Renegade - Condi Renegade

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on March 23, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condition Renegade is arguably the most powerful solo build in the game, boasting the highest sustain in the game alongside extremely high DPS, defense, and a jack-of-all-trades toolkit that allows for a level of versatility only a handful of other builds can mimic.

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Skill Bar

Mace/Axe

Shortbow

Utility

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Offhand Sword - a power weapon but offers an extremely powerful skill in Shackling Wave
• Staff - only useful as a reliable CC and block weapon

Skill Variants

Revenant in general is a class with a large toolkit. Part of learning the class is learning which tools to use for which situation. Review the options below:

• Legendary Demon Stance - Provides very high sustain when combined with Rune of Superior Rune of Tormenting; also the highest condi DPS option
• Legendary Renegade Stance - provides very high vuln application, sustain, and CC; our bread and butter on Renegade
• Legendary Centaur Stance - Provides condi clear, projectile hate, and very high healing.
• Legendary Assassin Stance - Strike-based legend that can be useful when using Viper or Celestial gear.
• Legendary Dwarf Stance - Provide large amounts of defense and CC.

Specializations

• Permeating Pestilence - condi clear
• Assassin's Presence - nice DPS boost for allies

Invocation

Invocation provides more utility over Devastation or Corruption but sacrifices both damage and sustain; for this reason it is only recommended when running variants that focus on providing Alacrity or Might to allies via Orders from Above and Heroic Command.

• Cleansing Channel - condi clear
• Song of the Mists - provides a number of valuable abilities that trigger when you change legends; especially valuable if using Shiro or Jalis.
• Spirit Boon - additional boons
• Rapid Flow - a small increase to sustain

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. This set uses gear that is very similar to Build:Renegade_-_Condi_DPS, making it excellent for general PVE

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Mace
Viper

Axe
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Shortbow
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Trailblazer - strong defense option
• Celestial - ally support; good for defensive trinkets
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Elementalist / Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper + 1 black diamond - alternative DPS runes
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive sigil

Interrupt Sigils

Due to the frequency of interrupts when using Darkrazor's Daring, Renegade can make excellent use of interrupt sigils, such as Sigil of Superior Sigil of Draining. This can be very powerful against groups of trash mobs, though it loses effectiveness against anything with a defiance bar. We're listing the interrupt sigils here, separate from the normal sigils, because in situations where you aren't frequently fighting defiant foes they are typically stronger than what's listed above.

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Draining - for condition builds, this is the strongest of the Interrupt sigils to use by far and offers higher DPS and sustain against groups of enemies than any other sigil, provided the enemies are not Defiant.

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps
• - dps if using gear with high toughness

Usage

Legend Breakdown: Damage & General Use

Two big pieces of general advice here:

1. Swap legends often, typically off cooldown.
2. Try not to interrupt your auto-attack chain if possible.

Other than that, you can spam weapon skills and use your utilities appropriately as outlined below:

Kalla

Legendary Renegade Stance

Kalla is angry, and now with the power of believing you can be angry too. Kalla is what makes this build work, she's like a sticky glue made out of charr bits and rage. There's a lot to unpack here, so follow along:

1. Breakrazor's Bastion is a massive AOE heal. Abuse it.
2. Darkrazor's Daring provides very high CC and is a great stunbreak.
3. Razorclaw's Rage - we'll mostly be ignoring this skill but if you can hit allies with it, it's decent for DPS.
4. Soulcleave's Summit - we don't talk about this.
5. Icerazor's Ire - This is it. Our bread and butter. Iceyboy here applies a ton of Vulnerability for us very quickly. This is already great, as Vuln increases our damage, but with the traits we picked above it will trigger Dance of Death and rapidly stack Battle Scars for us. We can then spend these by landing a hit, which steals some health from our target and gives it to us.

This both increases our damage and makes us nearly immortal so long as we don't get CC'd. Your goal in Kalla is to use Icerazor's Ire off cooldown while assessing the need for other skills.

Shiro

Legendary Assassin Stance

Shiro is our power DPS legend and is incredibly simple to use. Turn on Impossible Odds until you run out of energy. Hit things.

Jalis

Legendary Dwarf Stance

At first blush Jalis may not seem like much, but he's likely the most powerful legend in Rev's kit for most solo play. A few big things to note:

• Forced Engagement is a huge amount of CC
• Forced Engagement and Rite of the Great Dwarf provide a LOT of damage reduction.
• Vengeful Hammers deal decent damage and provide some healing
• Inspiring Reinforcement is a good stability source.

Generally with Jalis, you want to assess if the threat warrants a Rite of the Great Dwarf. If not, wear the target down with Vengeful Hammers and Forced Engagement (if it has a breakbar).

Mallyx

Legendary Demon Stance

Mallyx is our edgy spec and is the best option for heavy condition pressure, both in and out. As a bonus, it gets a phenomenal combo we'll talk about later that provides some of the highest sustain in the game.

While in Mallyx, it's often best to simply activate Embrace the Darkness and let it run out. You can use Pain Absorption to break stun or give yourself a break from conditions, and Call to Anguish is a short-range leap which can group enemies up for you to burst down.

If running Rune of Superior Rune of Tormenting, your Embrace the Darkness will heal you for absolutely absurd amounts of health. Seriously. No, like really. Just try it. Its hilarious, we promise.

Ventari

Legendary Centaur Stance

Our old friend Ventari is the worst of the legends for general play but you'll be happy he's there when you really need him. Ventari has two major components to remember:

1. Protective Solace is a long-duration, low-upkeep dome of projectile hate. This skill trivializes content that relies heavily on projectiles, such as Carin in Bastion of the Penitent or the Champion Commander Razorwing. It does eventually expire, but it lasts quite a long time. Try to conserve energy while its up so you don't run out too fast.
2. Purifying Essence is a spammable condition cleanse in an AOE. This is fantastic for random open world zergs.

That's about it with Ventari. He's pretty straightforward.

Damage

This build relies on fast application of Vulnerability, Torment, and quick consumption of your Battlescars for damage and sustain. Because of energy management, there is no set rotation which you should follow, but rather a priority of skills. This also varies based on your current Legend and Weapon.

Skill Breakdown

• Icerazor's Ire - our highest DPS skill which also doubles as our primary source of sustain
• Embrace the Darkness - in Mallyx, keep this up at all times
• Impossible Odds - in Shiro, keep this skill up at all times; activate Citadel Bombardment just before this skill for massive damage.
• Darkrazor's Daring - this skill does a small amount of damage but will stun enemies; this helps to very quickly eat through breakbars and keep enemies in place to ensure higher Torment damage.
• Citadel Bombardment - while energy intensive, against groups or Large-hitbox enemies, this skill is our highest DPS ability; avoid using it if using the Tormenting variant with Mallyx.
• Searing Fissure - one of our highest DPS skills
• Sevenshot - takes this place with a shortbow; applies significant torment
• Echoing Eruption - use this in your fire fields for might; applies considerable torment
• Bloodbane Path - spammable bleeds
• Temporal Rift - applies a large amount of torment and some CC
• Spiritcrush - strong AOE
• Scorchrazor - expensive to use, but provides good CC.

Skill Priority

• Icerazor's Ire
• Embrace the Darkness / Impossible Odds
• Darkrazor's Daring / Citadel Bombardment
• Searing Fissure / Sevenshot
• Echoing Eruption / Bloodbane Path
• Temporal Rift / Spiritcrush
• Scorchrazor

Defense

• Your Battle Scars from Devastation provide you with incredibly high sustain.
• Swapping legends transfers conditions if using Cleansing Channel or Permeating Pestilence
• Rite of the Great Dwarf / Forced Engagement - useful for difficult solos where condition pressure is low.
• Pain Absorption grants Resistance and breaks stun
• Protective Solace is a long-duration projectile block
• Purifying Essence removes conditions

Crowd Control

• Jade Winds
• Forced Engagement
• Scorchrazor
• Darkrazor's Daring

Video Examples

• Jupiter's Guide to Open World Condi Renegade
• Trailblazer Ren vs Champion Chak Lobber