Soulbeast - Condition Soulbeast

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition 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

A strong condition based build for ranger in open world build with decent burst and great damage over time. This build can do well in almost all areas of open world and can even solo group events or strong bosses.

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Skill Bar

Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Dagger

Weapon 3: Shortbow

Weapon 4:

Healing skill: "We Heal As One!"

Utility skill 1: Vulture Stance

Utility skill 2: Moa Stance

Utility skill 3: Sharpening Stone

Elite skill: One Wolf Pack

Pet 1: Lynx

Pet 2: Warthog

Pets

• Warthog - condition damage, provides crowd control
• Bristleback - best condi pet for ranged DPS
• Murellow - great defensive option
• Jacaranda - the strongest defensive pet when unmerged, provides significant healing when merged
• Eagle - provides excellent mobility

Weapon Variants

• Axe: can be a good alternative to mainhand dagger in open world, where the range of axe might make it more desirable.

Skill Variants

Vulture Stance, "We Heal As One!", and One Wolf Pack are core to this build, replace them only if absolutely necessary.

• Viper's Nest - high cleave damage
• Bear Stance - condi cleanse
• Dolyak Stance - stability
• Flame Trap - low cooldown, high damage trap
• Signet of Stone - 6 seconds of invulnerability; can be used with other i-frame sources for a ~13 second invuln period

Specializations

Wilderness Survival: Bot, Top, Bot

Skirmishing: Top, Bot, Mid

Soulbeast: Mid, Bot, Mid

Equipment

This set uses gear similar to Build:Soulbeast_-_Condi_DPS, making it excellent for general PVE.

Rune: 6 Superior Rune of the Afflicted

Infusion 1:

Infusion 2:

Relic: Relic of the Fractal

Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Dagger

Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Bursting

Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Malice

Weapon 3: Shortbow

Weapon 4:

Sigil 3: Superior Sigil of Earth

Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Malice

Main stats: Viper

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Shiro" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

• A Superior Sigil of Earth can replace the Superior Sigil of Bursting if the latter is too expensive.
• For players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, the best relic is Relic of the Aristocracy. If using this, you should run Superior Sigil of Bursting and Superior Sigil of Earth on both weapon sets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• Plate of Beef Rendang / Bowl of Truffle Risotto
• Master Tuning Crystal / Tuning Icicle

Defense

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
• Oysters with Spicy Sauce
• Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta

Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• Birthday Blaster / Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
• Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
• Sharpening Skull (and variants)

Usage

Damage

General Tips

• This build's damage relies heavily on Bleeding application.
• With shortbow, flanking enemies is important, as shortbow skills deal significantly more damage when hitting from the back or the side. Dodge through enemies before unloading burst to proc Light on your Feet Spam Poison Volley and Crippling Shot off cooldown while auto-attacking
• Use Sharpening Stone and stances off cooldown.
• If crowd control isn't important, use Concussion Shot to proc Twice as Vicious. for a damage increase.
• With daggers, use Instinctive Engage often to proc Quickness. Do not interrupt AA chains and use Double Arc off cooldown. Use Stalker's Strike when the enemy is movement impaired such as after Crippling Talon.

Defense

• This build has high endurance regeneration and an extra evade on each weapon set.
• There is a significant amount of passive healing from Rugged Growth and Predator's Cunning.
• Be sure to take utilities that match the situation. Stances like Dolyak Stance can change the nature of an encounter.

Crowd Control

• Brutal Charge (soulbeast porcine)
• Concussion Shot

Video Examples

Note these videos might be outdated.

• Dire Variant vs Chak Lobber
  • This is a good example of just how effective the build can be even with very cheap gear. While the kill wasn't fast by any means, the Dire variant of the build had plenty of damage and sustain to take on one of the stronger champion mobs.
• Cele Soulbeast vs Razorwing
• Cele Soulbeast vs Bristlebacks