Willbender - Condition Willbender

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

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 21, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A bursty condition build for open world, this spec offers the highest in-combat mobility in the game, tied with thief, along with extremely high burst damage and great sustained damage. It also has the advantage of not requiring high overall condi duration since it only applies Burning, which gives more freedom on the overall gear options and cheaper budget variants.

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Skill Bar

Scepter/Torch

Sword

Utility

• If you need additional defense and a stun break, Signet of Judgment provides both, plus additional burning upon activation.
• Heaven's Palm is your main source of CC together with Chains of Light.

Specializations

• Holy Reckoning is often better for damage than Restorative Virtues in cases where you do not have any external Might supply.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Grieving

Shoulders
Grieving

Chest
Grieving

Hands
Grieving

Legs
Grieving

Feet
Grieving

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Grieving

Ring
Viper

Scepter
Grieving

Torch
Grieving

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Grieving

Sigil

Rune
x6

• You should be aiming for 15% overall condition duration, so that you maximize burning duration with , Radiant Fire and Rune of Superior Rune of Balthazar (these yield 85% additional burning duration).
• Alternatively, you can go for 10% overall condition duration and use a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Smoldering and instead of and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment.
• When going for defensive gear, Viper should always be replaced with Trailblazer and Grieving should always be replaced with Dire.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

Usage

Damage

• When you have Rushing Justice active, every few of your attacks will apply burning. With Alacrity, the cooldown of it is 8 1/4 seconds and the uptime is 8 seconds, allowing you to maintain it almost 100% of the time.

The overall rotation is full priority-based due to Restorative Virtues dynamically reducing the cooldowns of your skills. Use the following skills, with descending priority:

1. Rushing Justice
2. Purging Flames
3. Zealot's Flame & Zealot's Fire
4. Whirling Light
5. Symbol of Punishment
6. Cleansing Flame

• Never delay Rushing Justice
• The time in between should be filled with auto attacks
• Cleansing Flame should only be used whenever all others are on cooldown for at least 3 seconds.

Survivability

• Litany of Wrath makes you pretty much immortal as long as it is active, so save your dodges and blocks for the times outside of it.
• Crashing Courage and Flowing Resolve can be used for additional mobility and defense in between casts of Rushing Justice. Note that you can only have one virtue active at a time, so you should try to not cancel Rushing Justice too early.

Detailed Information on the general usage and rotation is provided in the video down below:

Guide Video (as of May 2022)