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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: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
Normal

This build was last updated on July 23, 2026 and is up to date for the July 20, 2026 patch.

Overview

Power renegade power build for open world with good burst. Summon Kalla Scorchrazor's legendary warband members to aid you in combat and empower yourself with Kalla's Fervor Kalla's Fervor from Ambush Commander. This build can easily maintain 25 Might Might and Fury Fury generation. As a downside, some of its key skills have a very high energy cost, so energy management and legend swap are key to this build.

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Skill Bar

Greatsword
Sword/Sword
Utility
Utility


Weapon Variants

Specializations

Variants
  • Cleansing Channel - trades damage for condition cleanse, something revenant lacks.
  • Dance of Death - trades damage for sustain.
  • Vindication - trades damage for sustain.


Equipment

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic

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.

  • Due to renegade and revenant traits increasing your critical chance, you can replace your entire armor, one ring, and your amulet, for Dragon stats Dragon stats attributes for a small damage increase. But your critical chance will drop when you dodge due to Brutal Momentum so this set up requires more personal skill.
  • For relic alternatives, you can consider Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, or you can combine Relic of the Mist Stranger with the life stealing traits in Devastation Devastation, or Relic of Shackles for higher but delayed damage.
  • For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.


Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

  • Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Usage

Damage

  • Periodically swap between Legendary Renegade Stance and Legendary Assassin Stance to recover energy.
  • 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 Kalla's Fervor to passively increase your damage.
  • Use Citadel Bombardment off cooldown.
  • Use Heroic Command if your Might Might stacks drop and you have Kalla's Fervor.
  • You want to swap legends off cooldown but below 10 energy to activate the Charged Mists trait. You can spend extra energy on Orders from Above.
  • The Legendary Renegade utility skills aren't particularly high damage. You can use Icerazor's Ire for Vulnerability Vulnerability and damage, followed by Razorclaw's Rage for damage. This empowers Razorclaw's Rage to do more damage due to the Band Together mechanic of the utility skills. Save Darkrazor's Daring for crowd control and stun break. Soulcleave's Summit can be used in rare situations to heal a bit, but beware its high energy cost over time. If you need sustain, it is better to take Vindication rather than use Soulcleave's Summit.
Burst Opener

Open in Legendary Renegade Stance

  1. Icerazor's Ire
  2. Orders from Above to spend energy to benefit from Charged Mists
  3. Eternity's Requiem
  4. Mist Unleashed
  5. Phantom's Onslaught
  6. Legendary Assassin Stance and weapon swap Weapon swap
  7. Impossible Odds
  8. Citadel Bombardment
  9. Shackling Wave
  10. Deathstrike

Defense

  • If you need sustain, use the trait Vindication. If you need even more sustain, use the trait Roiling Mists. If you need even more sustain, use Thrill of Combat + Dance of Death and even Relic of the Mist Stranger or Relic of Atrocity.
  • Darkrazor's Daring grants Stability Stability. It, together with Riposting Shadows, are your stun breaks.
  • Imperial Guard blocks attacks and Unrelenting Assault is an emergency evade.
  • Brutal Momentum increases your critical chance at maximum endurance, but nevertheless you should dodge dangerous attacks.

Crowd Control

  • Darkrazor's Daring
  • Jade Winds
  • Soft CC from Shackling Wave, Chilling Isolation, and Icerazor's Ire.
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Ratings

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5 stars
Linera gave this build 5 stars • April 2021
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.
5 stars
Paradoxoglanis gave this build 5 stars • February 2021
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.
5 stars
Happybliss gave this build 5 stars • October 2020
Best power revenant build for soloing openworld stuff. I successfully solo 90% HoT HPs and most core tyria champions without asking for help.
5 stars
Burnlit gave this build 5 stars • July 2020
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.
5 stars
Scifit gave this build 5 stars • July 2020
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!
5 stars
Dasov gave this build 5 stars • July 2020
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 ;)
5 stars
Dshaq94 gave this build 5 stars • June 2020
Loving this build
5 stars
Shp182 gave this build 5 stars • May 2020
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.
5 stars
Jack Armstrong gave this build 5 stars • April 2020
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?
5 stars
Kanok gave this build 5 stars • March 2020
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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