Build:Druid - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage, Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

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 some Might. It can also provide CC and utility from various pets and utility skills. Unfortunately, bringing any utility cuts heavily into its damage and unlike practically every other dps-boon build, it provides no Fury by default, meaning the Quickness support much provide 100%.

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. 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

Axe/Dagger

Dagger/Torch

Utility

Weapon Variants

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

• Shortbow can be useful if the boss is frequently moving out of Bonfire, or if you don't have access to Secrets of the Obscure.
• Staff is a huge DPS loss but provides mobility, projectile destruction, a water field, and a blast finisher.

Pet Variants

Thanks to Blood Moon, no pet can compete with Jacaranda for damage. The second pet can be used for utility if desired.

• Electric Wyvern and 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.

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

• Red Moa provides Fury with its pet skill Furious Screech, useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
• Jungle Stalker provides Might with its pet skill Mighty Roar, 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 Shake It Off for extremely condition-heavy fights.

Skill Variants

Healing
The Regeneration from Healing Spring can be very helpful for generating Astral Force, but if there's a dedicated healer in your subgroup it will be overwritten by theirs, making the skill rather useless.

• Water Spirit can be taken if the Vigor will be helpful, and is a consistent group heal.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation is your largest group heal if used inside CA.
• "We Heal As One!" offers a DPS boost as it transfers boons to your pet. It is also a massive self-heal.

Utility
Sun Spirit is decent damage, and provides ~10 stacks of Might to the group. The other two utility skills are a significant DPS loss to replace.

• Glyph of Alignment is the best utility option if you want to go for maximum DPS.
• Stone Spirit provides ~50% protection uptime and on-demand Aegis.
• Glyph of the Tides provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of many raid boss strategies.
• Glyph of Equality for extra CC or group Stability.
• "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.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

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

Equipment

Head
Ritualist

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Ritualist

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Axe
Ritualist

Dagger
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Ritualist

Torch
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

• Celestial stats will provide healing power if you wish to fulfil a hybrid healer role.
  • Celestial stats will also 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.

Consumables

Food

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

Utility

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Usage

Rotation

Video example

Shortbow Rotation

If possible, use Quick Shot and double dodge right at the start of phases to gain the buff from Light on your Feet

Opener

1. Start on Axe/Torch and Jacaranda, and summon spirits
2. Swap pets (to Iboga) to trigger Spirited Arrival
3. Frost Spirit
4. Enter Celestial Avatar
5. Seed of Life
6. Rejuvenating Tides
7. Seed of Life
8. Natural Convergence
9. Seed of Life
10. Exit Celestial Avatar (assuming you are at 25 might stacks)
11. Winter's Bite
12. Bonfire
13. Throw Torch
14. Splitblade
15. Weapon swap

Loop

1. Poison Volley
2. Crippling Shot
3. Autoattack until Poison Volley is available
4. Poison Volley
5. Autoattack until Crippling Shot
6. Crippling Shot
7. Autoattack until Poison Volley is available
8. Poison Volley
9. Weapon swap
10. Throw Torch
11. Winter's Bite
12. Splitblade
13. Enter Celestial Avatar
14. Spam CA skills until you're at 25 might
15. Exit Celestial Avatar
16. Bonfire
17. Splitblade
18. Winter's Bite
19. Throw Torch
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 Celestial Avatar 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

• Lunar Impact
• Lightning Assault or Head Toss
• Concussion Shot
• Point Blank Shot
• Storm Spirit
• Swapping to staff or Celestial Avatar with Primal Echoes traited
• Glyph of Equality
• Glyph of the Tides (not recommended as you generally need this skill for other mechanics)