Druid - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage, Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Overview

Condi Druid is a variant of Druid - Boon Support Healer which sacrifices healing for personal DPS. Like its healing counterpart, it provides boons to its subgroup including Alacrity and 25 stacks of Might with . It also provides CC 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.

Skill Bar

Shortbow

Axe/Torch

Utility

Weapon Variants

You can swap out Axe/Torch for other weapons if needed.

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

Pet Variants

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

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

• Red Moa provides Fury with its pet skill , useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
• Jungle Stalker provides Might with its pet skill , useful if you're struggling with might uptime.
• Wolf provides AoE fear, useful if your group is having trouble with adds (e.g. on Escort towers).
• Brown Bear provides for extremely condition-heavy fights.

Skill Variants

Healing

• is a good alternative to on condition-heavy fights (e.g. Slothasor). If you take this run .
• if is already covered.

Utility

• - As you're likely to only run Condi Druid if damage is more important than healing, you can probably swap out for this.
• if the group lacks Vulnerability.
• provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of many raid boss strategies.
• provides an AoE stun break, useful for saving your subgroup on bosses like Slothasor.
• is a strong safety net for inexperienced groups.
• for extra CC.

Elite

• on fights where the immobilize is needed.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• if there is no other source of Fury in your subgroup.
• if you are using any heal other than and don't need the extra CC (the Daze triggers when entering Celestial Avater}.

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Shortbow
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Axe
Celestial

Torch
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment 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 cast, might will drop.
• Celestial stats will give you +639 toughness, which may be enough to make you the tank. If you need to lower your toughness, you can swap pieces out for Seraph stats to retain your healing power and boon duration, or Viper stats to focus on damage.

Consumables

Food

• - the lifesteal is very helpful for quickly charging Astral Force.

Utility

• or

Usage

Rotation

If possible, use and double dodge right at the start of phases to gain the buff from

Opener

1. Start on Axe/Torch and Jacaranda, and summon spirits
2. Swap pets (to Iboga) to trigger
4. Enter
10. Exit (assuming you are at 25 might stacks)
15. Weapon swap

Loop

3. Autoattack until is available
5. Autoattack until
7. Autoattack until is available
9. Weapon swap
13. Enter
14. Spam CA skills until you're at 25 might
15. Exit
20. Weapon swap
21. Return to start of loop

General Tips

• Use spirit active skills whenever they come off cooldown
• You are free to enter at any time during your rotation and/or stay in it for longer when heals are needed. Try to do so when you would otherwise be autoattacking though.

See Build:Druid - Boon Support Healer for general Druid tips.

CC

• or or
• ->
• Swapping to staff or with traited
• (not recommended as you generally need this skill for other mechanics)