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:

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 and grants itself capped might and fury while also maintaining some quickness if taking

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Skill Bar

Greatsword

Longbow

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Sword/ Focus - higher DPS than Longbow but removes your ranged option.
• Staff - good tagging weapon

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 is needed, very strong in farm zergs.
• - provides on-demand Aegis and Swiftness. Good in zergs or when fighting enemies with predictable attack patterns.
• - Protection for yourself and allies.
• - condi cleanse
• - excellent projectile hate
• - projectile hate and extreme CC, though it has a long cooldown
• - Quickness and Fury
• - can be chained with to cheese certain mechanics

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 trinkets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• /

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 or Quickness. Use off cooldown; use or to maintain . Fill gaps with auto-attacks and .

1. Open on Longbow
2. Precast twice before big fights to trigger .
10. Weapon Swap ⇒ Greatsword
17. Weapon Swap

From here, follow a loose priority.

Priorities

Greatsword:

5. Do not interrupt auto-attack chains.

Longbow:

For good measure, we also include Sword/ Focus:

1. On S/F loops, try to use twice before swapping.
5. 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)