Spellbreaker - Power Spellbreaker

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General, [[|]] and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 06, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Spellbreaker is a very strong open world solo build with a low skill floor and a very high skill ceiling thanks to the nature of Full Counter. It can be built many different ways, from DPS to sustain tank, and can even bring support for allies in group events.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Axe

Hammer

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Mace (Mainhand) - Extra defense and CC
• Rifle - only real valid ranged option, rarely recommended.

Skill Variants

• Mending - procs Peak Performance; clears conditions
• Defiant Stance - extremely strong counter-pressure heal
• Signet of Stamina - more dodges.
• Kick (warrior utility) - alternative to Bull's Charge
• Dolyak Signet - stability and damage reduction
• "Shake It Off!" - best condition clear and stunbreak
• Signet of Might - high DPS option
• Endure Pain - immortality for a few seconds
• Banner of Discipline - boost ally damage; great for zergs
• Banner of Strength - boost ally damage; great for zergs
• Banner of Defense - boost ally defense; good for zergs
• Banner of Tactics - boost ally defense; good in zergs
  • If taking banners, consider taking Doubled Standards
• Battle Standard - ally rez + boon support
• Winds of Disenchantment - projectile hate

Specializations

Tactics

Some find Tactics more comfortable than Defense. This is a relatively small DPS loss but provide some Quickness uptime.

Sustain

Use this variant for higher sustain. Best paired with Defiant Stance.

Sustain: Tactics

For extreme sustain, replace Defense with Tactics.

• Shrug It Off - condition cleanse

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Berserker_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option 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

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• 24px Knights trinkets can be used for defense.
• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - high sustain, loses significant DPS.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - replaces Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact for defense.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)
• See our Guide:Open_World_Consumables#Farming for min-maxing farm profits.

Usage

Damage

• Use off cooldown: Signet of Rage, "For Great Justice!", Breaching Strike (or any current Burst skill at 2 bars)
• This build focuses on using Disables to proc Aggressive Onslaught. Space out Disables to maintain high Quickness uptime.
  • Disables to focus on are: Earthshaker, Backbreaker, Bull's Charge, Disrupting Stab.
• You also should focus on maintaining Weakness when possible. Weakness not only provides you a damage bonus through Cull the Weak but also provides you with great personal defenses against non-defiant foes. Your primary sources of Weakness are Fierce Blow and your Burst Skills.
  • Note, however, that Skelk Venom ( https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Venom_%28consumable%29 ) is a consumable which will greatly assist in Weakness application at practically no cost.

Defense

• Full Counter is a really powerful defensive skill, try to use it instead of dodging whenever possible.
  • Note that Full Counter reduces the damage of attacks to 0 rather than actually blocking them. This is relevant if trying not to get hit by an attack (e.g. for specific achievements).
• Mace/Shield has several blocks and CC
• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible (except when baiting Full Counter).

Sustain

• If using Might Makes Right, granting might to yourself will provide healing and endurance regeneration.
• If using Tactics, Shouts provide extra healing.
• If using Daggers, Sun and Moon Style provides very high health per second.

Crowd Control

• Skull Crack
• Pommel Bash
• Shield Bash/Tremor
• Kick (warrior utility)
• Stomp
• Seriously just hit any button on this build and you're probably going to CC something.

Video Examples

• Avatar of Balthazar Solo with an old version of this build