Soulbeast - Frontline Soulbeast

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Maybe it never coalesced into something brilliant. Maybe it never made it off the ground floor. Maybe we based our better ideas off of it. Basic builds are anywhere from downright bad to just shy of being good enough to showcase. These builds share the widest ratings and can lead to wildly differing levels of success.

Focused on: Direct damage, Utility.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Soulbeast gives powerful single target damage in combination with stability, cleanse and CC.

Skill Bar

First Weapon Set

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Axe

Skill Variants

Longbow/

Use with the Marksmanship traitline for high single target spike damage at the cost of sustain DPS.

Pets

• Juvenile Smokescale for a high damage evade attack and knockdown.
• Juvenile Jacaranda for additional healing support.

Heal

• Gives the ability to re-apply all current boons at the cost of condition cleanse.

Utility

• ⇒

This allows you to give all conditions to your pet outside of Soulbeast mode, before re-enterring it and granting yourself Resistance.

• is an extremely high damage boost in Soulbeast mode- however drop it situationally for other useful skills if required, such as
  • For boon support and a powerful buff to allies.
  • To pull allies from deadly bombs whilst downed.
  • For a Stunbreak and easy protection option.

Specializations

Variants

Swap Beastmastery to Marksmanship is using Longbow

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Use as much Soldier's gear as you need to survive, take into account the extra 10% crit chance from Fury.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Energy

  9

  Superior Sigil of Energy

  Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
• Superior Sigil of Strength

  1

  Superior Sigil of Strength

  60% Chance on Critical: Gain Might (10 seconds). (Cooldown: 1s)
• Superior Sigil of Hydromancy

  9

  Superior Sigil of Hydromancy

  Damage nearby foes and chill them for 2 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
• Superior Sigil of Accuracy

  Superior Sigil of Accuracy

  +7% Critical Chance
  if using lots of Soldier's stats

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Pack

  Superior Rune of the Pack

  (1): +25 Power (2): +10% Swiftness Duration (3): +50 Power (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies might, fury, and swiftness for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s) (5): +100 Power (6): +125 Precision; +20% Swiftness Duration
  if you need help reaching 100% crit chance with Soldier's gear
• Superior Rune of Durability

  Superior Rune of Durability

  (1): +25 Toughness (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds) (5): +100 Toughness (6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality
  defensive option with group support.

Consumables

Food

• Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Loaf of Saffron Bread

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.-20% condition duration+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  against condition pressure.
• Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Fried Oyster Sandwich

  Nourishment (30 m):

  +10% Damage Reduction+70 Power+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
• Bowl of Mussel Soup

  Bowl of Mussel Soup

  Nourishment (30 min):

  +10% Damage Reduction+70 Vitality+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable

Utility

• Furious Sharpening Stone

  Furious Sharpening Stone

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain Power equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Ferocity equal to 3% of your Precision+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable
• Superior Sharpening Stone

  Superior Sharpening Stone

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

  Consumable
  cheaper option.

Usage

General

• Take into account the 360 radius of your stances before using them if possible
• Use followed by to gain a 25% damage boost on the large AoE hit for a strong spike
• Try to have active when using large burst combos to maximize damage output
• Make good use of sword evades, as a large portion of the build's damage mitigation comes from evading and staying out of spikes
• is reset by a succesful , letting you get off an easy combo of Maul-Hilt Bash-Maul-Worldly Impact for a 1shot on most classes.

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