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Gameplay & Walkthrough Guide For Druid In Path Of Exile 2

Aug 30, 2023

In POE 2, you can choose from 12 character classes. Each character has a combination of the key attributes they focus on. Today I want to show you a character who is good at Strength and Intelligence, Druid.

In Human form, Druid is a spell caster, channeling Fury of Nature on the battlefield. But when you get closer, you will see why Druid also pays attention to Strength. He can transform himself into one of several beasts.

Bear Form Gameplay

Today, we’re going to show off his Bear form. The transition in POE 2 happens automatically when you use the bear attack. With Bear Maul, your character turns into a bear and swings. Using a spell, your character turns back into a human and casts it. Hitting enemies with your Bear Maul attack accumulates Rage, which increases your attack damage. So your bear gets stronger with each attack.

While the bears are big and strong, this isn’t a pure Strength class. You don’t have as much armor as a Warrior. To protect yourself from larger groups, you need to consider a skill like Furious Slam. This skill is mainly for stun rather than damage. So it’s pretty useful if you’re mobbed by smaller monsters and just need to get out of there.

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Of course, like any POE 2 character, you can always use the dodge roll to get out of danger. Since bears are the slowest of all Druid’s forms, it’s crucial to make sure the dodge is reliable and able to get you out of any situation.

When you dodge in animal form, your character instantly transforms back so you can dodge. You can even convert halfway through. Of course, doing this means that you have to pay some POE Currency and time costs that you have to transform again. But it’s certainly much better than death.

Next, I want to talk about Ferocious Roar, which is a rare POE Item in Bear form. It allows you to adopt any Warcry skills that other classes might use. You can also insert Seismic Cry gems into Ferocious Roar.

In fact, you can connect multiple Warcry and use them together. Seismic Cry pushes enemy back and has a chance to be stunned. If there are any severely stunned enemies within range of Warcry, then your next Slam skill will be enhanced by twice the number of Slams.

Human Form Gameplay

We’ve covered this Druid Bear side, but what about him as a spell caster? Of course, right now we want to maximize the time you spend in Druid animal form. So most spells against Druid tend to be things that last a long time or provide tactical options on the battlefield.

The first and probably easiest of these is Lightning Storm. Throw it on the ground and you’ll get an area where monsters are constantly being struck by lightning. This is a debuff that increases all damage done to them.

This is followed by Tornado, which sucks monsters into it, allowing you to split teams and tackle groups individually. Or pin monsters in place to build combos with your other abilities. Tornado doesn’t really move enormous monsters, so you can actually use it to separate bosses from their minions as well.

Druid also can summon animal companions. This is another very useful defense. Wolves howl when summoned, inflicting a temporary debuff on enemies. This makes them more vulnerable to critical hits and gives you a reason to re-summon them in combat.

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The last Druid spell we’re going to discuss today is Volcano. You can cast it quickly, and it spawns some projectiles. Or you can hold the button to channel it longer, which will cause it to fire a bunch of projectiles when it spawns, dealing with more damage. Volcano fires small projectiles over a long period, so this is another wonderful ability to cast before Druid turns into a bear.

Currently, in our Human and Bear form, channeling spells are all active, and spirit reserved. This means that any channeling skills we use as bears will technically cast Lightning Storm as well.

Skill Tree

Finally, we come to the skill tree. Bear's form counts as another weapon set for a professional, so he also gets a tree. If you turn on the passive tree, you can see how close we are to a Melee Damage cluster and Spell Damage cluster.

I can assign these passive abilities to our Human or Bear form. When I switch between Human and Bear forms, my passive skills are automatically reassigned.

With a bit of customization, our build can combine many active skills to achieve some really interesting effects. Meanwhile, your skill tree will automatically reconfigure at the right time, as will your buffs. You can even auto-cast certain abilities.

Many abilities interact with each other, and the ability you choose to use depends on the situation you are in. At the right moment, you might combine all your skills into one baffling combo. Get some satisfying screen-covering spam and do some baffling damage.

The above are some skills and gameplay demonstrations for Druid in POE 2. There is more content to play and experience. Let us look forward to POE 2.

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