Amalgam - DPS Amalgam

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on August 29, 2025.

Overview

A power damage Holosmith WvW build meant to do massive damage within melee range, overwhelming the enemies with copious amounts of burst hits, causing great pain and harm to their bodies and souls and health bars, while having no meaningful downtime, unlike their other DPS such as reaper or berserker which struggle outside of Reaper's Shroud and Berserk.

Skillbar

Rifle/Rifle

Utility

Variants

Weapon

• Hammer
• Spear

Heal

Utility

• Bomb Kit

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Equipment

Head
Dragon

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Dragon

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Dragon

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Demolisher

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Dragon

Rifle
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rifle
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

Variants

Stats

• You can use less crit to avoid overcapping on Evolve, but the uptime is low
• Feel free to use as much Berserker's gear as you can without dying
  • Swap out Dragon gear first
• The given setup aims for maximum Effective Health
  • You can swap Marauder's to Demolisher's to make healing more efficient in exchange for increasing your chance to be spiked from 100%

Sigil

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina for activating Explosive Entrance

Consumables

• feast option with additional power and ferocity.

Usage

General

• As soon as you get the 25 stacks of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bloodlust and get out of combat, swap back to the Rifle without it

Overall Priorities

High

Moderate

Low

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This build has low active defenses

Active defense priority

• Dodge