Build:Renegade - Diviner Renegade

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Focused on: Direct damage and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A power based Renegade build for WvW, centered around alacrity share, group support and direct damage. Offers permanent access to 10-man Alacrity and great group utility through Jalis and Mallyx while still retains all physical damage stats at the cost of lower effective power (damage) and harder energy management than Hammer Backline.

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Skillbar

Hammer

Shortbow

Utility

Utility

Traits

Variants

• Bold Reversal if not running short bow.

Equipment

Head
Diviner

Shoulders
Diviner

Chest
Diviner

Hands
Diviner

Legs
Diviner

Feet
Diviner

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Hammer
Diviner

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Diviner

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Consumables

feast option with additional damage reduction.

Variants

Stats

• Keep in mind this setup gives ~78% Boon Duration, enough for permanent Alacrity uptime as long as you press Heroic Command off cooldown, assuming the boon doesn't get stripped/removed.
• This setup relies on Fury and full endurance (2 dodge bars) to crit cap.
  • 48% (baseline) crit chance from gear
  • 20% crit chance from Fury
  • 33% crit chance by having 2 dodges available, thanks to Brutal Momentum
  • Total: 102% crit chance
• A gear combination (along with runes and sigils change) between Marauder, Berserker, Assassin and Diviner can be done to achieve different purposes like more damage, survivability and/or group support.

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy or Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina if you wish.

Rune

• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability trades damage for more self sustain

Usage

General

• Always try to swap legends when off cooldown to buff Fury, Might and Vigor and to reset your energy.
• Cast Orders from Above on cooldown to buff you and your allies with Alacrity. Position yourself to maximize the number of affected allies.
• Citadel Bombardment provides decent AoE damage if the projectiles hit. Not recommended to use, unless there's an energy abundance.
• Cast Heroic Command on cooldown for Might if your group can't maintain 25 stacks.

Hammer

• Hammer Bolt will be used after all your other Hammer skills are unavailable for single target damage.
• Coalescence of Ruin is your bread and butter damage skill, land it as often as possible.
  • Try to not have anyone targeted if casting this skill, as it can bug out and put on a 4s cooldown. Rather, cast it based on where your character is facing, and where the enemy stack is going to be
  • It only hits a maximum of 5 targets across all three pulses, and the pulses often dissappear in non flat terrain, so keep that in mind if fighting inside structures.
• Phase Smash deals a ton of damage and evades for its duration, be careful not to get caught behind your group while casting this skill.
  • Functions well for ranged cleave, and to hard pressure the enemy group when coordinated.
  • You can Phase Smash through traps and marks to activate them without taking any damage.
• Drop the Hammer has a long cast time, so try to predict where the enemies will go or use it on stationary targets like downed players that the enemy will move on to.
• Hammer usage
  • While pushing: Coalescence of Ruin ⇒ Drop the Hammer ⇒ Phase Smash.
  • Ranged spike: Coalescence of Ruin ⇒ Phase Smash.
  • Add Hammer Bolt in the mix if it's convenient.

Jalis (Legendary Dwarf Stance)

• Soothing Stone will be used as panic condi clear, as the healing itself isn't that great.
• Vengeful Hammers reduces incoming damage and brings a powerful DPS potential on melee.
• Try to time Rite of the Great Dwarf to mitigate damage, don't simply use it as soon as you enter Dwarf stance, as it will drain almost all of your energy.
  • Can be used both preemptively, before the fight really starts, or reactively, once it's already going on.
  • Try to have the buff up as engages begin, when an enemy player is being cleaved or a friendly player is being rezzed.
• Inspiring Reinforcement does solid damage and gives pulsing Stability on a large range, try to place it in areas where allies and enemies will be clashing to maximize utility from the road.
• Forced Engagement should always be used on the enemy stack not on isolated targets, along with winds and ground pressure, to lock down foes.

Mallyx (Legendary Demon Stance)

• Pain Absorption breaks stuns and pays the energy cost at the start of the cast but only gives Resistance and pulls conditions at the end of the cast. Be careful to avoid interrupts.
  • Keep an eye on your parties conditions using Party View as opposed to Squad View. Save your energy until allies have conditions that need removal, rather than casting preemptively.
• Increase the healing of Empowering Misery by first using Pain Absorption to pull conditions to yourself.
• Call to Anguish will be used to repositioning and for the wide CC on melee range.

Weaknesses

• Skill usage is reliant on energy management.
• Potential to be locked into the wrong stance at the wrong time.

Related Builds

• Hammer Backline