Druid - Condition Druid

Condition Druid Poisons and 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.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

Budget

• 锦鲤蛋糕

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• 盘装牛肉仁当 / 碗装松露拌饭
• 大师调谐水晶 / 协调冰柱

Defense

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 辣酱扇贝
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

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)

Weapon Variants

• Mainhand Axe - replaces Dagger; provides ranged damage and some burst. Default weapon for players without weaponmaster training.
• 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 , a very strong overtime self-heal, but with no burst healing. It provides even more healing when the pet is alive thanks to . Can be replaced by:

• - 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: is your highest damage skill, and its crowd control becomes more damage due to . Never replace it. is a ridiculously simple skill that provides good single target damage. Boring but effective. Can be replaced for the AoE damage of . 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.

• - great AoE damage and brief poison combo field.
• - some AoE damage, or removes 3 conditions when used during Celestial Avatar.
• - large amounts of AoE soft crowd control but minor damage.
• - good alternative to Signet of Renewal. Provides barrier for extra damage absorption, and protection for damage reduction and minor healing from .

Elite skill

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

• provides the best damage, but you can consider other options. Relic of the Cavalier provides good boons and activates multiple times if using skyscale's engage skill. provides some damage, plus the fear works good with and enemies won't actually fear away because they will be immobilised by .
• For defense, invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols. 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.

Celestial Avatar

Celestial Avatar is the profession mechanic of the druid. Dealing damage generates Astral Force per hit from , improved by , and 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 .

Damage

The key to this build is the trait . This trait turns all your hard crowd control (such as , , etc.) and into sources of damage. All this bleeding damage is amplified by .

On top of all the bleeding, you also deal some damage, amplified by the trait , and a little .

and further increase your damage, as do when you enter/exit Celestial Avatar and when you dodge or use .

Shortbow

On shortbow you want to use and while approaching your enemy, then as you get near, and Weapon swap. Use 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 , as it will only trigger 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 , Celestial Avatar is improved with offensive capabilities. Inside Celestial Avatar, you want to use (skill 2) first, then (skill 3), then (skill 5), and finally 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

1. (can be precast before starting combat)
2. from Jacaranda