Berserker - Condition Skull Grinder Roamer

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Focused on: Condition damage, Control.

Designed for:

Roaming

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Overview

A condition based Berserker build made for solo/smallscale roaming with high single target condition damage combined with several crowd control (CC) abilities. Interupting enemies and applying conditions is a key element of this build.

Skill Bar

Mace/TorchHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Sword

Longbow

¾

Dual Shot

Shoot a pair of arrows at your foe.

₂Damage: 160

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

¼

6

Fan of Fire

Fire a spread of three flaming arrows, burning foes.

₃Damage: 423

₃Burning (2s): 1968 Damage

Targets per Arrow: 5

Pierces

Range: 1,000

¾

10

Arcing Arrow

Shoot a slow, arcing arrow that explodes on impact.

Damage: 487

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,000

¼

15

Smoldering Arrow

Shoot an arrow that explodes on impact blinding foes.

Damage: 49

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Radius: 180

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

¾

25

Pin Down

Fire an arrow that bleeds and immobilizes your target.

Damage: 97

₆Bleeding (12s): 3,060 Damage

Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

Rifle

¾

Fierce Shot

Fire a shot at your target, gaining bonus adrenaline against vulnerable targets.

Damage: 135

Bonus Adrenaline: 1

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

¼

8

Aimed Shot

Fire a precise shot that cripples your foe.

Damage: 85

Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

2½

10

Volley

Fire a volley of shots at your foe.

₅Damage: 730

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

½

15

Brutal Shot

Shoot your foe and make them vulnerable.

Damage: 122

₈Vulnerability (12s): 8% Incoming Damage

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

¼

15

Rifle Butt

Push your foe back with your rifle butt.

Damage: 244

Knockback: 600

Range: 130

Slot Changes

Weapons
Switch your swords if a ranged weapon is needed.

Longbow should be used as a offensive ranged weapon to apply conditions from far.
Rifle should be used as a defensive ranged weapon to keep yourself away from your enemy.

Heal

for a strong heal in short fights.
for additional condition removal.

Utility

instead of if having problems with hitting moving targets.
for additional condition removal and a stun break.
for additional adrenalin and a stun break with low cooldown.

Elite

for additional boons and to trigger
for more CC to trigger

Specializations

Variants

Use if you use

Throw Bolas

½

20

Throw Bolas

Physical. Throw bolas to immobilize your foe.

Damage: 61

Immobilize (4s): Unable to move.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

.
Use if your party overrides your fury.

Variants

Use for more survivability.
Use for CC heavy enemies.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Perplexity

18x

Malign WvW Infusion

Consumables

Variants

Stats

Adapt the amount of Trailblazer's according to the condition pressure you are receiving.

Sigils

against condition heavy enemies.

Food

Good alternative balancing offensive and defensive.
Defensive food.
cheap alternative to Rare Veggie Pizza

Utility

for a cheaper alternative.

Usage

Basic skill rotation

Start with Mace/Torch
Flames of War

¾

25

Flames of War

Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

Damage: 760

Burning (1s): 131 Damage

₂Final Burning (5s): 1310 Damage

Conditions Removed: 2

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 5s

Radius: 180

stay out of combat
Weapon swap
Impale

½

15

Impale

Throw your sword at your foe to impale them.

Damage: 122

₅Torment (8s): 1,275 Damage, 2,550 Damage if Moving

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900
Savage Leap

¾

8

Savage Leap

Lunge at your foe, striking them with your sword.

Damage: 183

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 600
Weapon swap
Kick

½

20

Kick

Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

Damage: 244

Knockback: 240

Range: 300
Head Butt

20

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

Damage: 1,894

Adrenaline: 30

Stun: 3s

Self-Stun: 1s

Breaks Stun

Range: 180
Berserk

15

Berserk

Rage. Gain adrenaline, an attack-speed boost, and access to primal burst skills.

Attack Speed Increase: 15%

Adrenaline: 10

Duration: 15s
Skull Grinder
Blaze Breaker

¾

15

Blaze Breaker

Smash your torch into the ground, creating a deadly shock wave that conditions foes.

₅Damage: 1,900

Burning (2s): 262 Damage

Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 400
Pommel Bash

15

Pommel Bash

Daze your foe with a brutal pommel bash.

Damage: 97

Daze (1s): Unable to use skills.

Range: 130
Flames of War

¾

25

Flames of War

Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

Damage: 760

Burning (1s): 131 Damage

₂Final Burning (5s): 1310 Damage

Conditions Removed: 2

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 5s

Radius: 180
Skull Grinder
Mace Smash

½

Mace Smash

Chain. Smash your foe.

Damage: 195

Range: 130

till adrenalin is full again
Skull Grinder
Mace Smash

½

Mace Smash

Chain. Smash your foe.

Damage: 195

Range: 130

and

Outrage

10

Outrage

Rage. Break out of stun and gain adrenaline for each foe near you.

for adrenalin
Skull Grinder
Improvise

Notes:

Time your CC abilities to interrupt your enemy to trigger , Distracting Strikes and

Superior Rune of Perplexity

Superior Rune of Perplexity

(1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Confusion Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): 25% chance when struck to inflict 3 stacks of confusion for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 25s) (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Confusion duration; when you use a heal skill, inflict 3 stacks of confusion in an area for 6 seconds. (Radius: 240, Cooldown: 15s)
Kick

½

20

Kick

Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

Damage: 244

Knockback: 240

Range: 300

is the perfect preparing skill for either Skull Grinder or

Head Butt

20

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

Damage: 1,894

Adrenaline: 30

Stun: 3s

Self-Stun: 1s

Breaks Stun

Range: 180

. They both have enough range to reduce the distance made by the knockback and hit the target.
Always use

"For Great Justice!"

25

"For Great Justice!"

Shout. Grant fury and might to yourself and nearby allies.

Fury (8s): 20% Critical Chance

₃Might (25s): 90 Power, 90 Condition Damage

Radius: 600

to keep up .