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:

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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