October 2024

Power Boonstrip Alacrity Renegade

Boonstrip Renegade is a build that heavily focuses on removing enemies’ boons and granting to allies along with other vital boons such as and . TIP: Try to get into combat as soon as possible to charge up your energy. Use Orders from Above off cooldown to share to your allies. Coordinate your Banish Enchantment with your group to remove as many boons as possible. TIP: Listen to your Commander’s calls and use Banish Enchantment when they call for pulls at range. The skill is not a pull in of itself, but it removes boons, potentially removing . Video, but your browser can't display it pepeHands. Stack as much as possible with Pain Absorption. To effectively do this, press Pain Absorption, swap Legend back and forth with your mouse by clicking on the UI and then press Pain Absorption again.…

Power Boonstrip Virtuoso

Power Boonstrip Virtuoso is a strong build with great utility with the ability to deal a lot of damage both at range and in close combat. Your main role is to burst enemies and remove their boons. Your Shatters remove boons thanks to Shattered Concentration and Phantasmal Berserker removes boons when they hit. Additionally, Bountiful Blades makes Phantasmal Berserker create an extra Phantasm. Once a Phantasm dies, it turns into a blade instead of a clone. You can only have a maximum of 5 blades at the same time. Blade Renewal will restock your blades and briefly give you Distortion. Due to your Shatters becoming projectiles, Dodge or block an attack to activate Psychic Riposte before using Bladesong Harmony or Bladesong Sorrow, rendering them unblockable. You can see if the trait is active if you currently have the Psychic Riposte…

Condition Druid

Condition Druid is a highly durable side-noder build that excels into builds that cannot burst it down fast enough. TBD TBD

Hammer Untamed

Untamed is a bruiser-style build with great survivability, combined with a melee oneshot and good area pressure. Untamed excels in ranked games due to its versatility and flexibility as a profession. An important note about Untamed: It’s is one of the two classes in the game that has an F6 and F7. Binding these to something that you can easily reach so you won’t have to skill-click in a fight. Contrary to Longbow Untamed it utilizes hammer, sacrificing most of its ranged damage for more crowd control skills and AoE damage as well as barrier.   Untamed is what ranger mains always wanted ranger to be. A class with the ability to control its pet. Untamed can control its pet to its fullest, by having the pet abilities as abilities you can cast, with your F1 to F4, F6 and F7.…

Power Mechanist

Power Mechanist can choose from several different sets of weapons depending on your preferred playstyle and what the encounter demands (see top of page). Sword and Pistol provides consistent melee damage along with a small amount of CC. For the kit-less low intensity version, check the alternatives section at the bottom. Mechanical Genius gives your Mech a percentage of your attributes as long as you stay close to it. The trait applies a buff which is also called Mechanical Genius to indicate that you’re close enough, so make sure to pay attention to it – without this trait active, your output will be considerably weaker. The buff is reapplied when you get in range of your Mech and lasts for 3 seconds when you move out of range. TIP: Engineers can enter kits while channelling skills without interrupting them. Practice…

Heal Quickness Catalyst

Heal Quickness Catalyst is a strong ranged provider with great healing from your Staff skills. Catalyst gains a Jade Sphere as their F5 skill. You will be cycling through each Attunement and using every Sphere to upkeep along with the other buffs. NOTE: Elemental Empowerment will grant you bonus stats, including Toughness, which can make you the tank with up to 100 extra Toughness.  Each Sphere will grant a different set of boons, but all of them apply thanks to Spectacular Sphere. Deploy Jade Sphere grants . Deploy Jade Sphere grants . Deploy Jade Sphere grants . Deploy Jade Sphere grants . Your main healing skills are Geyser and Healing Rain, which can be combo-finished with blast finishers for additional healing. It’s good to be aware that your Water autoattack Water Blast can target allies and heal them. Each of…

Power Quickness Untamed

Power Quickness Untamed is an easy to learn boon support build that provides permanent to your subgroup whilst also having good mobility and CC. Swap to Unleash Pet and then back to Unleash Ranger to use your Ambush skill, then Weapon Swap and use the Ambush skill again to upkeep . Use Venomous Outburst , Rending Vines and Enveloping Haze whenever you enter Unleash Pet. Use Crowd Control skills to upkeep Relic of the Claw. Be careful not to cancel Deft Strike or Relentless Whirl. These are your only sources of . Perilous Gift can be used to avoid incoming damage, including pausing any conditions you have on you. Crippling Anguish and Narcotic Spores can both be set to auto cast. You can use Overbearing Smash and Thump while in Unleash Pet at the cost of some damage if you…

Spear Warrior

Very strong Warrior build, involving high bursts of damage and overall consistent damage output. Your main source of damage comes from your Burst skills. Harrier's Toss Deals increased damage to targets in the center. Arcing Slice Deals increased damage to targets below 50% HP. Make sure to use Harrier's Toss with max Adrenaline to use its full damage potential, unlike Arcing Slice which does not scale with your Adrenaline level. Use Spearmarshal's Support before using either of your Burst skills. Combine Maiming Spear with Harrier's Toss so both land at the same time. Use Signet of Fury to gain max Adrenaline for Harrier's Toss. Avoid using it for Arcing Slice due to the skill not scaling damage with your Adrenaline level. Use Signet of Might before Disrupting Throw to make use of your Unblockable hits. Avoid using it in combination…

Fresh Air Power Alacrity Tempest

Fresh Air Tempest is an easy build to learn, but it has a high skill ceiling to achieve maximum DPS. This is a very fast-paced build due to low cast times on your damaging skills besides Overload Air. For the full damage version of this build: Fresh Air Power Tempest Damage Select difficulty Scepter & Warhorn October 2024 Every time you start channeling an Overload, Lucid Singularity will pulse to allies around you, with a stronger application at the end of the cast. Your main damage sources are Overload Air and Lightning Storm, which benefit from Fresh Air. In short, cast Overload Air as much as possible. At the end of this skill, swap Attunements, activate Fresh Air, and go back to Air Attunement to Overload again. TIP: It's important to remember that you can attunement swap while casting weapon…

Power Holosmith

This is a heavy-hitting power build setup meant to generate and cleave downstate enemies. Be careful with your Rifle skills, do not use them into enemy reflecting skills otherwise you will hit your allies. Your healing skill A.E.D. is a powerful anti-downstate self utility, use it when you feel like you are about to go down. Use the utilities in your Flamethrower and Elixir Gun to generate AoE pressure and at the same time provide some supporting boons to allies. Blunderbuss and Jump Shot are part of your short burst with your Explosive Entrance. Use Laser Disk in melee range to hit as many enemies as possible. Aim Prime Light Beam and launch enemies hit, additionally trigger Big Boomer increasing the damage. Prime Light Beam Overcharged Shot Net Shot

Power Virtuoso

Power Virtuoso is a DPS roamer that brings oppressive ranged spike damage and cleave, decent sustain, and AOE for the team. Note: Virtuoso Sword replaces Illusionary Leap with Blade Leap, a mobility skill similar to Mirage Thrust. Virtuoso relies on spamming damage with Bladesong Harmony and the newly added Spear. Your game plan as a Virtuoso is to unload so much damage that your opponent runs out of defensive skills before you run out of damage. You can 100-0 almost any class in the game (including bunkers) with a well timed burst. Additionally, Virtuoso‘s mechanics make it so even when pressured or dying it is always dangerous. Remember Signet of Illusions resets the cooldown of every shatter. Tip: Infinite Forge restored blades when you use a fully stacked Bladesong ability. This version of Power Virtuoso drops Psychic Riposte, the conventional…

Booster Daredevil

This Celestial Booster Daredevil is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. Daredevil modifies your Dodge mechanic, giving you access to an additional evade and a damage modifier. Specifically for this build, you gain Impaling Lotus from Lotus Training each time you Dodge. Your main sources of damage are your Venoms and Death Blossom. Use Thieves Guild to spawn three thief NPCs as allies and cast your Skale Venom and Spider Venom to share the effects with them. When you and your thieves hit an enemy, a stack is consumed and a condition is applied. When…

Booster Deadeye

This Celestial Booster Deadeye is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. As a Deadeye, your Steal is replaced by Deadeye's Mark, marking the enemy target and gaining Malice on hits. Malice is then consumed with your attacks for additional effects and increased damage. Always start the fight by marking your enemy! Kneel on your Rifle to gain improved skills at a cost of 75% reduced movement speed. Your main source of damage on this set will be Three Round Burst. When under the effect of your auto-attack becomes Malicious Death's Judgment. Use it on…

Fresh Air Power Tempest

Fresh Air Tempest is an easy build to learn, but it has a high skill ceiling to achieve maximum DPS. This is a very fast-paced build due to low cast times on your damaging skills besides Overload Air.   For the version of this build: Fresh Air Power Alacrity Tempest Offensive Support Select difficulty Scepter & Warhorn October 2024 Your main damage sources are Overload Air and Lightning Storm, which benefit from Fresh Air and Transcendent Tempest. In short, cast Overload Air as much as possible. At the end of this skill, swap Attunements, activate Fresh Air, and go back to Air Attunement to Overload again. TIP: It’s important to remember that you can attunement swap while casting weapon skills without cancelling your skill. Know which elementals to spawn from Glyph of Elementals. It will often be the one in…

Booster Holosmith

This Celestial Booster Holosmith is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. Holosmith has a special mechanic called Heat, which is generated passively while in Engage Photon Forge and when you use weapon skills in Engage Photon Forge. Being above the 50 Heat threshold grants you benefits to your sword and Exceed skills, which is further increased by Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit. This trait increases your maximum heat to 150, granting additional benefits to these skills while above 100 heat. Exceed skills are the special type of utility skills available while playing Holosmith, including your…

Booster Chronomancer

This Celestial Booster Chronomancer is a great beginner-friendly offensive support setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. NOTE: This build uses Relic of Akeem which requires Secrets of the Obscure, if you do not own it you can use Relic of the Aristocracy. sadly there isn’t a good relic alternative at the current moment for non-expansion players. Select the trait Stretched Time or Seize the Moment if your team needs or , respectively. Summon Phantasms with Phantasmal Mage and Phantasmal Warlock or clone with Phase Retreat and use Shatter skills to share or . You have access to permanent through…

Booster Vindicator

This Celestial Booster Vindicator is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. Instead of dodge-rolling in a cardinal direction, Vindicators dodge upward and into the mists, then smashing downward to damage enemies. This variant specializes in melee power damage, using the Greatsword abilities, Legend abilities. Don’t underestimate Death Drop damage output, it is one of the major sources and has a significant upside: it doesn’t cost energy! (but still costs endurance, which is the resource used for dodging across all classes) instead, energy can be spent on Weapon and Legend abilities. Impossible Odds is an…

Heal Quickness Herald

Heal Quickness Herald is a powerful defensive support build that reliably provides 25 , , , , , and 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, has access on shield and can be adapted to apply . While in Legendary Dragon Stance, maintain Facets to apply boons: Facet of Darkness applies Facet of Strength gives Facet of Elements grants Facet of Light applies Facet of Chaos pulses While in Legendary Dragon Stance, Facet of Nature has the unique effect of giving your group an additional 20% boon duration. This extra boon duration can extend the normal cap of 100% boon duration to 120%! Facet of Nature's consume skill, True Nature, provides support utility based on…

Condition Quickness Herald

Condition Quickness Herald is similar to Power Quickness Herald, an offensive support build that provides a group with , , , , and . The wide range of essential boons provided makes this build excellent for filling gaps in groups. This version of Herald is less versatile compared to the power setup, but packs a punch in return. While in Legendary Dragon Stance, activate Facet of Chaos and Facet of Darkness to pulse . While in Legendary Demon Stance keep Embrace the Darkness active for damage and around you. Herald applies via Elevated Compassion whenever you channel an ability that drains 6 or more energy per second (upkeep). Whenever your energy is being drained, you pulse around you. Power Quickness Herald provides many boons with Legendary Dragon Stance and can extend all boons on allies with True Nature. Maintain facets while in…

Booster Dragonhunter

This Celestial Booster Dragonhunter is a great beginner-friendly offensive setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. NOTE: If you own the expansion Secrets of the Obscure, you can switch Relic of the Dragonhunter to Relic of Zakiros for incredible self sustain. This Build can serve as a stepping stone towards the upgraded setup: Power Dragonhunter Damage Select difficulty Greatsword Longbow June 2024 The build focuses on dealing strike damage (power), using your Longbow, Greatsword and Traps. To achieve this, we combine various damage modifiers that increase strike damage. You deal increased damage while you’re under the effect of and…