Renegade - Power Bombardment
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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
Weapon Variants
- Mainhand Sword - our main weapon, deals high damage and applies vuln, which heals us.
- Offhand Sword - a very strong weapon with lots of damage, vuln application, and a teleport.
- Offhand Axe - a low-dps weapon with some CC and a teleport
- Mainhand Mace - due to its low power scaling, this weapon isn't suited for this build
- Hammer - a strong ranged option for running in a zerg; provides considerable area damage
- Shortbow - the best ranged option when alone; has low coefficients but a high hit-rate, which helps to proc battle scars fast. hits very hard with active.
- Staff - provides a long-duration block and one of the highest CC skills in the game
Skill Variants
Revenant in general is a class with a large toolkit. Part of learning the class is learning which tools to use for which situation. Review the options below:
- - Provides a leap and powerful stunbreak that grants
Resistance and 
Resolution. - - provides very high vuln application and strong CC; our bread and butter on Renegade
- - Provides condi clear, projectile hate, and very high healing.
- - The strongest strike-based legend.
- - Provide large amounts of defense and CC.
Specializations
Build Code
- - provides a better flow to the class but requires more energy management.
- - more vuln
- - condi cleanse
- - helps allies
Retribution Variant
When facing extremely difficult content, you can forego the Invocation traitline for Retribution instead. This comes at a significant cost to DPS.
- - incredibly powerful trait when facing heavy condition pressure and running Jalis.
- - projectile hate
- - higher DPS and great defense against non-defiant foes
Equipment
- Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
Standard Equipment
This gear achieves 99.9% crit chance with fury.
- If using , you may need and to crit cap.
Budget Equipment
This gear is much cheaper than that provided above, but provides no additional HP.
Variant Equipment
Interrupt Sigils
Due to the frequency of our interrupts when using , Renegade can make excellent use of interrupt sigils, such as . This can be very powerful against groups of trash mobs, though it loses effectiveness against anything with a defiance bar. We're listing the interrupt sigils here, separate from the normal sigils, because in situations where you aren't frequently fighting defiant foes they are typically stronger than what's listed above.
- - the strongest of the lot; this sigil's interaction with Darkrazor is absurd.
- - a significant DPS boost over , but not as strong as Draining, Force, or Rending.
- - an expensive sigil, but can boost both your sustain and damage significantly. Running Rending + Draining is the best option when fighting non-defiant trash in open world.
Gear
- Berserker's - higher dps, lower defense
- Marauder - slightly less DPS than Zerk but provides a much higher health pool and higher crit chance.
Diviner , 
Commander's - high boon duration
Knight's - lower dps, higher defense; Berserker armor/weapons + Knight's trinkets is a common defensive setup.
Runes
- - highest DPS runes if crit-capped
- , , - strong defensive options
- , - use when precision is needed
- , - cheaper alternatives
Sigils
- - highest DPS sigil
- - high DPS sigil; has a fun interaction with . If you can time your during the daze, it gains a large boost to damage.
- , - burst sigils, feels good on a Shortbow
- , - defensive sigils
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
- , - Defense/Damage
- , - Damage
- Utility
- - Damage
Usage
Damage
Dealing damage with this build is a fairly simple matter. In general, your goal should always be to apply as much 
Vulnerability as possible to proc . To do this, use , which will apply considerable vuln in an area. Additionally, your Sword 1 and both apply a lot of vuln.
Because of energy management, you don't have a true rotation. Rather, we'll work on a skill priority system that determines which skills are more important to use. Note that this isn't final; use your judgment when deciding what skills to use. Note that the list below assumes you are running Kalla/Shiro.
- - the strongest ability in your entire kit thanks to its interaction with .
- - one of your strongest abilities; this skill does a small amount of damage but easily chews through breakbars. use this to benefit from exposed or to interrupt mobs to proc .
- - if the target is large, or you are a fighting a group, this is by far your hardest hitting skill. If you are fighting a single small target, it is often better to skip this.
- - one of your main damage tools; this ability is very strong against single foes or foes you can stand inside the hitbox of
- - absurdly powerful ability that applies 8 stacks of vuln (triggering 8 stacks of battle scars)), hits 5 times, and deals high damage; try to use this off cooldown
- - your auto-attack; it's very strong, so long as you don't interrupt it
- - a short range teleport that grants
Fury; the damage is alright, but the skill is energy intensive compared to other options - - this skill does very low damage but is a useful evade that also grants might; typically it's best to avoid using it if trying to deal high damage as it's very energy intensive
- - this skill has a lot of different interactions with other skills, and is very energy intensive; an easy way to use it is just to keep it up at all times while in Shiro but it's worth considering that sometimes it's better to de-activate it.
Defense
- You can use as an evade.
- blocks attacks.
- , - extremely powerful when using Jalis
Sustain
- You have constant healing from . You siphon even more life when or are active.
- Cleanse conditions with , , or the proc from .
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