Build:Vindicator - Devastation Greatsword

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on June 29, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A PvP Vindicator power build with high damage and mobility with moderate sustain and group utility. Made to teamfight and roam but has the ability to take some 1v1s.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Sword/Sword

Utility

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Staff over Sword/Sword offers a lower damage, higher sustain alternative. Use staff when the enemy has extremely high pressure or when you want more ability to take 1v1s over roaming and teamfighting.

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Equipment

Greatsword

Sigil

Sigil

Staff

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Usage

General

• This build's role is essentially identical to that of Power Herald; you are a dps/roamer. You want to be in large teamfights and when you can't be you should be roaming the map looking to get kills as quickly as possible. Your number one priority is getting kills.

• You get a 20% damage bonus after you have dodged so you should try to not have full endurance while you are damaging enemies.

Teamfighting

• Begin larger fights on Legendary Alliance Stance and use Scavenger Burst to give the focus target vulnerability through Expose Defenses and then reapply it through Spear of Archemorus. When you are ready to engage melee use Nomad's Advance or Phantom's Onslaught to gap close before switching to Legendary Assassin Stance. Swapping to shiro in melee range will proc Song of the Mists giving the enemy vulnerability and the player quickness. This can be followed up with Mist Unleashed or even by autoattacking as your autos are highly damaging.

• Phase Traversal and Jade Winds are both extremely valuable but also very dangerous due to their high energy cost. As such the best time to use them is when you have your legend swap available or if you pool enough energy that you can still use your stunbreak. You can stil use these skills when these conitions aren't met (such as to secure a kill on low health enemies) but good players will know to punish your energy mismanagement.

• Generally you should be using your dodges, Legendary Alliance Stance and Scavenger Burst as chip damage to contribute to the fight while looking for an opportunity to do a large burst with Nomad's Advance and your weapon skills.

• You can provide alot of defensive utility to your allies in teamfights through proper usage of your kurzick abilities.
  • Tree Song cleanses 3 conditions and gives you endurance.
  • Awakening breaks stun for your allies
  • Battle Dance provides resistance
  • Selfless Spirit provides susbstantial healing
  • All of these skill while providing utility are some of the most valubale skills to use for yourself, as such use them when you are not the target or in such a way to benefit you and your allies simoultaneously.

+1ing

• Both stances provide you ways to plus one enemies and heavily damage them before most players can react.

• Shiro allows you to port in with phase traversal and instantly Mist Unleashed. As mentioned earlier this can be dangerous as it leaves you open to be cc'ed.

• Alliance allows you to enter a fight with Spear of Archemorus before proceeding into melee.

• Before opening up your plus one always dodge first.

• Do not linger in a plus one if your duelist is healthy and the enemy is kiting well feel free to go someplace else you will be more useful.

Sustain

• While Vindicator has good passive healing most of your sustain comes through chaining your blocks and evades when you are being focused.

• Your blocks are:
  • Imperial Guard
  • Warding Rift if staff is taken.

• Your evades are:
  • Surge of the Mists if staff is taken.
  • Battle Dance
  • Riposting Shadows
  • Dodging

• As your dodge does not involve your character moveing you can use it inteligently to kite. Jumping while dodgeing enables you to climb kite spots while simoultaneously evading all pressure.

• While under pressure and kiting you want to use your lowest cost survivability skills first so that you can stunbreak if needed. This will be your dodges and blocks.

• You can cleanse conditions through the use of:
  • Tree Song
  • Renewing Wave if staff is taken.
  • Cleansing Channel
  • Sigil of Cleansing

• Swapping legends and using alliance tactics will both heal you and give you endurance through Balance in Discord and Angsiyan's Trust

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