Druid - Group Support

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Support

Designed for: Open World and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on May 29, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Druid provides strong zerg support through high healing, 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 recomended for solo play.

Skill Bar

Staff

Axe/Warhorn

Utility

Command skills provide regeneration to nearby allies thanks to Resounding Timbre, which in turn heals thanks to Windborne Notes. Both things also contribute to building up your Astral Force Celestial Being and make it very easy to upkeep Natural Mender.

Skill Variants

Heal Skills

• Healing Spring - decent option to help cleanse conditions from allies.
• Troll Unguent - all the heal pulses provide Astral Force, and heal pulses on the pet also heal you due to Live Vicariously. But it doesn't provide regeneration to nearby allies.

Utilities

• Frost Spirit - powerful DPS increase for allies when fighting in one location.
• Glyph of Equality - more cc or stunbreak for yourself and allies.
• Glyph of the Tides - to pull enemies together so the zerg can cleave them, or to push enemies like the bomb in Tarir south lane.
• Lightning Reflexes - evade and stunbreak.
• Muddy Terrain - greatly hinders movement of trash mobs.
• Signet of Renewal - decent condition cleanse for the zerg.
• Signet of Stone - panic button to negate strike damage.
• Stone Spirit - defensive option for allies when fighting in one location.

Elites

• Glyph of the Stars - good AoE heal and either condi cleanse Glyph of the Stars (non-celestial) or revive Glyph of the Stars (Celestial Avatar).
• Spirit of Nature - AoE healing and revive.
• "Strength of the Pack!" - 10 stacks of stability.

Pet variants

Fern Hound and Rock Gazelle provide good damage and crowd control, but 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.

Specializations

• Beastly Warden – if more cc is needed.
• Nature's Vengeance – when running Spirits.
• Celestial Shadow – superspeed and stealth for your group.

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 Dwayna, Rune of Superior Rune of the Druid, Rune of Superior Rune of the Flock, Rune of Superior Rune of the Water - healing alternatives
• Rune of Superior Rune of Sanctuary, Rune of Superior Rune of the Rebirth, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism, Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, 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.

• Enter Celestial Avatar and use Rejuvenating Tides ⇒ Lunar Impact to give healing and Might to allies. 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 "Guard!", 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.

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.

Crowd Control

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