Soulbeast - Frontline Soulbeast
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The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good.
Focused on: Direct damage, Utility.
Designed for:
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
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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
- if using lots of Soldier's stats
Runes
- if you need help reaching 100% crit chance with Soldier's gear
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
Consumables
Food
- against condition pressure.
Utility
- cheaper option.
Usage
General
- Take into account the 360 radius of your stances before using them if possible
- Use followed byto 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.
Thoroughly under-rated. High damage and high group utility. GS + axe/axe and winter's bite adds the ranged AOE dmg this build is missing.