Druid - Boon Support Condi DPS

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Condi Druid is a variant of Druid - Boon Support Healer which sacrifices healing for personal DPS. Like its healing counterpart, it provides multiple damage buffs to 10 players including

Frost Spirit,

Sun Spirit, and 25 stacks of

Might with

Grace of the Land. It also provides CC,

Glyph of Empowerment,

Spotter, and tons of utility from various pets and utility skills.

This build is best used if the squad already has a dedicated healer, or you're in an expert group that can avoid almost all damage and maintain their

bonus. If this is not the case Druid - Boon Support Healer will usually perform better. This guide assumes you are already an experienced Healing Druid player.

For a more CC and burst damage focused variant, see Druid - Boon Support Power DPS.

This guide is focused on raids. For the fractal version see Druid - Boon Support Condi DPS (Fractal).

Skill Bar

Short bowHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Torch

Weapon Variants

You can swap out Axe/Torch for other weapons if needed. If you do this and are running Wilderness Survival replace

Ambidexterity with

Refined Toxins.

Double Shortbow can be useful if the boss is frequently moving out of Bonfire.
Longbow provides Point Blank Shot for CC or pushing.
Staff is a huge DPS loss but provides mobility, projectile destruction, a water field, and a blast finisher.

Pets

Juvenile Fanged Iboga is the highest DPS pet, which also inflicts good CC with its pet skill Fang Grapple. This is the pet you will have out most of the time.
Juvenile Electric Wyvern and Juvenile Rock Gazelle deal mediocre DPS but provides very strong CC from their pet skills, Lightning Assault and Head Toss. You should have one of these as your secondary pet and swap to it if CC is needed.
Juvenile Jacaranda is the second highest DPS pet and the pet with the highest cleave damage. It also has an immobilize in Jacaranda's Embrace, useful if more soft CC is needed.

In certain situations, you might also find these pets useful:

Juvenile Red Moa provides Fury with its pet skill Furious Screech, useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
Juvenile Jungle Stalker provides Might with its pet skill Mighty Roar, useful if you're struggling with might uptime.
Juvenile Wolf provides AoE fear, useful if your group is having trouble with adds (e.g. on Escort towers).
Juvenile Brown Bear provides

Shake It Off

½

25

Shake It Off

Cure a condition on yourself and all nearby allies.

Conditions Removed: 2

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 600

for extremely condition-heavy fights.

Skill Variants

If there's another Ranger in the squad, you should coordinate spirits with them before the fight so that you cover all spirits between the two of you.

Healing Skills

Healing Spring is a good alternative to Water Spirit on condition-heavy fights (e.g. Slothasor). If you take this run Trapper's Expertise.
Glyph of Rejuvenation if Water Spirit is already covered.

Utility Skills

Glyph of the Tides provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of many raid boss strategies.
"Protect Me!" provides an AoE stun break, useful for saving your subgroup on bosses like Slothasor.
"Search and Rescue!" is a strong safety net for inexperienced groups.
Viper's Nest or Glyph of Equality if you don't need anything else.

Elite Skills

Entangle on fights where the immobilize is needed.

Specializations

Skirmishing:

Nature Magic:

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Druid:

Variants:

Hidden Barbs over Spotter if your subgroup has only condition DPS classes.
Primal Echoes provides a daze on entering Celestial Avatar.
Celestial Shadow or Natural Stride is technically better when not running any glyphs, but they don't provide any real advantage so you don't have to retrait if you're lazy.

Wilderness Survival Variant

Wilderness Survival can replace Nature Magic if you don't need the might and boon coverage from

Nature's Vengeance, e.g. if you are a second druid.

Wilderness Survival:

24px Taste for Danger

Ambidexterity

Poison Master

Refined Toxins over Ambidexterity if not running a torch.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Lich

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Spiteful +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

If extra might generation is required,
can be replaced with
. This is a good choice when playing the only druid, as without perfect alacrity uptime or if any players are not in a Rejuvenating Tides cast, might will drop.

Consumables

Food:

Prickly Pear Pie

Prickly Pear Pie

Nourishment (30 m):

+40% Condition duration33% chance to steal life on critical+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

/
- Lifesteal procs from the food allow you to rapidly recharge Astral Force to use Celestial Avatar.
- Koi Cake
  
  Koi Cake
  
  Nourishment (20 m):
  
  +100 Expertise+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills
  
  Consumable
  
  ,
  
  Rare Veggie Pizza
  
  Rare Veggie Pizza
  
  Nourishment (30 m):
  
  +100 Expertise+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from kills
  
  Consumable
  
  or Red-Lentil Saobosa - alternate foods if you haven't yet farmed geodes for the recipe or killed a W4 boss for Box of Raider's Sustenance

Utility:

Toxic Focusing Crystal

Toxic Focusing Crystal

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your PowerGain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your Precision+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable
- Tuning Icicle
  
  Tuning Icicle
  
  Nourishment (30 m):
  
  Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Condition Damage equal to 8% of your Expertise+10% Experience from Kills
  
  Consumable
  
  or
  
  Potent Master Tuning Crystal
  
  Potent Master Tuning Crystal
  
  Nourishment (1 h):
  
  Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Condition Damage equal to 8% of your Expertise+10% Experience from Kills
  
  Consumable
  
  for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Wilderness Survival Rotation

Use your glyph skills when the next skill in your rotation is still on cooldown and fill the remaining gaps with autoattacks.

If possible, double dodge right before the fight starts.

Enter Celestial Avatar
Rejuvenating Tides
Seed of Life
Exit Celestial Avatar
Crippling Shot
Poison Volley
Weapon swap
Splitblade
Throw Torch
Winter's Bite
Bonfire
Ricochet (or enter CA here)
Splitblade
Enter Celestial Avatar
Rejuvenating Tides
Seed of Life
Exit Celestial Avatar
Ricochet
Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
Winter's Bite
Throw Torch
Splitblade
Weapon swap
Poison Volley
Crippling Shot
Enter Celestial Avatar
Rejuvenating Tides
Seed of Life
Exit Celestial Avatar
Crossfire
Poison Volley
Crossfire (or enter CA here)
Crippling Shot
Crossfire (or enter CA here)
Poison Volley
Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
Weapon swap
Repeat from 8.

Nature Magic Rotation