October 2024

Support Scourge

This Scourge build is a strong group support, with great access to , condition cleanses, enemy boon removal and revival power. Your Necromancer’s Shroud is replaced by , which allows you to provide support and damage at range. The main mechanic of Scourge’s Shades is understanding that your F2-F5 skills apply in two locations – your current location and also the location where your is placed, meaning you can cover twice as many targets with each skill! Use and to provide to your allies and cleanse their conditions thanks to . Use to activate , reviving your downed allies around yourself. NOTE: even though will activate on the location, only pulses from your character. pulses with a stronger application on the final one. Once finished, your trait activates for additional healing. Your skills have great utility: , , and remove…

Support Tempest

Support tempest has access to strong healing and condition cleanse, reflects and CCs Currently, the earth variant is the one used the most as tempest needs the extra survivability from the traitline against the strong power damage dealers.   As support, your primary job is to keep your team alive, but keep in mind Tempest is a squishy, light armor class. Therefore it is useful if you’re already familiar with kiting and know which skills are ranged. Only first few pulses require you to be close to your allies. Earth tempest applies high amounts of thanks to and has significantly better survivability thanks to its the damage reduction from , and . Thanks to   and  auras that you apply to your allies will heal them and also cleanse them, therefore make sure you know which skills provide auras, and…

Power Shatter Mesmer

Using stealth and strong burst, Power Shatter core mesmer can deal a ton of damage to any target if used well. However, in the current meta Power Chronomancer ends up being better because of more ways to deal extreme amounts of damage and crowd control. This build is based on one simple burst, hitting it is very important as most of the kills you’ll get will be from this combo. in melee range. You can start casting it from range and use at the very end of the cast to teleport close to your target. almost at the same time but it’s important to apply the first In case you are not on greatsword but still want to burst because you see good timing or want to finish the target quickly you can use into to shortly and port yourself…

Side Mirage

Side Mirage is a duelist build based on slowly killing your opponents while getting your cooldowns back very fast due to a very high uptime. Side mirage is a duelist build. Most of your damage comes from under the form of very slow damage based on your clones and dodges, as well as your staff clones simply casting . The one slight burst you have comes from which applies high amount of . Combining it with is mandatory to ensure to hit every shot from the phantasm. You should use every other cooldown to survive and slightly pressure the enemy. should be used as soon as you can as it blocks and applies 5 stacks of on your opponent. gives you to help you cast it fast enough. Remember you can move freely using this aslong as you’re facing your…

Interrupt Mirage

Interrupt Mirage offers high condition damage and good disruption through interrupts, despite being a roamer, it can also sidenode if needed. What makes this build unique is , which puts enemy skills on a higher cooldown and apply when you interrupt a skill. Knowing important skills to interrupt like a heal or elite can easily secure a kill and win a teamfight, so knowing the animations of important abilities like or is vital. 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 Axe, used mainly for damage. Use your Dodge carefully. Dodging for damage on Axe is a bad idea that will expose you. High risk, low reward. Keep in…

Power Daredevil

The thief has the most access to out of any of the classes. This paired with strong burst damage and access to low cooldown mobility skills makes it an amazing roamer. Use your mobility from and to rotate quickly around the map and provide value for your team. You can join a 1v1 fight and assist your sidenoder in defeating the enemy’s one, which is known as the “plus one” or quickly “decap” an enemy node (turn it neutral). Keep in mind that going for a full cap is usually pointless as you will struggle to defend the node vs an enemy sidenoder. Your main damage comes from . You gain access to this when you auto-attack someone while in . That’s why you should to always stealth yourself when joining the fight. You can blast the Smoke Field with…

Condition Daredevil

Condition Daredevil build offers visually dynamic gameplay due to constant usage of movement skills like , , , , and Dodge. The ramp-up of your condition damage is carried with burst skills like Venoms, paired with spamming of . Always ensure to use Venoms after the boon strip that happens when you enter combat with the boss and don’t steal from Invulnerable enemies, as using will result in stealing nothing. Be aware of range of your Venoms (240 units around you) when applying them to your allies. Always position yourself, so you cover every one of them within the range of the aforementioned skills. Maintain uptime as highest as possible, and keep in mind that the buff does not stack. If you’re unable to hit your target, make sure to look at the trait uptime and dodge if it’s about…

Core Ranger

Core ranger is and for a very long time has been a good 1v1 build with decent team fight pressure and good survivability when outnumbered. Your main damage comes from your pet and , but generally, you would want to keep your distance while using and until you have an opportunity to swap to a greatsword. When you are able to get closer to perform your damage combo from greatsword, you should use followed by (preferably from behind as it will stun rather than daze) and use again. The main combos you can use with this build are Smokescale’s and for . Instead of you can also swap pets to use through . It can allow you to either get a good and pet swap to drake to have it use , or to simply escape/kite. Be mindful of how…

Power Soulbeast

Hammer Power DPS Soulbeast offers strong burst damage while also mantaining good sustained DPS making it a good pick for any kind of fight! Stay merged with your Pet and use Crowd Control skills to upkeep . Use your damaging skills right after and during to maximize DPS during this burst window. Be careful to not get stuck channeling skills such as or in the wrong places! When using , try to cast the first one behind and away from the boss, and the second one (right before swapping to Hammer again) close behind it as this will lead to a higher uptime on . Try to be at maximum health during your Burst Rotation to benefit from  and possibly . Therefore it can be beneficial to use your Healing Skill before a Burst. In addition to healing, will also…

Handkite Soulbeast

Handkite Soulbeast build was created specifically for the Wing 4 Deimos encounter and it has no use outside of it. Deimos Select difficulty The last and hardest boss in Wing 4, Deimos requires a toughness tank and one special role, the Handkite. This build has 1200 toughness. Communicate this with your tank as you can't tank Deimos and handkite at the same time. If your tank can't go higher than 1200 toughness check the Alternatives section. Every few seconds, the furthest player from Deimos will have five stacks of hands spawn under them at 1-second intervals. Controlling these hands is your responsibility. This means you must position yourself to be the furthest player from Deimos, and must be able to self sustain through damage from Hands, Tears, and Deimos' Mind Crush mechanic. You want to permanently upkeep and on yourself.…

Heal Alacrity Druid

Heal Alacrity Druid is a strong, flexible defensive support that provides permanent , , , , , , and 25 stacks of to a subgroup. This build also brings abundant condition cleanses and high amounts of Crowd Control. Alternate between Mace/Warhorn to provide boons and Staff for healing and . Use as soon as it is available for healing, , and application through . Feel free to stay in for longer if you need to provide extra heals. It’s important to keep on your group with a combination of , , your pet’s F2 abilities through , and Glyphs via . Don’t hesitate to use these abilities if you won’t need them for mechanics. Use off-cooldown for . While you may be using regularly for protection uptime, it may be useful to save it if you need to block certain mechanics…

Trapper Dragonhunter

Mobile, very bursty build. This build thrives on exploiting mistakes from your opponent and bursting them down very quickly. Our goal is to mostly be present in teamfights and focus squishy targets. This build enjoys really high range damage from longbow and traps. Coupled with tons of damage increases, try to tether them with and kill them quickly. we have sufficient mobility and plenty of damage to roam a bit and outnumber duels, ending them quickly. Knock enemies in and out of . Try to maintain to keep up your high critical chance from Use from your many sources to keep off the pressure and save for when you really need it. Do not use before you used , unless you have no choice. Avoid missing . It’s a huge damage boost. Use weaponstow to cancel it if you estimate…

Heal Quickness Firebrand

Heal Quickness Firebrand is a versatile defensive support that provides permanent , , , , and . This build also has strong access to , , condition cleanses, and other useful utilities. The Axe variant provides permanent uptime, higher DPS, and CC/pulls via , but might lack without . The Mace variant gains access to via , healing from Auto-attack chains, and from . Make sure that is covered by another player in your subgroup if playing with Mace. Use Staff to apply and , then swap to Mace/Shield to upkeep and apply via and . Open Tome of Resolve for more healing and condition cleanses. Use all of your charges of and cast when grouped up with your squad to apply , , and . Use the flexibility of Tome Skills to adapt to the situation and provide support or…

Condition Quickness Firebrand

Condition Quickness Firebrand is a powerful and highly flexible offensive support that provides permanent , , and a variety of other boons to a subgroup. Damage foes with Pistol/Torch before entering for more damage. Use the flexibility of Tome Skills to adapt to the situation and provide damage , support , or utility as needed. A huge chunk of Firebrand strengths lies within these tomes. Mantra skills are cast in a cone in front of you, so position yourself appropriately to deal damage and apply boons to your allies, the cone opening is 160 degrees which is almost a half circle and cone range is 450. Mantra charges cast instantly and do not interrupt other skills, so use them while casting other skills to maximize efficiency: Spam all charges for and for damage , however, should be used every few seconds…

Condition Firebrand

Condition Firebrand is a powerful, self-sufficient DPS build with flexible built-in utilities via Tome Skills. and powerful optional Guardian utility skills. Damage foes with Axe/Torch and Pistol/Pistol before entering for more damage. Use the flexibility of Tome Skills to adapt to the situation and provide damage, support, or utility as needed. Mantra skills are cast in a cone in front of you, so position yourself appropriately to deal damage or apply boons to allies. Mantra charges cast instantly and do not interrupt other skills, so use them while casting other skills to maximize efficiency. Spam  off-cooldown to maximize damage. Use to heal yourself if needed. The final charge, , can be used to apply to yourself and allies to block important attacks or mechanics. Use as needed for . Its final charge, , also provides but should be saved for emergencies…