Path of Exile 2 Best Fire Bear Druid leveling build

Druid in Path of Exile 2 mixes primal power with natural magic to create an absolute wrecking ball of a class that is both powerful and fun. Players have several build paths to choose from as a druid, and if you want to build a burning freight train on legs, then the Druid's Bear form is for you.

Bear Druid is all about crushing, igniting and blasting enemies. It's not as nimble as the Wolf and Wyvern forms, but once you get a good build going, you'll be flying around the maps and blowing up monsters all the same. Here is Bear Druid's first build Path of Exile 2 designed to make the campaign as quick and easy as possible.

PoE 2 Bear Druid Leveling Build

Start with the Druid's Bear form Path of Exile 2 is to commit to a relatively slow but challenging melee style of play. In many ways, it's similar to how Slam Warrior feels PoE 2 — both make heavy use of Slam abilities, and both trade speed for durability and brute strength with high area damage.

However, this setup is intended as a starter for a Rampage/Walking Calamity build, meaning we'll eventually turn to stacking a ton of Fire Damage.

The following build is in the iterative phase, which means there is still a lot of experimentation going on.

Skill Gems

Upgrade these gems as you see fit.

How to play the build

First, players must understand that Druid Bear relies on Rage, a resource that is generated by certain skills such as Maul and Fury of the Mountain. Rage increases the damage you deal and also interacts with skills like Furious Slam.

Enraged Furious Slam deals more damage over a larger area and by default consumes 10 Rage to become Enraged. Meanwhile Maul generates 5 Rage by default so your early game will be two Maul casts followed by Furious Slam.

Later on, you can substitute Furious Slam for Rampage as it hits more often. Use it in conjunction with Walking Cataclysm to break through maps.

IMPORTANT: Bear skills like Rampage, Furious Slam, and Walking Calamity cast significantly faster when your character is standing. To stand, use either Maul or Ferocious Roar.

What about Fury of the Mountain?

This skill is very similar to the Volcanic Fissure skill under the Mace tree, except that it can be channeled until you run out of mana. Since we'll be using Slam attacks, it's a good idea to use Fury of the Mountain at least once when you're elites, bosses, or anything that doesn't get destroyed by Furious Slam.

When you get this skill, your combo becomes Fury of the Mountain → Maul → Furious Slam.

Why use a volcano?

Volcano doesn't do much on its own, but when you repeatedly slam near it with Fury of the Mountain or Rampage, its damage adds up quickly. It also helps you set enemies on fire, making them vulnerable to certain passives and item effects while dealing damage over time.

More importantly, Volcano will be our panic button, but more on that later in the Passives section.

A wild roar and a hellish cry

If you equip Infernal Cry as a support gem for Ferocious Roar, you'll be able to use it without having to switch weapons. This does mean that Ferocious Roar will be replaced by Infernal Cry, but that's okay because we'll be going with Fire damage anyway.

As mentioned earlier, Ferocious Roar makes your Bear Druid stand up, prompting another cast of Furious Slam, Rampage, and Walking Cataclysm. Use Ferocious Roar right before casting any of these skills to boost and speed them up.

Passive tree

There are tons of ways to build a Fire Bear Shaman druid Path of Exile 2so it's hard to choose what exactly could be the best. Instead, we'll explain why we built our Druid this way to help you make your own decisions using the limited passive points you get at the start of the game.

First, we took Guardian of the Wilds along with general damage buffs at the start of the Druid path to help with DPS. Then we headed straight to Primal Rage and Intimidating Hate nodes on the left. This enables two things:

• Lesser Primal Rage Nodes we will cast an Enraged Furious Slam with a single use of Maul enhanced by the Rampage Support Gem. Primal Rage itself increases our maximum Rage, which means increased damage.
• Refreshing hatred turns a volcano into a healing skill. Consumes all of your Rage to instantly heal you for 1% of your maximum health for each Rage consumed. This will become much more powerful once we start passively generating Rage.

The next stop in the forest of skills is Projectile shield bike for greater survival. You can also take a detour to get there Resilient Soul next to Guardian of the Wilds for regeneration and health damage.

Then hit the road Molten Being for more fire damage, then head directly to the Bear constellation above Molten Claw and minor nodes on the right side.

At this point you can get skills based on what you need. If you can't get Fire Damage on your gear, we recommend either taking Physical Damage skills or simply getting more armor and durability so you don't get killed instantly.

You need 51 Strength and 51 Intelligence for Walking Calamity, and you'll also need some Dexterity for Support Gems. Plan your stats distribution during the trip accordingly.

Domination

For this build, we take Shaman Ascendancy primarily for Furious Wellspring node that does the following:

• Removes inherent Rage loss

• Generate 6% Max Rage per second

• +7 Maximum Rage

• Skills that use Rage have their Rage cost increased by 5

Device

Since this is a leveling build, the adjustment is not that difficult. Just get whatever has the highest base numbers and try to get good affixes for them. Ideally, you should get the following:

Don't worry too much about getting the perfect stuff right off the bat. If your weapon has high physical damage and you have enough defense on your armor, you're good to go.

Many league mechanics Path of Exile 2 will help you rank more easily. If you see something related to the current or previous league, do it immediately.