Guild Wars 2

Good day everyone,

Last week I came across a very annoying condi druid in wvw. I was using my beastmaster melee RANGER (zerk,knight,cleric) and was not able to get him below 80% or he would go into cele form and heal up. I had to run in every fight sadly…i dislike doing that XD. Well aware of the fact that my damage is not the best on that build that i was using. Others were not able to kill him quickly either.
I have not spoken to him but i can give u a description of what i saw.
He had:
- condi cleanse signet and i think daze glyph cuz i was stunned a couple of times.
-The bleeding utility (sharpened edges?)
-warhorn/sword + axe/torch
-of course bristleback + smokescale -.-
- Almost perma protection, regen, swiftness

his condi pressure was not super high but it was enough to make me go on the defensive even with the fact taht all my utilties cleanse at least 1 condi (shouts + surv. skills)
I can’t seem to figure out his build and he awakened my interest in condi druid again.
What i think is that he is using something like the old settler build. Just no clue about the traits……but somehow i doubt that he was using the skirmish line cuz of pressure not being SUPER high.

Sorry for the long post i just want to provide as much info on it as i can.

I am looking for a build like this but i don’t know which gear and which traitlines i should use. Any ideas or build suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Hm sounds interesting, anyone can chime in? I’ve left my druids rotting for a while but lately I’ve been experimenting with hybrid on my other classes so may give it a go on druid.

Perhaps something like this, it’s something I through together based on what you said.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRBMhd+1JlKQ/KYFrgNLAVLYJRweCAJrXHcVdrOWdOdruWXJOPN-TFSHABsprx2TCQiq/gkyP00KonSQU2fAgnAQAAEgZWmlZZWmzcmz8RP6RP6RPazcmzcmzcmlC4UdVA-w

A lot of toughness, good enough healing power to help out regen, ect. and enough condition damage to apply pressure.

You’re just describing a normal condi druid. His exact build is pretty unimportant, any condi class can go super tanky. And in the case of condi druid, super tanky with little pressure.

I Imagine he had the warhorn mostly for added pet pressure.

Nearly perma regen, switfness, and prot comes from shouts.

Wait till you run into a bunker Scrapper running medium condi.

It was probably something more like this. (I swapped SoR for QZ) http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRBMhd+1JhKQJLYFrgNLAVLYhTwaGWVqAAcLdm2Td+bFuDXJOPN-TlyCQBA4IA4HdNzY/hKqMQCPAA9oVQLK9QpSwJcSAKo6PZGGAGCEiIiLwIiICpA8aaE-w

Plenty of protection, regen, and near perma swiftness. Stealth from warhorn/leap through the smoke field or CS. Solid condi removal. Easily reset most fights with CS + QZ.

Although it’s possible he was playing a more hybrid build. Did you notice what his heal was? did he use the sword to attack or just for movement? Did it do a decent amount of direct damage? What kind of food/utility buffs was he running?
If his trinkets were all cele and he swapped the s/w to zerk he would up his healing and put out a decent amount of direct damage with the sword, without hurting his condi damage to much when swapping to axe. Hard to say without seeing a vid or fighting him myself.

First of all thanks for the replies.
don’t remenber the healing skill sadly! He was using boon duration utility and HIS direct damage was not that bad. Not sure about the food either, but i noticed that hé did not use the taunt trait and had quite some Quickness uptime. Might be the Usually condi build for druid maybe but i don’t remember them that way and i play a lot of builds on ranger.

@Puck.
Sword was for running and mobility. I Will try to find the dude tomorrow and Will Just ask him directly. Btw ik am thinking of making something with seraph but it probably won’t work. My Dire and cele worked the best so far.

HamBetwing.8397:

Good day everyone,

Last week I came across a very annoying condi druid in wvw. I was using my beastmaster melee RANGER (zerk,knight,cleric) and was not able to get him below 80% or he would go into cele form and heal up. I had to run in every fight sadly…i dislike doing that XD. Well aware of the fact that my damage is not the best on that build that i was using. Others were not able to kill him quickly either.
I have not spoken to him but i can give u a description of what i saw.
He had:
- condi cleanse signet and i think daze glyph cuz i was stunned a couple of times.
-The bleeding utility (sharpened edges?)
-warhorn/sword + axe/torch
-of course bristleback + smokescale -.-
- Almost perma protection, regen, swiftness

his condi pressure was not super high but it was enough to make me go on the defensive even with the fact taht all my utilties cleanse at least 1 condi (shouts + surv. skills)
I can’t seem to figure out his build and he awakened my interest in condi druid again.
What i think is that he is using something like the old settler build. Just no clue about the traits……but somehow i doubt that he was using the skirmish line cuz of pressure not being SUPER high.

Sorry for the long post i just want to provide as much info on it as i can.

I am looking for a build like this but i don’t know which gear and which traitlines i should use. Any ideas or build suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Hey Ham, exact same thing happened to me a few days ago. Its a pretty tanky and yet damaging build, was surprised by both aspects of it. Same thing, couldn’t get them below 80%.

I saw something like this a couple weeks back. It was a female character with Kodan tonic. Similar to what these guys describe. The food he was using was a 100 healing one, not sure whats it called. He would just outlast the battle without dropping below 80%.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRBMhd+1JhKQLLYFrgNLAVLYxQwYCAjuGQz7KY1Cgzqf10aJPLN-TFyCABAqfoiTAQ97Psp6PT8EA0S5HjKBB4gAkZYAYIECw9u7OjLuIkCovdaA-w

A lot of you are acting like you’ve never run into anyone using dire/apothecary/settler etc armor before. Does not matter what the build is, does not matter what the profession is, does not matter what the daily fish special at the local seafood bar is. You won’t be doing much damage to them, they’re going to outlast you. Eventually you’ll die or you’ll meander off in some random direction.

A build with something like Shamans/apothecary and Settlers mixed into it in some combination will sacrifice a bit on the condition ticks but will outsustain any Dire type build using conditions. Trait up a few skills and utilities that provide healing over and above the main heal and it can be especially hard to take these things down.

Settlers as example , on a Condition warrior , can really boost the heals of adrenal, the heal signet, (or alternate heal) , regen , shouts or Rousing resilience. I do not play a Druid to any great extent but given they do have multiple ways to heal I expect it very much the same with them. High protection uptime slapped on something with near 4k in armor , will greatly mitigate raw damage.

If you need an example, Gladomer streams daily on things like trailblazer necro or druid. He mostly talks to viewers while he 1v6s.

Fluffball.8307:

If you need an example, Gladomer streams daily on things like trailblazer necro or druid. He mostly talks to viewers while he 1v6s.

I wouldn’t give glad as an example for roaming necromancer play considering he usually just hangs by the Zerg whenever he plays it. And I’ve yet to see him even attempt a 1v6 let alone win one, hell it’s rare to see him attempt anything beyond a 1v2. Usually he just runs around with randoms following him and claims he’s outnumbered every fight.

To address the larger point of the thread, this and similar ranger builds have existed for years. They’re extremely tanky, but honestly they have low mobility and poor pressure unless you’re braindead and eat a bunch of it. If the druid is double melee you should be able to easily kite it around and then bait out the stun breaks before cc’ing it to death. Good necros eat these builds alive along with good thieves, good warriors, good Mesmer’s, good scrappers, and good revenants. I only exclude eles cause their builds ATM are probably too tanky to take one down. Condi druid is just a pug stomper build that doesn’t remain viable above 1v2.

OP is describing Quickcry, he isnt your average druid/ranger.

I was just referencing Glad because he plays ludicrously tanky builds and barely pays attention to what he’s doing.

Any newbie can slap on some dire armor and go fight a bunch of people at the same time.