October 2024

Heal Alacrity Scourge

Heal Alacrity Scourge provides , , , , , , potential , massive crowd control, very powerful revive utility, solid healing, and unmatched application for your squad! Boon application for Heal Alacrity Scourge is straightforward. You are likely to end up overcapping on key boons such as and , allowing you to be flexible with your Sand Cascade, Manifest Sand Shade and Sandstorm Shroud usage to protect your team! is generated by applying to your allies. Sources of include: Sand Cascade -> single very high application of . Sandstorm Shroud -> pulsing and . Manifest Sand Shade -> Desert Empowerment causes summoning a shade to apply a strong to five nearby targets when summoned. Serpent Siphon -> strong utility skill that also applies and . Other important boons are generated relatively passively: also applies thanks to Abrasive Grit Sandstorm Shroud generates…

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 October 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,…

Power Alacrity Bladesworn

Power Alacrity Bladesworn is a support DPS build that provides permanent and some supplementary . The build lacks in Crowd Control (CC) but offers extremely high burst DPS for a support role. Power Alacrity Bladesworn builds Flow by being in combat and using Flow Stabilizer, which is used to enter Dragon Trigger. DT then 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. Daring Dragon shares  in an area around you whenever you use Dragon Slash—Force. The build gains a massive damage increase from Overcharged Cartridges, buffing 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. Use Flicker Step during Dragon Trigger to activate the buff…

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…

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 and Primal Burst 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 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…

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…

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…