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| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Paralyzation
 
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| relic = Relic of Cerus
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| relic = Relic of Evasion
 
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* If you do not own Secrets of the Obscure, use {{Relic|Superior Relic of the Thief}} instead.
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* {{Relic|Relic of the Thief}} and {{Relic|Relic of Isgarren}} are good alternatives.  
 
* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter}} and {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Scholar}} are interchangeable.  
 
* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter}} and {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Scholar}} are interchangeable.  
  
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===DPS===
 
===DPS===
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* Steak Ascended Food
 
* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}}
 
* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}}
  
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==Usage==
 
==Usage==
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===General===
 
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This build heavily relies on its dodges, so ensuring you maintain {{Tooltip|Vigor}} is critical for both damage and defense.
 
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===Damage===
 
===Damage===
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As this build camps a single weapon we can boil the basic priority of skills down into two sections based on which legend is currently equipped. Focus on maintaining enough energy to use higher priority skills, and cut out low priority skills if energy is low. Use {{Skill|Energy Meld}} when low on energy. More dodges is good.
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* This skill has few buff windows to pay attention to. Just dodge, kill things, and repeat.  
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* Use {{Skill|Energy Meld}} any time you have less than half your endurance.
  
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====Alliance Stance====
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====Alliance Priority====
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# Dodge - Maintain {{Trait|Forerunner of Death}} at all times by dodging before it expires. If you find yourself with full energy, dodge.
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# {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}}
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# {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}} - Use this immediately as you enter Alliance.
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# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
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# {{Skill|Scavenger Burst}} - This is only used to maintain some measure of {{Tooltip|Quickness}} uptime. Use this once when you enter Alliance and once before leaving it.
 
 
# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
 
# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
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# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
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# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
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# Fill gaps with auto-attacks and dodges.
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# {{Skill|Scavenger Burst}} - for {{Tooltip|Quickness}} and endurance
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# Fill with auto-attacks.
  
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====Assassin Stance====
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====Assassin Priority====
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# Dodge - Maintain {{Trait|Forerunner of Death}} at all times by dodging before it expires. If you find yourself with full energy, dodge.
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# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}
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# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}} - Maintain this at all times.
 
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# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
 
 
# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
 
# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
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# Fill gaps with auto-attacks and dodges.
 
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====Dwarf Stance====
 
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# Dodge - Maintain {{Trait|Forerunner of Death}} at all times by dodging before it expires. If you find yourself with full energy, dodge.
 
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# {{Skill|Vengeful Hammers}} - Maintain this at all times.
 
 
# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
 
# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
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# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
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# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
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# Fill gaps with auto-attacks and dodges.
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# Fill with auto-attacks.
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# If you must, use some energy to make use of Dwarf's incredible utility. It is sometimes beneficial to sacrifice some DPS for this reason. See the Defense and CC sections for more details.
 
  
 
===Defense===
 
===Defense===
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The base build features very little practical defense, as Saint Viktor's abilities are rather lackluster. This build's incredible number of dodges are its primary defensive option. If more defense is needed, it is highly recommended to swap {{Skill|Legendary Assassin Stance}} to {{Skill|Legendary Dwarf Stance}}, as Jalis features several incredibly powerful defensive skills. This will result in a small DPS loss but in some content can be incredibly powerful.  
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* Avoid using Saint Viktor's skills for defense here as they come at a steep DPS cost and do very little for you.
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* The frequent dodges in this build offer extreme defense
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* {{Skill|Imperial Guard}} for a channeled block.
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====Saint Viktor's Urn and Jade Protocols====
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If using stacked Jade Offensive and Jade Defensive protocols, you can can Viktor rather than Archemorus in {{Skill|Legendary Alliance Stance}}. Use {{Skill|Urn of Saint Viktor}} to keep yourself in combat, causing the protocols to re-apply frequently. This drains your HP, so you will need to do some management to ensure you don't drop too low. When chain killing enemies this can be mitigated entirely with {{Food|Omnomberry Compote}} at a cost of profit.  
  
 
===CC===
 
===CC===

Latest revision as of 15:25, 26 March 2024

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: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on March 26, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A power-based open world build for Vindicator Vindicator. This build has absurdly high damage, good aoe, and has access to revs versatile toolkit.


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Skill Bar

Greatsword
Staff
Utility
Utility

Skill Variants

Do not replace Legendary Alliance Stance

  • Legendary Dwarf Stance - Very high defense and CC.
  • Legendary Demon Stance - Used for the leap, which can also group up enemies.
  • Legendary Centaur Stance - Strong projectile hate and condi cleanse.

Specializations

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
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic
  • Relic of the Thief and Relic of Isgarren are good alternatives.
  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter and Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar are interchangeable.


Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

  • Steak Ascended Food

Farming

  • Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
  • /
  • (and variants)



Usage

Damage

  • This skill has few buff windows to pay attention to. Just dodge, kill things, and repeat.
  • Use Energy Meld any time you have less than half your endurance.

Alliance Priority

  1. Spear of Archemorus
  2. Mist Unleashed
  3. Eternity's Requiem
  4. Phantom's Onslaught
  5. Scavenger Burst - for Quickness Quickness and endurance
  6. Fill with auto-attacks.

Assassin Priority

  1. Impossible Odds
  2. Mist Unleashed
  3. Eternity's Requiem
  4. Phantom's Onslaught
  5. Fill with auto-attacks.

Defense

  • Avoid using Saint Viktor's skills for defense here as they come at a steep DPS cost and do very little for you.
  • The frequent dodges in this build offer extreme defense
  • Imperial Guard for a channeled block.

Saint Viktor's Urn and Jade Protocols

If using stacked Jade Offensive and Jade Defensive protocols, you can can Viktor rather than Archemorus in Legendary Alliance Stance. Use Urn of Saint Viktor to keep yourself in combat, causing the protocols to re-apply frequently. This drains your HP, so you will need to do some management to ensure you don't drop too low. When chain killing enemies this can be mitigated entirely with at a cost of profit.

CC

This build features very little reliable CC. If extra CC is needed, it is recommended to use a United Legions Waystation EMP or to swap to Dwarf Stance.

  • Surge of the Mists - 150-1350 depending on number of impacts
  • Forced Engagement - 300
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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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5 stars
RemTheRev gave this build 5 stars • May 2024
Dodge goes ungabunga. There's something oddly satisfying about squishing mobs just by falling on them. Vindi never stops pumping damage and it has great AoE to boot with fairly high sustain. I've been using this with minor tweaks since EoD for all the story content and metas.
5 stars
Blueish5 gave this build 5 stars • July 2022
I've been toying with this build a lot, and honestly it gets the job done fairly well, especially with the suggested sigil of stamina. If you chain your dodges well enough, considering you apply MASSIVE vunlerability, you can usually avoid a LOT of damage while cleaning up nicely. This is currently one of my favorite open world build, between the decent sustain on Saint Viktor skills (I personally run some celestial for survivability), utility of Achemorus' abilities (that dash is no joke, even if it has a decent cost, on top of the aoe stun) plus the and massive potential to avoid damage between the Greatsword counter + dodge, it's very satisfying to play. I honestly play with the traits here and there, but I never have felt the need to even go Retribution for survivability (although if you struggle, you could possibly swap Invocation for Retribution, as suggested, since I think Devastation brings much more damage to the table, it feels)

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