Soulbeast - Power Soulbeast

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on December 03, 2023 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

Power Soulbeast is a very bursty power build. It features good damage, amazing burst, high mobility, and good cc. It also has flexibility for deciding which mainhand weapon to use, as they are all good.

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Skill Bar

Smokescale
Rock Gazelle
Sword/Axe
Hammer
Utility
  • You have to manually chose your hammer skills (as if they were utility skills). Use: , , , and .

Pet variants

You are almost always going to be merged with your pet for the massive bonuses from the Beastmastery traitline.

The suggested Smokescale Smokescale gives you a useful evade and CC, while Rock Gazelle Rock Gazelle has more CC, and a dash.

Weapon Variants

Hammer Hammer provides great damage and crowd control. If you do not have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure, you can instead use greatsword or longbow.

  • Longbow - ranged weapon with okayish burst damage with and , but terrible damage over time.
  • Greatsword - decent damage plus a block and a leap.

In the other set we use offhand Axe Axe for its great damage. In the mainhand, we recommend sword sword because it has great damage and leaps. But you can use any of these weapons:

  • Mainhand axe - good for might and burst. The bouncing auto attack is good vs. trash mobs. works great in melee range.
  • Mainhand dagger - decent damage and helps maintain boons with its Quickness Quickness due to .

Skill Variants

Heal skill

  • - extreme condi cleanse but no boon extension.

Utility skill

Don't replace nor as they are core to the build. Replace with whatever skill best fits the situation.

  • - the only thing this build lacks is Might generation. Vulture Stance can help slightly with that.
  • - removes and prevents immob, chill, and cripple, and gives stability.
  • - passive toughness + panic button.
  • - stunbreak + evade.
  • - stunbreak + quickness.

Elite skill

  • - massively lower damage than One Wolf Pack, but 10 stacks of stability and might generation.


Specializations

  • - if you need more dodges or when not using traps.
  • - if using greatsword.
  • - boosts stance duration & shares stances with allies; always take this if playing with a group.


Equipment

Berserker

This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Soulbeast_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PvE.

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Axe
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Hammer
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic
  • For relic, we recommend Relic of Fireworks Relic of Fireworks since you can easily enable it with , , and . Your Smokescale Smokescale Beastmode F1 skill also works, though F2 doesn't.
  • and are interchangeable.
  • Other relics include , , , , and .
  • For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight Knight trinkets.


Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

  • Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
  • /
  • /

Defense

Farming

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


Usage

Damage

  • Most of the time you will be merged with your pet in to gain the massive bonuses from the Beastmastery traitline.
  • When fighting durable enemies, use for a 25% damage increase.
  • deals massive damage but has a long casting time, try to use it while under the effects of quickness after casting due to .
  • When possible, flank your enemy (attacking from behind or the sides) to benefit from .
  • Try to use Crowd Control before unleashing your burst to benefit from .
  • Always use before fights to start with Fury Fury to benefit from . Remember that extends the duration of your existing boons.

Rotation

Against tough enemies like bosses, try to follow this opener.

  1. +
  2. +
  3. (triggers and Relic of Fireworks Relic of Fireworks)
  4. and (do it fast before the knockdown of Thump ends so they deal bonus damage)
  5. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  • Try to not interrupt your auto attack chain.
  • Use your sword skills and off cooldown.
  • Save your long-cooldown high-hitting attacks and to use together with .
  • Try to use , , while the enemy is disabled from , or , or , or , or disables from other players. If the enemy has a defiance bar, you don't need to worry about this, these skills will always do their bonus damage.

Defense

  • Most of the defense with this build will come from dodging, as it has few blocks or other defensive cooldowns. Greatsword offers more thanks to and Smoke Assault is a very useful evade.
  • When under preassure, use to unmerge with your pet so it may tank while you disengage.
  • When merged with a bear, you can use and to negate strike damage for up to 7 seconds.
  • When merged with a Jacaranda you can use to heal and cleanse conditions, and to heal.

Crowd Control

  • soft cc.
  • soft cc.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 3 votes.
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5 stars
Frantumn gave this build 5 stars • August 2023
Love this build. It's great for solo PVE play. The melee aspects tend to do a little more damage, but the bow is great when you need to kite a hard boss.
5 stars
MagicAndrej gave this build 5 stars • February 2022
This build has been my friend for a while. And by a while I mean about 800 hours. Super fun. Against some of the tougher stuff it can get quite challenging. But my suggestion is to definitely slap on Jacaranda. Such a strong pet both in and out of Soulbeast mode.
5 stars
Onlywrin gave this build 5 stars • March 2021
A fantastic roaming build capable of completing basically any content in the game, from casual play to hard story bosses. It can struggle against especially challenging foes, like solo bounties, but that's also not the focus of the build.

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