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 January 22, 2024 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 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 "Feel My Wrath!"


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Skill Bar

Greatsword
Longbow
Utility

Weapon Variants

  • Longbow Longbow - requires weaponmaster, see the two options below if you do not have it unlocked.
  • Sword Sword/Focus Focus - higher DPS than Longbow Longbow but removes your ranged option.
  • Staff Staff - good tagging weapon

Skill Options

Note that Sword of Justice is an incredibly powerful skill when solo and it should not be dropped. Swap out Signet of Judgment first, then Bane Signet.

  • Reversal of Fortune - a moderately effective heal alternative
  • Shelter - can be chained with Renewed Focus to cheese certain mechanics
  • Signet of Resolve - an easy-to-use, reliable heal.
  • Heel Crack - moderate CC on a short cooldown
  • Flash Combo - very short cooldown teleport
  • "Stand Your Ground!" - useful if even more Stability Stability is needed, very strong in farm zergs.
  • "Advance!" - provides on-demand Aegis Aegis and Swiftness Swiftness. Good in zergs or when fighting enemies with predictable attack patterns.
  • "Hold the Line!" - Protection Protection for yourself and allies.
  • Smite Condition - condi cleanse
  • Wall of Reflection - excellent projectile hate
  • Sanctuary - projectile hate and extreme CC, though it has a long cooldown
  • "Feel My Wrath!" - Quickness Quickness and Fury Fury
  • Renewed Focus - can be chained with Shelter 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 Relic of the Thief, Relic of the Adventurer, Relic of Cerus, Relic of the Cavalier, and Relic of Durability.
  • 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.
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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 Whirling Wrath and Binding Blade.

DPS

Basics

  • Use Rushing Justice to trigger Inspiring Virtue and Holy Reckoning / Restorative Virtues. 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 Restorative Virtues.
  • Maintaining high symbol uptime to increase ticking hits/damage and vuln is critical.
  • Stay inside the enemy hitbox for Whirling Wrath and Binding Blade.

Opener

This is a basic opener that can easily be performed with no Alacrity Alacrity or Quickness Quickness. Use Rushing Justice off cooldown; use Flowing Resolve or Crashing Courage to maintain Inspiring Virtue. Fill gaps with auto-attacks and Sword of Justice.

  1. Open on Longbow Longbow
  2. Precast Flowing Resolve twice before big fights to trigger Lethal Tempo.
  3. Sword of Justice
  4. Rushing Justice
  5. Hunter's Ward
  6. Symbol of Energy
  7. True Shot
  8. Deflecting Shot
  9. Sword of Justice
  10. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap ⇒ Greatsword Greatsword
  11. Symbol of Resolution
  12. Whirling Wrath
  13. Sword of Justice
  14. Binding Blade
  15. Whirling Wrath
  16. Symbol of Resolution
  17. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap

From here, follow a loose priority.

Priorities

Greatsword Greatsword:

  1. Symbol of Resolution
  2. Whirling Wrath
  3. Binding Blade
  4. Leap of Faith
  5. Do not interrupt auto-attack chains.

Longbow Longbow:

  1. True Shot
  2. Symbol of Energy
  3. Hunter's Ward
  4. Deflecting Shot

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

  1. On S/F loops, try to use Zealot's Defense twice before swapping.
  2. Ray of Judgment
  3. Zealot's Defense
  4. Symbol of Blades
  5. Do not interrupt auto chains.

Defense

  • Roiling Light - our stunbreak
  • Crashing Courage - very strong defensive tool
  • Shelter + Renewed Focus - defensive swaps to stall for time or cheese mechanics
  • Litany of Wrath - impossibly strong heal skill but requires you to keep dealing damage; you cannot hesitate while using this.
  • Flowing Resolve - high healing
  • Conceited Curate - defensive swap, very high healing

CC

  • Heaven's Palm
  • Binding Blade
  • Deflecting Shot
  • Bane Signet (Emergencies)
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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 3 votes.
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5 stars
Blumain gave this build 5 stars • March 2024
I switched to this build coming from a DH and I can say WB is so awesome. More survivabilty and movement compared to DH without sacrificing the damage. This build has it all to survive in open world. Mobility, damage, cleansing, cc, stab, this is the best Guardian build for Open World.
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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