Dragonhunter - Spirit Burn DH

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A condition based DH build created for bursting down players with massive Burn stacks.

Archival note: made obsolete by nerfs to its damage

Skill Bar

Scepter/Shield

Sword/Focus

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

For the optional slot:

• Shield of the Avenger - excellent Weakness and anti-projectile uptime for AoE damage mitigation, plus it's a cover condition that could make it harder for your opponents to remove Burning.

• Contemplation of Purity - a stun break and mass cleanse on a somewhat long CD.

• Signet of Judgment - stun break on a much lower CD than CoP with a decent passive but weaker active.

• Procession of Blades - this trap could squeeze even more burst damage out of the build if you can make your enemies stand in it and also has synergy with your rune.

Weapons

• Shield and Focus can we swapped, some players prefer Sword/Shield and Sceper/Focus. Both setups are fine.

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Equipment

Scepter

Shield

Sigil

Sigil

Sword

Focus

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Equipment Variants

Rune

• Rune of Lynx - better mobility in general.

Sigils

• Sigil of Cleansing over Sigil of Smoldering - you can make this switch on both sets if you're having trouble dealing with conditions.

Usage

General

• Test of Faith punishes enemies for moving out of your AoEs. Does decent damage and could also be used defensively while under pressure for that instant cast Protection proc. Has good synergy with Rune of Trapper, granting you instant access to Stealth and Superspeed in case you'd need to escape enemy focus/reposition.

Damage

• Most of the damage in the build comes from the passive Burn procs of Spear of Justice, your F1 ability.
  • Your goal is to hit a target as many times as possible, as quickly as possible. More hits = more procs.
  • Permeating Wrath makes your F1 proc more often and inflict AoE burning. Hitting a group of enemies not only charges your F1 faster, but one proc also deals damage to all, which means the effectiveness of the build scales up with the number of enemies you can hit. As a result the build is especially deadly in situations where enemies are balling up, for example when they are trying to revive one of their downed teammates.
  • You should almost never use the active effect of Spear of Justice as it turns off the passive and thus you lose most of your damage until it recharges.

• Sword of Justice empowered by Eternal Armory is the primary burst skill in the build, striking multiple times in rapid succession and inflicting Burning. The skill has multiple charges so feel free to use it often.

• Symbolic Power makes your symbols charge your F1 faster. For burst damage, try to overlap as many symbols with Sword of Justice as possible while cleaving with your autoattacks.

• Chains of Light on Scepter and your elite skill Dragon's Maw are both great at keeping enemies inside your AoEs.
  • Burst combo example: Symbol of Blades ⇒ Dragon's Maw ⇒ Sword of Justice ⇒ Zealot's Defense

Sustain

• The build doesn't have a lot of ways to get rid of conditions, but there are a few:
  • Hunter's Fortification is the one you'll be utilizing most often. It synergizes well with your F3, Shield of Courage but also works with just about any source of blocks from Aegis to Shield of Wrath.
  • Wings of Resolve, the F2 skill is your source of mass cleansing. This skill removes a total of 5 conditions with the help of Absolute Resolution.
  • Shield of Wrath is a Blast finisher, which means it AoE cleanses 1 condition when used inside a symbol so always try to do that.

• Rune of The Trapper turns every trap in the build into a source of Stealth and Superspeed, ideal for kiting and disengaging in case you are being focused by the enemy team.