Guild Wars 2

So I have been on the bad forums, you know those wvw ones, and people are complaining about an unkillable Celestial druid build (obviously an exageration).
I checked Metabattle but the only thing I saw that look similar was under pvp the bunker druid but that uses Mender’s.

Anyone knows what build they are talking about?

A build tailored around generating Astral Force so that it’s only throttle is its 10sec cd so as to abuse the 2 traits improving celestial avatar form substantially.

Yeah, bad and ignorant players will usually run to the forums and complain to lobby for the devs to adjust other classes so they have a chance. There are many builds Druids play that are not meta per say that could fit that roll you note above.

My personal build runs NM, BM, and Druid using Celestial Ascended armor has the base. From there I’ll throw in healing, toughness, and power accessories and food which compliments it. Then have already fine tuned that with sigils which yields me a base of 3200 armor with 1200 healing. Pets are smoke scale and bristle back. Runes of Durability of course.

Build will either kill them slowly or bore them and they leave. The part that people complain about is there are some tools such has staff that make getting away a bit natural. Same with say celestial shadow. Of course the player is never at fault for dropping target or losing sight, right? Let alone using any form of CC or mitigation if they are the ones in CC.

The kicker again comes back to said player who came to the forums and post tears of rage. A reasonable skilled player running a Druid can seem Godly when facing a single ignorant or unskilled or new player. Same would hold true of the Druid was fighting say 10 or so unskilled or coordinated players. Again, the bum rush to forums to rage mentality. Now amp this up by a skilled Druid player, and, well it is now times 10…

It isn’t just the Druid though who can do this. Any class played by a reasonable player can escape or has similar troll builds. Never ending story or nightmare.

Standard staff/x druid with NM, BM, druid(obviously lol) trait lines. Go bunkerish with your gear choices, maybe add something for additional regen like Dolyak runes or food, and play defensive while relying on your pet to do the bulk of the damage. If you use GS you can throw on an intelligence sigil for a decent maul burst now and again.

It’s very easy and incredibly boring to play. It’s also very mediocre outside of 1v1’s.

If you are an experienced ranger it’s not that hard to kill people running this build, it’s just time consuming. The only real damage comes from pet bursts and maul, the pets are easy enough to avoid just by using the terrain, and maul is the most telegraphed skill in the game, avoid that wait for them to pop into cele form and start cc’ing and bursting the crap out of them.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Celestial_Avatar

Basically that old PvP build that was used before they removed cele amulet.

If using sword/torch, go NM, BM, Druid.

If using Greatsword, go MM, BM, Druid with remorseless.

They’ve nerfed glyphs since then, so you’d probably want to run shouts and signets instead.