Spellbreaker - Support Spellbreaker

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Focused on: Healing, Condition cleanse, Boon removal and Crowd control

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

A Spellbreaker build for WvW that brings modest healing, strong condition cleanse and incredible boon removal. They also have near constant application of some form of crowd control.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Staff

Utility

Variants

Heal

• Defiant Stance

Utilities

• Balanced Stance
  can help secure winds
• "For Great Justice!"
  party boons

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Specializations

Variants

• Brawler's Recovery
  if taking off
  Banner of Tactics

Variants

• Soldier's Comfort
• Shrug It Off
  if party is already capped on Might
• Phalanx Strength
  if party is already capped on Quickness
• Vigorous Shouts
  if party is already capped on Quickness and Might

Variants

• Swapping Discipline to Defense gains great personal survivability and adrenaline gain in exchange for
  Fast Hands

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Hammer
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variant

Relic

• Relic of Speed

Consumables

• Bowl of Fruit Salad with Mint Garnish
  • Delicious Rice Ball
    personal food option
• Bountiful Maintenance Oil

Usage

Priorities

High

• CC
• Boon rip

Moderate

• Support

Low

Surviving

• This build has high passive defense
• This build has high mobility skill access
  • Since
    Earthshaker
    has other uses, prioritize
    Valiant Leap
    when repositioning defensively
• This build has moderate active defenses

Expand Active defense priority "Shake It Off!" - for stunbreaking Mobility skills with Warrior's Sprint - for Immobilize "Shake It Off!" - for Immobilize Dodge Bullet Catcher "To the Limit!"

Detailed Explanations

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
      Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells -
      Well of Corruption
      +
      Well of Suffering
    • Shades -
      Desert Shroud
    • Traps -
      Procession of Blades
      +
      Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Much of your boon rip comes from CC due to the synergies between
  Dispelling Force
  ,
  Superior Sigil of Absorption
  and
  Enchantment Collapse
  • Since you need to actually apply the stun/daze/knockdown to proc your trait/sigil synergies, make sure to target enemy players and watch their boon bar, only prioritizing CCing over boon rip when they run out of Stability
• Aim
  Earthshaker
  to the side of enemy groups instead of center mass to avoid damage. The AoE is large enough to still catch 5 targets.
• Full Counter
  should be used exclusively to reset the cooldown of
  Earthshaker
  • To ensure
    Full Counter
    triggers, you can briefly move into hostile enemy ground pressure.
• Make use of
  Hammer Shock
  to proc
  Leg Specialist
  when you need a CC with a range higher than your other, melee range CCs
• Be careful with the knockback of
  Staggering Blow
  , the skill is not worth casting if it will move enemies out of damage
• Backbreaker
  is a single target CC and very slow cast, its best use is following up on a player singled out by other CC and unable to avoid it

Expand CC priority Hammer Shock - while enemies have Stability (procs Leg Specialist ) Snap Pull - only when enemies lack Stability Earthshaker - only when enemies lack Stability Full Counter - only when enemies lack Stability Hammer Shock - general use Staggering Blow - only when enemies lack Stability Backbreaker - only when enemies lack Stability

Boon rip

• Land
  Winds of Disenchantment
  on the enemy group while your group is in range to follow up with a spike
  • Communicate while casting, let your team know if it gets interrupted and whether it's available or not
  • If you don't have Stability use
    Banner of Tactics
    on yourself before casting
    Winds of Disenchantment
  • If using
    Balanced Stance
    , make sure it is ready every time
    Winds of Disenchantment
    is and use it immediately before starting the cast to protect it
  • It is worth casting movement skills just to get into a better position for
    Winds of Disenchantment
    , even if it hits no enemies/allies
• Break Enchantments
  is a great way to proc
  Loss Aversion
  to give you enough Adrenaline for
  Earthshaker
• Use Autoattacks to proc
  Superior Sigil of Nullification
  and
  Enchantment Collapse
  when no other useful skills are ready and you can do it safely.

Support

• Path to Victory
  ,
  Valiant Leap
  ,
  Line Breaker
  and
  Bullet Catcher
  ⇒
  Defiant Roar
  should all be cast on your group when clashing with the enemy to heal
  • Be careful with the aftercast on
    Line Breaker
  • Hit the enemy group as well with
    Path to Victory
    and
    Line Breaker
    when possible to apply Weakness
• "Shake It Off!"
  is a massive condition clear, but also a group stunbreak. Use it to save allies with Immobilize, but be conservative and only use it when other supports would take too long to clear it
• Use
  "To the Limit!"
  after your group dodges through the enemy to restore Endurance
• Use
  Banner of Tactics
  if your group is missing Stability before a push, or during a clash to provide Resistance and Superspeed

Settings

• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
  • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
• Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.