Dragonhunter - Power Dragonhunter
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: 
Overview
Power dragonhunter offers very high burst damage from melee range in a small AoE, high vulnerability application, and decent mobility. Although it has low health, it has access to several defensive options and decent sustain. Moreover, it can opt to bring 
Longbow if ranged damage is required.
Template Code
Skill Bar
Standard
Weapon Variants
If you don't have access to land spear with Janthir Wilds, use Longbow instead.
- Longbow - provides high burst damage from range, but lacks the much-needed
Resolution generation of spear and has slightly lower damage.
Skill Variants
Heal Skills
We default to as it provides insane sustain, making you almost immortal for its duration. If needed, it can be replaced by:
- can be considered as a more defensive option.
- provides more damage thanks to .
Utility Skills
We recommend:
for its damage, 
Fury, and uptime of . Never replace it.
for its damage and vulnerability application. Can be replaced if needed.
as a passive damage increase. Can easily be replaced if needed.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:
- - defense + offense; replaces against moving targets and grants
Protection. - - defensive; grants area Protection to yourself and nearby allies
- - defensive; reflects projectiles
- - defense; provides area
Aegis and 
Swiftness - - defense; area
Stability and personal stunbreak. - - mobility
- - projectile block and extreme CC, though it has a long cooldown
Elite Skills
We default to for its good damage and uptime of . If really needed, it can be replaced by:
Specializations
- Variants
- - can be considered for long fights vs. defiant enemies such as bosses. It has slightly lower burst but higher sustained damage. When using this trait, do not use , as it will reduce your uptime of for no gain.
Equipment
- Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
Standard Equipment
This set uses gear that is generally applicable in all of PVE.
Berserker
Berserker
Dragon
Berserker
Dragon
Berserker
Dragon
Berserker
Berserker
Dragon
Dragon
Dragon
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
- Consider to trade damage for high sustain. If you lack access to Dragonhunter and Zakiros, consider .
- 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.
- /
- /
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Spear of Justice
is the dragonhunter's first profession skill. Thanks to , your Spear of Justice allows you to deal massive burst damage to your target and also activates .
Always mark your target with Spear of Justice before bursting it down.
Resolution
This build greatly benefits from Resolution to activate a few traits, most notably .
Your sources of Resolution are , , , and when 
Illuminated.
Damage
- Mark the target with before unleashing your combo.
- Make sure to use first to empower your other spear skills with Illuminated.
- Use off cooldown for damage, Fury, and uptime of .
- Use at the start to apply vulnerability, and then periodically throughout the fight instead of autoattacks.
- Opener
Notes and tips
- Space out the usage of and (and if using it) for higher uptime on .
- Remember that Resolution is a huge damage increase due to your traits. Get Resolution before bursting enemies down.
- Make sure to hit enemies with your symbols to gain stacks of and inflict vulnerability from .
- Maintain uptime on with , , and .
- Turn off "Melee Attack Assist" in Options. This allows you to use and inside an enemy's hitbox so that all projectiles hit your target.
Defense
- Chain and to cover your opening rotation.
- turns into a stunbreak.
- Use to heal and cleanse conditions.
- Use and to
Blind enemies. - Review the defensive skill variants above for more defensive options.
Crowd Control
- (as a last resort)
Ratings
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