Difference between revisions of "Renegade - Power Renegade"

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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:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on September 05, 2023 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

Power Bombardment is a powerful roaming build for Renegade, performing very well in large events such as Bjora Marches or Dragonfall while also being capable of farming in fast-paced zergs and even soloing champions.

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Skill Bar

Greatsword

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

Sword/Sword - DPS; replaces Greatsword if you lack Weaponmaster
Shortbow - ranged single-target; use this in place of Staff against bosses that require range
Hammer - ranged AoE; use this in place of Staff for meta-event farming.
Shield - defense, pair with Sword mainhand.

Skill Variants

Legendary Dwarf Stance
- defense/cc

Specializations

Dance of Death
- sustain
Cleansing Channel
- condi cleanse

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

This set uses gear that is broadly applicable in PVE, making it an excellent general set.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
and
Superior Rune of the Scholar
are interchangeable.
Other relics include
Relic of the Adventurer
,
Relic of Cerus
,
Relic of the Cavalier
, and
Relic of Durability
.
For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
/
Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Superior Sharpening Stone
/
Tin of Fruitcake

Defense

Farming

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
Birthday Blaster
/
Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
Sharpening Skull
(and variants)

Usage

Damage

This build camps Greatsword for its damage and uses Staff for CC. For a rotation, we use a series of short loops.

Burst Opener

Open in

Legendary Renegade Stance

loop:

Legendary Assassin Stance

loop:

Use

Citadel Bombardment

when you have spare energy. This will never line up with any one loop. On large hitboxes, you should prioritize

Citadel Bombardment

over

Phantom's Onslaught

There are also some short burst loops to use. You can use these on low-health enemies to kill them very rapidly.

Burst Loop 1: Kalla

Burst Loop 2: Shiro

Burst Loop 3: Large Hitboxes

Defense

Imperial Guard
Warding Rift
Use CC to your advantage.

Crowd Control

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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 10 votes.

Linera gave this build 5 stars • April 2021

Great renegade build. It has burst, sustained damage, sustain, and AOE all in one neat package. Its much simpler to play than its condi counterpart, and has better burst and aoe damage, it does however fall slightly behind in self-sustain. Overall, easy 5/5 from me.

Paradoxoglanis gave this build 5 stars • February 2021

Quite possibly the best open world build at the moment. It is capable of all types of open world content and there are plenty of variations to the build. Damage: Has incredibly strong burst damage, sustained damage, and aoe damage. Sword/sword are the bread and butter of power revenant, but shortbow has some impressive burst potential and staff serves as a very strong utility weapon. Sustain: The relatively recent change to the devastation traitline with battle scars has given revenant a huge boost to their self healing and sustain. Its not even necessary to take all three bottom traits. Dance of Death alone is strong enough to keep yourself alive in most situations. Performance: Revenant has a high skill cap due to energy management and legend+weapon swapping. While this keeps gameplay more engaging than most other builds, power renegade can be played very casually and still perform well. Some other things to note: This build has good self buffing and is capable of near-permanent 25 might and fury. Song of the mists is a decent trait alternative to roiling mists if you dont need the additional crit chance. Assassin stance is a very strong alternative to dwarf or renegade stance.

Happybliss gave this build 5 stars • October 2020

Best power revenant build for soloing openworld stuff. I successfully solo 90% HoT HPs and most core tyria champions without asking for help.

Burnlit gave this build 5 stars • July 2020

Woah! IDK what I'm even doing in combat. I'm just mashing everything off cooldown and everything dies while I have full health. This built is really good and noob friendly.

Scifit gave this build 5 stars • July 2020

I've been noobing around with my Reaper for so long that I wanted something new, but also wanted something could survive and kill just as well in OW. This build is so fun! And great! Lots of sustain, health, protection and general survivability, while dealing even more damage than my Reaper and the skills feel more dynamic. Revenant has a lot of skills, but they are surprisingly easy to get the hang of. Even for a semi-lazy player like me. This might become my new main!

Dasov gave this build 5 stars • July 2020

I'd say the most versatile build I've played. Has great DPS, good range with shortbow. You can swap to demon for boonstrip. You can swap to assassin for speed and DPS, dwarf makes you super tanky. Plenty of CC for breakbars as well. This build makes soloing HPs in VB and AB a breeze. The amount of sustain (as long as you deal damage) makes you unkillable as long as you dodge one-shot abilities. When you doing group event you can do a bit support with some might, alacrity, Soulcleave Summit and heals. And after switching All for one to Heartpiercer you get great tagging ability with shortbow and legends being ranged AOE skills. (Assassins works well here for additional movement speed) In contrary to @WeinerDog I'd say it's a little point to play other classes when Renegade can perform so well in all aspects of Open World ;)

Dshaq94 gave this build 5 stars • June 2020

Loving this build

Shp182 gave this build 5 stars • May 2020

Great spec all around, I run this exclusively. For harder fights and champions start with Jalis, Forced Engagement -> Citadel Bombardment -> Vengeful Hammers to bring energy below 10, swap legend and spam all summons, when Jalis is recharged you'll be just about 0 energy, perfect swap, start with Hammers, Forced Engagement, Citadel Bombardment, use Sword 4 to burn energy and self-heal, swap legend, rinse and repeat, use heals if needed in between. I find it the most optimal rotation and in many cases you can just facetank champs. Most of the time, I actually run this spec in lazy mode with short bow Shiro/Kalla, Impossible Odds is just too convenient for quick movement and spamming autoattack.

Jack Armstrong gave this build 5 stars • April 2020

Best open world build I've tried for soloing or small groups; useful in large groups too. My absolute favorite at the moment: weak enemies melt, most strong ones pose no problem. High burst and good sustained damage, excellent self-sustain--what's not to like?

Kanok gave this build 5 stars • March 2020

This is a great build to run in OW especially against champions. Use Battle Scared along with Dance of Death while using Icerazor's Ire to have a really effective and almost overpowered self-heal. Switch to Ogre instead of Scholar to save some money and use Assassin's Presence to gain back that 125 Ferocity that you are missing from Scholars, plus an extra 25. Your power will suffer a bit, but crits are what you want anyway. While I still prefer Power Glint, this one is a fantastic build and I run it all the same. Use with Jalis for maximum CC on short cooldowns with those Impact sigils. You really can't go wrong. Champs will melt and you won't really notice the damage being done. Still need to side step and back away to not take damage, since you just cannot face tank without a dedicated healer on you, but this is as good as it gets. You save your endurance for Brutal Momentum and still stay alive while pumping out some amazing damage. Do yourself a favor and run this if you really want to shine with a power build in OW.

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+===Weapon Variants===
+* {{Tooltip|Sword|Sword/Sword}} - DPS; replaces {{Tooltip|Greatsword}} if you lack Weaponmaster
+* {{Tooltip|Shortbow}} - ranged single-target; use this in place of {{Tooltip|Staff}} against bosses that require range
+* {{Tooltip|Hammer}} - ranged AoE; use this in place of {{Tooltip|Staff}} for meta-event farming.
+* {{Tooltip|Shield}} - defense, pair with {{Tooltip|Sword}} mainhand.
+===Skill Variants===
+* {{Skill|Legendary Dwarf Stance}} - defense/cc
 ==Specializations==
 {{Specialization|Invocation|mid|bot|bot}}
-{{Specialization|Devastation|mid|mid|bot}}
+{{Specialization|Devastation|mid|mid|mid}}
-{{Specialization|Renegade|bot|bot|mid}}
+{{Specialization|Renegade|bot|bot|top}}
-* {{Trait|Charged Mists}} - provides a better flow to the class but requires more energy management.
+* {{Trait|Dance of Death}} - sustain
-* {{Trait|Ashen Demeanor}} - more vuln
 * {{Trait|Cleansing Channel}} - condi cleanse
-* {{Trait|Assassin's Presence}} - helps allies
 ==Equipment==
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-| weapon1 = Sword
+| weapon1 = Greatsword
-| weapon2 = Sword
+| weapon2 =
 | sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Air
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 ==Usage==
 ===Damage===
-Dealing damage with this build is a fairly simple matter. In general, your goal should always be to apply as much {{Tooltip|Vulnerability}} as possible to proc {{Trait|Dance of Death}}. To do this, use {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}}, which will apply considerable vuln in an area. Additionally, your Sword 1 and {{Skill|Shackling Wave}} both apply a lot of vuln.
+This build camps {{Tooltip|Greatsword}} for its damage and uses {{Tooltip|Staff}} for CC. For a rotation, we use a series of short loops.
+;Burst Opener
+Open in {{Skill|Legendary Renegade Stance}}
+# {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}}
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
+# {{Skill|Legendary Assassin Stance}}
+# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}
+# {{Skill|Citadel Bombardment}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
-Because of energy management, you don't have a true rotation. Rather, we'll work on a skill priority system that determines which skills are more important to use. Note that this isn't final; use your judgment when deciding what skills to use. Note that the list below assumes you are running Kalla/Shiro.
+{{Skill|Legendary Renegade Stance}} loop:
-# {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}} - the strongest ability in your entire kit thanks to its interaction with {{Trait|Dance of Death}}.
+# {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}}
-# {{Skill|Darkrazor's Daring}} - one of your strongest abilities; this skill does a small amount of damage but easily chews through breakbars. use this to benefit from exposed or to interrupt mobs to proc {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Impact}}.
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
-# {{Skill|Citadel Bombardment}} - if the target is large, or you are a fighting a group, this is by far your hardest hitting skill. If you are fighting a single small target, it is often better to skip this.
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
-# {{Skill|Chilling Isolation}} - one of your main damage tools; this ability is very strong against single foes
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
-# {{Skill|Shackling Wave}} - absurdly powerful ability that applies 8 stacks of vuln (triggering 8 stacks of battle scars)), hits 5 times, and deals high damage; try to use this off cooldown
-# {{Skill|Preparation Thrust}} - your auto-attack; it's very strong, so long as you don't interrupt it
-# {{Skill|Deathstrike}} - a short range teleport that grants {{Tooltip|Fury}}; the damage is alright, but the skill is energy intensive compared to other options
-# {{Skill|Unrelenting Assault}} - this skill does very low damage but is a useful evade that also grants might; typically it's best to avoid using it if trying to deal high damage as it's very energy intensive
-# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}} - this skill has a lot of different interactions with other skills, and is very energy intensive; an easy way to use it is just to keep it up at all times while in Shiro but it's worth considering that sometimes it's better to de-activate it.
+{{Skill|Legendary Assassin Stance}} loop:
+# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
-===Defense===
+Use {{Skill|Citadel Bombardment}} when you have spare energy. This will never line up with any one loop. On large hitboxes, you should prioritize {{Skill|Citadel Bombardment}} over {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}.
-* You can use {{Skill|Unrelenting Assault}} as an evade.
-* {{Skill|Warding Rift}} blocks attacks.
+There are also some short burst loops to use. You can use these on low-health enemies to kill them very rapidly.
-* {{Skill|Rite of the Great Dwarf}}, {{Skill|Forced Engagement}} - extremely powerful when using Jalis
+;Burst Loop 1: Kalla
+# {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}}
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+;Burst Loop 2: Shiro
+# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
-===Sustain===
+;Burst Loop 3: Large Hitboxes
-* You have constant healing from {{Trait|Dance of Death}}. You siphon even more life when {{Skill|Soulcleave's Summit}} or {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}} are active.
+# {{Skill|Icerazor's Ire}}
-* Cleanse conditions with {{Skill|Soothing Stone}}, {{Skill|Renewing Wave}}, or the proc from {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Cleansing}}.
+# {{Skill|Citadel Bombardment}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+# {{Skill|Legendary Assassin Stance}}
+# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}
+# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
+# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
+# {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}}
+===Defense===
+* {{Skill|Imperial Guard}}
+* {{Skill|Warding Rift}}
+* Use CC to your advantage.
 ===Crowd Control===

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Difference between revisions of "Renegade - Power Renegade"

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Overview

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Skill Bar

Weapon Variants

Skill Variants

Specializations

Equipment

Consumables

DPS

Defense

Farming

Usage

Damage

Defense

Crowd Control

Ratings

Comments