Build:Untamed - Fervent Quickness

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:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on June 23, 2022 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Untamed is a power-based build for the untamed specialization that focuses on Crowd Control (CC) to reduce its cooldowns thanks to Fervent Force, and gain a bit of quickness thanks to Enhancing Impact. Because of that, this build requires a very active playstyle and some learning to do before you can unleash its full power.

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Hammer

Axe/Axe

Utility

Weapon variants

• Sword mainhand: can replace axe mainhand. Axe has better damage, range, and some might generation; while sword has a dash.

Skill Variants

Exploding Spores is key to the build. "Protect Me!" is a stun break and can be swapped as needed. Frost Trap is a very flexible spot and can be swapped as needed.

• Frost Spirit - large boost to squad DPS when playing in groups.
• Signet of Stone - passive toughness + panic button
• Lightning Reflexes - stunbreak + evade
• Quickening Zephyr - stunbreak + quickness
• Mutate Conditions - if conditions are a problem.

Specializations

Variants

• Farsighted - 5% more damage when the extra CC is not needed.
• Primal Reflexes - if more dodges are required, or when not running any trap.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• Marauder - defensive gear
• Rune of Superior Rune of Strength, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Celerity - more quickness
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air, Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact - alt DPS
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive

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

Usage

Set up

The build requires a lot of button pressing to reach its true potential. In short, you are going to Unleash Pet to use CC skills, and Unleash Ranger to use damage skills. You want to use the damage skills while you are unleashed to do more damage thanks to Vow of the Untamed, and you unleash the pet to do CC because hammer only does CC when the pet is unleashed.

To quickly and at a glance know who is unleashed, look at your pet UI. If the pet skills are visible, like Smoke Cloud, you are unleashed, do extra damage, and can command the pet to use its skills. If the untamed pet skills are visible, like Venomous Outburst, your pet is unleashed, you take less damage, and can command the pet to use its untamed skills. Your pet doesn't actually gain any benefit from unleash, it only changes the skills you can command it to do.

To simplify, unleash your pet to do CC with your hammer, and unleash yourself to do damage.

Hammer

Hammer is your main weapon, you can technically play 100% of the time in this weapon set. Its skills are clearly divided:

• Skills 2 Unleashed Wild Swing and 4 Unleashed Savage Shock Wave are damage skills and should be used when you are unleashed.
• Skills 3 Overbearing Smash and 5 Thump (untamed) are CC skills and should be used when your pet is unleashed and your damage skills are on cooldown.

Axe offhand

In the axe offhand weapon set, always stay unleashed. Skill 4 Path of Scars is a CC skill and skill 5 Whirling Defense is a damage skill.

Other sources of CC

• Exploding Spores will knock down enemies hit by all spores, so only those in the very middle. This makes it harder to CC small enemies with this skill, but it should be trivial on big enemies.
• Your pet skills also CC, but this CC does not count towards Fervent Force. With Smokescale, Takedown (F1). And with Rock Gazelle, Head Toss(F2) and Charge(F3).

Quickness

• Because of Enhancing Impact, doing CC while unleashed grants you quickness. Unfortunately, your hammer only does CC when your pet is unleashed. This leaves Path of Scars and Exploding Spores as your sources of quickness, always cast them while unleashed.
• For a build more focused on quickness, use Quickening Zephyr and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Celerity.

Damage

Use the damage skills detailed above, then use your CC skills detailed above to reduce your cooldowns. Thanks to Vicious Quarry, Spotter and your berserker gear you will have very high crit chance, or 100% when attacking from behind due to Hunter's Tactics.

Defense

• Perilous Gift - you can't die during this, and then it heals you for 50% of your missing health. By proccing Fervent Force so often, this skill will have a very low cooldown.
• Forest's Fortification - reduces damage taken by 50% by 10 seconds, and its cooldown is reduced by 1 second each time you strike during that time. Combine if with Whirling Defense or Relentless Whirl to significantly reduce its cooldown. And with Fervent Force on top, you will have good uptime of this massive damage reduction.

Sustain

• Your Unleashed Ambush skills Relentless Whirl or Sundering Volley heal you a little bit, and more for each target hit.

Crowd Control

• Overbearing Smash
• Thump
• Path of Scars
• Exploding Spores
• Head Toss