Summon Grizzly * with enough + to Skill gear becomes an excellent meat shield for your Druid. Oak Sage typically needs to be re-summoned often, as it dies very frequently. Oak Sage * provides an additional +5% Maximum Life per Skill Point, providing a massive Life pool for your Druid, Mercenary, Summons, and other Party members. Recasting Cyclone Armor maximizes survivability. With enough plus Skill gear and Synergies, Cyclone Armor can make the Wind Druid virtually immune to any Elemental Damage in the game (excluding Poison Damage). The passives chosen above are quite straightforward as they'll help you dish out more damage whether that's through an increase cost to your abilities, giving you higher critical hit chances, or making you tankier and thus making it so you can kill enemies more often than healing.Cyclone Armor * adds a shield which absorbs Lightning, Fire and Cold Damage while also being a damage Synergy for Tornado and Hurricane. When you can start using points on Tornado, focus on that right away. In the early going, you'll want to put points into your builder ability, which is going to be Storm Strike for this, but it could be a Werewolf or Werebear ability if you'd like since it's not going to be the main damage dealer here.

Tornadoes aren't likely to be the first thing that comes to mind as a Druid, but it's a surprisingly powerful playstyle, but it takes a while to get going. It can destroy mobs and dungeon bosses, even while solo, so it's a powerful build.

In the early going, and perhaps through your entire leveling process until you swap over to the endgame, the Tornado build will work out best for you. When it comes to leveling, you'll want something that can take out bosses in dungeons as well as take on groups of enemies. Druids can be a lot of things – werewolves, bears, casters – so there are a lot of routes to take.

Diablo 2 druid early build