Build:Untamed - DPS Untamed

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

Focused on: Direct damage, Boon removal and Crowd control

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on June 26, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

A melee oriented build with high damage, good durability, and good boon rip.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Spear

Utility

Variants

Pets

• Siege Turtle Can be kept alive via range with micromanagement

Weapons

• Mace/Mace Strong melee damage with a ranged ambush

Utilities

• Muddy Terrain
• Signet of the Wild
• Frost Trap

Elite

• Entangle
• Spirit of Nature

Equipment

Head
Dragon

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Demolisher

Hands
Dragon

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Dragon

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Dragon

Ring
Demolisher

Ring
Demolisher

Hammer
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Variants

Stats

• Feel free to use as much Berserker stats as you can without dying

Consumables

• • personal option

Usage

General

• Try to combine Forest's Fortification with multi-hit skills like Relentless Whirl to quickly reset the cooldown

Priorities

High

• Damage

Medium

• Boon rip

Low

• CC

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This build has low active defenses
• Stay in Unleash Pet whenever you are at risk of dying (separated from group, pulled into enemy group, being single targetted) for the 15% damage reduction
  • Use Forest's Fortification when you anticipate a melee clash. Each target struck reduces its cooldown by 1 second. The resistance and 50% damage reduction given by the skill helps to sustain through a brawl

Active defense priority

• Perilous Gift
• Dodge

Detailed Explanations

Damage

• Start fights on Spear
• Use Rending Vines followed immediately by Venomous Outburst and Enveloping Haze as you spike.
  • Rending Vines takes 0.75 seconds to activate. Using Venomous Outburst and Enveloping Haze right before Rending Vines strikes helps the skill land by wasting blind and aegis on unimportant skills.
• Weapon swapping recharges your ambush skills, allowing you to boon rip more frequently. They should almost always be prioritized as the first skills used when weapon swapping.
• Be careful not to cancel your ambushes with weapon swaps or other skills, particularly Relentless Whirl
• Make sure to be in Unleash Ranger state when spiking for the DPS increase and so you can use your ambush skills.

Spear

• You'll often use Ravager's Abandon immediately before swapping into Hammer to combo with Relentless Whirl
• Panther's Prowl should be used to empower Mongoose's Frenzy into Wolf's Onslaught

Hammer

• In hammer be sure to use all skills while in Unleash Ranger for the substantial damage increase.
• Unleashed Savage Shock Wave is your strongest non-ambush spiking skill but requires you to be nearly on top of an enemy for all 3 strikes to land.
• Make sure not to cancel the follow-up swing of Unleashed Overbearing Smash, it has the majority of its damage and rips boons
• Unleashed Thump hits hard, but is very hard to use due to forced movement. It is not worth casting if you'll miss more than 2 autos while getting back in position afterwards
• Be careful with the forced movement from Unleashed Thump
  • Don't aim directly into the enemy group and make sure to drop your target before casting these skills
    • A Lock Autotarget keybind can be used to quickly drop your target

Boon rip

• You have three sources of boon rip, Exploding Spores, Rending Vines and on Ambush skills via Corrupting Vines
  • When possible combine both with other members of your group spiking
• Exploding Spores can strike up to 30 targets due to each spore having a 5 target cap
  • Prioritize positioning over hitting maximum targets - don't put yourself in the enemy stack to use this

CC

• Savage Shock Wave applies Immobilize, combine it with other spikes when possible
• Combine Exploding Spores with Nature's Binding when possible