Untamed - Quickness Support Power DPS

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Focused on: Direct damage and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 13, 2024.

Overview

Untamed is a highly survivable, powerful damage dealer and very useful melee offensive support with surprisingly high flexibility.

Featuring better control to its pets and access to the Unleashed Ambush type of skill, Untamed overall usefulness has another dimension beyond its pool of weapons and utility skills, and that dimension comes from pets. Similar to Soulbeast, Untamed can use and manage 3 different skills at will depending on the current pet, but unlike Soulbeast, these skills are tied to the pet, using its stats and animation locks (this means that you can use any pet skill without interrupting any of your own animations at all).

Untamed gets built-in and non-commital higher vitality than the rest of the Ranger specializations, extremely solid sustain and a wide array of defensive tools; with these qualities being inherent to itself there's no requirement to sacrifice part of its powerful offense, as such, it's usually considered one of the top-tier Open World specializations.

Regarding Untamed's playstyle, it is generally fast-paced, with many instant casts, a pet to manage and a rotation based on switching stances, improvisation on real encounters and a focus on the overall rotation loop. However, most of its skills can be queued and mistakes on the rotation are easy to manage and not considerably punishing, thus, can be considered a low skill floor/high skill ceiling specialization.

Untamed is somewhat limited by an important conditional, as it is having skills and traits that are reliant on enemies being defiant. While it is rare, easy to determine and doesn't suppose a massive loss, that is to consider.

Skill Bar

Weapon 1: Hammer

Weapon 2:

Weapon 3: Sword

Weapon 4: Axe

Healing skill: Perilous Gift

Utility skill 1: Storm Spirit

Utility skill 2: Frost Trap

Utility skill 3: Signet of the Wild

Elite skill: Spirit of Nature

Pet 1: Tiger

Pet 2: Electric Wyvern

Skill Variants

• Perilous Gift makes you receive 100% less strike and condition damage and thus helping towards damage uptime. Can be replaced.
  • Healing Spring is an interesting option as it offers a cleanse and a water combo field.
• Frost Trap can be replaced in case there's a need for other utilities.
  • Exploding Spores is a solid alternative with similar damage and good CC.
  • "Protect Me!" is a party wide stun-break.
• Spirit of Nature is a 10-man revive thanks to Nature's Vengeance, however it can be replaced for whatever fits most.

Pet Variants

It's preferable to not to replace Tiger.

• Fanged Iboga provides a pull + immobilize with solid damage.
• 24px Aether Hunter provides a launch with solid damage.
• Jungle Stalker provides better Might uptime if it's of need.
• White Tiger provides party wide Aegis.
• Siege Turtle is a solid CC pet with additional access to a projectile barrier.

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Specializations

Skirmishing: Top, Mid, Bot

Nature Magic: Top, Mid, Top

Untamed: Bot, Mid, Top

• Untamed's and Nature Magic's master traits are not important, and can be changed at will.
  • However, note that traiting Enhancing Impact might make tracking Quickness harder, as it will cause yourself to experience different and better uptime of Quickness than your actual output.
• Nature's Vengeance can be changed for Invigorating Bond by switching Storm Spirit for Exploding Spores.
  • This will come at a small DPS loss in exchange for access to some group-wide Vigor and Protection.
  • This change will also reduce your access to CC by switching from a 400 breakbar skill with 360 AoE and a Cooldown of 20 seconds to a 200 breakbar skill with a considerably smaller AoE and a Cooldown of 25 seconds.

Equipment

Rune: 6x Superior Rune of Fireworks

Infusion 1: 18x Mighty +9 Agony Infusion

Infusion 2: Undefined quantityx X

Relic: Relic of the Thief

Weapon 1: Hammer

Weapon 2:

Sigil 1: Superior Sigil of Force

Sigil 2: Superior Sigil of Impact

Weapon 3: Sword

Weapon 4: Axe

Sigil 3: Superior Sigil of Force

Sigil 4: Superior Sigil of Impact

Hands stats: Diviner

Weapon Variants

• Double Mace can replace the Sword and Axe set for higher breakbar damage, utility and survivability at a DPS loss.
• Superior Sigil of Concentration can help on encounters where a higher Quickness buffer may prove to be beneficial.

Consumables

Food:

• Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup or ascended versions.

Utility:

• Superior Sharpening Stone.

Usage

Quickness

Untamed provides Quickness in a radius of 480 units around the Ranger with the trait Let Loose.

• Every Unleashed Ambush grants Quickness.
  • There's no need to hit a target to do this and thus it is possible to upkeep boons without any conditionals, yet note that Unleashed Ambush skills are your highest damage sources, so it's preferable to not to just mindlessly waste them.
• After an Unleashed Ambush, there will be a few seconds where Weapon Swap will allow the use of a second Unleashed Ambush.
• This second Unleashed Ambush will also grant Quickness.

As to provide Quickness to our group, we shall do the following sequence.

1. Unleashed Power comes off cooldown.
2. Unleash Ranger
   • In order to get access to the Unleashed Ambush, we'll need to be on Unleash Pet first with Unleashed Power.
     • We will usually dip there for a bit then proceed to Unleash Ranger, allowing us to use our current weapon's Unleashed Ambush.
3. Unleashed Ambush
4. Weapon Swap
5. Unleashed Ambush

Rotation

Start with Unleash Pet. Whenever the pet is unleashed you also want to be using your F1-3 skills off cooldown.

• Similar to Mechanist, there's the option to set F1-3 skills on autocast (only the Unleash Ranger versions).
• On the general, it is preferred to set DPS skills on autocast while leaving situational/utility skills to be used at will.

Unleashing and your Unleash Pet F1-3 skills, are all instant cast so can be used during other skills. These skills are used off cooldown in the rotation, however, Enveloping Haze (F3) can be saved for its use as a mobile projectile block.

Because of Vow of the Untamed, we want to use as many powerful skills as posible on Unleash Ranger in order to make use of the 25% damage boost.

Throughout the rotation, Storm Spirit and Frost Trap shall be used off cooldown without delaying weapon skills. You can save Storm Spirit for oncoming defiance bars.

Do not delay Unleashed Ambush skills.

Opener

1. Storm Spirit
2. All avaliable pet skills [F1-3]
   • Reminder: These are instant casts, which means that you can use these pet skills while using any of the other pet skills and, both Storm Spirit and Frost Trap without any animation commitment whatsoever.
3. Frost Trap
4. Unleash Ranger
5. Relentless Whirl
6. Unleashed Savage Shock Wave
7. Unleashed Wild Swing
8. Weapon Swap

Sword/Axe Loop

1. Deft Strike
2. Path of Scars
3. Pounce
4. Serpent's Strike
5. Whirling Defense
6. Slash (ranger sword) ⇒ Crippling Thrust ⇒ Precision Swipe
7. Pounce ⇒ Unleash Pet
   • Wait for Pounce to finish before Unleash Pet.
   1. All avaliable pet skills [F1-3]
   2. Slash (ranger sword) ⇒ Crippling Thrust ⇒ Precision Swipe
   3. Serpent's Strike ⇒ Unleash Ranger
      • Use Unleash Ranger before Serpent's Strike hits.
8. Deft Strike
9. Weapon Swap

In case you're using double Maces, scroll down.

Hammer Loop

1. Relentless Whirl
2. Unleashed Wild Swing
3. Unleashed Savage Shock Wave
4. Unleashed Overbearing Smash
5. Unleashed Thump
6. Hammer Strike ⇒ Hammer Slam ⇒ Heavy Smash - Force
7. Hammer Strike ⇒ Hammer Slam ⇒ Heavy Smash - Force
8. Unleashed Wild Swing ⇒ Unleash Pet
   • Wait for Unleashed Wild Swing to finish before Unleash Pet.
   1. All avaliable pet skills [F1-3]
   2. Hammer Strike ⇒ Hammer Slam ⇒ Heavy Smash - Force
   3. Unleash Ranger
9. Relentless Whirl
10. Weapon Swap

Maces Loop

1. Rampant Growth
2. Flourish
3. Thistleguard
4. Oaken Cudgel
5. Wild Strikes
6. Activate Force of Nature.
7. Flourish
8. Thistleguard
9. Oaken Cudgel
10. Wild Strikes
11. Germinate ⇒ Burgeon ⇒ Cultivate
12. Unleash Pet
    1. All avaliable pet skills [F1-3]
    2. Germinate
    3. Flourish ⇒ Unleash Ranger
13. Rampant Growth
14. Weapon Swap

Crowd Control

Untamed's access to CC is very solid. These are your options:

• Electric Wyvern - F2 and F3 offer 232 breakbar damage each.
• Storm Spirit - 400 breakbar damage (200 per shake).
• Exploding Spores - 200 breakbar damage.
• Path of Scars - 150 breakbar damage and Pull.
• Deft Strike - 100 breakbar damage.
• Overbearing Smash and Thump (untamed) offer CC if used while the pet is unleashed, but accessing this requires rearranging your rotation and a loss of DPS.
• Oaken Cudgel - 250 breakbar damage.
• Wild Strikes - 200 breakbar damage.
  • Mace's breakbar damage can double thanks to Nature's Strength.