Heal Alacrity Druid

June 2024

Introduction

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

Build Fundamentals

Alternate between Mace/Warhorn to provide boons and Staff for healing and .

Use Celestial Avatar as soon as it is available for healing, , and application through Grace of the Land. Feel free to stay in Celestial Avatar for longer if you need to provide extra heals.

Build Specifics

It’s important to keep on your group with a combination of Oaken Cudgel, Stone Spirit, your pet’s F2 abilities through Invigorating Bond, and Glyphs via Verdant Etching. Don’t hesitate to use these abilities if you won’t need them for mechanics.

Use Sun Spirit off-cooldown for . While you may be using Stone Spirit regularly for protection uptime, it may be useful to save it if you need to block certain mechanics like Deimos’s Mind Crush.

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 cleansing conditions on allies, Glyph of the Stars provides , , and revives downed allies. Glyph of Rejuvenation becomes a powerful burst heal, while Glyph of Equality breaks stuns for allies.

Finish Mace Auto-attack chains for and use Flourish and Oaken Cudgel regularly to provide and while increasing outgoing healing via Nature’s Strength.

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

Relic[s] of Karakosa

Druid produces Combo Fields that can be used in conjunction with Relic[s] of Karakosa to increase burst healing:

• Sublime Conversion – Water Field
• Celestial Avatar Rejuvenating Tides – Water Field
• Healing Spring – Water Field
• Celestial Avatar Seed of Life – Light Field (Cleanses conditions if Blasted!)

Use one of the following Blast Finishers for massive healing:

• Oaken Cudgel
• Call of the Wild
• Ancestral Grace
• Celestial Avatar Lunar Impact
• Pet Swap

Pet Usage

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

Crowd Control

• Oaken Cudgel
• Glyph of Equality
• Call of the Wild
• Celestial Avatar Lunar Impact
• Rock Gazelle Head Toss
• Vine Surge
• Winter's Bite
• Celestial Avatar Natural Convergence
• Blood Moon dazes nearby foes when you enter Celestial Avatar.

Alternatives

Pets

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

Heal Skill

Glyph of Rejuvenation for:

• Healing Spring for additional condition cleanses.

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 and barrier.

Glyph of the Stars for:

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

Traits

Swap Cultivated Synergy for:

• Druidic Clarity – for extra condition cleanses
• Blood Moon – for even more CC.

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
• Use Superior Rune[s] of the Water instead of Superior Rune[s] of the Monk for more Boon Duration