Build:Renegade - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 03, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

The condition alacrity Renegade build for raids and fractals. The basic rotation is similar to the DPS build, but made slightly trickier by the need to adjust each section depending on whether Orders from Above will come off cooldown during it. It trades the CC of Power Alacrity Renegade for more DPS on long phases, as well as higher ranged damage.

In fractals, this build can also provide Might with Heroic Command.

Skill Bar

Mace/Axe

Shortbow

Utility

Utility

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Taking All for One is a ~5% DPS loss, but provides your subgroup with a good amount of Protection.

Equipment

Head
Ritualist

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Ritualist

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Accessory
Ritualist

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Ring
Ritualist

Mace
Ritualist

Axe
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup provides ~42% boon duration.
• In fractals you will gain extra boon duration from potions, so you can swap your food and utility to dps options, then replace Ritualist stats gear with Viper stats - make sure to keep yourself above 34% boon duration or you will not be able to maintain Alacrity solo!

Non-SotO relics

Unfortunately none of the core damage relics are particularly strong for condi renegade. You could pick an option that offers some utility instead, or:

• The rotation uses Embrace the Darkness almost exactly every 30s, so Relic of the Krait wouldn't be completely terrible.
• Relic of the Aristocracy could work if you switch the pairings of legends and weapons, so that you can build stacks up in Legendary Demon Stance with Echoing Eruption, and Icerazor's Ire in Legendary Renegade Stance.
  • You should use (or ascended versions) with this.

Consumables

Food

• • or the other ascended versions are also very close in damage

Utility

Usage

Rotation

Below is the DPS rotation. These sections are those you follow when Orders from Above will not come off cooldown during that section.

Opening

Start in Legendary Renegade Stance and on Mace/Axe.

1. Icerazor's Ire
2. Razorclaw's Rage
3. Echoing Eruption
4. Legendary Demon Stance
5. Embrace the Darkness
6. Searing Fissure
7. Orders from Above
8. Weapon swap

Shortbow

The stronger effect of Embrace the Darkness can only be activated once per pulse, so a single autoattack is added after key skills to ensure that no pulses are wasted. This requires precision to avoid either cancelling Shattershot or delaying your legend swap, so it may be better in practise not to worry about it.

1. Bloodbane Path, Shattershot
2. Spiritcrush, Shattershot
3. Sevenshot
4. Bloodbane Path
5. Shattershot until Bloodbane Path is available
6. Bloodbane Path
7. Sevenshot
8. Spiritcrush
9. Legendary Renegade Stance
10. Icerazor's Ire - make sure to cast this first, so that it enhances Razorclaw's Rage
11. Razorclaw's Rage
12. Weapon swap

Mace/Axe

1. Searing Fissure
2. Echoing Eruption
3. Auto-attack chain
4. Searing Fissure
5. Auto-attack chain twice
6. Searing Fissure
7. Temporal Rift
8. Citadel Bombardment
9. Echoing Eruption
10. Legendary Demon Stance - Don't delay this step or you might allow your energy to creep above 10
11. Embrace the Darkness
12. Searing Fissure
13. Weapon swap
14. Repeat from Shortbow

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Providing Alacrity

Each of the sections above (excluding the opener) will change if Orders from Above comes off cooldown during that section:

• On Shortbow, you Resist the Darkness at step 6, then reactivate it again at step 9 (essentially as soon as you are able to).
• On Mace/Axe, replace Citadel Bombardment at step 9 with Icerazor's Ire.

In all rotations, you should be using Orders from Above as soon as it comes off cooldown.

Providing Might

Thanks to the combo of Searing Fissure and Echoing Eruption, you generate ~7 Might for your subgroup. If you want to provide more, you will need to replace some skills with Heroic Command:

• On Shortbow replace one use of Bloodbane Path.
  • Replacing Bloodbane Path means that you spend five more energy per loop - if you are slow this may result in you not having enough energy for the final Sevenshot. If you are finding this is the case, you could replace one Spiritcrush instead.
• On Mace/Axe replace either one Searing Fissure (either step 4 or 12, as you don't blast these).

General Tips

• You will want to delay Orders from Above slightly if the group is not stacked together (for example, if it comes off cooldown near the end of the split phase at Vale Guardian, you should save it for when everyone is back together).
• Charged Mists is the reason we run Invocation, and it requires you to be under 10 energy when you switch legends. If you reach the point when you need to switch, and are above 10 energy for whatever reason, you can use Heroic Command to quickly expend some.
• While in Mace/Axe, always try to let your Auto Attack chain finish, as the last hits are very strong.
• On most fights, there are going to be moments when you can't hit the boss, but you'll still gain energy. During these phases, use Heroic Command and Orders from Above to help keep boons up.

Breakbars

• Temporal Rift
• Scorchrazor
• Darkrazor's Daring
• Call to Anguish (costs a lot of energy for comparatively little CC, so only as a last resort)
• Frigid Blitz deals ~300 soft CC (assuming the target doesn't already have Chill and Slow)