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So you are playing Guild Wars 2, and you like the open world in this game. But you are wondering what build you are aiming for.
Discover the best open world solo druid build in Guild Wars 2 by Lord Hizen, focusing on survivability, condition damage, and support.
Key Takeaways
- Solo druid build excels in open world content beyond meta events, offering strong survivability and support.
- Condition damage and duration are maximized through gear, traits, and weapon choices.
- Pets play a crucial role in applying vulnerabilities and providing sustain and protection.
- Healing is sustained passively via relic and active skills, allowing for effective solo play.
- Community engagement through Discord enhances learning and content customization.
Summary
- Explains three types of open world builds in Guild Wars 2: tagging, glass cannon DPS, and solo builds.
- Focuses on a solo druid build designed for open world content, balancing damage, survivability, and support.
- Build uses full celestial gear with rabid runes and expertise infusions for optimal condition damage and healing.
- Main weapon set is dagger and warhorn with sigils of strength and frailty to maintain might and vulnerability stacks.
- Secondary weapon options include torch for condition damage or off-hand dagger/shortbow for different playstyles.
- Traits chosen from skirmishing and wilderness survival lines to maximize condition damage, duration, and survivability.
- Recommended pets are Jacaranda for vulnerability and sustain, and turtle for backup protection and healing.
- Skills include We Heal As One, Quickening Zephyr, Sun Spirit, Protect Me, and Entangle or Strength of the Pack for sustain.
- Biomancer relic provides strong healing through condition damage, enhanced by Celestial Avatar skills and Wilderness Survival traits.
- Encourages joining the creator’s Discord for community, questions, and voting on future content.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to Open World Builds
- 00:23Glass Cannon DPS Build Overview
- 00:55Solo Build Advantages and Expertise
- 01:51About the Creator and Community Invitation
- 02:27Build Gear and Relic Explanation
- 03:09Weapon Choices and Sigils
- 03:57Trait Line Selection and Effects
- 04:55Skill Choices and Utility
- 05:30Pet Recommendations and Roles
- 06:12Healing, Sustain, and Defensive Mechanics
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So let me make it short and tell you that there are three types of open world builds. The tagging builds aim to gather more loot while farming meta events with others.
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The glass cannon DPS build aims to deal as much damage as possible during meta events while being carried by support players to increase your ego and see your name showing in the DPS meter.
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Nice, but struggle to survive alone. And finally, the solo build aims to complete every other content in the open world since meta events are only a small part of open world content such as achievements, side events, and story
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easily. And still do great as a support during meta events for good farming. And that is my field of expertise.
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And I have a long history to prove it. Especially since Guild Wars 2 is my favorite single player MMO. And I dare you to change my mind.
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My name is Heizen, and I will be your guide to play the game in the right way.
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Single player mode. Also, if you have any questions or you want to join my community guild, make sure to join my Discord server for news, also to vote for content since this video was picked based on votes in my
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Discord, and there will be more in the future. Without any further ado, let's start.
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Welcome everyone. Today we have a match against the avatar of Balthazar, the god of war.
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And the fighter is going to be Hello. Are you my family? Domain expansion. Ah, don't move. Don't move.
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Don't move. It's over. All right, let's start with the build. The gear that we're going to use for this druid build is going to be full celestial gear with rabid runes and expertise infusions.
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The infusions are optional, but it's good to have. Relic is going to be the relic of the Biomaster because this relic is going to heal a lot, especially since all ranger condi builds inflict a lot of bleeding and poisons, which makes you focus more
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on dealing more damage while passively sustaining yourself. As for weapons, the main weapon is dagger and warhorn with sigils of strength and frailty to maintain uptime 25 mights and vulnerability stacks.
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The dagger will help you to maintain quickness uptime, lots of poisons and bleeding, also vulnerability stacks.
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Warhorn to sustain your 25 might stacks to maximize your damage and help you reach 25 max stacks of vulnerabilities.
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For the second weapon, I would personally recommend going with torch to maximize your condition damage while keeping dagger to maintain vulnerabilities uptime.
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If you want different options, you can use off-hand dagger to evade and heal more from inflicting more poisons and bleeding.
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Or if shortbow is your fantasy, you can go ahead with it, but it won't do as much damage compared to a dagger.
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For traits, we will use both skirmishing and wilderness survival trait lines to maximize condition damage and duration.
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Sharpened edges will inflict more bleeding when you and your pet land a critical hit.
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Hidden bombs increases your bleeding damage. Quick draw generates more quickness and reduces the cooldown of your next skill when you swap a weapon.
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Arachnophobia increases your condition duration by 10%. Ambidexterity increases your condition damage and reduces the cooldown of your dagger and torch skills.
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Poison master increases your poison damage and makes your pet skill inflict poisons as well.
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Blood moon inflicts more bleeding every time you CC or immobilize an enemy. Grace of the land generates alacrity for yourself and nearby allies when you use celestial avatar skills.
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Eclipse makes your celestial avatar skills inflict conditions. For skills, we will use We Heal As One to heal yourself and your pet, also to refresh and share boons between you and your pet.
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Quickening Zephyr to maintain quickness uptime and can also be used to stun break when you get CC'd by an enemy.
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Sun Spirit inflicts AoE burning and also helps maintain your 25 might stacks uptime.
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Protect Me as your defensive skill in case you need to stun break or if you need more protection and barriers to reduce incoming damage.
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Entangle straight up inflicts more condition damage. But if you want more sustain, you can use Strength of the Pack to generate more boons and stabilities.
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For pets, I will highly recommend using the Jacaranda pet because it's able to inflict vulnerabilities to increase the total damage and can sustain itself.
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Not to mention it can immobilize a target, which will trigger your druid trait to inflict more bleeding.
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For the second pet, I picked a turtle as a backup pet in case Jacaranda dies or if you want to have more protection boon uptime to reduce incoming damage.
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For heals, as long as you deal damage, your Biomancer relic will keep healing you a lot and you will remove conditions whenever you use your Celestial Avatar skill two that has a very short cooldown.
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And in case you need more healing and protection uptime, the Wilderness Survival trait line will generate protection for you and your pet every time you dodge. Also, it will heal you for every second while the protection boon is active.
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We Heal As One. Protect Me. If you have End of Dragons expansion, it's good to charge your Jade Protocols to increase your defensive and defensive stats and Jade boons every time you enter combat.
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And you can stack up this buff up to 3 hours, so it's really good to have.
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That's everything you need to know about this build. If you want to see the DPS rotation, make sure to check the video link in the description down below.
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You can also join my Discord server for questions, guides, news, and more. For now, enjoy watching this build face tank and kill bosses in around 30 seconds only. Take care and have a nice day.
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Refreshing. Protect Me. The king has fallen. Protect Me. I'm up here. Protection. I'm here.
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The king has fallen. Protect Me. The king has fallen. Protect Me. Why am I being We prepare to fight.
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Protect Me. The keys are in the slots. I'll revive you. Eat my dust. Protect Me.
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Take that. Armored up. Protect Me. We Heal As One. We Heal As One. We Heal As One.
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There's one to Protect Me. That's for you. Protect Me. There's one to remember me by.
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Protect Me. We Heal As One. I'm bleeding. Come here. I'm up. Open fire. We Heal As One.
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That looks That looks good. That's a cover. We Heal As One. I'm up. Protect Me.
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We Heal As One. I chose you. Protect Me. Protect Me. The healing one. I chose you.
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I was the healing one. The healing one. The healing one. Protect Me. I'm better than I expected.
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The healing one. Protect Me. The healing one. Protect Me. The healing one. Protect Me.
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I'm here. He is in the water. Protect Me. He is in the water. He is in the water.
Topics:Guild Wars 2Druid buildOpen worldSolo buildCondition damageCelestial gearBiomancer relicPetsWilderness SurvivalSkirmishing traits
