Pulverize – Druid Build for Diablo 4 (Season 9)

Build Introduction

Smash through the enemies of Sanctuary with the Pulverize Druid: Puddle Edition! This is your guide for the balanced and dependable Pulverize Druid. This is a poisonous Grizzly Rage build leveraging the new Rotting Lightbringer, splashing and attacking with a high volume of Overpowered puddles.

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

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

The following Legendary Aspects are required for build functionality to get started on the Pulverize Druid:

Required Aspects

Shockwave Aspect

Aspect of the Ursine Horror

Several Unique Items enhance the gameplay for the build but are not required for function. Check out the Uniques section for more information.

This is a Grizzly Rage build! Read up on managing your Ultimate Skill here.

Quick Navigation

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

Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Skill Bar Setup for Pulverize (order does not matter)

Debilitating Roar Grizzly Rage Trample Cyclone Armor Claw Pulverize

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

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Druid Class Mechanic – Spirit Boons

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

If Spirit is managed, take Calamity over Energize.

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 Pulverize 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 a valid alternative legendary power to use while still leveling and gearing. Combine these with the right stat priorities.

Slot	Gem	Aspect	Unique/Legendary Power
2 Handed Mace	Igni Xan	Unique – Rotting Lightbringer	If no puddle is around you, Pulverize forms a puddle that guarantees its own Overpowers and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poisoning over 7 seconds. Pulverize causes all close puddles to splash 20-60% of their total damage within their areas and around them. Pulverize radius increase will affect the size of the puddle and its splashes.
Helm	Lith Yom	Mythic –Heir of Perdition Unique – Godslayer Crown Aspect of Might	Give in to hatred and earn Lilith’s Favor, increasing your damage dealt by 60%. Slaughter enemies to briefly steal Lilith’s Favor from Nearby allies.
Chest	Grand Sapphire	(Recommended Mythic) Shroud of False Death (recommended Unique) Insatiable Fury Juggernaut’s Aspect	If you haven’t attacked in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40% Movement Speed.
Gloves	N/A	Aspect of the Rabid Bear	While Grizzy Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 40-80% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
Pants	Grand Sapphire	Unique – Tibault’s Will Skinwalker’s Aspect	You deal 10-20% increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource.
Boots	N/A	Aspect of the Ursine Horror	Pulverize is now an Earth Skill. After it Overpowers, your Earth Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.5-1.25 seconds.
Amulet	Grand Diamond	Shockwave Aspect	Pulverize creates a shockwave that travels forward, dealing 80-120% of its damage to targets in the path.
Ring 1	Grand Diamond	Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast	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 5% for the duration, up to a maximum of 100%.
Ring 2	Grand Diamond	Mythic – Ring of Starless Skies Aspect of Retaliation	Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds, up to 50%.

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 Mace – Rotting Lightbringer	Willpower% Poison Damage Chance for Cast Pulverize Twice Resource Cost Reduction
2 Handed Mace	Willpower Max Life Chance on Hit to Restore Spirit Critical Strike Damage	Werebear Augments – Chance to Cast Pulverize Twice Natural Finesse – Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
Helm – Heir of Perdition	Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Movement Speed Ranks to Core Skills
Helm – Godslayer Crown	All Stats Maximum Life Damage to Elites Cooldown Reduction
Helm – Legendary Aspect	Cooldown Reduction Max Life Willpower Spirit Per Second	Worldly Endurance – Max Life Werebear Innovation – Pulverize Size
Chest – Shroud of False Death	All Stats Maximum Life Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth Resource Generation
Chest – Insatiable Fury	Max Life Werebear Overpower Damage Ursine Strength’s Bonuses Ranks to Iron Fur
Chest – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life Armor Spirit Per Second	Worldly Endurance – Max Life Werebear Innovation – Pulverize Size
Gloves – Legendary Aspect	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Ranks to Pulverize Lucky Hit: Chance to make enemies Vulnerable	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration Werebear Innovation – Pulverize Size
Pants – Tibault’s Will	All Stats Maximum Life Maximum Resource Damage Reduction While Unstoppable
Pants – Legendary Aspect	Willpower Max Life Armor Dodge Chance	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor% Werebear Innovation – Pulverize Size
Boots – Legendary Aspect	Implicit: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown By 1.5 Seconds Movement Speed Max Life Resistance to All Elements Spirit Per Second	Natural Motion – Movement Speed Werebear Innovation – Pulverize Size
Amulet	Willpower% Ranks to Envenom Ranks to Toxic Claws Ranks to Quickshift	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction
Ring – Ring of Starless Skies	Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit Chance Ranks to Core Skills
Rings – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Attack Speed Maximum Life Resource Cost Reduction	Shapeshifting Finesse – Grizzly Rage Duration Ultimate Efficiency —  Druid – Grizzly Rage Cooldown Reduction

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 or using a Juggernaut’s Aspect.

Max Size Temper increases is capped at 100%. After reaching that for Pulverize Size, other utility tempers can be taken, such as Worldly Fortune – Lucky Hit Chance

For information on Legendary Aspects and the updated Codex of Power, see here.

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 Pulverize Druid:

• Rotting Lightbringer places puddles that deal poisoning damage over time. Pulverizes release splashes from these puddles for large damage. More than one puddle can be active at a time, and placing multiple will be the usual gameplay. While strong, this playstyle may slow down some content like speedrunning. If you prefer to not play with this item, change the following:
  • Move Shockwave Aspect to Weapon
  • Move Aspect of Retaliation to Ring.
  • Move Aspect of the Rabid Bear to Amulet.

• (Before Mythic) Insatiable Fury gives Skill ranks to all Werebear Skills, including Pulverize, and the ranks to Iron Fur are a welcome defensive boost.

• (Before Mythic) Godslayer Crown is an effective grouping tool and strong damage multiplier. Crowd Control Lucky Hits from Tempers, Raw Might Aspect, Raging Pulverize, Immobilize from Poison Creeper and Utility Tempers for Crowd Control can trigger the effect.

• Tibault’s Will has strong affixes with a good multiplier for the slot and occasional Spirit. With Prime Grizzly Rage, the bonus will be active often.

Mythic Unique Items

• Heir of Perdition has Strong Gear Affixes and a steady damage multiplier. The multiplier can be stolen occasionally from others that also use this helm for a higher damage multiplier.

• Shroud of False Death gives +1 rank to all Skill Passives which means several bonuses to Damage Multipliers, Damage Reductions, Resistances, Fortify, Healing and Critical Strike Chance.

• Ring of Starless Skies is a powerful Resource Cost Reduction tool and damage multiplier, with strong Gear Affixes.

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 Pulverize Druid:

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Ruby for Overpower Damage	Grand Sapphire for Willpower	Grand Diamond for Resistance to all Elements

Horadric Jewels

Seasonal Players can use these Horadric Jewels, placed in jewelry gear slots. Check out the Horadric Spell section for all available options.

Jewel	Description
Scornful Light	You deal 20% more Elemental damage and take 10% more.
Idol From Below	You gain 6% primary stat, 6% maximum life and you are always Unhindered. However, you will be hunted in Sanctuary’s darkest places by Jewel Guardians who were entombed to protect this relic.
Elemental Brand	Your Catalytic Skill deals 33% damage of your Infusion’s element over 3 seconds. Lucky Hit: Dealing damage of your Infusion’s element has up to a 33% chance to trigger its secondary effect.

Runewords

Use these Runeword combinations, placed in 2-Handed Weapon and one Armor slot:

Runeword Combination	Runeword 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.

Other combinations can also situationally work well; adjust to the content you are running. These can include:

• (Spirit Management) PocLum in combination can give strong Spirit Refund.
• (Early Gearing) 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

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

The road to max paragon level 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 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 setup, Dominate can be exchanged for Undaunted, and Spirit for Territorial.

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Horadric Spell (Season 9)

Season 9: Sins of the Horadrim offers seasonal Powers accessed from a Powers tab on the character Sheet and Horadric Jewels placed into Jewelry slots to augment these Powers.

The Horadric Catalyst is equipped to a Skill on the Skill Bar, triggered on the Skill’s use. One Infusion adds effects and modifies the damage type of the Catalyst, and three Arcana enhance the Catalyst or provide extra effects on Catalyst trigger.

Pushing

Type	Power	Description
Catalyst, Attached to Pulverize	Astral Pillar	Shape an Ethereal Column that Taunts for 3.0 seconds. Piercing waves flow from it and deal damage, until you create another one or move too far away.
Infusion	Corrosive Vapor	Your Spell Catalyst now deals Poison and or Poisoning damage. Bonus: Enemies damaged by it take 150% Poisoning damage over 4 seconds. This effect can only happen on each enemy every 3 seconds. While equipped, your Poison Damage Bonus is equal to that of your highest Damage Type Bonus. Rank 5: Deactivates monster Vampiric effects for 5 seconds.
Arcana	Fractured Core	Denial – Your Catalyst deactivates monster Damage Resistance Aura effects for 2.5 seconds, but you take 10% more stacking damage for the same time (+0.5 each rank).
Arcana	Potent Alloy	Denial – Your Catalyst destroys enemy Barriers and Knocks them Down for 1.0 seconds after the removal (+0.8 each rank).
Arcana	Bloody Charm	Denial – Your Catalyst gains a specialized Execute effect for non-Boss enemies with 10% or less Life. (+2% each rank). Astral Pillar: Will launch additional waves towards Executable non-Boss enemies to Execute them.

Most Catalysts are functional and can be played by preference. Other setups can work outside push content, such as:

• (Speedfarm) Propulsion with Floaty Bobble, Gleaming Conduit and Bloody Charm blinks to enemies, and grants movement speed on execute.

Horadric Jewels

Use these Jewels, placed in jewelry gear slots, to enhance the Horadric Spell:

Jewel	Description
Scornful Light	You deal 20% more Elemental damage and take 10% more.
Idol From Below	You gain 6% primary stat, 6% maximum life and you are always Unhindered. However, you will be hunted in Sanctuary’s darkest places by Jewel Guardians who were entombed to protect this relic.
Elemental Brand	Your Catalytic Skill deals 33% damage of your Infusion’s element over 3 seconds. Lucky Hit: Dealing damage of your Infusion’s element has up to a 33% chance to trigger its secondary effect.

There are some situationally useful Jewels to consider:

• (Resource) In Early Gearing, Spark of Creation can be useful Resource generation.
• (Qol) While Idol From Below is powerful, If the Jeweled Guardians are bothersome, replace it with another.

Mercenaries

Main Mercenary – Varyana, the Berserker

• Skills: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement – Raheir, the Shieldbearer

• Reinforcement Ability: Crater
• Opportunity: Pulverize

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.

For a Spirit Management setup, try Raheir’s Iron Wolf’s Call for periodic free casts of Pulverize.

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

The Pulverize Druid is straightforward gameplay with minor buff maintainence.

1. Prebuild stacks of Quickshift by casting Claw and Pulverize.
2. Cast Grizzly Rage to activate your Werebeast form.
3. Pulverize your enemies. Try to cast Pulverizes that either place puddles or splash within your Rotting Lightbringer puddles for the extra splash damage cleaves.

Rotting Lightbringer can have multiple puddles active; just not overlapped. each will echo out splashes on Pulverize cast, so layering out several can be beneficial. Shockwave Aspect can also place puddles along its path.

Use Debilitating Roar Defensively as needed, or proactively for the Innate Debilitating Roar damage buff.

Cyclone Armor is for the passive defense, and unavailable during Grizzly Rage.

Trample for mobility or as needed for Unstoppable outside Grizzly Rage.

Claw, and Maul during Grizzly Rage, can be used as filler to gain Spirit as necessary.

Skills, Support and Synergies

Pulverize is our primary, high-damage Skill. Two Legendary Aspects modify the Skill:

• Shockwave Aspect creates a damaging wave along the path of the Pulverize. There is an overlap between the initial Pulverize and its shockwave, so enemies can be double-hit each Pulverize!
• Aspect of the Ursine Horror makes Pulverize an Earth Skill. Earth Skills are also Nature Skills, and this allows Pulverize to benefit from Nature-based modifiers such as Defiance or Crushing Earth.

Pulverize damage type becomes Poison, from Physical, thanks to Aspect of the Rabid Bear.

Rotting Lightbringer places pools of Poisoning damage, which scales off your Overpowered Pulverize damage. More than one puddle can be placed at a time, just not overlapped. Hitting these puddles with more Pulverizes will splash out extra puddles for large damage.

Overpower

Periodic Overpowered attacks will deal extra damage to enemies. We get Overpowers from several sources:

• Enhanced Pulverize grants an Overpower every 10 seconds.
• Spirit Boon Obsidian Slam causes Earth Skills to Overpower after casting Six Earth Skills.
• Provocation gives Overpowers as you remain in Bear Form. Some uptime is lost while casting any non-Werebear skills. This is a buff to watch, as it can be triggered on any damaging non-defensive Skill like Trample or Maul. Try to only use it on Pulverize.
• Xan rune will give periods of Critical Overpowers.
• A natural 3% chance for any non-channeled Skill to Overpower.

There’s several damage multipliers to Overpower, including Survival Instincts, Raging Pulverize and Ursine Strength.

Supporting Skills

Supporting Skills are Claw, Cyclone Armor, Debilitating Roar, and Trample.

• Use Debilitating Roar Defensively as needed, or proactively for the Innate Debilitating Roar damage buff.
• Cyclone Armor is for the passive defense, and while unavailable during Grizzly Rage, the passive portion is still working.
• Trample for mobility or as needed for Unstoppable outside Grizzly Rage.
• Claw, and Maul during Grizzly Rage, can be used as filler to gain Spirit as necessary.

Ultimate Skill

This build uses Grizzly Rage as its Ultimate Skill. Grizzly Rage grants Unstoppable for its duration, grants Damage Reduction, and a large Damage multiplier that grows over time. With Aspect of the Rabid Bear, our damage type for all attacks becomes Poison, which helps unify several multipliers.

Grizzly Rage’s cooldown cannot be reduced while Grizzly Rage is active. Any Skill not tuned to Grizzly Rage, such as Storm or Wolf Skills will be unavailable while Grizzly Rage is active. Certain Skills like Cyclone Armor with a passive effect will still be up, but the Skill will be unavailable for Active Use.

Only one point is invested into Grizzly Rage because further points only reduce the cooldown, and we do not need the Rank 5 effect since we should always be already Armor capped without the effect.

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 extra duration
• Kills extend the duration by 1 second.
• Overpowering Bosses extends duration by 5 seconds.
• Offensive Tempers on gear give more duration.

If this is not sufficient to maintain Grizzly Rage for most of the time or your downtime becomes too disruptive, consider one or more of the following options:

• Exchange the Swooping Attacks Spirit Boon for Calamity or Calm Before the Storm
• Target your Mastercrafts towards Grizzly Rage Duration or Cooldown.
• Put more Skill Points into Grizzly Rage for cooldown.

Key Passive

The Key Passive for this build is Ursine Strength, for the consistent damage multiplier, Overpower damage, and Max life.

Bestial Rampage may be a valid alternative setup for a faster paced play and more puddles at once. This would be at the expense of some damage scaling on effects like Rotting Lightbringer. To play into this:

• Exchange Ursine Strength for Bestial Rampage
• Use Wildheart Hunger. Mastercraft the Shapeshifting Attack Speed.
• Exchange the Yom rune for Que. Que will periodically move you to Human Form to help maintain Wildheart Hunger Stacks (this is probably a bug, maybe expect a fix).
• Move Aspect of the Ursine Horror to Pants, replacing Tibault’s Will.

Spirit Management

Maintaining Spirit is essential to keep smashing out your Pulverizes. Spirit is managed from a variety of sources:

1. Resource Cost Reduction on 2-handed weapon, and Spirit Generation Tempers on Rings.
2. Gift of the Stag Spirit Boon
3. The Wolf’s Spirit Boon Energize.
4. Intelligence stat for greater Resource Generation.
5. Casts of Claw.

This is generally sufficient in the Endgame to maintain Spirit. However, if these are insufficient sources while leveling and gearing, consider using one or more of the following options:

• Seasonal players can use Spark of Creation for Spirit refund on casts of Pulverize
• Use the Spirit Management Runeword Setup Poc Lum.
• Spirit Per Second on Boots, Chest and Helm.
• Use Aspect of Quicksand with Aspect of the Umbral.
• Remove points from Wild Impulses, placing them in Abundance.

Elixirs, Incense and Health Potions

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

• Craft your Elixir:
  • (Offensive) Elixir of Advantage II For Attack Speed and Lucky Hit bonuses.
  • (Defensive) Elixir of Fortitude II For Max Life.
• 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 9 Updates

The changes to Pulverize are mostly pawsitive! some are great like more base Pulverize damage and more Overpower availability, but less Overpower scaling. The new Unique Item Rotting Lightbringer is playable and looks strong. We can fortunately afford to use it since Aspect of the Ursine Horror is now a Utility Aspect instead of an Offensive Aspect. Then bug fixes and buffs to Grizzly Rage aspects let us play into the Rabid Dire Werebear flavor.

Tempering for Pulverize Size is back baby \o/

Speculation: the Key Passive Choice between Ursine Strength and Bestial Rampage is up in the air. I’ve attached options in the Key Passive section.

The following are important changes in the Season 9 Patch Updates that are specific to the Pulverize Druid. For general Season 9 information, check out our Season 9 Hub.

Itemization:

• New Unique Item – Rotting Lightbringer
  • If no puddle is around you, Pulverize forms a puddle that guarantees its own Overpowers and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poisoning over 7 seconds. Pulverize causes all close puddles to splash 20-60% of their total damage within their areas and around them. Pulverize radius increase will affect the size of the puddle and its splashes. 
• Aspect of the Ursine Horror
  • Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
  • Previous: Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After Casting Pulverize tectonic spikes continue to deal damage over 2 seconds.
  • Now: Pulverize is now an Earth Skill. After it Overpowers, your Earth Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.5-1.25 seconds.
• Shockwave Aspect – Will now trigger the puddle effect of Rotting Lightbringer.
• Aspect of the Rabid Bear
  • Previous: While Grizzy Rage is active, Skills that Critically Strike apply Rabies and your Poison damage is increased by 60-105%.
  • Now: While Grizzy Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 40-80% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
• Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast – Damage bonus per stack increased from 3% to 5%, up to 100% from 60%.
• New Utility Tempering Manual – Werebear Innovation for Pulverize size.
• Overpower bonus scaling removed.

Skills and Stats:

• Claw Damage increased from 28% to 80%.
• Maul Damage increased from 26% to 80%.
• Pulverize Damage increased from 92% to 150%.
• Enhanced Pulverize
  •  Previously: Your next Pulverize will Overpower every 12 seconds while you remain Healthy.
  • Now: Pulverize deals 30% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies and Bosses.
• Raging Pulverize
  • Previous: Pulverize deals 75% increased Overpower damage. Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds.
  • Now: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize is guaranteed to Overpower and make enemies take 20% more damage for 5 seconds.
• Enhanced Debilitating Roar  Fortify amount increased from 22% to 30%.
• Innate Debilitating Roar Damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%.
• Provocation
  • Previous: When you remain in Werebear form for at least 20/16/12 seconds, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower.
  • Now: After 10 seconds of Werebear form, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower and deal 5/10/15% increased damage.
• Grizzly Rage Damage bonus per second in the form increased from 3% to 4%. Companion Skills are now always usable during Grizzly Rage.
• Grizzly Rage Rank 5 Bonus
  • Previous: Companion Skills can be Cast during Grizzly Rage.
  • Now: You gain 30% increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
• Prime Grizzly Rage
  • Previously: Grizzly Rage makes you Unstoppable for 6 seconds.
  • Now: You are Unstoppable while Grizzly Rage is active.
• Toxic Claws
  • Previously: Shred and Lacerate deals an additional 24/48/72% of their Base damage as Poisoning damage over 4 seconds.
  • Now: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage. This is doubled while in Werewolf form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.
• Vigilance Damage Reduction reduced from 7/14/21% to 5/10/15%.
• Ursine Strength
  • Previously: Gain 30% additional Maximum Life while in Werebear form and for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form. While Healthy, deal 15% increased damage, and 70% increased Overpower damage.
  • Now: Gain 30% Maximum Life, 20% more damage, and a 100% Overpower bonus while in Werebear form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Rabid Bear would not always work for the entire duration of Grizzly Rage.

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Changelog

• 27 June, 2025: Significant Updates for Patch 2.3 Season 9. Changes to Skill Tree, Ultimate, Gearing, Boons, Paragon, and new Unique Item Rotting Lightbringer.
• April 24, 2025: Updated to new unified format and for Season 8 Patch 2.2 changes.
• 3 March, 2025: Minor updates for 2.1.3.
• 19 Jan, 2025: Updated for on Season 7 and Patch 2.1 updates. Two tab paragon board introduced.
• 15 October, 2024: Updated for new onsite Paragon Tool.
• 27 September, 2024: Updated for Season 6. Changes to Paragon, Skill Tree, Skill Bar, and recommended Uniques.
• 7 August, 2024: Updated for post-launch of season 5. Small changes to weapon type and optional unique item recommendations.
• 5 August, 2024: Updated for Patch 1.5.0 and Season of the Infernal Hordes.
• 17 June, 2024: Updated for mid-season patch 1.4.3.
• May 15, 2024: Small changes in gear affixes to adjust for season launch changes from PTR.
• May 6, 2024: Guide reworked for the significant 1.4.0 changes to gearing and for season 4 speculative changes. Format changed to frontload basic build information and offer extra information and options afterwards. Paragon Board redesigned for better Damage Reduction and output.