Heal Druid

This build provides 25 stacks of Might, Regeneration and Protection for your squad, Swiftness and Fury for your party. It also provides high amounts of healing, CC and also unique buffs in form of Frost Spirit, Sun Spirit and Spotter.

Build Fundamentals

A popular misconception of Druid’s Celestial Avatar (CA) is the assumption that its main healing tool of this build. While this is not false, for the most part, CA will be used to stack boons, while most of your healing will come from Regeneration. That’s why during the fight you shouldn’t cap in Celestial Avatar form, instead, you should jump in, stack might with Grace of the Land, and jump out.

That being said, you absolutely should utilize whatever healing abilities you have to help your group when in Celestial Avatar form, and if needed, you should delay CA if you know burst healing will be required soon.

Be aware of your spirits, summon Water Spirit, Frost Spirit, Sun Spirit and Stone Spirit at the start of each fight. Use their active abilities off cooldown. If the squad moves away from them, use their active abilities to reposition them. Summon Spirit of Nature and use its active ability when you need emergency healing or revives.

Throughout the fight, you will want to utilize Quick Draw to shorten the cooldown of your skills (entering and exiting CA will count as Weapon Swap too). The most popular strategy is to use it on Call of the Wild for Fury (which you have least of). For example, you should start each fight on Staff and immediately swap to Axe/Warhorn. Use Call of the Wild and then go into Celestial Avatar.

As an additional utility, you can use Sublime Conversion to deal with projectiles by turning them into healing bolts and use your Ancestral Grace for mobility (to perform some skips in several maps).

Might stacking

Go into Celestial Avatar as soon as you have the full astral force and use Rejuvenating Tides, Seed of Life, Lunar Impact, and Natural Convergence to restack Might but keep in mind Natural Convergence will lock you in longer animation.

Downtime

If you don’t have CA available, use all Axe/Warhorn skills off cooldown. If you’re on Staff, try to stand slightly behind the group and use for Solar Beam extra healing.

When swapping to Staff, use Astral Wisp first if it’s off cooldown to proc Quick Draw as it’s most valuable healing tool on this weapon. And when swapping to Axe/Warhorn, use Call of the Wild first if it’s off cooldown to proc Quick Draw.

CC (Crowd Control)

Have your pet attack the boss at the start of the fight. Hold off on using its skills as you will need them for CC.

• Vine Surge
• Winter's Bite
• Call of the Wild
• Natural Convergence
• Primal Echoes
• Call of the Wild
• Lunar Impact
• Primal Echoes
• Fang Grapple
• Lightning Assault
• Head Toss

Alternatives

Pets

Juvenile Fanged Iboga for Juvenile Rock Gazelle if you need more CC.

Juvenile Electric Wyvern for:

• Juvenile Jacaranda for extra Immobilize.
• Juvenile Brown Bear for additional condition cleanse.

Utility Skills

Water Spirit for:

• Healing Spring if you need extra condition cleanse. Take Trapper's Expertise in Skirmishing trait line and Cultivated Synergy in Druid trait line.
• Glyph of Rejuvenation if you need even more burst healing (while in Celestial Avatar). Take Verdant Etching in Druid trait line.

Frost Spirit or Sun Spirit 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 extra Protection uptime, barrier and a party-wide stunbreak.
• Storm Spirit if you need to provide Fury to entire squad or to increase Vulnerability uptime or to CC.
• Glyph of Equality for extra CC or a stunbreak (while in Celestial Avatar).

Spirit of Nature for:

• Entangle in fights where you need extra Immobilize.
• Glyph of the Stars to block incoming conditions.

Traits

Celestial Shadow for Verdant Etching if you are actively using Glyphs to reduce their cooldown.

If Might for the entire Squad is covered by somebody else, swap Grace of the Land for Lingering Light.

And finally, you can swap the whole Skirmishing trait line for Marksmanship 323, if you are using longbow to push adds on Soulless Horror.