Guild Wars 2

I’ve started to play druid this season. I’m getting the hang of it, but would appreciate any advice on what I could do better:

match 1 504-(456-1) Loss
match 2 500-288 Loss
Match 3 495-475 Loss

What is your build?

GS/Staff
Pets: Smokscale/Wolf
Runes: Menders/Dolyak

I only watched a few minutes of the first video (stopped watching after mid fight), but I saw a number of things worth addressing.

Use Protect Me as the gate opens to stack more swiftness. (Had lots of swiftness already, but a little more couldn’t hurt.)

Only reason to bring Wolf is for f2 skill. You didn’t use it once (but had several good openings for it), and you stuck with wolf a LOT. Swap Wolf for Bristleback for way better pet damage, and swap pets often, assuming you’re traited to benefit from that, opening strike, etc.

Utilize your Staff 5 + 3 / water field + blast finisher.

Don’t be afraid to use your skills. Elite and GS 4 went mostly unused, didn’t see you use Staff 4 once, nor (again) wolf’s howl. Use “Lunar Impact” more. AOE daze+heal, very useful and with very short CD.

You had ele support and could’ve spent a lot more time on point attacking melee instead of standing back with Staff hitting 1111111111111. You seem to prefer range, so maybe consider swapping GS for LB.

When you received a bit of burst damage, you used Signet of Renewal, which was a waste on two fronts. You had Avatar available (which I believe you have traited to clear all conditions), and didn’t really need condi clear anyway, since you were taking mostly direct damage. Signet of Stone was all you needed to stop the spike. Personally I don’t really like Renewal Sig in most cases, I’d swap it out.

Later you retreated and waited for heal recharge when you could’ve swapped to Staff, hit 5, blast heal with 3, rejoin the fight faster at range.

At one point you used heal with basically full health. Luckily you didn’t end up needing it before recharge.

Remember leaving Avatar stealths you and nearby teammates. This can be used effectively for stomping, rezzing, retreating, whatever.

On my phone, so I’m sure I’ve missed some things.

I only watched the first video but I would suggest a few things:
-As the poster above me said, swap wolf for bristleback, it just has so much more burst damage.

-Never use signet of renewal in you have celestial avatar available, it is a much bigger cooldown and CA does the same thing when activated (I would not swap out signet of
renewal though, it is a very important skill that has saved me on many occasions)

-There was one time when you used signet of renewal while your pet was out of range, luckily you still survived but it is a mistake that has stopped me surviving almost every time I have done it. Swap pets if your pet is not near you to make sure that the signet affects you.

-Use your elite more frequently. It is not a skill you have to save for moments when you need to survive/disengage. You can use your elite+signet of stone to get some revives in very difficult situations. It is also a good skill for safe stomps and just general dps.

-Use your heal skill after pet swapping to double the amount of quickness you get. Of course only do this if you are not under much pressure and may need the heal in a few seconds. Maybe even just swap pets when you need to heal anyway to get more quickness than usual.

With all that said though I think you played really well and performed your role as a Druid well. Most of the time you went to the right fights and provided good support to your team mates as well as a lot of damage.

Faux Play.6104:

I’ve started to play druid this season. I’m getting the hang of it, but would appreciate any advice on what I could do better:

match 1 504-(456-1) Loss
match 2 500-288 Loss
Match 3 495-475 Loss

Match 1.

All I can say is. ZERO ROTATION

You were double capped for the majority of the game.

What did you do? Stayed at mid. Noone decapped far. Thief was useless the entire game by being farmed by the mesmer.

Your thief was terrible yes, but do not be tunneled visioned and look at the map. From there you can adjust and rotate accordingly.

Another biggie, you could’ve won mid sooner, but no cleave. You were on staff when they were ressing someone. You couldve feared with wolf, safe stomped with elite, Cleaved with GS.

im not the best at druid by one thing i always do is i alway volunteer to cap home, then head to mid. and i always focus necro or any non melee players. i just keep rooting them and have my pet dps them down. it also builds up your astral so u can run to low allies and heal them. also dont stay in astral any longer after u cast some heal;s get out of it.

Thanks for the feedback. We had a bad start on both 1 & 3 and were able to rally. The first match it looked like we were 4v4 mid so I didn’t check the map or notice the score was getting out of hand. The thief did a lot better as a +1. Is there anything that would tip you off in the build that the thief shouldn’t have been at home? As for the stomps, I tried to interrupt the rez and let others stomp cleave, but later was doing it myself. You’ll see a couple multi stomps too. That is the tough part of random. It seems like most of the time I stomp with stability I end up getting feared…assuming from corrupting boons.

Lord Hammer makes a good point. When I’m on druid, I generally take home if my team already has a support class. You should have better 1v1/hold potential than your typical thief, too, so your situation at both home and mid likely would’ve been more favorable (assuming the thief doesn’t kitten the bed at mid too). Also, your mobility with Staff/GS is great.

As for getting feared from boon corrupt, at least in the first mid fight in the first video, IIRC you were facing warrior engi ele, so corrupt would be a non-issue. (Generally CC/GS cleave is ideal, though.)

I went back and looked at that video again and looks like they did go Mesmer far ranger home and I didn’t count right at mid Also, good tip about the two supports at mid. That’s the good thing about recording get to see exactly what you mess up xD

I only watched game 3. A few tips:

- Use Strenght of the Pack much more often. It is useless in the way you use it now. You fought against 2 scrappers, you will get interrupted all the time without Stability. Preferably use it before you go in Celestial Avatar, so that your heals won’t get interrupted.

- Try to focus the proper target. At the quarry fight with I think about 8 minutes left on the clock you focus the scrapper with full hp while the ele only had 20% hp left.

- You use Celestial Avatar mainly for invisibility, but you should not forget that it is an important stunbreak and condi cleanse as well. Versus more condi-oriented opponents you will probably get problems if you waste your astral force this often.

- At your last fight at middle, you had plenty of time to use staff 3, 4 and 5 to stay alive but for some reason you didn’t. Make more use of those skills in general, instead of just AA’ing.

- You hide ur teammates hp bars above their character. This can be quite bad for creating an oversight for yourself. You have the potential to greatly heal your allies, knowing what their specific hp is quite essential to do that. The hp bars on the top left corner won’t really do the job.

These were the first things that came to my mind, good luck with it.

I would love to know how to turn then on. The only way I can see them is by mousing over them which is tough because you either have to be standing still, keyboard turning, or running in a straight line.

HeadCrowned.6834:

I only watched game 3. A few tips:

- You hide ur teammates hp bars above their character. This can be quite bad for creating an oversight for yourself. You have the potential to greatly heal your allies, knowing what their specific hp is quite essential to do that. The hp bars on the top left corner won’t really do the job.

- Replace wolf with bristback, use heal then swap the pet at mid cast to get more boon.
- GS is not a good weapon in teamfight, you should try longbow or sword/dagger or sword/axe.
- Change Signet of renewal to glyph of equality.
- I dont know your build but dont take Marksmanship. NM, WS or even SK are better.
What amulet do you use ?
- When you see your teammate get focused, use staff #5 then #3 to heal them, cast CA #3 (and #4 if you need more heal) and get out of CA.
- Dont use Strength of the Pack just for swiftness, save it to use in fight and burst with bristback F2. Cuz this is your only decent stability.
- Protect me can also save your teammate, use it then run into the fight, take a hit and the enemy with get taunted by your pet, save your teammate a bit. It works wonderful while you res/ stomp the downed.
- At small pts like home or far, If you are not focused, you can use CA #5 to apply slow. #3 to daze then #5 is a good combo.

set your pet to attack…then go power ranger so when you skillfully spam 1 you can deal more damage