Spellbreaker - Self Quickness Hammer

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview
A Power Spellbreaker build focusing on Strong CC, Self-Healing and Damage. This build features heavy emphasis on CC to activate many useful traits that grant Quickness, Stability and 24px Adrenaline.

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Skill Bar

Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Axe

Weapon 3: Hammer

Weapon 4:

Healing skill: Healing Signet

Utility skill 1: Kick (warrior utility)

Utility skill 2: Bull's Charge

Utility skill 3: "For Great Justice!"

Elite skill: Signet of Rage

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Weapon Variants
Make sure to never replace hammer

• Off-hand Dagger - Trades Quickness uptime for sustain increase with Sun and Moon Style
• Shield - Trades Damage for additional CC and survivability

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Skill Variants

• Stomp - Used in-place of Kick (warrior utility) if 24px Stunbreak is needed
• Winds of Disenchantment - Trades Fury uptime for Projectile Hate

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Specialization

Strength: Bot, Mid, Bot

Defense: Bot, Bot, Bot

Spellbreaker: Top, Bot, Bot

• Great Fortitude - Great for open world metas were you don't need to self-generate Might

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Equipment
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not mandatory; exotic gear will work great

Rune: 6 Superior Rune of the Eagle

Infusion 1:

Infusion 2:

Relic:

Weapon 1: Dagger

Weapon 2: Axe

Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Force

Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Accuracy

Weapon 1 stats: Assassin

Weapon 3: Hammer

Weapon 4:

Sigil 3: Superior Sigil of Force

Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Accuracy

Main stats: Berserker

Amulet stats: Assassin

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Equipment Variants
Gear

• Full Berserker Gear works great too
• Knight Trinkets - Dps loss for Toughness

Runes

• Strength - Cheap Dps runes that helps with Might uptime
• Scholar - Expensive Dps runes commonly used in Raid & Strike builds

Sigils

• Energy - Defense rune for higher Dodge uptime
• Air - Cheaper Dps alternative
• Impact - More expensive Dps Alternative used in Raid & Strike Builds
• Cleansing - Condition Removal
• Strength - Might uptime

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Consumables
Food

• Ascended food in general, prioritizing power food like Plate of Coq Au Vin with Salsa or Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steak
• Plate of Truffle Steak - Power + Precision
• Dragon's Breath Bun - Cheap Large stat increases on kill
• Slice of Candied Dragon Roll, Scoop of Mintberry Swirl Ice Cream - Cheap Crit + Lifesteal on crit
• Peppermint Omnomberry Bar - Farming Food
• 24px Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake - Works fine if available

Utility

• Tin of Fruitcake, Superior Sharpening Stone, Potent Superior Sharpening Stone - For Dps increase
• Sharpening Skull, Flask of Pumpkin Oil, Lump of Crystallized Nougat - For Farming

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Usage
Damage

• Use "For Great Justice!" and Signet of Rage off cooldown
• Prioritize Burst skills for damage/damage increase from Magebane Tether, healing from Adrenal Health and CC/Boon Removal
• General Damage Priority:

1. Using Kick (warrior utility) or Bull's Charge to CC and activate Peak Performance
2. Whirling Axe
3. Fierce Blow - immediately after landing a CC
4. Dual Strike
5. Disrupting Stab, Staggering Blow, Backbreaker
6. Auto-attacks

CC is part of the damage rotation to maintain Attacker's Insight stacks and activate Aggressive Onslaught, Stalwart Strength and Merciless Hammer

Defense

• Full Counter - Incredibly strong defensive tool that not only negates damage but deals damage, CC's, grants Stability, endurance and activates Adrenal Health
• Large amount of CC
• High Weakness uptime from Fierce Blow and Cull the Weak
• Dodging and Side-stepping

Sustain

• Passive Healing from Healing Signet
• Burst Skill healing from Adrenal Health
• If using off-hand dagger, healing from Sun and Moon Style

Crowd Control

• Kick (warrior utility)
• Bull's Charge
• Disrupting Stab
• Staggering Blow
• Backbreaker
• Earthshaker
• Full Counter
• Magebane Tether