Build:Spellbreaker - Spear DPS

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

Focused on: Strike damage, Dps and Boon removal

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on August 30, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A Spellbreaker build for WvW. Combines high personal damage, good personal survivability and extreme boonrip.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Spear

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Spear good DPS option with high range and utility

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Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Greatsword
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Variants

Stats

• Feel free to use as much Berserker's gear as you can without dying

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy

Usage

Priorities

High

• Winds of Disenchantment
• Spike Damage

Moderate

• Sustained damage

Low

• Boon rip

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has high mobility skill access
  • Use Whirlwind Attack to move out after spiking
  • Rush can be used for repositioning or gap closing
    • Drop your target if using it defensively
• This build has low active defenses
  • Balanced Stance gives Stability and makes you immune to critical hits for its duration, but is very important for protecting Winds of Disenchantment
  • If you think you're likely to completely die with no chance of being rezzed, use Balanced Stance to survive, but if you're likely to be rezzed by an allied Illusion of Life or Signet of Mercy, consider saving the cooldown for Winds of Disenchantment instead

Active defense priority

• Balanced Stance - for stunbreaking
• Warrior's Sprint - for Immobilize
  • Whirlwind Attack
  • Rush
• Dodge
• Defiant Stance
• Whirlwind Attack - general use
• Balanced Stance - general use

Detailed Explanations

Spike damage

• Arcing Slice ⇒ Full Counter ⇒ Arcing Slice
  • Full Counter should be used exclusively to reset the cooldown of Arcing Slice
  • To ensure Full Counter triggers, you can briefly move into hostile enemy ground pressure.
• If your adrenaline is too low, use Break Enchantments to activate Loss Aversion
• For ranged spikes use Maiming Spear ⇒ Harrier's Toss so both skills land at the same time
• Use Spearmarshal's Support immediately before using either of your Burst skills since the 1 second fuse time will let you combine the burst

Sustained damage

• Hundred Blades is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability.
  • Making good use of Hundred Blades is critical to maximizing damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
    • Delaying your Arcing Slice combo for Hundred Blades is worth it in low pressure situations where proccing Full Counter is not guaranteed
  • A stow weapon keybind is very useful to cancel Hundred Blades after enemies move out of the way
• Use Rush for single target damage even when already in melee
• Signet of Might + Disrupting Throw
  • Avoid casting Signet of Might while Spearmarshal's Support is pulsing as it will eat the charges

Skill priority

Greatsword

• Arcing Slice
• Full Counter - only while Arcing Slice on cooldown
• Hundred Blades
• Rush
• Bladetrail
• Whirlwind Attack - save to disengage

Spear

• Harrier's Toss
• Maiming Spear
• Spearmarshal's Support
• Signet of Might + Disrupting Throw

Boon rip

• Land Winds of Disenchantment on the enemy group while your group is in range to follow up with a spike
  • Communicate while casting, let your team know if it gets interrupted and whether it's available or not
  • Make sure Balanced Stance is ready every time Winds of Disenchantment is and use it immediately before starting the cast to protect it
  • It is worth casting Whirlwind Attack just to get into a better position for Winds of Disenchantment, even if it hits no enemies
• Break Enchantments is a great way to proc Loss Aversion to give you enough Adrenaline for Arcing Slice or Harrier's Toss