Firebrand - High Burst Condition
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Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty:
Hard
Overview
High burst condition damage great in team fight. High risk, High Reward.
Skillbar
Axe/Shield
Scepter/Focus
Utility
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Axe
Shield
Sigil
Sigil
Scepter
Focus
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Equipment Variants
Weapon
- Pistol & Pistol for more glass canon and DPS but less survivability.
- Pistol & Focus for higher dps with defensive from focus. Can take in the Zeal Trait line.
Utility
- instead of for more cleansing.
Usage
Elite specialization mechanics
- Quickness generated from , , is what makes this build works paired with Axe Auto and will cause massive Burn. Unless the enemy is just standing still, it will be hard to do this so this where your other skills comes.
- is a must as this will enable you to do more burns even your passive is on cooldown.
- Fury plus the bleeding from plus other condition you apply can prevent your enemy from cleansing the burning. acts as a potent constant condition cover paired with + Any
Set-up
- Start in your pistol and focus weapon set.
- Make sure you have and charged up.
- If you have time to prep use Epilogue Ashes of the Just before entering combat for more initial burning damage. +
- Make sure to bait out dodges, stun breaks, Stability, Blocks, and Invulnerability, first before doing the combo by using scepter basic attack.
Combo
- Use for the immobilize with the for a higher change of hitting the enemy Or before pulling with the .
- Once you find an opening that's when you use then use right away as its a very fast animation. If you successfully pull the enemy in, immediately follow up with .
- When they are in front of you start using 2 charges of and at the same time while pressing axe auto .
- By then the enemy will be likely be using a long blocking skills such as or a disengage, you will want to wait to use the last charge of the mantra.
- Once there is an opening or they did not have any above, then use the last charge of the Mantra Slow Immobilize Blindness Weakness Vulnerability plus Poison from the Relic after using and Daze from and . Once successfully land, it will give many condition cover such as
- If everything lines up. Spam only using your axe auto attack Burn and minor Bleeding + + Searing Slash which stacks tons of
- Immobilize will help you land your auto
- If everything lands and don't address the burn with cleanses the enemy will be dead in about 2 seconds.
- For against tanky builds or if you feel like it, you can use Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath at the end of the enemy blocks or before pulling in with the combo. +
- Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath deals a lot of damage paired with and +
- Important Info: once all of that hits the enemy will try to use a heal skill with the the common animation of hand movements plus a blue light. Try to use a CC to interrupt the casting by using Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke for range or + Chapter 2 Daring Challenge for melee range or if available. +
- If the enemy's heal skill is the other types, try not to attack during the duration or be on the defensive side to prevent the extra proc heal.
Survival
- Once your done with the combo switch to mace as soon as possible as this will help you survive and sustain before the next combo.
- Try to survive as much as you can as your combo cooldown lines up to about 30 seconds.
- Poke with your range weapon (Pistol or Scepter)
- Use when you need instant cleansing from high stacks of damaging conditions traited with .
- Use Epilogue Eternal Oasis for the 20% Heal increase plus 5 condition cleanse such as Poison before using +
- Chapter 4 Shining River + blast finisher such as Chapter 2 Igniting Burst + for more healing +
- Don't be afraid to use Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery for a quick 2 condition cleanse + heal as it only cost 1 page and low cooldown. +
- For ranged opponents or classes with lots of projectile, Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark to start is a must for survival. Due to the massive reflect bubble, this can reflect projectile damage back to the opponent. The only downside to this is it does not reflect Unblockable +
- + Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand is another Stun Break.
- I found that while using Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath for pressure relief while charging and works well as most players don't want to stand in fire. +
- If the enemy is ranged, use terrain to block your line of sight while charging and .
- You can also use to charge up and quickly if you are in a pinch.
En
Original Build by your local Firebrand
Yuna Kawase
Ratings
I main FB in other gamemodes, I really wanted this to work but man.. pvp and dps FB, it's never gonna happen is it? The damage is weak, easy to counter. Against support it's like I'm not even there. I only pull my weight when I'm tossing out boons to the team at which point I have to ask myself why I'm not a support. It's squishy as hell, doesn't last 2 seconds in bigger fights. Or 1v1s. Or anywhere really. Was hoping maybe pistol could improve it, nope. Guess I'm sticking to DH in pvp and I suggest others do the same. -137 rating, pumped the brakes after that. Wouldn't recommend. I'm genuinely trying to think up reasons to give this more than 1 star and I can't. Slow, low damage, paper sustain. All the good parts, support FB does better, and even that I dont like.
Pretty fun build! I play a similar version with scepter/shield axe/focus. I also take absolute resolve and more pages. This way you have some more condi cleanse, and some pretty good ranged burn! Def need to use terrain with this as you're still very squishy but whenever someone gets close you should have the upper hand.
High damage but no coverage, heasily beat by build with minimal cleansing. Hard to fight against long range player. Not good for 1v1, may be Ok to play in unrank with for fun but i strongly advise to not play it in ranked. It'd be good if Anet could do something for firebrand whom's basically the worst class existing since years in PvP
Great build overall, is good to see someone dedicated to his spec this much!
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