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Shred

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

Grants Player Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg Maximum Life
Poison Dmg Critical Strike Chance
Attack Speed
Heal
Critical Strike Dmg
Werewolf
Shapeshifting

Shred Details and Upgrades

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Shred

Shapeshift into a Werewolf and perform a trio of combo attacks:

1st Attack: Dash towards the target and deal 27% damage.
2nd Attack: Deal 38% damage.
3rd Attack: Perform a larger finishing move dealing 77% damage.

Type: Shapeshifting

Damage: Physical

Spirit Cost: 35 Spirit

Lucky Hit Chance: 20%

Tags: Core, Werewolf, Shapeshifting

Upgrades

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Enhanced Shred

Shred gains + 30% Attack Speed and Heals for 4% of your Maximum Life if an enemy is struck.

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Primal Shred

Shred's second and third attacks also perform a dash. In addition, Shred's Critical Strike Damage is increased by x30%.

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Raging Shred

Shred's third combo attack is larger and applies an additional 70% Poisoning Damage over 5 seconds.


Other Skills that work with Shred

The following skills either:

  • Create a condition Shred can exploit
  • Exploit a condition Shred creates
Core Tree
Wild Impulses
Wild Impulses

Your Core skills cost x 3 / 6 / 9% more Spirit but deal x 5 / 10 / 15% increased damage.

Requires a point in Heart of the Wild.

Passive

Predatory Instinct

Predatory Instinct

Critical Strike Chance against Close enemies is increased by + 2%/4%/6%

Passive

Digitigrade Gait
Digitigrade Gait

You gain + 4 / 8 / 12% Movement Speed while in Werewolf form. This bonus persists for 3 seconds after leaving Werewolf form.

Requires a point in Predatory Instinct.

Passive

Companion Tree
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Brutal Poison Creeper

Your Critical Strike Chance is increased by +20% against enemies strangled by Poison Creeper.

Skill

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Enhanced Wolf Pack

Wolves deal x25% increased damage to Immobilized, Stunned, Slowed, or Poisoned enemies.

Skill

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Enhanced Ravens

You have a + 8% increased Critical Strike Chance against enemies for 6 seconds after they are hit by Ravens.

Skill

Wrath Tree
Neurotoxin

Neurotoxin

Poisoned enemies are Slowed (CC) by 8 / 16 / 24%.

Passive

Envenom
Envenom

You and your Companions gain x 10 / 20 / 30% bonus Critical Strike Damage against Poisoned enemies..

Requires a point in Neurotoxin.

Passive

Toxic Claws
Toxic Claws

Critical Strikes with  Werewolf skills deal 8 /16 / 24% of their Base Damage as Poisoning Damage over 4 seconds.

Requires a point in Neurotoxin.

Passive

Ultimate Tree
Quickshift

Quickshift

When Shapeshifting into a new animal form, you deal 1% increased damage for 3 seconds, up to 6%.

Passive

Natural Fortitude
Natural Fortitude

Shapeshifting Fortifies you for 2 / 4 / 6% Maximum Life.

Requires a point in Quickshift.

Passive

Heightened Senses
Heightened Senses

When Shapeshifting into an animal form, Werebear grants 2% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2% Movement Speed, each for 6 seconds. Bonuses are doubled while both are active.

Requires a point in Quickshift.

Passive

Key Passives Tree
Bestial Rampage

Bestial Rampage

After being a Werewolf for 2 seconds, gain +30% Attack Speed for 15 seconds.

After being a Werebear for 2 seconds, deal x50% increased damage for 15 seconds.

Passive

Lupine Ferocity

Lupine Ferocity

Every 6th Werewolf skill hit Critically Strikes and deals x 140% increased damage.

Passive

Earthen Might

Earthen Might

Lucky Hit: Damaging enemies with Earth skills has up to a 5% chance to:

  • Restore all of your Spirit
  • Cause your attacks to be guaranteed Critical Strikes for 5 seconds.

This chance is increased by:

Passive


Items that work with Shred

The following items either:

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

Legendary Aspects

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 20 - 30% 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 Blurred Beast
Offensive While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies and deals x20 – 40% increased damage to them.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Druid
Aspect of the Changeling's Debt
Resource Damaging a Poisoned enemy with a Werebear Skill will instantly deal 120 - 150% of the Poisoning damage and consume the Poisoning.

Ring

Conclave
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid
Aspect of the Dark Howl
Utility Debilitating Roar is now a Werewolf Skill. In addition, Debilitating Roar will Immobilize Poisoned enemies for 2 - 4 seconds.

Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Druid
Aspect of the Unsatiated
Resource After killing an enemy with Shred, your next Werewolf Skill generates 30 - 40% more Spirit and deals 30 - 40% increased damage.

Ring

Tormented Ruins
(Map)
Fractured Peaks Druid
Shepherd's Aspect
Offensive Core Skills deal an additional 6 - 10% damage for each active Companion.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Bloodsoaked Crag
(Map)
Dry Steppes Druid
Skinwalker's Aspect
Defensive When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, gain .07 - .12 Life. If you are at full Life, gain the same amount as Fortify.

Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

Fading Echo
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid
Stormclaw's Aspect
Offensive Critical Strikes with Shred deal 20 - 30% of the damage dealt as Lightning damage to the target and surrounding enemies.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Anica's Claim
(Map)
Fractured Peaks Druid
Stormshifter's Aspect
Utility While Hurricane is active, gain + 2 Ranks to your Shapeshifting Skills.

Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

Crusaders' Cathedral
(Map)
Kehjistan Druid
Subterranean Aspect
Offensive Poison Creeper’s active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 10 - 20% increased damage to Poisoned enemies.

Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

N/A Extraction Druid
Vigorous Aspect
Defensive Gain 10 - 15% Damage Reduction while Shapeshifted into a Werewolf.

Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)

Steadfast Barracks
(Map)
Hawezar 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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Waxing Gibbous

The nights preceding the full moon are sometimes far more dangerous than the event itself. The frenzy has begun to rise, yet the night is just dark enough to obscure a hunter from their prey's sight.

Type: Axe
Class: Druid

Description: Gain Stealth for 2 seconds when killing enemies with Shred. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants Ambush which guarantees Critical Strikes for 1.0 - 2.5 seconds.

Affixes: - Item Power 725

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Mad Wolf's Glee

“He was not a victim of the curse - he sought it out. As his skin split and his bones cracked, his laughter never ceased." – Tale of the Mad Nobleman

Type: Chest Armor
Class: Druid

Description: Werewolf form is now your true form, and you gain +3 Ranks to all Werewolf Skills.

Affixes:

  • + # Maximum Life
  • + % Damage
  • % Damage Reduction from Poisoned Enemies
  • + % Movement Speed
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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: 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 # when damage is first dealt.
  • Affixes:

    • + % All Resistances
    • + % Lightning Resistance

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    Fleshrender

    This weapon is a reminder of the unbridled savagery of our druidic ancestors, the wisdom of which I see more clearly with every day that passes." - Moreg, Druidic Scholar

    Type: One-handed Mace
    Class: Druid

    Description: Debilitating Roar and Blood Howl deal 0.5 - 1.0 damage to Nearby Poisoned enemies, increased by x 10% for every 100 Willpower you have.

    Fleshrender has a flat damage effect, which scales with power.


    Affixes:

    • + % Damage while Shapeshifted
    • + % Damage to Poisoned Enemies
    • + # Ranks of All Defensive Skills
    • + % Core skill Damage


    Changes to Shred

    Patch 1.4.0, 14 April, 2024

    • Damage increased by 10%.

    Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

    • Third Attack base damage increased from 60% to 70%.
    • Enhanced Shred - Healing increased from 1% to 2% of Maximum Life.
    • Raging Shred’s - Base damage increased from 51% to 70%.
    • Primal Shred’s - Bonus Critical Strike Damage increased from 20% to 30%.