Warrior - Shoutbreak Sage

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Focused on: Hybrid damage, Control, Sustain, Support.

Designed for:

Conquest

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Overview

This is a sustained warrior build focused on hybrid damage and team support.

Skill Bar

Mace/TorchHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Warhorn

Slot Changes

Warhorn (

Charge

½

15

Charge

Grant swiftness to yourself and allies, while curing chilled, crippled, and immobilized.

Swiftness (10s): 33% Movement Speed

Cures Crippled

Cures Immobilized

Cures Chilled

Radius: 1,200

,

Call to Arms

½

20

Call to Arms

Grant vigor to yourself and allies, while weakening nearby foes.

Vigor (10s): 100% Endurance Regeneration

Weakness (6s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Unblockable

) ⇒ Shield (

Shield Bash

½

20

Shield Bash

Bash your foe with your shield and stun them.

Damage: 244

Stun (2s): Unable to use skills or move.

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 450

,

Shield Stance

3

25

Shield Stance

Block attacks.

Duration: 3 seconds

)

better defense against direct damage, reflect, additional cc, leap finsiher
less condi cleanse, less team support, less mobility

Utility

"To the Limit!"

1

30

"To the Limit!"

Shout. Heal yourself and regain all adrenaline. Nearby allies gain endurance.

Healing: 6,540

Adrenaline: 30

Endurance Gained: 25

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 600

could potentially be changed for alternative heals like

Defiant Stance

¼

30

Defiant Stance

Stance. Heal yourself. Absorb all incoming strikes for a period of time.

Initial Self Heal: 1,853

Defiant Stance (3s): All incoming attacks heal you.

,

Mending

1

20

Mending

Heal yourself and remove conditions.

Healing: 5,240

Conditions Removed: 3

or

Healing Signet

1¼

20

Healing Signet

Signet Passive: Regenerate health.
Signet Active: Heal yourself, and grant yourself resistance.

Healing: 2,320

Healing Signet: 362 Heal

Resistance (6s): Conditions currently on you are ineffective; stacks duration.

Interval: 1 second

depending on preference
Wild Blow

30

Wild Blow

Rage. Lash out with a critical attack that launches your target. Your target flies backward with such force that they knock back other foes in the way. Gain bonus adrenaline if this move hits.

can be used on downed players and can be a great tool to stop enemies from reviving, it can also be used to decap a protected controlpoint or keep a target cc locked after applying a large amount of conditions
Signet of Stamina

¼

45

Signet of Stamina

Signet Passive: Grants faster endurance regeneration.
Signet Active: Remove all conditions.

Signet of Stamina: 50% Endurance Regeneration

Conditions Removed: 12

is a great additional condition cleanse and provides together with

Call to Arms

½

20

Call to Arms

Grant vigor to yourself and allies, while weakening nearby foes.

Vigor (10s): 100% Endurance Regeneration

Weakness (6s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Radius: 600

Combo Finisher: Blast

Unblockable

almost permanent +100% increased endurance regeneration (dodge every 5 seconds instead of 10 which helps the build to maintain melee range against soft cc)

Specializations

Variants

Dogged March ⇒ Shield Master and Quick Breathing ⇒ Leg Specialist if you run shield over warhorn

Equipment

9

Superior Sigil of Doom

Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts poison (6 seconds). (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Sigil of Smoldering

Increase Inflicted Burning Duration: 20%

9

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Sigil of Smoldering

Increase Inflicted Burning Duration: 20%

Superior Rune of the Tempest

(1): +8 to All Stats (2): +5% Condition Duration (3): +12 to All Stats (4): +10% Condition Duration (5): +16 to All Stats (6): Heal nearby allies when you break a stun (radius 360).

Sage's Amulet

+1000 Power +500 Vitality +500 Healing Power +1000 Condition Damage

Equipment Variants

Keeping the (group) sustain theme of the build there is little varation:

Sage amulet should not be changed since it is the only amulet left with condi damage and healing power
Superior Rune of the Tempest

Superior Rune of the Tempest

(1): +8 to All Stats (2): +5% Condition Duration (3): +12 to All Stats (4): +10% Condition Duration (5): +16 to All Stats (6): Heal nearby allies when you break a stun (radius 360).

also goes with the sustain theme due to the ~1.5k AoE (360) heal to yourself and allies, the condition duration is a nice damage push for the otherwise short burn duration

However other viable condi build options include:

Amulets
- Mercenary's Amulet
  
  Mercenary's Amulet
  
  +1050 Power +560 Toughness +560 Vitality +1050 Condition Damage
- Carrion Amulet
  
  Carrion Amulet
  
  +900 Power +900 Vitality +1200 Condition Damage
- Viper's Amulet
  
  Viper's Amulet
  
  +1050 Power +560 Precision +1050 Condition Damage +560 Expertise
Runes
- Superior Rune of Scavenging
  
  Superior Rune of Scavenging
  
  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +35 Vitality (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +65 Vitality (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Poison Duration, convert 7% of your Vitality into Condition Damage.
  
  with Carrion
- Superior Rune of the Nightmare
  
  Superior Rune of the Nightmare
  
  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +5% Condition Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +10% Condition Duration (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): When you use an elite skill, deliver an attack (240 radius) that blinds enemies and transfers one condition.(Cooldown: 45s)
- Superior Rune of the Krait
  
  Superior Rune of the Krait
  
  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Bleeding Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): +15% Bleeding Duration; 25% chance when struck to cause bleeding for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 15s) (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Bleeding Duration; When you use an elite skill, you inflict bleeding, torment, and poison for 8 seconds to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 30s)

Usage

offensively the build focusses on single target pressure via burst skills and hard CC, check for stability or blocks and open with

Head Butt

20

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

Damage: 1,894

Adrenaline: 30

Stun: 3s

Self-Stun: 1s

Breaks Stun

Range: 180

into

Berserk

15

Berserk

Rage. Gain adrenaline, an attack-speed boost, and access to primal burst skills.

Attack Speed Increase: 15%

Adrenaline: 10

Duration: 15s

(which breaks the head butt selfstun due to Savage Instinct) and Primal Burst
your other biggest damage source is

Final Thrust

¾

15

Final Thrust

Strike your foe with a final powerful thrust that does extra damage against injured foes.

Damage: 365

Damage against foes under 50% health: 731

Range: 130

on targets below 50% health right after weapon swap to make it a garanteed crit with

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

9

Superior Sigil of Intelligence

Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9s)
defensively sustain yourself and your team with shouts (~ 1.5k heal in 600 AoE) and continuesly breaking stuns (~ 3k selfheal with Rousing Resilience and ~1.5k heal in 360 AoE with

Superior Rune of the Tempest

Superior Rune of the Tempest

(1): +8 to All Stats (2): +5% Condition Duration (3): +12 to All Stats (4): +10% Condition Duration (5): +16 to All Stats (6): Heal nearby allies when you break a stun (radius 360).

)
breaking a stun with

"Shake It Off!"

25

"Shake It Off!"

Shout. Cure a condition from yourself and nearby allies. Also breaks stuns.

Conditions Removed: 1

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 600

Breaks stun

will heal yourself for almost 6k health, 3k of that is AoE
the build has four stunbreaks on very low cooldown:
- Berserk
  
  15
  
  Berserk
  
  Rage. Gain adrenaline, an attack-speed boost, and access to primal burst skills.
  
  Attack Speed Increase: 15%
  
  Adrenaline: 10
  
  Duration: 15s
  
  (with Savage Instinct) ⇒ 15s
- Head Butt
  
  20
  
  Head Butt
  
  Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.
  
  Damage: 1,894
  
  Adrenaline: 30
  
  Stun: 3s
  
  Self-Stun: 1s
  
  Breaks Stun
  
  Range: 180
  
  ⇒ 20s
- "Shake It Off!"
  
  25
  
  "Shake It Off!"
  
  Shout. Cure a condition from yourself and nearby allies. Also breaks stuns.
  
  Conditions Removed: 1
  
  Number of Targets: 5
  
  Radius: 600
  
  Breaks stun
  
  ⇒ 20s
- Outrage
  
  10
  
  Outrage
  
  Rage. Break out of stun and gain adrenaline for each foe near you.
  
  ⇒ 10s
while you somewhat rely on external hard CC you can use

Head Butt

20

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

Damage: 1,894

Adrenaline: 30

Stun: 3s

Self-Stun: 1s

Breaks Stun

Range: 180

to stun yourself (only if you hit something)
look out for control effects like

Slick Shoes

45

Slick Shoes

Gadget. Spray oil behind you, knocking down foes. If underwater, foes entering the field are blinded.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Knockdown: 2 seconds

Oil Slick Duration: 3 seconds

Duration: 3 seconds

Unblockable

or ground targeted walls/rings that block movement, it can make sense to actively run into them for a stunbreak heal
use swords

Savage Leap

¾

8

Savage Leap

Lunge at your foe, striking them with your sword.

Damage: 183

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 600

and warhorn skills to roam fast and also disengage/cleanse conditions when neccessary
Head Butt

20

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

Damage: 1,894

Adrenaline: 30

Stun: 3s

Self-Stun: 1s

Breaks Stun

Range: 180

can be canceled via weapon swap which sets it on a 3 second cooldown and can be used to travel across the map faster