Spellbreaker - Strength Greatsword

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Overview

Strength Greatsword Spellbreaker is a relatively powerful build for roaming in open world.

Skill Bar

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Dagger/Shield

Weapon Variants

Rifle is your best ranged option.
Dagger Offhand pairs well with for extreme sustain.
Mace Mainhand and Mace Offhand provide excellent CC.
Avoid Longbow.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

- if you aren't taking much damage.
- a big heal that also maxes out your adrenaline.

Utility Skills

- better than if you're going to be fighting in the same spot for a while.
- more dodges.
- Good CC and stability
- alternative to if you don't need a stun break.
- alternative to if you're taking a lot of damage.
- alternative to if conditions are a problem.
- panic button.

Elite Skills

- longer duration of boons than but also a longer cooldown.
- grants stability, mobility, and crowd control.
- if there are boons to remove or projectiles to destroy.

Specializations

Build Code

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Variants

- Combined with Dagger Offhand this trait provides extreme sustain.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

Variants

Berserker's gear offers slightly higher DPS but much lower defense.
provides high sustain at the cost of damage. Do not run this when solo farming.
/ / strong defensive options.
higher burst but lower DPS
If running Dagger Offhand, use a .

Consumables

Event Farming

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
- Use for general farming.
- Use for when you need to max out magic find.
- more sustain (requires crit chance)
Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.

Utility

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- general farming
- good damage option with +karma

Solo Play

is a good budget option.
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for your utility.

Usage

Damage

Greatsword is your main weapon. Just and burst as often as possible, filling with autoattack chains as needed.
- Never interrupt your autoattack chain.
- Remember that roots you in place, don't use it if you need to move or dodge soon.
- deals good damage if you need to move or you can whirl into a wall.
- is worth using over autoattacking (as long as the projectile isn't eaten by a wall).
- is worth using as a gap closer.
Activate and off cooldown for boons.
If running the dual axe variant, you should constantly swap between Axe/Axe and Greatsword to use their damaging skills. While on Axe/Axe, you should prioritize > > .

Defense

is a really powerful defensive skill, try to use it instead of dodging whenever possible.
- Note that reduces the damage of attacks to 0 rather than actually blocking them. This is relevant if you’re trying not to get hit by an attack (e.g. for specific achievements).
You can swap to Mace/Shield to block attacks and stun enemies.
can be used to evade attacks and reposition.
You can slot , , or for more damage mitigation.
You can use to destroy projectiles.
Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible. Don't get hit by anything you can move out of (except when baiting ).

Sustain

You get quite a lot of sustained healing from .
You can cleanse conditions by weapon swapping or using . For more condition-heavy fights you can run .

Crowd Control

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