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:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on September 03, 2023 and is up to date for the June 27, 2023 game patch.

Overview

Power Soulbeast is a very bursty power build. It features good damage, amazing burst, high mobility, and good cc. It also has flexibility for deciding which mainhand weapon to use, as they are all good.

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Skill Bar

Sword/Axe

Hammer

Utility

• You have to manually chose your hammer skills (as if they were utility skills). Use: , , , and .

Pet variants

You are almost 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

Hammer provides great damage and crowd control. If you do not have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure, you can instead use greatsword or longbow.

• Longbow - ranged weapon with okayish burst damage with and , but terrible damage over time.
• Greatsword - decent damage plus a block and a leap.

In the other set we use offhand Axe for its great damage. In the mainhand, we recommend sword because it has great damage and leaps. But you can use any of these weapons:

• Mainhand axe - good for might and burst. The bouncing auto attack is good vs. trash mobs. works great in melee range.
• Mainhand dagger - decent damage and helps maintain boons with its Quickness due to .

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.
• - 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 or when not using traps.
• - if using greatsword.
• - boosts stance duration & shares stances with allies; always take this if playing with a group.

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

Sword
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• For relic, we recommend Relic of Fireworks since you can easily enable it with , , and . Your Smokescale Beastmode F1 skill also works, though F2 doesn't.
• and are interchangeable.
• Other relics include , , , , and .
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• /
• /

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• /
• (and variants)

Usage

Damage

• Most of the time you will be merged with your pet in 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 due to .
• When possible, 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

Against tough enemies like bosses, try to follow this opener.

1. +
2. +
3. (triggers and Relic of Fireworks)
4. and (do it fast before the knockdown of Thump ends so they deal bonus damage)
5. Weapon Swap

• Try to not interrupt your auto attack chain.
• Use your sword skills and off cooldown.
• Save your long-cooldown high-hitting attacks and to use together with .
• Try to use , , while the enemy is disabled from , or , or , or , or disables from other players. If the enemy has a defiance bar, you don't need to worry about this, these skills will always do their bonus damage.

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 to negate strike damage for up to 7 seconds.
• When merged with a Jacaranda you can use to heal and cleanse conditions, and to heal.

Crowd Control

• soft cc.
• soft cc.