Vindicator - GS/Shortbow Vindicator Roamer

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Focused on: Strike damage, Hybrid damage, Mobility and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on November 10, 2023.

Overview

A versatile Vindicator roaming build for WvW that can be played either with Celestial for high sustain and medium damage, or as a Power builds with high damage and medium sustain. Despite having no true defensive set the build's still quite durable because of the traits and legends, and the 2 sets provide excellent damage both in melee and ranged combat.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Shortbow

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.
• 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. With this you also get to drop Sigil of Superior Sigil of Vision on bow for something else.

Equipment

You can customize the gear based on what you want to get out of this build.

One way to go about this is Celestial, this variant trades some damage for better passive survivability:

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Greatsword
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

The second, alternate gear would be a Power-based one centered around Berserker / Marauder stats. Sustain's going to be a bit lower, but the burst will be higher. This variant is better at killing tankier builds like Celestial ones:

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Cavalier

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Runes

Other viable runes include:

• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability - good defensive rune with boon duration.

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - offensive rune with boon duration, works well on both sets.

Relics

The combination of Relic of Evasion and the trait Song of Arboreum provides quite a lot of extra endurance regen which is important for various trait synergies. If you want to play a more offensive version of the build you could play with a different relic too, but in that case you should go for Angsiyan's Trust and using endurance regen food is highly recommended. Other viable relic options are:

• Relic of Isgarren - better burst damage.

• Relic of the Daredevil - improves the consistency of some of your harder hitting skills on Greatsword. Has some anti-synergy with Roiling Mists but works well with other Invocation GM traits.

• Relic of Speed - significant mobility boost, could be useful for chasing down enemies or keeping distance while on shortbow or waiting for CDs/energy to come back up.

Sigils

• Consider replacing one of the Shortbow sigils with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Vision when NOT playing with Roiling Mists on Invocation. Making Sevenshot crit is very important for the build, both for both Celestial and the Power variant.

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.

• Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.

Usage

To be added