Guild Wars 2

Mark my words… Druid will become the new bunker mesmer in everything but high end play. The self sustain is already too high. As a lot of flavor of the month types leave bunker mesmer, this will end up being the place they go.

Watch.

Druid is far too susceptible to CC and condi’s, so no. Chronobunker was strong due to the fact that it had numerous invul frames and could provide a team with boons, and heavy hard cc (not just dazes) often thanks to alacrity.

Necros, with the slight buff to boon corruption and the chance to corrupt more often, will make it impossible for druid to be too strong by itself; with a coordinated team it may be a different story. But no they will not be godmode in soloq.

There’s also the fact that while base healing is high for celestial skills the scaling isn’t overly strong, and the boons shared most often are regen and swiftness. In order to further improve healing you give up condi removal only creating more problems for yourself as a druid.

Condis will reign supreme!

Ok, what amulet are they going to use? Please, post build for us. I’ve been playing ranger since launch and am having difficulty with this one.

Oh looks its a FOTM reaper!

Better not use any skills so I dont get boon corrupt’d.

Oh whoops Im loaded with condis anyway.

SotP so I dont get stunned in CAF! -runs into wall feared for an hour-

Whoops I am dead.

Druids may be a team fight anchor, but in NO WAY will they be anything like the current chrono bunkers. Just team support and then flee when focused. See above posts for reasons.

Based off of current projected changes, thief or reaper should be able to 1 v 1 a “bunker” druid of equal skill as they currently have this possibility and are only getting stronger. In a team fight druids are easy to kill regardless of build. As this is the case I do not believe bunker druid will be anywhere ANYWHERE close to current bunker mesmer.