October 2024

Booster Soulbeast

This Celestial Booster Soulbeast 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. Soulbeast can merge with its pet, which increases your stats with a special buff (for this build specifically Deadly). While merged, your pet skills get replaced by special Profession skills. While merged, any trait or skill that affects the pet now affects you. For example, your healing skill "We Heal As One!" now copies the boons to yourself, extending their duration. Your stances grant special effects and are shared with up to 4 allies via Leader of the Pack. Weapon Swap after 3…

Booster Virtuoso

This Celestial Booster Virtuoso 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: Condition Virtuoso focuses HEAVILY on reaching 100% critical hit chance. Due to the nature of this gear setup, it cannot reach its maximum optimal potential. For a more optimal setup see: Condition VirtuosoLow intensityRecommended Damage Select difficulty Dagger & Sword Focus offhand February 2025 Stock up Blades by applying 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…

Booster Weaver

This Celestial Booster Weaver 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. This Build can serve as a stepping stone towards the upgraded setup: Weave Self reduces attunement swap cooldowns to 2 seconds and grants you an element-specific buff for each element attuned. Attuning to all four elements in 20 seconds achieves a Perfect Weave, granting a large boost to your stats for 10 seconds. Cycle between Fire Attunement and Earth Attunement to apply conditions and maintain Weaver's Prowess and Elements of Rage. Use Signet of Fire off cooldown, as it provides great damage when activated…

Booster Heal Druid

This Celestial Booster Druid is a great beginner-friendly defensive 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. The build focuses on providing healing to yourself and nearby allies with your Staff and Celestial Avatar skills. Additionally, you provide a really powerfull boon with all of your skills in Celestial Avatar. The first 4 skills Cosmic Ray, Seed of Life, Lunar Impact and Rejuvenating Tides are really strong heals, your Natural Convergence is a fast provider due to its pulsing. Your Staff has good support utilities and access to more healing. Use your Sublime Conversion to convert enemy projectiles into friendly…

Booster Damage Druid

This Celestial Booster Druid 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. The main source of damage of the build comes from the trait Blood Moon which causes all your applications to additionally apply to the enemy. Your traits and utility skills aim at applying , and boost your . Dealing damage to enemies and healing allies will generate astral force to enter Celestial Avatar . Your utility skills should be used as much as possible. Do not overstay in Celestial Avatar for a prolongued time, fully draining your astral force is not necessary…

Power Quickness Harbinger

Power Quickness Harbinger is a powerful, bursty offensive support build focusing on single-target damage. This build uses the same gear as the full DPS build. Staying in Harbinger Shroud generates and every three seconds in a 360-unit radius. Combined with Elixirs, you can maintain uptime easily. This build lacks other supportive boons, so ensure the defensive support in your subgroup covers other boons. Enter and exit Harbinger Shroud regularly to increase damage via Soul Barbs. Taking damage in Shroud still affects your HP and will not consume Life Force. Precast Elixir of Promise just before entering the fight to instantly get 10 stacks of to increase the damage of the skills you use after. Use Elixir of Anguish and Elixir of Ambition on your team as soon as they’re off-cooldown to upkeep . Before entering Harbinger Shroud always place Nightfall, Well…

Booster Willbender

This Celestial Booster Willbender 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: If you have access to the expansion Secrets of the Obscure you can swap both your Sword and Scepter to Pistols. The build utilizes the traits Battle Presence and Phoenix Protocol to share to allies. To grant the boon it’s necessary to be under the effect of Flowing Resolve and be dealing damage to targets. Cast your Rushing Justice to gain Justice , every 5 strikes you will deal AOE . Use your Purging Flames and Whirling Light as much as…

Booster Reaper

This Celestial Booster Reaper 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. Your Necromancer’s Shroud has become Reaper's Shroud giving you access to a five new melee skills. Use the following combo: Grasping Darkness to pull foes close to you, cast Nightfall, Well of Darkness and Well of Suffering to cleave. Then enter Reaper's Shroud to spin your scythe with Soul Spiral. Reaper's Shroud has access to a good mobility skill in Death's Charge You can use your Staff marks for great ranged AOE damage. Executioner's Scythe Grasping Darkness Infusing Terror active Terrify inflicting Reaper's…

Power Harbinger

Power Harbinger is a powerful DPS build similar to Power Reaper with high damage in a bursty profile. Harbinger focuses more on single-target damage and good mobility. Harbinger Shroud does not protect the Harbinger’s life pool while active, making it easier to manage Life Force and maintain your rotation during encounters. Enter and exit Harbinger Shroud regularly to increase damage via Soul Barbs. Taking damage in Shroud still affects your HP and will not consume your Life Force. Precast Elixir of Promise just before entering the fight to instantly get 10 stacks of to increase the damage from the skills you use after. Use Elixir of Ambition and Elixir of Promise on yourself as soon as they’re off Cooldown to upkeep stacks. Before entering Harbinger Shroud always place Nightfall, Well of Darkness, and Well of Suffering to maximize burst damage. Never…

Support Vindicator

Support Vindicator is a very durable support build, with exceptional healing output, along with significant and thanks to the addition of scepter. It struggles a bit at the moment due to heavy nerfs. This build is very tanky, you should not be afraid to be in the middle of the action. You should default to Scepter/shield, to have access to Otherworldly Bond, but swap to staff if Crystal Hibernation is on cooldown and you start getting focused. Use Dodge to support your allies. It heals, provides and cleanses a condition (which provides ). Use Ventari's Will to the target location you wish to cast a Legendary Centaur Stance at. In Legendary Alliance Stance, Use mostly the blue stance. It’s more defensive and provides team support. Swap to red stance only if you need to move around with Nomad's Advance, or…

Power Scrapper

Power Scrapper is a powerful and durable DPS build that brings a lot of Crowd Control and ample Superspeed, giving you and your group great in-combat mobility. It can also revive downed allies from range with Function Gyro. The rotation of this build revolves around 2 combinations of skills that share cooldowns: Electro-whirl and Shrapnel Grenade Shredder Gyro with Thunderclap After that, follow the skill priority list to fill the time between those 2 combos. Every time you cast Shrapnel Grenade, check Freeze Grenade and Poison Grenade. If they are available, cast them. If one of them is 1-2 seconds from being off cooldown, you can use toolbelt skills or utilities while you wait for it to come back instead of switching off the kit. Make sure to use the “stow kit” key (Stow Grenade Kit or Stow Mortar Kit) when…

Support Chronomancer

Support Chronomancer is one of the newer additions to the support roster. It is very similar to Support Guardian. It has access to a lot of and very good range support thanks to the Mesmer’s new weapon: rifle. Its unique side comes from the it applies to its team. Such as every other mesmer build, this build relies on shatters a lot. Shatters will heal, cleanse, apply boons, and even apply to close allies. The only shatter you need to be very careful of using is Distortion. On top of its invulnerability effect, it will apply to you and allies around you. Signet of Illusions will reset the cooldown of every shatter beside Continuum Split. The build healing also relies a lot on rifle. You can simply autoattack your allies for healing from range but its main strength comes from…

Power Mirage

Power Mirage is a powerful roamer excelling at picking up a single target because of the insane amount of you have access to. It also relies on burst windows with decent damage outside of them. Mirage gains access to Ambush Skills, transforming your auto-attack into a different skill for a short while after each dodge. On this build, you will have access to Mirage Thrust on Sword, which will be used primarily for mobility, and Split Surge while on Greatsword, used mainly for damage. Note: Split Surge is really good to use before a burst window as it applies and gives you . Use your Dodge carefully. Dodging for damage on Greatsword will expose you which is high risk but high reward, especially if you can hit a few targets with a single Split Surge. Keep in mind that Mirage Cloak…

Condition Alacrity Scourge

Condition Alacrity Scourge has a similar rotation to Condition Scourge, but trades damage output for generation alongside some coverage. This build still has all of the high-value defensive utility of scourge and can be customized to fit encounters and your squad composition! Hybrid Alacrity ScourgeWeapon Mastery Offensive Support Select difficulty Scepter & Torch Pistol & Warhorn January 2024 The key interaction that powers Condition Alacrity Scourge is that Desert Empowerment causes  you apply to also apply while also causing Manifest Sand Shade to apply barrier. This, combined with the pulsing from Sandstorm Shroud generates very comfortable uptime. is simply the mechanism that applies to your squad and should not be relied upon for meaningful damage mitigation. Shade abilities affect up to three players. Since you also count as a shade, this means it's important to have at least one Manifest…

Power Berserker Warrior

This high-burst Berserker build is designed to deliver massive critical hits and consistent damage. Built around maximizing damage output, this build excels at swiftly finishing off enemies while providing powerful cleaving capabilities. Your main damage comes from activating your Berserk and using the Primal Burst skills you have access to thanks to Primal Rage. Careful usage of Berserk will be your main focus. Extend the duration of your Berserk by hitting enemies thanks to Smash Brawler and using your utility skills Blood Reckoning and Sundering Leap. Start on Dagger/Axe weapon set, conserving Berserk until you are committed to a fight. Arc Divider High damage AoE cleave around yourself. Slicing Maelstrom Boon removal and additional damage to boon-less enemies. If you have the Longbow or Hammer variant: Scorched Earth Rectangular multi-AoE attack, each square can hit 5 enemies. Rupturing Smash Great…

Power Reaper

This Reaper build is a strong option for players looking to make a significant impact in World vs World battles. With its unique blend of area damage, unblockable boon removal, burst damage, crowd-control and sustained pressure the Reaper excels at breaking up enemy squads, disrupting formations, and applying pressure where it’s needed most. Your role in the group is to create very-high damage areas though your AoEs and Reaper's Shroud. In organized squads, your Wells are the most important skills to coordinate and they are, usually, only used when the Commander calls for them. It is vital that the Reapers do regular voice callouts about the remaining cooldown of Well of Corruption for the Commander (such as “wells 15, wells 10, wells 5, wells ready!”). Communicate with your group to gain an advantage over the enemy. Combo together your Nightfall,…

Heal Alacrity Specter

Heal Alacrity Specter is a Defensive Support that provides permanent , , , , and . This build also provides a wide variety of utilities and a reasonable amount of , , , and . To use this build effectively, however, you must be able to quickly swap to an allied target. Specter’s main source of healing comes from Enter Shadow Shroud abilities. Spend initiative and use shadowstep skills to gain shadow force via Traversing Dusk before using Enter Shadow Shroud. While Shadow Shroud is active, use Grasping Shadows and Eternal Night off-cooldown and fill in the gaps with Haunt Shot to provide consistent healing, , and via Shadestep. When you need extra utility or reach maximum initiative, make sure to have 5 stacks of Consume Shadows before using Exit Shadow Shroud for maximum healing and barrier generation. Make sure to…

Condition Signet Catalyst

Signet catalyst is a powerful dueling build that gains most of its power from a combination of traits that interact with Auras along with stacking. This build is driven by Auras. Gaining an Aura grants you via Staunch Auras, via Elemental Shielding, condition cleanse via Smothering Auras and via Elemental Epitome. Make sure to generate a lot of Auras by using Sunspot, Elemental Epitome, and your Signets which now provide auras thanks to Written in Stone. When in Fire Attunement, spam Flamestrike to deal significant damage and stack might via Pyromancer's Puissance. Your main damage comes when in Fire Attunement. Your goal is to stack while stacking to apply very high condition pressure. The skills in this attunement also deal significant power damage, so if you proc your Sigil of Intelligence on swap, make sure to use your hard power hitters…

Condizerker

Condizerker is a tanky sidenoder build with significant condition pressure. Between Rabid Amulet and Savage Instinct coupled with Dead or Alive, 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, Skull Grinder 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…

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, access, and . Scrapper is strong because of its access to key boons in pvp. Kinetic Accelerators gives and permanent uptime, Gyroscopic Acceleration provides , and Relic of the Chronomancer gives whenever you use one of your gyros. Tip: isn’t a boon so it can’t be removed or corrupted. Use it to counteract impairing effects like and 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 stuns opponents in quick succession while blasting…