Power Willbender

October 2024

Introduction

Power Spear Willbender is a powerful high burst build with cleave damage and a good amount of CC. This build also additional , , , , and to your team without swapping out any skills.

Note that this build has a plenty of movement skills and animation locks. Watch out where you dash!

Build Fundamentals

Keep your uptime of high by using your Virtue skills. Precasting and before the fight increases your opening burst through stacking and maintaining .

and are best used to maintain after your opener. Since has a dash attached to it, try to use it when or are off cooldown in order to get back to your target faster and continue with your rotation.

is a shadowstep mobility skill, allowing you to choose where you end up after using it. Use this skill to maintain right before your finish your Spear Loop. It also grants self and , and can be used to reposition your character closer or further from your target as needed.

After your opener, your Loop is not going to change. The idea at the beginning is to use all your charges of while using some skills in between its short cooldown. The first Spear Loop is different due to not being ready at the beginning as it was used in the opener. Here’s how an early loop should go:

1. Start in Spear and use   , then Weapon Swap to Greatsword.
2. Once in Greatsword, use first, and then to keep active.
3. . With this combo, you can activate all charges of with very little downtime.
4. Follow your normal Greatsword Loop and Weapon Swap to Spear.
5. Your first Spear Loop is also slightly different due to being on cooldown from the previous rotation. Instead, skip this skill at the beginning, and prioritize , then use .
6. At this point, to keep active, use and go back to the boss with . After this, the ending of your Spear Loop will no longer change.

Avoid delaying using since it provides a good amount of damage whilst also helping to maintain .

should be used always while you’re affected by to further increase its damage – use any spear skill other than to gain this buff.

places on the ground, granting Spear skills the buff for the next few seconds, without it disappearing after using a Spear skill.

Build Specifics

Along with its damage, Power Willbender also helps the team with plenty of boons.

Virtues:

• – grants 3 stacks of to allies.
• – grants to allies.
• – grants to allies.

Spear:

• – provides to allies.
• – provides 6 stacks of to allies. If this skill is used whilst affected by , you also provide .
• – provides under the effect of and if the allies are not full life.

Greatsword:

• – provides to allies.

Willbender has plenty of Light Fields and Whirl Finishers, making you able to help with conditions cleanse for allies. also helps with this purpose.

Crowd Control

CC skills in your current set:

• – your biggest CC that is not in your rotation but always available
• – while in Greatsword
• – if necessary. Bear in mind that using this will negatively impact your DPS.
• – low CC during your Spear Loop.

Replace with one of these skills for extra CC:

• – short CD and can be used twice.
• – insane amount of CC over time.

Alternatives

Utility Skills

If needed feel free to replace with one of the following skills:

• – for projectile reflect.
• – for strong CC and projectiles block.
• – for group
• – for group

can be replaced with one of the following:

• – for precasting boons before the fight.
• – for passive group healing.