Untamed - DPS Untamed

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Focused on: Direct damage, Boon removal and Crowd control

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on April 07, 2025.

Overview

A melee oriented build with high damage, good durability, and good boon rip.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Mace/Mace

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Greatsword The ambush skills can remove 4 boons but has overall less damage compared to Hammer or Mace/Mace.
• Spear Less sustained melee damage than hammer or mace/mace but gains stronger ranged spike and an additional ranged immob.

Utilities

• Muddy Terrain
• Signet of the Wild
• Frost Trap
• Nature's Binding

Elite

• Entangle
• Spirit of Nature

Specializations

Variants

• Stoneform
  - If not using Forest's Fortification.

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Mace
Berserker

Mace
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Variants

Stats

• You can swap to Marauder's if you have trouble surviving.

Consumables

• Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
  • Fried Oyster Sandwich
    personal option
• Superior Sharpening Stone

Usage

Priorities

High

Damage, boon ripping

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This build has low active defenses
• Stay in
  Unleash Pet
  whenever you are at risk of dying (separated from group, pulled into enemy group, being single targetted) for the 15% damage reduction
  • Use
    Forest's Fortification
    when you anticipate a melee clash. Each target struck reduces its cooldown by 1 second. The resistance and 50% damage reduction given by the skill helps to sustain through a brawl

Active defense priority

• Perilous Gift
• Dodge

Detailed Explanations

Damage

• Start fights on Mace/Mace so you can use
  Rampant Growth
  on engage
• Use
  Rending Vines
  followed immediately by
  Venomous Outburst
  and
  Enveloping Haze
  as you spike.
  • Rending Vines
    takes 0.75 seconds to activate. Using Venomous Outburst and Enveloping Haze right before
    Rending Vines
    strikes helps the skill land by wasting blind and aegis on unimportant skills.
• Weapon swapping recharges your ambush skills, allowing you to boon rip more frequently. They should almost always be prioritized as the first skills used when weapon swapping.
• Make sure to be in
  Unleash Ranger
  state when spiking for the DPS increase.
• Exploding Spores
  can strike up to 25 targets due to each spore having a 5 target cap but be careful not to put yourself in an enemy stack when using this skill.

Mace

• In mace prioritize
  Flourish
  first, both to increase burst via its second hit and to ensure the lowest CD skill will be up faster if any hits are missed and Nature's Strength isn't procced through the first rotation.
• Make sure all of your mace skills land for Nature's Strength stacks
  • Your mace cooldowns reset on reaching 5 stacks, so don't leave mace before hitting the threshold
  • While
    Oaken Cudgel
    deals no damage, hitting it is still important get the stack of Nature's Strength
  • If you can't hit
    Oaken Cudgel
    or missed a skill,
    Cultivate
    , your final auto chain also gives a stack of Nature's Strength
• Storm Spirit
  should be cast as your group reaches melee, before you can hit with melee skills

Hammer

• In hammer be sure to use all skills while in
  Unleash Ranger
  for the substantial damage increase.
• Unleashed Savage Shock Wave
  is your single strongest spiking skill but requires you to be nearly on top of an enemy for all 3 strikes to land.
• Make sure not to cancel the follow-up swing of
  Unleashed Overbearing Smash
  , it has the majority of its damage and rips boons
• Unleashed Thump
  hits hard, but is very hard to use due to forced movement. It is not worth casting if you'll miss more than 2 autos while getting back in position afterwards
• Be careful with the forced movement from
  Oaken Cudgel
  and
  Unleashed Thump
  • Don't aim directly into the enemy group and make sure to drop your target before casting these skills
    • A Lock Autotarget keybind can be used to quickly drop your target