Druid Codex — Codex of Sanctuary

DIABLO IV · FIELD MANUAL

THE COMPLETE BUILD GUIDE

SEASON 14 · DEATH AWAKENING◆PATCH 3.1.3◆LAST VERIFIED AUG 17, 2026

One resource you must earn, three bodies on one bar, and four spirit animals the interface never mentions. This chapter answers the questions a new Druid actually has — how do I turn into the bear, why is my Spirit empty, and what is a Spirit Boon — and then gives you four complete builds, every skill point from level 2 to 70.

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▶ PART I Understanding the Druid 10 MIN · START HERE

THE CLASS IN FIVE IDEAS

1 · SPIRIT MUST BE EARNED

Unlike a Sorcerer's Mana, Spirit does not come back on its own. Your Basic skills build it, your Core skills spend it, and an empty globe stays empty until you hit something. The rhythm of the whole class is generator, generator, spender.

2 · SPIRIT BOONS

The class mechanic. Four spirit animals — Deer, Eagle, Wolf, Snake — each offer four permanent passives; you pick one per animal, then Bond one animal for a fifth. Unlocked by a quest at level 15 that the interface will never remind you about.

3 · YOUR BAR DECIDES YOUR BODY

There is no transform button. Press a Werewolf skill and you are a wolf; press a Werebear skill and you are a bear; Storm, Earth and Companion magic is cast on two legs. Shapeshifting is free, instant, and decided per press.

4 · FORTIFY IS A SECOND HEALTH BAR

The Druid is the sturdy caster: while your Fortify meets your Life you take 10% less damage, and half the Earth kit generates it. It is also secretly offensive — Overpower damage scales on Life plus Fortify, which is the entire Werebear build.

5 · "SHAPESHIFTER" IS OPTIONAL

Two of the four builds in this chapter never leave human form — the storm caster and the summoner — and two never leave the fur. The fur is a playstyle, not a tax. If you came for the wolves and the weather, you get to keep both hands human.

DRUID, BARBARIAN OR SORCERER?

TL;DR

The Druid is the middle path: sturdier than the Sorcerer, more magical than the Barbarian, and the only one of the three who can be a caster, a melee bruiser and a summoner without changing class — sometimes without changing bar. If the appeal is "nature does my violence and I choose which part of nature", you are in the right chapter.

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THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ASKS FIRST

How do I turn into the bear? You don't, directly. Press a Werebear skill and the transformation happens as part of the cast. Your bar decides your body, and shifting is free.

Is the Druid tanky? The tankiest thing wearing a caster's toolkit. Fortify is a second health bar, Blood Howl is a real heal, and the Werebear build in this chapter goes whole dungeons without visible damage.

Why does my Spirit start empty? Because it is earned, not regenerated. Every build here names its Spirit engine — a generator, a boon, a refund — and the fix when the engine stalls.

Do I have to shapeshift? No. Two of the four builds fight in human form from level 1 to Torment 12. The fur is a choice.

Do companions actually scale? Yes — off your sheet, not theirs, and patch 3.0.2 repaired the scaling lines older guides complain about. Build IV is built on them.

Can I play ranged? Yes — Build I is a full caster behind a wall of weather, and Build IV mostly supervises.

Is it beginner-friendly? Two of these builds are among the easiest in this whole codex — the bear and the pack. The Werewolf is the third-character build; it says so on its chapter.

Can I mix forms on one bar? Freely — shifting is per-press and costs nothing. What mixing costs is scaling, because your multipliers are form-specific. Choose Your Form covers when it is right.

STAFF, GREATMACE OR TOTEM?

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READING THE SKILL TREE

The budget. 69 points from levelling (one per level, 2 through 70) plus 14 bonus points — Season Rank on a seasonal character, Renown on Eternal. Total 83. Every build chapter here accounts for all 83 and none ends with "spend the rest wherever".

No Key Passive. If you played before the Lord of Hatred rework, the capstone slot every class used to finish with is gone — replaced by wider branching inside the tree. Any guide telling you to rush Perfect Storm or Bestial Rampage is describing a game that no longer exists.

Upgrades per skill. Each active skill carries 1 Major and 2 Minor upgrades. Majors often rewrite what the skill is rather than scaling it. This codex marks the ones each build takes with a filled diamond and explains the ones it deliberately skips.

Categories: Basic, Core, Defensive, Companion, Wrath and Ultimate, with one Ultimate equipped at a time. Clusters unlock in stages, so you cannot spend into a trap early.

The class's real trap: tag-changing upgrades. Some upgrades convert a skill's form, damage type or behaviour — the famous Druid case is the "werenado" line that re-tags a Storm skill into Werebear form. Your gear multiplies forms and damage types, so re-tagging into your form is a large gain and re-tagging out of it silently removes that skill from every temper, aspect and glyph you own. Read the tag line before you spend the point — Build III takes one of these on purpose and says so.

WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN?

The terms this codex leans on. The same definitions appear as hover tooltips everywhere else on the page — on mobile, tap them.

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▶ PART II Choose Your Form HUMAN · WEREWOLF · WEREBEAR

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DO I HAVE TO PICK ONE?

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▶ PART III Understanding Spirit Boons THE CLASS MECHANIC

BEGINNER TL;DR

Four spirit animals — Deer, Eagle, Wolf, Snake — each offer four permanent passives called Spirit Boons. You pick one per animal, then Bond with a single animal to take a second boon from it: five passives you never press. A quest at level 15 opens the system; donations of offerings fill it out; and a level-40 Druid who skipped it is playing without a class mechanic.

THE CLASS QUEST — DO NOT SKIP IT

REACH LEVEL 15

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"SPIRITS OF THE LOST GROVE"
sends you to Túr Dúlra in Scosglen

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BOON PAGE UNLOCKS

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DONATE OFFERINGS
they drop from ordinary killing

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ALL 16 UNLOCKED ➤ BOND ONE ANIMAL
a second boon from it — five in total

Which animal first? The one holding your build's engine: Wolf for Energize or Packleader, Snake for Obsidian Slam. Every build chapter names its donation order — it is a real decision.

Can I change picks? Freely, any time, at no cost — including the Bond. Boons are a respec, not a tattoo.

Do boons scale? No ranks, no scaling — fixed effects. That makes them pure decision: five picks from sixteen, and the right five differ per build.

Do they work in every form? The stat boons do. The conditional ones read carefully — Masochistic needs Shapeshifting crits, Obsidian Slam needs Earth kills. A boon that never triggers is an empty slot.

FOUR ANIMALS · FOUR BOONS EACH

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PICK ONE PER ANIMAL
four permanent passives

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BOND ONE ANIMAL · TAKE A SECOND BOON FROM IT
this is the part everyone misses

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FIVE PASSIVES · ZERO BUTTONS

THE CONSEQUENCE · The bond is where builds are made: one animal pays out twice. The pack build bonds Wolf for both halves of its engine; the bear bonds Snake; the storm bonds Snake; the Werewolf bonds Eagle for both halves of crit. Four builds, four different bonds — that is not a coincidence, it is the chapter structure.

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ALL SIXTEEN BOONS — AND WHO PICKS THEM

The full menu, animal by animal. Every build chapter names its five and sequences its donations; this table is the map they are navigating.

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▶ PART IV Spirit, Shapeshifting, Fortify, Poison & Not Dying EVERY MECHANIC, PLAINLY

UNDERSTANDING SPIRIT

What is it? Your only resource — and unlike Mana, it does not regenerate. Basic skills build it, Core skills spend it, and the globe starts every fight where you left it.

What builds it? Basic skills (Storm Strike, Claw, Maul, Wind Shear, Earth Spike), plus the Energize boon and several refund lines on skills themselves.

What spends it? Core skills, mostly. Companions cost nothing — a fact Build IV is built on — and channelled storms drain it continuously instead.

Why does my build run out? Almost always one of three things: no cost-reduction upgrade on your spender, a missing Energize boon, or spending on single targets what the build budgets for packs.

What actually fixes it? Cost reduction and refunds — they scale with how fast you already cast. Willpower raises Resource Generation for the Druid and everyone forgets it.

Do any builds skip the generator? Nearly — Build IV's pets are free and its generator is mostly a dice-thrower, and Build II becomes self-funding in any real pack.

WEREWOLF · POISON & CRIT

Am I killing with the bite or the tick? In the Werewolf build here, half and half — and the poison lands the killing blow while you are already elsewhere.

What is Poisoned? Nature damage over time. It keeps ticking after the claws are gone, and it ignores every control immunity a boss has.

How does it scale? Poison and damage-over-time multipliers — not Critical Strike Damage on the bite. Patch 3.0.2 made the key poison ring multiplicative; older guides describe a flatter build.

The crit angle: Werewolf crits trigger healing (Masochistic) and reset economies, so crit chance is sustain and tempo before it is damage.

WEREBEAR · FORTIFY & OVERPOWER

Fortify is a second health bar. While it meets your Life you take 10% less damage — and the bear kit generates it from nearly every button.

Overpower fires on a counter, roughly every twelfth hit, scaled by current Life PLUS Fortify. It cannot crit and attack speed cannot hurry it.

So how do you build it? Guaranteed-Overpower effects — the Obsidian Slam boon schedules one every 20th Earth kill, which is Build III's entire damage engine.

On bosses everything works: Fortify, Overpower and the roar do not care what the boss is immune to.

STORM & EARTH · THE HUMAN MAGIC

Storm is the dice element: fast, multi-hitting, Vulnerable-applying — every tick rolls Lucky Hit, which is what the Snake and Wolf boons feed on.

Earth is the anvil: Stuns, Fortify and Overpower. Slower hits, heavier consequences.

They share a bar happily — Bulwark on a storm bar, Trample under a caster — because defensive jobs do not care about damage tags.

The honest caveat: Earth's charm set is underperforming this patch. Its skills are fine; its endgame ceiling is not. Build III prices this in out loud.

SHAPESHIFTING — THE BAR DECIDES YOUR BODY

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STUNNED, STRANGLED, SLOWED — AND WHAT ISN'T CONTROL

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WHO WANTS IT · {{c.who}}

HOW TO NOT DIE AS A DRUID

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THE FIVE RULES

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PART V

FOUR DRUIDS

Four genuinely different characters, not four flavours of one list. One schedules the weather, one hunts on four legs, one is a load-bearing wall with opinions, and one supervises a pack that does the work.

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ONE-SCREEN VERSION EVERYTHING BELOW IS OPTIONAL DETAIL

YOUR JOB

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SPIRIT BOONS

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MAIN DEFENCE · {{bd.osDefense}}

MOST IMPORTANT STAT · {{bd.osStat}}

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WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

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RATINGS

BEST FOR

THE SIX BUTTONS — WHAT EACH ONE IS FOR

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WHY IT'S ON THE BAR · {{k.why}}

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YOUR SPIRIT BOONS — AS IMPORTANT AS THE BAR

BONDED ANIMAL · {{bd.bondAnimal}}A SECOND BOON FROM ONE ANIMAL — UNLOCKS AS DONATIONS COMPLETE, ~LEVEL 30

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OFFENSIVE ALTERNATIVE · {{bd.boonOffensive}}

EVERY POINT, LEVEL BY LEVEL

One point per level-up, 2 → 70, plus 14 bonus points at the end. Set your level to see exactly what you should own at that moment, what to buy next, and where your Spirit Boons stand.

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SPIRIT BOONS

BONDED ANIMAL

NEXT IMPORTANT UNLOCK

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+14 BONUS POINTS (SEASON RANK · OR RENOWN ON ETERNAL) — SPEND AS THEY ARRIVE

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▶THE LEVELLING STORY, 1 → 70 (READ ONCE BEFORE YOU START)

LEVELLING → TRANSITION → ENDGAME

The same character, before and after. When a build "feels wrong" at level 40, the usual reason is that it is still being played as the left-hand column.

LEVELLING BUILD

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ENDGAME BUILD

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YOUR SPIRIT ENGINE

Every build earns the same resource differently. If your rotation feels broken, it is nearly always one of these two paragraphs.

HOW THIS BUILD PAYS FOR ITSELF

IF IT STILL RUNS DRY, IN THIS ORDER

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HOW THIS BUILD SURVIVES

Four jobs, and which button on this bar does each of them. A gap here is not a flaw — it is a thing to know about yourself.

STAT PRIORITY

In order, with what each one actually affects. Stats not listed here are not worth a roll on this build.

AFFECTS
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GEAR — AND WHAT TO DO UNTIL IT DROPS

Every slot has a best answer and an honest "until then" answer. No build in this codex requires a unique item to reach level 70.

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Legendary Aspects

WITHOUT IT · {{a.missing}}

Uniques — With & Without

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“I don't have that”

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WHAT DO I ACTUALLY PRESS?

NORMAL ENEMIES

ELITES

BOSSES

IF THINGS GO WRONG

WHY IS THIS BUILD GOOD?

The engine, start to finish. Break any link and the damage sags — which is how the troubleshooting below diagnoses it.

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TROUBLESHOOTING

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PARAGON, AFTER 70

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▶RESEARCH & SOURCES FOR THIS BUILD

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▶ DECIDE Which Druid Is Mine? SIDE BY SIDE · 1 MIN

I · THE TEMPEST

II · MOONFANG

III · THE MOUNTAIN

IV · THE WILD PACK

◆ I want to be unkillable → Build III · The Mountain

◆ I want the easiest ride → Build IV · The Wild Pack

◆ I want a caster and no fur → Build I · The Tempest

◆ I want speed and teeth → Build II · Moonfang

◆ I want the strongest current endgame option → Build II, and the only real dispute is which VERSION of it. See below.

Season 14's Druid podium is unusually settled: Shred and Lightning Storm dominate S-tier on the major lists, with the Sonic Shred variant called the strongest Pit-pushing Druid outright. The genuine dispute is inside Build II — one list ranks the Storm Shred hybrid (claws plus lightning) above pure Shred; the others keep pure Shred on top. Meanwhile Earth's five-piece charm set is underperforming, which caps Build III below where its skills deserve. All checked August 2026.

▶ PART VI Unlocks, Paragon & The Endgame Map TORMENT · PARAGON · TALISMANS

CLASS UNLOCKS — DO NOT MISS THESE

LEVEL 2

First skill point. Spirit exists from the start and does NOT regenerate — the generator-spender rhythm is the class before any mechanic is.

LEVEL 15 · THE GROVE

Spirits of the Lost Grove becomes available and sends you to Túr Dúlra in Scosglen. Do it immediately — a Druid who skipped it is playing without a class mechanic, and nothing in the interface will tell them.

~LEVEL 30 · THE BOND

Donations complete, all sixteen boons revealed, and Bonding opens: a second boon from one animal. Every build chapter names its bond — four builds, four different animals.

LEVEL 13–24 · YOUR BUILD APPEARS

Each build has one point that turns it from "a Druid with skills" into itself: Growing Storm, Feral dash, Shockwave, Packleader at the grove.

LEVEL 60 · TALISMAN SEAL

A Legendary Seal with +1 Charm Slot is the target: six slots means a five-piece set plus one Unique Charm — Feral and Storm sets are healthy this season; Earth's is not.

LEVEL 70 · THE PIT

Paragon, glyph levelling and Torment climbing start here. Your build does not change; your items do.

THE LADDER

Difficulty runs Normal → Hard → Expert → Penitent, then Torment 1–12. Torment is where endgame loot lives.

The Pit (unlocks at 70) is the gate: clear around tier 10 to open Torment 1, then keep climbing as your glyphs grow.

Each Torment tier applies a resistance penalty, so keep Armor capped (1,000) and all Resistances 70%+ before chasing damage. Fortify makes the Druid forgiving here — it does not make the caps optional.

PARAGON — BEGINNER VERSION

Past 70, XP becomes Paragon points, shared across your realm's characters. You may attach up to five boards; each exists to reach a Legendary node and socket a Glyph.

First board: Starter. First path: straight at the Legendary node, ignoring everything else. First glyph: whichever one reads your form or damage type.

Ignore stray Willpower nodes and "+3% damage" filler until the Legendary node and glyph are in. Fill those walking back.

Attach requirements rise the further a board sits from the Starter, so place the board you care most about early.

ADVANCED PARAGON & GLYPHS

Order of operations per board: Legendary node → glyph socket → rare nodes inside the glyph radius → filler. A board with no glyph in it is worth roughly half of one with.

Level Glyphs by clearing The Pit. Radius grows with rank and a Legendary Bonus unlocks near the top; upgrade attempts can fail, so bring a tier you clear comfortably rather than your record.

Form and damage-type glyphs before generic damage glyphs, always — and on the melee builds (II, III) take the defensive board earlier than a caster would. The damage you lose is smaller than the damage you lose by dying.

Each build chapter lists its own board and glyph priorities, because a poison-crit Werewolf and an Overpower bear want genuinely different nodes.

TALISMAN · TEMPER · MASTERWORK

Talisman: a Seal holding Charms, with set bonuses when they match. For the Druid: the Feral set (Werewolf — healthy, and the backbone of Build II's endgame), the Storm set (healthy, Build I), and the five-piece Earth set — reported underperforming this patch by multiple sources, which is why Build III ships a holding pattern instead of a farm route.

Tempering: chase form damage, Overpower, Companion damage or Storm crit per your build's gear card. Remember a tag-changing upgrade can invalidate a form temper you already paid for.

Masterworking: +ranks to everything with a large bonus hit every fourth step. Aim that bonus at the affix your build's gear card lists first, and only on pieces you intend to keep.

SEASON 14 NOTES — WHAT CHANGED FOR DRUID

Shred S-tier on every major list; the Sonic Shred variant called the strongest Pit-pushing Druid

Lightning Storm S-tier; Wind Shear the boss-killing alternative

Storm Shred hybrid leads one major list outright — claws plus lightning

Dolmen Stone buffed again — Boulder is now firmly A-tier around it

Five-piece Earth set underperforming — Earth builds sit below their skills' level

Cataclysm cannot run during Grizzly Rage — bears keep the rage and its huge bonus

Patch 3.1.3 touched the Druid only cosmetically (a Petrify visual fix on the Corrupted Reaper)

Mythic Unique 3.0 — 2 guaranteed + 2 random affixes, one rerollable; key uniques are craftable-toward

Earlier in this expansion, patch 3.0.2 was quietly a Druid recovery patch: the Werewolf poison ring went from additive to multiplicative (and now accepts damage-over-time multipliers), the Totem weapon-damage affix that never appeared was fixed, companion scaling lines were repaired, and the storm kit's multi-skill interactions were redesigned. If a guide calls poison Werewolf flat, totems dead stats or companions a meme, it predates that patch. This codex is dated 3.1.3 and says so out loud.

▶ PART VII Research & Sources WHAT'S VERIFIED, WHAT ISN'T

Everything here targets Season 14 · Death Awakening · patch 3.1.3, checked against live sources on August 17, 2026. The Druid has been in the game since launch, which means most guides you will find describe a class two reworks out of date.

THE BIGGEST STALENESS RISK · The Lord of Hatred skill-tree rework removed Key Passives entirely, raised the level cap from 60 to 70, and introduced upgrades that change a skill's form, damage type or behaviour — the "werenado" line being the Druid's showcase. Any guide that names Perfect Storm or Bestial Rampage, assumes level 60, or ignores tag changes is describing a game that no longer exists — including a great deal of what a search will return.

OFFICIAL / PATCH-LEVEL · Season and patch baseline (Season 14 · Death Awakening · 3.1.3, live August 12), 3.1.3's Druid-relevant contents (a Petrify visual fix and seasonal QoL — no balance changes), the patch 3.0.2 Druid repairs (poison ring additive → multiplicative with DoT multipliers, Totem weapon-damage affix, companion scaling, storm-kit interaction redesign), and Mythic Unique 3.0 crafting.

CURRENT BUILD SOURCES · Maxroll's Season 14 Druid endgame and push tier lists; IGGM's Season 14 Druid tier list (Shred and Lightning Storm dominating S-tier, Boulder to A-tier on the Dolmen Stone buff, Cataclysm's Grizzly Rage exclusivity, Earth Spike's placement); mmoexp's Season 14 Druid build guide (Sonic Shred the strongest Pit progression, Flicker Wolf, Wind Shear and Storm Claw placements, the Earth set problem); d4guides' Druid hub (the Storm Shred hybrid leading S-tier, the Companion build's A-tier levelling recommendation) — used for tier placements, archetype framing, bar composition and gear direction.

MECHANICS REFERENCE · Spirit Boon system rules (Spirits of the Lost Grove at 15, Túr Dúlra donations per animal, one boon per animal plus a Bonded second, free re-picks), shapeshifting rules (form follows the skill pressed, revert out of combat, "while in form" versus "when you shapeshift" triggers), Spirit generation, Fortify's 10% reduction while at or above current Life, Overpower's ~every-12th-hit counter scaling on Life plus Fortify, and the Willpower / Dexterity / Strength / Intelligence attribute effects.

MINE, NOT TRANSCRIBED · The level-by-level point orders, priority labels, star ratings, engine diagrams, stat priorities, boon-page sequencing, donation orders, troubleshooting trees and the "until then" fallbacks. No published guide gives a per-level order; each of the four here totals 69 levelling points plus 14 bonus points and lands on the same final tree.

UNCERTAIN · FIVE HONEST GAPS · (1) Boon percentages are printed at commonly reported values; post-rework figures are not consistently republished — treat them as close, not gospel. (2) Obsidian Slam's counter is printed as every 20th kill; older sources say 10th. (3) Most aspect names — and two uniques — are described by effect rather than named, where effects verified and current names did not. (4) Pure Shred versus the Storm Shred hybrid is genuinely disputed between lists; both readings are printed. (5) The Earth set's fix timing is unknown — Build III's talisman advice assumes no fix this season and is cheap to reverse if one ships. Per-skill rank ceilings are read as 15, consistent with the shared post-rework tree structure used across this codex.

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THE CLASS IN FIVE IDEAS

DRUID, BARBARIAN OR SORCERER?

THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ASKS FIRST

STAFF, GREATMACE OR TOTEM?

READING THE SKILL TREE

WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN?

DO I HAVE TO PICK ONE?

THE CLASS QUEST — DO NOT SKIP IT

ALL SIXTEEN BOONS — AND WHO PICKS THEM

UNDERSTANDING SPIRIT

SHAPESHIFTING — THE BAR DECIDES YOUR BODY

STUNNED, STRANGLED, SLOWED — AND WHAT ISN'T CONTROL

HOW TO NOT DIE AS A DRUID

FOUR DRUIDS

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EVERY POINT, LEVEL BY LEVEL

LEVELLING → TRANSITION → ENDGAME

YOUR SPIRIT ENGINE

HOW THIS BUILD SURVIVES

STAT PRIORITY

GEAR — AND WHAT TO DO UNTIL IT DROPS

Legendary Aspects

Uniques — With & Without

“I don't have that”

WHAT DO I ACTUALLY PRESS?

WHY IS THIS BUILD GOOD?

TROUBLESHOOTING

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