Hi,
as a player who has played minstrel druid now for over half a year in raids I want to share my experience with you related to the recommendation using this built by [qT].
At first, I have to say that I didn’t used the exactly same build. My experience is based on sigill of concentration (only on the sword/horn) and the pre patch food which gains boon duration. This allowed me to run not only minstrel. In addition, I didn’t run 4 spirits, sunpirit was usally taken by a condi ranger.
One big change is the huge thougness that you will have with a full minstrel build. If you don’t have another full minstrel chrono in your squad you will have to tank. So I want to give you are some hint what are the differences as tanking with a healer.
- Vale Guard: The biggest problem here is your lack of dodging/blocking as a druid, wihtout chaging the position, so vg will do some small steps. You have to care about healing yourself, because vg does really a lot of damage. Tanking at the wall is very easy, because you can dodge against it without changing the position. If you run a beginner comp, the condi druid will maybe struggle in healing the players doing green circles, in that case I would recommend to use a 2nd main healer.
- Gorseval, KC, Mursaat: Are really easy to tank. Less dps from the boss and always grouped.
- Deimos: Has a high dps output aswell, but it is ok since you have really high toughness and vitality. Because the chrono now can get green (chrono would be the black kiter in this case) you need a backup chrono or handkite is blackkite during this phase. If you don’t want to change anything the 2nd chrono has to take well of protection as well. Instead I would recommend to use another well for the chronos and GS+sword/warhorn to have a block on ur own, chronos have shield 4 anyways and can therefore run their build as usual.
- Xera: This is the only boss I have not tanked until now. The reason behind it is that I don’t think it is possible to tank xera as a druid, even with full minstrel. There are a couple of attacks which you have to dodge without having a wall behind you. If you want to try it, please share your experience with us!
There are other new things comming in beside tanking the boss. E.g. your PS is able to run a more offensive build. I’m pretty sure that it is possible to take a condi beserker instead of one cps because this build is still generating some stacks of might, but hybrid versions will definetly do that job. You are not even forced to take a PS, while cps in supgroup 2 runs both banners, a full condi subgroub with some other might sources (like condi tempest) are valid options, too.
Feel free to give more hints related to the minstrel druid, there is much more details around which might be interesting!