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Dagger + Torch Condition Druid[edit]

Build Rating (Subjective)
Criterion	Rating
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]

Skill Type

Skills

Celestial Avatar Skills

Pet Jacaranda Skills

Dagger + Torch Skills

Utility Skills

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.

Gear
Armor	Prefix	Rune
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]

Skirmishing



Wilderness Survival



Druid

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.