The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on January 30, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Condition Druid Druid poisons Poisons and bleeds Bleeds their enemies to death, trapping them in roots and thorns to ensure their demise. The build revolves around the trait 
血月, improving your crowd control with condition damage. The combination of Wilderness Survival and Druid greatly improves its survivability thanks to extra evades and healing, and abundant crowd control will keep enemies in check. This build features great crowd control and damage in AoE.
The only disadvantage to this build is low burst damage and very low boon generation, but it can overcome it with its resilience.
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Weapon Variants
- Mainhand Axe Mainhand Axe - replaces Dagger Dagger; provides ranged damage and some burst. Default weapon for players without weaponmaster training.
- Offhand dagger Offhand dagger - torch can be replaced by offhand dagger, the damage difference is very low so use whichever weapon you prefer.
Skill Variants
Heal
We default to 
巨魔药膏, a very strong overtime self-heal, but with no burst healing. It provides even more healing when the pet is alive thanks to 
生命传递. Can be replaced by:
"同心治疗！" - provides good burst healing but less healing over time. Excellent when playing in groups that provide boons so you can copy them to your pet.
Utilities
We default to:
尖刺陷阱 is your highest damage skill, and its crowd control becomes more damage due to 血月. Never replace it.
锋开磨砺 is a ridiculously simple skill that provides good single target damage. Boring but effective. Can be replaced for the AoE damage of 
毒蛇巢穴.
新生纹章 provides minor healing over time, and can be activated to stunbreak and pull conditions from yourself and allies near you to your pet. Can be replaced but it's always a good idea to have a stunbreak.
- 毒蛇巢穴 - great AoE damage and brief poison combo field.
结盟雕文 - some AoE damage, or removes 3 conditions when used during Celestial Avatar.
泥泞地表 - large amounts of AoE soft crowd control but minor damage.
"快保护我！" - good alternative to Signet of Renewal. Provides barrier for extra damage absorption, and protection for damage reduction and minor healing from 
粗糙生长.
Elite skill
We default to 
藤蔓缠绕 for its great AoE damage, improved by 血月. On rare occasions, it can be replaced by:
自然精魂 - AoE revive and condition transmutation. Can be considered for high pressure group play.
Pet variants
We recommend Jacaranda Jacaranda and Carrion Devourer Carrion Devourer.
Jacaranda is somewhat tanky, has self healing and condition cleanse, decent AoE burst damage with Call Lightning but, most importantly, its Beast skill 
蓝花楹的拥抱 is ridiculously strong in this build. Jacaranda's Embrace usually just immobilizes Immobilizes the target but, thanks to 血月, it will also deal damage, and it triggers 5 times. It also inflicts very helpful 
易伤. Feel free to set this skill to autocast if you can't spare the APM for more efficient use.
For your second pet, we recommed any devourer such as Carrion Devourer Carrion Devourer as it deals good condition damage overall and its Beast skill 
毒云 is also good. If you'd like to run a different pet, you can use a spider such as Forest Spider Forest Spider at an extremely minimal dps loss. Spiders and Devourers are improved by 
蜘蛛恐惧.
Swap between your pets often to use their strong Beast skills.
Specializations
Equipment
Standard Equipment
This setup uses equipment that is useful in general PVE and very similar to this build's raid/fractal/strike counterpart.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Shiro" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
碎层古物 provides the best damage, but you can consider other options. Relic of the Cavalier Relic of the Cavalier provides good boons and activates multiple times if using skyscale's engage skill. 
噩梦古物 provides some damage, plus the fear works good with 血月 and enemies won't actually fear away because they will be immobilised by 藤蔓缠绕.- For defense, invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols. Trailblazer Trailblazer can be considered for a massive health increase at a slight loss of damage, but isn't generally needed as the build is already resilient by default.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
Budget
DPS
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Celestial Avatar
Celestial Avatar is the profession mechanic of the druid. Dealing damage generates Astral Force per hit from 
天界生物, improved by 
日蚀, and 
自然修护 provides even more Astral Force periodically. This Astral Force fuels your Celestial Avatar transformation.
Usually, Celestial Avatar focuses on healing and boon generation. But in this build, it also deals damage thanks to 日蚀.
Damage
The key to this build is the trait 血月. This trait turns all your hard crowd control (such as 
昏迷, 
晕眩, etc.) and immobilize Immobilize into sources of 
流血 damage. All this bleeding damage is amplified by 
隐匿倒钩.
On top of all the bleeding, you also deal some 
中毒 damage, amplified by the trait 
毒药大师, and a little 
燃烧.
蜘蛛恐惧 and 
成双巧手 further increase your damage, as do 
自然平衡 when you enter/exit Celestial Avatar and 
灵巧作战 when you dodge or use 
腾挪速射.
Shortbow
On shortbow you want to use 
致残射击 and 
震荡射击 while approaching your enemy, then 
毒箭连射 as you get near, and Weapon swap Weapon swap. Use 腾挪速射 to dodge attacks. Generally speaking, don't stay on shortbow for long, since dagger has better damage. All shortbow skills are improved if you hit the target from behind or the rear, or if the enemy is defiant (has a defiance bar). This is especially important for 致残射击, as it will only trigger 血月 when striking from behind/rear or striking defiant enemies.
Dagger/Torch
Your second weapon set, which defaults to dagger/torch, is melee range but deals more damage. Use all skills off-cooldown, and try to not interrupt your dagger auto attack chain as the final attack deals the highest damage.
Celestial Avatar
Thanks to 日蚀, Celestial Avatar is improved with offensive capabilities. Inside Celestial Avatar, you want to use 
生命种子 (skill 2) first, then 
月色引力 (skill 3), then 
自然汇流 (skill 5), and finally 生命种子 again. Note that Seed of Life has no cast time and thus can be cast while casting the other 2 skills. Leave Celestial Avatar after this to not consume too much Astral Force.
Opener
- 锋开磨砺 (can be precast before starting combat)
- 蓝花楹的拥抱 from Jacaranda Jacaranda
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尖刺陷阱
-
藤蔓缠绕
- 致残射击, 震荡射击, 毒箭连射
- Weapon swap Weapon swap
直觉交战, 
双重弧光, 
灼燃火堆, 
投掷火炬-
天界化身
- 生命种子, 月色引力, 自然汇流, 生命种子
-
终止天界化身形态。
震荡射击 can be used for damage or saved for crowd control. 腾挪速射 can also be used to dodge attacks. Remember that dodging or using Quick Shot will activate 灵巧作战.
Defense
- As always, dodge or move out of dangerous attacks. You briefly gain
保护 when dodging from 
同伴之御, which in turn heals due to 粗糙生长. - 新生纹章 passively heals you for a small amount. Can be used to stunbreak or to transfer conditions from yourself and allies near you onto your pet. If you transfer many conditions, swap your pet before it dies.
- Your pet will tank some hits for you. Make sure to swap pet if its health gets too low.
自然活力 increases your endurance regeneration.- You have lots of cripple and immobilization to impair trash mobs preventing them from ever reaching you.
- 腾挪速射 - evade
追猎之击 - evade (if using offhand dagger)- 天界化身 - some healing
CC
- This build features significant Immobilize Immobilize from several sources: 蓝花楹的拥抱, 藤蔓缠绕, 致残射击, 自然汇流,
- 月色引力 - daze
- 震荡射击 - daze (or stun)
- 天界化身 + 血月 - daze