Soulbeast - Condition Skirmisher
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Overview
A strong build which can swap from DPS to defensive variants. This build can do well in almost all areas of open world and can even solo group events or strong bosses.
- Pros
- Very versatile
- High DPS even with defensive gear
- Mobile
- Cons
- Ping sensitive
- High-input
Skill Bar
Pets
- You'll be spending most of your time merged with the pet of your choice. Here are some options:
Juvenile Warthog - provides condition damage with and crowd control with .
Juvenile Lynx - more damage than Warthog when crowd control isn't needed.
Juvenile Bristleback - ranged damage with .
Juvenile Carrion Devourer - provides crowd control with and an evade with .
Juvenile Murellow - defensive option with .
- When unable to mount, you can also merge with a bird like
Juvenile Hawk to use and to go faster.
Weapon Variants
- Main hand Axe provides better cleave damage than dagger but is less effective against single targets.
- Off-hand Torch provides much better cleave at the cost of a small amount of sustain.
Skill Variants
- Heal Skills
- - Condi clear
- - extends boons; extremely effective with Concentration
- Utility Skills
- - Very high damage buff against single targets
- - alternative damage option, useful if there are allies around.
- - Powerful stun break
- - Invulnerability
- Elite Skills
- - high damage and soft crowd control.
Specializations
Build Code
- - strong if you find yourself only taking 1-2 stancs.
Trait Variants
Soulbeast is extremely versatile and part of its gameplay is setting up the right traits for each situation.
Axe Variant
Take in Beastmastery if running axe main hand.
Survialist Variant
Wilderness Survival can replace either Beastmastery or Skimishing depending on the need and offers higher defenses and more poison damage.
- - useful in high pressure situations where 75%+ hp is hard to maintain.
Equipment
Viper Equipment
For the vast majority of open world content, use this variant.
Trailblazer Equipment
For harder content, it may be worth using this variant
Variant Equipment
Gear
Sinister's ,
Grieving - Budget replacement for
Viper's ; run with these
Rabid's - Budget replacement for
Trailblazer's ; run with this
Runes
- - Less bleed-focused condition duration
- - budget option for
Trailblazer's
- , - higher burst option; not generally recommended
Sigils
Consumables
Event 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
- 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 Play
- Food
- , - DPS
- - Budget DPS
- , - Dodges + Might
- , - Gives sustain for the
Viper's ,
Sinister's , and
Grieving variants
- Utility
- - +Dmg, +Karma
Usage
Damage
- This build's damage relies heavily on your
Bleeding application.
- Try not to interrupt your autoattack chain.
- Flanking enemies is important with this build, as your shortbow skills deal significantly more damage when hitting from the back or the side. Dodge through enemies before unloading your condition burst.
- Use your traps and stances off cooldown.
- If crowd control isn't important, you can use for a damage increase.
Survivability
- This build has an enormous amount of endurance regeneration, use it to your advantage.
- You have a good amount of passive healing from and .
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