September 2024

Spear Warrior

Very strong Warrior build, involving high bursts of damage and overall consistent damage output. Your main source of damage comes from your Burst skills. Harrier's Toss Deals increased damage to targets in the center. Arcing Slice Deals increased damage to targets below 50% HP. Make sure to use Harrier's Toss with max Adrenaline to use its full damage potential, unlike Arcing Slice which does not scale with your Adrenaline level. Use Spearmarshal's Support before using either of your Burst skills. Combine Maiming Spear with Harrier's Toss so both land at the same time. Use Signet of Fury to gain max Adrenaline for Harrier's Toss. Avoid using it for Arcing Slice due to the skill not scaling damage with your Adrenaline level. Use Signet of Might before Disrupting Throw to make use of your Unblockable hits. Avoid using it in combination…

Fresh Air Power Alacrity Tempest

Fresh Air Tempest is an easy build to learn, but it has a high skill ceiling to achieve maximum DPS. This is a very fast-paced build due to low cast times on your damaging skills besides Overload Air. For the full damage version of this build: Fresh Air Power Tempest Damage Select difficulty Scepter & Warhorn October 2024 Every time you start channeling an Overload, Lucid Singularity will pulse to allies around you, with a stronger application at the end of the cast. Your main damage sources are Overload Air and Lightning Storm, which benefit from Fresh Air. In short, cast Overload Air as much as possible. At the end of this skill, swap Attunements, activate Fresh Air, and go back to Air Attunement to Overload again. TIP: It's important to remember that you can attunement swap while casting weapon…

Bruiser Soulbeast

Bruiser Soulbeast is a flexible build, capable of team fighting and duelling, as it has decent sustain and good damage. Soulbeast is a modifier-based damage dealer, meaning most of their damage is going to be concentrated in certain spikes. As an example, your longbow burst combines Twice as Vicious (5%), Furious Strength (7%), Vicious Quarry (300 Ferocity), Loud Whistle (10%), Hunter's Tactics (10%), and Sigil[s] of Exploitation (5%) for a massive boost to your damage. On your maces you have access to Force of Nature once you reach 5 stacks of Nature's Strength. Mainhand Sword hits extremely hard, both Serpent's Strike and Pounce can crit for up to 10k+ damage on squishy targets; they’re also both mobility skills with leap finishers attached for extra utility. An easy way to use sword is to combo Serpent's Strike onto a disabled target to lock…

Heal Quickness Berserker

Heal Quickness Berserker provides strong healing, , , , , , and has access to on-demand utility such as , , and crowd control (CC). is applied to allies around you whenever you use a Burst skill due to the trait Heat the Soul. Boon Application and Healing comes from using a variety of Weapon, Utility and Burst skills. Below is a list of skills that heal allies and also grant other effects: Rampart Splitter -> . Valiant Leap -> and . Line Breaker -> and Defiant Roar -> Resolution. When dropping out of Berserk, use Head Butt or other Adrenaline skills to re-enter Berserk as soon as possible. Use Head Butt -> Outrage to gain Adrenaline and enter Berserk. As a Healer you don’t have a specific rotation. However, this simple loop will provide your group with passive healing…

Condition Harbinger

This Condition Harbinger is a great setup made for World vs World roaming. Unlike Death Shroud, Harbinger Shroud does not protect the Harbinger’s health pool while it is active. Harbinger benefits from self-inflicted stacks by utilizing Shroud skills that consume in exchange for more damage. Throwing Elixirs on yourself will make you gain (10 stacks from the heal and utilities, 15 from elite). This will allow for higher damage thanks to Septic Corruption at the cost of your max health so use with caution. Additionally, if you are above a certain blight threshold when using an Elixir (5 stacks for the heal and utilities, 10 for elite) it will consume those stacks to double the strike damage of the Elixir and the duration of the conditions applied. This is useful to remove stacks on yourself to improve your max health…

Booster Holosmith

This Celestial Booster Holosmith 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. Holosmith has a special mechanic called Heat, which is generated passively while in Engage Photon Forge and when you use weapon skills in Engage Photon Forge. Being above the 50 Heat threshold grants you benefits to your sword and Exceed skills, which is further increased by Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit. This trait increases your maximum heat to 150, granting additional benefits to these skills while above 100 heat. Exceed skills are the special type of utility skills available while playing Holosmith, including your…

Support Vindicator

Support Vindicator is a very durable support build, with exceptional healing output, along with significant and thanks to the addition of scepter. 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 Otherworldly Bond, but swap to staff if Crystal Hibernation is on cooldown and you start getting focused. Use Dodge to support your allies. It heals, provides and cleanses a condition (which provides ). Use Ventari's Will to the target location you wish to cast a Legendary Centaur Stance at. In Legendary Alliance Stance, 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 Nomad's Advance, or you’re being focused and need Selfish Spirit or Reaver's Rage. Your…

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 Distortion. On top of its invulnerability effect, it will apply to you and allies around you. Signet of Illusions will reset the cooldown of every shatter beside Continuum Split. 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…

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 Mirage Thrust on Sword, which will be used primarily for mobility, and Split Surge while on Greatsword, used mainly for damage. Note: Split Surge 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 Split Surge. Keep in mind that Mirage Cloak…

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 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…

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…

Condition Reaper

Condition Reaper is a powerful DPS team fighter that has a lot of hard and soft crowd control and condition damage. The Death Magic variant provides better means to survive, even without a support, without giving up much damage. It is especially recommended for solo play. Condition Reaper is a powerful DPS team fighter that relies on for both control and damage. This build combines Harbinger’s high damage with Core Necro’s survivability and control. While Condition Reaper is susceptible to CC, it shines when paired with a support. Apply as much as possible while kiting away. This will inhibit the enemies attack patterns after you dodge their initial burst. Chill also applies a lot of pressure on this build, because it will apply due to Deathly Chill. Use Soul Spiral inside the field created by Executioner's Scythe. This will create…

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 Rune[s] 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…

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…

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 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…

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…