Hurricane Druid Endgame Build Guide for Diablo 4 (Season 4)

Build Introduction

Hurricane is a persistent spell surrounding the player for its duration, periodically pulsing damage to enemies. Set up a giant storm of damage by playing around modifiers such as:

Guaranteed Overpower from Provocation.
Damage and Critical Strike Chance from the newly changed Clarity.
Aspect of the Tempest will ramp the Hurricane damage, and the duration is extended to high stacks with the new Tempering system for Hurricane Duration.
High available multipliers to Thunderstruck from the new Tempering system.
The newly changed Shepherd’s Aspect that now includes Wrath Skills.

This guide covers everything necessary to get started on your Hurricane adventure, including Skill Tree points, Paragon, Gearing, and Seasonal updates.

Strengths

Large Area of Effect clearing
Thematic Gameplay

Weaknesses

Requires timing setups with buff management
High gearing investment to play smoothly

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier lists.

Build Requirements

The following Unique Items and Legendary Aspects are required for build functionality to get started on the Hurricane Druid:

Required Uniques

Required Aspects

You will also need access to the Storm Augment Weapon Manual for Hurricane Duration.

Skill Tree Points and Skill Bar

(Important) The amount of Provocation points you take depends on your Hurricane duration. At higher Tempering and Mastercrafting, Hurricane can reach a long duration with higher potential stacks of Aspect of the Tempest. For example, if your Hurricane is 20~23 seconds long, you would only want 1 point in Provocation for the Overpower every 20 seconds, rather than every 12 seconds from having 3 points in Provocation. Too many points can mean fewer stacks of Aspect of the Tempest. These extra points can be shuffled to ranks in Vigilance.

Spirit Boons – The Druid Class Specialization

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

Boon Name	Animal	Effect
Wariness	Deer	Take 15% reduced damage from Elites.
Iron Feather	Eagle	Gain 20% Maximum Life.
Avian Wrath	Eagle	Gain 30%[x] Critical Strike Damage.
Packleader	Wolf	Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes have up to a 20% chance to reset the Cooldowns of your Companion Skills.
Masochistic	Snake	Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes with Shapeshifting Skills have up to a 75% chance to Heal you for 5% Maximum Life.

Once you have sufficient Hurricane Duration from Storm Augments and Companion Cooldown Reduction from Companion Efficiency, you can swap from Packleader to (Offensive) Scythe Talons or (defensive) Bolster.

Paragon

The following are the preferred Glyphs, Boards, and pathing recommended for making the most of the Hurricane Druid. All Glyphs are placed as if they are max radius (Level 15+).

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Starting Board

For the Starting Board, path up and place the Outmatch Glyph into the Glyph Socket.

Heightened Malice

For the second board, choose Heightened Malice, placed against the Starting Board. Socket the Werebear Glyph, and take the Legendary Node Heightened Malice.

Thunderstruck

For the third board, choose Thunderstruck, placed against the left side of the Heighted Malice board. Socket the Territorial glyph and take the Legendary Node Thunderstruck.

Constricting Tendrils

For the fourth board, choose Constricting Tendrils, placed against the top side of the Heightened Malice board, rotated three times. Socket the Fang and Claw Glyph.

Ancestral Guidance

For the fifth board, choose Ancestral Guidance, placed against the Thunderstruck board’s top side, rotated three times. Socket the Shapeshifter Glyph.

Earthen Devastation

For the sixth board, choose Earthen Devastation, placed against the Constricting Tendril’s right side, rotated once. Socket the Dominate Glyph.

Survival Instincts

For the final board, choose Survival Instincts, placed against the Earthen Devastation board, rotated once. Take the Legendary Node Survival Instincts and socket the Exploit Glyph.

For further info on Paragon choices, check the Paragon Information in the Additional Information Section.

Gear, Stats, Gems and Elixirs

Itemization has received significant changes with the Season 4 1.40 patch and will affect the game going forward.

Legendary Aspects

Below are the recommended Legendary Aspects for each gear slot. Gear Slots with multiple options are listed in recommended priority. Any slot with an Optional Unique Item will include a valid alternative legendary power.

Slot	Gem	Aspect	Unique/Legendary Aspect Power
2 Handed Axe	Royal Ruby	Aspect of the Tempest	Core and Wrath Skills deal an additional 5-10%[x] damage for each active Companion.
Helm	Royal Ruby	(Required) Tempest Roar	Lucky Hit: Storm Skills have up to a [15 – 25]% chance to grant 4 Spirit. Your base Storm Skills are now also Werewolf Skills
Chest	Royal Ruby	(optional) Insatiable Fury OR Aspect of the Crowded Sage	Werebear form is now your true form, and you gain +3 Ranks to all Werebear Skills.
Gloves	N/A	Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt	You deal 25-55% increased damage while hitting a Poisoned enemy as a Werebear or a Crowd Controlled enemy as a Werewolf.
Pants	Royal Ruby	Aspect of Fevered Mauling OR Aspect of Might	When you hit at least 1 enemy with Maul, increase its Attack Speed by 1%-2.5% and you gain 1%-3%Damage reduction for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
Boots	N/A	(Offensive) Aspect of Concussive Strikes OR (Unstoppable) Aspect of Metamorphosis	Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 20% chance to Daze them for 2 seconds. You deal 5-20% increased damage to Dazed enemies.
Amulet	Royal Diamond	Shepherd’s Aspect	Core and Wrath Skills deal an additional 5-10% damage per Companion you have.
Ring 1	Royal Diamond	(recommended) Hunter’s Zenith OR Aspect of Retaliation	Gain a bonus when you kill with a Shapeshifting Skill: Werewolf: Your next Non-Ultimate Werebear Skill costs no Resource and has no Cooldown. Werebear: Your next Werewolf Skill will Heal you for [689 – 1,379] when damage is first dealt.
Ring 2	Royal Diamond	Aspect of the Stampede	Gain 1 additional Companion. In addition, your Companion Skills deal 16-26%[x] bonus damage.

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Below are the affixes to prioritize on gear. Each line of affixes is listed in order of importance. Tempering Manuals and their recommended affixes are provided in the second column, and the bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. To masterwork, you will need rare materials that only drop from The Pit. Be sure to check our Tempering guide, our Masterworking guide, as well as our guide about The Pit for more details about these topics.

Unique Items cannot be Tempered, but can be Mastercrafted. Any slot with an Optional Unique Item will include a valid alternative legendary power setup.

Slot	Gearing Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Two-Handed Axe	Maximum Life Willpower Overpower Damage Critical Strike Damage	Storm Augments – Hurricane Duration Natural Finesse – Damage to Close Enemies
Helm – Tempest Roar (Required)	Damage While Shapeshifted Critical Strike Damage Maximum Spirit Poison Resistance
Chest – Insatiable Fury (Optional)	Physical Damage Overpower Damage Damage Reduction while Fortified Total Armor in Werebear Form
Chest – Legendary Aspect	Max Life Willpower Armor All Resistances	Worldly Endurance – Max Life Worldly Fortune – [Any of] Lucky Hit: Chance to Immobilize/Stun/Freeze for 2 Seconds
Gloves	Critical Strike Chance Max Life Willpower Overpower Damage	Natural Finesse– Damage to Close Enemies Worldly Fortune – [Any of] Lucky Hit: Chance to Immobilize/Stun/Freeze for 2 Seconds
Pants	Armor Willpower Max Life Dodge Chance	Worldly Endurance – Total Armor% Worldly Fortune – [Any of] Lucky Hit: Chance to Immobilize/Stun/Freeze for 2 Seconds
Boots	Ranks to Hurricane Movement Speed Willpower Dodge Chance	Natural Motion – Movement Speed Worldly Fortune – [Any of] Lucky Hit: Chance to Immobilize/Stun/Freeze for 2 Seconds
Amulet	Ranks to Envenom Critical Strike Chance Movement Speed Resource Cost Reduction	Natural Finesse– Damage to Close Enemies Natural Motion – Movement Speed
Ring – Hunter’s Zenith(recommended)	Damage While Shapeshifted Critical Strike Chance Ranks in Heightened Senses Ranks in Quickshift
Rings – Legendary Aspect	Critical Strike Chance Maximum Life Overpower Damage Willpower	Natural Finesse– Damage to Close Enemies Companion Efficiency – Companion Cooldown Reduction

There’s several parts of gearing affixes and tempering that set up the Hurricane Druid. Here are a few important notes:

Hurricane Duration is significant for this build for higher stacks of Aspect of the Tempest. Mastercraft quality increases will be highly desirable as well.
Temper for Damage to Close Enemies will be better than Hurricane Damage, because of its multiplier to Thunderstruck.
Max Life% will help with increased Overpower damage.
Armor cap is 9230 against any enemies level 100 and above, for up to 85% Damage Reduction. This is generally reached at 925 Item Power with either one Armor Gear Affix with one Total Armor% Temper.
Attack Speed does not improve Hurricane tick rate.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Royal Ruby for Overpower Damage	Royal Ruby For Max Life%	Royal Diamond for Resistance to all Elements

Elixirs, Incense and Health Potions

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

Craft the highest available Elixir of Fortitude for Maximum Life. Max Life% is significant for Overpower.
If mats are available, craft Chorus of War.
Remember to upgrade your potion as you level, increasing the instant healing of the potion!

Unique Items

The following Unique Items are required, recommended, or optional for the Hurricane Druid.

(Required) Tempest Roar makes Hurricane a Werewolf Skill. This will enable Hurricane to benefit from Shapeshifting passives like Envenom and Quickshift, provide healing from Spirit Boon Masochistic, and as a Werewolf skill, will interact with Hunter’s Zenith to reset Debilitating Roar.
(Recommended) Hunter’s Zenith will provide significant cooldown resets on Debilitating Roar, allowing the Skill to have strong uptime.
(Optional) Insatiable Fury is a quality-of-life improvement for the build, helping to keep you in Werebear form to keep Provocation ticking. This is fully optional to the success of the build but you may find it convenient.

Tempest Roar can be target-farmed from Duriel.

Uber Unique Items

While the helm slot is locked to Tempest Roar and boots are locked for ranks to Hurricane, the following Uber Uniques are usable for the build:

(Mid Value) Tyreal’s Might – Unique Chest Armor: While at full Life, your Skills unleash a divine barrage dealing damage. This chest piece provides significant Defense increases to Resistances and Damage Reductions.

Rotation and Playstyle

Before max Provocation stacks, cast Wolves and Ravens for Clarity stacks. Wolves and Ravens can consume your Overpower so they need to be cast before Provocation is primed.
Cast Poison Creeper for the final Clarity stack.
Cast Hurricane with Provocation and Clarity stacks.
Maintain Debilitating Roar as necessary.
Maul as filler and for Fortify. Be careful not to consume Provocation with Maul.

Check out the advanced Build Mechanics section for a more in-depth description on how the build works, what synergies exist, and what to look out for.

Season 4: Loot Reborn

Patch 1.4.0 and Season 4 bring significant changes. The following list details the important changes in the Season 4 Patch Updates that are specific to the Hurricane Druid. For general Season 4 information, check out our Season 4 Hub.

Itemization:

The Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown affix has been increased from .8 to 1.5 seconds.
Physical Damage against Damage Reduction now caps at level 100. Note: this means Armor only needs to be 9230 to cap Armor against enemies level 100 and above.
Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt redesigned – You deal 25-40% increased damage while hitting a Poisoned enemy as a Werebear or a Crowd Controlled enemy as a Werewolf.
Shepherd’s Aspect now includes Wrath Skills, including Hurricane.
New – Aspect of Fevered Mauling – When you hit at least 1 enemy with Maul, increase its Attack Speed by 1%-2.5% and you gain 1%-3%Damage reduction for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
New – Aspect of Concussive Strikes – Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 20% chance to Daze them for 2 seconds. You deal 5-20% increased damage to Dazed enemies.

Skills and Stats:

Druid Companions now receive 100% of Player Attributes.
Damage Reduction from Fortify is now 15%, from 10%.
Energize Spirit Boon Spirit Restoration increased from 10 to 20.
Wariness Spirit Boon damage reduction from Elites increased to 15%.
Masochistic Critical Strike Healing increased from 3% to 5%.
Hurricane Damage increased from 134% to 187%.
Maul Damage increased by ~10%
Enhanced Maul Fortify increased from 5% to 8%
Debilitating Roar is now a Shout skill.
Wolves
- Wolves now gain Unstoppable when the Skill is cast.
- Health increased by 200%.
- Respawn reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
Clarity – New Effect – After casting a Companion Skill, your next Core or Wrath Skill’s damage and Critical Strike Chance are increased by 5%, up to 15%.
Quickshift redesigned. When Shapeshifting into a new animal form, you deal 1% increased damage for 3 seconds, up to 6%.
Heightened Senses redesigned – When Shapeshifting into an animal form, Werebear grants 2% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2% Movement Speed, each for 6 seconds. Bonuses are doubled while both are active.
Shapeshifter – Critical Strike Chance increased from 20% to 25%.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue where Hurricane was not displaying decimal values for its duration when affected by the Endless Tempest passive.

Patch 1.4.3

Scythe Talons – Critical Strike Chance increased from 5% to 10%.
Iron Feather – Maximum Life increased from 14% to 20%.
Bolster – Fortify amount increased from 15% to 25% of your Maximum Life.
Quickshift Maximum damage bonus increased from 6/12/18%[x] to 8/16/24%[x].
Provocation – Time in Werebear form required for Overpower reduced from 24/20/16 to 20/16/12 seconds.

Advanced Information

It is time to get started on your Hurricane journey!

Or see below for further information on how the build works, as well as further explanations for Paragon, Gearing, and Gameplay, and available playstyle options.

Build Mechanics

The Hurricane Druid is an effective and tanky build with high damage that speeds through content. Our primary Skill is Hurricane, which benefits from several interactions from Skill Passives, Legendary Powers, Gearing, and supporting Skills. There is some important set-up to making this damage work.

Tempest Roar makes all Storm Skills into Werewolf Skills, which allows Hurricane to benefit from Shapeshifting Passives like Quickshift and Envenom. Storm skills, including Hurricane, will benefit heavily from multipliers like Thunderstruck. This is why Damage to Close is tempered onto gear.

Provocation is the way we guarantee Hurricane to Overpower. This Overpower works for the entire duration of the cast Hurricane. Insatiable Fury and Maul filler attacks help keep us in Werebear form to keep Provocation stacks ticking.

(Important) How many ranks in Provocation can matter! Since Aspect of the Tempest increases Hurricane Damage with every tick, this means the longer we can Temper and Mastercraft the Hurricane, the more ramping damage it will tick for. Tempest stacks are reset on Hurricane refresh. So for example, if our Hurricane’s duration is 16 seconds, we would only want 2 points in Provocation instead of 3, so that we can still use skills in that downtime and so Tempest stacks can go higher and deal more damage. Likewise, only a single point in Provocation if our Hurricane is longer than 20 seconds.

Companion wolves, ravens, and creepers give a significant multiplier to Hurricane with Shepherd’s Aspect and Aspect of the Stampede. The active skill use of these Companions stack up Clarity for more Critical Strike Chance and Damage multiplier to the entire Hurricane cast.

(Important) The active skill use of these Ravens and Wolves can Overpower their attacks. Poison Creeper cannot. This means Ravens and Wolves need to be cast for Clarity stacks before Provocation reaches max stacks.

Debilitating Roar is our major Defensive Skill, and constantly reset by Hurricane kills triggering Hunter’s Zenith. As a Werebear skill, it will also help maintain Shapeshifting skills like Quickshift, Heightened Senses. There may be some downtime when fighting bosses that do not summon adds.

Ursine Strength is a steady damage multiplier that benefits from the damage increase in any Form, so long as you are Healthy. Healthy means to be above 80% Life.

There’s no native sources of Unstoppable for this build. Use Aspect of Metamorphosis and Boot Impicit Affix for Attacks to reduce Evade Cooldown if desired.

Paragon

The Paragon Board is a progression system unlocked at Level 50, giving player power through Common stat Nodes, Magic affix Nodes, Rare leveled Glyphs, and Legendary board-exclusive Nodes. For general paragon board information, check the guide here.

The recommended Paragon boards with images for the Hurricane Druid are listed above. The following section goes over some explanation and descriptions for the pathing process for the Hurricane Druid.

Broadly speaking, decisions for pathing through the Druid paragon board are divided into three categories:

Damage – The paragon boards provide a significant amount of Damage Multipliers and Additives. This includes:
- Socketed Glyphs such asFang and Claw, Earth and Sky and Outmatch
- Legendary Nodes such as Ancestral Guidance and Thunderstruck.
- Magic and Rare nodes such as Toxic Bane and Toxic Bane.
Defense – The paragon boards help reach goals on Damage Reduction, Armor and Resistances. This includes:
- Damage Reduction is improved from Werebear, Undaunted and Territorial secondary effects, as well as individual nodes providing bonuses like Damage Reduction against Vulnerable enemies.
- Resistances are improved from Magic and Rare Resistance nodes, with Earth and Sky and Outmatch bonuses improving their nearby Resistance nodes.
- Armor goals are reached with the help of Armor nodes in Inner Beast.
Build Functionality – The paragon boards improve total build functionality including:
- Max Life% nodes increase Effective Health but also boost capability for total Fortify as well. This increases overall output for Overpower damage.

Codex of Power and Gearing Affixes

With the release of Season 4 and Patch 1.4.0, Gearing has changed significantly. For the dedicated page, see the updated Gear Systems and Itemization Overview guide here.

The Codex of Power has changed. Extracting any aspect now upgrades it in the Codex of Power. All Aspects now exist in the Codex of Power. For example, extracting a Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt of a higher rank than you currently have in your codex improves the Codex. All future applications of Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt will have that higher value. This also means Gambling Obols can be a significant method of improving your Codex of power. Aspects in the Codex can be favorited.

Check our Legendary Aspect and Codex of Power Guide to see which slots can have which legendary powers. For example, Rings can have either Offensive or Resource powers. This means Aspect of the Stampede could be on Gloves or Ring, and there is still room for all the rest of the Legendary Aspects that complete the build.

For Gearing Affixes, Normal Items have no affixes, Magic Items have 1 affix, Rare Items have 2 affixes, Legendary Items have 3 affixes, and Unique Items keep their 4 affixes. Applying Legendary Aspects from your Codex will not improve the amount of Affixes on items. In the Endgame, this means Legendary Items are desirable and the rest are largely going to be just salvaged without much inspection. Many available affixes and their ranges have been changed. This is beneficial for this build on some Slots such as 2 handed weapon, with large Spirit Cost Reduction and Attack Speed, but will be worse on other slots, For example, every single resistance is an option on armor slots so rerolling at the Enchantress for the ideal affix can take many more rolls.

Ancestral Legendary items can drop with Greater Affix, indicated with a special icon * both in Inventory and on the ground. Items can have multiple Greater Affixes. Greater Affixes have a 1.5 multiplier to the base Affix.

Changelog

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.
10 May, 2024: Guide Created.