Soulbeast - Condition Skirmisher

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Focused on: Condition damage, Dps, Defense, Sustain.

Designed for:

Open World

 

Open World Solo

 

Open World Roaming

 

Open World General

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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

Dagger/TorchHealingUtilityElite

X/Axe

Pets

• Juvenile Warthog - +condition damage, provides crowd control
• Juvenile Smokescale - the strongest power option; comes with a strong evade
• Juvenile Bristleback - best condi pet for ranged DPS
• Juvenile Murellow - great defensive option
• Juvenile Jacaranda - the strongest defensive pet when unmerged, provides significant healing when merged
• Juvenile Eagle - provides excellent mobility

Weapon Variants

Generally, it is recommended to only replace Set 2, and keep Dagger/Torch.

• Dagger (offhand) - Provides additional poison damage and a low-cooldown evade.
• Shortbow - A strong ranged option that deals good hybrid damaged.

Skill Variants

, , and are core to this build, replace them only if absolutely necessary.

• - high cleave damage
• - condi clear
• - stability spam
• - powerful defensive skill
• - low cooldown, high damage trap
• - strong single-target strike damage buff; use only with the Viper's variant
• - provides a significant DPS boost to nearby condition-based allies.
• - provides high protection uptime; use to buff nearby allies or for extra defense in hard, static fights
• - significant strike-based DPS buff for allies
• - massive DPS increase in static fights when lacking reliable sources of Vulnerability
• - 6 seconds of invulnerability; can be used with other i-frame sources for a ~13 second invuln period

Specializations

Build Code

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• - extends stance durations and shares stance effects; use if taking multiple stances or if playing with a group

Survialist Variant

Wilderness Survival can replace either Beastmastery or Skimishing depending on the need and offers higher defenses and more poison damage. This variant should be taken over Beastmastery if using Trailblazer's gear.

• - useful in high pressure situations where 75%+ hp is hard to maintain.

Equipment

Viper

This set uses gear similar to Soulbeast - Condi DPS, making it excellent for general PVE.

6x

Superior Rune of the Krait

• - much higher burst damage at the cost of peak DPS.
• - budget DPS

Trailblazer

This gear trades ~20% dps for a large increased to defense. Use with the Survivalist variant.

6x

Superior Rune of the Krait

• - budget DPS

Celestial

This set trades some DPS for an increase to boon duration and some defense.

6x

Superior Rune of the Krait

• - budget DPS

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 (requires crit chance)
• 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
• , - highest DPS option if proc'd off cooldown
• - can be run in zergs for massive sustain, as this has no internal cooldown
• - Budget DPS
• - Lifesteal + Expertise (requires crit chance)
• , - Dodges + Might

Utility

• - +DPS and increased Karma gains
• - +DPS
• / - +DPS for the Trailblazer's variant

Usage

Damage

General Tips

• This build's damage relies heavily on Bleeding application.
• Try not to interrupt the autoattack chain.
• If using Shortbow: Flanking enemies is important with this build, as shortbow skills deal significantly more damage when hitting from the back or the side. Dodge through enemies before unloading burst to proc Can't find such trait "Fleet of Foot"! Please refer to our trait index
• Use traps and stances off cooldown.
• If crowd control isn't important, use for a damage increase.

Dagger Mainhand

With dagger mainhand, use often to proc Quickness. Do not interrupt AA chains and use off cooldown.

Shortbow

Spam and off cooldown while auto-attacking. Use to proc .

Dagger Offhand

This offhand is more geared towards defense. Use off cooldown, but save for the evade.

Axe Offhand

Use to proc , then use .

• It should be noted that is a whirl finisher. As such, it will produce significant amounts of Bolts when performed in a combo field. The easiest way to do this is to combo it with or , but feel free to get creative here.

Torch Offhand

Use everything off cooldown, unless saving 's cooldown to match that of .

Defense

• This build has an enormous amount of endurance regeneration and a wide number of evades.
• There is a significant amount of passive healing from and .
• Be sure to take utilities that match the situation. Stances like can change the nature of an encounter.

Video Examples

• 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