Druid - Group Support

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Focused on: Support

Designed for: Open World and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on June 27, 2023.

Overview

Druid provides strong zerg support through high healing, Alacrity, Might, Fury, stunbreaks, downstate control, and crowd control. It also provides both offensive and defensive boons. As it focuses on supporting allies and has no damage of its own, this build is not recommended for solo play.

Skill Bar

Staff

Axe/Warhorn

Utility

You only need 3 spirits to maintain permanent Alacrity through Nature's Vengeance. We recommend Frost, Stone, and Nature.

Skill Variants

• If you are going to change your skills, remember you need 3 Spirits to be able to maintain Alacrity.

Utilities

• Glyph of Equality (non-celestial) - daze // Glyph of Equality (Celestial Avatar) to provide Stability.
• Glyph of the Tides (non-celestial) - to pull enemies together so the zerg can cleave them // Glyph of the Tides (Celestial Avatar) push enemies like the bomb in Tarir south lane.
• Lightning Reflexes - evade and stunbreak.
• Signet of Renewal - decent condition cleanse for the zerg.
• Signet of Stone - panic button to negate strike damage.

Elites

• Glyph of the Stars (non-celestial) - good AoE heal, stability, and condi cleanse // Glyph of the Stars (Celestial Avatar) good AoE heal, stability, and revive.

Pet variants

Fern Hound and Rock Gazelle provide good damage and crowd control. White Tiger is also great for providing Aegis. You can consider other options.

High damage pets

• Fanged Iboga, Jacaranda, any feline such as Lynx.

Good mix of damage and crowd control

• Smokescale, Rock Gazelle, any canine such as Wolf.

Good on-demand crowd control

• Rock Gazelle, Pink Moa, Electric Wyvern, Wolf.

Tanky pets

• Drakes such as Marsh Drake provide the best mix of damage and tankiness, but bears and devourers are also very tanky pets.

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Specializations

• Beastly Warden – if more cc is needed.
• Celestial Shadow – superspeed and stealth for your group.
• Beastmastery is taken only for Resounding Timbre, as the Regeneration it provides make it easy to build Astral Force Celestial Being in combination with Natural Mender.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This build uses the same gear as Build:Druid - Boon Support Healer allowing one single gear set for both open world and instanced content.

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Harrier

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Staff
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Axe
Harrier

Warhorn
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Rebirth, Rune of Superior Rune of the Water - Healing alternatives
• Rune of Superior Rune of Sanctuary, Rune of Superior Rune of the Herald - Strong defensive options

Consumables

Food

• Ascended food is superior to any other food. In the event you do not have or cannot find any, see below:
• Use for general farming.
• for maxing out magic find.
• if you need more healing.

Utility:

• or equivalent

Usage

Healing and supporting

This build focuses on healing and providing offensive and defensive boons to allies. You should be able to provide permanent 25 Might and Alacrity, and also some Fury.

• Enter Celestial Avatar and use Rejuvenating Tides ⇒ Lunar Impact to give healing and Might to allies thanks to Grace of the Land. Use Seed of Life right before leaving Celestial Avatar so the delayed heal starts rebuilding your Astral Force.
• Don't stay inside Celestial Avatar until your Astral Force depletes. Enter, cast the skills you need, then manually leave it.
• Position yourself so Solar Beam heals allies in between you and the enemy.
• Spam Cold Snap, Quicksand, Nature's Renewal, Call of the Wild and Astral Wisp off cooldown.
• Use your Blast finishers (Call of the Wild, Ancestral Grace, Lunar Impact) on water fields such as Sublime Conversion for extra healing, or light fields such as Seed of Life to cleanse conditions.
• You can break stuns for allies with "Protect Me!".
• Use Vine Surge to cleanse conditions that impair movement on allies.
• Destroy projectiles with Sublime Conversion.
• You have personal Stability in Sublime Conversion.

Tagging

• Solar Beam allows you to tag enemies easily, specially when using the keybind for "next target".
• Use Ancestral Grace for mobility, try to aim near allies to reduce its cooldown.
• You can manually command your pet to attack certain mobs while you do other things.

Spirits

You need 3 spirits to maitain permanent Alacrity. Whenever you teleport your spirits to you by using their asociated skill, such as Cold Snap, they will provide 8 seconds of alacrity (with the 100% boon duration from the recomended gear). Staying near the spirits provides more boons, but this isn't mandatory.

Crowd Control

• Natural Convergence
• Lunar Impact
• Call of the Wild
• Vine Surge
• Your pet and their Beast skill (F2) depending on the pet.