Scrapper - Power Explosives

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: Strike damage and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on October 31, 2025 and is up to date for the October 28, 2025 patch.

Overview

A very durable build with easy to execute damage output and decent utility.

Skillbar

Rifle

Rifle

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Hammer slightly less damage, but with a great CC and defensive skills
• Spear better skill 5, but loses burst due to lacking Blunderbuss

Heal

• A.E.D.
• Med Kit

Elite

• Sneak Gyro
• Supply Crate
• Elite Mortar Kit

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Specializations

Variant

• Blast Shield higher defensive value if necessary

Equipment

Head
Dragon

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Dragon

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Dragon

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Demolisher

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Rifle
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rifle
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

Variants

Stats

• Feel free to use as much Berserker's gear as you can without dying
  • Swap out Dragon gear first
• The given setup aims for maximum Effective Health
  • You can swap Marauder's to Demolisher's to make healing more efficient in exchange for increasing your chance to be spiked from 100%

Sigil

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Force ⇒ Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina - for activating Explosive Entrance

Usage

Overview

• Scrapper is a short range pure DPS with very high burst
• Set up ticking damage effects to increase your burst

Ticking Damage Skill List

• Acid Bomb
• Shredder Gyro
• Spare Capacitor

• Aim to land as many of your hard hitting skills within as short a time window as possible while those ticking effects are active

Burst Damage Skill List

• Napalm
• Jump Shot

• Use Flame Jet to cleave from safety while casting Flame Blast and Blunderbuss when available

General

• As soon as you get the 25 stacks of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bloodlust and get out of combat, swap back to the weapon without it

Surviving

• This build has low passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This build has low active defenses

Defensive Skill List

• Healing Mist - Stunbreak
• Smoke Vent - Stunbreak
• Overcharged Shot - Clears Immobilize/ Chill/ Cripple
• Medic Gyro - Healing

Priorities

High

• Burst Damage

Moderate

• Damage

Low

• Superspeed

Detailed Explanations

Burst Damage

• Scrapper has three different ways to burst, listed here in order of priority:
• The Napalm burst:

1. Shredder Gyro
2. Napalm

• The Acid Bomb burst:

1. Jump Shot
2. Acid Bomb

• The Filler burst:

1. Flame Blast
2. Blunderbuss
3. Function Gyro

• If possible you want to combine these bursts into each other as follows:

1. Shredder Gyro
2. Napalm
3. Jump Shot
4. Acid Bomb
5. Flame Blast
6. Blunderbuss
7. Function Gyro

• The goal is prioritize your higher damage, easier to execute and lower cooldown bursts first, to increase your overall damage and allow you to burst more frequently
• Try to hold your burst and use it at the same time as the rest of your group to more effectively generate down states
• If you can't use the highest priority burst combo safely, move to the next one
  • If you can't use any of them safely, just swap to sustained damage and wait for a good time to burst
• Don't view this as a strict order every time you burst. The key skills to burst around are Napalm, Acid Bomb, and your Morph skills, as long as one of the them will land effective damage you can go for the burst
• Shredder Gyro can be added onto any burst, preferably at the start
  • If you aren't in range for Shredder Gyro when casting Napalm if you won't be in range for most of its duration, just hold it and use it before any other combo
• Flame Blast combines very nicely into other skills due to its travel time, it can be added before any burst combo if you're in range
• If you don't need Jump Shot to get in range for Acid Bomb it can be used at any time for a large hit

Damage

Skill priority

• Shredder Gyro
• Acid Bomb
• Napalm
• Jump Shot
• Flame Blast
• Blunderbuss
• Dodge - for Explosive Temper (Explosive Entrance)
• Spare Capacitor
• Function Gyro
• Flame Jet

• Priortize syncing your burst skills up when possible as described above, but otherwise your main priority is to use Acid Bomb and Napalm as often as possible
• Use Acid Bomb whenever the enemy group will be in the AoE for multiple ticks, the CD is very short
  • The backwards leap must be canceled by using a Weapon Swap keybind during the animation
• Use Shredder Gyro whenever you are sure you are going to be able to sit in melee for a long time
• Use Stoke the Flames before Napalm if you don't already have Quickness
• Use Blunderbuss while close to the enemy when possible, but it is still worth casting at range if your group is spiking together
• Make sure to Dodge for (Explosive Entrance and use Flame Blast frequently to keep Explosive Temper stacked

Superspeed

• When you have downtime and are lacking Superspeed use Reconstruction Field and Medic Gyro