Is BULWARK build back? Massive patch for DRUID - PTR Explained - Diablo 4

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Bulwark might be back on the menù, Massive patch for Druids, the PTR changes are great, let's dive deep in how this patch will change Druid going forward
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[@jasonfolz8322]

Same idea popped into my head with the new boots for Druid bulwark build

[@PowerofRa_]

Ace can you play Ptr and insure and that Druid is not underpowered to other classes at season 5. We have had so many weak seasons since you made poison shred. Druid is my fave but Power comparisons between other classes is not fair. Please get Druid buffed to the max for season 5

[@Goblin-Inc]

I will, I think Landslide is godly.

[@dogs-game-too]

​@Goblin-Inc shape-shifting builds too please!

[@NfinitGr8tness]

A massive problem is the fact that aspects are SUPREME and not having the ability to have more slots means we can NEVER catch up. Without added damage aspect slots or major reworks. Instead of nerfing other classes or capping thunder glyph they should have uncapped earthen dev. Also if they didn't cap ALL the other classes glyphs then once again we will never catch up. Honestly, most people aren't going to figure out on their own what's op. I think it is a huge mistake when content creators say things are op because it takes away from individual creativity and limits the amount of viable builds. (No shade intended) but if the math was that easy,...everyone would be a mathematician. It is in the very nature of a theory crafter to make op builds then spread them to the masses. But the downside is that when they usher users into the meta, it gets nerfed and the goalposts are moved. Unfortunately for druid class, we have been over nerfed in ways unintended (banished lord) and intended (shred). We don't have a single target build currently or next season that will compete based on these changes. I looked at the new unique-ly $#!+ 2 handed staff and laughed,... sabotage. It doesn't matter if you let us hold other weapons if you make them ineffective or incompatible in a class that is split against itself in 5 ways (human, werewolf, wearbear, lightning and earth!) We already need a ton of aspects to get any build to keep pace yet, we are tighed for fewest slots in game 😂🎉🎉🎉. And most of the audience and players come from CONSOLE,....you don't WANT real feedback if you eliminate your MAIN audience 😂🎉🎉🎉. I LOVE the dedication you, Moxsy and some others have had to this class but all the math in the world can't overcome fewest slots, most incompatibility with itself, bad design (some gameplay and cosmetic design limitations) AND the most capped glyphs in the game. I'm tired of my friends laughing when we are bossing and soft-"suggesting" that they will wait for me to switch classes, level up and respec with another character because that would take a shorter time than waiting for my druid bosser to finish the fight😅😂. We used to be something!

[@nicholass57]

So pumped for landslide. Can’t wait to test it on Tuesday.

[@d4mephisto]

Please learn how to use paragraphs. Holy crap. You murdered my eyeballs.​@@NfinitGr8tness

[@vyklos]

Loved bulkward on s1

[@PowerofRa_]

Could you try get Druid to be able to hold a 3rd weapon. An extra weapon slot for Druid and Sorcerer would help close power gaps and give more options for other builds. Thank you

[@musicxxa6678]

That wouldn't be an elegant change. They can move some of the aspects and uniques to boon that can create space for us.

[@marcinmusial-j5e]

What about baking some aspects into the skills itself? Like shockwave as baseline , same for stormchaser and aftershock ? :D

[@dogs-game-too]

Could not agree more

[@musicxxa6678]

@@marcinmusial-j5e oh yeah especially stormchaser

[@Klingles]

​@@musicxxa6678I definitely agree with this. They just need to make the boons actually exciting. If they did this, it would be a great way to close that gap.

[@machine29a]

At some point, I would like to see a poison creeper build become viable. I think the changes to shepherd are a good start. I think what could potentially push it over the top would be if the subterranean aspect made poison creeper an earth skill. It would open up tons of synergies, like adding vasily's prayer and changeling's debt to get another strong multiplier

[@kylelecomte3803]

yeh this. i have no idea why sub aspect still doesn't give creeper an earth or nature magic tag....

[@Seanidor]

I hope they add a legendary paragon node that focuses on companions soon. The legendary nodes for earth and storm are pretty good, the damage boost from using spirit is good, the werebear one is okay, the werewolf one and the others are kinda ehh.

[@chapawaiian]

I built the s2 poison slide build and it's doing great.

[@machine29a]

@@chapawaiian I'm more interested in making poison builds more viable for druid. We got wind shear this season and it's a good start but I wonder how much it will fall off once thunderstruck is capped. We need some better ways to stack multipliers on our poison abilities if they're ever going to be viable for end game.

[@kylehankey5820]

Remember, with the Shepherds builds, we weren't losing just one slot to it constantly but 2. You always paired Shepherd with the Companion aspect to get extra companions. That's 2 spots we can now replace with other synergies.

[@kiyoma2237]

lightning storm didn't scale with passive and temporary attack speed. That means neither attack speed as a stat nor as an effect (for example, accelerating) did work for lightning storm but will now... Whirlwind got the same "bug fix"... seems to me like some channelling skills are now affected by attack speed... xD

[@Seanidor]

I kinda wish they would just get rid of channeling skills or at least rework them a bit. The bug that stops you from moving after you channel and then evade is so frustrating. It's managed to kill me so many times.

[@ViSongs482]

@@Seanidor is that for everyone? i thought it was because i was on a ps4

[@Seanidor]

@@ViSongs482 Nah, it happens to everyone

[@danielvillafuerte6245]

I'm hoping they do something for Stormclaw builds. As it is right now, it isn't that good of a simple basic skill attacking build compared to Barbs and Rogues even while needing a unique to enable it. Plus, they're going to be capping Thunderstruck node while not capping Victimize, nor fixing the multiplicative instead of additive bonus for the barb bash tempering. I want my Greatstaff of the Crone to be more than a stick to trigger more procs for Nature's Fury. :(

[@tuba7861]

Thanks for always being a voice of reason, and voice for druids. I'm very excited for PTR/s5!

[@nacujo]

Thank you for continuing to fight for Druid buffs and fixes! It’s the only class I enjoy playing!

[@andresantana5112]

Can u play Wind Shear in the PTR to see if the build with the thunderstruck capped is viable? @Goblin-Inc

[@aleefmohammed244]

I think Stormclaw Druid will be good for Season 5. With the new Catalysm gloves unique, +basic skills on pants, harlequin crest and Mad Wolves Glee and Lupine Ferocity passive, there's alot of points to play around with and damage buff during Catacylsm

[@tomtomkowski7653]

Yeah, Blizzard... let's buff Barb where Flay is doing 1.500.000.000 bleeding dmg per second and can Rupture for 150.000.000.000 and let's nerf Necro and Druid - Hahahahahaha 9 (4 ravens, 2 creepers, 3 wolves) companions (with +1 companion) even on amulet (+20x% per companion) = 180x% damage and they just removed it - Hahahahahaha But they will buff skills by 2x% to compensate - Hahahahahaha This is Barblo iV and not Diablo IV. To make Druid work they should have: 1. Add 2x 1H weapons (if so tiny Rogue can handle them then such a big boy as Druid can wear them too) - this means 2 more gems, 2 more offensive stats, and 2 more offensive aspects 2. Reduce spirit cost of Core skills by 30% so Pulverize from 35 to 25, Tornado from 40 to 30, etc 3. Remove some useless stats from Uniques (Insatiable Fury, Wildheart Hunger) and add Spirit per second because regular Chest and Boots can have it. 4. Add native spirit generation like Sorc has mana generation by default 5. Enhanced Pulverize should make Pulverize Overpowers every single time. Too OP? Pulverize can hit for 400mln while Barb's Flay bleeds for 1.5 billion per second! 6. Remove "up to" from Legendary Nodes like Earthen Devastation so Druid would have some "infinite" scaling as Barb has After all these changes Druid still would be way worse than Barbarian but at least from some D-tier, it would become a solid A-tier and 130+ PIT pusher.

[@dogs-game-too]

TLDR lol

[@alexsandergabriel1788]

Barb have a massive nerf on hemmorage, this will nerf Flay too

[@tomtomkowski7653]

@@alexsandergabriel1788 Not really. Usual builds have 50-60x with Hemmorhage as most stats people put into crt chance and crt dmg for Gushing Wounds passive key and it won't be nerfed. So in reality the difference will be between caped at 40% and usual ~55%. But they will increase bleed duration so in general it won't change at all.

[@alexsandergabriel1788]

@@tomtomkowski7653 thats not true, the average is 75-80 hemmorrage, you can see on the Rob video he have 76

[@lukebrady65]

No one's really talking about it, but they did say during the live stream that the team is looking at ways to reduce the Barbarian's power and bring them more in line with other classes. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do in the next few months.

[@thatoneguybrandon7]

As you have stated, the only realistic way to use Boulder is with Dolmen stone, so with not removing the wrath tag from boulder with metamorphic stone, it is a buff to boulder builds due to Dolmen wrath ranks. Also if they left the wrath buff in on Shepherd's aspect then wouldn't boulder build still feel forced to use companions for Shepherd's?

[@seban5001]

And temp: Casting Wrath Skills Restores [10-14] Primary Resource

[@combatsack]

I can see some hair growing back

[@Seanidor]

Rabies kind of reminds me of the skill Locust Swarm that Witch Doctors used in D3; it was mainly used so you could benefit from a multiplier and didn't really do much damage itself. I remember trying to make a build that focused on Locust Swarm ages ago but it was only able to clear stuff around Torment 10 or so. It's kinda funny though, the damage and spreading speed of Rabies feels even worse than Locust Swarm.

[@ThorGodofThunder420]

First season that I didn't play a druid, I'm glad i got a bit of a break from it and I'm getting to enjoy rogue for the first time. After all these buffs i think I'll be making my 4th druid next season. I'll definitely be testing it in the PTR. I sure do miss the days of shrednado and bulwark 😔

[@NamNguyen-lr6sk]

What about that earth spike aspect that give earth spike a 1 sec cooldown. For that explosion boot.

[@Tipunch2453]

Thank again for your work and this analysis. Btw you didn't mention switch of some tempering (as Petrify duration, hurricane size) to utility. It's a cool buff too IMO

[@Equa1itype4ce]

Great patch notes video thanks ace

[@nacujo]

Can you test out companion Druid in PTR as well? Companions don’t get much attention from any streamers and would love to see them improve and iterate on them more

[@sumnersmash7485]

I have a lot of hope Druid is great season 5. Glad you will be playing ptr more and thanks for submitting your feedback to help the class all 10 😂 Druid players appreciate you!

[@michaljaworski8218]

I'm curious if "The Basilisk" will interact with "Petrify" Ultimate since Petrify is a key word in their descriptions. 1s CDR on mob kill, x30% Crit DMG and 10s on boss hit and x50% Crit DMG with any Earth Skill will be crazy

[@SWAMPY_G]

That was my thought as well, I think it's going to be much stronger than ace gave it credit. Casting a skill casts petrify, then you can work to have petrify up all the time on top of that. This would pair well with the earthbreaker build.

[@stephanos.rempel7490]

I would like to see a build around the Cataclysm ultimate. Should be fun.

[@jornwinter2579]

Do you think shred could be good again? Probably with andariels always wonder if this will work...

[@RaulCojocariu]

Druid needed some crazy buffs to compete cant wait. Im hopping to play shred finally my favorite build in d4

[@JuddJadulan]

Mr. Ballsack please send Pit 200 clear durid build thank you

[@rjpnak5074]

Could there be a werebear Dolman stone synergy that they're afraid of? Couldn't we guarantee boulders with OP charges?

[@rjpnak5074]

Actually both the boulder and hurricane could be guaranteed OP and carity charges

[@ojdidit84]

I was wondering the same about boulder. I saw no changes, aside from metamorphic stone, which is a good change. We've got some good changes so I'm excited to see where we end up next season. I'm definitely gonna no life that PTR testing everything I can.

[@Goblin-Inc]

I think they might have forgot to buff it

[@seban5001]

No cost with temp Casting Wrath Skills Restores [10-14] Primary Resource, and dolmen point, maybe it's a "decent buff"

[@Symolian88]

Please for the love of Lilith, make Druid more powerful, lol

[@yangpatrick8454]

It would interesting to test infinite catacalysm with boulder.

[@tristanyang5988]

Could you try if survival instinct legendary node works for bearslide in PTR. ~25% dmg increase on average is a lot against bosses. Wondering if they'll fix it. Currently, it only works on original bear skills.

[@manfredhoudek2385]

My druid is Landslide and it is best Druid build especially with unique ring and pulverize aspect to create tectonic spikes.

[@batmon26]

see i was trying to think how to do a storm claw with Boulder build. aslong as u keep ur resources above 50% you should receive the Melle dmg bonus. but can you fit in all the dmg aspects. using the amulet to rotate them around around u, with the core skill affesix

[@vanquished421]

What are the odds of a decent andariels Druid build happening?

[@trppayne]

One way that they could buff lighting storm is that all strikes hit a target, there for if their is only one target and you had your lighting storm fully up it would hit that one target 5 times. Lighting storm aoe dmg is good but it single target dmg is so bad. Just one idea that may make it better for endgame boss fights.

[@mr.pippin9055]

I hope stormslide gets even crazier. Also bulwark potentially being back in the table? Let's go!!!!

[@georgebennett3910]

What stats to prioritize for the Werebear willpower or damage?

[@DatFreshCookie]

werebear usually better to get willpower because it also increases overpower damage

[@SpYdeREDGE]

It would've been nice if they made the new unique gloves (Björnfang's Tusks) as a unique totem instead, maybe would've opened up more possibilities of main hand & totem builds... idk.

[@AthosPetriDamiani]

dont know who is "everyone", cuz I got a Singing Drud and I am really excited about the new bulwark and boots! Gonna go test it right away. Great vid, thx, gg

[@CookaSoupNieceEH]

Lol I remember when I used the bugged bulwark build to clear nightmare 100, it was way harder before.

[@taks1993]

isnt landslide the top build now? didnt a druid do a 140+ with it?

[@JakMiof]

You got it all wrong about the lightning storm bug fix it was referring to passive attack speed bonuses and attack speed bonuses that are granted for short periods of time like moonrise for instance

[@henrynguyen4315]

I have a feeling they will patch wind shear unfortunately. How it interacts and scales with other aspects is unintended. Your other offensive aspects is scaling off the poison damage number on one of the aspects which is clearly not intended, its intended to scale off the base skill damage.

[@jasonlucia6682]

That pulverize line in the patch notes confused tf out of me too

[@zanleer56]

i hope trampleslide is awesome in season 5

[@bekrah5961]

Trample/Poison/Landslide is my favorite way to play the Druid.

[@chapawaiian]

It is going to be very viable.

[@legi0n47x]

Shred is my preferred playstyle. Bummer it lags behind still.

[@drax4901]

I think if these hold (which they arent likely especially around the DR buffs) then druids will be good next season.

[@Ran93024]

More pillars and lucky hit implicit on totem makes me want to try an andariels visage landslide druid with nature's fury :D

[@mmaric700]

BULWARK build was what attracted me to play druid

[@Malam_13]

I hate flat damage uniques. Just makes the abilities strong, ffs

[@TheTezoni]

This flat dmg boots works with skills that normally isn't a dmg skill (like Fleshrender), which is rly cool

[@kudbettinkohen1935]

Do both. Flat damage would be fun the build around if it’s not piss weak

[@TheTezoni]

@@kudbettinkohen1935 exactly. It open new possibilities for builds that is impossible without items like this

[@bigdogang]

I’ll wait to see what you say I’m just Fed up with blizzard!!!!

[@THEETERNALANGELX]

They shouldve made earthen devastation legendary node like thunderstruck- no cap. that would made earth builds very viable

[@beefcakemonsta]

Imagine what Devs did with poison creeper. PC with Subterranean aspect with 90% lucky hit chance is a moving landslide build 🙃🙃. Thats going to be my build for next season.

[@Nekoelschekrat]

Not sure if the Basilisk is really that bad.Combined with the Airidah Ring you always pull the Mobs together, might be a good Kombination.

[@thatoneguybrandon7]

I think it will Petrify the enemy, not cast "Petrify" which is required for Airiduh's

[@Nekoelschekrat]

@@thatoneguybrandon7 Possible but this would be inconsistent.OK, Blizz is often inconsistent so you got a very good Point 😉

[@ДимитърПоптолев]

Fleshrender currently inherits the skill tags of whatever triggered it; which is how the build can scale. Also Nature's Fury doesn't trigger it; so Savagery aint going to do a lot. If the boots work the same way (personally I highly doubt it due to the way it's worded) it may be a good way to scale a Karen Build (Fleshrender, don't ask) or a Bulwark Build; but if they don't it ain't going to do much IMO.

[@seban5001]

if Bood howl heal 60% (20% + willpower bonus) skinwalker could be a good defensive option

[@illogic47]

Druids, Sorcs and Necros should have a charm slot similar to a second amulet in power 1.5x slot for aspect.

[@Goblin-Inc]

Need boon system rework

[@ellsjoy]

Doesn't that boots work well with hunter zeni

[@thatoneguybrandon7]

Maybe, but I think the effect states it also makes the wearbear skill have no cool down.

[@ellsjoy]

@@thatoneguybrandon7 Yeah you're right I Didn't Saw that.

[@TheTezoni]

I played Fleshrend Druid in Season 3 and I have a video doing doing Vault Tier 100 with it, was rly cool. Now imagine with this new boots, holy... Waiting for your video testing it on PTR Now I just wish they nerf Barb and Rogue, so we can have a health meta

[@brianmarotta937]

These intended changes neutered a whole class. Particularly builds like storm claw that were already low on the totem pole this season. There is no way they could possibly think this is balancing the class.

[@ryanwilliamson5714]

Im more interested to see if theres a unique for tornado builds tbf haha

[@stonecold91]

Another season sidelined. If blizzard does not want druid in the game they can just remove the class and call it a day. I mean it seems that they dont even understand what they created here. The druid DOES NOT HAVE a way to SCALE for the content currently in the game.

[@NowboThabwood]

They screwed the usability of uniques by not allowing tempuring.

[@droid5785]

Mmmmmmmmmm kinda but it can be worth it and that's the point

[@Klingles]

I honestly cannot believe that Blizzard saw every 110% of pulverize builds were using petrify and they thought to themselves - "we must need to gut grizzly rage". What a bunch of oblivious cavemen.

[@caiowhitaker8695]

They are nerfing aridah's???? Noooooo 😢

[@NicheVictory]

guys just make lacerate cast 35% claw or shred skills on an bigger area and add cleave damage or lightning chains between enemy’s dealing magic damage for 13 seconds (only the first x seconds you can become invulnerable and deal x*dexterity pure bleed for x seconds and X * (intelligence + willpower x strength ) physically and poisons damage😮 the make a mythical unique gloves when you use shape shifting werewolves skils activate x second of lacerate. Atack speed now reduces cast time and incresed animations speed for x seconds. Stats on gloves 100-320 All stats 0.25x Attack Speed Lucky hit chance for critical attacks to inflict Chance to poison and bleed 🩸 enemys 50-350 dexterity 90%Vulnerable damage increase

[@ixskullzxi1]

If fleshrender is cracked next season Ill eat my monitor. Ive wanted this thing to be good since it came out.

[@lekstacy2073]

If The Basilisk was an off-hand, I may have experimented with it.

[@emptysoul2757]

Agreed. Two hander uniques are a joke

[@billybutcher4217]

I'm a big fan of you and your builds

[@ChuckTmusic]

LandStorm is crazy !

[@shotguns4kids]

Would The Basilisk work well with a Stoneclaw build

[@Andre-mw8hf]

What do you think about storm skills? feels like thunderstuck and shepards changes seems to break any lighning wolf.but attack speed 4 lighting storm and the better dmg scalling will do something but enough to compense that upper nervs? but yeah maybee you can combine with cataclysm or smth like that . Let s go Ptr and test some stuff

[@blrrich1051]

More survivability buffs for druid is meaningless, when the biggest thing the character needed was damage. it's also frustrating when the druid used to have 5-8 viable builds, but was nerfed down to tornado. Nerfing thunderstruck ends that build and now they left us with landslide. Is it too much to ask that every build the druid has, including shred, pulverize, tornado, bulwark, boulder, ect. do at least 80% of barbarians damage? I would rather have 8 builds be genuinely useable, than 1 build for druid do billions of damage.

[@dogs-game-too]

Mobs are easy, bosses are the only speedbump

[@ricogwapo5100]

Blizzard please i'm sick of Pulverize

[@ChuckTmusic]

Just give them big feedback when you do PTR

[@AthosPetriDamiani]

And I would not sleep on the Ball-sack-lik staff, it can turn out to be fn OP!

[@WesleyRodrigues-cx4zd]

R.I.P Druid. This is the true 😢

[@meljorellabugho8592]

people going to diablo 4 build simulators and making future builds even not knowing what the new changes for uniques are wasting too much dopamine imo... chilll

[@timtim997]

season 5 is too bullying Denuy. The only output damage storm is only 40%

[@Listhp1337]

It's a support weapon

[@musicxxa6678]

landstorm build is quite fun they should preserve that build. pulverize needs improvements. pet build will be interesting now with shepherd aspect. clarity and shepherd aspect became oxymoron now that needs to be fixed. still not fan of shred. needs improvements. poison variant can be improved. aspect or unique that removes first 2 hit and makes it do only the third hit can be interesting. storm claw builds needs love, they should look at S4 bash build and make improvements to stormclaw with crone staff so that it can be as good and fun. tornado build sucks, even dust devils much more fun. needs visual improvements and i think you shouldn't be werewolf for it. decouple storm abilities from werewolf shape. dolmen build needs qol buffs companion skills now can be cast while moving thats great qol buff a true shapeshifter build path is missing. make some shapeshifting abilities more synergistic. something like maul + shred's third attack alternating between them or something like that. nature fury passive casts doesn't benefit from ''storm skill after earth skill or vice versa'' buffs. fix that pls. ult buffs and lupine ferocity buff exciting too. need pixel pull ability. make airidah ring work with shouts instead of ults. make toxic claws based on max dmg not base damage waxing gibbous gives cool effect that can be explored blurred beast aspect is terrible. some shred paths can be explored here to make it more fun and strong too. base raven swarm size needs buff. i think it should swirl monsters in and function kind of like pixel pull effect. some unique item aspects can be moved to boons like tempest roar some rabies + andariel + xfal kind of build path would be fun with crone staff having better chain lightning effect.

[@knagen]

Why isnt uniques temperable??? Makes no sense, I dont care if they have to reduce drop rate or something. Make em temperable to make em useful and relevant or they will never be

[@DangerMade1981]

We want poison boulders!

[@Adanoft]

Best thing with these boots is that you can use them to gain fire dmg without wasting a enchantment slot on Chain Lightning Andariel build. Procing 4 tal rasha easy. Freeing up Enchantment slots for Lightning Spear, and Ice Blades.

[@bigdogang]

The game is called barbblio 4 smh 🤦‍♂️

[@ashnsd]

KEEP US POSTED IF BULWARK IS BACK 😀

[@TheGandreg]

I have second hand embarrassment from Blizzard being so bad at balancing the Druid. You can tell whoever is doing the balancing doesn't actually play the game. They are just a spreadsheet warrior that doesn't get it.

[@joeka6405]

Yesss!!! Bring back bulwark!!!

[@bumoftennis8290]

Fleshrender?

[@daveysquier]

bro excited about a defensive skill build

[@daveysquier]

RIP wind daddy

[@Zombgetsu]

Its going to be ass bro. If bulwark gets even close to how good it was say good bye and hello nerf. 💯

[@n0xxm3rcyxx]

mmmm... nah, doing billions with barb is fun. i was a die hard druid... but they just kept shittin on it. no thanks.

[@dfillio8993]

Na Druid is dead tornado lightning storm and storm claw were the only fun builds on Druid and they’re all completely killed with these nerfs

[@balllitty]

Im gonna make immortal storm claw druid and do tons of damage watch me and ill send u the build when i finish it in PTR

[@januszchytrus723]

Low life crone bukwark ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤i tak dalej

[@sethwood1676]

Oh no not the rabies builds getting nerfed.

[@chapawaiian]

You are gonna be the reason druid gets nerfed. Ptr is literally there for bugs. But yall make op builds and blizzard sees it and will nerf it before live. Landslide buff is gonna be nerfed because yall gonna clear the hardest things with ease. I'm calling it now. Instead of making or showing builds. Just showcase bugs and bad skills so blizzard can fix those instead. Alwo why tf do they keep buffing pulverize? Suvh a shiiite play style. Caveman oooh ooh ahh ahh slam smash. Lolol id rather delete my druid than play that crap lol

[@theevil5217]

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