Difference between revisions of "Willbender - Radiant Spearbender"
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Revision as of 10:58, 12 September 2024
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on September 12, 2024 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.
Overview
A new Power Willbender build for PvP utilizing the most recent addition to Guardian's arsenal, the spear. This build was made to deliver massive bursts in teamfights and while +1ing.
Skill Bar
Spear
Sword/Sword
Utility
Skill Variants
Heal
- - worse cleansing but it might work better under pressure due to the lower cast time (assuming it blocks an attack). The same's true the other way around, this could let you quickly recover some health while pressuring targets without skipping a beat. Both healing skills are popular options.
Elite
- - this is seen as less competitive and thus much less popular, but the
Quickness could help you deliver burst damage while also buffing your team. is often used with this elite for even stronger bursts.
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Spear
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Sword
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Equipment Variants
Relics
- - strong AoE damage procs on low CD. It's less bursty than the current relic, but the damage is more spread out which means it could make even your weaker attacks more threatening.
Usage
To be added
Ratings
Everything and more. God mode. If you're looking for the strongest PvP build in Guild Wars 2, this is it. 5 stars is not enough, should be 10 stars. Jesus has risen, and he now goes by radiant spearbender.
I was expecting the Stormsinger nerf to be a bigger hit, but to me it still feels like the king of ranked soloq. Excellent teamfight and + presence and mobility to rival a thief.
Still one of the most dominant ranked builds even after a few nerfs, and even appears in ATs from time to time. Great damage and mobility, sustain's not the best but the mobility makes up for it.
High mobility, high maintenance, high damage. but short cd ...? well . they never nerf because the designer plays Guardian. Easy to play. The best choice for RANK games. ppl now afraid get nerf start give low rating lol however u can see best player duo nec then swap to wb snowball every p2p3 rank game
Everyone complaining about this build are likely low skill players that have been killed by this. Now, it's a great build with a ton of mobility and boon uptime; don't get me wrong. However, it has been nerfed 3 or 4 times since spear was released and it's not nearly as free win as it used to be. There's plenty of specs and classes that outperform this one while providing much more to their team, so I would definitely not say that this is the BEST PvP build, like so many others claim. You can't even make a post on the /r/GuildWars2 subreddit about WB without people losing their minds and crying about it's existence, but I really don't have a problem with them any more. The only reason it's so popular, and why people hate it so much is because it has a minuscule skill cap making it so that anyone can pick up the class and quickly start doing good. Where-as something like D/D Catalyst has a huge skill ceiling, but the learning curve prevents most people from picking it up and mastering it. Yet, a well-played Catalyst will outperform a WB 100/100 times.
Fun build to play but it's quite easy to counter, just dodge the incoming burst or block it and the guy will start to run in circles waiting for the burst to come up again. Builds like Dragon Hunter with Aegis spam can perma block the damage while countering by applying indirect damage with symbols and GS. To me is overestimated, there is other builds and professions that can easly counter it, people play it because it does insta damage and normally in unranked no one dodges.
I cannot imagine an argument against one of the lead devs being a Guardian main / WB main. The spec is cool enough, fun enough, and fast enough that many people would play it even if it wasn't busted. But guess what, it's fn busted. With the ability to permanently stick onto targets, do MASSIVE burst and sustained damage, both ST and AOE, kite and evade or block damage, abuse terrain, there is nothing this class cannot do. You can get off of ANY class in the game, get on a WB, and within 2-3 games you'll be farming top stat badges, rank points, raw kills, whatever you want. There is no spec in the game that has a lower floor. Spam buttons, win. That's it, that's the build. It requires absolutely zero finesse or technique. Far too powerful for the simplicity in its function. Toxic. Should be gutted power wise.
The nerf literally did nothing lol, it's still the most busted pvp class in the game. Ridiculous
It's easy to play and offers overwhelmingly strong DPS. Jump in, one-shot your target or the enemy team with solar storm, then pop Renewed Focus and run or port away. With all the ports, it's essentially Thief 2.0, but without the drawbacks. While it’s not as strong in P2/P3, you're mainly up against the minority who possess the knowledge and speed to counter it. The only true drawback is that it's squishy, but you have a robust boon setup with Aegis and Resolution spam to mitigate a significant amount of damage. Although not mentioned, this is likely to be added to the nerf list for the October 24 patch. If it isn't, it won't be long before it meets the same fate as Warrior Spear/Staff.
Very strong, good sustain, great against condis, only loses when it's outgunned, which isn't often. the amount of mobility the build has makes it easy to leave a fight that isn't going your way. If people using terrain is making it difficult, swap OH sword to torch.
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