May 2023

Condizerker

Condizerker is a tanky sidenoder build with significant condition pressure. Between Rabid Amulet and Savage Instinct coupled with Eternal Champion, it can afford to drop Endure Pain and be hard to kill for both power and condition builds. You want to spend as much time as possible in Berserk, which increases your attack speed, grants you extra damage with Fatal Frenzy and some quickness from Burst of Aggression, and grants you access to your highest damaging skills, Flaming Flurry and Scorched Earth. You want to use those as often as possible. Not only do they do massive damage, but they serve to heal and cleanse you with Adrenal Health and Cleansing Ire. Whenever you use a burst skill, you will gain back some adrenaline from Burst Mastery. You will game some extra from Versatile Rage. Both of these combined make…

Condition Herald

Condition Herald is a tanky teamfight DPS that focuses on burst Burning and Torment damage, and is especially useful for shutting down Stone Heart Tempest , which is the meta healer as of this patch. This build is sturdy, so don’t be afraid to follow the teamfight target and pressuring it as hard as you can as long as you’re not focused by damage dealers. Combo with Embrace the Darkness when sticking to targets to deal significant condition damage and utilize Legend Swapping trait procs to help your bursts. The damage this build does can be boiled down to a rotation more easily than most PvP builds. You want to try and execute this rotation or something close to it on the teamfight target. this is usually most effective against a support. There’s seveal things to understand about the rotation and…

Condition Reaper

Condition Reaper is a powerful DPS team fighter that relies on Chilled for both control and damage. This build combines Harbinger’s high damage with Core Necro’s survivability and control. While Condition Reaper is susceptible to CC, it shines when paired with a support such as Tempest or Guardian. Use the range of Staff and Scepter to deal ranged damage and soft AOE Crowd Control to maintain better positioning in a team fight. Enter Reaper's Shroud to deal heavy melee damage. This can expose you to melee threats, so only use a few key skills, then reposition again to deal ranged damage with your weapons. Each time Condition Reaper applies Chilled, it also applies Bleeding and Vulnerability. Blinded effects also apply Chilled every 3 seconds. Corrupt boons on enemies to increase damage and overwhelm them with conditions. Most of your boon…

Power Quickness Spellbreaker

Hammer Quickness Spellbreaker is a support DPS build that provides permanent Quickness and Fury with a good amount of Might and Resistance. It also brings constant Crowd Control (CC) and consistent damage. Hammer Quickness 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. Use banners off-cooldown after the encounter starts. 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 Disrupting Stab Full Counter…

Power Berserker

Power Berserker is a high DPS build with a fast paced but fairly simple rotation. It has a large amount of cleave damage and can also provide decent Crowd Control (CC) with the option to bring more, for a DPS loss. Power Berserker uses a combination of weapon skills to build adrenaline for Primal Burst skills and also uses Rage skills to extend the duration of Berserk. The build utilizes Axe Mastery to gain fast and reliable adrenaline through critical hits. You have the ability to almost permanently be in Berserk. The goal of your rotation is to use as many Primal Burst skills as possible. On Axe you need to hit your target 3 times to generate enough Adrenaline for the next Decapitate. To achieve this you can use the following combinations: Cyclone Axe -> Throw Axe Cyclone Axe ->…

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

Giving up some mobility and Resistance, we slap on the hammer and get access to ridiculous amounts of CC. This CC is somewhat useful in teamfight, but also makes you extremely deadly in duels. This build however can have trouble dealing with condition builds in an outnumber, and Blinded due to hammer’s slow attacks. Your main strength in a 1v1 is the amount of crowd control you can utilize, making you extremely scary. If you successfully stun an opponent without a stunbreak, there’s a good chance you’ll kill them there and then if you’re fast enough with chaining your stuns and insert some damage in between. Fierce Blow is your main damage on hammer. Use it on a stunned opponent, and then recharge it with Backbreaker and do it again. Finish off with Weapon Swap Breaching Strike. Due to great…

Power Deadeye

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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…

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 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…

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…

Condition Virtuoso

Condition Virtuoso is a relatively easy DPS build that deals consistent damage from range and cleaves enemies with its piercing attacks. Additionally, Virtuoso has a good amount of built-in defensive utility thanks to Jagged Mind, Bladeturn Requiem, and Bladesong Distortion. Stock up Blades by applying Bleeding to enemies thanks to Jagged Mind and Bloodsong. Once 5 Blades are ready, alternate between using Bladesong Sorrow and Bladesong Harmony. Use Phantasmal Swordsman at the start of your Sword loop, then use it again before swapping to Focus to use Phantasmal Warden. Reset the cooldown of Phantasmal Warden with Signet of the Ether to summon more Phantasms for a DPS increase. Space your Shatters to keep Deadly Blades up at all times. Always prioritize Bladesong Sorrow and Bladesong Harmony. Then use Signet of Illusions to reset the cooldown of your Shatters. Continuously generate Blades…

Power Mechanist

Power Mechanist is a strong DPS Option on virtually all encounters in the game. It is fully ranged, has great self-sustain, great mobility, amazing Crowd Control, and access to decent self-Quickness, some group Might all while being very easy to pick up. Shift Signet is not only a long-range blink but can also be used as a Stun Break, condition cleanse, and reposition your mech if needed. Should your mech die you can resummon it with Overclock Signet. You are able to support some group Might generation with Blunderbuss as well as provide yourself with a lot of Quickness via Mech Core: Jade Dynamo. Mechanical Genius gives your Mech a percentage of your attributes. It also gives you this icon on your buff bar if you don’t have it there’s a 50% penalty on the stats inherited by your mech…

Power Bladesworn

Power Bladesworn is a high burst DPS build with large amounts of cleave for dealing with adds and excels in short phases. The build requires good knowledge of positioning in encounters because you cannot move during Dragon Trigger. Power Bladesworn builds Flow by gaining adrenaline used to enter Dragon Trigger, which converts Flow into charges. Once you gain 10 charges, use Dragon Slash - Force. Using any ammo skills increases damage for the next Dragon Trigger due to the trait Fierce as Fire. The build gains a massive damage increase from Overcharged Cartridges. This utility buffs the damage of Dragon Slash - Force, Dragon's Roar, and Gunsaber skills. Overcharged Cartridges should always be activated before using Dragon's Roar and entering Dragon Trigger. After the Precast, use Flow Stabilizer off-cooldown to generate Flow. Use Dragonspike Mine after a Dragon Slash - Force…

Condition Specter

Condition Specter is a DPS build that offers high survivability and solid DPS from mid-range via large amounts of Torment and Poisoned. It can provide a lot of barrier and crowd control without sacrificing anything from its base kit. The main idea while playing thief, is to never fill initiative, you will be using your strongest skill, Twilight Combo as much as possible to deplete initiative. Condition Specter does its damage in two ways: weapon skills while not in Shadow Shroud and non-initiative spending skills while in Shadow Shroud. While using your scepter/dagger weapon set, you will want to prioritize using Twilight Combo as your main source of damage. If you can’t cast it due to not having enough initiative, you can fill with your scepter Auto-attack chain/Shadowsquall and Siphon off-cooldown. Make sure to use Prepare Thousand Needles, Spider Venom, and…

Power Alacrity Mechanist

Power Alacrity Mechanist is currently the game’s strongest and most versatile Power Alacrity Build. It provides permanent Alacrity and 25 stacks of Might paired with any Quickness Build. Except for Mech skill usage Power Alacrity Mechanist plays the same as Power Mechanist Alacrity is purely generated by your mech. This means that you have to make sure that your mech is always at least within 600 range of your party and at least within 360 range when you use Barrier Burst. While this will happen naturally in most encounters keep an eye on your mech especially on bosses with very large hitboxes like Conjured Amalgamate. Might generated by your mech attacking enemies, Barrier Burst and Blunderbuss. This sounds more complicated than it actually is as all you need to do is press Crisis Zone and Barrier Burst off cooldown while…

Boon Daredevil

Power Boon Daredevil is a very similar build to pure Power Daredevil and plays the same when it comes to damage dealing. The main difference is the usage of Detonate Plasma stolen skill, which you acquire by using Steal. All that is topped off with amazing CC via Basilisk Venom and Fist Flurry. Power Daredevil Damage Select difficulty Staff May 2023 This build should only be used on bosses such as Matthias Gabrel, Mursaat Overseer, Statues of Grenth, and Cardinal Adina, where you can steal Detonate Plasma from the boss. High boon duration items will allow you to provide permanent Quickness uptime, high Resistance uptime, Stability stacks, Aegis spam, and maintain 25 stacks of Might with help of pre-stealing. Other boons provided by Detonate Plasma and your traits, like Protection,  Resolution,  Regeneration,  Swiftness,  Fury,  Vigor have much higher uptime and…