Spellbreaker - Strength Quickness Spellbreaker

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Burst damage, Boon removal and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on January 05, 2025 and is up to date for the March 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

A more glassy duelist/teamfighter Power Spellbreaker build made to quickly burst down cc'd targets and use mobility to its advantage.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

• Endure Pain
  over
  Dolyak Signet
  - both of these skills can be used to mitigate strike damage and break stuns. The signet offers weaker mitigation but higher uptime, while Endure Pain can save you from burst damage but provides less protection against CC.

• Balanced Stance
  over
  Dolyak Signet
  - no passive and longer CD, but stronger active.

• When using
  Demolisher Amulet
  you could swap
  Dolyak Signet
  for
  Featherfoot Grace
  for a low cd stunbreak that grants Superspeed and much needed Resistance. Another option would be
  Banner of Tactics
  . Note that you might want to consider
  Brave Stride
  if using either of these.

Weapons

• Staff provides utility and additional control options at range, making it a versatile choice for both defensive and offensive plays. It's mobility adds to it's kiting potential.

• Greatsword is for damage, bursts and even more mobility to help with both disengaging and engaging opponents.

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Specializations

Variants

• Peak Performance
  offers higher damage output, also synergizes with
  Mending
  if you're taking that heal.

• Brave Stride
  could be considered for a bit more Stability, but it's not a popular pick.

Variants

• Brawler's Recovery
  can be taken instead of
  Destruction of the Empowered
  for better condition cleanse at the expense of damage.

Equipment

Greatsword

Sigil

Sigil

Staff

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulets

• Demolisher Amulet
  amulet provides more toughness and survivability at the expense of damage.

Relics

• Relic of Antitoxin
  - Helps in condition matchups with good synergy from
  Brawler's Recovery
  , if you decide to take that trait.

• Relic of the Daredevil
  - Improves crit consistency and allows for potential sigil changes. Great if you prefer a more reliable burst.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Full Counter
  (FC) recharges your Burst skills
  Arcing Slice
  and
  Path to Victory
  . Always try to use it when you can refresh their duration, except if you're under heavy pressure in which case you can use FC purely for defensive means.

• Always try to make sure Full Counter goes off: briefly move into hostile AoE spells, tank Mesmer clones or Ranger pets, etc.

• FC is both one of the best defensive and offensive skills in the build as it blocks, evades, grants Stability, and performs an unblockable AoE CC attack when triggered.

• Both burst skills and Full Counter cost adrenaline. If you only need a little more until you can use them then
  Versatile Rage
  can get you there.

General

• Settings: disable auto targeting, otherwise it'd be impossible to use skills like
  Rush
  for disengaging. For more tips check out our settings guide.

• Playstyle: This build is all about cc'ing opponents into massive bursts using
  Aggressive Onslaught
  . Quickness is useful both for damaging and mobility, as it increases movemnt speed. You will want to move around in and out of fights as much as possible to both survive and deal damage.

• Your most important damaging combo will be
  Snap Pull
  ⇒
  Arcing Slice
  and
  Bull's Charge
  ⇒
  Hundred Blades
  . Remember to set up these combos and time them well in order to effectively burst targets.
  • Full Counter
    , when the opponent is cc'd by it, and
    Magebane Tether
    , when the opponent is pulled, also activates
    Aggressive Onslaught
    . These setups help you maintain Quickness, whicn increase damage output and speed.
  • Minimize melee contact whenever you can't outdamage your opponent, dodge/block/evade as many things as possible, and spike targets when an opening shows.
  • Example:
    Bladetrail
    from outside melee range ⇒ dodge to your target ⇒
    Arcing Slice
    ⇒
    Whirlwind Attack
  • Any burst skill can proc
    Magebane Tether
    , including
    Full Counter
    .

• Fast Hands
  reduces the CD of weapon swapping to 5 seconds, which keeps gameplay rather fast-paced with minimal downtime. As a result, you won't be auto-attacking much unless you're cleaving a downed enemy.

• Despite its range,
  Bull's Charge
  is best used in melee to make it harder to react to.

• CCing a target removes a boon and deals damage/grants adrenaline via
  Loss Aversion
  .

Condition cleansing & general survival

• Brawler's Recovery
  and
  Warrior's Sprint
  will be used to manage condition levels before resorting to mass cleanses.

• Mending
  is one of your best cleanses. In condition matchups you might want to hold on to this skill instead of using it on CD - if you use Mending with 0 conditions and then get bombed with 5+ a few seconds later, that could easily overwhelm you.

• Bullet Catcher
  has a block duration with a flip over skill
  Defiant Roar
  that heals you and allies and grants Resolution.
• Other Staff skills, like
  Path to Victory
  ,
  Valiant Leap
  , and
  Line Breaker
  have defensive boons and healing as well.

• Restorative Strength
  grants Resistance which can help negate conditions like Blind, Chill, Slow, Weakness, and Immobilize.

• "Shake It Off!"
  (SIO) is both a stun break and a source of condition removal for you and your team.

• KITE, A LOT. You want to run out of harm's way using mobility skills as much as possible before resorting to major defensive CDs.

• Bull's Charge
  is great if you want to run away from pressure as it can build quite the gap while providing some evade frames.

Rampage

• Rampage
  is what you use when you quickly want to burst/CC a target, or desperately need mobility to either chase down someone or run away from a fight. Bonus points if you manage to attach
  Magebane Tether
  just before using your elite.

• CC skills barely do any damage anymore, most of the damage in this form comes from auto-attacks and
  Dash
  .

• Throw Boulder
  is a popular opener, allowing you to CC targets from range and then either follow up with
  Dash
  for burst damage or
  Seismic Leap
  to keep the CC chain rolling.