Conduit - Power Shiro Conduit

Part of the current metagame

Part of the current tournament metagame

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

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This build was last updated on May 04, 2026 and is up to date for the April 14, 2026 patch.

Overview

A power focused Conduit build for PvP, option for Jalis and Shiro for a mix of defense and offense. Shiro should be kept on the bar at all times, but the second legend slot is flexible.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Sword/Shield

Utility

Utility

Skill Variants

Legends

• Legendary Dwarf Stance (Jalis) over Legendary Entity Stance (Razah) is an equally viable option.

Weapons

• If you don't have access to the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, use Staff instead of Sword/Shield.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

For a more offensive version of the build, you could replace Retribution with Devastation:

Equipment

Hammer

Sigil

Sigil

Sword

Shield

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulets

• - more tanky option, but you should take an offensive rune with this to compensate for the the damage loss, like Rune of Scholar.

Usage

Conduit Basics

• As a Conduit, you gain a new resource to manage: Affinity. You build Affinity by using both weapon and legend skills. Affinity is lost on legend swap.

• Cosmic Wisdom is a passive that has a different type of effect based on your legend:
  • Legendary Assassin Stance (Shiro) - adds lifesteal procs whenever you use Shiro skills, or periodically maintain its upkeep skill.
  • Legendary Entity Stance (Razah) - does AoE damage whenever you use a Razah skill.
  • Both of these fill a similar role, boosting your damage with extra procs. The key Difference is that Razah is AoE while Shiro is single target focused, but also has some minor healing attached to it.
  • This skill costs nothing and only has a cooldown.

• The other profession mechanic you get is Release Potential:
  • Deals more damage per Affinity stack.
  • Release Potential: Assassin does high AoE damage around you in 3 stages.
  • Release Potential: Dervish is also a strong AoE skill, but targets enemies in front of you. There are bonus effects attached to it - you gain more effects per Affinity stack. With Shiro in your other legend slot, you always get the boon removal even at 0 Affinity.

General

• Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as Invoker's Rage, and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs or low on energy.

• Enhanced Embodiment reduces the CD of your legend swap by several seconds. This allows you to be more reckless with your energy management and spam skills harder than usual.

• Rapid Flow is an important part of your mobility, even out of combat. Using any skill with an energy cost gives you Swiftness every 5 seconds. In combat this will happen passively and you generally don't need to pay attention to it. The easiest way to maintain Swiftness out of combat is to turn Impossible Odds on/off every 5 seconds. Using low energy, low CD weapon skills would also suffice.

• Jade Winds (Shiro elite) is rarely used because of its huge energy cost. It's sometimes good for setting up burst but mainly for allies, as you'll have no energy left unless you have legend swap ready. And since you're unlikely to be sitting on 50 energy in the middle of combat, it'll mostly see play in 2 scenarios: right as you engage in combat while +1ing a fight, or if you got revived and you're at full energy.

Damage

• Sword and Shiro have great singletarget damage while Hammer and Razah carry your AoE damage.

• Stacking damage modifiers is a crucial part of burst combos, especially on Shiro:
  • Enchanted Daggers will often be used offensively for the lifesteal, giving you armor ignoring damage procs. This is also extremely cheap.
  • Cosmic Wisdom gives you a lesser version of Enchanted Daggers, these stack with Enchanted Daggers and will fire when you use Shiro skills or maintain Impossible Odds. CW costs nothing and has no cast time.
  • Impossible Odds adds an extra damage proc whenever you hit with an attack.

• You often want to stack all 3 of the aforementioned skills at the same time.

• These can significantly improve the damage of multihit skills like Unrelenting Assault or Release Potential: Assassin.

• Chilling Isolation (Sword #2) and Coalescence of Ruin (Hammer #2) have good damage and a low cost, you should use them whenever they're available.

• Unrelenting Assault works best against single target where the damage isn't split, and only becomes truly threatening with the extra damage procs.

• On Hammer you get to deal solid damage from range even without using attack skills:
  • The autoattack Hammer Bolt doesn't do much by itself, but has great synergy with your extra damage procs.
  • Using the auto with Field of the Mists active will create armor ignoring lifesteal procs, as you're shooting through a Dark field. You can then add all of the other extra damage sources mentioned above to truly make your auto spam hurt.
  • Adding Quickness also help a lot. While Quickness comes from using Cosmic Wisdom on Razah, you can simply just swap to Shiro right after and use Impossible Odds to further boost your damage.

• Phase Smash is a hard hitting ground targeted AoE with a huge range, but the most interesting part is that it actually moves your character to the target location before teleporting back. It also evades attacks. This means that you can do things like triggering Dragonhunter or Ranger traps, Necromancer marks from a safe distance, without being hit.
  • It's also good for counterpressuring enemies even in melee range while avoiding their damage.

• Field of the Mists on top of being a Dark field and having defensive applications also does respectable damage in melee to medium range when activated.

• Drop the Hammer is one of your few CC skills. The knockdown on it lasts quite long and makes it easier to land your otherwise slow hammer attacks. The cast time on this isn't too bad, but there's also a small delay between the cast and the CC going off. It's not quick enough to work as a reliable interrupt, but it's good enough for setting up bursts.

• Phase Traversal works best with Sword because it's a gapcloser, but it's still useful for hammer too because of the Quickness and unblockable attacks. It's one of your few mobility tools in general.

• Razah's Twin Moon Sweep does decent damage and can Immobilize enemies if hit by both the Conduit and the fragment of Razah that spawns at the target location.

• Razah's Beguiling Haze is one of your strongest skills. It serves as a high damage, unblockable gapcloser. While the initial cost is fairly high, you get to spam this skill for free if you keep hitting enemies at the target location (up to 2 more times).
  • This is extremey good at finishing targets that rely on blocking skills to survive, like other Conduits with Crystal Hibernation (which is a stationary skill, so they're easy targets), Mesmers with Deja Vu, Warriors with Shield Stance and so on.

Sustain

• While Shiro is your offensive legend, Riposting Shadows is arguably your best defensive skill: breaks stuns, has an evade frame, gapbuilder, gets you out of Immobilize, restores endurance, etc.

• Both weapon skills have evade frames too: Phase Smash on Hammer and Unrelenting Assault on Sword.
  • Phase Smash is better because you get the evasion right as you press the button, while UA has a windup time.

• Both weapons provide Aegis on skill #4.

• Field of the Mists on top of having Aegis also blocks projectile attacks for a few seconds, making it a great option against ranged damage, allowing you to counterpressure targets freely.

• Crystal Hibernation is your time-out button and emergency 3rd healing skill.

• Your condition cleansing is fairly limited, so you need to play those matchups with extra care. Your condi removals are limited to:
  • Hex-Eater Vortex - this is your best one, removing up to 3 conditions for a medium cost on Razah.
  • Riposting Shadows as well as the sigils on Sword/Shield can remove several non-damaging conditions at once, making it easier for your few other condi management tools to get rid of the damaging ones.
  • If you're having trouble dealing with conditions in general or expect an especially condi-heavy matchup, pick up Cleansing Channel on Invocation. 1 extra removal on legend swap can be more helpful than it sounds, especially when coupled with the lower CD legend swaps via Enhanced Embodiment.

• While condi removal isn't the best, at least the build has high passive Resolution uptime for mitigation.
  • You gain Resolution whenever you dodge.

• Razah's healing skill Shielding Hands offers a huge damage mitigation while channeled. This in theory should be great to use while pressured, but the long cast time and lack of Stability in the build can make it hard to use with multiple enemies on you.
  • The only way you can get Stability in the build is by breaking stuns, so this skill is best used right after Gladiator's Defense. It's important to note that simply using a stunbreak doesn't give you Stability, the boon's ONLY applied upon successfully breaking free of CC.
  • The damage mitigation of SH on top of the Weakness application of GD should make you take barely any damage for a few seconds.

• Beguiling Haze remains highly valuable as a mobility tool even for survivability. While you lose out on a chance to reactivate this skill if you fire it at an empty field with no enemies struck, being able to escape to the safety of the highground with it is definitely worth it.

• Sometimes the best defense is a good offense - many of your damage modifiers are skills with lifesteal, healing you when you land strikes. Using skills with evade frames like Unrelenting Assault can heal you up safely.
  • Relic of Zakiros and Roiling Mists also convert some of your outgoing damage into healing.

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