Dark Traveller for my Necro. Most effective healing is tied into elite specs and thus you will need to be level 80 to begin unlocking them, anyway. After defeating the boss you loot the ancient chest. Druid is used as main heal in raids, and is not used in fractals. 5%. Tried Untamed and Soulbeast, but just not getting same results as majority of videos I have seen, and seems clunky to me. Hybrid Heal/DPS Druid. Being fluid, dynamic, and flexible in your druid playstyle is critical towards healing effectively, and following a very strict rotation will diminish that effectiveness. ago. Druid healer build. It works for fun, but I leave the healing duty better for the big guys like Druid, Chrono or Tempest. Best defensive supports for WvW are firebrand guardian (stability / other boons / some healing) and scrapper engi (cleanses that convert into boons / healing / superspeed / stealth). Druids can heal better than Firebrands, and maybe even better than Scrappers and Tempests. Until now, Druid has never been able to fully support a team in Guild Wars 2 PvP, mostly just take 1v1s, but with the recent changes it feels like a viable s. This is the style of leveling primarily covered in this guide, as it requires you to make. In this Guild Wars 2 Druid Build Guide, we look at a support healer build that is great for PvE Group Content. Its main role is to give the whole team barrier before the enemies attack to mitigate the damage, when paired with other offheals, unlike druid which can outheal pretty much anything that doesnt oneshot you, you can give the othe healers a chance to heal them while giving the team. At least without changes to alac which may be detrimental to untamed and druid. Thanks! Was able to duo it with PvE Heal Druid and WvW Scourge builds. Becouse most of the time healers arent taken for their heals but what buffs the bring to the group, one noticable exception being spirit bridge wing 5 for example. ghoulsnest • 1 yr. People are just trying to run the wrong setups on Druid. But I would prefer the chrono-tank, mainly to let the druids focus more on healing. 4k. Works quite well on druid but again, the concentration is wasted for regen with mesmers running 100% boon duration setups. Ofcourse it fails to mention that the druid will just run the riceball in healing power mode so it's really still a loss of 20% healing power overall anyways. 5- Druid: Heal and offer alacrity. PvP- druid doesn't function well as a support in pvp due to the increased cooldown and low healing of CA due to multiple nerfs. Water field from staff and then dive onto it with staff 3 and then swap to horn and blast the water field again. CA Kit is simply a part of the rotation, the part that gives Alacrity. That being said, exotic weapon recipes and perhaps more importantly, ascended harrier's. drakes for tanking with better damage (also solo pve) Fern Hound and one of the moas (not sure which one) if you need the heals. This version of Support Chrono is a boon support that provides 100% Quickness and Alacrity uptime for its party. In this state, they gain access to support skills to heal and empower their allies. 1. Healing in gw2 is more then just providing green numbers that allow your party to remain in the fight, it's also about improving their offensive and defensive capabilities. . ago. It takes 20 seconds to revive a defeated target. If you're looking for true dedicated healing like you're used to in other games, you'll want Thief-Spectre. . Therefore go to make it faster. 2. Welcome to the support druid build explanation video! I hope i've been clear on what your priority skills are during the fight, because druid has some very o. 1. Verdant Etching provides heals that scale reasonably with healing power, implying it to be a healing trait. Remember the time people mentioning that chrono SOI boon was not brainer and same. DRUID (HEALER) (In the video I sadly have a magi build. They tried to cram too much into one spec thematically and it resulted in the current wishy-washy-ness. But now due to fact is mendatory and probably to most boring thing ever made build in GW2. Healers are Elite. Basically the tank can cover something additionally because taunts aren't a real PvE mechanic and resilience is the only criteria for tanking. Secrets of the Obscure. Druid is playable (just barely a bare minimum to be playable), but has A LOT of flaws: -Low boons variety, too low uptime on major boons like stab. Guardian does heal+alac (heal willbender), heal+quick, dps+quick and dps+alac. You will need to pick up the expansions (and the elite specializations of each class) to really get into that, and even then, it's healer+general support. Which will end in a disaster. ""why would you ever take a second druid, just run some other healer that is SOOOOOOO much better"". Druid is a good choice for healing in 10 player content (strikes and Raids), but usually considered outclassed in 5 player groups (dungeons and fractals). Tempest's support output comes in the form of healing, 10-target might and fury, and various defensive buffs. ago. take some thoughness pieces (or just a +5 thoughness infusion if there are no soulbeasts arround) as boon chrono, boom, you are the tank. Thief kills faster, and in my opinion is more fun to play because it requires more skill and thought to play effectively since damage avoidance relies on smart use of blind, dodge and stealth otherwise you're dead. If you don't trust your healers, you can bring to heal up after a skipped green. Purchase the Guild Wars 2 expansions and support the channel at the same time: us on A Firebrand support build for raids and fractals, providing permanent Quickness and high Fury and Might uptime. For raids, you could use either heal renegade or druid as primary healer. This may just be my playstyle, due to the fact I tend to tailor a build to a Low Intensity type of play. Astral Force is generated by dealing strike damage or Healing allies. Other reason to heal with an experienced druid is you will somewhat mirror/complement their build. Play at your best in fractals, strikes, raids, and dungeons using Snow Crow's resources for Guild Wars 2. I know that the Firebrand is the healer special on Guardians, and the Druid for Rangers, but I dont know which would be better. Guides. Tempest is better at the core role of healing and boon generation, while druid has a lot of handy utility that makes it nice to have in a squad (entangle, knockbacks, spirits, etc). Snow Crows. VeryAmaze. In end game, Ranger is generally good. With 3% total group DPS. The AoE healing is really strong but overall its toolkit is a bit clunky compared to other specs, or downright inferior. Its auto-attack chain gets stronger the more unique conditions are on the boss, and apply torment and confusion. Though most important, this is not the most difficult goal of the 3, as you have a good amount of self-sustain in your traits and skills. The druid left, we picked up a DH tank, and I rolled a full heal druid. On top of boons and heals you can also be tasked or expected to deal with a variety of mechanics. Condition Druid is currently the highest DPS solo build in the game with quick ramp up, good cleave, and extremely high defensive capabilities even in glass cannon gear. Druid is still a monstrous healer, and can solo heal raids still. . I wrote a small essay on what I think about the druid changes in my community tab if you want to see, but generally the more I test the more I'm disappointed. It can inflict good amounts of CC, high Vulnerability if needed, and tons of utility from various pets and utility skills. Celestial Herald. there are other classes that can support, but most groups ask for a druid to get 25 might and spirits. It offers support with cleanses and light fields and healing, and glyphs themselves are also half support. Tempest and druid directly compete with one another as the game's two major healing+might builds. Looking like I have two options. For more information, see our Vale Guardian Guide. The primary function of Heal Druid and Scrapper is to provide healing and cleansing, however, Scrapper brings other valuable utilities that the Druid cannot match in the same way, namely stealth and superspeed. It's the root behind the nerf to the pet just like it's the root behind the nerfs to it's ability to heal (because it was abused for self-healing, meaning that it had impressive sustain and such thing is hated by the sPvP community). For weapons you want shortbow staff, I use axe/dagger for more pressure at the expense of a lot of sustain. * Healbrand (heal firebrand) , which is meta in fractals for the foreseeable future. Benchmarks. In fact, it tends to lead to a less high uptime in the worst case scenario. Last week we did 9-man no updraft gorseval and we still used magi druid. the top contenders would be Heal Firebrand (hfb) and Heal Alacrity Mechanist (ham) guardian and engineer both have strong dps specs available for (solo) open world and endgame group content alike and their mentioned healspecs are the most used ones next to druid in the current meta (other healspecs exist like heal quickness scrapper or heal. It also serves as role compression due to quickness application. By using a short bow and staff to damage enemies while healing allies, the Plagedoctor Druid combines the best of both offensive and support builds. Not sure how this is going to affect Fractals, though. furthermore, the moments when you have to breakbar are pretty much also the times where you should heal. Astral force is no longer generated by healing allies or damaging foes. . For fracs Druid is fine as long as people follow mechanics, but its not (best) healer in fracs. In PvP it's even worst when. Greatly heal your allies while healing yourself and your pet for a minor amount. Build. Druid. Send a wisp to attack your foe. "The stars, earth, and sky above will heal us. The druid elite specialization grants a ranger the capacity to draw astral force to themselves. Already a lot of the EoD especs feel like they are retrodding niches, particularly pointing at Specter, WB, and Catalyst. Explore. We're currently using condi PS with an exo back and one accessory with doubloons in our Guild, for having that buff up ~50% of the time (28% boon duration with dumplings). Staff Heal Tempest: The highest Healing Build in the game. Point-Blank Shot to push the Tormented Dead outside of the arena, and swap to Staff to heal your allies right after pushing. Basically specter is like scourge, feels better played as dps because it brings the barrier anyway. I've explained it many times on stream now: The Heal Alac Druid no longer only has heal in CA Kit. . GW2 solo play (at the end of it all) is a matter of killing or breaking things, everything is as self sufficient as it needs to be. For example tempest and engineer will have excellent sustain healing while they may be weaker in burst healing. My armor is a mix of Valk and Zerk, while Staff has Clerics stats. The only way druid spirit would be faster than scourge is if you put it down, click on it before ppl get downed then spirit finish casting as ppl get downed. I'm not optimistic. Teams need only one druid to provide necessary boons by spirits and might by using celestial avatar but the druid is not best healer so the team can and should replace it by. Druid provides an excess of self sufficiency/sustain, at the cost of nearly all its damage. might indeed). The primary function of Heal Druid and Scrapper is to provide healing and cleansing, however, Scrapper brings other valuable utilities that the Druid cannot match in the. In the map below you can see. bears for tanking in solo play (soloing HP champs e. Now we have a look at mechanist: Brings everything that the Druid brings, and more, and it feels less awkward to play PLUS the mech is actually somewhat useful damage-wise. Having to upkeep alac through CA means that you're sometimes locked out of healing effectively because you've just spent CA to keep up alac. Crypto Healing Druid is a support build that provides its subgroup with Alacrity, high uptime, healing, frequent condition cleanse, and permanent . However, despite Guild Wars 2 being relatively unique, you still need the classic setup when playing in groups. CA Kit is simply a part of the rotation, the part that gives Alacrity. Without the need to go to CA for boon application, druid play will be as boring as the AFK healing mech. The Healing Spirit Druid is a Support ranger build with great boon coverage including alacrity, might, fury, swiftness, vigor, protection, and regeneration. That's a ranger and Soulbeast thing. Overview. The theory is that higher DPS = faster kill = less mechanics to deal with. Healing Druid is a support build that provides its subgroup with Alacrity from , high Might uptime, healing, frequent condition cleanse, and permanent Fury and Regeneration. In addition, it can increase group. Vindicator is the easiest healer to play but can't keep up on condi clears for our needs. Can't think of any stat that's easier to obtain than harrier and brings healing power and boon duration. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. Contents hide. Druid is considered the best pusher but it is possible to do it with hmech, fb with hammer/lb but you will rarely see that. Each other "offmeta" heal spec [Tempest, Engi, Firebrand, Renegade, even Scource if you count barrier as healing] has a higher hps/heal potential than druid. • 3 yr. In general the aegis and stability are big reasons to take HFB over druid. depending on the group zealot can be enough. I think the game doesn't have enough distinct boons, condis, and weapons to sustain 27 especs all designed for DPS. The healing output of Magi/Minstrel/Clerics druid is all roughly the same, so minstrel overall is still strong for it’s boon duration, overall tankyness and strong healing output! OnlyOrysk • 5 yr. Yes, its damage is around 75% of other builds (still better than core ranger power builds somehow), but it is open world, I carry some (if weak) group heals, a sun spirit for damage with friends, and a lot of control. There is no telegraph for it and is just a massive frontal cleave that hits for ~4k damage on targets with no toughness. It's also a blast finisher for healing or Might, plus more Protection. Snow Crows. You need to finish the final event in a series of events to obtain this. 2. I'm responsible to keep the Messengers (Golems) out of the group. I have to be the first player to attack the golem when its invulnerability wears off to gra. As an extension of the druid might point, druid's healing has historically been nerfed specifically because of its might output, because anet wasn't fond of druid doing high might and high healing at the same time. Entangle for Gorsy to stop spirits from merging with him. to the Red Vale Guardian. After playing around in the new PvE strikes with a Shadow Arts healing specter, I truly feel like the pure healing/support component of the class just doesn't cut it. Bascially build it just like druid (stats, item upgrades, monk relic) with all the buffs on pet swap using Marksmanship/Nature magic lines and spirit usage. This build. so,, the title,, the new spec, MAKES ME WANNA QUIT MY MAIN! EDIT: ANDDDD PETS ARE STILL THE SAME :{ Dead pets at world bosses/!The coming buff of 0. The Soulless Horror have a frontal cleave that does damage, and applies torment & poison to whatever is caught in it. Overview. Heal Druid. Yes, the existing DPS options for Ranger are not Druid. There isn't that much complexity in heal support; however, there is a lot of rewarding complex dps supports such as quick cata, both power and condi alac untamed, and cqb (less complex but more adaptive). It now has a constant steady heal cycle that never really ends due to blast finishers on spirits, weapons, and amongst 3x different water fields. Glyph of Rejuvenation: 1 20 Glyph. @Dadnir. Arcdps meter to measure healing. Thing is, druid brings much more offensive utilities etc while also providing enough healing. Aka W1 boss 1, W2 boss 2, Wing 3 boss 1, wing 4 boss 1, wing 4 boss 2. With the recent buffs to Well of Blood, the actual healing is much better now as well. The druid is not supposed to be the only healer :( They need to rework the numbers of all the healing skills just as much as the scaling of healing power. Ranger PvE. Like, Comment, Subscribe ️Read More. Dps: Enrage timers are unrealistic, aka easy, so you'll be fine. Insanely powerful. Chuddleyfuttocks • 5 yr. I don't need to prove you wrong. • 3 yr. . Not even yourself. Here you go -> GW2 - Druid - My Methods - Twitch Last half of video shows a Cele Druid in WvW. Of course as I said in the title, I don't really think the actual raw healing throughput comes even close to our other healing sources right now (Druid, Tempest, FB). Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • July 2023. Normally, in the old implementation, we would enter CA if we need strong/burst healing. Choose a heal skill out of: for burst healing and Protection; for ranged healing and Vigor; for a Water Field and condition cleanse There's a lot not mentioned, but some of the major issues I see are the utilities/elites. 2. It can still do damage by itself with the conditions of Shortbow and sustain of Wilderness Survival while also having the option to support allies with Celestial Avatar abilities and Staff when you want to play with. Slice is her other autoattack that deals 4-5k damage on the main tank. the only reason to want it would be if you know that in a specifc fight people tend to go down a lot so you use him as a res bot. 1. GuildWars2 Raid Guides The Power of Nature — A Druid Guide for GW2 Raiding by Eren Bole This guide is intended to help GW2 players learn the role that druid plays within a. Druid should use Water Spirit everywhere unless your team has 2 Druid. This guide should help new players understand the basic mechanics and general compositions of raids in Guild Wars 2, but can also be used as a checklist to remind you what builds can fill roles, what classes provide specific buffs, and what bosses require what compositions to better organize your raid. While it's pretty obvious that damaging conditions are important to cleanse, it's also important to remove the movement impairing ones. since the changes to celestial avatar healingpower scaling a full zealot heals now the same amount as a full magis pre-patch. The Druid suffered from over-design imo. Glyph of Alignment: 20 Glyph. Sound like ranger will fit you just fine, it has everything that you. Healing Druid is a support build that provides its subgroup with Alacrity from , high Might uptime, healing, frequent condition cleanse, and permanent Fury and Regeneration.