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Ready for a mocking of my build
After posting this, I swapped out my lb for Stardust SB and Wanderers Auric Torch (that I’ve been carrying around but have never equipped and soulbound) and just simply doing that would up my precision and condi dmg considerably.
*You’ve got 3 source of permanent speed buffs (signet of the hunt, resounding timbre+heal as one, natural stride). You only need one – throw out the signet at least
*Not the best elite for condi build, consider entangle instead, or even spirit of nature
*Trapper’s expertise will provide more bleeds than sharpened edges
*A staff could help for building astal force, as an alternative to shortbow.
Thank you. I see now that you’ve pointed it out the speed overlaps. I just never noticed.
Your build seems either too defensive, or not defensive enough. Your primary stat is vitality, which isn’t doing you any favors in terms of partner play.
In terms of theorycraft, your Tempest needs to be self-sufficient. For most PvE play, it shouldn’t matter if you can heal your partner or not. They are required to have a healing spell on the bar, and they are the best person to realize they are standing in a big red circle of impending death, so use that as your first line of defense.
This isn’t really a modification of your build. This is a condition build that I mostly ripped off of other people on this forum, that I think is similar to what you’re trying to do.
The idea is that you will be the one fronting the damage for the most part – charging into the fray in melee range while your partner lays on the burst damage. You’ll still have somewhat defensive armor (in terms of high toughness) and decent healing via resounding timbre and cultivated synergy. Keep your pet in close proximity of you as some of your healing will “bounce” off the pet. Use spike trap and then Entaglement to keep your prey stuck to your location.
On the offensive front, your job is to lay down bleeds. You have no power stats, so ignore autoattacks for the most part. Sharpen blades, use flame trap, and then focus on swapping weapons, poison volley, split blade, and bonfire.
Believe it or not, that build really isn’t that terrible. It’s borderline celestial gear stat equivalent.
Strength of the pack is the right elite for what you did. Fury gives you decent precision with a hard stack of both power AND condition dmg making for solid burst.
You got quickdraw which will stack with 3 of you skills nicely.
I wouldn’t change a thing tbh, the best build is the build you know.
Focus on how you want to kill stuff, conditions or power and then you can throw on any defensive stats you feel like you need after that. Condi is pretty nice and traps are great for tagging in events. ascended trinkets and weapons are pretty easy to get so really try to get those, the weapons and trinkets are the biggest stat increases, armor doesnt do much.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Thanks for all the ideas and build modifications. I used some gear I had in the bank, so I’m still not full rabid but I did go 3 rabid, 1 viper, 1 dire, 1 rampager and changed the ruins to krait. Switched out my longbow with a rampager (already in my bank and soulbound) and I’m crafting an rabid ascended torch (I can only craft torch or bow and I’’m still not decided on the bow). I haven’t touched my trinkets yet. But it’s a start.
With all your changes since your OP, posting your new modified build would probably help. If you’re still looking for advice, give glyphs a 2nd look. As was pointed out above, you had 3 redundant means of perma-swiftness. Assuming you dropped the SotH and don’t really need Natural Stride, you have room to make some sweet Glyphs. You could then equip at least 1 glyph in the emptied Signet spot (and I’d recommend another in the Search&Rescue slot) and trait Verdant Etchings. This will both shore up your defense (you don’t have a stun breaker or condi removal) and your offense with utilities on rather short CDs. Now, G of Alignment does AoE 3 stacks of poison, criple, weakness, blind on a 16 s CD and heals you for 500 + 1/2 your healing power and cures 2 condis. How can you turn that down? And G of Equality does AoE Daze, blind, heal, 2 condi clears on a 24 s CD and combos with your Ancient Seeds trait for immob and bleed.
I wasn’t crazy about the super heal focus of the Druid when it came out, but now I’ve converted my old condi Ranger survival build to a condi Druid and have been having fun with it.
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