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 ). 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 now copies the boons to yourself, extending their duration. Your stances grant special effects and are shared with up to 4 allies via . Weapon Swap after 3 or Use off cooldown Use your Stances…

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 and . Once 5 Blades are ready, alternate between using and . Use at the start of your Sword loop, then use it again before swapping to Focus to…

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: 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 , granting a large boost to your stats for 10 seconds. Cycle between and to apply conditions and maintain and . Use off cooldown, as it provides great damage when activated while keeping the 180 precision due to . is your highest damaging utility. Using…

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 skills. Additionally, you provide a really powerfull boon with all of your skills in . The first 4 skills , , and are really strong heals, your is a fast provider due to its pulsing. Your Staff has good support utilities and access to more healing. Use your to convert enemy projectiles into friendly projectiles that heal allies and use your to blast the field and provide a…

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 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 . Your utility skills should be used as much as possible. Do not overstay in for a prolongued time, fully draining your astral force is not necessary in most cases. All your applications…

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 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  regularly to increase damage via . Taking damage in Shroud still affects your HP and will not consume Life Force. Precast just before entering the fight to instantly get 10 stacks of to increase the damage of the skills you use after. Use and on your team as soon as they’re off-cooldown to upkeep . Before entering always place , , and , to maximize burst damage. Never delay entering or using any of the 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 and to share to allies. To grant the boon it’s necessary to be under the effect of and be dealing damage to targets. Cast your to gain , every 5 strikes you will deal AOE . Use your and as much as possible. teleports you to the selected target, it’s a great skill for mobility…

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 giving you access to a five new melee skills. Use the following combo: to pull foes close to you, cast , and to cleave. Then enter to spin your scythe with . has access to a good mobility skill in You can use your Staff marks for great ranged AOE damage. active inflicting inflicting If you don’t need for you can take for additional crowd control and ability to pull foes to you or to block projectiles. can…

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. 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 regularly to increase damage via . Taking damage in Shroud still affects your HP and will not consume your Life Force. Precast just before entering the fight to instantly get 10 stacks of to increase the damage from the skills you use after. Use and on yourself as soon as they’re off Cooldown to upkeep stacks. Before entering always place , , and  to maximize burst damage. Never delay entering or using Well skills with this combo. During the opener, use just right after . Your Life Force…

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 , but swap to staff if is on cooldown and you start getting focused. Use Dodge to support your allies. It heals, provides and cleanses a condition (which provides ). Use to the target location you wish to cast a at. In , 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 , or you’re being focused and need or . Your dodge provides excellent…

Power Scrapper

Power Scrapper is a powerful and durable DPS build that brings a lot of Crowd Control and ample , giving you and your group great in-combat mobility. It can also revive downed allies from range with . The rotation of this build revolves around 2 combinations of skills that share cooldowns: and with After that, follow the skill priority list to fill the time between those 2 combos. Every time you cast , check and . 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 ( or ) when switching off and . If you use Weapon Swap, it will interrupt any ability you…

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 . On top of its invulnerability effect, it will apply to you and allies around you. will reset the cooldown of every shatter beside . 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 3 support abilities :…

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 on Sword, which will be used primarily for mobility, and while on Greatsword, used mainly for damage. Note: 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 . Keep in mind that persists across a weapon swap, so you can Dodge…

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 causes  you apply to also apply while also causing to apply barrier. This, combined with the pulsing from 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 up before applying or you won't affect your…

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 and using the Primal Burst skills you have access to thanks to . Careful usage of will be your main focus. Extend the duration of your by hitting enemies thanks to and using your utility skills and . Start on Dagger/Axe weapon set, conserving until you are committed to a fight. High damage AoE cleave around yourself. Boon removal and additional damage to boon-less enemies. If you have the Longbow or Hammer variant: Rectangular multi-AoE attack, each square can hit 5 enemies. Great Crowd Control skill applying and . Use to fill your Adrenaline and enter . Make sure that you…

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 . 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 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 , and for AoE boon…

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 abilities. Spend initiative and use shadowstep skills to gain shadow force via  before using . While Shadow Shroud is active, use and off-cooldown and fill in the gaps with to provide consistent healing, , and via . When you need extra utility or reach maximum initiative, make sure to have 5 stacks of before using for maximum healing and barrier generation. Make sure to set up Ally Target key binds, as and Scepter skills benefit from targeting allies by granting massive…

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 , via , condition cleanse via and via . Make sure to generate a lot of Auras by using , , and your Signets which now provide auras thanks to . When in , spam to deal significant damage and stack might via . Your main damage comes when in . 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 on swap, make sure to use your hard power hitters first (,  and ). Spam your skills consistently to keep stacking via . Also, use…

Condizerker

Condizerker is a tanky sidenoder build with significant condition pressure. Between Rabid Amulet and coupled with , it can afford to drop and be hard to kill for both power and condition builds. You want to spend as much time as possible in , which increases your attack speed, grants you extra damage with and some quickness from , and grants you access to your highest damaging skills, and . 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 and . Whenever you use a burst skill, you will gain back some adrenaline from . You will game some extra from . Both of these combined make it incredibly easy to use 1 burst skill, Weapon Swap and use the other instantly. Mostly ->…

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. gives and permanent uptime, provides , and 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 at range. Scrapper also has built-in support with 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 enough damage to down most opponents in just a few seconds. By…