Untamed - Quickness Support Power DPS
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Focused on: Direct damage and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: 
Overview
Untamed is a highly survivable, powerful damage dealer and very useful melee offensive support with surprisingly high flexibility.
Featuring better control to its pets and access to the Unleashed Ambush type of skill, Untamed overall usefulness has another dimension beyond its pool of weapons and utility skills, and that dimension comes from pets. Similar to 
Soulbeast, Untamed can use and manage 3 different skills at will depending on the current pet, but unlike Soulbeast, these skills are tied to the pet, using its stats and animation locks (this means that you can use any pet skill without interrupting any of your own animations at all).
Untamed gets built-in and non-commital higher vitality than the rest of the Ranger specializations, extremely solid sustain and a wide array of defensive tools; with these qualities being inherent to itself there's no requirement to sacrifice part of its powerful offense, as such, it's usually considered one of the top-tier Open World specializations.
Regarding Untamed's playstyle, it is generally fast-paced, with many instant casts, a pet to manage and a rotation based on switching stances, improvisation on real encounters and a focus on the overall rotation loop. However, most of its skills can be queued and mistakes on the rotation are easy to manage and not considerably punishing, thus, can be considered a low skill floor/high skill ceiling specialization.
Untamed is somewhat limited by an important conditional, as it is having skills and traits that are reliant on enemies being defiant. While it is rare, easy to determine and doesn't suppose a massive loss, that is to consider.
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Weapon Variants
Untamed has a lot of viable weapon options that perform very similarly. The highest damage options use Spear along with either Hammer or Sword/Axe. Sword/Axe has been chosen as the default as it has better burst and does better damage against non-defiant enemies (though this is rare in instanced PvE), but the damage difference is so small you can play whatever you prefer.
Mace/Mace can be paired with Hammer or Spear for more utility, but a moderate DPS loss.
The highest DPS option for players that don't own Janthir Wilds is Sword/Axe and Hammer.
Skill Variants
- makes you receive 100% less strike and condition damage and thus helping towards damage uptime. Can be replaced.
- is an interesting option as it offers a cleanse and a water combo field.
- offers group wide
Vigor and healing.
- can be replaced in case there's a need for other utilities.
- is a solid alternative with similar damage and good CC.
- is a party wide stun-break.
- is a five-target revive thanks to , however it can be replaced for whatever fits most.
Pet Variants
Jaguar is paired with Spear as it provides an extra source of 
Stealth.
Fanged Iboga is the best DPS pet if you're not using Spear.
Tiger has similar damage and better access to group-wide 
Fury.
Jungle Stalker provides better 
Might uptime if it's of need.
Warclaw has access to CC and group-wide 
Superspeed.
White Tiger provides party wide 
Aegis.
Siege Turtle is a solid CC pet with additional access to a projectile barrier.
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Specializations
Untamed's and 
Nature Magic's master traits are not important, and can be changed at will.
- can be changed for by switching for .
- This will come at a small DPS loss in exchange for access to some group-wide Vigor and
Protection. - This change will also reduce your access to CC by switching from a 400 breakbar skill with 360 AoE and a Cooldown of 20 seconds to a 200 breakbar skill with a considerably smaller AoE and a Cooldown of 25 seconds.
- This will come at a small DPS loss in exchange for access to some group-wide
Equipment
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Diviner
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x18
- is the best alternative for those without the Janthir Wilds expansion.
Sigil Variants
- can help on encounters where a higher
Quickness buffer may prove to be beneficial. - increases the breakbar damage on
Stun and 
Daze.
- The skills that inflict that type of breakbar damage are , , , and .
Consumables
Food:
- or ascended versions.
Utility:
- .
Usage
Quickness
Untamed provides Quickness in a radius of 480 units around the Ranger with the trait .
- Every Unleashed Ambush grants Quickness.
- There's no need to hit a target to do this and thus it is possible to upkeep boons without any conditionals, yet note that Unleashed Ambush skills are your highest damage sources, so it's preferable to not to just mindlessly waste them.
- After an Unleashed Ambush, there will be a few seconds where
Weapon Swap will allow the use of a second Unleashed Ambush. - This second Unleashed Ambush will also grant Quickness.
As to provide Quickness to our group, we shall do the following sequence.
- comes off cooldown.
-
- In order to get access to the Unleashed Ambush, we'll need to be on first with .
- We will usually dip there for a bit then proceed to , allowing us to use our current weapon's Unleashed Ambush.
- In order to get access to the Unleashed Ambush, we'll need to be on first with .
- Unleashed Ambush
- Weapon Swap
- Unleashed Ambush
Rotation
Start with . Whenever the pet is unleashed you also want to be using your F1-3 skills off cooldown.
- Similar to
Mechanist, there's the option to set F1-3 skills on autocast (only the versions). - In general, it is preferred to set DPS skills on autocast while leaving situational/utility skills to be used at will.
Unleashing and your F1-3 skills, are all instant cast so can be used during other skills. These skills are used off cooldown in the rotation, however, (F3) can be saved for its use as a mobile projectile block.
Because of , we want to use as many powerful skills as posible on in order to make use of the 25% damage boost.
is a 7% strike damage boost that lasts for 8 seconds and activates (and resets) on disables.
- The rotation upkeeps it on
Spear by using . - The rotation upkeeps it on
Sword and 
Axe by using and . - The rotation upkeeps it on
Hammer by using .
- If isn't avaliable you can use or (note that these are the versions) to do so.
If bringing , use it off cooldown without delaying weapon skills.
You can save for oncoming defiance bars.
Do not delay Unleashed Ambush skills.
Spear rotations
Ranger's spear is unique because all of its 2-5 skills have their own stealth attacks. provides stealth, and as an ammo skill you can use it frequently to access these stealth attacks. This skill also has a unique effect that allows you to use these stealth attacks even if you get revealed, though using any stealth attack will remove this effect.
Outside of the opener, use off cooldown.
Opener
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- Reminder: These are instant casts, which means that you can use these pet skills while using any of the other pet skills without any animation commitment whatsoever.
- Weapon Swap
Sword/Axe Loop
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- Wait for to finish before .
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- Use before hits.
- Weapon Swap
Maces Loop
If using Maces, replace the Sword/Axe loop with this
- - activates Force of Nature
- ⇒ ⇒
-
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- ⇒
- Weapon Swap
Spear Loop
- ⇒ ⇒
- (Jaguar skill) - this provides normal stealth, so make sure not to reveal yourself before hitting Predator's Ambush
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- Weapon Swap
- Return to the start of the Sword/Axe Loop
Hammer rotations
Outside of the opener, use off cooldown.
use will change depending on your weapons as you want to use it to maintain the buff from based on where your CC happens. If you're not using this relic, you can just use it off cooldown.
- With Spear, you should use it at towards the end of the Spear section.
- With Maces or Sword/Axe, you should use it near the start of the Hammer section
Opener
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- Reminder: These are instant casts, which means that you can use these pet skills while using any of the other pet skills and, both and without any animation commitment whatsoever.
- (if using)
- Weapon Swap
Spear Loop
- ⇒ ⇒
- (Jaguar skill) - this provides normal stealth, so make sure not to reveal yourself before hitting Predator's Ambush
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- Weapon Swap
- Return to the start of the Sword/Axe Loop
Sword/Axe Loop
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- Wait for to finish before .
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- ⇒ ⇒
- ⇒
- Use before hits.
- Weapon Swap
Hammer Loop
- (if paired with Maces or Sword/Axe)
- ⇒ ⇒ x3
- ⇒
- Wait for to finish before .
- All available pet skills [F1-3]
- Weapon Swap
Crowd Control
Untamed's access to CC is very solid. These are your options:
- Fanged Iboga - F2 offers 150 breakbar damage and a
Pull. 
Electric Wyvern - F2 and F3 offer 232 breakbar damage each.- - 400 breakbar damage (200 per shake).
- - 200 breakbar damage.
- - 150 breakbar damage and Pull.
- - 100 breakbar damage.
- and offer CC if used while the pet is unleashed, but accessing this requires rearranging your rotation and a loss of DPS.
- - 250 breakbar damage.
- - 200 breakbar damage.
Mace's breakbar damage can double thanks to 
Nature's Strength.
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