Renegade - Power Renegade
The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on August 08, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.
Overview
Power renegade is a simple power build for open world with good burst. Thanks to Roiling Mists and Vindication, it has innate sustain. As a downside, it lacks access to boons and ranged damage, and its damage potential is good but not great, but this should not be a problem for open world.
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Skill Bar
Weapon 1: 
Greatsword
GreatswordWeapon 2:
Weapon 3: 
Sword
SwordWeapon 4: Sword
SwordLegend 1: Kalla
Legend 2: Shiro
Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure you will not be able to wield a Greatsword, replace with other options:
Staff is taken mainly for the defiance damage of Surge of the Mists. Only swap to staff when you need to break a defiance bar quickly, and return to your other weapon set as soon as possible.
Shortbow - weak damage but from range.
Skill Variants
- Legendary Dwarf Stance - replaces Shiro, trading a small amount of damage for more defense.
Specializations
Invocation: Mid, Bot, Bot
Devastation: Mid, Mid, Mid
Renegade: Top, Bot, Top
- Variants
- Cleansing Channel - trades damage for condition cleanse.
- Dance of Death - trades damage for sustain.
Equipment
- Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear that is broadly applicable in PVE, making it an excellent general set.
Rune: 6 Superior Rune of the Scholar
Infusion 1:
Infusion 2:
Relic: Relic of the Thief
Weapon 1: Greatsword
GreatswordWeapon 2:
Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Force
Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Air
Weapon 3: Sword
SwordWeapon 4: Sword
SwordSigil 3: Superior Sigil of Force
Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Air
Main stats: Berserker
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Devona" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Ebonblade" greatsword, "Bonetti's Rapier" sword, "Deathwish" staff. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter and Superior Rune of the Scholar are interchangeable.
- You can use Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, Relic of the Cavalier to start combat with boons, or Relic of Durability for a little extra defense.
- For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food or skills if required.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- Plate of Spicy Moa Wings / Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
- Superior Sharpening Stone / Tin of Fruitcake
Defense
- Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
- Fried Oyster Sandwich
- Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- Birthday Blaster / Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
- Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
- Sharpening Skull (and variants)
Usage
Damage
- Periodically swap between Legendary Renegade Stance and Legendary Assassin Stance to recover energy.
Weapon swap when you swap legends. Use Greatsword in Legendary Renegade Stance and Swords in Legendary Assassin Stance.
- In Legendary Assassin Stance, use Impossible Odds, Chilling Isolation, Shackling Wave and Deathstrike.
- In Legendary Renegade Stance, use Icerazor's Ire, Mist Unleashed, Phantom's Onslaught and Eternity's Requiem.
- You will easily accumulate
Kalla's Fervor to passively increase your damage. - Use Citadel Bombardment when you have spare energy and 5 stacks of Kalla's Fervor.
- Using a Legendary Renegade skill such as Icerazor's Ire will increase your damage thanks to All for One. Always keep this buff up.
- Soulcleave's Summit can offer a small increase to life stealing, but is generally not worth the energy cost, and you already have healing from Vindication.
- Burst Opener
Open in Legendary Renegade Stance
- Icerazor's Ire
- Eternity's Requiem
- Mist Unleashed
- Phantom's Onslaught
- Legendary Assassin Stance and Weapon swap
- Impossible Odds
- Citadel Bombardment
- Shackling Wave
- Deathstrike
Defense
- You have innate sustain from Roiling Mists and Vindication.
- The summoned warband members grant
Protection thanks to All for One. Darkrazor's Daring also grants 
Stability. - Imperial Guard and Warding Rift block attacks.
- Use CC to your advantage.
- Brutal Momentum increases your critical chance at maximum endurace, but nevertheless you should dodge dangerous attacks.
Crowd Control
- Darkrazor's Daring
- Forced Engagement
- Surge of the Mists
- Shackling Wave
Ratings
Great renegade build. It has burst, sustained damage, sustain, and AOE all in one neat package. Its much simpler to play than its condi counterpart, and has better burst and aoe damage, it does however fall slightly behind in self-sustain. Overall, easy 5/5 from me.
Quite possibly the best open world build at the moment. It is capable of all types of open world content and there are plenty of variations to the build.
Damage: Has incredibly strong burst damage, sustained damage, and aoe damage. Sword/sword are the bread and butter of power revenant, but shortbow has some impressive burst potential and staff serves as a very strong utility weapon.
Sustain: The relatively recent change to the devastation traitline with battle scars has given revenant a huge boost to their self healing and sustain. Its not even necessary to take all three bottom traits. Dance of Death alone is strong enough to keep yourself alive in most situations.
Performance: Revenant has a high skill cap due to energy management and legend+weapon swapping. While this keeps gameplay more engaging than most other builds, power renegade can be played very casually and still perform well.
Some other things to note: This build has good self buffing and is capable of near-permanent 25 might and fury. Song of the mists is a decent trait alternative to roiling mists if you dont need the additional crit chance. Assassin stance is a very strong alternative to dwarf or renegade stance.
Best power revenant build for soloing openworld stuff. I successfully solo 90% HoT HPs and most core tyria champions without asking for help.
Woah! IDK what I'm even doing in combat. I'm just mashing everything off cooldown and everything dies while I have full health. This built is really good and noob friendly.
I've been noobing around with my Reaper for so long that I wanted something new, but also wanted something could survive and kill just as well in OW. This build is so fun! And great!
Lots of sustain, health, protection and general survivability, while dealing even more damage than my Reaper and the skills feel more dynamic.
Revenant has a lot of skills, but they are surprisingly easy to get the hang of. Even for a semi-lazy player like me.
This might become my new main!
I'd say the most versatile build I've played. Has great DPS, good range with shortbow. You can swap to demon for boonstrip. You can swap to assassin for speed and DPS, dwarf makes you super tanky. Plenty of CC for breakbars as well. This build makes soloing HPs in VB and AB a breeze. The amount of sustain (as long as you deal damage) makes you unkillable as long as you dodge one-shot abilities.
When you doing group event you can do a bit support with some might, alacrity, Soulcleave Summit and heals.
And after switching All for one to Heartpiercer you get great tagging ability with shortbow and legends being ranged AOE skills. (Assassins works well here for additional movement speed)
In contrary to @WeinerDog I'd say it's a little point to play other classes when Renegade can perform so well in all aspects of Open World ;)
Great spec all around, I run this exclusively. For harder fights and champions start with Jalis, Forced Engagement -> Citadel Bombardment -> Vengeful Hammers to bring energy below 10, swap legend and spam all summons, when Jalis is recharged you'll be just about 0 energy, perfect swap, start with Hammers, Forced Engagement, Citadel Bombardment, use Sword 4 to burn energy and self-heal, swap legend, rinse and repeat, use heals if needed in between. I find it the most optimal rotation and in many cases you can just facetank champs. Most of the time, I actually run this spec in lazy mode with short bow Shiro/Kalla, Impossible Odds is just too convenient for quick movement and spamming autoattack.
Best open world build I've tried for soloing or small groups; useful in large groups too. My absolute favorite at the moment: weak enemies melt, most strong ones pose no problem. High burst and good sustained damage, excellent self-sustain--what's not to like?
This is a great build to run in OW especially against champions. Use Battle Scared along with Dance of Death while using Icerazor's Ire to have a really effective and almost overpowered self-heal. Switch to Ogre instead of Scholar to save some money and use Assassin's Presence to gain back that 125 Ferocity that you are missing from Scholars, plus an extra 25. Your power will suffer a bit, but crits are what you want anyway. While I still prefer Power Glint, this one is a fantastic build and I run it all the same. Use with Jalis for maximum CC on short cooldowns with those Impact sigils. You really can't go wrong. Champs will melt and you won't really notice the damage being done. Still need to side step and back away to not take damage, since you just cannot face tank without a dedicated healer on you, but this is as good as it gets. You save your endurance for Brutal Momentum and still stay alive while pumping out some amazing damage. Do yourself a favor and run this if you really want to shine with a power build in OW.
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