Galeshot - Power Galeshot

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on July 19, 2026 and is up to date for the July 20, 2026 patch.

Overview

Power galeshot build for open world. Summon Cyclone Bow to overwhelm your enemies with all your projectiles, while providing yourself and nearby allies with permanent Quickness.

As a downside, this build struggles against enemies that can block or reflect projectiles, and requires frequent weapon swapping between your 2 basic weapons and the Cyclone Bow.

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Skill Bar

Axe/Axe

Longbow

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Dual Maces - maces can replace axes to trade damage for more resilience through barrier, stability, healing, and more crowd control. Requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency from Secrets of the Obscure.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

We default to Soothing Breeze for its great healing and condition removal, and it recovers one arrow for the Cyclone Bow.

Utility skill

We default to:
Piercing Gales because it deals great damage. Do not replace it.
Mistral because it increases your projectile damage, and galeshots fire lots of projectiles. Do not replace it.
Whirlwind as a stunbreak and mobility skill. Can be replaced if you don't need this defensive option.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:

• Storm Spirit - extra AoE damage and cc.
• Frost Trap - extra AoE damage.
• "Protect Me!" - AoE stunbreak and personal barrier.
• Signet of the Wild - passive damage. Never activate it.
• Signet of Renewal - in condition heavy fights to cleanse conditions, but be ready to swap pets if its health gets too low.

Elite skill

We default to Perfect Storm for its great damage and crowd control, and it recovers two arrows for the Cyclone Bow. On very rare situations, it can be replaced by:

• Spirit of Nature - sacrifices your damage for an AoE revive.

Pet variants

The suggested Rock Gazelle has decent damage and crowd control on both one of its normal attacks and its Beast skill, so it will help with activating Thrill of the Catch. On the other hand, the Carrion Devourer has decent damage. You can use other pets if you'd like, here are some options:

High damage pets

• Jacaranda, any feline such as Lynx, and bird such as Hawk.

Good mix of damage and crowd control

• Smokescale, Rock Gazelle, Boar, any canine such as Alpine Wolf.

Good on-demand crowd control

• Rock Gazelle, Pink Moa, Electric Wyvern, Wolf.

Tanky pets

• Drakes such as Marsh Drake provide the best mix of damage and tankiness, but bears, porcines, and devourers are also very tanky pets.

Specializations

Variants

• Predator's Onslaught - significant damage increase but your arrows no longer pierce, so it might be worse when fighting packs of enemies.
• Sharpened Edges - minimal damage increase at the cost of Vigor generation.
• Strider's Strength - if using a feline, avian, or drake pet.
• Gale Force - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing permanent Quickness.

Note that Farsighted doesn't work with Summon Cyclone Bow, so you can consider Wolfsong instead.

Equipment

Berserker

This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Soulbeast_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PvE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Longbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Nika" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Serpentstone" mace, "Maw of the Damned"/"Shattered Axe"/"Serpent's Wrath Axe" axe, "Eir's Longbow" longbow. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

• This set provides 100% critical chance thaks to Vicious Quarry and Hunter's Tactics.
• For relic alternatives, you can use Relic of Fireworks if you lack access to Claw, or Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Usage

Summon Cyclone Bow is the profession mechanic of the galeshot. It replaces your current weapon with a wind bow. The bow starts with 8 arrows, which replenish over time. Using Squall skills (the galeshot's heal, utility, and elite skills) also replenishes arrows.

Casting bow skills 2 to 5 consumes arrows. After consuming 5 arrows, Hawkeye replaces skill 1. However, if you leave the Cyclone Bow, your stacks of consumed arrows are lost.

Due to the trait Cloudburst, the cooldown of Bluster (skill 2) is reset when using Quarry's Peril (skill 4) or Supersonic Arrow (skill 5). Additionally, the trait Thrill of the Catch recovers an arrow when you or your pet crowd control an enemy, but mind its 0.25 internal cooldown.

Damage

• Provide Quickness by using Bluster and Hawkeye thanks to the trait Cloudburst.
• To effectively use Cyclone Bow, you want to enter, cast your skills to generate 5 Wind Force, cast Hawkeye and leave. One way to do that is to enter the bow, use Bluster, Quarry's Peril, Bluster, Supersonic Arrow and Hawkeye.
  • If Supersonic Arrow is on cooldown, replace it with Fleeting Zephyr and auto attack until you can cast Bluster again and finish with Hawkeye.
  • Remember that your stacks of Wind Force are lost when you stow the bow.
• Entering the Cyclone Bow does not cancel your current skill.
• Always use Dismiss Cyclone Bow to stow the bow, as it will not cancel your current skill. Do not use weapon swap to stow the bow because it will cancel your current skill. This is especially important so you do not interrupt Hawkeye.
• Use Mistral before unleashing your projectile burst to deal higher damage.
• Maintain Swiftness or Superspeed to activate Bird of Prey. You can easily gain switness from Lead the Wind and Tail Wind, which also activates when swapping to/from the Cyclone Bow.
• Crowd control recovers 1 arrow thanks to Thrill of the Catch. Squall skills, such as Mistral, also recover one arrow, but Perfect Storm recovers two.

Axe/Axe

• Use all your axe skills for damage.
• Use Splitblade in melee range to hit your target with all axes and deal more damage.
• Whirling Defense deals massive damage but has a long casting time, but you should have permanent quickness from Cloudburst.

Longbow

• Longbow works great for starting fights with Barrage and Rapid Fire, but has less sustained damage. It also works great with Mistral.
• Point Blank Shot activates Lead the Wind for boons. However, do not use Point-Black Shot to push enemies away from your allies. This is not a concern against enemies with a defiance bar.
• Remember that you can enter the Cyclone Bow while casting Barrage or Rapid Fire and they will not get interrupted.

Defense

• This is a fully ranged build, always keep moving. Move out of dangerous attacks or dodge them.
• Fleeting Zephyr evades during its cast.

Crowd Control

• Supersonic Arrow
• Path of Scars
• Point Blank Shot
• Perfect Storm
• Head Toss and Charge (gazelle) from your pet Rock Gazelle.