Renegade - Condition Renegade
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Contents
Overview
Midline condition build with high AoE damage and boon corrupt.
Skill Bar
Specializations
Variants
- - Greater access to resistance, useful in parties without a Firebrand
- - Better DPS when not using
Variants
Variants
Variants
Equipment
6x
Superior Rune of the Berserker
18x
Malign WvW Infusion
Variants
Stats
- Add as much Trailblazer gear as needed for survivability then fill out with Viper gear.
- For a variant with higher burst damage and no condition duration, use Griever or Sinister gear, filling out with as much Dire as needed for survivability.
- Use Celestial gear for high overall stats at the cost of condition duration.
Sigil
Rune
- - Condi offensive variant
- - Defensive variant
- - Defensive variant
Food & Consumables
Food
- - Defensive option, recommended.
Sweet Bean Bun
Sweet Bean BunNourishment (30 m):
+70 Expertise-20% Condition Duration (Incoming)+25% Magic Find during Lunar New YearConsumable - - Alternate defensive option.
Oysters with Spicy Sauce
Oysters with Spicy SauceNourishment (30 m):+10% Damage Reduction+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from killsConsumable - - Alternate defensive option.
Loaf of Saffron Bread
Loaf of Saffron BreadNourishment (30 m):Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.-20% condition duration+10 Experience from killsConsumable - - Offensive option.
Koi Cake
Koi CakeNourishment (20 m):+100 Expertise+70 Condition Damage+10 Experience from killsConsumable - - Alternate offensive option.
Saffron Stuffed Mushroom
Saffron Stuffed MushroomNourishment (30 m):Gain +200 condition damage for 30 seconds when you kill a foe. (This effect does not stack)+70 Precision+10% Experience from kill[sic]Consumable
Utility
Master Tuning Crystal
Master Tuning CrystalNourishment (30 m):
Gain Condition Damage equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Condition Damage equal to 8% of your Expertise+10% Experience from KillsConsumable
Usage
Mace/Axe
- Mace/Axe is your primary weapon set, providing consistent damage output.
- Use to disrupt enemies after removing
Stability with . - Use as frequently as possible for the highest DPS potential.
- Try not to break your auto-attack chain if possible for maximum DPS potential.
Shortbow
- Other than and shortbow skills are vulnerable to projectile reflect/block. Make use of your utility skills to fill downtime when projectile skills are not an option.
- Use to disrupt enemies after removing Stability with .
Mallyx (Legendary Demon Stance)
- and deal a significant amount of damage for condition builds, don't be afraid to prioritize over weapon skills.
- hits up to five targets in a line, try to save it to remove critical boons such as Stability and
Resistance. - Use to absorb conditions from your team and give resistance.
- Keep an eye on your parties conditions using Party View as opposed to Squad View. Save your energy until allies have conditions that need removal, rather than casting preemptively.
- breaks stuns and pays the energy cost at the start of the cast but only gives Resistance and pulls conditions at the end of the cast. Be careful to avoid interrupts.
- Avoid using if your allies don't need Resistance.
- If using the variant , this can help cover personal resistance.
- Increase the healing of by first using to pull conditions to yourself.
- Use for heavy damage when clashing.
- pulses burning with each pulse of , which is very useful for condi pressure when making hard drives through the enemy lines.
- Prioritize using for defense if needed, which will still trigger .
Jalis (Legendary Dwarf Stance)
- Use to mitigate damage on pushes or in enemy .
- does solid damage and gives pulsing Stability. Place it in areas where allies and enemies will be clashing.
- is a lightning field, blast it to stack swiftness before moving out.
A moderate increase in DPS for the loss of a huge amount of support. Swapping out staff for the shortbow does give a range option, but the utility of the staff in the form of a heal, cleanse, block, and huge knockback is lost. The stance skills are weak in the fact that they die fast and are not very useable in open-field fighting unless playing in a pick role from the sidelines.
I cannot feasibly rate this higher even though DPS is higher. Glint is a huge loss. Fury, might, perma swiftness between battles, etc. The renegade stance does not shine enough to warrant the glint loss. I would almost rather run Dwarf than Renegade.
The use of bleeding is a nice addition, however, as it can now cover the torment and burning, allowing them the potential to be more damaging and less cleansed.
UPDATE - 20180522
Changed this build to GREAT (Rating as tested with Dwarf Stance and using Retribution traits). After much testing, I have found that a combination of Dwarf Stance + Versed in Stone is an excellent counter to the SB Bubble meta. Strong damage mitigation capabilities, alternate stab support for parties with Dwarf Stance, very good durability for a push comp. Mallyx provides strong AoE boon rip, and good Resistance access. Damage on this build can be very strong if part of a push comp that can maximize usage of Searing Fissure. Very decent CC with Temporal Rift.