Bladesworn - Power Bladesworn

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

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

Overview

Power Bladesworn is a power dps build for use in solo open world.

This build's strengths include:

• Very high burst damage
• Strong self-healing
• Good area damage

Notably, this build performs terribly at range.

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Skill Bar

Mace/Pistol

Utility

Weapon Variants

Your weapon choices are largely up to personal preference, as most weapons bring something useful to the table here and you will spend a lot of your time in Gunsaber. We default to Mace / Pistol due to its balance of CC, defense, and damage thanks to Mace's block and high Vulnerability application. We've listed other viable options below:

• Mainhand Axe - high single target damage
• Mainhand Mace - balance weapon with great damage, defense, and cc
• Mainhand Sword - good single target DPS with fantastic mobility
• Offhand Axe - great cleave, supplies minor Quickness
• Pistol - good for activating Brave Stride and maintaining Guns and Glory, great burst damage
• Offhand Mace - great damage due to Vulnerability application and excellent CC
• Greatsword - viable option but is basically a worse version of Sword/ Pistol

If a ranged option is absolutely required, consider Longbow. With that said, Bladesworn is abysmal at range and you'd be better off playing Berserker or even Core Warrior (or another class entirely) if you want ranged DPS.

Specializations

• Immortal Dragon - significant sustain
• Daring Dragon - taking this trait allows you to supply permanent Alacrity to nearby allies.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Mace
Assassin

Pistol
Assassin

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• For those without Secrets of the Obscure, use Relic of the Thief
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter is nearly identical DPS
• This gear setup allows a player to change between gear for virtually all power warrior builds without any armor or trinket swaps. For a slightly more optimized option specific to Bladesworn, use Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration, full Berserker stats gear, and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact in place of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

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)

Usage

Damage

• Using ammo skills will increase your damage done through Fierce as Fire and explosions will increase your ferocity via Guns and Glory.
• Dragon Trigger is responsible for the vast majority of your damage, so you should never delay it. By default, you should always try to use Dragon Slash - Force . If your target moves out of range, you can also use Dragon Slash - Boost or Dragon Slash - Reach.

Survivability

• Triggerguard & Flicker Step cause you to deal more damage through Fierce as Fire, so you can use them when you know you won't need them for defense. They are your sole defense in Dragon Trigger though, so you might have to keep them.
• You heal considerable amounts from Might Makes Right, Mending Might, and Vigorous Shouts.