Hello guys,
last month I presented a new Druid Build for Raids, but unfourtunately it does not fit in the current meta compositions. So I built a completly new comp around it which I want to introduce to you right now. Because its a mirror-comp I will only explain the 5 player group.
The basic Idea
Like I already explained in my previous post, I don’t like the fact that 60% of the players task in raids is to buff 40% damag-dealers. Form my point of view this is not a good balance. On the other hand, I like specialization of roles in raids and want to push this along. The build I introduced here opens the possibility to replace the Warrior in the raid with a third pure dps class. Having in mind that you play wihtout banners and empower allies in your group force you to play a with condis.
The Composition
I’m obviously a ranger/druid main, so I used only condi rangers for condi dps, because I can test this. This is not a bad choice since it has the highest dps of all classes on small hitboxes at the moment.
| Druid | Chrono | Condi-Ranger | Condi-Ranger | Condi-Ranger |
DPS Comparison
For DPS comparison I used the DPS values by qT. I think that these dps values are not realistic, but its up to you to think about that. 22k for Condi-PS and 39k for tempests are too high with respect to a real raid environment.
I took two different comps for comparison: Another pure condi comp and a standard power comp. You can see the dps values in the table attached, I didn’t take the DPS of druid and chrono into account, because they change only minor.
As you can see for big hitboxes the tempest composition is till the best, even if you take lower dps values. For small hitboxes you would usually take thiefs instead of tempests which do less damage than the 2nd comp which is a current meta condi group. However this do less dps than my suggested comp which is the third one. As you can see warrior buffs only reduce the dps of a condi ranger to ~29,8k.
Build Changes
Chrono does not need any changes compared to the current meta, but I’m not a chrono specialist. For Condi Rangers I would suggest to only take Healing Spring if you need the condi remove, because the druids will gain better regeneration with an 100% uptime. I would recommend to use “We heal as one!” to buff your pet in addition, e.g. after swap. Furthermore, one condi ranger needs to run Sun Spirit if you want protection from the druids.
Alternatives
There are several modifications which can be made. At first, since my comp is a mirror comp you can combine it with any other mirror comp. For example you can run one half with this group and the other half with a berserker tempest comp. If you want to replace the chrono with another condi ranger this is possible, but it will reduce the overall dps, since every condi ranger will lose ~6k dps. Furthermore one druid need to tank. As a final remark this comp takes into account that you want to run two druids with at least 500+ healing power. If you are running only one healer you will run with a condi druid I guess and you don’t have a mirror comp anymore. Therefore dps can increase of course.
Video
I evaluated the stuff explained here with a group yesterday. Please notice, that I build this group via LFG and I didn’t checked gear/food/experience. Fruthermore, no one had play in this comp before and some mistakes were done (e.g. one sun spirit was missing). Nevertheless it costs us half an hour to kill gorseval (~4 tries).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFbxJ3LRyrE
Future Work
I need to try more raid bossed than gorseval and I welcome it if someone share the experience with this composition here, because I don’t have the resources at the moment. Furthermore, other condi classes like engi or necro could increase the dps, but I’m not an expert with these classes.
Thank you for the time you read this and feel free to give some comments to my build/composition. I will read them all.
Edit: Link to the Might-Druid build: http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRBMhxG2J9qQNrYrKgvKARrYxQwg3qh1yqTrL21DYCArrGwFzdyE-TxROAB3p8relgGfSAAY/h50P89TAoO1fCAcA8e37e3DO+4jP+4j793f/93fvUA+t3C-e
(edited by EpheSOSIayer.6370)