Troubadour - Inspi/Chaos Troub

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Crowd control, Boon removal and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on August 29, 2025.

Skill Bar

Sword/Focus

Rifle

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Focus ⇒ Shield

Utility

• A group needs 1-2 mesmers on Veil as well as some Illusion of Life before other utilities should be considered
  • Veil
  • Illusion of Life
  • Signet of Illusions - w/ Mental Defense
  • Tale of the Valiant Marshal

Template Code

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Specializations

Variants

• Temporal Enchanter
• Mental Defense

Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Sword
Minstrel

Focus
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rifle
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relic

• Relic of the Flock

Rune

• Worse than Rune of Superior Rune of the Water, but by a small amount and much cheaper
  • Rune of Superior Rune of Radiance
  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Herald
  • Rune of Superior Rune of Leadership

Usage

Priorities

High

Moderate

Low

Surviving

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

Active defense priority

• Dodge