Willbender - Condition Willbender
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on May 31, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.
Overview
A bursty condition build for open world, this spec offers the highest in-combat mobility in the game, tied with thief, along with extremely high burst damage and great sustained damage. It also has the advantage of not requiring high overall condi duration since it only applies Burning, which gives more freedom on the overall gear options and cheaper budget variants.
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Skill Bar
Scepter/Torch
Sword
Utility
- If you need additional defense and a stun break, provides both, plus additional burning upon activation.
- is your main source of CC together with .
Specializations
Equipment
Ascended gear is not required.
Head
Dire
Dire
Shoulders
Dire
Dire
Chest
Dire
Dire
Hands
Dire
Dire
Legs
Dire
Dire
Feet
Dire
Dire
Backpiece
Viper
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Viper
Amulet
Viper
Viper
Ring
Grieving
Grieving
Ring
Viper
Viper
Scepter
Grieving
Grieving
Torch
Grieving
Grieving
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Grieving
Grieving
Sigil
Rune
x6
x6
- You should be aiming for 15% overall condition duration, so that you maximize burning duration with , and (these yield 85% additional burning duration).
- Alternatively, you can go for 10% overall condition duration and use a and instead of and .
- When going for defensive gear, Viper should always be replaced with Trailblazer and Grieving should always be replaced with Dire.
Consumables
- Food
- Always use
- Utility
- (and variants) - farming
- - dps
- - dps if using gear with high toughness
Usage
Damage
- When you have Alacrity, the cooldown of it is 8 1/4 seconds and the uptime is 8 seconds, allowing you to maintain it almost 100% of the time. active, every few of your attacks will apply burning. With
The overall rotation is full priority-based due to
dynamically reducing the cooldowns of your skills. Use the following skills, with descending priority:- &
- Never delay
- The time in between should be filled with auto attacks
- should only be used whenever all others are on cooldown for at least 3 seconds.
Survivability
- makes you pretty much immortal as long as it is active, so save your dodges and blocks for the times outside of it.
- and can be used for additional mobility and defense in between casts of . Note that you can only have one virtue active at a time, so you should try to not cancel too early.
Detailed Information on the general usage and rotation is provided in the video down below:
Ratings
Extremely good burst, one of the highest dps solo builds. It is worth noting that roughly half of your dps comes from having Rushing Justice's (F1) passive up. The build focuses on burning damage which gives it a lot of gear flexibility. Its only major weakness is its defences are heavily focused on cooldowns. This allows for swapping out traits and utility at the cost of some dps, but there isnt much passive sustain. CC is decent, aoe/cleave is good, there are multiple good options for getting stab and condi cleanse.
Condi Willbender is a reliable, high damage build that features very high CC and mobility with moderate ability to defend itself with Crashing Courage and other powerful defensive tools such as Advance, Stand Your Ground, and Wall of Reflection. An absolutely incredible build for open world and well worth learning.
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