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Dagger + Torch Condition Druid[edit]
Criterion | Rating |
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Burst Damage | 5/5 |
Sustained Damage | 5/5 |
Utility Options | 4/5 |
Survivability | 5/5 |
Difficulty | 2/5 |
Condition Druid is a very strong and relatively bursty Condition damage build for instanced content, even with a simplified rotation with like the one I use. It's also a great pick for solo gameplay, as it can provides itself with good amounts of the most essential offensive boons: Quickness, Protection, Fury and Might. It is inherently resilient, provides good self- and ally-healing, area Stability, permanent Immobile and many Dazes.
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Playstyle & Skills[edit]
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Rotation Concept[edit]
- The rotation involves using your weapon and utility skills on cooldown and entering Celestial Avatar as often as possible. That way, you maintain Natural Balance for higher damage and survivability.
- While the Celestial Avatar do not have native offensive power, Eclipse will give them damaging conditions. Given that they retain heir defensive support, it makes them very powerful.
- In this build, we are stacking Dazes and source of Immobile to trigger Blood Moon as often as possible. That is also the reason why the Jacaranda is the strongest pet, as Jacaranda's Embrace applies several small hits of Immobile.
- To be able to go into Celestial Avatar on cooldown, you need to heal yourself or allies AND deal damage, as that will grant you Astral Force via Celestial Being.
- To do tis, it is important to turn on the mildly threatening arena damage in the Special Forces Training Area. In actual content, using area healing abilities like Healing Spring can help increase Astral Force inflow.
- You should always precast Sharpening Stone to increase your burst damage, it is not stripped when combat starts.
- Inside Celestial Avatar, use Natural Convergence, Seed of Life and Lunar Impact on cooldown. Note that Lunar Impact does not have a cast time and can be used during other skill casts.
- Outside of Celestial Avatar, use all skills on cooldown.
CC Skills for breakbar damage:
- Spike Trap can be used instead of Viper's Nest for another Launch at a small dps loss.
- Lunar Impact
- Entering Celestial Avatar through Blood Moon
- Many applications of Immobile in the rotation, maintaining it permanently.
Gear[edit]
Important Stats in Hero Panel (descending in Importance):
- 70% Condition Duration in the hero panel: Superior Sigil of Agony together with Natural Balance give the remaining 30% for Bleeding.
- Maximize Condition damage
- Maximize Critical chance to trigger Sharpened Edges reliably.
Armor | Prefix | Rune |
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Head | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Shoulders | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Chest | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Gloves | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Legs | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Boots | Viper's | Superior Rune of the Trapper |
Trinket | Prefix | |
Amulet | Viper's | |
Ring 1 | Viper's | |
Ring 2 | Viper's | |
Accessory 1 | Viper's | |
Accessory 2 | Viper's | |
Backpack | Viper's | |
Weapon | Prefix | Sigil |
Dagger (Main Hand) | Viper's | Superior Sigil of Agony |
Torch (Off Hand) | Viper's | Superior Sigil of Earth |
Axe (Main Hand) | Viper's | Superior Sigil of Agony |
Purpose | Item Type | Source |
Damage | Ascended Food | Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread |
Damage | Non-Ascended Food | Plate of Beef Rendang |
Survivability | Ascended Food | Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread |
Survivability | Non-Ascended Food | Oysters Gnashblade |
Damage | Utility | Toxic Focusing Crystal |
Survivability | Utility | Potion Of Karka Toughness |
Damage | Relic | Relic of the Fractal |
- For a budget variant, simply replace all ascended armor pieces of Viper's with rare/exotic Ritualist's.
Traits[edit]
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Skirmishing [edit]
Wilderness Survival [edit]
Druid [edit]
DPS Rotation Showcase[edit]
[ You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.]
Open World Build[edit]
[ You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.]
For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.
Increasing General Survivability[edit]
- If you can, make use of jade protocols! Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge give 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from Stability, Resistance and Resolution on entering combat. These effects can be pre-stacked by using an Enchanted Snow Diamond Tonic repeatedly when out of combat. The Protection from this is another free gain to survivability!
- In story instances (or if you don't want the hassle of reapplying protocols), you can abuse the synergy between Relic of the Cavalier and Blast from the Skyscale to apply lots of Aegis, Resistance, Might and Quickness to yourself. It does not have an internal cooldown and applies the boons on every hit of Blast.
Boon Coverage[edit]
- In order to cover essential boons, we'll swap out Sharpening Stone and Viper's Nest for Quickening Zephyr and Stone Spirit.
- Stone Spirit will apply area Aegis once and pulsing Protection, allowing you to maintain a good uptime on it. This is especially important
- That allows you to cover essential offensive boons quite easily:
- Quickening Zephyr and Instinctive Engage will provide a decent uptime on Quickness!
- Scavenger Burst covers Quickness and Fury, especially in AoE scenarios. Prioritize using Energy for this, it only hasa 3 second cooldown!
- Reaver's Rage is the cheapest Stun break available to you, so use it in emergency scenarios. Also provides Stability!
- Nomad's Advance is a mobility skill that also applies additional Might to you. Use it to cover ground, also great in combination with Scavenger Burst.
- Spear of Archemorus is the strongest strike damage skill in Legendary Alliance Stance. It deals damage after a ~3 second delay, so don't use on mobs that die before it does damage.
- Aside from that, Vassals of the Empire will cover a good uptme on Protection - you can use a Relic of Durability for full Protection coverage.
- Song of Arboreum covers Vigor, Rapid Flow covers Swiftness.