February 2023

Grenade Scrapper

Grenade Scrapper is an easy-to-learn roamer with high mobility and superlative AOE pressure in teamfights. Scrapper is currently the most popular roamer for Ranked Queue due to its damage, Superspeed access, and Stealth. Scrapper is strong because of its access to key boons in pvp. Kinetic Accelerators gives Might and permanent Fury uptime, Gyroscopic Acceleration provides Superspeed, and Rune of the Chronomancer gives Quickness whenever you use one of your gyros. Tip: Superspeed isn’t a boon so it can’t be removed or corrupted. Use it to counteract impairing effects like Chilled and Crippled and escape safely. Nade Scrapper uses this combination of boons to spam constant AOE pressure with Grenade Kit at range. Scrapper also has built-in support with Function Gyro that lets you res allies or stomp enemies. Scrapper’s opening burst from stealth is incredibly oppressive because it double…

Condition Alacrity Tempest

Condition Alacrity Tempest is a versatile build that provides permanent Alacrity, 25 Might and Protection, as well as boon extension for other boons thanks to Sand Squall. Multiple traits and utility skills can be modified to suit the specific requirements of different encounters. Alacrity is applied when using overloads thanks to Lucid Singularity, so the rotation focuses on casting Overload Fire and Overload Earth off cooldown, filling in with damaging and boon providing skills in between. Finishing an overload grants a powerful effect and additional Alacrity, so always channel Overloads until the end! The basic attunement loop is Fire Attunement -> Air Attunement ->Earth Attunement, overloading on Fire and Earth. Do not delay swapping attunements, as that will result in late Overloads and losing Alacrity Heat Sync spreads boons to allies, and Sand Squall extends the duration of boons on…

Power Willbender

Power virtues willbender is a fast paced build that takes advantage of Restorative Virtues to reduce the cooldown of weapon skills by using multi-hit abilities while any of the virtues effects are active. While easy to pick up and perform at a competent level, mastering this build will take some time due to the need to cancel the aftercasts of certain skills such as Symbol of Resolution and Zealot's Defense, as well as avoiding as many hits as possible to keep Unscathed Contender up. The strength of this build lies in resetting the main damage skills with Restorative Virtues, so make sure to be under a Virtues’ active effect at all times. This can be achieved mainly by using Rushing Justice off cooldown. Flowing Resolve and Crashing Courage can also be used, however Crashing Courage should be kept available to…

Defense Spellbreaker

Mobile and bursty build with decent team fight potential. However, the main value you get from this build is its 1v1 potential as well as its 1v2 potential. This build has pretty good consistent damage however you prioritize landing Arcing Slice as it is your biggest burst skill. Your main strength in a 1v1 is the amount of CC you can utilize, possibly allowing you to CC chain your enemy to death through the use of Shield Bash, Disrupting Stab, and Rampage. Due to great No Escape interaction with Arcing Slice (as you can hit from behind and in front and still land it), you can use Disrupting Stab into Arcing Slice or Full Counter and Arcing Slice (Full Counter can reset your F1 cooldown as well as activating No Escape). You have a large number of defensive abilities to…

Static Discharge Holo

Static Discharge Holosmith is a high-skill build that brings excellent damage, crowd control, mobility, and condition cleanse in a neat package. While not as popular as other roamers, Holosmith also benefits from an ability to take 1v1s and act as a pseudo side noder. Holosmith gives an engineer access to Engage Photon Forge, a transform ability that gives access to five new weapon skills. Engage Photon Forge is similar to a Necromancer Death Shroud, except instead of using an energy pool like Life Force, Photon Forge builds Heat, a mechanic unique to the Holosmith. Heat needs to be carefully managed since gaining too much causes you to Overheat. Overheat takes you out of Photon Forge, deals high damage to you, and puts all toolbelt skills on cooldown. If you Overheat in pvp, you’re probably going to die. Exceed skills, unique to…

Fresh Air Catalyst

Fresh Air Catalyst is  the best ranked build and roamer in the game and it dominates the competition.  Catalyst is hard carried by Fresh Air in the Air traitline. Fresh Air not only buffs damage but allows you to constantly swap into Air Attunement to refresh the buff, generate near-permanent Superspeed, and drop your Deploy Jade Sphere off cooldown. Tip: Air Attunement lacks native combo finishers, but you can swap to Air Attunement during the cast of skills like Phoenix to get a Shocking Aura from a combo field. The Focus Variant of this build offers lots of defensive utility alongside the damage. For a more aggressive version of the build, check out the Dagger Variant. Be warned, however, that you will get focused and dagger offers you fewer defensive tools to survive. Your ‘Hard CC’ comes from Gale and Comet .…

Power Deadeye

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Power Alacrity Untamed

Power Alacrity Untamed can provide 100% uptime of Alacrity, very good CC and decent damage. The build focuses on using CC skill to reduce your cooldowns with Fervent Force. This build will not work on some bosses. Including the Icebrood Construct in both the Shiverpeak Pass and Fraenir of Jormag Strike missions and Qadim if he has Stability. On the first Unleash Ranger loop use Aqua Surge to start building up Alacrity. All spores from Exploding Spores need to hit the target to knockdown and trigger Fervent Force. Use it while standing in the bosses hitbox if possible. You can use Unleash Ranger before Exploding Spores and Call Lightning to benefit from the extra damage of Vow of the Untamed. Use Venomous Outburst Rending Vines and Enveloping Haze off cooldown. Bite, Rending Pounce and Maul can be set to auto…

Condition Weaver

Condition Weaver offers high condition burst damage and moderate survivability. Weave Self holds the key to damage in this build, but also requires a long, fast-paced rotation that is heavily reliant on Alacrity and Quickness for success. Your rotation consists of two parts: (1) the Weave Self Rotation and (2) the regular Loop. Weave Self reduces your attunement swap cooldowns to 2 seconds and grants you an element-specific buff for each element attuned. Attuning to all four elements in the next 20 seconds achieves a Perfect Weave granting a large boost to your stats for 10 seconds. Delaying Perfect Weave as long as possible is ideal, as this maintains the Woven Fire bonus for almost the full 20-second window after casting Weave Self. After this, Perfect Weave grants 30 seconds of +20% condition damage. On encounters with multiple phases, Weave…

Heal Quickness Herald

Heal Quickness Herald is a powerful support build that reliably provides 25 Might, Fury, Protection, Regeneration, Swiftness, and Quickness in a large radius. This build provides strong sustain and burst healing and can serve as an excellent tank. Additionally, Herald extends boon duration for your allies, has very strong crowd control abilities, and can be adapted to apply Stability. While in Legendary Dragon Stance, use all utility facets (Facet of Darkness, Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements) and their respective consume abilities off-cooldown to provide Fury, Might, Swiftness thanks to Draconic Echo. Maintain Facet of Light and Facet of Chaos for Regeneration and Protection. Generate Might by blasting Searing Fissure (or any fire field) with Echoing Eruption on Mace/Shield, and by utilizing a powerful synergy between Spiritual Reckoning, Vicious Reprisal, and Shared Empowerment: Use Facet of Chaos or Chaotic Release…

Power Vindicator

Power Vindicator is a bursty power build that excels at encounters with large hitboxes, as Eternity's Requiem scales with hitbox size. The rotation is forgiving and easy to pick up. This build only uses Greatsword, which allows for a Staff Weapon Swap in encounters that require a lot of CC. Alliance Tactics swaps your Legendary Alliance Stance from Archemorus (Red/Orange) to Saint Viktor (Blue). Always stay in Archemorus since Spear of Archemorus and Nomad's Advance are part of your rotation. Be aware that dodging during the channeling of any skill will cancel it. Use Dodge regularly to spend your endurance and apply buffs: Dodging grants Vigor to you and your allies via Song of Arboreum and upkeeps the strike damage buff from Forerunner of Death 100% of the time. Imperial Guard is a 2-second channel block to be used if…

Side Chrono

Side chrono is currently one of the simpliest and yet most powerful duelist. Using high boon uptime and conditions to slowly but surely kill your opponent. It excels against power builds but really struggles into conditions. This build relies on a very slow playstyle, rotating defensives. As a chronomancer most of your defensive also have an offensive effect. Most of your cooldowns must be used as often as possible but in the right way! On staff you will want to auto attack as much as possible and keep clones up to autoattack with you to pressure your opponent. Make sure to try to keep some distance as doing so, you do not want to directly trade damage with melee classes. Use Chaos Storm inside ofContinuum Shift to gain extra Phase Retreat. Try to be in melee range forPhase Retreat as…

Power Spellbreaker

Hammer Spellbreaker is a DPS build that provides constant Crowd Control (CC) and consistent damage, with good self-sustain thanks to the Defense trait line. Hammer Spellbreaker gains a massive damage increase from Attacker's Insight, as disabling foes or removing boons grants 50 Power, Precision, and Ferocity per stack. Using Crowd Control abilities on Hammer increases your damage for the period of time you will be on Dagger/Axe. To gain additional stacks of Attacker's Insight, daze your enemies by using Aura Slicer and Breaching Strike to leap through the lightning field created by Winds of Disenchantment, or by using Full Counter. Thanks to Attacker's Insight, hitting enemies with Full Counter resets your Earthshaker or Breaching Strike, granting you extra opportunities for CC or damage, respectively. Backbreaker Staggering Blow Earthshaker Bull's Charge Disrupting Stab Full Counter (counter-attack) Magebane Tether will pull targets…

Power Chrono

Power Chronomancer  is one of the highest damage and highest skill floor builds in the game. Power Chrono is unique in its ability to ‘oneshot’ multiple opponents in a row with Continuum Split. Contrary to popular belief, power Chrono isn’t a oneshot build. Instead, its best to think of it as a roamer like Herald, but with the added ability to frontload almost all its damage by using Quickness and Alacrity. Power Chronomancer is played as a high-damage Roamer, meaning your job is to +1 a duelist or to get quick kills in teamfights. Avoid taking 1v1s or staying in extended fights, once Chrono starts running out of cooldowns its lack of defensive utility and condition cleanse makes it easy to focus. Always have a priority target in mind before you engage in any fight, and be proactive about leaving…

Hammer Catalyst

Hammer Catalyst is a high damage duelist; its DPS on top of boon support from Depth of Elements allows it to be great even in larger fights where Elementalist typically suffers. Unlike typical Elementalist builds, hammer has a high focus on mitigating incoming damage rather than resustaining through it. Your best defensive skills are Fortified Earth, Conjure Earth Shield, and Immutable Stone. Upkeeping auras specifically Shocking Aura and Magnetic Aura significantly boost your sustain in most matchups, and frequently comboing into them can even win certain duels by themselves. Catalyst also has a stricter attunement rotation than typical Elementalist builds, the majority of the time you will follow the pattern: Earth Attunement, into Air Attunement, into Fire Attunement, into Water Attunement, into Earth Attunement and looping from there. This is because it will generate you the most Shocking Aura and…

Power Quickness Bladesworn

Power Quickness Bladesworn provides permanent Quickness and Fury along with some Might, Stability and Resistance.  Alacrity is mandatory for this build to function properly.  The quickness version of Bladesworn is one of the power quickness builds with the highest damage potential but its unique playstyle requires experience of the class and encounter. Most of your damage comes from Dragon Slash - Force. Use it mostly off cooldown with 10 charges. Make sure to not cancel Dragon Trigger. It can be interrupted rather easily by moving or using any skill during its animation. The needed Flow for Dragon Trigger is gained by being in combat via Gun X Sword, activating Unseen Sword, "To the Limit!" and Axe Mastery. In comparison to the full dps version of Bladesworn, we lose access to Flow Stabilizer. You should still have enough Flow for your…

Condition Quickness Berserker

Condition Quickness Berserker provides permanent Quickness and Fury for your sub group while dealing decent DPS. It also provides short bursts of Stability and Resistance via Banners. Condition Berserker builds are known for being easy to learn, but hard to master. The two main keys for this build are using Shattering Blow and Blood Reckoning to increase the uptime of your Berserk and making use of the reduced Weapon Swap cooldown from Fast Hands. While the pulsing boons from your banners are also valuable, your most important boon Quickness is only applied from your initial placement of the banner. So don’t place them before the boon strip that occurs when the encounter starts. After the initial placement, you can use Banners off-cooldown, preferably while you are on Longbow or outside of Berserk. You can delay placing them by a few…

Power Quickness Herald

Power Quickness Herald is an offensive support build that provides a group with Might, Fury, Quickness, Protection, and Swiftness. The wide range of essential boons provided makes this build excellent for filling gaps in groups. A very simple rotation and excellent defensive abilities make Power Quickness Herald a good introductory choice for new players. This build also offers strong Crowd Control via Surge of the Mists and the option to provide Stability by using Legendary Dwarf Stance instead of Legendary Assassin Stance. Power Quickness Herald provides boons by combining Draconic Echo with consistent usage of Legendary Dragon Stance skills and their active components. This build also extends boon duration with True Nature (the active of Facet of Nature in Legendary Dragon Stance). Make sure to apply boons (especially Quickness) before using True Nature or the skill won’t do anything. Note: True…

Tactics Warrior

Tactics warrior is a core duelist build similar to Bladesworn  that takes advantage of shouts and Rune of the Soldier for self-sustain and team utility. Core warrior is not currently meta, but can hold many 1v1 matchups and be effective as a side-noder if played properly. This build is very simple to understand and execute, making it ideal for new players without access to expansions. Tactics Warrior does good damage by buffing itself with 25 might and unique modifiers like peak performance. Some of your hardest hitting abilities are your burst skills, Eviscerate and Arcing Slice , and Throw Axe which can randomly hit up to 8k. You can Might cap yourself easily with "For Great Justice!" and Forceful Greatsword , make sure to do so for large crits on your burst skills. Your basic combos all revolve around Bull's…

Terrormancer

Core terrormancer is a tanky alternative to other dps necromancer builds. Terrormancer offers great team utility and damage along with an enormous 31k HP pool from Carrion Amulet and a second health bar from Death Shroud . Fear is a special condition that makes opponents flee away from you, and this build is built around spamming it as much as possible. Terrormancer relies on chaining Fear and combining it with Terror to deal high damage while keeping opponents cc locked. Terrormancer also has high amounts of Torment and Bleeding and decent passive power damage. As a condition necromancer, one of your most powerful tools is access to boon corruption.  Feast of Corruption  and Weakening Shroud  all convert opponents’ boons into conditions and are powerful passive damage in teamfights. Save boon corrupts and strips to remove important boons like Stability or…