Willbender - Power Willbender

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: End of Dragons buildsSecrets of the Obscure builds

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on September 01, 2023 and is up to date for the June 27, 2023 game patch.

Overview

Power Willbender is a hyper-mobile, burst strike DPS that applies considerable vulnerability vulnerability and grants itself capped might might and fury fury while also maintaining some quickness quickness if taking


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Skill Bar

Greatsword
Longbow
Utility

Weapon Variants

Skill Options

Note that is an incredibly powerful skill when solo and it should not be dropped. Swap out first, then .

  • - a moderately effective heal alternative
  • - can be chained with to cheese certain mechanics
  • - an easy-to-use, reliable heal.
  • - moderate CC on a short cooldown
  • - very short cooldown teleport
  • - useful if even more Stability Stability is needed, very strong in farm zergs.
  • - provides on-demand Aegis Aegis and Swiftness Swiftness. Good in zergs or when fighting enemies with predictable attack patterns.
  • - Protection Protection for yourself and allies.
  • - condi cleanse
  • - excellent projectile hate
  • - projectile hate and extreme CC, though it has a long cooldown
  • - Quickness Quickness and Fury Fury
  • - can be chained with to cheese certain mechanics


Specializations


Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. This set uses gear similar to that of its raid variant; as such, it is excellent for general PVE.

DPS Equipment

This set uses equipment similar to typical Power Willbender raid builds and is a great choice for general PVE.

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Longbow
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic
  • Other relics include , , , , and .
  • For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight Knight trinkets.



Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

  • Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
  • /
  • /

Defense

Farming

  • Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
  • /
  • (and variants)


Usage

  • Note that to play this build effectively, "Melee Attack Assist" must be turned off in the settings. This is to ensure you can enter enemy hitboxes to maximize the effectiveness of and .

DPS

Basics

  • Use to trigger and / . This is our absolute top priority.
  • This build strongly benefits from increasing the total number of hits within the rotation due to Willbender's Master-Tier traits, and this is doubly true if playing in groups and using .
  • Maintaining high symbol uptime to increase ticking hits/damage and vuln is critical.
  • Stay inside the enemy hitbox for and .

Opener

This is a basic opener that can easily be performed with no Alacrity Alacrity or Quickness Quickness. Use off cooldown; use or to maintain . Fill gaps with auto-attacks and .

  1. Open on Longbow Longbow
  2. Precast twice before big fights to trigger .
  3. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap Greatsword Greatsword
  4. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap

From here, follow a loose priority.

Priorities

Greatsword Greatsword:

  1. Do not interrupt auto-attack chains.

Longbow Longbow:

For good measure, we also include Sword Sword/Focus Focus:

  1. On S/F loops, try to use twice before swapping.
  2. Do not interrupt auto chains.

Defense

  • - our stunbreak
  • - very strong defensive tool
  • + - defensive swaps to stall for time or cheese mechanics
  • - impossibly strong heal skill but requires you to keep dealing damage; you cannot hesitate while using this.
  • - high healing
  • - defensive swap, very high healing

CC

  • (Emergencies)


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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4 stars
Arkevorkhat gave this build 4 stars • August 2023
Generally very solid in its category. Good solo survivability with Flowing Resolve while providing sufficient DPS to handle most normal circumstances. This won't be soloing champions in most peoples' hands, but it's a great place for the average player to be with a simple and easy to execute rotation.
5 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • June 2023
Power Willbender is one of the highest DPS power builds in the game right now when played solo. Combined with excellent sustain, powerful defensive buffs, and a hyper-versatile toolkit, it is one of the strongest power builds in the game for open world right now.

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