Werebear Druid is really a tank build that utilizes Shapeshifting and Summoning abilities to soak damage, CC mobs, and increase your team’s survivability. This build shines when a part of a party, especially DPS classes that are perhaps more fragile. With this guide, you’ll learn to master the Maul Werebear in most aspects of the sport, including like a viable solo adventurer when damage is balanced correctly. The tricky part is deciding the way you want to balance your damage while ensuring your utility like a tank/buffer is retained. This requires learning from mistakes and is determined by party size, party members, and farming locations.
Introduction
First, it’s vital that you understand the weaknesses and strengths of the Werebear. This build has the great tanking capability for groups, providing high life on your own, your army along with other party members. You also have excellent crowd control with Shock Wave but lack substantial damage output. The primary skills with this build are Maul and Werebear. Maul is the primary attack which gives % extra damage per level to Shock Wave, most of your AoE stun ability. Put points into Werebear to improve your damage and defense. Lycanthropy increases your Life and also the duration of time spent in Shapeshift form.
Maul:
Maul is really a power-up skill that increases damage and attack speed with each successful hit. Each attack grants a little green orb which grows with each hit and refreshes the timer around the duration of the power-up. The damage and attack speed bonus increases with each hit, starting at +20% damage and +3% attack speed at level 1 and reaching as much as +60% damage and +9% attack speed at level 3. The maximum quantity of charges that may be gained is based on the skill level, with level 1 using a limit of 3 charges and level 20 using a limit of 13 charges. Buying d2 resurrected items and diablo 4 items can help boost your gear in D2R Ladder, which benefits physical damage dealers and specs that benefit from scaling.
Shockwave:
Maul is really a skill utilized by Druids which in turn causes damage to enemies inside a wide area surrounding them. The damage increases using the level of the skill. The size of the area of the result can be controlled by the player by clicking closer or farther away.
Attributes
Strength: Enough for Gear
Dexterity: Enough for Gear
Vitality: All remaining points
Energy: None
If you are being unnecessarily tanky, and pointlessly unkillable, then consider investing more into strength for added damage.
Skills
Required 1-point wonders and prerequisites: Hunger, Summon Grizzly, Werewolf, Feral Rage.
Maxed Skills: Werebear, Lycanthropy, Maul, Shockwave, Heart from the Wolverine or Oak Sage