Soulbeast - Poisonbeast
The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Condition damage, Mobility and Sustain
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Overview
A condition based Soulbeast duelist spec for sPvP.
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Specializations
Specialization Variants
Nature Magic over Skirmishing: most tanky option.
Beastmastery over Skirmishing: improved Command skills, pet attacks and .
Equipment
Usage
Elite specialization basics
Soulbeast allows Rangers to meld with their pet, becoming one. This is done through which has a 10s CD.
Pet swapping is disabled while in combat.
- Template:Gw2wiki is the pet you'll be using in combat.
- Template:Gw2wiki is your non-combat pet. What that means is you'll only use this pet for one thing: , hoping for a Plasma which can be consumed by . Use Forage between fights so you may start the next encounter with a free consumable. Swap back to your other pet as soon as possible.
- Traits related to swapping pets now activate upon entering/leaving .
Pet related traits and skills such as continue to function even while merged, but this time you'll be the one who benefits from them, not the pet (although sometimes the effects are lessened).
Melding with a dead pet and then exiting Beastmode instantly revives them.
General
makes your toolkit way more flexible by significantly reducing the CD of the first skill you use after swapping weapons, allowing you to better adapt to situations. There are a lot of ways to use this trait, here are a few ideas:
- On short bow you should either open with for burst damage (this is the most common), if you need sustain (evade attacks), or if you want more CC.
- On dagger/dagger usually can't go wrong with a opener as this skill has both good damage and a lengthy evade frame for general survival. If you're not in melee range and don't need to evade anything, go with either or .
Mobility
Maintain permanent Template:Gw2wiki with and .
- Turn around before using Quick Shot in order to move "forward".
Roam between capture points with .
Damage
This is fairly straightforward, your burst damage comes from short bow while dagger/dagger is slightly more defensive but still brings decent pressure to the table.
On bow spam as much as you can, ideally from behind. Many short bow skills have increased effectiveness when striking from behind or the sides.
is one of your burst skills and should be used on CD. Due to the cone shape of the volley it's best used in point-blank range, right in melee to ensure that all the arrows hit the target.
should be used a few seconds before entering a fight, preferably while merged with your pet. This gives you a buff that makes your next 3 attacks inflict Template:Gw2wiki while the skill continues to recharge. Doing this without merging basically has the same effect except your pet will gain the buff, and pets are less reliable than players (although there are exceptions..).
If you're using for the damage and not the evasion, you should first make sure your target is crippled. has the benefit of allowing you to use as the first skill after swapping weapons for synergy, while still getting the most damage out of it.
(Hawk F2) is a spammable source of Template:Gw2wiki and Template:Gw2wiki from .
Sustain
Every stance in the build is defensive by nature and can be shared with allies, which you should aim to do whenever possible.
The build doesn't have a lot of means to deal with conditions, limited mainly to and Template:Gw2sigil.
If damage is starting to overwhelm you and you are out of CDs, just run away with and wait a little before reengaging.
Dodging applies Template:Gw2wiki, which also heals thanks to the trait .
Applying Template:Gw2wiki steals some health from the target.
grants Template:Gw2wiki and as has no cast time, this can be used even while CC'd in order to survive enemy burst.
Related Builds
- Stancebeast Roamer - the WVW Roaming version of this condition Soulbeast PvP build.
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