Build:Druid - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage, Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on July 25, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

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 unless you need the condi cleanse.
• 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

Specialization Variants

Wilderness Survival can be swapped out for Nature Magic if you need access to more boons. This is a surprisingly small DPS loss, less than swapping to Spotter!

If using Nature Magic, swap your food to (or alternatives).

• Wellspring can be used to provide more Regeneration.
• Spirited Arrival provides ~6 extra Might and ~55% Fury. To best use this, you want to pet swap just after using Jacaranda's Embrace, and swap back your Jacaranda as soon a you can and immediately use Jacaranda's Embrace. This means you lose almost no uptime of the skill whilst still benefitting from Spirited Arrival.
• Nature's Vengeance doubles the damage from your Sun Spirit, and the heal from your Water Spirit. If desperate, it can be swapped to Invigorating Bond for ~40% Protection.

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
x14

Infusion
x4

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

Usage

Rotation

In real encounters your rotation can be somewhat flexible as your Astral Force will generate at different speeds depending on how much damage your team takes.

When in CA, use Seed of Life twice, and Lunar Impact, Rejuvenating Tides and Natural Convergence once each. This CA "rotation" generates ~17s of Alacrity, so you will need to make sure you go in at least this often, or spend longer inside to cover the gap until it is available again.

If possible, precast Viper's Nest and Sharpening Stone.

Opener

Start on Axe/Dagger

1. Sun Spirit - make sure any boon rip has already happened
2. Viper's Nest
3. Entangle
4. Weapon Swap so we don't waste Quick Draw on a CA skill
5. Jacaranda's Embrace
6. Bonfire
7. Celestial Avatar
8. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice (it has no cast time so use it whenever you can)
9. Release Celestial Avatar
10. Use all Dagger/Torch skills once
11. Weapon Swap

Axe/Dagger

1. Splitblade
2. Winter's Bite
3. Stalker's Strike
4. Crippling Talon
5. Splitblade (assuming you got Quick Draw on the first one)
6. Celestial Avatar (if available), otherwise autoattack
   1. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice
   2. Release Celestial Avatar
7. Crippling Talon
8. Stalker's Strike
9. Winter's Bite
10. Splitblade
11. Weapon Swap

Dagger/Torch

1. Throw Torch
2. Double Arc
3. Instinctive Engage
4. Celestial Avatar (if available), otherwise autoattack
   1. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice
   2. Release Celestial Avatar
5. Use all Dagger/Torch skills once more
6. Weapon Swap
7. Return to start of Axe/Dagger section

General Tips

• Use Sharpening Stone and Jacaranda's Embrace whenever they come off cooldown.
• Use Entangle, Viper's Nest, Sun Spirit and Glyph of Alignment (if using) off cooldown, but they are lower priority the first few weapon skills after each weapon swap (so delay until the Celestial Avatar section).
  • Glyph of Alignment only deals damage outside of Celestial Avatar.
• 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.

Video example

Video example (celestial gear)

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

Start on Axe/Dagger

1. Sun Spirit - make sure any boon rip has already happened
2. Viper's Nest
3. Entangle
4. Weapon Swap so we don't waste Quick Draw on a CA skill
5. Jacaranda's Embrace
6. Crippling Shot
7. Celestial Avatar
8. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice (it has no cast time so use it whenever you can)
9. Release Celestial Avatar
10. Use all Shortbow skills once
11. Weapon Swap

Axe/Dagger

1. Splitblade
2. Winter's Bite
3. Stalker's Strike
4. Crippling Talon
5. Splitblade (assuming you got Quick Draw on the first one)
6. Celestial Avatar (if available), otherwise autoattack
   1. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice
   2. Release Celestial Avatar
7. Crippling Talon
8. Stalker's Strike
9. Winter's Bite
10. Splitblade
11. Weapon Swap

Shortbow

1. Poison Volley
2. Crippling Shot
3. Autoattack until Poison Volley is available (assuming you managed to Quick Draw it)
4. Poison Volley
5. Celestial Avatar (if available), otherwise autoattack
   1. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use Seed of Life twice
   2. Release Celestial Avatar
6. Crippling Shot
7. Poison Volley
8. Weapon swap
9. Return to start of Axe/Dagger section

General Tips

• Use Sharpening Stone and Jacaranda's Embrace whenever they come off cooldown.
• Use Entangle, Viper's Nest, Sun Spirit and Glyph of Alignment (if using) off cooldown, but they are lower priority the first few weapon skills after each weapon swap (so delay until the Celestial Avatar section).
  • Glyph of Alignment only deals damage outside of Celestial Avatar.
• 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)