Build:Druid - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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

Focused on: Condition damage, Healing and Boon support

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on August 11, 2022 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 25 stacks of Might with Grace of the Land. 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 Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar 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 Bonfire.
• Longbow provides Point Blank Shot 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 Fang Grapple. 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, Lightning Assault and Head Toss. 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 Jacaranda's Embrace, 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 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

• Healing Spring is a good alternative to Water Spirit on condition-heavy fights (e.g. Slothasor). If you take this run Trapper's Expertise.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation if Water Spirit is already covered.

Utility

• Sharpening Stone - As you're likely to only run Condi Druid if damage is more important than healing, you can probably swap Stone Spirit out for this.
• Storm Spirit if the group lacks Vulnerability.
• Glyph of the Tides provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of many raid boss strategies.
• "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.
• Glyph of Equality for extra CC.

Elite

• Entangle on fights where the immobilize is needed.

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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}.
• Verdant Etching if you're running a glyph.

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, Rune of Superior Rune of the Krait can be replaced with Rune of Superior Rune of the Aristocracy. This is a good choice when playing the only druid, as without perfect alacrity uptime or if any players are not in a Rejuvenating Tides 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

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Usage

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. Cold Snap
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
• Fang Grapple or Lightning Assault or Head Toss
• Concussion Shot
• Point Blank Shot
• Storm Spirit -> Call Lightning (ranger)
• 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)