Build:Untamed - Power Untamed

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. 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 February 12, 2025 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

A power build for untamed for open world. This build focuses on the trait

Let Loose

to spam Unleashed Ambushes and provide yourself and nearby allies with some Quickness and Might. You achieve permanent self quickness by inflicting crowd control due to

Enhancing Impact

.

The build boasts excellent damage for open world and is quite resilient with frequent life stealing and defensive boons, even more so when running maces, and has great access to condition removal if needed, making it one of the best solo builds for this game mode.

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Skill Bar

Axe/Axe

Mace/Mace

Utility

Weapon Variants

Mace + mace provides great damage, crowd control, barrier, Stability, condition removal and healing. They are extremely good for open world. Requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency with Secrets of the Obscure.
Axe + axe have great damage, range, pull, and projectile reflection. Can be replaced if you want.

• Spear - good damage but bad crowd control, so you will not maintain quickness. Requires land spear with Janthir Wilds.
• Hammer replaces mace+mace for players without Secrets of the Obscure. It deals more or less the same damage but provides less resilience and less crowd control, which in turn equals less quickness.

Skill Variants

Healing skill

We default to

"We Heal As One!"

for its low cooldown and high healing. It also copies your boons to your pet, increasing its damage.
Other options include:

• Perilous Gift
  - can be used to negate incoming damage for 3 seconds, very useful if you can time it to negate strong attacks.
• Healing Spring
  - can remove up to 12 conditions. Very useful in fights with high condition preasure or boon corruption such as when fighting Titans in Janthir Wilds.

Utility skills

We default to:

Frost Trap

provides great damage in a decent AoE and helps enable

Predator's Onslaught

. Can be replaced if needed.

"Protect Me!"

is a good AoE stunbreak with low cooldown and barrier. This is a purely defensive skill and can be replaced if needed.

Storm Spirit

deals great AoE damage, vulnerability, crowd control, and provides Fury. Should not be replaced.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:

• Unnatural Traversal
  - provides mobility and quickness.
• Mutate Conditions
  - if conditions are a problem. Also stunbreaks.
• Quickening Zephyr
  - stunbreak, quickness, and superspeed.

Elite Skill

We default to

Forest's Fortification

for its excellent defensive properties. None of your utility skills deal noteworthy damage, making this defensive one the standard option, but you can consider other options:

• Spirit of Nature
  - can be used when playing in groups to revive allies.
• Entangle
  - deals very low damage in power builds, but it can immobilize enemies for a long duration.

Pet Variants

We suggest using Tiger or Lynx for their high damage. For your other pet, you can use a tanky pet such as Brown Bear or a pet to inflict crowd control such as Boar which has crowd control on its skills, and its Beast skill creates a bundle weapon for you to pick up and inflict more CC. If you have access to expansions, use Jacaranda for its high damage and survivability. Below are some other alternatives.

High damage pets

• Jacaranda, any feline such as Lynx.

Good mix of damage and crowd control

• Smokescale, Rock Gazelle, Boar, any canine such as Alpine Wolf.

Good on-demand crowd control

• Rock Gazelle, Pink Moa, Electric Wyvern, Wolf.

Tanky pets

• Drakes such as Marsh Drake provide the best mix of damage and tankiness, but bears, porcines, and devourers are also very tanky pets.

Equipment

Ascended equipment 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

Mace
Berserker

Mace
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Axe
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• You can use
  Relic of Zakiros
  to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain,
  Relic of the Cavalier
  to start combat with boons, or
  Relic of Durability
  for a little extra defense.

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

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
• Fried Oyster Sandwich
• Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta

Farming

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

Usage

You have control over your pet's attacks. Set to auto cast with control+mouse 2 the skills that focus on doing damage, and leave on manual control the skills that focus on utility or crowd control so you can use them when needed.

The trait

Let Loose

provides some quickness to nearby allies. Together with

Enhancing Impact

, you achieve permanent self-quickness.

Your goal is to use your Unleashed Ambush at the start and end of each weapon swap rotation. With mace your Unleashed Ambush is

Rampant Growth

, and with axe it's

Sundering Volley

. Thanks to

Let Loose

resetting the cooldown of the Unleashed Ambush, you can use them twice per weapon swap rotation.

Inflicting crowd control also provides self-quickness thanks to

Enhancing Impact

. You will trigger this with

Path of Scars

,

Storm Spirit

,

Oaken Cudgel

and

Wild Strikes

.

You want to spend as little time as possible with your pet unleashed because you lose the damage bonus of

Vow of the Untamed

. Use that little time to cast your pet's F1,2,3 skills, then Unleash Ranger again. Note that the pet doesn't gain any bonus from being Unleashed.

A general rotation regardless of weapon goes as follows:

1. Start with the pet unleashed. Send the pet to attack with
   Venomous Outburst
   and use
   Unleash Ranger
   .
2. Unleashed Ambush
   Sundering Volley
   or
   Rampant Growth
   .
3. Use all your weapon skills.
4. Weapon swap
5. Unleashed Ambush
   Sundering Volley
   or
   Rampant Growth
   .
6. Use all your weapon skills.
7. When weapon swap is almost ready, use
   Unleash Pet
   and cast whatever F1,2,3 skills are ready, and
   Unleash Ranger
   .
8. Unleashed Ambush
   Sundering Volley
   or
   Rampant Growth
   .
9. Repeat from step 4

• When executed properly, this will provide you with permanent quickness for yourself, and some quickness to nearby allies.
• It's better to start fights in the axe weapon set and weapon swap after using all skills.
• On the maces weapon set, your weapon skills will reset after using them all due to Nature's Strength. Use them again.
• Relic of Nourys
  will activate periodically, reducing damage taken, grating you bonus damage, and converting a percentage of damage done into healing.

Defense and sustain

• Unleashed Ambush heal you a little thanks to
  Natural Fortitude
  .
• If a big attack is coming and you can't avoid it, use
  Unleash Pet
  to reduce incoming damage thanks to
  Vow of the Untamed
  .
• Block projectiles with
  Enveloping Haze
  or reflect them with
  Whirling Defense
  .
• Thistleguard
  provides barrier and cleanses conditions.

Crowd control

• Path of Scars
• Wild Strikes
• Oaken Cudgel

Video examples

• https://youtu.be/OtdfyGzKSdE Untamed showcase