Druid - Spirit Support Druid

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Focused on: Support, Sustain and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 17, 2023.

Overview

A PvP Druid build made to support allies in teamfights.

Skill Bar

Staff

Sword/Warhorn

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

• Wellspring improves both your personal and group healing but makes you worse at reviving allies.

Equipment

Staff

Sigil

Sigil

Sword

Warhorn

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Rangers with the Druid specialization gain access to Celestial Avatar (CA) which uses a resource called Astral Force (AF).

• You build AF mostly through healing yourself and allies. The amount healed doesn't matter. Consistent sources of healing like Regeneration and Protection via Rugged Growth are great at building Astral Force.

• The CD of Celestial Avatar can be reduced by healing allies with CA skills. This only works in teamfights, as neither healing yourself or your pet counts for this trait. Always try to exit CA with 10 stacks of Lingering Light or close to it.

General

• While the build is weak against CC, it does have a few tools to combat it:
  • You gain 1 stack of Stability whenever you swap pets via Shared Anguish. This is your most reactive source of anti-CC in the build, everything else has a cast time. Consider leaving pet swap available to be used for the Stability if you expect to be CC'd a lot.
  • Glyph of Stars grants AoE Stability to nearby allies and it has quite a large radius. Because of the long casttime sometimes it can be hard to use this skill under pressure, in which case you should consider covering it with Stability from a pet swap.
  • Celestial Avatar skill #5 Natural Convergence is a channeled ability that has Stability on it. When you're trying to heal under pressure you should interrupt Natural Convergence right away by moving or by weapon stowing, that way you get to use the Stability to cover other skills.

• Ancestral Grace recharges faster if it heals an ally - pets also count for this if no allies are nearby.

• Dodging grants Protection.

• Smokescale's F2 ability is Smoke Cloud which could be used to combo Stealth for you and your team. Both weapon sets and Celestial Avatar have combo tools for blasting this field.

Support

• Using combo fields and finishers is an important part of Support Druid in PvP.

• Glyph of the Stars and Sublime Conversion can be excellent sources of healing, but only if you can properly utlize the water combo field by blasting it for allies or using leap finishers for pesrsonal survivability.
  • Blast finishers (AoE healing): Lunar Impact (CA), Call of the Wild (Warhorn), Ancestral Grace (Staff).
  • Leap finishers (self-healing): Pounce and Serpent's Strike (Sword).

• Astral Wisp can be attached to allies if you target them! This maximizes healing uptime and reduces the chance of missing this skill. If there are no allies nearby you could even attach it to your pet, as pets won't dodge it.

• Sublime Conversion and Siege Turtle's Hunker Down are great anti-projectile skills that could shut down many ranged specs.
  • Both of these are stationary. Hunker Down spawns on top of your turtle but doesn't follow it, and you can even swap pets without losing it.

• Condition cleansing in the build mostly tied to big CDs, or they're locked behind Celestial Avatar access:
  • Frost Spirit removes conditions twice after being placed and even pulses boons useful against conditions.
  • Glyph of the Stars cleanses conditions with each pulse.
  • Entering CA removes conditions from yourself and nearby allies.
  • Seed of Life (CA skill #2) cleanses conditions for allies inside the ring after a short delay. This is your most spammable source of AoE cleansing and has no cast time, therefore it can be used even while CC'd. Using Lunar Impact inside Seed of Life is a combo that removes another condition from nearby allies - for this you should cast Lunar Impact first and place Seed of Life in the middle of the cast.
  • Pet special abilities cleanse 2 conditions from you and nearby allies once every 20 seconds via Empathic Bond.
  • Vine Surge can free allies from all movement impairing conditions. You might want to use this skill before touching your other CDs to increase the chance of your other cleanses removing damaging conditions.

Reviving allies

• Glyph of the Stars revives allies with each tick when used in Celestial Avatar.
  • The Celestial Avatar version of this skill could even be used to rez yourself if you manage to drop it on your location right before you go into downed state.

• Manually reviving an ally procs "Search and Rescue!" once every 85 seconds, causing your pet to assist for a faster rez.

• Consider Stealthing downed allies to prevent stomp attempts and to make it harder for enemies to cleave them.

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