Druid - Alacrity Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing, Support and Utility

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on July 23, 2024 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

Healing Druid is a support build that provides its subgroup with 敏捷 from 大地恩泽, high 威能 uptime, healing, frequent condition cleanse, and permanent 激怒 and 再生. It can inflict good amounts of CC, high 易伤 if needed, and tons of utility from various pets and utility skills.

One of Druid's strongest features is the ability to provide the majority of its healing from long range via Staff and Celestial Avatar, only needing to return to the group for 威能. This makes it excellent at handling mechanics without losing effectiveness, and makes it easy to support the tank when it's off-stack.

Skill Bar

震天咆哮

闪电突击

Mechanic

天外射线月色引力回春潮汐自然汇流

天界化身

Mace/Warhorn

芽露尖角橡木棍打猎手召唤荒野召唤

Utility

回春雕文平等雕文旭日精魂群星雕文

Weapon Variants

While Staff can be replaced, losing it is a significant reduction in healing. Swapping out offhand Warhorn means you want to make sure the missing boons are covered elsewhere in your kit.

• Players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure cannot use Mace. Axe is the most common replacement, but any mainhand weapon could work.
• Longbow provides 近身平射, a short cooldown and easily accessible knockback. On bosses where pushing or CC is important, you should use 近身平射 to help your squad.
• Offhand axe for 伤痕轨迹 for pulling adds on certain encounters.

Pets Variants

You will mainly be bringing these pets to fights:

• Jungle Stalker Jungle Stalker Has decent DPS, but is most useful for its 震天咆哮, which helps keep your 威能 generation up.
• Electric Wyvern Electric Wyvern and Rock Gazelle 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.
• Fanged Iboga Fanged Iboga is the highest DPS pet and has a long-range pull in 尖牙抓捕.
• Jacaranda Jacaranda is the second highest DPS pet and the pet with the highest cleave damage. It also has an immobilize in 蓝花楹的拥抱, useful if more soft CC is needed.

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

• Red Moa Red Moa provides 激怒 with its pet skill 暴怒尖啸, useful if you're struggling with fury uptime.
• Wolf Wolf provides AoE fear, useful if your group is having trouble with adds (e.g. on Escort towers).
• Brown Bear Brown Bear provides 重整旗鼓 for extremely condition-heavy fights.
• Fern Hound Fern Hound provides 再生 if you have difficulty keeping it up.
• White Tiger White Tiger is your second source of 圣盾 (with 磐石精魂 being the first). As this pet teleports around randomly during its attack, it is strongly recommended to keep it on passive to be sure that the boon hits your group.
• Siege Turtle Siege Turtle provides good 保护 uptime, but more importantly a projectile-destroying bubble.

Spirit Variants

Spirits have three separate effects: They have an immediate effect when summoned, then the spirit slams the ground for a second effect, and finally it shakes and pulses boons for a few seconds.

• 流水精魂 heals you, slams the ground to heal allies for the same amount, then applies 活力.
• 冰霜精魂 provides 抗性, slams the ground to cleanse conditions, then shakes to apply 决心.
• 磐石精魂 provides 圣盾, performs an attack (which is a blast finisher), then shakes to apply 保护.
• 风暴精魂 applies 易伤 to enemies in the area, performs a 晕眩 attack, then shakes to apply 激怒.
• 旭日精魂 applies 目盲 to enemies in the area, performs a 燃烧 attack, then shakes to apply 威能
• 自然精魂 cleanses conditions, slams the ground to revive up to five downed players, then shakes to apply 再生.

You will want 旭日精魂 for the easiest 威能 generation. You will generally want to take 磐石精魂 as well, as it is your best source of 圣盾 and provides a decent amount of 保护 as well.

Other Skill Variants

Healing 回春雕文 is a massive heal, and as a glyph it also provides 保护 via 翠绿蚀刻

• 治疗之泉 is a good alternative on condition-heavy fights (e.g. Slothasor, Xera). If you take this run 陷阱专长.

Utility

• 潮汐雕文 provides a short cooldown AoE knockback and is the cornerstone of several raid boss strategies.
• 风暴精魂 for more 易伤 and CC.
• "快保护我！" provides an AoE stun break, useful for saving your subgroup on bosses like Slothasor.
• "开始搜救！" is a strong safety net for inexperienced groups.

Elite

• 藤蔓缠绕 on fights where the immobilize Immobilize is needed.
• On fights where you need a faster revive, or on Soulless Horror (where you want to avoid 稳固), then 自然精魂 is the best (only) alternative.

Template Code

Specializations

游击 / Skirmishing · 游侠 (Ranger)

固定特性：乘风破浪

尖锐刃锋荒蛮反射陷阱专长

固定特性：暴怒抓握

尖牙利爪迅步力量隐匿倒钩

固定特性：捕猎战术

疾速箭射灵巧作战严酷追猎

自然 / Nature Magic · 游侠 (Ranger)

固定特性：生命再生

多福猎手源泉盟友救助

固定特性：强化契约

净化遁逸活力降临乘风音律

固定特性：魔法萦绕

自然之仇防护结界活力契约

德鲁伊 / Druid · 游侠 (Ranger)

固定特性：天界生物

清澈体态高等协同血月

固定特性：生命传递

天界幽影翠绿蚀刻自然平衡

固定特性：自然修护

大地恩泽萦绕之光日蚀

Trait Variants

• 陷阱专长 if running 治疗之泉.
• 多福猎手 to increase your DPS a tiny bit in experienced groups on low pressure encounters.
• 盟友救助 to carry inexperienced groups that are going down a lot.
• If you're not running any glyphs then 翠绿蚀刻 won't do anything and you might prefer one of the other options - be wary that the 潜行 from 天界幽影 can interfere with players as it will stop their autoattacks and is particularly disruptive for thieves that need to control when they stealth.

Specialization Variants

Marksmanship

With the loss of the unique buff from 空槽, it is much more viable to bring Marksmanship instead of Skirmishing. This traitline offers boons from 野性号角, extra CC from 醉生梦死 and a lot of vulnerability from the combination of 赶尽杀绝 and 风暴精魂.

射手 / Marksmanship · 游侠 (Ranger)

固定特性：先发制人

岩石形态猎手凝视野性号角

固定特性：优势物种

野狼之歌远视醉生梦死

固定特性：精准出击

猎食突袭赶尽杀绝顺风动势

• On some specific bosses, you will need to use 近身平射 to push and can't afford to have the projectile be intercepted. In this case you can take 顺风动势.

Wilderness Survival

If you're far off on your own kiting a mechanic, you can run Wilderness Survival instead of Skirmishing for more personal survivability.

生存 / Wilderness Survival · 游侠 (Ranger)

固定特性：自然活力

大地之子橡心药膏蜘蛛恐惧

固定特性：同伴之御

成双巧手生存本能情义相连

固定特性：粗糙生长

食肉动物荒野知识毒药大师

Equipment

泽图卡面罩

Head

Harrier

泽图卡肩铠

Shoulders

Harrier

泽图卡伪装衣

Chest

Harrier

泽图卡拳套

Hands

Harrier

泽图卡护腿

Legs

Harrier

泽图卡阔步靴

Feet

Harrier

睿智王朝复辟旗帜

Backpiece

Harrier

伊伦娜通行证

Accessory

Harrier

多面氟化耳环

Accessory

Harrier

戈恩的鳗鱼牙符咒

Amulet

Harrier

愚者法印

Ring

Harrier

海盗戒指

Ring

Harrier

泽图卡凸缘钉锤

Mace

Harrier

泽图卡传令号

Warhorn

Harrier

超级转移法印

Sigil

超级流水法印

Sigil

泽图卡旋杖

Staff

Harrier

Empty slot

超级转移法印

Sigil

超级流水法印

Sigil

超级僧侣符文

Rune

x6

僧侣古物

Relic

• 卡拉科萨古物 is a very powerful option that will be more effective if you are able to trigger it twice between each use of 天界化身. However, two of your blast finishers are already powerful heals, which can mean this relic is wasted on those skills.
• 群聚古物 is another powerful option. As with Karakosa, it adds healing to what is already a powerful heal, but converts any overhealing to barrier instead.
• Remember to also get a longbow with the same sigils as your staff.

Consumables

Food

• 美味饭团 or ascended versions

Utility

• 富饶保养油

Usage

As a Druid you wear many hats in a raid encounter. This is your priority during fights, from highest to lowest:

1. Stay alive
2. Maintain boons and healing on your squad
3. Do mechanics
4. Rescue teammates low on health
5. Maximize your DPS

Boons

Your main job for most of the fight is maintaining 敏捷 and 25 stacks of 威能 on your subgroup. As a Druid you are well equipped to do this with 大地恩泽. You should also be aiming to maintain permanent 保护, 再生 and ideally 迅捷.

Alacrity 敏捷 is applied by every 天界化身 skill. In general, you should be aiming to use 天界化身 whenever it comes off cooldown, and using enough abilities to maintain 敏捷 until the next time 天界化身 is available.

Might 威能 is applied by 回春潮汐 and 自然汇流 in 天界化身, as well as 荒野召唤 and 旭日精魂. 旭日精魂 is almost half your 威能 generation, so it is required if you are the only 威能 source in your group.

Protection 保护 is applied by 橡木棍打, 磐石精魂, your pet's beast ability (via 活力契约), and every glyph (via 翠绿蚀刻). Using 磐石精魂 and F2 off cooldown should be sufficient to make 保护 permanent, but as you may wish to delay either of these for mechanics, it is helpful to bring at least one glyph to provide a safety net.

Regeneration Thanks to the Nature Magic traits 生命再生, 源泉 and 乘风音律, having permanent 再生 is trivial.

Swiftness By default, only 荒野召唤 applies group 迅捷. The duration is almost long enough to make the boon permanent if used off cooldown, but both Skirmishing and Marksmanship offer ways to get a bit more: In Skirmishing, 疾速箭射 is effective when used on 荒野召唤, and in Marksmanship, 野性号角 triggers Lesser Call of the Wild every time you pet swap.

Aegis and Stability 磐石精魂 and 平等雕文 offer very convenient access to 圣盾 and 稳固, respectively. If more is required, White Tiger White Tiger provides 圣盾 on its beast ability, and 群星雕文 pulses 稳固 in the area.

Example Opener

As a healer, you will always need to be reactive to the encounter, so there is no one rotation that is always best. The following example is just one way of starting a phase.

Begin on Staff

1. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap once you're in combat to trigger 疾速箭射
2. 荒野召唤
3. 旭日精魂 to get 威能 stacked up fast
4. 芽新枝蓓 and 橡木棍打
5. 天界化身
6. 回春潮汐 while standing on your squad
7. 月色引力
8. 自然汇流
9. Spam 生命种子 throughout - it has no cast time so you can cast it in the middle of other skills' cast times
10. Spam 天外射线
11. 回春潮汐
12. 月色引力
13. 终止天界化身形态。
14. 荒野召唤
15. 芽露尖角 ⇒ 芽苗滋长 ⇒ 芽苞初放 - this provides an extra stack of Nature's Strength, allowing you to freely trigger Force of Nature when you wish.

The long opening 天界化身 usage allows you to 疾速箭射 荒野召唤 twice, and will also get you to the 30-second duration cap on 敏捷. This means that in subsequent 天界化身 uses, you can use skills 3-5 once each (you should also be able to get two 生命种子 in) to top the 敏捷 back up to the cap.

Force of Nature is a powerful effect, but both Staff and Celestial Avatar provide more sustained healing, so to fully benefit from it you want to have it activate just before leaving Mace/Warhorn.

Given how strong druid's healing already is, the extra 25% may not matter, so perhaps more useful is the reset of Mace skills when it triggers. Triggering Force of Nature with 芽新枝蓓 then using it again before swapping for more burst heals could be useful if you know a big hit of damage is incoming, though druid already has a lot of tools for burst healing. Alternatively, lining up Force of Nature with a defiance bar for two uses of 橡木棍打 will be very potent.

Healing

Healing is the secondary role you provide to your raid squad. While you should be regularly switching to Warhorn for 荒野召唤, the rest of the time can be spent on Staff as almost every skill there is a heal.

On most encounters, you want to enter 天界化身 off cooldown in order to maintain 威能 and 敏捷. While there, you should make sure everyone in the group is at full health (and 威能) before exiting. This means you regularly burst heals on the group, and a combination of 再生, your heal skill, 日光射线 and 星界灵火 should provide significant sustained healing in between. This allows you to save 崇高转化 and 先辈恩泽 for an emergency burst heal.

Healing becomes important when mistakes or mechanics cause your teammates to get dangerously low on health. As a support healer, it's your responsibility to keep them alive. You can provide burst healing in any of the following ways:

• Go into 天界化身 and spam 月色引力, 天外射线, 回春潮汐 and 生命种子
• 回春雕文 (if using)
• Drop a water field on your allies with 崇高转化 or 治疗之泉, and then blast it with 先辈恩泽 荒野召唤 and/or 磐石精魂.

A combination of these should be sufficient to heal your team back up to full. Make sure to turn on "Thick Party Health Bars" in your options so that you can see who needs healing at a glance.

If your teammates still go down after you babysit them and drop all your healing on them, that's on them, not you. Make a judgment call on whether it's worth putting yourself in danger to revive them, or popping your 群星雕文/自然精魂 to give them a second chance.

Quick Draw

疾速箭射 is a very useful trait that provides a safety buffer for both your boons and healing. Every 9 seconds, this trait will activate after you Weapon swap Weapon swap or enter/leave 天界化身, and it will reduce the cooldown of the next skill you use that has a cooldown. This is usually going to be 荒野召唤 or 月色引力. This extra buffer is great for new Druids or for chaotic fights where you can't keep up a regular rotation.

疾速箭射 has a 9 second cooldown, so get a feel for the timing or keep an eye on your skill bar to see if 疾速箭射 is active. It's better to autoattack for a few seconds rather than accidentally waste 疾速箭射 on inconsequential skills.

疾速箭射 also won't trigger if you are in the middle of a skill cast when you 终止天界化身形态。, so remember to finish your cast animations.

Mechanics

As a utility support class, Druid is often called upon to do specific raid mechanics. These are varied and highly encounter dependent. Ask your commander what they want you to do in any given fight.

• Entangling: On many bosses, Druids are asked to bring 藤蔓缠绕 to immobilize or clear adds. An example is on Gorseval where you have to keep 4 spirits from reaching the center. Generally this boils down to pressing 藤蔓缠绕 when your commander tells you to.
• Pushing: Druids have 2 reliable knockbacks in 潮汐雕文 and 近身平射, which means they usually have the responsibility of handling knockbacks ("pushes"). An example is on Soulless Horror where you will be asked to push Tormented Dead far away from the main group. If asked to do this, position carefully and have your pushing skills ready when the time comes.
  • If there is a risk of your 近身平射 getting intercepted then you should run the "Marksmanship Variant" listed above.
• Kiting: As Druids can heal and support from range, they are sometimes asked to stand apart from the main group to keep a specific mechanic away. An example is on Sabetha where you may be asked to stand further away to kite flak. In these scenarios, will need to spend a long time in 天界化身 spamming the first three skills to maintain 敏捷 at range. 威能 uptime is likely to suffer in this case, unless you can regularly return to the group for 回春潮汐 and 自然汇流. Using 疾速箭射 on 荒野召唤 will be helpful to mitigate this.
• Healing Through: Some advanced strategies rely on ignoring mechanics by having the healer heal through heavy damage. This generally involves saving 天界化身 and then spamming its healing abilities.

CC

You can help with breakbars using any of the following skills:

• 月色引力
• 尖牙抓捕 or 闪电突击 or 甩头猛冲
• 近身平射 or 伤痕轨迹
• 风暴精魂
• 平等雕文
• 潮汐雕文 (not recommended as you generally need this skill for other mechanics)

General Tips

• 寒冬撕咬 provides 冰冻 and 虚弱, which will be a DPS increase for many classes due to traits like 超级元素, 弹药改装, and 破绽揭露. Always use 寒冬撕咬 off cooldown if possible.
• If you need to cleanse conditions, use 生命种子. The light field can be blasted with 月色引力 or 先辈恩泽. If you need a lot of condition cleanse take 治疗之泉 and 陷阱专长. 藤蔓迸射 can also cleanse certain conditions like chill and immobilize.
• Use 藤蔓缠绕, 蓝花楹的拥抱, or 藤蔓迸射 if you need to immobilize things. You can also use 自然汇流.
• 崇高转化 blocks projectiles, which is relevant for certain encounters like Cairn.
• Your pets are dumb and sometimes take damage from enemies and mechanics. Swap them out if they're about to die.
• 生命种子 can be used to blind adds.
• If you have nothing else to do, maximize your DPS and astral force generation by spamming weapon skills until 天界化身 is available again.

Encounter Specific Tips

Spirit Vale

Salvation Pass

Stronghold of the Faithful

Bastion of the Penitent

Hall of Chains

Mythwright Gambit

Key of Ahdashim