October 2024

Power Spellbreaker

Hammer Spellbreaker is a DPS build that provides constant Crowd Control (CC) and consistent damage, with good self-sustain thanks to the Defense trait line. Hammer Spellbreaker gains a massive damage increase from Attacker's Insight, as disabling foes or removing boons grants 50 Power, Precision, and Ferocity per stack. Using Crowd Control abilities on Hammer increases your damage for the period of time you will be on Dagger/Axe. To gain additional stacks of Attacker's Insight, daze your enemies by using Aura Slicer and Breaching Strike to leap through the lightning field created by Winds of Disenchantment, or by using Full Counter. Thanks to Attacker's Insight, hitting enemies with Full Counter resets your Earthshaker or Breaching Strike, granting you extra opportunities for CC or damage, respectively. Backbreaker Staggering Blow Earthshaker Bull's Charge Disrupting Stab Full Counter (counter-attack) Magebane Tether will pull targets…

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…

Booster Scrapper

This Celestial Booster Scrapper build is 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 and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the elite specialization of scrapper. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide permanent and uptime while also having great utility through the use of gyros, a Hammer, and a Mortar Kit. Using Impact Savant makes this build very durable while also dealing sustained damage. This build sustains allies with , , , and . To generate , use blast and leap combo finisher skills over combo fields. Function Gyro Rocket Charge Blast Gyro Spare Capacitor Function…

Booster Scourge

This Celestial Booster Scourge 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 Scourge’s unique mechanic involves Manifest Sand Shade. Up to three Shades may be used at a time. Sand Shades allow you to deal damage to your enemies while providing some support to allies. All Sand Shades also inherit the effect of Shade skills (F1-F5) Manifest Sand Shade, Nefarious Favor, Sand Cascade, Garish Pillar, Desert Shroud. The Scourge uses life force to cast these skills. Maintaining life force is very important when playing Scourge: You gain life force by actively using Devouring Darkness,…

Booster Berserker

This Celestial Booster Berserker 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 to yourself and nearby allies. It also provides fast-paced gameplay via Fast Hands allowing you to swap between weapons very quickly. Heat the Soul allows your Burst Skills to provide to yourself and nearby allies. "For Great Justice!" provides and to yourself and nearby allies. Shattering Blow provides you with a block, , and extends the duration of Berserk. The last utility skill you take is Outrage, this utility not only provides…

Hammer Catalyst

Hammer Catalyst is a high damage duelist; its DPS on top of boon support from Depth of Elements allows it to be great even in larger fights where Elementalist typically suffers. Unlike typical Elementalist builds, hammer has a high focus on mitigating incoming damage rather than resustaining through it. Your best defensive skills are Fortified Earth, Conjure Earth Shield, and Immutable Stone. Upkeeping auras specifically and significantly boost your sustain in most matchups, and frequently comboing into them can even win certain duels by themselves. Hammer 3rd skill no matter the element is an orb giving you a bonus while dealing some damage and conditions around you. It is mandatory you keep them up as much as possible. When they’re about to run out you can cast Grand Finale for a decent burst of damage with good range. The more…

Condition Quickness Berserker

Condition Quickness Berserker is a support DPS build that focuses on short bursts of and long-lasting , while providing permanent and . It also brings a good amount of Crowd Control (CC) to the squad. At full Adrenaline, enter Berserk and burn your foes with Longbow skills. Then swap to Sword/Sword to enhance your burst with long-duration bleeds and the trait Blademaster. Use Rage utility skills off-cooldown to increase the duration of Berserk. Use Savage Leap and Sundering Leap in Fire Fields (for example, from Scorched Earth) to create a on yourself. Then detonate it with any Berserker skill to activate King of Fires for more . Heat the Soul shares and in an area around you whenever you use a Burst skill. After the last step in the written Rotation, use your Weapon and Burst skills off-cooldown following the…

Power Quickness Herald

Power Quickness Herald is 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. A simple rotation and excellent defensive abilities make Power Quickness Herald a good introductory choice for new players. This build also offers strong Crowd Control via Surge of the Mists and the option to provide by using Legendary Dwarf Stance instead of Legendary Assassin Stance. While in Legendary Dragon Stance, activate Facet of Chaos and Facet of Darkness to pulse . While in Legendary Assassin Stance keep Impossible Odds active for damage and . 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…

Tactics Warrior

Tactics warrior is a core duelist build similar to Bladesworn  that takes advantage of shouts and Relic of Zakiros for self-sustain and survivability. Core warrior is not currently meta, but can hold many 1v1 matchups and be effective as a side-noder if played properly. This build is very simple to understand and execute, making it ideal for new players without access to expansions. Tactics Warrior does good damage by buffing itself with 25 might and unique modifiers like peak performance. Some of your hardest hitting abilities are your burst skills, Eviscerate and Arcing Slice , and Throw Axe which can randomly hit up to 8k. You can cap yourself easily with "For Great Justice!" and Forceful Greatsword , make sure to do so for large crits on your burst skills. Your basic combos all revolve around Bull's Charge or Rampage…

Terrormancer

Core terrormancer is a tanky alternative to other dps necromancer builds. Terrormancer offers great team utility and damage along with an enormous 31k HP pool from Carrion Amulet and a second health bar from Death Shroud . is a special condition that makes opponents flee away from you, and this build is built around spamming it as much as possible. Terrormancer relies on chaining and combining it with Terror to deal high damage while keeping opponents cc locked. Terrormancer also has high amounts of and and decent passive power damage. As a condition necromancer, one of your most powerful tools is access to boon corruption. Feast of Corruption and Path of Corruption convert opponent’s boons into conditions and are powerful passive damage in teamfights. Save boon corrupts and strips to remove important boons like or . Your Death Shroud applies…

Condition Virtuoso

Condition Virtuoso is a relatively easy DPS build that deals consistent damage from range and cleaves enemies with its piercing attacks. Additionally, Virtuoso has a good amount of built-in defensive utility thanks to Jagged Mind, Illusionary Riposte, and Bladesong Distortion. Stock up Blades by applying to enemies thanks to Jagged Mind and Bloodsong. Once 5 Blades are ready, alternate between using Bladesong Sorrow, Bladeturn Requiem and Bladesong Harmony. Use Phantasmal Swordsman at the start of your Sword loop, then use it again before swapping to Focus to use Phantasmal Warden. Reset the cooldown of Phantasmal Warden with Signet of the Ether to summon more Phantasms for a DPS increase. Space your Shatters to keep Deadly Blades up at all times. Always prioritize Bladesong Harmony, Bladesong Sorrow and Bladeturn Requiem , Then use Signet of Illusions to reset the cooldown of…