Diablo 4 players are doing literally billions of points of damage in single shots with bonkers 'Shred Druid' builds

pcgamer.com:

Diablo 4 is all about builds: How your class, stats, skills, and equipment come together to enable you to kick the most demon ass in the least amount of time. Some builds are very powerful, others not so much, but one—the «Lightning Shred Druid 2.0,» as streamer Moxsy calls it—is doing so much damage, it might as well be broken.

As noted by IGN, Moxsy has been sharing his odyssey of destruction on Twitter over the past several days. He came just shy of 1 billion damage on July 7:

I don't know if that was actually the highest damage ever hit in Diablo 4 up to that point, but it's undeniably impressive.

Just a day later, though, he basically doubled that whopper with a 1.8 billion damage punch in the chops to an unlucky minion of Hell.

Ouch, that's gotta sting:

So how can this kind of mega-deletion damage be possible? It's not a bug or an exploit, but a carefully crafted build that takes advantage of legendary item aspects and «double-dipping» to stack increasingly massive amounts of damage in the Shred attack. 

There's a lot of complexity involved in pulling it all together, which Moxsy breaks down in detail in a build at DPS Check, but our in-house Diablo 4 pro Tyler Colp laid it out for me like this:

The tl;dr, as he put it, is that the build deals «constant big critical strike hits that double dip on damage modifiers and constantly trigger area-of-effect lightning damage.»

«With this build, we are stacking well over 1,000% crit damage to enemies,» Moxsy says in his video explainer. «And the more crits that we hit in Grizzly Rage, the more this additive crit damage multiplier is going to stack up… and we're critting all the time.»

There's a certain element of randomness to the whole thing, as some Diablo 4 dungeons are