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Latest revision as of 00:47, 28 August 2024
Welcome to the Builds Archive. See the ones that gathered dust, were orphaned by their original writers, or became obsolete by balance patches. We keep the orphan builds together and salute the veteran builds that held a position in the good, great, or meta categories. Click here to view current builds.
Focused on: Healing, Condition cleanse and Boon support
Designed for: WvW GvG
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Hard
Overview
Channel the power of the celestial bodies above and the earth below to swing fights in your allies' favor! Druid brings high burst healing and cleanse as well as 
Immobilize, 
Stealth and 
Superspeed
Skill Bar
Staff
Sword/Warhorn
Utility
Variants
- Utility
Template Code
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Specializations
- Variants
- if your party is capped on
Might
Equipment
Head
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Staff
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Minstrel
Warhorn
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
Consumables
-
- personal food option
Usage
General
- activates when swapping in/out of
- Use / first in Staff and in
- Make sure to set your pet to Avoid Combat
- Manually have your turtle attack to keep it alive at max range and keep pet swap ready
- When blasting stealth stow your pet
Overall Priorities
- High
- Healing
- Moderate
- Cleansing
- Stealth/
- Low
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has moderate mobility skill access
- This builds has low active defenses
Active defense priority 
- - for stunbreaking
Dodge
Detailed Explanations
Healing
- Target allies for +
- Keybinding call/take personal target can be useful to easily target an ally
- Your commander is typically a good target for these skills
- Keybinding (toggle) snap ground target can be useful for aiming and
- has no target cap for allies, use it to give your entire group
Regeneration - and are blasts and can be used on and
Healing Skills
- Staff
-
- Pet
Cleansing
- should be dropped when clashing with the opponent or preemptively before an enemy spike
- begins its cooldown as soon as its dropped, not when it triggers. Precast it when you can do so without wasting it
- Try to hit enemies and allies with on clashes to maximize value
- is instant and can be used while casting other skills
Cleansing Skills
- - (
- - for Immobilize
Stealth/Celestial Shadow
- If you don't anticipate needing heavy healing in the next 10s, you can end on a push for Superspeed
- Move to isolated player(s) and use end to give Stealth and Superspeed
- Blast with , or
Immobilize
- The most important time to use Immobilize is when your group is spiking, watch out for the following skills:
- Winds -
- Wells - + or
- Traps - +
- Shades -
- Try to hit enemies and allies with on clashes to maximize value
- is very difficult to use effectively, not casting it is fine
Immobilize Skills
Settings
- Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
- Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
- Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
- Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
Ratings
Comments
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