Spellbreaker - Spear DPS
Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage, Dps and Boon removal
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on February 28, 2025 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.
Overview
A Spellbreaker build for WvW. Combines high personal damage, good personal survivability and extreme boonrip.
Skill Bar
Greatsword
Spear
Utility
Variants
- Weapons
- Greatsword ⇒ Staff good DPS option with high range and utility
- Greatsword ⇒ Sword/Axe
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Head
Marauder
Shoulders
Marauder
Chest
Marauder
Hands
Marauder
Legs
Marauder
Feet
Marauder
Backpiece
Marauder
Accessory
Marauder
Accessory
Marauder
Amulet
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Ring
Marauder
Greatsword
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Spear
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
Variants
- Stats
- Feel free to use as much Berserker's gear as you can without dying
- Sigils
Consumables
Usage
Priorities
- High
- Spike Damage
- Moderate
- Sustained damage
- Low
- Boon rip
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- Use to move out after spiking
- can be used for repositioning or gap closing
- Drop your target if using it defensively
- This build has low active defenses
- gives
Stability and makes you immune to critical hits for its duration, but is very important for protecting - If you think you're likely to completely die with no chance of being rezzed, use to survive, but if you're likely to be rezzed by an allied or , consider saving the cooldown for instead
- gives
Active defense priority 
- - for stunbreaking
- - for
Immobilize
- Dodge
- - general use
- - general use
Detailed Explanations
Spike damage
- ⇒ ⇒
- should be used exclusively to reset the cooldown of
- To ensure triggers, you can briefly move into hostile enemy ground pressure.
- If your adrenaline is too low, use to activate
- For ranged spikes use ⇒ so both skills land at the same time
- Use immediately before using either of your Burst skills since the 1 second fuse time will let you combine the burst
Sustained damage
- is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability.
- Making good use of is critical to maximizing damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
- Delaying your combo for is worth it in low pressure situations where proccing is not guaranteed
- A stow weapon keybind is very useful to cancel after enemies move out of the way
- Making good use of is critical to maximizing damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
- Use for single target damage even when already in melee
- Use to make unblockable and only cast with
- Avoid casting while is pulsing as it will eat the charges
Skill priority
- Greatsword
- - only while on cooldown
- - save to disengage
- Spear
- +
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
- Make sure is ready every time is and use it immediately before starting the cast to protect it
- It is worth casting just to get into a better position for , even if it hits no enemies
- is a great way to proc to give you enough Adrenaline for or
Ratings
Comments
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