Druid - Boon Support Power DPS

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support, Utility.

Designed for:

Raid

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Power Druid is a variant of Druid - Boon Support Healer which sacrifices healing for personal burst damage. Like its healing counterpart, it provides multiple damage buffs to 10 players including , , and 25 stacks of

Might with . It also provides CC, , , permanent

Fury, high

Vulnerability, 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.

The burst damage from this build falls off rapidly in longer fights. For a condition damage focused variant with more sustained damage, see Druid - Boon Support Condi DPS.

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

Skill Bar

Sword/WarhornHealingUtilityElite

X/Axe

Weapon Variants

Longbow provides for CC or pushing. It can replace either offhand Axe or offhand Warhorn.
Staff is a huge DPS loss but provides mobility, projectile destruction, a water field, and a blast finisher.
Main hand Axe provides better generation at a hefty DPS loss.

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, 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 , useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
Juvenile Jungle Stalker provides Might with its pet skill , 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.

Spirits

The suggested skill bar doesn't include or because Power Druid is not normally played in encounters that favor condition damage or encounters where people have trouble surviving. Consider swapping to Druid - Boon Support Condi DPS or Druid - Boon Support Healer for these situations.

Coordinating spirits: 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. Note that a Healing Druid will have more potent spirits due to .

Other Skill Variants

Healing Skills

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

Utility Skills

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.
or if you don't need anything else.

Elite Skills

on fights where the immobilize is needed.

Specializations

Variants

if more CC is needed.
if pushing.
if running .
also viable, boils down to personal preference.
or 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.

Nature Magic Variant

Run Nature Magic over Skirmishing or Marksmanship if you need the extra might and boon coverage from .

Variants

for more .

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty Infusion

Remember to also get a longbow with Force and Water sigils.

Consumables

Food:

Slice of Allspice Cake

Utility:

Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

Usage

Use sword autoattacks,

Path of Scars

½

15

Path of Scars

Throw your axe so that it returns to you, striking foes each way.

Damage: 295

Pull distance: 450

Pierces

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

,

Whirling Defense

5

25

Whirling Defense

Blocks projectiles while damaging nearby foes.

₁₂Damage: 732

Retaliation (4s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.

₁₂Vulnerability (10s): 12% Incoming Damage

Number of Targets: 3

Duration: 5 seconds

Attack Radius: 180

Reflection Radius: 150

Combo Finisher: Whirl

, and

Hunter's Call

1

25

Hunter's Call

Call hawks to swarm your foe.

₁₆Damage: 464

Range: 1,200

for damage.
Never interrupt your autoattack chain.
If using longbow, you can open with but don't bother swapping to it for DPS otherwise as it is a DPS loss.
Use to pull adds into the boss. Save the skill for this use on fights where it's beneficial (Slothasor, Xera).
Use for strong cleave and Astral Force generation. If possible, using it in a water field provides many small heals and lots of astral force.
This build uses so make sure you have it active when you share boons.
Stand next or behind the boss if possible to get use out of .
Note that swapping pets triggers , a blast finisher which can be useful. Start fights on the secondary pet to trigger this trait after the boon removal to supply your group with fury.

See Druid - Boon Support Healer for general Druid tips.

CC

1
20
Storm Spirit
Spirit. Summon a storm spirit that grants nearby allies a chance to apply vulnerability when attacking.
Storm Spirit (6s): 75% chance to apply vulnerability on hit.
₃Vulnerability (10s): 3% Incoming Damage, 3% Incoming Condition Damage
Number of Targets: 5
Effect recharge: 10 seconds
Duration: 60 seconds
Radius: 1,000

20
Call Lightning
Spirit. Your storm spirit sacrifices itself to generate a powerful blast of electricity.
Damage: 353
Daze: 3 seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 240
Fang Grapple or or Head Toss
Swapping to staff or with traited
(not recommended as you generally need this skill for other mechanics)