Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 introduces the new Druid class, which features three transformation forms, each with its own unique skills and combat style. You can switch between these forms at any time during combat.
Of these three forms, the bear form excels at utilizing Rage resource to increase damage output and create synergistic effects between multiple skills. This form also possesses tank-like characteristics, allowing it to withstand damage.
Based on this, we will introduce a build that focuses on transforming into a bear and creating fissures to damage enemies in combat - Raging Fissure Bear Build.

Raging Fissure Bear Build Overview
The bear form of Druid is characterized by its slow speed but extremely high defense and survivability, making it suitable for melee combat. Although it's not as fast as the wolf or wyvern forms, with the right build, it can clear groups of enemies with AoE damage.
For example, Raging Fissure Bear Build is crafted based on one of the key bear form skills, Fury of the Mountain.
Fissure Warrior playstyle has always been quite powerful in PoE 2, but now the bear form combined with this skill can achieve similar, or even better, results.
This skill unlocks at Tier 5 and requires equipping Animal Talismans. You will transform into a bear and repeatedly pound the ground to create lava fissures.
These fissures convert 80 physical damage into fire damage, granting 3 Rage for each enemy hit and creating another fissure, with a maximum of 12 fissures active simultaneously.
Due to the accumulation of Rage, this makes your attacks much more powerful than normal attacks in bear form, as the multiple fissures allow you to create three branching fissures with each ground pound, and Rage generated by the fissures triggers totems.
Other Bear Form Skills
While Fury of the Mountain is the foundation, it needs to be used in conjunction with other bear form skills to meet your damage output needs. These mainly include:
- Maul: As the main attack method in bear form, it performs a powerful sweeping attack, accumulating Rage with each enemy hit.
- Furious Slam: Creates a shockwave by slamming the ground, and can consume Rage to increase the shockwave's power, leaving behind jagged ground. This ground can interact with other skills to deal additional damage.
- Rampage: This skill guides you forward, continuously slamming the ground, suitable for clearing groups of enemies and for quick movement. Consuming Rage can also extend its duration.
- Ferocious Roar: As a Warcry skill, it instantly generates Rage when there are enemies nearby and empowers subsequent attacks to break through enemy armor. It can also be triggered in human form by equipping a supporting gem.
- Walking Calamity: As the ultimate skill in bear form, it triggers when your Rage reaches its maximum, summoning a meteor shower that deals fire damage to enemies and restores Rage over its duration.
Overall, Raging Fissure Bear Build relies on slam and fissure damage. Therefore, in each battle, you should use Fury of the Mountain at least once or twice, then sequentially cast Maul and Furious Slam as a combo.
Properly Combining Human Form Skills
After transforming into a bear, you can still use your human form Druid skills, and they are an important part of crafting any Druid build. For Raging Fissure Bear Build, the essential human skill is Volcano.
The skill's damage itself isn't impressive, but after using Fury of the Mountain or Rampage, Volcano can help accumulate damage and ignite enemies, making them more susceptible to your sustained damage.
More importantly, if you later unlock Invigorating Hate passive node, it transforms Volcano into a healing skill, restoring your health by consuming Rage, 1% for every point of Rage consumed.
Considering that you will constantly accumulate Rage, either actively or passively, while using this build, this passive node will significantly enhance your survivability and self-healing capabilities as a bear, allowing you to survive even in boss battles.
How To Choose Your Ascendancy Class?
Druid has two Ascendancy Classes: Shaman and Oracle. Here, we recommend unlocking the former, because Shaman has two passive abilities that are very important for accumulating and using Rage: Druidic Champion and Furious Wellspring.
As we've emphasized multiple times in the previous sections, Raging Fissure Bear Build is a build that relies on Rage. Druidic Champion can increase your spell damage by accumulating Rage, and Furious Wellspring helps restore the consumed Rage.
It's worth noting that to fully utilize the advantage of increased spell damage, we recommend equipping Tornado skill gem.
This skill creates a tornado that continuously damages surrounding enemies. You can also utilize projectiles to collide with the tornado as it moves forward to deal even more damage.
If the tornado covers elemental ground, it will absorb nearby debuffs for 4 seconds and apply that effect to enemies within the tornado. This is also expected to work very well in conjunction with the wyvern form.
How To Choose Gear?
Since the skill switching and usage suggestions are already quite complex and comprehensive, this build doesn't have very high gear requirements, especially in the early stages of the league.
Of course, if you have the time to farm rarer gear, or any PoE 2 currency that allows you to modify gear affixes, we recommend choosing gear according to the following guidelines:
- Weapons: Prioritize Talismans with fixed damage and attack speed bonuses.
- Armor: While striving to stack defensive attributes, also consider your elemental weaknesses. Having energy shields would be even better.
- Other: Anything that increases damage output or elemental resistance is good.
That's all the information about Raging Fissure Bear Build that we have for you today. If the bear form is your preferred playstyle, then why not try Raging Fissure Bear Build using our guide? You're sure to gain something from it!







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