Druid - Celestial Avatar

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Conquest

Overview

A PvP Druid build made for party support and skirmishing.

Admin note: even though this build has earned a meta status for being extremely common in queues and tournaments, it's still a very fresh build that might require more polishing - feel free to provide feedback on the discussion page or cast a vote for it.

Skill Bar

Staff

Healing

Utility

Elite

1¼

Solar Beam

Fire a concentrated beam of light, damaging the target foe and healing allies inside of the beam.

Damage: 121

Healing: 66

Number of Targets: 3

Pulses: 3

Range: 1,200

¾

8

Astral Wisp

Send a wisp to attack your foe. While attached it will circle the foe, healing allies it passes through.

Damage: 323

Healing: 322

Duration: 5s

Radius: 130

Range: 1,200

1¼

15

Ancestral Grace

Become a wisp of natural energy traversing to the target location. When you reach the target, heal nearby allies.

Healing: 1,610

Number of Targets: 5

Evade: until reaching the destination

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,200

¾

20

Vine Surge

Send forth vines that immobilize enemies and cleanse conditions from allies.

Damage: 202

Immobilize (1s): Unable to move.

Condition Removed

Condition Removed

Condition Removed

Number of Impacts: 7

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 1,200

25

Sublime Conversion

Summon an energy barrier that causes enemy projectiles to heal upon impact.

Healing: 162

Duration: 5s

Range: 900

"We Heal as One!"

1

20

"We Heal as One!"

Shout. Heal yourself and your pet. You each gain a copy of the other's boons.

Healing: 6,520

Boons copied: 11

80

Signet of Stone

Signet Passive: Improves toughness for you and your pet.
Signet Active: You and your pet takes no damage from attacks. You and your pet are still susceptible to conditions and control effects.

Signet of Stone (6s): Take no damage from incoming attacks.

30

Glyph of Equality

Glyph. Daze nearby foes.

Damage: 413

Daze: 2s

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 300

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20

Glyph of Alignment

Glyph. Damage and apply conditions to nearby foes.

Damage: 136

Crippled (5s): -50% Movement Speed

Weakness (5s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

₃Poison (5s): 503 Damage, -33% Healing Effectiveness

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 300

1

60

"Strength of the Pack!"

Shout. Rampage with your pet, gaining stability, fury and swiftness. You and your pet also grant might to each other when you attack.

"Strength of the Pack!" (10s): Grants might to your pet when you attack.

Fury (3s): 20% Critical Chance

₃Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

Swiftness (3s): 33% Movement Speed

Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds

Sword/Torch

½

Slash

Chain. Slash your foe.

Damage: 146

Range: 130

½

8

Hornet Sting

Stab your foe, then evade backwards.

Damage: 170

Evade: 0.5 seconds

Range: 130

1

15

Serpent's Strike

Do an evasive roll around your target, striking them and poison them.

Damage: 284

₂Poison (6s): 402 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

Evade: ¾ seconds

Range: 130

½

15

Throw Torch

Throw your torch and burn your foe.

Damage: 160

₂Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

Range: 1,200

½

25

Bonfire

Set a fire around you, damaging and burning foes.

₉Damage: 306

₉Burning (3s): 3,537 Damage

Number of Targets: 3

Duration: 8 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Fire

Pets

• Smokescale
• Bristleback

Slot Changes

Heal :

Troll Unguent

1

25

Troll Unguent

Survival. You and your pet regenerate health over time.

Health per Second: 850

Duration: 10 seconds

makes it easier to build astral force, but you'll miss out on tons of boons.

Pet: Fire Wyvern over the Bristleback for another fire field.

Specializations

Beastmastery

Pack Alpha

Your pet gains up to 150 power, precision, toughness and vitality and their skills recharge 20% faster

Go For The Eyes

Your pet gains up to 300 toughness. Your pet's command F2 ability causes 5s of blindness to foes around it

Companion's Might

Your critical hits grant 5s of might to your pet. Critical strikes from your pet's basic attack cause 6s of bleeding

Resounding Timbre

Your shouts apply 10s of Regeneration and 10s of Swiftness to nearby allies. Your shouts recharge 20% faster.

Loud Whistle

While your health is above 90% your pet deals 10% more damage. Your pet swap recharges 20% faster

Wilting Strike

Your pet inflicts 4s weakness when you activate its command F2 ability.

Two-Handed Training

Greatsword and spear damage is increased by 5% and those skills recharge 20% faster. Greatsword and spear hits have a 50% chance to gain 3s of fury. This trait has a 10 second internal cooldown.

Natural Regeneration

Your pet gains natural health recovery and their healing power is increased by up to 450.

Pet's Prowess

Your pets move 30 faster and gain up to 300 ferocity.

Beastly Warden

Your pet's command F2 ability causes 2s of taunt to foes around it. This trait has a 15 second internal cooldown.

Zephyr's Speed

Combat Only. When you swap pets you and your pet gain 3 stacks of might for 15 seconds and 3 seconds of quickness.

Honed Axes

Gain up to 150 ferocity while wielding an axe in your main hand. Winter's Bite is now inflicts its effects in an area at your target's location

Nature Magic

Rejuvenation

When you receive damage while below 50%, gain 6s of regeneration. This trait has a 18 second internal cooldown.

Bountiful Hunter

You and your pet deal 1% more damage per boon on you.

Instinctive Reaction

When your health drops below 50% gain 3s of quickness. Gain 7% of your Healing Power as Power.

Allies' Aid

When you begin reviving an ally cast search and rescue on them. You gain 10% increased revive speed.

Fortifying Bond

Any boon you gain is shared with your pet.

Evasive Purity:

Dodging removes blindness, crippling and poison from you. This trait has a 10 second internal cooldown

Vigorous Training

Your pets grant 6s of vigor to allies near them when you swap pets.

Windborne Notes

Call of the wild also grants 10s of regeneration. Your warhorn skills recharge 20% faster.

Lingering Magic

Boons you apply last 20% longer. Boons your pet apply last 50% longer.

Nature's Vengeance

Each of your spirits pulses 1s of a particular boon every 3s. Your spirits gain 100% increased health. The range of spirit activated abilities is increased by 50%

Protective Ward

When you receive damage inflict 6s of weakness on foes near you and you gain 4s of protection. This trait has a 15 second internal cooldown

Invigorating Bond

Your pet heals allies in an area around them. This trait has a 20 second internal cooldown.

Druid

Celestial Being

You can equip staves and gain access to glyphs. You can become a celestial avatar once you gain enough astral force. Generate astral force by healing allies and damaging foes.

Druidic Clarity

Becoming celestial avatar removes conditions from you.

Cultivated Synergy

Using a healing skill heals allies around you and your pet.

Primal Echoes

Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.

Live Vicariously

When you heal an ally, you are also healed.

Celestial Shadow

Grants superspeed and stealth to nearby allies when leaving celestial avatar form.

Verdant Etching

Reduces recharge of glyphs. Activating a glyph skills plants a seed.

Natural Stride

Reduces the duration of movement-impairing conditions. Your movement speed is increased as long as you have none of these conditions.

Natural Mender

Increase outgoing healing whenever you heal another ally.

Grace of the Land

Allies affected by your celestial avatar abilities gain damage and condition damage increase.

Lingering Light

When you heal an ally their next outgoing attack will heal them (based upon your healing) and blind their target.

Ancient Seeds

Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foe summons roots to entangle them.

Variants

• Primal Echoes

  Primal Echoes

  Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.
  - if you don't need the condi cleansing. Also has good synergy with the GM trait.

Weapons

9

Superior Sigil of Geomancy

Inflict bleeding on nearby foes for 10 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Geomancy

Inflict bleeding on nearby foes for 10 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Doom

Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts poison (6 seconds). (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Rune of Hoelbrak

(1): +25 Power (2): +10% Might Duration (3): +50 Power (4): 25% chance when struck to gain might for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 5s) (5): +100 Power (6): +20% Might Duration; -20% condition duration applied to you.

Celestial Amulet

+460 Power +460 Precision +460 Toughness +460 Vitality +460 Ferocity +460 Healing Power +460 Condition Damage

Variants

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Leeching

  9

  Superior Sigil of Leeching

  Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat steals some health. (Cooldown: 9s)

Rune

• Superior Rune of the Monk

  Superior Rune of the Monk

  (1): +25 Healing Power (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Healing Power (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Healing Power (6): +10% outgoing heal effectiveness to allies, +1% outgoing heal effectiveness for 3 seconds whenever granting a boon to an ally (max 10)
• Superior Rune of the Druid

  Superior Rune of the Druid

  (1): +25 Healing (2): +35 Vitality (3): +50 Healing (4): +65 Vitality (5): +100 Healing (6): Gain +500 Healing for 3 seconds after casting a glyph.
• Superior Rune of the Water

  Superior Rune of the Water

  (1): +25 Healing Power (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Healing Power (4): 25% chance when struck to remove a condition. (Cooldown: 30s) (5): +100 Healing Power (6): +15% Boon Duration; When you use a heal skill, you and nearby allies are healed for a small amount. (Cooldown: 10s)

Usage

Might Stacking

You stack might by building it on your pet and sharing it with

"We heal as one!" "We heal as one!"

1

20

"We heal as one!"

Heal yourself and your pet.

Healing: 6,520

. You can stack your pet's might with the sword auto attack, the Smokescale's F2 skill as well as

"Strength of the Pack!"

1

60

"Strength of the Pack!"

Shout. Rampage with your pet, gaining stability, fury and swiftness. You and your pet also grant might to each other when you attack.

"Strength of the Pack!" (10s): Grants might to your pet when you attack.

Fury (3s): 20% Critical Chance

₃Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

Swiftness (3s): 33% Movement Speed

Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds

. You could also use the fire field from

Bonfire

½

25

Bonfire

Set a fire around you, damaging and burning foes.

₉Damage: 306

₉Burning (3s): 3,537 Damage

Number of Targets: 3

Duration: 8 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Fire

with

Ancestral Grace

1¼

15

Ancestral Grace

Become a wisp of natural energy traversing to the target location. When you reach the target, heal nearby allies.

Healing: 1,610

Number of Targets: 5

Evade: until reaching the destination

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,200

's blast finisher for AoE might stacking. If you run the Fire Wyvern instead of the Bristleback you would gain another fire field with its F2 skill.

Healing

Use

Ancestral Grace

1¼

15

Ancestral Grace

Become a wisp of natural energy traversing to the target location. When you reach the target, heal nearby allies.

Healing: 1,610

Number of Targets: 5

Evade: until reaching the destination

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,200

's blast finisher on

Sublime Conversion

25

Sublime Conversion

Summon an energy barrier that causes enemy projectiles to heal upon impact.

Healing: 162

Duration: 5s

Range: 900

's water field for AoE healing.

Counters

TBD

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