Willbender - DPS Willbender (GvG)

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Focused on: Strike damage and Dps

Designed for: WvW GvG

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Difficulty:

Normal

Overview

A build designed for massive AoE DPS, with great access to spike damage, ground AoE, ranged pressure and Alacrity.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Scepter/Torch

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

• Tyrant's Momentum
  - for Radiance variant

Variants

• Swap Virtues to Radiance for more damage but no group Alacrity
  • Use Dragon stats to avoid going past crit cap

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Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Greatsword
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Marauder

Torch
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Use Berserker stats if you find you need more offensive stats

Consumables

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

Usage

Overall Priorities

High

• Alacrity

Moderate

• Spike damage
• Sustained damage

Low

• Single target

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has high mobility skill access
• This builds has moderate active defenses
  • Beware of unblockable CCs (
    Line of Warding
    ) when using
    Shelter
    • Standing briefly still while channeling
      Shelter
      can sometimes be better than moving straight back to your group
  • Use
    "Stand Your Ground!"
    when pushing if your firebrand's Stability is on cooldown
  • Because
    Renewed Focus
    resets your virtues, you should use them before casting
    Renewed Focus
    if they are not on cooldown.

Expand Active defense priority Flowing Resolve - for Immobilize "Stand Your Ground!" - for stunbreaking Dodge Shelter Renewed Focus

Detailed Explanations

Alacrity

• Use
  Flowing Resolve
  before casting your Symbol skills or
  Whirling Light
  to give your group alacrity
  • Be careful not to double tap or the second charge will be wasted

Spike damage

• Use
  Crashing Courage
  to add damage to melee spikes and protect your other casts with Aegis and Stability
  • If you don't need the extra boons use
    Flowing Resolve
    before the spike instead
• Use a Stow Weapon keybind on
  Symbol of Resolution
  at ~3/4ths of the cast to avoid unnessecary after cast
  • Make sure to practice the timing, since cancelling early will waste the cast and put it on a short cooldown
• Melee Spike example:
  Flowing Resolve
  /
  Crashing Courage
  ⇒
  Whirling Light
  ⇒
  Symbol of Resolution
  ⇒
  Whirling Wrath

Sustained damage

• When using ground AoEs like Symbol skills or
  Sword of Justice
  , try to place them so that one edge is on the enemy group and the other edge is in the direction they are moving to
• Camp Greatsword as long as you can autoattack safely with it, until
  Cleansing Flame
  is ready
• Use your Symbol skills quickly after swapping weapons so that the cooldowns will line up for future swaps
• Combine your Symbol skills with other damage to generate higher spikes
  • Symbol of Punishment
    ⇒
    Sword of Justice
  • Symbol of Resolution
    ⇒
    Whirling Wrath
• Try to hit your own group with
  Cleansing Flame
  as well if you can, but prioritize hitting enemies
• Maintain
  Inspiring Virtue
  by activating
  Flowing Resolve
  and
  Rushing Justice

Expand Skill priority Non-Weapon Skills Whirling Light Sword of Justice Crashing Courage - avoid overwriting Flowing Resolve buff Rushing Justice - avoid overwriting Flowing Resolve buff Greatsword Symbol of Resolution Whirling Wrath Leap of Faith Autoattacks Scepter/Torch Symbol of Punishment Zealot's Fire - when no projectile block present ( Zealot's Flame flip skill) Cleansing Flame - in melee

Single Target

• Use
  Chains of Light
  to follow up on other CC or to catch targets as enemies disengage
• If you have a chance to use
  Zealot's Fire
  on an isolated target without projectile block, take it