Build:Vindicator - Invocation Death Drop Roamer

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Focused on: Direct damage and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

Normal

Overview

A Power damage focused Vindicator build with good sustain. It's not quite as durable as the Retribution version but the damage is higher and it's still fairly tanky. It's possible to push this build even further into the high risk, high reward territory by taking Devastation but the loss of cleansing could hurt a lot in certain matchups.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Staff

Utility

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

All 3 options are viable for the last slot of Invocation:

• Song of the Mists improves Quickness uptime and has synergy with Devastation if you're running that.
• Charged Mists allows you to spend more energy each legend swap cycle, giving you more of everything.
• Roiling Mists is an excellent passive damage boost that pushes you near the crit cap, and the build has permanent Fury uptime to go with it.

Specialization Variants

Devastation over Salvation could also work. This results in far higher damage but much lower sustain, making the build a lot less forgiving to play:

Variants

• Dance of Death offers better sustain.

Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Greatsword
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Relics

The combination of Relic of Evasion and the trait Song of Arboreum provides quite a lot of extra endurance regen which is important for various trait synergies. If you want to play a more offensive version of the build you could play with a different relic too, but in that case you should go for Angsiyan's Trust and using endurance regen food is highly recommended. Other viable relic options are:

• Relic of Isgarren - better burst damage.

• Relic of the Daredevil - improves the consistency of some of your harder hitting skills. Has some anti-synergy with Roiling Mists but works well with other Invocation GM traits.

Consumables

Food

• - extra endurance regen, and the healing procs ensure effortless 100% uptime on Unyielding Devotion.

• - same as the previous option but offers slightly higher damage instead of sustain. More endurance means more dodges, and dodging is a key part of the build.

• - great offensive stats and extra tankiness via damage reduction.

Utility

• or , whichever is cheaper.

Usage

To be added