Will	All Stats Critical Strike Chance Maximum Resource Attack Speed
Boots – Unique Khassim Steppewalkers	Inherent: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown by 0.5 Seconds Ranks to Endless Tempest Crowd Control Duration Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction Ranks to Bad Omen
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Movement Speed Willpower Max Life Spirit Per Second	Druid Motion – Movement Speed
Amulet – Legendary Aspect	Willpower% Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Natural Disaster Ranks to Resonance	Druid Motion – Movement Speed Storm Finesse – Storm Critical Strike Chance
Ring – Earthbreaker	Chance for Landslide Projectiles to Cast Twice Earth Attack Speed to Landslide Critical Strike Chance
Ring – Mythic Ring of Starless Skies	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Ranks to Core Skills
Ring – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Max Life Chance to Apply Vulnerable	Storm Finesse – Storm Critical Strike Chance

After gearing, look at progression systems like Paragon next.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

The following Unique Items are recommended for the Landstorm Druid.

• Gathlen’s Birthright gives strong affixes for a Human build, periodically granting access to additional Key Passives Perfect Storm and Earthen Might. Because of the volume of Critical Strike attacks Landstorm puts out, downtime to charge Anima of the Forest will be minimal.

• Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps boost Lightning Storm, causing the storm to grow faster and sending an empowered double strike on Critical Strike.

• Tibault’s Will damage multiplier will be up frequently thanks to Enhanced Earthen Bulwark. This is also a solid source of Spirit as necessary.

• Khassim Steppewalkers offer good affixes and some mobility. The Nature Magic Cooldown will be useful for Earthen Bulwark and Petrify. This is a flexible option with just a standard Legendary Boots with Aspect of Metamorphosis, which would grant another Unstoppable source for Tibault’s Will. Seasonal Characters can easily swap this out for a Chaotic Armor of their choice.

• Earthbreaker is a flex choice. While the affixes for Earth Attack Speed and Chance for extra Landslide Projectiles are strong, the unique affix extra landslides no longer trigger extra Nature’s Fury chances for Lightning Storms.

Mythic Unique Items

• Shroud of False Death +1 to all Skill Passives is exceptionally strong, as it is for all builds. The large All Stats category will also complete many Paragon Rare Node Secondary Bonuses.

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Gems and Runewords

The following are the recommended Gem and Runeword setups for the Landstorm 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, into Armor slots:

Runeword Combination	Effects
Igni Yom	Igni – Gain: 25 Offering. Stores Offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a Non-Basic Skill to gain the stored Offering, Up to 500 Offering. Yom – Requires: 500 Offering. Overflow: Increase Stun Duration. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Invoke the Druid’s Petrify Skill, Stunning enemies, restoring Primary Resource.
Ahu Qax	Ahu – Gain: 15 Offering Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against non-Healthy enemies. Qax – Casting a Skill other than a Basic or Defensive Consumes all of your Primary Resource to increase your damage up to 100% for 1 second.

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.

Resource – If you cannot maintain your Spirit while using Qax, swap it for another option like PocLum.

Speedfarm – For farm content where Qax is overkill, use Bac Jah for mobility.

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

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Paragon Board

Use these Glyphs, Boards, and pathing for the Landstorm 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 a stricter pathing to take almost 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 giving 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.

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Season 11 Mechanics

Divine Gifts

Earn Corrupted Essences by defeating the Lesser Evils in their associated content. These Essences can be transformed into Divine Gifts by Hadriel. Divine Gifts have three aspects.

1. Increased reward in the associated content
2. A purified effect
3. A corrupted effect

Slotting an Essence into the Purified slot grants double drop rewards and a boon, while slotting an Essence into the Corrupted slot grants normal drop rewards and a curse. Upgrade these gifts by engaging with their content. Leveling these Gifts increases the drop rewards while the boon and curse stay the same.

Here is a general setup for Divine Gifts:

Helltides – Duriel

• Purified: Essence of Pain – Briefly gain maximum Barrier after becoming Injured, every 20 seconds.
• Corrupted: Essence of Squallor

World Bosses – Azmodan

• Purified: Essence of Sin – Gain 20% increased Armor.
• Corrupted: Essence of Hellfire

Kurast Undercity – Andariel

• Purified: Essence of Anguish – Gain 30% Movement Speed.
• Corrupted: Essence of Screams
• Note: If you are already move speed capped or need extra defense, swap the Andariel Gifts for a 20% Resistance boost to defense.

Belial – The Pit

• Purified: Essence of Lies – Fortify for 1% of your Maximum Life a second.
• Corrupted: Essence of Shadows

These Gifts can be freely swapped based on desired rewards. For example, swap the Belial Gifts to earn more gold while in the Pit.

Sanctification

Hadriel offers a final gamble to empower items. Use the Heavenly Forge to Sanctify the item, imbuing the item with heavenly power.

Sanctifying is the final change for an item. After Sanctifying the item, it cannot be upgraded, masterworked, tempered, or otherwise altered, including its Aspect. Runes and Gems can still be swapped.

Options that can happen include:

• Apply a bonus Legendary power
• Improve an Affix into a Greater Affix
• Add a bonus Affix from a pool of special Sanctification affixes
• Replace an existing Affix with a random Sanctification affix
• Add a random amount (5-25) of bonus Quality

Some of the jackpot desirable Sanctifications include +Ranks to All Skills, useful Affixes like Critical Strike Chance, or Offensive Generic Legendary Aspects. The potential Quality Increases will be especially strong on a weapon, increasing its DPS. Other options can ruin your item, such as replacing a necessary existing affix.

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. Other options for Mercenaries are valid, such as Subo’s minimap tracking and Cover Fire, or Raheir for Armor as needed.

Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

The Landstorm Gameplay is straightforward.

1. Cast Landslide to trigger Nature’s Fury Lightning Storm.

Supporting Skills apply debuffs, buffs, or help generate Spirit.

• Petrify grants Spirit, stuns enemies, and applies a Critical Strike damage debuff.
• Blood Howl heals and grants attack speed.
• Earthen Bulwark grants Unstoppable and Barrier. This unstoppable grants Spirit via Tibault’s Will.
• Cyclone Armor is largely passive, granting a defense against non-physical attacks.
• If used, Evading with Aspect of Metamorphosis can trigger Unstoppable for Tibault’s Will.

Skills, Support, and Synergies

A significant part of what boosts Lightning Storm damage is the Nature’s Fury effect that auto-cast triggers from Nature’s Fury have both the Storm Tag and the Earth Tag. This means your Lightning Storm can benefit from high-value Passives and Multipliers like:

• Earthen Might Key Passive for Critical Strike Damage
• Earthen Devastation legendary paragon node Critical Strike Damage
• Skill passive effects for Earth Skills, including Crushing Earth, Safeguard, and Stone Guard.
• Both parts of Natural Disaster will separately apply.
• Both parts of Aspect of Natural Balance will apply.
• If used, Crashstone Aspect will work against Crowd-Controlled enemies.

Lightning Storm is also boosted by effects like Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps, granting a double strike on Critical Strike and other generic modifiers like Aspect of Retaliation.

Poisoned Condition for Envenom is applied with Overload Spirit Boon and Sinister Tendrils.

Fortify is built with Safeguard.

This build has no Werebear skills or buff maintenance to worry about, making it simply Unbearable.

Spirit Management

This build can be Spirit-hungry. We have several ways we manage Spirit:

• Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon for Spirit and Spirit Per Second.
• Energize Spirit Boon to periodically restore Spirit.
• Tibault’s Will for periodic Spirit when gaining Unstoppable from Earthen Bulwark.
• Casts of Petrify Restore Spirit, including from Yom.
• Gear Affixes like Spirit Cost Reduction on Weapon.
• Ring of Starless Skies grants up to 5 stacks of 10% Spirit Cost Reduction.
• Any gear affixes for Spirit Cost Reduction, Spirit per Second, and Resource Generation

If these are insufficient to keep Casting your Landslides, try one or more of the following:

• Exchange Qax for Poc Lum
• Target more gear affixes with Spirit Cost Reduction, Spirit per Second, and Resource Generation.
• Swap Overload Spirit Boon for Calm Before the Storm.
• Use your evade with Aspect of Metamorphosis to trigger Tibault’s Will
• Play with Cataclysm and Mjölnic Ryng to solve Spirit entirely (See variant below)

Cataclysm Landstorm

For a damage hit, you can opt to swap Petrify for Cataclysm. This can be the right choice early on, before you get your Ring of Starless Skies to make Spirit Management and your farm content simpler. To play into this Ultimate:

• Swap ranks in Petrify for Cataclysm.
• Use Mjölnic Ryng. Mastercraft ranks in Endless Tempest.
• Swap ranks in Catastrophe for Endless Tempest.
• Swap Resource tempers for any resource generation or Petrify Cooldown for Cataclysm Cooldown.
• If necessary, use Calm Before the Storm spirit boon or Zec.
• Note – There’s also an option to just keep Petrify and still use Mjölnic Ryng – your Nature’s Fury Petrifies will often be casting Cataclysm anyways!

Elixirs, Incense, and Health Potions

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

• Craft Elixir of Advantage II for Attack Speed and Lucky Hit bonuses.
• 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.
  • Core Stat – Blessed Guide for Willpower.
  • Resistance – Soothing Spices for All Resist, All Resist Maximum, and Armor.

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Season 11 Updates

Note that there are lots of sweeping changes to defensive systems, gearing, masterworking, tempering, and season journey. Don’t be afraid to take a couple of extra defensive choices over previous seasons to keep things smooth.

PTR notes indicated Bad Omen would cast Lightning Storm Strikes, but it is probably just Lightning Bolts instead, so is not taken. Will recheck once season goes live.

The following list details the important changes in the Season 11 Patch Updates that are specific to the Landstorm Druid. For general Season 11 information, check out our Season 11 Hub.

Itemization:

• New Item – Khassim Steppewalkers: Damaging 150-100 Enemies with Nature Magic Skills grants Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 4-8 seconds. Enemies you run through are Immobilized for 1 second.

Skills and Stats:

• Energize Spirit Boon now restores 100 Spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.
• Preserving Earthen Bulwark – Fortify reduced from 18% to 10% of Maximum Life.
• Earthen Might – Now restores 100 Spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.
• Defensive Posture:
  • Previous: Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5% and you gain 3% Damage Reduction while Fortified.
  • Now: Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5%.
• Safeguard – Fortify reduced from 3% to .1% of Maximum Life.
• Stone Guard:
  • Previous: While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, your Earth Skills deal 4% increased damage.
  • Now: While Fortified, your Earth Skills deal 4% increased damage.
• Earthen Devastation:
  • Previous: Your Earth Skills deal 10% increased Critical Strike Damage, increased by 20% of your Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus, up to 60%.
  • Now: Your Earth Skills deal 70% increased Critical Strike Damage.
• Sinister Tendrils:
  • Previous: Nature Magic Skills deal 35% increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 800% damage over 4 seconds.
  • Now: Deal 40% increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 1000% damage over 4 seconds.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed buff from Khasim Steppewalkers could be permanently granted when casting two defensive skills in a row.
• Fixed an issue where the description for the buff from Khasim Steppewalkers displayed the wrong values.

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Changelog

• 6 December, 2025: Updated for Patch 2.5 and Season 11.
• 21 September, 2025: Guide created for Season 10 and Patch 2.4. Seasonal Players, please note that the Season 10 Mechanics section has setups that include the seasonal Chaos Armors.