Low Life Crone Bulwark - Diablo 4 Druid Build

Bulwark damage scales of the stat % Barrier Generation, it does not scale of Bulwark Level, and it does not scale of Aspects. The Max barrier value is equal to your Max Life, but you can get as much extra damage as your % Barrier Generation stat EVEN if the barrier is over-capped.

Earthen Bulwark does a lot of damage, we are playing all high damage modifiers for Earth Skills that double and even quadruple dip if you apply enough sources of CC.

Cataclysm combined with the new Malignant Heart: Inexorable Force makes all mobs come to the yard. That’s right, all the distant mobs will be pulled to close range, this fixes the biggest problem Bulwark builds always had: the lack of large-scale AOE clear. We are sacrificing Petrify for this, but in a way, pulling enemies also serves as a form of CC as they will be interrupted.

Instead of a core skill this build is casting Earthen Bulwark with Innate Earthen Bulwark as it’s passive, a cool little damage ability that can scale with Barrier Generation on top of all other modifiers.

Nature’s Fury is the core of this build, the ability to reset our Bulwark is what makes the build good, it provides us with full uptime of all our defensive abilities and reset of our damage abilities at the same time.

• Play with a controller, it lets you move and auto-attack at the same time, really good for Rogue builds as well.
• Stack your fortify to 100% before you engage in combat
• Poison enemies as soon as possible
• Don’t stand melee with enemies if you don’t have Earthen Bulwark up, wait for it to be active before you get close, when you don’t get resets just walk away till you do.

This build has a monstrous defence, not only do we have Perma Fortify but we also have Tons of Damage reduction while fortified and against poisoned enemies.

As a low Life build, we take the full benefit of DR while Injured.

Earthen Bulwark will also provide a big shield and Maoschists a good chunk of heals. A notable defence we have is also the use of Vigilance, a 15% Damage reduction every time we cast a defensive skill.

Essential:

• 60% Barrier generation is to max out your Bulwark shield (the maximum is 100% of your base life)
• Maxed out Symbiotic Aspect
• At least 75% Damage Reduction while Injured (tooltips)
• Crone Staff

You can remove Poison Creeper for Debilitating Roar, only do this if you have a perfect roll on your crit chance. You only need to put 1 Point in Debilitating Roar, the spare two points can be used for extra levels in Cyclone Armor.

Miracle-Bulwark version

• You can run this build in a more "easy" setup, by running the healthier Miracle Bulwark version. t's an opposite playstyle of this Low Life version as you don't want to stay at low life!

• To do this you will have to add in Masochistic, as you want to benefit from the incredible healing. I

Although you should always prioritize the Low Life Bulwark version as it's stronger but you have to be lucky enough and manage to find the perfect gear for that on your Amulet, Boots and Pants with maxed-out damage reduction while Injured!

Shred - Variations

• Poison Creeper or Cyclone Armor can be removed to play Shred and gain some mobility. I think the 20% crit chance from Poison Creeper is really strong till you reach best in slot status. I find myself so powerful that the hassle of pressing the ability is not worth it. So I tend to remove it, my gear is also max crit chance on every slot, so consider your gear before you make a hasty decision.

• If you take out Poison Creeper, I usually take Bolster as Spirit Boon instead, and use the 3 Talent points to gain fortify for more dmg.

This is a Rogue stat, but can be rolled using an alt character. You only need to complete 1 Dungeon with aspect reward. Usually you can complete the dungeon after 2 events. If you do not want to run this stat, you can just use will, or lucky hit chance.