Clarent Blade ZvZ PvP Build

Overview

Weapon: Sword

Focus: Melee DPS

Mode: ZvZ

Strengths

• High Bomb Burst Damage
• Good Sustain
• Versatile

Weaknesses

• Mana issues
• Low Mobility

This build is up to date for the November 6, 2024 Horizons Patch #1.

Overview

This Clarent Blade build offers incredible damage through the use of your Crescent Slash that is incredibly valuable in ZvZ PvP. Due to it's long range, it allows you to throw damage skills onto the enemy zerg without being deep into the enemy zerg like Elder's Halberd. This makes the build more newbie friendly and with the added versatility of the sword W, you can easily adapt to many different situations.

Equipment

Main Hand Weapon

Elder's Clarent Blade

Off Hand Weapon

Elder's Muisak

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Head

Elder's Knight Helmet

Cape

Elder's Martlock Cape

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Armor

Elder's Hellion Jacket

Shoes

Elder's Stalker Shoes

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Potion

Major Resistance Potion

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Food

Beef Stew

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Keep in mind: Gear shown in this build is meant as a reference. Choosing the correct tier of gear is very tricky as there are many variables. Some of them being your budget, your spec and minimum Item Power requirements of your guild if used for ZvZ.

You should always check prices based on IP of the items. For example, a masterpiece quality 4.3 Elder's Cryptcandle could be cheaper while providing roughly the same IP as an 8.0.

Usage

Elder's Clarent Blade

Heroic Cleave — Your main damaging and the ability you also use for mobility. Try to always use it on cooldown even if you have to use it on mobs or critters. The Heroic Cleave does an AOE attack around you and hits multiple people. Each hit you land with this ability will put a stack of Heroic Charges that increases your movement speed and attack speed pairing perfectly with Heroic Fighting as it is very useful to help with your repositioning.

Iron Will — This skill applies another Heroic Charge but also makes you immune to purges while increasing your defense and movement speed. This is invaluable and helps you make sure that you don't lose your Heroic Charges before you get to use Crescent Slash.

Crescent Slash — The main damaging ability. It fires a wave in a straight line wherever you point. Make sure to always try and use this ability when you have 3 Heroic Charges. At 1 stack of Heroic Charges your Crescent Slash also slows whoever it hits. At 2 stacks you silence the enemies hit. And finally at 3 stacks your damage is almost doubled.

Heroic Fighting — This passive will increase your movement speed and attack speed based on the amount of Heroic Charges you have, it is a no-brainer choice as your main damage comes from your Crescent Slash that also benefits from the same damage increase when having Heroic Charges.

Elder's Hellion Jacket

Life Steal Aura — Use this to leech HP off enemies and heal yourself. The heal is incredible and based on how many enemies you touch with the red AOE that forms around you. Keep in mind that this can be purged unless you are using Iron Will.

Balanced Mind — Straight up increases your damage and defense, good for this build.

Elder's Knight Helmet

Displacement Immunity — You'll typically use this skill when engaging a group of enemies to avoid getting interrupted or stopped by items like Elder's Knight Armor. If you are out position and cannot go to the frontline, feel free to use this on your own backline as it assists them regardless.

Toughness — This provides nice additional defense that helps during PvP and is the only real option for you.

Elder's Stalker Shoes

Raging Blink — Stacking up to 2 times, this ability allows you to teleport twice and increases the damage you do for a short while, it is a perfect choice for this build as you rely on high burst damage. Another option would be Elder's Royal Sandals but those also decrease your defenses.

Balanced Mind — The standard choice for any damaging build. Remember that you can always switch to Courier to carry more weight when you loot items off corpses.

Elder's Martlock Cape

Shield of Protection — A great defensive choice to help your survival. Keep in mind that it only activates when you HP drops to below 25% so make sure to keep track of it when losing HP in engagements so you don't waste the cooldown or push deep into the enemy zerg without knowing you are missing this important ability.

Rotations

Bomb Rotation ↴

• This rotation assumes that you already have 3 stacks of Heroic Charge on you by using Heroic Cleave on as many enemies as possible to minimize the time it takes to stack up. You then want to pop your Displacement Immunity to counter any firewalls or other CCs before using Raging Blink twice to stack up the damage and Iron Will to make sure you don't get purged before you can use Crescent Slash. Practice this rotation outside combat so you can execute it flawlessly as you only have a short window to do this and you should always try to hit as many enemies as possible.

Consumables

Major Resistance Potion — Feel free to use this potion as a general damage reduction cooldown if you anticipate burst damage from the enemy zerg or if you just want to get deeper. Often enough you want to use this after pumping in your damage.

Beef Stew — The best choice for flat damage increase and to boost your Crescent Slash damage. Always try to go for at least 8.1 though.