Soilder.3607

Revisiting this topic after having resumed playing support Druid in WvW again. As a preface, I use Ministrel gear and optimized my build to max cleansing and healing output. I feel like the Druid could be significantly enhanced in supportive performance in WvW if a few changes went through. 1. Cosmic Ray - If Cosmic Ray were made a PBAoE with 180-240 radius, it would instantly be leagues better than it is now. Cut the healing a bit to compensate. Firebrand and Scrapper get easily spammable heals, I don't see why druid can't equal them. 2. Seed of Life - 240 radius, this one has been obvious for a long time. I don't know why Anet has put it off for so long. 3. Astral Wisp - This skill needs to be redesigned if it wants to be useful for WvW. Guardian Staff #2 received an amazing redesign that made it go from a bad skill to a good one and a blast finisher. If Astral Wisp was changed into some vanilla ground targetted heal with a 240 radius, it would instantly be usable. 4. Pets - Just get rid of them when playing druid and roll their traits into the ranger. Entering/exiting CA mode counts as pet swap for purpose of traits etc etc...

Haven't WvW'd on my druid in a while. I really like playing healing druid but the only content I do nowadays is World Bosses and other open world PvE. > @"Lazze.9870" said: > And 2; Pets are dead. Scratch that, they're dead-er with the stat penalties. Won't change unless they do drastic changes to druid as a whole (as in removing the pet ("permamerged", inspired by SB?), make it an invulnerable whisp, or whatever). Would screw over PvP druid and druid roaming, but I don't really care. Core and SB can do those, I'm sure the next elite spec will too (I'm also sure the upcoming spec _won't_ give ranger a solid WvW squad role, considering they gave us one with pet merge and shared stances, one that heals, and yet none are particularly wanted in a squad). Coming from an old GW1 Ranger main (who would later switch to Ritualist), I never liked the pet being a forced mechanic. I'd be glad if all the elite specs dropped the pet entirely and compensated through other means.