Build:Vindicator - Invocation Death Drop Roamer

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Focused on: Direct damage and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 04, 2023.

Overview

A Power damage focused Vindicator build with good sustain. It's not quite as durable as the Retribution version but the damage is higher and it's still fairly tanky. It's possible to push this build even further into the high risk, high reward territory by taking Devastation but the loss of cleansing could hurt a lot in certain matchups.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Staff

Utility

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

All 3 options are viable for the last slot of Invocation:

• Song of the Mists improves Quickness uptime and has synergy with Devastation if you're running that.
• Charged Mists allows you to spend more energy each legend swap cycle, giving you more of everything.
• Roiling Mists is an excellent passive damage boost that pushes you near the crit cap, and the build has permanent Fury uptime to go with it.

Specialization Variants

Devastation over Salvation could also work. This results in far higher damage but much lower sustain, making the build a lot less forgiving to play:

Variants

• Dance of Death offers better sustain.
• Aggressive Agility adds some Resistance to skills like Deathstrike and Unrelenting Assault which could counter conditions such as Weakness, making it harder for enemies to shut down your damage.

Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Greatsword
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Runes

There are plenty of other viable runes for this build, including:

• Rune of Superior Rune of Divinity - cheap hybrid rune with both damage and sustain.

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Dolyak - the 6th bonus secures permanent uptime on Unyielding Devotion and it's a strong defensive pick in general.

• Rune of Superior Rune of Fireworks - good stats and an even better 6th proc. The Vigor from this rune allows you to run Song of Arboreum for better endurance regen.

• Rune of Superior Rune of Surging - the Shocking Aura proc from the 6th bonus works quite well with the instant cast Urn of Saint Viktor when you're under heavy pressure, easily stopping any burst attempts if the enemies didn't have Stability. The stats are nice too.

Consumables

Food

• - extra endurance regen and the healing procs ensure effortless 100% uptime on Unyielding Devotion.

• - same as the previous option but offers slightly higher damage instead of sustain. More endurance means more dodges, and dodging is a key part of the build.

• - great offensive stats and extra tankiness via damage reduction.

Utility

• or , whichever is cheaper.

Usage

To be added