π₯ Rank #1 Warlock Build Guide | K-POCKingShipton2026-09-21 | π₯ Rank #1 Warlock Build Guide | K-POCDruid Companion Pit 100 clear! Season 7 PTR - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-12-06 | Threw together a new Druid on the S7 PTR to see how easy Companion Druid can clear Pit 100. This is my first attempt in sub-optimal Ascendent gear (not copied from S6) and NO DAMAGE BUGS! It's definitely a fun build and plays like a piano with the new Petrify resetting all cooldowns. I have never played Companion so the playstyle and build can definitely be optimized.
I turn off damage numbers halfway through.
For S7, unless ovepower math is changed (talking about normal overpower here, not bugged overpower), I predict Boulder and Cataclysm (and maybe Landslide) builds will be best. Hopefully I am wrong.
NOW TIME FOR POE2 :)9,223,373,036,854,775,808 Druid damage! S7 PTR bug - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-12-04 | The new Survival Instincts is obviously buggedDruid Pit 125 CLEAR! Season 6 VoH - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-12-02 | 3 TRILLION+ damage boulders! This is not a clean run, I was rusty as hell after not playing boulder for a few weeks. I also cleared 128 on the first attempt, but accidentally deleted the raw video. Anti-venom was fun while it lasted. For reference, my highest normal boulder clear with this gear is pit 112.Druid Pit 108 CLEAR! Season 6 VoH - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-11-05 | When I screw up the start I take the rest of the run as rotation practice for QAX+Hunters Zenith. I didn't notice I was ahead on time until the end.
Credit to J_Macc for the build. As he has said, 110+ is possible with this build. Trying to decide if I should take a break until mid-season when something Blizzard adds will propel druids to 115+, or push on to 110 this week.Druid Pit 105 CLEAR! Season 6 VoH - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-10-24 | This was my first attempt at pit 105. Got it done in 12:46. Screwed up the start and the boss fight.
I am using a slightly modified version of J_Maccs boulder druid.
Have to admit, I miss Gauntlet. I know I'm in the minority. I like going FAST.
That's the end of Gauntlet for a while. Hopefully it returns more fun and rewarding in Season 7.Rank 1 Druid! Gauntlet Season 5 Week 7 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-25 | Gauntlet has become boring even for someone like me who obviously enjoys it. Blizzard let me help you make it more fun for everyone. I have ideas.
BUILD: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/wi25c0pbRank 2 Druid! Gauntlet Season 5 Week 6 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-17 | Sad day for druids. The death strat exploit has made its way to our gauntlet leaderboards. Previously only barbs and sorcs had to deal with this virus, but it seems rogues and druids now have the same problem. Not sure how to go forward the rest of this season. I don't want to use the exploit and I don't want to compete against players using the exploit. Blizzard, why can't you fix this? It's very easy. If a player dies, they should only collect back half the points they lost, or zero. Or better yet. If they die, that's the gauntlet run over.
Also Blizz, what is going on with the elite spawns. They're supposed to spawn every 20k points, but right now they spawn so randomly (or not at all) that it makes it difficult to plan a route. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why they do or don't spawn.
I'd like to think that while Gauntlet is down in season 6 that this mess will be fixed. But I don't hold much hope. While I'm at the wishing well, please bump the boss points up to 5000 (or more). I miss the days of spawning massive packs of elites and burning them down. This new scoring system is sooooo dull. Why can't gauntlet just be fun and fair?
BUILD: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/l6av507cShred Druid Pit 100 speedfarm - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-13 | Two 90 second pit 100 clears with Shred druid. This is Season 5. This is not PTR.
90 seconds is not impressive compared to other classes, but people are surprised that shred can do pit 100 at all, let along speedfarm it.
BUILD: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/t3crf0qbRank 1 Druid! Gauntlet Season 5 Week 5 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-11 | Too much time spent in PTR and T8 Hordes to get a better score this week. Seems like those who normally compete in Gauntlet were doing the same.
Forgot to film my best run. This was the exact same route though, just a little less lucky.
SHRED BUILD: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/t3crf0qbShred vs Stormslide Druid T7 Infernal Hordes - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-09 | I'm often asked if my Rank 1 Gauntlet Shred build can do T7/T8 Infernal Hordes. With some damage reduction tweaks, yes it can. How does it do compared to Stormslide, though? That's the real question.
SHRED BUILD: maxroll.gg/d4/planner/t3crf0qbRank 1 Druid! Gauntlet Season 5 Week 4 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-09-03 | Back to ZOOMZOOM shred and it's a lot more fun. Love getting trapped underground in the stairs though.
Lots of mistakes in this one. Only had an hour or so at the end of the week to do a few runs. No build link yet and I'm not sure Cataclysm is the best gauntlet build overall but I wanted to try something a little different.
The new scoring system sucks.Rank 1 Druid! 1169k Gauntlet Week 10 Season 4 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-07-24 | Broke the all-time highest Druid score ever, which was set in season 3 by θθ (Lemona). With the changes in season 4 and the reduction in shrines and shrine buff duration, I didn't think this was going to be legitimately possible, so I'm pretty happy. And yes, I do not count the exploited score from week 1 of season 4, set by DjΓΈula.
Gauntlet is over now for this season. See you all in S5 (unless it has a bugged start like S4 did). My fingers are crossed that shred will be viable for more activities.Rank 1 Druid! 1100k+ Gauntlet Week 10 Route - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-07-18 | Here is my mid-week route for Gauntlet Week 10 Season 4. Hopefully this helps someone.
Full credit goes to UltioXs and DaveySquier for this route they shared with me. People may not know it but behind the scenes we are theorycrafting and helping each other push higher and higher scores. I was lucky yesterday to get a higher score than Davey!
Week 10, I will share a route mid-week to help anyone interested.
Kept falling through the map on this one. Good times. And shred still randomly stops moving forward and requires additional input to get moving again. Hope they fix that one day.
Watch me beat this score on Twitch this weekend.Rank 3 Druid! 1040k Gauntlet Week 8 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-04-30 | NO EXPLOIT! Fun map! Pretty much the same build as last week. Shred, shred, shred, fall asleep.
Enjoyed theorycrafting with UltioXs. He's a legend! Check out his stream: twitch.tv/ultioxs
Going to try widescreen for week 7 and stream my mishaps and failures on Twitch.Rank 2 Druid! 976k+ Gauntlet Week 5 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-04-09 | Managed to sneak some runs in on the last 2 days between PTR sessions.
Spent half the week farming better aspects after too much experimentation. I'm glad season 4 is fixing that.
I will post my week 4 build here soon. I can already tell you week 5 build will be quite different. I will make a vid about it.Rank 6 Druid! 804k Gauntlet Week 3 - Diablo 4KingShipton2024-03-26 | Not sure I enjoy the longer maps. Still had a blast!