Untamed - DPS Untamed

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

Focused on: Direct damage, Boon removal and Crowd control

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on August 19, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

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

Skill Bar

Weapon 1: Hammer

Weapon 2:

Weapon 3: Spear

Weapon 4:

Healing skill: Perilous Gift

Utility skill 1: Mutate Conditions

Utility skill 2: Exploding Spores

Utility skill 3: Nature's Binding

Elite skill: Forest's Fortification

Pet 1: Polar Bear

Pet 2: Brown Bear

Variants

Pets

• Siege Turtle Can be kept alive via range with micromanagement

Weapons

• Mace/Mace Strong melee damage with a ranged ambush

Utilities

• Muddy Terrain
• Signet of the Wild
• Frost Trap

Elite

• Entangle
• Spirit of Nature

Specializations

Skirmishing: Mid, Mid, Bot

Marksmanship: Top, Mid, Top

Untamed: Bot, Bot, Top

Equipment

Rune: 6 Superior Rune of the Scholar

Infusion 1: 18 Mighty WvW Infusion

Infusion 2:

Relic: Relic of the Thief

Weapon 1: Hammer

Weapon 2:

Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Bloodlust

Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Energy

Weapon 3: Mace

Weapon 4: Mace

Sigil 3: Superior Sigil of Hydromancy

Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Energy

Main stats: Marauder

Variants

Stats

• Feel free to use as much Berserker stats as you can without dying

Consumables

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

Usage

General

• Try to combine Forest's Fortification with multi-hit skills like Relentless Whirl to quickly reset the cooldown

Priorities

High

• Damage

Medium

• Boon rip

Low

• CC

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 Spear
• 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.
• Be careful not to cancel your ambushes with weapon swaps or other skills, particularly Relentless Whirl
• Make sure to be in Unleash Ranger state when spiking for the DPS increase and so you can use your ambush skills.

Spear

• You'll often use Ravager's Abandon immediately before swapping into Hammer to combo with Relentless Whirl
• Panther's Prowl should be used to empower Mongoose's Frenzy into Wolf's Onslaught

Hammer

• In hammer be sure to use all skills while in Unleash Ranger for the substantial damage increase.
• Unleashed Savage Shock Wave is your strongest non-ambush 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 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

Boon rip

• You have three sources of boon rip, Exploding Spores, Rending Vines and on Ambush skills via Corrupting Vines
  • When possible combine both with other members of your group spiking
• Exploding Spores can strike up to 30 targets due to each spore having a 5 target cap
  • Prioritize positioning over hitting maximum targets - don't put yourself in the enemy stack to use this

CC

• Savage Shock Wave applies Immobilize, combine it with other spikes when possible
• Combine Exploding Spores with Nature's Binding when possible