Guild Wars 2

How should i play the druid?
I’m a PVE player and i run by myself mostly.
What gear should i wear?
What runes should i use?
What weapons to swap to?
Do i even use Staff at all?
Simply put: i’m confused.

For PvE solo, I don’t really see much need for druid to be honest. Have fun with the new pets instead, but I would stick to the old zerker ranger setup.

Solo Druid is probably the most fun I’ve ever had. I don’t have a full suggestion on what to use but don’t listen to people who say there isn’t a need. It’s SOLO. You play how you want!

It’s great as solo to perform as a beast master, taking care of your pet while you both dps and it keeps aggro.

I’ve been able to do most things by myself with druid. 0 problems.

Honestly right now druid isn’t needed in any aspect of current pve, as such if you are going to play the class for fun, then find a fun build for you and use it. If you are looking for some meta type build, you won’t ever find one for druid (as a healer) though you could probably get away with a ranger power build that uses druid.

Here is something that might work: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8XnEqAtqg1sCWsActgl9ADOueX/rL3uAwojZgFwGBXMVJSA-ThBBABYt/o8DgLCQe6GC4JAUp6PnpEEA-e

well the tiger pet really works well with a ranger gs/lb valkyre build that i usually use

for druid i thought what worked best was a rabid condi bleed build with short bow staff or axe / staff…. i switched between the smoke scale, bristleback and tiger pet…have to say if i use axe i like the tiger but when using ranged i really like the smoke scale…while the bleeding doesnt tick as high, solar beam, short bow, the smokescale skills and companions might – my smoke scale is usually easily in the 15 might stacks range…if you spec into nature magic you can probably go to 25….

I have yet to find a good powre build for druid tough

settlers max daze max bleed

keep them dazed immobilized and bleed. tada

Daniel Handler.4816:

settlers max daze max bleed

keep them dazed immobilized and bleed. tada

^ this

Though i prefer Rabid armor and Dire trinkets, Krait runes. Max the condi damage!

Shortbow with earth sigil. Traps and Sharpening Stones. Many many bleeds from all sources, and some added poison.

Pets are new Bristleback and Fire Wyvern.

The great thing with this is i can fall back and heal with staff/astral form and still apply condi pressure.

build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAVWjMqQNLWuCerAVLWMEM4u6YNt20BSdVNmAwor0B-TRyCwAQUCC4IAgT9HFHCgS6Acb+rpyvWaCmt/AhAWMHA-e

EDIT: now the build link is correct.

I am trying to figure this out too from a little bit of playing on Druid that I did in Beta. Now I have a level 80 ranger, but I haven’t played the class very much since Guardian was always my main. I love supporting a group, and Druid seems more fun to me.
I currently run my Ranger in a condi build with Axe/Torch and Rabid gear.

For the Druid, I’m not sure what gear I should focus on. I was using Celestial to solo during the beta just because it was made available and that seemed to work fine.
I used staff and shortbow, switching between them especially using shortbow 3 when I needed to quickly retreat. I was trying to stay at range and let my pet tank stuff.
The smokescale pet was awesome and was doing massive damage while having 40k hit points, I don’t know if this was intended or not to be this powerful.

Using the staff I was able to build up plenty of celestial force ( the energy needed to use the healing form) and I could pop into healing form when needed to heal me or the pet if we got a little overrun.

I’m guessing if I was going to heal a raid, I might have to equip a different set than if I’m soloing, since I’m assuming only healing power affects heal effectiveness ( and not power or precision).
I’m not going to be running around in Celestial in the real game anytime soon.