Renegade - Power Bombardment

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Part of the current metagame.

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Direct damage, Area damage, Single target, Melee damage, Mobility, Dps, Survival, Solo play, Group play, Roaming.

Designed for:

Open World

Open World Roaming

Open World Zergs

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Overview

Power Bombardment is a powerful roaming build for Renegade, performing very well in large events such as Bjora Marches or Dragonfall while also being capable of farming in fast-paced zergs and even soloing champions.

Pros

Great DPS
Good self-buffing
Versatile

Cons

Energy management can be very punishing in solo play

Skill Bar

Sword/SwordHealingUtilityElite

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

You can run Hammer or Shortbow as a ranged option. Shortbow does very little damage but is excellent for quickly tagging mobs.

Skill Variants

- replaces Kalla when mobs move too often
- use when you need a projectile block

Specializations

Build Code

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- provides a better flow to the class but requires more energy management.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variant Equipment

Gear

Berserker's , Assassin's - higher dps, lower defense. careful not to overcap crit if using assassin's
Diviner , Commander's - high boon duration
Knight's - lower dps, higher defense; Berserker armor/weapons + Knight's trinkets is a common defensive setup.

Runes

, , - strong defensive options
, - good burst options with some boon duration; careful not to overcap crit
- more consistent Might uptime

Consumables

Farming

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
- Use for general farming.
- Use for when you need to max out magic find.
- more sustain (requires crit chance)
Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.

Utility

, , - general farming
- good damage option with +karma

Solo

This food assists with more difficult content, such as bosses or bounties.

Food

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Utility

- Damage

Usage

General

Use to rapidly apply vuln to enemies, which will grant you battle scars from . This means you deal more damage and heal for large amounts.
Always swap your legend based on the situation, but try to keep since it is where most of your Vulnerability comes from.
Your Sword 1, , is your bread and butter. Try not to interrupt your attack chain if possible.
Use to dodge big attacks.
is an incredibly powerful defensive tool.
deals a tremendous amount of breakbar damage. When combined with it can often break bosses without any help.
is your hardest hitting skill, but if you're having trouble maintaining high might stacks it can be better to use .
- You want to always be above 20 might. If you aren't use Heroic Command over Citadel Bombardment.

Zerging

Use : to keep up with the zerg.
Spam on groups of mobs
Please CC the boss when its time to CC the boss.

Damage

If Running Charged Mists: Aim to have less than 10 energy when legend swap comes off cooldown, so that you can immediately legend swap and get the benefit of .
To convert spare energy into damage, use , , , and/or .
Try not to dodge if you don't have to, as you get a large buff from when your endurance is full.