Soulbeast - Condition Skirmisher

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Focused on: Condition damage, Single target, Ranged damage, Melee damage, Mobility, Dps, Defense, Solo play, Group play, Roaming.

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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/DaggerHealingUtilityElite

Shortbow

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

- More sustain
- 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

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- 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.

6x

Superior Rune of the Krait

Trailblazer Equipment

For harder content, it may be worth using this variant

6x

Superior Rune of the Krait

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 defense option
- budget option for Trailblazer's
, - higher burst option; not generally recommended

Sigils

- Possibly superior to for the Viper's variant (untested)
- strong ranged option
- more dodges

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 .

Crowd Control

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.