Landslide Druid Leveling Guide for Diablo IV Season 12 - Slaughter

The Season 10 theme is Infernal Chaos. Infernal portals have sprung up in Helltides, Nightmare Dungeons and Infernal Hordes. Killing the enemies that spring forth grants Infernal Warp (Seasonal Currency) and progresses the Seasonal Questline, where you unlock Chaos Perks. You can equip any combination of 3 Magic, Rare and Legendary Perks. You can also have one Unique Perk, unlocked by killing Bartuc in the Infernal Hordes starting in Torment 1.

• Overabundance is a universally strong multiplier for Druids in Season 10.
• Wild Transformations gives a multitude of offensive and defensive bonuses when shapeshifting.
• Invigorating Attacks gives bursts of Spirit generation.

During leveling, you most likely don't have a Unique chaos perk unlocked, but if you do:

• Brawn Over Brains grants a ton of health and bolsters Overpower damage.

• Accelerating Chaos rapidly recovers Cooldowns and Chaotic Cooldowns attempts to circumvent them entirely.
• Crazy Brew bolsters "Cap 2" Attack Speed at the cost of giving your Potion a Cooldown.

To get started as a Landslide Druid, always use your highest DPS weapon available for more damage, preferring Polearms when possible. Otherwise, follow the priority list below. While you don't have all of the desired temper manuals available, simply try to get anything useful on your gear until you get the right ones. For example, % Damage, Damage to Close, Vulnerable Damage, etc. all work as long as you activate their conditions. Likewise, you can temper multiple defensive options such as Resistances, Life, Armor to fill gaps in your survivability. Tempering low level gear is relatively cheap and the results can be very impactful.

Tip: For the early game, Elemental Surge Weapon Tempers are very powerful due to their high base damage, especially if you are twinking. If you find these, you may want to keep imprinting them on your weapons for an easy time.

The Codex of Power is a collection of Legendary Aspects you can imprint onto Rare or Legendary items at the Occultist. They unlock after completing specific Dungeons located around Sanctuary or salvaging items with these powers. Check out our Map Tool to locate these Dungeons.

For leveling, there are a few powers that can significantly help us if we have the funds to imprint them. In addition, keep an eye out for powerful Unique items you may find for this or other builds.

Must-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Retaliation (Seaside Descent - Dry Steppes)
2. Crashstone (Stockades - Scosglen)
3. Calm Breeze (Grinning Labyrinth - Dry Steppes)

Nice-to-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Quicksand (Ferals' Den - Scosglen)
2. Umbral (Champion's Demise - Dry Steppes)
3. Disobedience (Halls of the Damned - Kehjistan)

Other useful Aspects (drop/gamble)

1. Subterranean
2. Aftershock
3. Rabid Bear
4. Dire Wolf's
5. Rampaging Werebeast
6. Vigorous
7. Spirit Bond
8. Juggernaut's
9. Trampled Earth
10. Natural Balance

What to Gamble

Great Uniques for this build

1. Vasily's Prayer
2. Tibault's Will
3. Earthbreaker

As you level up, you may get lucky and find some great random drops. Some of these can massively amplify your power and speed up the leveling by switching to another build. Keep in mind that there are many more Aspects and Uniques that can be useful to multiple builds; this just lists some of the most impactful ones. While we usually recommend starting with Endgame Builds at level 60, you often can make them work earlier with these drops:

Build-defining Aspects

1. Shockwave (enables the Pulverize Druid)
2. Seismic-shift (enables the Earth Spike Druid)
3. Stampede / Alpha (enhances the Companion Druid)
4. Blurred Beast / Agile Wolf (enhances the Shred Druid)
5. Anticline Burst (enhances the Stone Burst Druid)

Build-defining Uniques

1. Dolmen Stone (enables the Boulder Druid)
2. Rotting Lightbringer (enhances the Pulverize Druid)
3. Tempest Roar (enables the Tornado and Lighting Storm Druids)
4. Fleshrender (enables the Fleshrender Druid)
5. Unsung Ascetic's Wraps (enhances the Lightning Storm Druid)
6. Storm's Companion (enhances the Companion Druid)
7. Stone of Vehemen (enhances the Stone Burst Druid)

You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Landslide Druid focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Yul + Gar - The Crit Chance bonus is great, especially early on.
• Cir + Lum - Assists with early game Spirit generation.

Alternative choices

As long as you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top Runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Jah - Provides an amazing movement ability for speedfarming.
• Kry - Vortex is amazing to group mobs quickly and repeatedly into the range of your Skills.
• Lac - Challenging Shout is amazing for survivability, but the Taunt also allows you to group mobs and draw them in range of Poison Creeper.
• Ohm - A solid 15% multiplier from War Cry.
• Ahu - With this build's many AoE hits, this Rune generates offering at a rapid pace during clear. However, on Bosses, it may be ineffective for a large chunk of the fight.
• Bac - This is a common pickup for Offering generation.
• Lith - A surprisingly strong Invocation, provided you can afford to stand still.

Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees and abilities. You can have one hired (permanent) mercenary during solo play and a reinforcement who assists you from time to time in certain situations.

• Hired: Raheir

Raheir provides you with passive All Resistance, an area of effect Slow which increases your damage, a 90% damage reduction bubble that also increases damage, and prevents you from getting one shot every 30 seconds thanks to Valiance. Beware that he's not present when playing in groups and make sure you remain resistance capped without him.

• Reinforcement: Varyana

Choose Bloodthirst for a periodic Attack Speed bonus.

In Diablo 4, you can level by completing the Campaign, collecting Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, completing Helltide activities, grinding Dungeons, clearing Strongholds, fighting in the Undercity of Kurast or interacting with the Seasonal Mechanics. While there are many ways to level up in Diablo 4, not all of them are equal.

As you approach level 60 with the Landslide Druid, you unlock higher item power gear that represents a massive jump in character power. This is a good time to refresh your setup with new tempers and imprints.

At level 60, Paragon Levels and The Pit unlock. Work towards Tier 10 to enter Torment 1, where the Endgame begins. Focus on overcapping your Armor (1000+) and Resistances (75%+) as you receive some penalties to your character's stats:

• -250 Armor per Torment difficulty
• -25% All Resistances per Torment difficulty

At this point, your setup should look roughly like this before you dive into min/maxing with Uniques, Mythics & Masterworking. With better gear, more levels and Glyphs, you can push further and eventually unlock higher difficulties for increased rewards.

This step marks the end of the leveling guide. Below is the Paragon setup to get you started in Torment difficulty, but ideally, you should now transition towards the endgame version of this build or choose another of your liking.

Use the slider to see progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

To Level 15

1. Headhunter
2. Spirit
3. Earth and Sky
4. Fang and Claw
5. Keeper

To Level 46

1. Earth and Sky
2. Spirit
3. Keeper
4. Fang and Claw
5. Headhunter