Druid - Staff Farmer

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Overview

A Druid build for Tagging in zergs and general Event farming. This build is easily one of the best builds for tagging and is very easy to play.

Important: You must ensure you have the "Allow Skill Retargetting" option enabled in the Options Menu for this build to function as intended.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Pets

A good Ranger swaps pets depending on the situation. Here are some pets worth having:

Juvenile Jacaranda - highest damage pet.
- Juvenile Lynx, Juvenile Jungle Stalker, or Juvenile Tiger if you don't have the Path of Fire expansion.
Juvenile Murellow - defensive pet that can tank for you and pulses poison.
Juvenile Rock Gazelle - provides good defiance bar damage.
- Juvenile Pink Moa or Juvenile Electric Wyvern if you don't have the Path of Fire expansion.
Juvenile Bristleback or Juvenile Smokescale - tanky pet that also deals high damage.
Juvenile Marsh Drake - tanky pet that also deals good AoE damage.
Juvenile Wolf - powerful AoE crowd control.

Weapon Variants

A Longbow can be used in place of your 2nd staff.
- If running a Longbow, see the Marksmanship Variant below.
An Axe and Warhorn can be used in place of your 2nd staff, which is excellent for groups of mobs. Run with Axe to cause your to deal damage in an AoE.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

is a potent heal-over-time.
is a quick self-heal with no cast time.

Specializations

Build Code

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Variants

You can run to grant Might at bosses.
If running Axe/Warhorn on your 2nd weapon set, take .

Longbow / Marksmanship Variant

If running longbow, replace Nature Magic with Marksmanship.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

The goal of the Standard variant is to provide baseline equipment suggestions. In reality, you can run any gear you wish here.

6x

Superior Rune of Vampirism

Variants

- Higher sustain at the cost of mobility
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- If not running , use this over

Consumables

Food

Bring https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plate_of_Sesame-Crusted_Coq_Au_Vin if you are supplying Ascended food for the zerg.
Use
for general farming.
for maxing out magic find.
if you need more healing.

Utility:

Lump of Crystallized Nougat

Usage

Damage

Spam on mobs. You should try to aim for mobs that are far away so you can angle the beam to hit mobs between you and your target.
Use and off cooldown.
If running longbow, position yourself so that your shots pierce into multiple enemies.
Only dip into if you or your group needs additional healing.