Condition Soulbeast

March 2024

Condition Soulbeast is a durable DPS build that is relatively easy to pick up due to its simple rotation. It has great self-sustain capabilities thanks to and . The build can also offer group support by combining with stances such as or . A significant part of the DPS of the build will come from your allies applying due to sharing .

Optimized variant of this build is built around using which focuses on boosting the application of this build. This will make the build a bit more reliant on your allies proccing as often as they can while they have this buff.

Build Fundamentals

Always stay merged with your Pet and flank enemies to benefit from and the enhanced versions of your Shortbow skills.

Remember to use during DPS downtime to extend your boons.

You can precast , , and  before the start of combat for extra damage, but don’t cause unnecessary downtime for 9 other people by precasting.

Always start encounters on Shortbow with Weapon Swap ready. Try to reset your rotation to this state during DPS downtime whenever possible.

Rotation Tips

Try to finish Dagger Auto-attack chain whenever possible (but don’t prioritize it over your weapon skills) and utilize skill queueing (spam #1) to avoid stray Autoattacks between sequences of Dagger weapon skills.

Ideally you want to use during . This will happen naturally if you use off cooldown after your first Loop and follow the rotation correctly without getting interrupted. In case your and are desynced use off cooldown.

After your first Loop use off cooldown.

Use off cooldown to proc or save it for CC. There is no reason to not use before swapping to Dagger since it will be almost back off cooldown once you swap back to Shortbow.

Be careful when using as it has higher skill priority than other Shortbow skills and will thus cancel them.

Pet and Utility Skills

Use and during Auto-attack chain sections. While you are on Dagger try to avoid interrupting your Auto-attack chain with Pet or Utility Skills.

Crowd Control

Alternatives

Pets

Swap for:

• for CC. Save for CC and use in place of .
• in fights with adds. Use while standing in the target’s hitbox while adds are within 600 range. This will send up to 9 projectiles instead of 3. Use off cooldown (this can be precast before going into combat).
• on bosses where is strong. Use and off cooldown.

Skills

Swap for:

• for condition cleanse.
• for condition cleanse.