Earthen Bulwark

Earthen Bulwark is a Druid skill from the Defensive skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Barrier	Barrier
Nature Magic
Earth Skills
Unstoppable
Fortifies

Earthen Bulwark Details and Upgrades

Earthen Bulwark Rocks surround you for 3 seconds, granting a Barrier that absorbs 45% of you Base Life in damage. Type: Nature Magic Cooldown: 16 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 30% Tags: Defensive, Nature Magic, Earth

Upgrades

Enhanced Earthen Bulwark Earthen Bulwark makes you Unstoppable while active.	Innate Earthen Bulwark Rock shrapnel flies outward when Earthen Bulwark is destroyed or expires, dealing 60% to surrounding enemies. This damage is increased by Barrier bonuses.
	Preserving Earthen Bulwark Casting Earthen Bulwark grants 18% of your Maximum Life (1) as Fortify .

Other Skills that work with Earthen Bulwark

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Earthen Bulwark can exploit
• Exploit a condition Earthen Bulwark creates

Defensive Tree
Vigilance You gain 7% Damage Reduction for 6 seconds after using a Defensive Skill. Tags: Defensive Passive
Wrath Tree
Natural Boulder While you have any Fortify, Boulder has +20% increased Critical Strike Chance. Skill
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
Safeguard Critical Strikes with Earth Skills Fortify you for 3% of your Maximum Life (1). Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Prerequisite: Can also reach Safeguard via Boulder. Passive
Stone Guard While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, your Earth Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Earth, Nature Magic Prerequisite: Can also reach Stone Guard via Boulder. Passive
Unrestrained Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by 5%. Double this effect while you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Ultimate Tree
Defiance Nature Magic Skills deal 4%[x] increased damage to Elites. Tags: Nature Magic Passive
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. Passive
Resonance Nature Magic Skills deal 2%[x] increased damage. Triple this bonus if an Earth Skill is the next Skill cast after a Storm Skill, or a Storm Skill is the next Skill cast after an Earth Skill. Tags: Nature Magic, Earth, Storm Prerequisite: Can also reach Resonance via Petrify. Passive
Defensive Posture Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5%[+] and you gain 3% Damage Reduction while Fortified. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Key Passives Tree
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 and deal 70%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage 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 Passive
Nature's Fury Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition. You deal 40%[x] more Earth and Storm damage and these free Skills count as both. Skills on your Action Bar are far more likely to trigger. Tags: Earth, Storm, Nature Magic Passive

Items that work with Earthen Bulwark

The following items either:

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

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Mending Stone	Defensive	The duration of Earthen Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. In addition, killing an enemy replenishes 35 - 264 of your active Earthen Bulwark's Barrier. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Sealed Archives (Map)	Dry Steppes	Druid
Aspect of Mending Stone	Defensive	The duration of Earthen Bulwark is increased by 6 seconds. In addition, killing an enemy replenishes 35 - 264 of your active Earthen Bulwark's Barrier. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Sealed Archives (Map)	Dry Steppes	Druid
Aspect of Quicksand	Utility	Damage from Earth Skills Slow (CC) enemies hit by 20 - 60% for 5 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Ferals' Den (Map)	Scosglen	Druid
Earthguard Aspect	Defensive	Gain 10 - 30% bonus amount to your next Earthen Bulwark for each enemy you Crowd Control up to a maximum of 100%. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Druid
Ballistic Aspect	Utility	When you have Fortify your Earth Skills gain +2 Ranks. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Whispering Pines (Map)	Scosglen	Druid
Crashstone Aspect	Offensive	Earth Skills deal 35 - 75% [x] more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Stockades (Map)	Scosglen	Druid
Earthguard Aspect	Defensive	Gain 10 - 30% bonus amount to your next Earthen Bulwark for each enemy you Crowd Control up to a maximum of 100%. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Druid
Subterranean Aspect	Offensive	Poison Creeper's active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 15 - 35% increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	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

Vasily's Prayer "Roots from the Great Oak growing at the seaward statue of Vasily will, on rare occasions, be found twisted back upon themselves, suffused with ferocious magic." - Barrett's Book of Implements Type: Unique Helm Class: Druid Description: Your Earth Skills are now also Werebear Skills and Fortify you for [2.0 - 5.0]% of your Maximum Health.

Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[638 - 873] Maximum Life +[3.1 - 7.3]% Willpower +[3 - 4] to Defensive Posture +[1,500 - 1,750] Armor

Malignant Hearts

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The Lionheart	Brutal Defensive	You gain 10% Barrier Generation. You Heal 3-7 Life per second while you have an active Barrier.	Generic
Revenge Glyph Class: Spiritborn Radius: 3 Bonus: Grants +20.0% bonus to all Rare nodes within range.	Additional Bonus: Dealing Thorns damage to an enemy increases all damage it takes from you by 1%[x], up to 15%[x], for 10 seconds. Required (purchased in range): +25 Intelligence

Changes to Earthen Bulwark

There have been no changes to Earthen Bulwark to date.