Spellbreaker - Support Spellbreaker
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Focused on: Healing, Condition cleanse, Boon removal and Crowd control
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Easy
Overview
A Spellbreaker build for WvW that brings modest healing, strong condition cleanse and incredible boon removal. They also have near constant application of some form of crowd control.
Skill Bar
Hammer
Staff
Utility
Variants
- Heal
- Utilities
- can help secure winds
- party boons
Template Code
[&DQILHTM2PRemAAAAagAAACcWAACwAAAAnRYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]
Specializations
- Variants
- if taking off
- Variants
- if party is already capped on
Might - if party is already capped on
Quickness - if party is already capped on Quickness and Might
Variants
- Swapping Discipline to Defense gains great personal survivability and adrenaline gain in exchange for
Template Code
[&DQIWJgsdPRemAAAAagAAACcWAACwAAAAnRYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]
Equipment
Head
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Hammer
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
Equipment Variant
- Relic
Consumables
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- personal food option
Usage
Priorities
- High
- CC
- Boon rip
- Moderate
- Support
- Low
Surviving
- This build has high passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- Since has other uses, prioritize when repositioning defensively
- This build has moderate active defenses
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Detailed Explanations
CC
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike:
- Winds -
- Wells - +
- Shades -
- Traps - +
- On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
- Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike:
- Much of your boon rip comes from CC due to the synergies between , and
- Since you need to actually apply the stun/daze/knockdown to proc your trait/sigil synergies, make sure to target enemy players and watch their boon bar, only prioritizing CCing over boon rip when they run out of
Stability
- Since you need to actually apply the stun/daze/knockdown to proc your trait/sigil synergies, make sure to target enemy players and watch their boon bar, only prioritizing CCing over boon rip when they run out of
- Aim to the side of enemy groups instead of center mass to avoid damage. The AoE is large enough to still catch 5 targets.
- should be used exclusively to reset the cooldown of
- To ensure triggers, you can briefly move into hostile enemy ground pressure.
- Make use of to proc when you need a CC with a range higher than your other, melee range CCs
- Be careful with the knockback of , the skill is not worth casting if it will move enemies out of damage
- is a single target CC and very slow cast, its best use is following up on a player singled out by other CC and unable to avoid it
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Boon rip
- Land on the enemy group while your group is in range to follow up with a spike
- Communicate while casting, let your team know if it gets interrupted and whether it's available or not
- If you don't have Stability use on yourself before casting
- If using , make sure it is ready every time is and use it immediately before starting the cast to protect it
- It is worth casting movement skills just to get into a better position for , even if it hits no enemies/allies
- is a great way to proc to give you enough Adrenaline for
- Use Autoattacks to proc and when no other useful skills are ready and you can do it safely.
Support
- , , and ⇒ should all be cast on your group when clashing with the enemy to heal
- Be careful with the aftercast on
- Hit the enemy group as well with and when possible to apply
Weakness
- is a massive condition clear, but also a group stunbreak. Use it to save allies with
Immobilize, but be conservative and only use it when other supports would take too long to clear it - Use after your group dodges through the enemy to restore Endurance
- Use if your group is missing Stability before a push, or during a clash to provide
Resistance and 
Superspeed
Settings
- Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
- Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
- Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
- Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
Ratings
Very useful and versatile build in any scale, as it allows great output of all forms of crowd control (stuns, dazes, immobilize, cripple), paired with the standard boon removal spellbreaker brings and the decent boonshare provided through Tactics traitline, warhorn skils (and FGJ if you run that)
Drop Discipline for Defense in blob sized fights
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