Druid - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

Equipment Variants

• Celestial stats will provide healing power if you wish to fulfil a hybrid healer role.
  • Celestial stats will also give you +639 toughness, which may be enough to make you the tank. If you need to lower your toughness, you can swap pieces out for Seraph stats to retain your healing power and boon duration.

Weapon Variants

You can swap out Dagger/Torch for other weapons if needed.

• Shortbow can be useful if the boss is frequently moving out of 灼燃火堆, or if you don't have access to Secrets of the Obscure.
• Staff is a huge DPS loss but provides mobility, projectile destruction, a water field, and a blast finisher.

Pet Variants

Thanks to 血月, no pet can compete with Jacaranda for damage. The second pet can be used for utility if desired.

• Electric Wyvern and Rock Gazelle deal mediocre DPS but provides very strong CC from their pet skills, 闪电突击 and 甩头猛冲. You should have one of these as your secondary pet and swap to it if CC is needed.

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

• Red Moa provides 激怒 with its pet skill 暴怒尖啸, useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
• Jungle Stalker provides 威能 with its pet skill 震天咆哮, useful if you're struggling with might uptime.
• Wolf provides AoE fear, useful if your group is having trouble with adds (e.g. on Escort towers).
• Brown Bear provides for extremely condition-heavy fights.

Skill Variants

Healing

• The from can be very helpful for generating Astral Force, but if there's a dedicated healer in your subgroup it will be overwritten by theirs, making the skill rather useless unless you need the condi cleanse.
• is your largest group heal if used inside CA.
• offers a DPS boost as it transfers boons to your pet. It is also a massive self-heal.

Utility is decent damage, and provides ~10 stacks of to the group. The other two utility skills are a significant DPS loss to replace.

• is the best utility option if you want to go for maximum DPS.
• provides ~50% protection uptime and on-demand .
• provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of many raid boss strategies.
• for extra CC or group .
• provides an AoE stun break, useful for saving your subgroup on bosses like Slothasor.
• is a strong safety net for inexperienced groups.

Specialization Variants

Wilderness Survival can be swapped out for Nature Magic if you need access to more boons. This is a surprisingly small DPS loss, less than swapping to 空槽!

If using Nature Magic, swap your food to 沙拉配素菜薄饼 (or alternatives).

• 源泉 can be used to provide more 再生.
• 活力降临 provides ~6 extra 威能 and ~55% 激怒. To best use this, you want to pet swap just after using 蓝花楹的拥抱, and swap back your Jacaranda as soon a you can and immediately use 蓝花楹的拥抱. This means you lose almost no uptime of the skill whilst still benefitting from 活力降临.
• 自然之仇 doubles the damage from your 旭日精魂, and the heal from your 流水精魂. If desperate, it can be swapped to 活力契约 for ~40% 保护.

Food

• - the lifesteal is very helpful for quickly charging Astral Force.

Utility

Rotation

In real encounters your rotation can be somewhat flexible as your Astral Force will generate at different speeds depending on how much damage your team takes.

When in CA, use 生命种子 twice, and 月色引力, 回春潮汐 and 自然汇流 once each. This CA "rotation" generates ~17s of 敏捷, so you will need to make sure you go in at least this often, or spend longer inside to cover the gap until it is available again.

If possible, precast 毒蛇巢穴 and 锋开磨砺.

Opener

Start on Axe/Dagger

1. 旭日精魂 - make sure any boon rip has already happened
2. 毒蛇巢穴
3. 藤蔓缠绕
4. Weapon Swap so we don't waste 疾速箭射 on a CA skill
5. 蓝花楹的拥抱
6. 灼燃火堆
7. 天界化身
8. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use 生命种子 twice (it has no cast time so use it whenever you can)
9. 终止天界化身形态。
10. Use all Dagger/Torch skills once
11. Weapon Swap

Axe/Dagger

1. 分裂之刃
2. 寒冬撕咬
3. 追猎之击
4. 致残之爪
5. 分裂之刃 (assuming you got 疾速箭射 on the first one)
6. 天界化身 (if available), otherwise autoattack
7. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use 生命种子 twice
8. 终止天界化身形态。
9. 致残之爪
10. 追猎之击
11. 寒冬撕咬
12. 分裂之刃
13. Weapon Swap

Dagger/Torch

4. (if available), otherwise autoattack
5. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use twice
7. Use all Dagger/Torch skills once more
8. Weapon Swap
9. Return to start of Axe/Dagger section

General Tips

• Use and whenever they come off cooldown.
• Use , , and (if using) off cooldown, but they are lower priority the first few weapon skills after each weapon swap (so delay until the section).
  • only deals damage outside of .
• You are free to enter at any time during your rotation and/or stay in it for longer when heals are needed. Try to do so when you would otherwise be autoattacking though.

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Shortbow Rotation

If possible, use and double dodge right at the start of phases to gain the buff from

Opener

Start on Axe/Dagger

1. - make sure any boon rip has already happened
4. Weapon Swap so we don't waste on a CA skill
8. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use twice (it has no cast time so use it whenever you can)
10. Use all Shortbow skills once
11. Weapon Swap

Axe/Dagger

5. (assuming you got on the first one)
6. (if available), otherwise autoattack
7. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use twice
13. Weapon Swap

Shortbow

3. Autoattack until is available (assuming you managed to it)
5. (if available), otherwise autoattack
6. Use skills 3-5 once each, and use twice
10. Weapon swap
11. Return to start of Axe/Dagger section

General Tips

• Use and whenever they come off cooldown.
• Use , , and (if using) off cooldown, but they are lower priority the first few weapon skills after each weapon swap (so delay until the section).
  • only deals damage outside of .
• You are free to enter at any time during your rotation and/or stay in it for longer when heals are needed. Try to do so when you would otherwise be autoattacking though.

See Build

CC

• or
• Swapping to staff or with traited
• (not recommended as you generally need this skill for other mechanics)