Build:Bladesworn - Power Bladesworn

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General, [[|]] and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 02, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Bladesworn is a very unique specialization to use in open world due to it's restricted mobility, caused by the reliance on Dragon Trigger. This iteration supplies itself with permanent Fury, 25 Might for 5 allies as well as large amounts (potentially the largest amounts currently available) of self-healing through the synergies between Forceful Greatsword, Might Makes Right, Mending Might and Phalanx Strength. This allows it to be highly survivable in the same gear as the standard PvE DPS build for group content, making it a very convenient option for overall PvE gameplay.

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Skill Bar

Axe/Axe

Greatsword

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Off-hand pistol: replaces off-hand axe for less AoE damage but more single target burst, and higher uptime of Guns and Glory.

Specializations

Alternative Traits

• Phalanx Strength for any situation where you're not alone. This triggers Mending Might for every affected ally, resulting in large amounts of healing.
• Shrug It Off for a passive condition cleanse and healing.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• The Sigil of Superior Sigil of Paralyzation empowers the stun on your Dragon Trigger so that it will break most champion defiance bars (e.g. HoT Hero Points) immediately when you're alone.
• You can also use a pistol instead of the offhand axe, which will facilitate maintaining Guns and Glory outside of Gunsaber and increases single-target DPS at the cost of flow + cleave damage.

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

• Using ammo skills will increase your damage done through Fierce as Fire and explosions will increase your ferocity via Guns and Glory.
• Dragon Trigger is responsible for the vast majority of your damage, so you should never delay it. By default, you should always try to use Dragon Slash - Force . If your target moves out of range, you can also use Dragon Slash - Boost or Dragon Slash - Reach.
• Whirling Axe is the highest damage skill on dual axes, so it takes priority there.

• You can also use any physical-type skill like Throw Bolas before going into Dragon Trigger to empower it by an additional 10%.

Survivability

• Triggerguard & Flicker Step cause you to deal more damage through Fierce as Fire, so you can use them when you know you won't need them for defense. They are your sole defense in Dragon Trigger though, so you might have to keep them.
• "To the Limit!" is your main source of healing and provides Flow and 50% of your endurance bar, so make use of this whenever needed.
• Greatsword should only be used whenever you know you'll need additional survivability from Forceful Greatsword or a short-cooldown evade through Whirlwind Attack. Beware: You need to decide this prior to engaging combat, since you cannot weapon swap on Bladesworn in combat.

• The rotation used for group content with dual axes has higher cleave and is a bit more straightforward to execute than the pistol rotation.
• Inside of Gunsaber, it uses Blooming Fire instead of Artillery Slash or Cyclone Trigger since that procs Guns and Glory thrice.
• Detailed explanations and a rotation showcase are given down below.

Guide Video (as of May 2022)