Untamed - Fervent Quickness
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Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: 
Overview
Power Untamed is a power-based build for the untamed specialization that focuses on Crowd Control (CC) to reduce its cooldowns thanks to Fervent Force, and gain a bit of quickness thanks to Enhancing Impact. Because of that, this build requires a very active playstyle and some learning to do before you can unleash its full power.
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Skill Bar
Hammer
Axe AxeWeapon variants
- Sword mainhand: can replace axe mainhand. Axe has better damage, range, and some might generation; while sword has a dash.
Skill Variants
Exploding Spores is key to the build. "Protect Me!" is a stun break and can be swapped as needed. Frost Trap is a very flexible spot and can be swapped as needed.
- Spike Trap - another CC skill.
- Signet of Stone - passive toughness + panic button
- Lightning Reflexes - stunbreak + evade
- Quickening Zephyr - stunbreak + quickness
- Mutate Conditions - if conditions are a problem.
Specializations
Variants
- Farsighted - 5% more damage when the extra CC is not needed.
- Primal Reflexes - if more dodges are required, or when not running any trap.
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as power ranger builds for raids for ease of gearing.
Hammer
Axe Axe
Marauder - defensive gear- Superior Rune of Durability, Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense
- Superior Sigil of Celerity - more quickness
- Superior Sigil of Accuracy - if you can't reliable flank to benefit from Hunter's Tactics
- Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive
Open-world equipment
If you can afford the luxury of a gear set tailored for open world only and want more defense, use the following gear:
Hammer
Axe Axe
- This provides about 50% more health, and 90% crit chance, or 100% while flanking thanks to Hunter's Tactics.
- Consider Superior Sigil of Strength instead of Force when soloing.
Consumables
- Food
- Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
- Peppermint Omnomberry Bar - farming
- Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak - ascended feast
- Dragon's Breath Bun, Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup, Plate of Spicy Moa Wings - DPS
- Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew - defense
- Utility
- Sharpening Skull (and variants) - farming
- Tin of Fruitcake, Superior Sharpening Stone - dps
Usage
Set up
The build requires a lot of button pressing to reach its true potential. In short, you are going to Unleash Pet to use CC skills, and Unleash Ranger to use damage skills. You want to use the damage skills while you are unleashed to do more damage thanks to Vow of the Untamed, and you unleash the pet to do CC because hammer only does CC when the pet is unleashed.
To quickly and at a glance know who is unleashed, look at your pet UI. If the pet skills are visible, like Smoke Cloud, you are unleashed, do extra damage, and can command the pet to use its skills. If the untamed pet skills are visible, like Venomous Outburst, your pet is unleashed, you take less damage, and can command the pet to use its untamed skills. Your pet doesn't actually gain any benefit from unleash, it only changes the skills you can command it to do.
To simplify, unleash your pet to do CC with your hammer, and unleash yourself to do damage.
- Hammer
Hammer is your main weapon, you can technically play 100% of the time in this weapon set. Its skills are clearly divided:
- Skills 2 Unleashed Wild Swing and 4 Unleashed Savage Shock Wave are damage skills and should be used when you are unleashed.
- Skills 3 Overbearing Smash and 5 Thump (untamed) are CC skills and should be used when your pet is unleashed and your damage skills are on cooldown.
- Axe offhand
In the axe offhand weapon set, always stay unleashed. Skill 4 Path of Scars is a CC skill and all other axe skills are damage skills. Use Splitblade in melee range for maximum damage.
- Other sources of CC
- Exploding Spores will knock down enemies hit by all spores, so only those in the very middle. This makes it harder to CC small enemies with this skill, but it should be trivial on big enemies.
- Your pet skills also CC, but this CC does not count towards Fervent Force. With
Smokescale, Takedown (F1). And with 
Rock Gazelle, Head Toss(F2) and Charge(F3).
Quickness
- Because of Enhancing Impact, doing CC while unleashed grants you quickness. Unfortunately, your hammer only does CC when your pet is unleashed. This leaves Path of Scars and Exploding Spores as your sources of quickness, always cast them while unleashed.
- As you master this build, know that you can start the cast of Overbearing Smash or Thump (untamed) and then very quickly Unleash youself. This way, the Crowd Control will occur while you are unleashed, and will give you
Quickness from Enhancing Impact.
- As you master this build, know that you can start the cast of Overbearing Smash or Thump (untamed) and then very quickly Unleash youself. This way, the Crowd Control will occur while you are unleashed, and will give you
- For a build more focused on quickness, use Quickening Zephyr and Superior Sigil of Celerity.
Damage
Use the damage skills detailed above, then use your CC skills detailed above to reduce your cooldowns. Thanks to Vicious Quarry and your berserker gear you will have very high crit chance, or 99% when attacking from behind due to Hunter's Tactics.
Defense
- Perilous Gift - you take no damage during this, and then it heals you for 50% of your missing health. By proccing Fervent Force so often, this skill will have a very low cooldown.
- Forest's Fortification - reduces damage taken by 50% by 10 seconds, and its cooldown is reduced by 1 second each time you strike during that time. Combine if with Whirling Defense or Relentless Whirl to significantly reduce its cooldown. And with Fervent Force on top, you will have good uptime of this massive damage reduction.
Sustain
- Your Unleashed Ambush skills Relentless Whirl or Sundering Volley heal you a little bit, and more for each target hit due to Natural Fortitude.
Crowd Control
- Overbearing Smash
- Thump (untamed)
- Path of Scars
- Exploding Spores
- Head Toss
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