Firebrand - Condi Firebrand

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

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on August 29, 2023 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

Condition Firebrand is simultaneously one of the strongest DPS and Support options for open world farming in a group, and is also one of the best solo options available.

The DPS version of this build offers exceptionally high damage, competing for the highest DPS slots if it has allies, while also providing very high Aegis Aegis uptime. Most of its damage is AOE, making it one of the strongest cleave options available, and its primary damage source being Burning Burning means that it has burst that rivals power builds, something most condition builds cannot offers. Its primary weakness is its reliance on melee-ranged abilities and its lack of mobility, both of which can be somewhat mitigated by the use of Scepter or Sword as backbar weapons.

Similarly, the Support version of this build (Dubbed "Condi Quickbrand") maintains very high DPS for a support while providing up to 4 allies with permanent Quickness Quickness and very high Aegis Aegis uptime.

Both builds can dip into further ally support through the use of skills such as , , and , along with being able to enter into their more defensive tomes should the situation call for it. This versatility makes them incredibly strong picks for general PVE, and especially for open world farming.


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Skill Bar

Axe/Torch
Scepter/X
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • Staff - the best option for ranged AOE
  • Sword, Greatsword - higher burst than Scepter

Skill Variants

  • - strong option for power-based variants to provide extra vuln
  • can be used to provide extra Stability Stability.
  • for more condition cleanse.
  • for Blind Blind on demand.
  • or for more crowd control.
  • or if projectiles are a problem.
  • - party Protection Protection
  • - more quickness uptime


Specializations

  • is basically even in performance with for DPS Condi Firebrand when solo.
  • Adept Radiance traits are purely preference.

Virtues

Virtues provides us with a significant boost to damage if we are already receiving Might Might and Vulnerability Vulnerability from other sources. This should be run in groups.

  • Change to

Honor

Honor offers higher might generation for yourself and nearby allies, longer boon duration from symbols, and higher defensive utility thanks to endurance regeneration and the small amount of sustain. Replaces Virtues at a significant DPS loss, but pairs very well with Celestial Celestial or Seraph Seraph.


Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. You can use exotic gear with the same stats instead.

Viper DPS Equipment

This variant uses equipment similar to existing Condi DPS Firebrand raid builds, making it an easy gearing option 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
Axe
Viper
Torch
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Scepter
Viper
x
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic

Quickness Equipment

Generating high amounts of Quickness Quickness requires at least 80% duration without . To accomplish this, we lean heavily into 24px Ritualist and use .

Head
Ritualist
Shoulders
Ritualist
Chest
Ritualist
Hands
Ritualist
Legs
Ritualist
Feet
Ritualist
Backpiece
Ritualist
Accessory
Ritualist
Accessory
Ritualist
Amulet
Ritualist
Ring
Ritualist
Ring
Ritualist
Axe
Ritualist
Torch
Ritualist
Sigil
Sigil
Axe
Ritualist
Torch
Ritualist
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic


Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

  • Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
  • /
  • /

Defense

Farming

  • Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
  • /
  • (and variants)


Usage

Tome Breakdown

Firebrand has three tomes. Each is dedicated to a different specialty.

  1. - Damage via Burning Burning
  2. - healing and condition cleanse
  3. - defensive boons and projectile hate

In each of these tomes, you can often just spam skills to great effect, but it is strongly advised you sit down and learn what the skills in each tome do. Some big ones to memorize:

    1. Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke - circular pull that can group enemies
    2. Epilogue Ashes of the Just Epilogue Ashes of the Just - provides a very powerful buff to nearby allies
    1. Epilogue Eternal Oasis Epilogue Eternal Oasis - increases all healing allies (including you) receive
    2. Chapter 4 Shining River Chapter 4 Shining River - a large waterfield that heals
    3. Chapter 1 Desert Bloom Chapter 1 Desert Bloom - a powerful heal
    1. Chapter 1 Unflinching Charge Chapter 1 Unflinching Charge - Provides stability, which grants quickness
    2. Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark - a projectile-hate bubble
    3. Epilogue Unbroken Lines Epilogue Unbroken Lines - provides extreme defense to nearby allies for 5 seconds, also triggers

Damage

  1. /
  • Use whenever available.
  • If everything you have is on cooldown, fill with auto-attacks

Boons

  • Use your and off cooldown for Quickness Quickness.
  • Use your approximately every 7 seconds for Quickness Quickness from and .

Defense

  • has many good defensive skills. You can go into it and press a few skills (including Epilogue Unbroken Lines Epilogue Unbroken Lines if possible) to quickly stack defensive boons.
  • Carefully time your activation of to block dangerous attacks.

Crowd Control


Ratings

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5 stars
Frostbyte gave this build 5 stars • July 2023
Simply *outstanding* build. I have used it to great effect in not only PvE in nearly all variations but WvW zerg environments, as well, especially with the latest updates. I have to give props to the author. Unless FB is considerably nerfed in the near future, this is the build to learn inside and out. The trick is to find the variation that works for you and for your desired roles/areas (e.g., DPS or Off-support, open world vs. fractals, etc.) The other types of PvE have their own builds, of course, but I would even suggest using this (with perhaps very slight modifications) for fractals, for instance, as it is a solid, balanced and powerful build with great sustain and excellent damage output.
5 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • July 2023
Condi Firebrand and Condi Quickbrand are some of the strongest DPS options in the game and they transfer very well into open world. High solo DPS, high group DPS, great utility, even a little emergency healing. Strongly recommend for open world.

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