Guild Wars 2

Lunar Impact (or even Glyph of Equality) with Ancient Seeds GM + Natural Convergence

…done with 25 stacks of might, stability, and quickness. from the stream numbers, Natural Convergence does a minimum of 11k damage on heavy armour, without any buffs (1.6s cast with quickness). the pbaoe daze from Lunar Impact with Ancient Seeds is basically equivalent to an Entangle. the slow from NC will cause victims to pop their cds or waste dodge rolls.

this combo is easy to setup and repeat in a good raid group, and is enough to carry druids in any frontline wvw comp, or even to clear points in conquest. this is without Tidal Surge getting its dps/debuff component in the next iteration of the skill, as Irenio mentioned.

are we going to need any other damage sources? not really. celestial avatar is essentially a deathshroud on steroids + more utility. we can select weapons and traits that allow us to maximize our heals, so we can recharge Celestial Avatar asap. this means possibly slotting warhorn and windbourne notes for the regen. sword/wh/staff looks interesting and gives us a ton of survivability. we could also maximize blast finishers on top of water fields to further boost our heals (I believe we can get 5 blast finishers now lol, or at least 4). baseline heal numbers look so good that I doubt we’ll have to stack HP, meaning that we can use offensive stats.

to all the rangers out there sobbing in a corner: druids are going to be required in wvw raids. this will work out for you as long as you don’t mind healing your mates in order to dps.

Very interesting, never realised the damage potential of Astral Form before you mentioned this. Will have to try this in PvP next weekend, thanks for the heads up!

yeah I’m gonna be testing this next weekend as well. Irenio mentioned during the stream, the stats weren’t even maximized, so does that mean damage will be even higher? cant wait to find out.

obviously the sustain damage of the avatar isn’t that significant, but the burst and utility it provides are impressive.

mistsim.2748:

yeah I’m gonna be testing this next weekend as well. Irenio mentioned during the stream, the stats weren’t even maximized, so does that mean damage will be even higher? cant wait to find out.

obviously the sustain damage of the avatar isn’t that significant, but the burst and utility it provides are impressive.

It’s not the damage I’m excited about – can you imagine Druid in PvP with Nomad’s gear? The effective health would be stupid.

lol yeah, that’s gonna be amazing for support druid. I’m actually excited about playing mine offensively. that will depend on how quickly I can fill up celestial energy without healing power. celestial stats might be good, like on guardians. likely we’ll need a few sets of gear.

but I think youre right, nomad gear may be our best choice.