Heal Alacrity Druid

February 2023

Introduction

Heal Alacrity Druid is a strong, flexible defensive support that provides permanent Alacrity, Regeneration, Protection, Swiftness, Vigor, Fury, and 25 stacks of Might to a subgroup. This build also brings abundant condition cleanses and high amounts of Crowd Control.

Build Fundamentals

Alternate between Axe/Warhorn to provide offensive boons and Staff for healing and Regeneration.

Use Celestial Avatar as soon as it is available for healing and Might application. Feel free to stay in Celestial Avatar for longer if you need to provide extra heals.

Build Specifics

Pre-cast all Spirits before engaging with the enemy. Use Cold Snap, Aqua Surge, and Quicksand off-cooldown and in range of the group to apply Alacrity and their respective boons.

If you don’t need to be on a specific pet because of some encounter mechanic, consider swapping pets to provide extra boons via Lesser Call of the Wild from Clarion Bond.

Using Celestial Avatar changes the effect of your Glyphs. For example, instead of dazing nearby foes, Glyph of Equality provides Stability and stun-breaks allies.

Sublime Conversion provides Regeneration to allies that walk through it, and can also be used to convert enemy projectiles into healing bolts for your team.

Pet Usage

• White Tiger for damage and an Aegis application from Guardian's Roar.
• Rock Gazelle for CC.

Crowd Control

• Glyph of Equality
• Call of the Wild
• Celestial Avatar Lunar Impact
• Rock Gazelle Head Toss
• Vine Surge
• Winter's Bite
• Celestial Avatar Natural Convergence
• Primal Echoes dazes nearby foes when you swap to Staff or enter Celestial Avatar.

Alternatives

Pets

• Electric Wyvern if you need more CC.
• Smokescale for a smoke field if you have multiple Mirages in your squad.
• Jacaranda for extra Immobilize.
• Brown Bear for additional condition cleanse.
• Fanged Iboga for extra DPS in fights where Confusion is strong.

Heal Skill

Water Spirit for:

• Healing Spring for additional condition cleanses.
  • If using this, take Cultivated Synergy if you do not need the extra CC from Primal Echoes.

Utility Skills

Glyph of Equality for:

• Glyph of the Tides for CC or to push enemies away (Vale Guardian, Soulless Horror).
• "Search and Rescue!" for a long-range revive on an ally.
• "Protect Me!" for a party-wide stun break and self Protection and barrier.

Glyph of the Stars for:

• Entangle in fights where you need extra Immobilize.
• Spirit of Nature if you need extra pulsing healing or emergency revives.

Traits

Swap Grace of the Land for:

• Lingering Light If Might for the party is already consistently maxed at 25 stacks, because it is covered by someone else in the subgroup.

Gear

This build can also tank, but to be able to survive, run the following defensive gear setup:

• Giver’s Trinkets and Weapons
• Minstrel’s Armor