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Pulverize

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Pulverize is a Druid skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player Exploits Condition
Physical Damage N/A
Werebear
Shapeshifting
Overpowers
Reduced Damage
Stuns (CC)


Pulverize Details and Upgrades

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Pulverize

Spirit Cost: 35
Lucky Hit Chance: 25%
Shapeshift into a Werebear and slam the ground, dealing 92% damage to surrounding enemies.

Damage: Physical Damage
Tags: Core, Shapeshifting, Werebear


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Iron Fur

You gain 4% Damage Reduction while in Werebear form. This bonus persists for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form.

Tags: Werebear, Shapeshifting
Prerequisite: Can also reach Iron Fur via Pulverize.

Upgrades

Enhanced Pulverize Upgrade

Enhanced Pulverize

Your next Pulverize will Overpower every 12 seconds while you remain Healthy .

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Primal Pulverize

Enemies hit with Pulverize deal 20% reduced damage for 4 seconds.

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Raging Pulverize

Pulverize deals 30%[x] increased Overpower Damage. Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds.


Other Skills that work with Pulverize

The following skills either:

  • Create a condition Pulverize can exploit
  • Exploit a condition Pulverize creates
Basic Tree
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Wild Earth Spike

Summon a second Earth Spike when hitting an Immobilized or Stunned enemy.

Skill

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Fierce Earth Spike

Fortify for 12% of your Maximum Life whenever Earth Spike damages enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, or Knocked Back.

Skill

Core Tree
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Wild Impulses

Your Core Skills cost 3%[x] more Spirit but deal 5%[x] increased damage. Passive

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Iron Fur

You gain 4% Damage Reduction while in Werebear form. This bonus persists for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form.

Tags: Werebear, Shapeshifting
Prerequisite: Can also reach Iron Fur via Pulverize. Passive

Wrath Tree
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Mending

While in Werebear form, you receive 6%[+] additional Healing from all sources and gain 4%[x] increased Maximum Life.

Damage: Physical Damage
Tags: Shapeshifting, Werebear Passive

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Provocation

When you remain in Werebear form for at least 20 seconds, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower.

Tags: Shapeshifting, Werebear
Prerequisite: Can also reach Provocation via Trample. Passive

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Crushing Earth

Earth Skills deal 5%[x] increased damage to Slowed (CC), Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC) or Knocked Back (CC) enemies.

Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Passive

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Bad Omen

Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance when dealing damage to a Vulnerable, Immobilized (CC) or Stunned (CC) enemy that a Lightning Bolt also hits dealing 55% damage.

Damage: Lightning Damage
Tags: Nature Magic, Storm Passive

Ultimate Tree
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Quickshift

Shapeshifting into a new animal form grants 1 / 2 / 3%[x] increased damage, up to 6 / 12 / 18%[x]. This bonus is lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Tags: Shapeshifting Passive

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Natural Fortitude

Shapeshifting Fortifies you for 2% of your Maximum Life.

Tags: Shapeshifting
Prerequisite: Can also reach Natural Fortitude via Grizzly Rage and Lacerate. Passive

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Heightened Senses

When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 3 / 6 / 9% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2 / 4 / 6%[+] Movement Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form and are doubled while both are active. They are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Tags: Shapeshifting, Werebear, Werewolf
Prerequisite: Can also reach Heightened Senses via Grizzly Rage and Lacerate. Passive

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Natural Disaster

Your Earth Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.
Your Storm Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to enemies that are Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC) or Knocked Back (CC).

Tags: Earth, Storm, Nature Magic
Prerequisite: Can also reach Natural Disaster via Petrify.

Key Passives Tree
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Ursine Strength

Gain 30%[x] additional Maximum Life while in Werebear form and for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form.
While Healthy, deal 15%[x] increased damage, and 70%[x] increased Overpower damage.

Tags: Shapeshifting, Werebear Passive

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Bestial Rampage

When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 40%[x] increases damage and Werewolf grants 30%[+] Attack Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form, but are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Tags: Shapeshifting, Werewolf, Werebear Passive

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Earthen Might

Lucky Hit: Damaging enemies with Earth Skills has up to a 15% chance to:
• Restore all of your Spirit
• Cause your attacks to be guaranteed Critical Strikes for 5 seconds
This chance is increased by:
15% for Critical Strikes
15% if the target is Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC), or Knocked Back (CC)

Tags: Earth, Nature Magic


Items that work with Pulverize

The following items either:

  • Grant a bonus when using Pulverize
  • Create a condition Pulverize can exploit
  • Exploit a condition Pulverize creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Changeling's Debt
Resource You deal 25 - 65% [x] increased damage while hitting a Poisoned enemy as a Werebear or a Crowd Controlled enemy as a Werewolf.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
Conclave
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid
Aspect of Nature's Savagery
Offensive Werewolf Skills function as Storm Skills and Werebear Skills function as Earth Skills for the Nature's Fury Key Passive.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
N/A Extraction Druid
Aspect of Retaliation
Offensive Your Core Skills deal up to 35 - 75% [x] increased damage based on your amount of Fortify..

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
Seaside Descent
(Map)
Dry Steppes Druid
Aspect of the Ursine Horror
Offensive Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After casting Pulverize, tectonic spikes continue to deal 200 - 300 damage over 2 seconds.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
Belfry Zakara
(Map)
Hawezar Druid
Shepherd's Aspect
Offensive Companion Skills deal an additional 5 - 13% [x] damage per Companion you have.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
Bloodsoaked Crag
(Map)
Dry Steppes Druid
Shockwave Aspect
Offensive Pulverize creates a shockwave that travels forward, dealing 80 - 120% of its damage to targets in the path.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)
N/A Extraction Druid
Skinwalker's Aspect
Defensive When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, Heal for 5 - 25% of your Maximum Life. If you are at full Life, gain the same amount as Fortify.

Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)
Fading Echo
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid
Stormshifter's Aspect
Utility While Hurricane is active, gain +5 Ranks to your Shapeshifting Skills.

Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)
Crusaders' Cathedral
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any Legendary item at the Occultist. A dungeon name means the Aspect will be added to your Codex of Power as a reward after completing that dungeon.

Unique Items

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Insatiable Fury

When the Days of Ash began, the great druid Nafain reminded his disciples that nothing, not even the loss of their humanity, was too great a sacrifice to protect Túr Dúlra from Astaroth's flames.


Type: Unique Chest Armor
Class: Druid

Description: Werebear form is now your true form, and you gain [2 - 5] Ranks to all Werebear Skills.


    Affixes: (Item Power 925)
    • [8.0 - 12.5]% Maximum Life
    • +[2.5 - 4.0]% to Ursine Strength's Bonuses
    • +[3 - 4] to Iron Fur
    • +[108.5 - 140.0]% Werebear Overpower Damage
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    Hunter's Zenith

    "By fang, claw, spear, or sword - send the bastards back to the flames from which they crawled! Soak the peat with their blood! For Fiacla-Géar! For Scosglen!" - Nafain, during the Days of Ash


    Type: Unique Ring
    Class: Druid

    Description: Gain a bonus when you kill with a Shapeshifting Skill:Werewolf: Your next Non-Ultimate Werebear Skill costs no Resource and has no Cooldown.Werebear: Your next Werewolf Skill will Heal you for [689 - 3,447] when damage is first dealt.

    • +10.0% Resistance to All Elements
    • +10.0% Lightning Resistance

    Affixes: (Item Power 925)


    Changes to Pulverize

    Patch 1.4.3, June 27, 2024

    • Damage increased by 76%.

    Patch 1.0.2d, June 4, 2023