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: 
Overview
Power Willbender offers very high burst damage from melee range in a small AoE, high vulnerability application and has excellent mobility. It also provides high 
Might and 
Fury to itself and allies.
Template Code
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
Usage of 
Spear requires the Janthir Wilds expansion.
Longbow - provides high burst damage from range, but has slightly lower damage.
Mainhand Sword + 
Focus - default set for players without Spear.
Skill Variants
Heal
provides insane sustain, making you almost immmortal for its duration.
- can be considered as a more defensive option.
- - blocks one attack but has weaker healing.
Utility
Swap out . first, then .
- - moderate CC on a short cooldown
- - defense; area
Stability and personal stunbreak. - - 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 reflection
- - projectile block and extreme CC, though it has a long cooldown
Elite
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.
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
Berserker
Assassin
Assassin
Assassin
x6
- Consider to trade damage for high sustain.
- 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.
- /
- /
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Virtues
Willbender virtues lose their passive effects, but their activations are more useful.
It is extremely important to periodically use your virtues to maintain stacks of , which is empowered by ; and maintain . They also provide boons through .
Damage
- Turn off "Melee Attack Assist" in Options. This allows you to use and inside an enemy's hitbox so that all projectiles hit your target.
- Make sure to hit enemies with your symbols to gain stacks of and inflict vulnerability from .
- Maintain uptime on with Virtues. Prioritise to gain boons from .
- Use at the start to apply vulnerability, and then periodically throughout the fight instead of autoattacks.
- Make sure to use first to empower your other spear skills with
Illuminated.
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 .
Open on Spear
- Precast twice before big fights to trigger .
weapon swap ⇒ 
Greatsword
Weapon Swap
Priorities
- Do not interrupt auto-attack chains.
If using Longbow:
- On S/F loops, try to use twice before swapping.
- Do not interrupt auto chains.
Defense
- - very strong defensive tool. Breaks stuns thanks to .
- - impossibly strong heal skill but requires you to keep dealing damage; you cannot hesitate while using this.
- - high healing
- - defensive variant, very high healing
CC
- (Emergencies)
Ratings
Comments
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