Druid - Alacrity Support Healer

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

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.

• This fight puts a lot of pressure on the tank, so make sure you keep them healthy.
• Bring for seeker control. You can use to knock them away and to immobilize them.
• If you're healing through greens, save your for it - not having it up right after a green circle will likely lead to a raid wipe.
• In inexperienced groups is really useful for saving people who get ported.
• If you get ported use to quickly dash back.

• The tank will be standing a short distance from the main group, so make sure you tag them with your healing and .
• Bring to immobilize the Charged Souls. With high group cleave, you can immobilize them very near the center and have your power DPS cleave all the Charged Souls down.
• If you are delaying breakbars, be prepared to spam healing through the breakbar phase so that you can heal your DPS through the retaliation. It's ok to camp in for this section as there isn't any other damage pressure and your will refill your astral force during the split.

• Keep an eye on the squad members doing cannons and be prepared to refresh their when they come back.
• can be used to blind the adds so they don't knock your teammates into the flamewall.
• (ideally cast inside Celestial Avatar) should be up for every flamewall attack. Placing it in the center will pulse as people run around and also speed up any revives that might be needed.

• can be used against slubling projectiles.
• You can bring for an AoE stun break.
  • Alternatively you can use for stability. The downside is that you have to be sure you can be in .

• Bring for condition cleanse.
• can be used for projectile destruction but be careful not to accidentally destroy Bloodstone Shards.

• On this fight Druids are normally asked to babysit Glenna. Try to remain as close to the group as possible without putting Glenna in danger. If you can't get close, you can still leave Glenna for short periods of time to stack with and .
• Use , , , and possibly to keep wargs immobilized/crippled.
• can be used to blind trash.
• You can bring for an AoE stun break.
• can be used to knock enemies back on the towers.
• You can bring Wolf to fear mobs as an emergency measure. If you aren't escorting Glenna, you can use it to fear mobs when you go up to the towers.
• is useful on Mcleod as he spams on the group.

• On this fight Druids are normally asked to push the orb into the rifts. Just go around with your Staff and position so that your autoattacks will hit it into each rift.
• After pushing through the last rift, you can use on the orb to knock it out while you run back to the group and start buffing.
• Make sure you have ready for the burn phase.

• This fight puts a lot of pressure on the tank, so make sure you keep them healthy.
• Bring for condition cleanse.
• can be used to blind adds.
• Due to the very high damage pressure in this fight, a healer should always be on the main platform. If you're solo healer this means you should always go back down if you get ported. If there are two healers, decide who is going back down if both get ported.

• You can kite on this encounter without dropping if you're good
  • Make sure to use all your spirits at the start and dash to the group to use them all again every time there are greens
  • Use a mixture of , dodges, the special action key and to keep yourself alive
  • The Siege Turtle pet can provide you another source of projectile destruction
• Don't be afraid to camp in and spam healing if the group needs it.
• You should always take one agony, as you can heal and buff from range, and you can always heal yourself if you get low.
• Use for mobility.
• In inexperienced groups is really useful for saving people who get ported.

• If the group doesn't have good cleave, you can set your pet on one of the scouts and it should be able to kill it before it reaches the end.

• You can bring for immobilizing Rigom and clearing spears.
• is great here, as it provides good CC and allows you to knock Rigom into Samarog during the split phase.
• If a breakbar is coming up, you should save for CCing with and healing the fixated squadmate.
• If Rigom control is truly dire you could also bring a Longbow for a second knock.

• The puddle kiter takes heavy damage after blocking Deimos's Mind Crush attack, so watch out for this and make sure you keep them healthy. In Deimos CM this will apply to the entire squad.
• You're a good choice to tank here, as getting ported causes your spirits to die.
• Make sure your pet is on the squad, otherwise the Sauls might fixate on it and not come to the group.

• This fight puts a lot of pressure on the tank, so make sure you keep them healthy.
• Fanged Iboga is strong here as Soulless Horror takes a lot of damage from confusion.
• As the Druid you are normally tasked with pushing Tormented Dead. To do this you need to equip a longbow and , and use the "Marksmanship Variant" traits above with .
  • When a Tormented Dead walks into the group, do your first push with , wait until the tormented dead is close to half health (often after being hit with a necromancer's ), then do your second push with and knock it to the edge of the arena.
  • on the tormented dead can be used to stack up extra so that condis tick harder.
  • If using pets like Electric Wyvern or Rock Gazelle, it may be wise to keep them Passive as they can interrupt your knocks on the Tormented Dead.
• , and your blast finishers to cleanse conditions.

• The green fissures will players who stand on them, so spamming around the time this attack hits can be very helpful.
• A Brown Bear is a popular choice of second pet, as it provides an easy way to cleanse condis after the Greater Death Mark.
• Alternatively, the Fire Wyvern can do a good job at killing Deathlings.
• can be useful for even more condi cleanse.
• Entering shortly after the knock and comboing 2->3 will also provide an area condition cleanse.
  • Try to stay inside during the pull so that you can spam healing on the group, and make sure they can immediately start the next phase at full
• The Reapers can be healed, and in normal mode have a huge modifier to incoming healing, so keep them topped up as well!
  • The Reaper closest to the entrance will be where the deathlings (and messengers) congregate, so pay most attention to it.
• Stealthing a Reaper gives them a unique stealth buff that lasts for 20 seconds. This will cause any mobs on it to leave and go to the next closest Reaper instead. This can be a useful trick with but be careful in case you do it by accident.
  • This can be extremely helpful if an Enforcer has spawned that you don't think you'll be able to kill before it reaches a Reaper.

• Even if you're not collecting orbs, make sure to use regularly so that whoever does it has .
• Alternating and White Tiger can be used to prevent your group being stunned by the arms if no-one else is doing it.

• is good value both for CCing the legendary creatures, and for providing if magma elementals reach the stack during the burn phases.
• One of the most dangerous parts of Qadim's attacks is that they apply , so make sure that you're regularly cleansing it.

• You're a very good candidate for taking pillar aggro, but make sure to get your spirits out quickly so you don't drop .
• Make sure to use frequently so that people have to outrun the lasers.
• Be careful if using as the sudden may cause people to zoom to their doom.
• Hold on to in the split phases in case you need to block the rocks from the hands.
• is very useful for maintaining health in the final phase as damage pressure increases, and also for rescuing people who get downed in the sand - as they are out of range of manual resses.

• This is a perfect encounter for the Marksmanship variant as affects the special action key CC, significantly improving your contribution.