Soulbeast - Power Soulbeast

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

This build was last updated on March 29, 2023 and is up to date for the February 14, 2023 game patch.

Overview

Power Soulbeast offers extremely high burst damage from any range, high mobility, decent boons, and good cc.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Axe

Longbow

Utility

Pet variants

You are always going to be merged with your pet for the massive bonuses from the Beastmastery traitline.

The suggested Smokescale gives you a useful evade and CC, while Rock Gazelle has more CC, and a dash.

• Eagle - long dash for more mobility.
• Jacaranda - heal and condi cleanse.
• Black Bear - Very strong defensive abilities.

Weapon Variants

• Mainhand Axe - Good for might and burst.
• Sword - good damage overall and a dash.
• Greatsword - Good burst and cleave.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

• - extreme condi cleanse but no boon extension.

Utility skill

Don't replace nor as they are core to the build. Replace with whatever skill best fits the situation.

• - the only thing this build lacks is Might generation. Vulture Stance can help slightly with that.
• - removes and prevents immob, chill, and cripple, and gives stability.
• - decent boost to squad DPS.
• - passive toughness + panic button.
• - stunbreak + evade.
• - stunbreak + quickness.

Elite skill

• - massively lower damage than One Wolf Pack, but 10 stacks of stability and might generation.

Specializations

• - if you need more dodges.
• - when using greatsword.
• - boosts stance duration & shares stances with allies; always take this if playing with a group.

Marksmanship Variant

Marksmanship can replace Skirmishing for high burst damage, but quickly falls off. You will note that despite using a longbow this build does not use , this is because we only use longbow to start the fight and quickly swap to our other set. Longbow has great burst but absolutely atrocious sustained damage.

Equipment

Berserker

This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Soulbeast_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PvE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Longbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• Marauder - trades a small amount of damage for a large boost to HP

Runes

• , - defense

Sigils

• , - budget DPS
• - more dodges

Consumables

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.

• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

• You will always be merged in with your pet to gain the massive bonuses from the Beastmastery traitline.
• When fighting durable enemies, use for a 25% damage increase.
• deals massive damage but has a long casting time, try to use it while under the effects of quickness after casting Wordly Impact due to .
• Try to flank your enemy (attacking from behind or the sides) to benefit from .
• Try to use Crowd Control before unleashing your burst to benefit from .
• Always use before fights to start with Fury to benefit from . Remember that extends the duration of your existing boons.

Rotation

1. - be sure not to interrupt the long channelling time.
2. + +
3. - skip this if it would push the enemy away from nearby players.
4. while firing, walk into melee range if you aren't already
5. Weapon Swap
6. - skip this if you're already in melee range

• Your highest damage skills are , , , and .
• can be useful to fill gaps in the rotation.
• You can use to extend the duration of your boons thanks to .

Greatsword

If using greatsword instead of longbow, follow this rotation.

2. + +
6. Weapon Swap
10. Auto-attack
12. Weapon Swap

Defense

• Most of the defense with this build will come from dodging, as it has few blocks or other defensive cooldowns. Greatsword offers more thanks to and Smoke Assault is a very useful evade.
• When under preassure, use to unmerge with your pet so it may tank while you disengage.
• When merged with a bear, you can use and Defy Pain to negate strike damage for up to 7 seconds.
• When merged with a Jacaranda you can use Photosynthesize to heal and cleanse conditions, and to heal.

Crowd Control

• if using Greatsword
• if using Axe
• if using Greatsword