Build:Soulbeast - Power Soulbeast

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:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Soulbeast is an extremely versatile roaming build that does well in virtually every aspect of open world.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Axe

Longbow

Utility

Pets

• Eagle - DPS and mobility
• Jacaranda - tanky healing pet
• Black Bear - Very strong defensive abilities

Weapon Variants

• Mainhand Axe - Good for might, better in short fights than other options
• Sword - Similar DPS to dagger with slightly higher burst
• Greatsword - Good burst and cleave

Skill Variants

• Frost Trap - good DPS option that helps maintain Predator's Onslaught
• Bear Stance - extreme condi cleanse
• Dolyak Stance - stability spam
• Frost Spirit - large boost to squad DPS
• Signet of Stone - passive toughness + panic button
• Lightning Reflexes - stunbreak + evade
• Quickening Zephyr - stunbreak + quickness
• "Sic 'Em!" - very high single target burst; combine with Resounding Timbre

Specializations

• Leader of the Pack - boosts stance duration & shares stances with allies; always take this if playing with a group

Skirmishing Variant

This variant can be a dramatic boost to DPS but only if you can manage to flank most of the time. This makes it great in groups.

Equipment

Berserker

This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Soulbeast_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PvE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Longbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• Marauder - trades a small amount of damage for a large boost to HP

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of Strength, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget DPS; if taking Strength, replace Vulture Stance with a different DPS option.
• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air, Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy - budget DPS
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - more dodges

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

There are a few basic rotations

Longbow

If using Longbow with Marksmanship and Predator's Onslaught:

• Barrage
• Moa Stance + Vulture Stance
• One Wolf Pack
• Point Blank Shot^{^1}
• Rapid Fire
• Weapon Swap
• Beastmode
• Charge (soulbeast)^{^2}
• Worldly Impact
• Path of Scars
• Whirling Defense
• "We Heal As One!"
• Auto-attacks
• Weapon Swap
• Point Blank Shot
• Rapid Fire
• Auto-attacks

^1 Situational: Be careful not to push mobs away from other engaged players, or into nearby players.
^2 Optional: Closer in case of extreme range with Longbow (Worldly Impact's radius is only 240).

- Your biggest damage skills are Worldly Impact, Whirling Defense, Rapid Fire, and Barrage.
- Use Barrage before other big skills so that Cripple will trigger Predator's Onslaught.
- You can run Frost Trap in place of Vulture Stance to help cover this buff more, but be careful not to undercap Might (i.e change WHAO casting time to prevent Might from expiring).

Greatsword

Use Remorseless instead of Predator's Onslaught if also running Marksmanship:

• One Wolf Pack
• Moa Stance + Vulture Stance
• Path of Scars
• Whirling Defense
• Weapon Swap
• Worldly Impact
• Maul
• Hilt Bash
• Maul
• "We Heal As One!"
• Auto-attack 3x
• Maul
• Weapon Swap
• Path of Scars
• Whirling Defense

- Smoke Assault (soulbeast) can be useful to fill gaps in the rotation.
- It is useful to use Instinctive Engage to extend boon duration.

Defense

Most of the defense with this build will come from dodging, as it has few blocks or other defensive cooldowns. Greatsword offers more thanks to Counterattack and Smoke Assault is a very useful evade.

If fighting something powerful, it can be beneficial to use the Jacaranda pet instead of Smokescale. When the Jacaranda gets low on health, merge with it and use its powerful healing skills until it is possible to unmerge.

Crowd Control

• Point Blank Shot
• Takedown (soulbeast)
• Hilt Bash if using Greatsword
• Winter's Bite if using Axe
• Counterattack if using Greatsword
• Jacaranda has a moderate amount of CC in its un-merged kit.

Video Examples

• Power Soulbeast vs Nightthistle Bloom
  • This is a good example of how to handle some of the harder champions in glass cannon gear with this build.