October 2024

Condition Alacrity Tempest

Condition Alacrity Tempest is a versatile offensive support build that provides permanent , 25 , and , 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. Use Overload Fire and Overload Earth off-cooldown to apply via Lucid Singularity, and fill downtime with damaging and boon-providing skills. Always channel Overloads until the end to grant powerful element-specific effects and additional . Swap attunements promptly in this order: Fire Attunement -> Air Attunement ->Earth Attunement. Late Overloads result in lost uptime. Heat Sync spreads boons to allies, and Sand Squall extends the duration of boons on allies so make sure to cast both as soon as possible. Delay Heat Sync after Overload Fire to share with allies that are too far away to…

Power Willbender

Power Willbender is a powerful, fast-paced DPS build with a free-flowing rotation. This build can be easy to pick up but difficult to master, as optimization requires avoiding as many hits as possible to upkeep Unscathed Contender. Always maintain the effect of a Virtue skill to reduce the cooldowns of your weapon skills via Restorative Virtues: Use Rushing Justice off-cooldown. Flowing Resolve and Crashing Courage can also be used, however Crashing Courage should be kept available to refresh if necessary. The main damaging skills are Whirling Wrath and Symbol of Resolution on Greatsword, so the focus will be to reset and use these as often as possible. Maintain Symbols under enemies at all times (Symbol of Resolution, Symbol of Blades) to increase damage via Symbolic Avenger. Instead of a strict rotation, this build uses the main damage skills in each weapon set…

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 good consistent damage, and excellent survivability. You have a variety of hard-hitting skills to keep throwing at your opponent in a 1v1 to eventually overwhelm them when they run out of defensives. Most notably, Path to Victory hits hard, applies Magebane Tether, and is hard to avoid. Good followups include Valiant Leap, Aura Slicer, Impale -> Rip and Breaching Strike. The counterattack on Riposte also hits very hard, so make sure to hit it as well. You should also use your various CCs and Magebane Tether to help setup the aforementioned skills. Your CCs mostly include Snap Pull, Full Counter, Disrupting Stab, Bull's Charge and Rampage. Your CCs also…

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. Sword/Shield is also a viable weapon choice. Use it if you don’t have Secrets of the Obscure. For a more aggressive version of the build, see the Mortar Kit Variant. 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…

Fresh Air Catalyst

Fresh Air Catalyst is a highly mobile dps roamer that provides excellent boon support to the team.  Catalyst is driven 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, gain very high uptime, and access your Deploy Jade Sphere frequently. Tip: Air Attunement lacks native combo finishers, but you can swap to Air Attunement during the cast of skills like Phoenix to get a from a combo field. Your ‘Hard CC’ comes from Gale and Comet and Arcane Wave. Gale is especially good in mirrors against other Catalysts since it is unblockable and ignores Fortified Earth and Final Shielding . Keep in mind that all your CC skills can be reset to extend lockdowns. This is especially useful with double Gale to secure kills in a…

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 and 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 Self might not…

Support Druid

Support Druid is a bursty condition cleanser with both defensive and offensive capabilities. Druid can provide strong heals and boons. However, it shines in its ability to spam cleanses and stun break allies within a large radius. Healing and damaging enemies will grant you Astral Force and you passively gain Astral Force thanks to Natural Mender. Once the bar is full you can then consume it to gain access to the Celestial Avatar form which lasts for 15 seconds. This profession mechanic changes all of your weapon and Glyph skills, giving you access to powerful tools to support your party. As a support class staying alive should be prioritized above all else since you can’t provide much support if you’re dead. Keep your health above zero with tactful use of dodging and positioning. Your positioning and facing are important as…

Support Vindicator

The Vindicator elite specialization offers Revenants a remarkable option for excelling as a supportive force within any group. Boasting not only potent support abilities but also remarkable self-sustainability, Vindicator has become even more formidable due to recent balance adjustments. These changes have breathed new life into the favoured legend, Ventari, elevating its effectiveness. Additionally, Saint Viktor continues to be a vital component of your support build, remaining a cornerstone despite the adjustments it has undergone. The build is best described as a Healer and condition cleanser that offers support to players that are on and off of tag. Vindicator is able to easily provide huge heals, cleanses, barrier, stun breaks and some boons either over time or in a burst.  However where it really shines is in it’s ability to heal and it can also do this from 900 range…

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 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 you…

Booster Untamed

This Celestial Booster Untamed 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. While Untamed, you gain access to Unleash Pet and Unleash Ranger, which flips your Pet Skills to an Unleashed version or gives you access to an Unleashed Ambush attack (Sundering Volley in this build). Unleashed skills are altered versions of the base skills, which either modify or empower their behavior. Whenever you use an Ambush, you will provide and to yourself and allies nearby thanks to the trait Let Loose. Unleash Pet grants you access to three useful abilities and 25% damage reduction…

Booster Herald

This Celestial Booster Herald is a great offensive support made for open-world and is beginner friendly. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes, weapons, and sigils. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them then the equipment can be obtained through crafting or purchasing directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the Herald elite specialization of a Revenant. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide you and your party with 100% , , , , uptime and up to 25 stacks of . Booster herald also possesses excellent sustain, defensive options, and control abilities so it can survive almost all situations and performs well in almost any solo or group scenario! Legendary Dragon Stance abilities are called facets, activating…

Booster Tempest

This Celestial Booster Tempest 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. The purpose of this build is to support allies with excellent healing, , , , , and as well as provide very strong condition cleanse. This build functions well as a burst healer. "Wash the Pain Away!" is a strong heal and condition cleanse. Other options for healing include Tidal Surge, Water Globe and Overload Water. Support starts with the use of "Aftershock!". Finish your overloads in Fire Attunement, Air Attunement, and Earth Attunement while using your warhorn skills off cooldown. While in…

Power Chrono

Power Chronomancer  is one of the highest damage spec. Power Chrono is unique in its ability to ‘oneshot’ multiple opponents in a row with Continuum Split. 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 before you feed and die. Chronomancer changes the standard mesmer shatters and gains new ones. The relevant changes for us are Split Second and Continuum Split . Split Second  splits the damage from Mind Wrack into 2 parts; Continuum Split lets you set up a…

Booster Mechanist

This Celestial Booster Mechanist build 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 will allow you to provide permanent , , and uptime and some . Being a pet build makes it very strong as it allows your mech to tank for you. This build supports allies with , , , , , and . Use Crisis Zone and Barrier Burst when available to upkeep . Using Crisis Zone off-cooldown is unnecessary and, so save the skill to break stuns or cleanse conditions. Giving and is achieved by using Barrier Burst and letting…

Booster Mirage

This celestial booster build is great offensive support made for open-world and is beginner friendly. The equipment above is designed to be played with no modifications from the exotic gear obtained by the level 80 booster. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them then the equipment can be obtained through crafting or purchasing directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the elite specialization of a mirage. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide support as well as maintain survivability during solo content through the utilization of clones. While playing mirage your dodge is replaced with Mirage Cloak, which is a very strong ability. While Mirage Cloak is active you gain powerful abilities depending on the weapon you choose to use. Your main weapon on this build for applying boons to yourself and others…

Booster Firebrand

Booster Firebrand is a great, beginner-friendly offensive support for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with no modifications from the exotic gear obtained by the level 80 booster. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them, then the equipment can be crafted or purchased directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the elite specialization of the Firebrand. Specifically, this build provides excellent boons, and can swap seamlessly between full healer, hybrid support, or even solid damage, functioning well in solo and group content. The Booster Firebrand seamlessly combines condition damage with the ability to support allies with sustained healing, , , , , and while using and burst healing when required. Boon application is fairly straightforward: Use Potent Haste and "Feel My Wrath!" as often as possible and Restoring Reprieve about every…

Booster Harbinger

This Celestial Booster Harbinger 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. This build will allow you to provide permanent , , and 25 . In addition to bringing boons, this build also has a large amount of Crowd Control and boon corruption. This build is able to maintain permanent , ,and 70% on allies while maintaining 25 . Unique to Harbinger is the Blight mechanic . Blight reduces your maximum health while providing you with offensive bonuses. You will be using Elixir of Promise and Elixir of Anguish to maintain some stacks of .…

Booster Specter

This Celestial Booster Specter 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. Initiative Initiative is a skill cost mechanic unique to all Thief professions. Instead of having recharge time on your weapon skills, Thief spends Initiative to use weapon skills. You have 12 initiative points that recharge over time: 9 from Specter and 3 extra from Preparedness. Quick Pockets also grants Initative while swapping weapons and when using Enter Shadow Shroud and Exit Shadow Shroud. Do not deliberately swap weapons for Initiative, but instead, let Quick Pockets be triggered by using Enter Shadow Shroud naturally.…

Booster Renegade

This Celestial Booster Renegade is a great offensive support made for open-world and is beginner friendly. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes, weapons, and sigils. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them then the equipment can be obtained through crafting or purchasing directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the Renegade elite specialization of a Revenant. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide team support, amazing crowd control, boon removal, and much more. You can provide 100% for up to five allies. Energy is the unique mechanic of Revenant, it is replenished over time as indicated by the arrows to the left and right of the energy indicator. Almost every skill except for auto attacks costs…

Booster Catalyst

This Celestial Booster Catalyst 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. This build provides , , , , , and . These boons make this build great for both group and solo content. Catalyst is unique because of the mechanic Deploy Jade Sphere. The Spheres deal damage and give boons to allies. To build energy to cast the spheres, hit enemies with skills and auto-attacks. We also gain energy by swapping attunements thanks to Energized Elements. Your main source of generating energy quickly is by upkeeping Hammer 3 skills that hit often (Crescent…