Ravens – Druid Build for Diablo 4 (Season 11)

Build Introduction

The Ravens Druid is a pet playstyle, summoning swarms of Ravens to unkindly slay your enemies. With the new Kilt of Blackwing Unique Item and Stormcrow’s Aspect, Ravens are now a strong and viable playstyle.

• Kilt of Blackwing – Ravens deal 60-100% increased damage and shapeshifting into a different form or activating a Companion Skill Summons a Raven that attacks nearby enemies. Summoning a Raven has a chance to call forth an Unkindness for 10 seconds, increasing the number of Ravens Summoned to three for the duration.

This is a Grizzly Rage build that uses the Dire Werebear form for deadly effect. However, there are Variant ways to play around Ravens, including Dire Werewolf and Human Cataclysm.

If you are interested in other Companion skills, such as Wolves, try out the Wolf Companion Druid.

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

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Kilt of Blackwing

Required Aspects

Shepherd’s Aspect

Stormcrow’s Aspect

This build relies on Pack Leader Spirit Boon resets. This requires high Lucky Hit and Critical Strike Chance for a smooth play experience.

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

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This guide covers everything necessary to get started on the Ravens 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

Cyclone Armor Debilitating Roar Claw Grizzly Rage Ravens

The final Skill is fully flexible. You can choose to leave it empty or fill in another Skill, such as Trample for extra mobility or a filler spender like Primal Pulverize for damage reduction. This build can also situationally use Aspect of the Wildrage, which would not want any other Companion on the Skill Bar.

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.

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.

Overload is an easy way to apply Poisoned Condition and give some extra damage. Ravens have the Storm tag thanks to Stormcrow’s Aspect.

Once geared with enough Lucky Hit for Sinister Tendrils paragon node, Overload can be swapped for another useful Spirit Boon like Swooping Attack or Iron Feather.

Check how the build plays in the Build Mechanics section.

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

Check the following sections for all important Ravens 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 an Optional Mythic Unique or Unique Item will include valid alternative legendary powers to use while still leveling and gearing. Combine these with the right stat priorities.

Slot	Aspect	Unique/Legendary Power
2 Handed Polearm	Shepherd’s Aspect	Companion Skills deal an additional 5-13% damage per Companion you have.
Head	Mythic – Heir of Perdition Juggernaut’s Aspect	Succumb to hatred and earn Mother’s Favor, increasing your damage dealt by 60%. Slaughter enemies to briefly steal Mother’s Favor from Nearby allies.
Chest	Mythic – Shroud of False Death Spirit Bond Aspect	If you haven’t dealt damage in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves	Fists of Fate Aspect of the Wildrage	Your attacks randomly deal 1% to 200-300% of their normal damage.
Pants	Required Unique – Kilt of Blackwing	Ravens deal 60-100% increased damage and shapeshifting into a different form or activating a Companion Skill Summons a Raven that attacks nearby enemies. Summoning a Raven has a chance to call forth an Unkindness for 10 seconds, increasing the number of Ravens Summoned to 3 for the duration.
Boots	Khassim Steppewalkers Ghostwalker Aspect	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	Stormcrow’s Aspect	Ravens now deal Lightning damage which is increased by 60-100%. Ravens Active deals its full damage in half the time, and enemies inside it are Stunned.
Ring 1	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast	Critical Strikes while in Grizzly Rage increases your damage by 3% for 60 seconds, up to 120%.
Ring 2	Aspect of the Rabid Bear	Deal 40-80% more Poison Damage. While Shapeshifted, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage.

For more information on Legendary Aspects and the Codex of Power, check the guide here.

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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	Gearing Affixes	Tempering Affixes
2 Handed Polearm – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life Critical Strike Damage Overpower Damage Chance to Heal	Companion Augments – Chance for Ravens to deal Double Damage
Helm – Mythic Heir of Perdition	Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Movement Speed Ranks to Core Skills
Helm – Legendary Aspect	Ranks to Ravens Cooldown Reduction Willpower All Resistances Armor	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor%
Chest – Mythic Shroud of False Death	All Stats Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Maximum Life Resource Generation
Chest- Legendary Aspect	Willpower Maximum Life Armor All Resistance	Companion Innovation – Ravens Active Size
Gloves – Unique Fists of Fate	Lucky Hit Chance Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for 3 Seconds
Gloves – Legendary Aspect	Attack Speed Maximum Life Willpower Lucky Hit Chance	Companion Innovation – Ravens Active Size
Pants – Unique Kilt of Blackwing	Maximum Life Ranks to Ravens Ravens Cooldown Reduction Chance for Ravens to Deal Double Damage
Boots – Unique Khassim Steppewalkers	Ranks of Endless Tempest Crowd Control Duration Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction Ranks to Bad Omen
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Implicit: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown Movement Speed Willpower Armor All Resistances	Druid Motion – Movement Speed
Amulet – Legendary Aspect	Willpower% Ranks to Call of the Wild Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Quickshift Critical Strike Chance Armor%	Companion Innovation – Ravens Active Size
Ring – Legendary Aspect	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Willpower Lucky Hit Chance Chance on Hit to make Enemies Vulnerable	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration OR Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction

Max Active Size is 100% added between all tempers.

Between Kilt of Blackwing and your Weapon Temper, you will want around a 100% Chance for Ravens to Deal Double Damage. Any % above that does nothing.

High Lucky Hit Chance is essential for Pack Leader Resets on your Raven Cooldown.

For the dedicated page on Gear Systems and Itemization Overview, check the guide here.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

The Ravens Druid can benefit from several Unique and Mythic Unique Items.

Uniques

• Kilt of Blackwing is the Ravens-dedicated Unique item introduced in Season 10. It boosts Ravens damage and will periodically summon extra Ravens for your Shepherd’s Aspect count.

• Fists of Fate is a potential source for high Lucky Hit Chance, which is essential for Pack Leader Spirit Boon resets. if you have high sources on all other gear, this could be swapped for a Legendary Gloves, which gives another Tempering slot for Ravens Size.

• Khassim Steppewalkers are a convenient item for mobility and cooldown reduction during dry spells on Pack Leader resets. The Boots slot is otherwise flexible, and you could opt for Yen’s Blessing for occasional extra casts of cooldown Skills, or a Legendary Boots with good gear affixes.

Mythic Uniques

• Heir of Perdition is a strong multiplier with even stronger Gear Affixes. The Critical Strike and Lucky Hit chance both boost our chance for Pack Leader Resets.

• Shroud of False Death, like for all builds, the +1 to all Skill Passives is powerful and the All Stats fills in many paragon secondary rare node bonuses.

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Gems and Runewords

The following are the recommended Gem and Runeword setups for the Ravens Druid.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Emerald for Critical Strike Damage	Grand Sapphire for Willpower	Grand Skull for Armor

Runewords

Use these Runeword combinations for the Ravens Druid, placed in the 2-Handed Weapon and into one Armor slot.

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Ahu Xan	Ahu – Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance against non-Healthy enemies. 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.
Nagu Ceh	Nagu – Gain: 100 Offering. Maintain at least 1 active Summon for 5 seconds, gaining Offering for each up to 6 Summons. Ceh – Requires: 100 Offering, Overflow: Summon Multiple Wolves. Cooldown: 1 seconds. Summon a Spirit Wolf to attack enemies for 8 seconds.

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 offer periods where all direct damage events Critically Overpower.

Ceh will periodically summon Spirit Wolves to assist you in combat, applying Chill, Vulnerable, and adding to Shepherd’s Aspect count. They are Unhindered, passing through enemies and the player. They won’t do high damage like your Ravens, but they’re good boys anyway.

Yul may be a more efficient trigger than Ahu on low-target count content like Bossing.

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Paragon Board

The following are the preferred Glyphs, Boards, and pathing recommended for making the most of the Ravens 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 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.

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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 Attack Speed, 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

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 Ravens Druid:

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Core Skill: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Aldkin, the Cursed Child

• Reinforcement Ability – Field of Languish
• Opportunity – Ravens

Hysteria and Bloodlust will both give useful Attack Speed Bonuses. Other setups are viable, such as Subo’s Cover Fire for Critical Strike Damage and minimap marking quality of life, or Rahier for any needed extra Armor.

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Build Mechanics

Rotation

• Pre-build Quickshift Stacks. Alternate Claw with other non-Werewolf Skills.
• Activate Grizzly Rage.
• Debilitating Roar for damage buffs and damage reduction debuffs on enemies.
• Place Ravens on your enemies, stunning them and dealing damage.

Cyclone Armor Active portion is not used. The passive defense is present even during Grizzly Rage.

Claw can be used as a Spirit Generator or, if used, to fish for Pack Leader resets during any downtime.

Skills, Support, and Synergies

The primary source of damage for the Ravens Druid is your swarms of Actively placed Ravens.

Ravens periodically and passively swoop down and peck at enemies. Their Active use places a zone of Ravens that deal damage over time within that area.

Summon Count and Modifiers

Base Ravens has one lonely Raven.

• One With Nature adds one.
• Brutal Ravens adds two more.
• If used, Aspect of the Stampede adds another.
• Kilt of Blackwing Unique Item summons extra when shapeshifting or periodically summoning an Unkindness on Ravens cast.

Stormcrow’s Aspect gives Ravens the Storm Tag, deals lightning damage (Overridden by Aspect of the Rabid Bear), deals the damage in the Raven Zone faster, and stuns enemies.

Kilt of Blackwing summons extra ravens when shapeshifting or casting Ravens and boosts Raven Damage.

Companions inherit all your Stats. For example, your attack speed bonuses will improve your Companions’ attack speed. Likewise, for other stats like Critical Strike Chance and Lucky Hit Chance.

Attack Speed does not improve tick rate of placed Raven Zones. however, it increases passive Raven’s attack rate, Unkindness chance, and speed of cast. The speed of casting is still primarily reliant on Pack Leader resets, however.

Shepherd’s Aspect increases Companion damage for every active Companion. Because of One With Nature, Wolves and Poison Creeper do not need to be on your bars; they’re passively out and counting for Shepherd’s Aspect. If opting to use Aspect of the Wildrage, it is better not to have the other Companions on your Skill Bar.

Spirit Wolves summoned from the Ceh Rune also count for the total Shepherd’s Aspect. These are also Summons and will scale with some Companion modifiers.

Ravens Cooldown

Ravens rely on Spirit Boon Pack Leader with high Lucky Hit to reset our Ravens. Spirit Boon Pack Leader resets Companion Skills as a Lucky Hit on Critical Strikes.

• We can guarantee Critical Strikes in late endgame just with masterworked Heir of Perdition and other Gear sources.
• Lucky Hit comes from paragon nodes in Untamed or Sinister Tendrils, Gear Affixes, or Elixirs.

Enough sources of Critical Strike and Lucky Hit, and we all but guarantee resets before having to worry.

Ultimate and Key Passive

This build uses Grizzly Rage as its Ultimate Skill. Grizzly Rage grants Unstoppable for its duration, grants Damage Reduction, and a large Damage multiplier. If using Dire Wolf’s Aspect, Grizzly Rage Grants Movement Speed and Aligns for Werewolf Skills and Tags.

Grizzly Rage has a capped duration, but we gain or extend Grizzly Rage duration with:

• Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast gives up to 10 seconds of extra duration
• Offensive Tempers on gear give more duration.

Cooldown of Grizzly Rage can be reduced to minimize downtime with the following:

• Rank 5 of Grizzly Rage reduces the cooldown by 10 seconds
• Any generic Cooldown Reduction on gear
• Calm Before the Storm Spirit Boon

Our Key Passive One With Nature gives the passive count and passive attacks of any pet, even if not on the Skill Bar. This is important for Shepherd’s Aspect and allows the use of other companions’ passives on top. This and the damage multiplier for Companions put this Key Passive ahead for this build.

Variant Play

This build is a Grizzly Rage Werebear build. There are other options available to fit the need, situation, or playstyle preference.

Dire Werewolf

Dire Werewolf is a Wolf Commander thematic gameplay that offers better movement options. To play into this variant:

• Add Dire Wolf’s Aspect on Legendary Boots.
• Exchange Debilitating Roar for Innate Blood Howl.
• Add Primal Shred for a mobility option. Take extra points from Mending.

Cataclysm Stormcrows

We have room for a Chaotic Mjölnic Ryng if you wanted to play a Cataclysm style Human gameplay. This can cause less damage than other options, but will still be valid in Torment 4 content like Infernal Hordes. To play this style:

• Use Gathlen’s Birthright on the helm. Mastercraft ranks in Humanity.
• Exchange Headhunter for Human.
• Exchange rank in Mending for Humanity.
• Exchange ranks in Grizzly Rage for Cataclysm.
• Exchange ranks in Heightened Senses for Endless Tempest, and Quickshift for Bad Omen.
• Use Mjölnic Ryng, replacing Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast.
• Exchange tempers for Grizzly Rage Cooldown for Cataclysm Cooldown, and Grizzly Duration for Storm Critical Strike Chance.

Which Elixirs Should You Use?

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

• Craft the highest available Elixir of Advantage II for Lucky Hit and Attack Speed 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.

Season 11 Updates

Without Savagery, Ravens is played with a Pack Leader Spirit Boon-style gameplay. This means gearing will be stricter, requiring high Critical Strike Chance and Lucky Hit Chance for resets on your Ravens. It should push around the same strength, but be a little worse in a spammy farm setting, but still effective.

The change to Grizzly Rage means it is stronger while up, but we have to deal with downtime. We still take it for the many benefits, including long-term Unstoppable, favorable aspects, the strong multiplier, and defensive bumps. The change to Rabid Beast makes the downtime a little more *bear*able.

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

Itemization:

• Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
  • Previous: The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by 3-10 seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increase your Critical Strike Damage by 10% for the duration, up to maximum of 200%.
  • Now: Critical Strikes while in Grizzly Rage increases your damage by 3% for 60 seconds, up to 120%.
• Aspect of the Rabid Bear (Bear)
  • Previous: While Grizzly Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 40-80% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
  • Now: Deal 40-80% more Poison Damage. While Shapeshifted, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage.

Skills and Stats:

• Enhanced Debilitating Roar – Fortify reduced from 20% to 15% of Maximum Life.
• Grizzly Rage:
  • Stacking duration is no longer a part of the ability, and Cooldown doesn’t start until the ability ends.
  • Stacking Damage per second removed and Damage Bonus increased to 60%.
  • Skill Ranks of Grizzly Rage now grant bonus damage instead of reducing Cooldown.
  • Cooldown reduced from 50 to 35 seconds.
  • Duration increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
  • Damage Reduction increased from 20% to 30%.
  • Rank 5:
    • Previous: You gain 30%[+] increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
    • Now: Cooldown reduced by 10 seconds.
• Supreme Grizzly Rage – Fortify per second reduced from 8% to 2% of Maximum Life.
• 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%.
• 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 description for Grizzly Rage didn’t properly display the damage increase for adding additional skill points.

Changelog

• 6 December, 2025: Updated for Patch 2.5 and Season 11. Changed to a Pack Leader Spirit Boon playstyle.
• October 1, 2025: Updated some recommendations for standard gearing and Chaotic setup, and added a section for Spirit Management.
• September 21, 2025: Guide created for Season 10, Patch 2.4, and the introduction of Unique Item Kilt of Blackwing, and several bug fixes to Ravens. Seasonal Players, please note that the Season 10 Mechanics section has setups that include the seasonal Chaos Armors.