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 January 19, 2022 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Druid is a variant of Build:Druid - Boon Support Healer which sacrifices healing for personal DPS. Like its healing counterpart, it provides multiple damage buffs to 10 players including Frost Spirit, Sun Spirit, and 25 stacks of Might with Grace of the Land. It also provides CC, Glyph of Empowerment, Spotter, 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 Build:Druid - Boon Support Healer will usually perform better. This guide assumes you are already an experienced Healing Druid player.

For a more CC and burst damage focused variant, see Build:Druid - Boon Support Power DPS.

This guide is focused on raids. For the fractal version see Build:Druid - Boon Support Condi DPS (Fractal).

Skill Bar

Shortbow

Axe/Torch

Utility

Weapon Variants

You can swap out Axe/Torch for other weapons if needed. If you do this and are running Wilderness Survival replace Ambidexterity with Refined Toxins.

• 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

• 24px Juvenile 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.
• 24px Juvenile Electric Wyvern and 24px Juvenile 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.
• 24px Juvenile Jacaranda is the second highest DPS pet and the pet with the highest cleave damage. It also has an immobilize in 24px Jacaranda's Embrace, useful if more soft CC is needed.

In certain situations, you might also find these pets useful:

• 24px Juvenile Red Moa provides Fury with its pet skill Furious Screech, useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
• 24px Juvenile Jungle Stalker provides Might with its pet skill Mighty Roar, useful if you're struggling with might uptime.
• 24px Juvenile Wolf provides AoE fear, useful if your group is having trouble with adds (e.g. on Escort towers).
• 24px Juvenile Brown Bear provides Shake It Off for extremely condition-heavy fights.

Skill Variants

If there's another Ranger in the squad, you should coordinate spirits with them before the fight so that you cover all spirits between the two of you. See Build:Druid - Boon Support Healer for more information on spirits.

Healing Skills

• 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 Skills

• 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.
• Viper's Nest or Glyph of Equality if you don't need anything else.

Elite Skills

• Entangle on fights where the immobilize is needed.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• Hidden Barbs over Spotter if your subgroup has only condition DPS classes.
• Primal Echoes provides a daze on entering Celestial Avatar.
• Celestial Shadow or Natural Stride is technically better when not running any glyphs, but they don't provide any real advantage so you don't have to retrait if you're lazy.

Wilderness Survival Variant

Wilderness Survival can replace Nature Magic if you don't need the might and boon coverage from Nature's Vengeance, e.g. if you are a second druid.

• Refined Toxins over Ambidexterity if not running a torch.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Seraph

Accessory
Seraph

Accessory
Seraph

Amulet
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Shortbow
Seraph

Sigil

Sigil

Axe
Seraph

Torch
Seraph

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

• If extra might generation is required, Rune of Superior Rune of the Lich can be replaced with Rune of Superior Rune of the Traveler. 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.

Consumables

Food:

• / - Lifesteal procs from the food allow you to rapidly recharge Astral Force to use Celestial Avatar.
  • , or - alternate foods if you haven't yet farmed geodes for the recipe or killed a W4 boss for Box of Raider's Sustenance

Utility:

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Wilderness Survival Rotation

Use your glyph skills when the next skill in your rotation is still on cooldown and fill the remaining gaps with autoattacks.

If possible, double dodge right before the fight starts.

1. Enter Celestial Avatar
2. Rejuvenating Tides
3. Seed of Life
4. Exit Celestial Avatar
5. Crippling Shot
6. Poison Volley
7. Weapon swap
8. Splitblade
9. Throw Torch
10. Winter's Bite
11. Bonfire
12. Ricochet (or enter CA here)
13. Splitblade
14. Enter Celestial Avatar
15. Rejuvenating Tides
16. Seed of Life
17. Exit Celestial Avatar
18. Ricochet
19. Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
20. Winter's Bite
21. Throw Torch
22. Splitblade
23. Weapon swap
24. Poison Volley
25. Crippling Shot
26. Enter Celestial Avatar
27. Rejuvenating Tides
28. Seed of Life
29. Exit Celestial Avatar
30. Crossfire
31. Poison Volley
32. Crossfire (or enter CA here)
33. Crippling Shot
34. Crossfire (or enter CA here)
35. Poison Volley
36. Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
37. Weapon swap
38. Repeat from 8.

Nature Magic Rotation

Use your glyph skills when the next skill in your rotation is still on cooldown and fill the remaining gaps with autoattacks.

If possible, double dodge right before the fight starts.

1. Enter Celestial Avatar
2. Rejuvenating Tides
3. Seed of Life
4. Exit Celestial Avatar
5. Crippling Shot
6. Poison Volley
7. Weapon swap
8. Throw Torch
9. Bonfire
10. Splitblade
11. Winter's Bite
12. Ricochet (or enter CA here)
13. Splitblade
14. Enter Celestial Avatar
15. Rejuvenating Tides
16. Seed of Life
17. Exit Celestial Avatar
18. Ricochet
19. Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
20. Winter's Bite
21. Throw Torch
22. Splitblade
23. Weapon swap
24. Poison Volley
25. Crippling Shot
26. Enter Celestial Avatar
27. Rejuvenating Tides
28. Seed of Life
29. Exit Celestial Avatar
30. Crossfire
31. Poison Volley
32. Crossfire (or enter CA here)
33. Crippling Shot
34. Crossfire (or enter CA here)
35. Poison Volley
36. Dodge to trigger Light on your Feet if you can spare the endurance
37. Weapon swap
38. Repeat from 8.

General

• You are free to enter Celestial Avatar at any time during your rotation and/or stay in it for longer than just Rejuvenating Tides+Seed of Life when heals are needed.
• Dodging to trigger Light on your Feet as part of your rotation is a DPS increase during low-pressure sections of a fight, but save your dodges for mechanics when necessary. It is still a DPS increase whatever the timing.

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)