Guild Wars 2

Tonight I am going to play in a 5 man with some friends. They will be playing necro, rev, warrior and thief. Instead of playing my warrior or mesmer, I was thinking that a pure support druid for heals and condi cleanses might be a good addition to the group. FYI, I have little druid experience. I came up with the following build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNUQNBHhZ6keVogVsmVwhFgrFsgJYNLrBQAAum2TLqOLuGXNrEDnG-TFyDQBQU5HAOEA4RfA8eCAVS9nidCAey+DfUJIpA8bvF-w

After testing this afternoon I felt that my heals are not as sustained as I anticipated. When I am in celestial form, heals are strong… but it decays very quickly. Then when used up, it seems to take a very long time to replenish. While I am trying to replenish, I feel that I will not be adding much to the group since my attacks do no damage and I don’t have a lot of group healing.

One helpful play style adjustment I found was to only use Celestial Avatar for a couple abilities and not to run it dry just for the sake of sitting in it; the strong heals are more readily available for when needed.

Is there any tweaks that someone can recommend to my build or a play style suggestion I can use? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Use the PvP build as a base. Your build almost looks like a raid build rather than one to use against humans.

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

The regen from shouts and staff will do a lot of “top-off” healing and charge CA before the cooldown is up, and if people get in serious trouble stealth them with the smokeskale or celestial shadow.

You can still work warhorn in there, but LB has a lot of good utility on it as well, like the knockback and ancient seeds to help your teammates spike someone very quickly.

Edit: Also pigs are awful.

You could also look at the roaming shout build. With the trooper runes and traited you can apply swiftness,regen and clear condis from allies from each of your shouts which will probably be 3 or 4 skills.

Its quite forgiving and flexible so that you can change the odd trait/skill or weapon choice to your own preference. i tend not to run staff since i dont seem to be able to get the best from it

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

Both this and the pvp shoutbow fluffball stated are good starting points

my work in progress atm https://tinyurl.com/zh65hj5

Well I typed out a long post explaining this but the kittening forum decided to log me out and delete everything I wrote…..

Try something like this instead http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNUQNBMhZ6kSFoWQsXQwiVgrFsMLYOVtrWW7JAUn2aw/zC6DtkVkG-TVSDQBXS9nJ8AAkoyvQqEkJ7PIvjAge0HAgDBwxOBAkCwv9WA-w