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: Condition damage
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 06, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Condi Druid is a bleed-focussed build that spams AoE . As a Druid, it provides a small amount of healing to its subgroup, and though it shouldn't be relied on as a primary (or even secondary) healer in a squad, it can be quite beneficial to have in the second subgroup of a squad that is only running a single healer.
It also has access to a range of useful utilities.
Shortbow is the best option to replace Dagger/Torch for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
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For a simplified build that camps Shortbow, see below. As that build involves the use of and depends somewhat on being able to heal your allies, you may prefer an even simpler build.
Soulbeast is ideal for this, as it operates on the same principles but only has to deal with using some merged skills off cooldown rather than an alternate skill bar. The most effective build is Soulbeast - Condi Shortbow DPS, but you could also play the standard Soulbeast - Condi DPS build and camp Shortbow as the difference between the two is minor.
Condi Druid can be simplified by camping the Dagger/Torch set, which reduces the rotation to using skills off cooldown and entering when available.
If you don't want to deal with making sure to only cast outside of , you can use or instead. is lower damage, but has the advantage of being ranged and providing a small amount of to your group.
Opener You can precast .
Rest of the Rotation
If possible, you can dodge twice and use before a phase to stack up the buff from for a minor DPS gain. You can also precast .
In fractals, can be precast by entering and exiting before taking the Mistlock.
On Shortbow, you want to weapon swap after the third use of (i.e. if you use and Weapon Swap is available, Weapon Swap).
On Axe/Dagger, you ideally want to use three times, and twice (weapon swapping after the third ). However, if is not available after the second , it may be better to skip the third one and Weapon Swap after the second uses of and (step 7 in the Axe loop) in order to prevent spending too much time autoattacking on axe, as they are very weak.
Your healing, utility and elite skills should be used off cooldown, but weapon skills are higher priority.
Opener
Shortbow Loop
Food
Utility
Access to is gated by a resource called Astral Force. The trait gives a small amount of passive Astral Force generation, but you mainly gain it by dealing damage and by healing allies.
Thanks to , hitting targets generates more Astral Force than heal druid builds so you should always have enough to go into off cooldown, but in fights with significant downtime, you may wish to bring a skill that provides group healing when outside of . You have three healing skills that could do this job: , and .
If there is no dedicated healer in your group, is a great choice as each tick of will provide you with Astral Force. If there is a dedicated healer though, their will overpower yours and make the skill rather useless.
The most important trait in this build is . This applies bleeding to targets every time you CC or them (the cooldown only applies to the from entering ). , and all pulse on their targets, making them very potent skills.
Otherwise, the rotation is very similar to Soulbeast - Condi DPS, with the additional factor that you wish to enter as often as you can to gain access to the skills from and maintain the buff from .
You can precast and dodge twice to stack up .
In fractals, can be precast by entering and exiting before taking the Mistlock.
The general structure outside the opener is:
Your utility and elite skills should be used off cooldown, but weapon skills are higher priority.
Axe/Dagger Loop
Celestial Avatar
You want to use whenever you would just be autoattacking on a weapon. As explained above, the timing for this may vary in real encounters, but the rotation is the same each time. There is a small gap after before is available again, so if you have any utility cooldowns ready, you can use them here.
Opener
Dagger/Torch Loop
Axe/Dagger Loop
Celestial Avatar
You want to use whenever you would just be autoattacking on a weapon. As explained above, the timing for this may vary in real encounters, but the rotation is the same each time. There is a small gap after before is available again, so if you have any utility cooldowns ready, you can use them here. Otherwise, dodge once. The aftercast on will prevent immediately dodging afterwards, so do it after .
