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 01, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

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

Skillbar

Rifle

Rifle

Utility

Skill Variants

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

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 Hammer 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

• Your ideal burst priority is very similar to your damage priority. It should look as follows:

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

• The goal is to maximize the amount of damage ticks at one time by having Acid Bomb and Shredder Gyro ticking with your other damage skills
• If you can't land a short range skill skip it
  • If you can't land most of your skills, wait for a better time to burst
• Only use Jump Shot when needed for mobility - it can fit anywhere in this order
• Napalm can easily be moved since it has by far the highest range and is the easiest skill to land. Cast it later if you need to use Jump Shot quickly or use it early if you can hit flamethrower but can't melee yet

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
• Aim Flame Blast to hit the enemy group with the edge of the radius to avoid projectile block

Superspeed

• When you have downtime and are lacking superspeed use Reconstruction Field, Function Gyro and Medic Gyro