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Rotation and Gameplay – Wolf Companion Druid Diablo 4 Build (Season 7)

Everything you need to know about gameplay for the Wolf Companion Druid!

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Rotation and Build Mechanics

Get started on your Wolf Companion Adventure with information on rotation, or go deeper with advanced information on skill explanations, gameplay mechanics, and available playstyle options.

Rotation

  • Keep WolvesWolves on cooldown, cast on priority enemies.
  • PetrifyPetrify dangerous enemies to stun and apply a Critical Strike damage debuff.
  • Blood HowlBlood Howl to heal and increase attack speed.
  • Innate Debilitating RoarInnate Debilitating Roar for the damage buff and damage taken debuff on enemies.
  • ShredShred and MaulMaul as a builder/spender filler to fish for Pack Leader resets of WolvesWolves.

Mechanics and Gameplay

The primary source of damage for the Wolf Companion build is naturally WolvesWolves.

WolvesWolves are Companions that are out and active; they attack and can be attacked and tank for you. Their Active Skill grants them Unstoppable and make them leap onto your target for high damage. Each active Wolf makes a separate attack.

Wolves excel at single target, and with Storm's CompanionStorm’s Companion, will do periodic shouts of Storm Howl for minor area of effect damage.

Summon Count and Modifiers

Base WolvesWolves starts with 2 Wolf Companions:

Wolves gain the Werewolf Tag and apply RabiesRabies with Aspect of the AlphaAspect of the Alpha, and gain the Storm Tag with Storm's CompanionStorm’s Companion. This means scaling with appropriate modifiers.

Companions inherit all your Stats. For example, your attack speed bonuses will improve your Companions’ attack speeds. Even in odd ways like Shapeshifting Attack Speed Gear Affix; if the player is in Werewolf form from casts of ShredShred, then wolves attack faster because of the Werewolf Attack Speed modifying the player, and that attack speed is shared to the wolves. Likewise for other stats like Critical Strike Chance, and Lucky Hit Chance.

Shepherd's AspectShepherd’s Aspect increases Companion damage for every active Companion. Because of One With NatureOne With Nature, RavensRavens and Poison CreeperPoison Creeper do not need to be on your bars; they’re passively out and counting for Shepherd's AspectShepherd’s Aspect. Seasonally, this also includes Witchcraft Power Summoned Firebats, Poison Frogs, and Pirahnadoes.

Spirit Wolves summoned from the CehCeh Rune also count for total Shepherd's AspectShepherd’s Aspect. These are also Summons and will scale with some Companion modifiers.

Wolves Cooldown

The lowest any Skill can get for cooldown reduction is 75%. For WolvesWolves, that means 2.75s (75% of base 11 seconds). After 75%, any further sources will not be beneficial. This is achievable through Cooldown Reduction sources such as:

Spirit Boon Pack Leader resets Companion Skills as a Lucky Hit on Critical Strikes.

Enough sources of Critical Strike and Lucky Hit and we all but guarantee resets before even the 2.75s cooldown, but it’s important to have that cooldown reduction anyways for redundancy or dry spells of Lucky Hit, especially against push bosses.

Supporting Skills

By player preference, you can instead play ClawClaw and Primal PulverizePrimal Pulverize if you would like. It will be a little less efficient in spender volume, but have a bit more cleave and damage reduction.

Ultimate and Key Passive

  • PetrifyPetrify will stun enemies and place a Critical Strike Damage taken debuff on them.
  • One With NatureOne With Nature gives the passive count and passive attacks of any pet, even if not on the Skill Bar. This is important for Shepherd's AspectShepherd’s Aspect and allows use of other Skills on top. This and the damage multiplier for Companions puts this Key Passive ahead for this build.

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