Druids wield natural magic and shapeshifting powers to bulldoze through enemies in Path of Exile 2, and just like every other class in the game, players have a few Ascendancy classes to choose from in order to make their Druid much stronger.
Ascendancies in PoE 2 act much like how subclasses do in other games. They give characters significant boosts in power, and they often follow a specific theme as well. The ones for the Druid elevate the class’ nature magic and shapeshifting fantasies while also giving players more ways to grow in power. Here’s a look at all the Ascendancies for the Druid.
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PoE 2 Druid Shaman Ascendancy Nodes
The first Ascendancy for Druids is called Shaman, and it leans heavily toward turning your character into a walking natural disaster. It offers a balance of offensive and defensive nodes, though it’s more suited for players who want to use melee or close-ranged builds.
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Node |
Effect |
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Flask Recovery |
12% Increased Life and Mana Recovery Rate from Flasks |
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Sacred Flow |
+40 Spirit for each of your empty Charm slots |
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Defences |
10% Increased Defences |
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Wisdom of the Magi |
Gain the benefits of Bonded modifiers on Runes and Idols |
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Maximum Rage |
+3 Maximum Rage |
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Druidic Champion |
Every 2 Rage also grants 1% more Spell damage |
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Maximum Rage |
+3 Maximum Rage |
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Furious Wellspring |
Regenerate 6% of your Maximum Rage every second Increases and Reductions to Mana Regeneration also apply to Rage Regeneration Skills have +5 to Rage Cost +7 to Maximum Rage No Inherent Rage Loss |
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Elemental Resistances |
+3% to All Elemental Resistances |
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Reactive Growth |
Adapt to the highest Elemental Damage Type of each Hit you take 10% Less Damage taken of each Elemental Damage Type matching your Adaptation 10% Less Elemental Damage taken |
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Elemental Resistances |
+3% to All Elemental Resistances |
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Avatar of Evolution |
Adaptations have a duration of 5 seconds 5% of Physical Damage taken as Lightning damage 5% of Physical Damage taken as Cold damage 5% of Physical Damage taken as Fire damage Double Adaptation effect |
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Elemental Damage |
12% Increased Elemental Damage |
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Turning of the Seasons |
Enemies in your Presence have Exposure Gain 10% of your Damage as Extra Damage of a random Element |
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Elemental Damage |
12% Increased Elemental Damage |
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Bringer of the Apocalypse |
Gain Skill: Apocalypse Apocalypse triggers a random unique Elemental skill every 0.75 seconds for 12 seconds. Apocalypse requires 100 Glory to use (gained by dealing Elemental damage) |
Shaman is typically taken for Shapeshifting Druid builds in PoE 2 for its passive Rage regeneration. However, it’s viable even for elemental caster builds thanks to its elemental damage bonuses and the Apocalypse skill.
PoE 2 Druid Oracle Ascendancy Nodes
Oracle is an interesting Ascendancy in a few ways. Instead of being just the caster counterpart of Shaman, Oracle improves crit stats, grants resilience to critical hits, and provides access to a variety of unique skills and passive nodes, including a way to get passive tree nodes without having them be connected to the player’s greater passive skill path. While it mainly benefits caster builds, it can still work for many other options if players are creative enough.
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Skill |
Effect |
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Critical Damage Bonus On You |
Hits against you have 12% reduced Critical Damage Bonus |
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The Lesser Harm |
Damage of Enemies hitting you is Unlucky Enemy Critical Hit Chance against you is Unlucky |
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Critical Hit Chance |
12% increased Critical Hit Chance |
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Forced Outcome |
Your Critical Hits are Inevitable (Non-crit hits are-rerolled until they crit, but they lose damage every time they are re-rolled) |
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Totem Cast and Attack Speed |
Attacks and Spells used by Totems are 5% faster |
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Unnamed Heartwood |
+1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems Totems die 6 seconds after their Life is reduced to 0 |
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Immobilisation Buildup |
20% increased Immobilisation buildup |
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Converging Paths |
Grants Skill: Moment of Vulnerability Send out a Nova that creates a Visage of enemies when it hits ones that are Primed for Stun, Electrocution, or Freeze. Damage dealt to Visages are echoed to their owners. |
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Spell Damage |
12% increased Spell Damage |
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Fateful Vision |
Gain Skill: Align Fate Gain a buff when Align Fate is active. You will see Visages of your self casting certain spells while the buff is active. Casting the same spells as your Visages grant them increased multiplicative damage. |
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Passive Point |
Gain 1 Passive Point |
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The Unseen Path |
See Oracle-specific passive nodes in the skill tree |
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Passive Point |
Gain 1 Passive Point |
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Entwined Realities |
Non-Keystone Passive Skills in medium radius of allocated Keystone Passive Skills can be allocated without being connected to your tree. |
Oracle is a lot less simple than Shaman. Players can get away with simply boosting their crit chance or getting stronger Spells through Align Fate, but to take full advantage of what the Ascendancy has to offer, you’ll need to make clever use of Entwined Realities and the Unseen Path passives.