Untamed - Power Untamed

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Draft Build

This build is in the process of being drafted and is not yet complete.

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.

Spike Trap - another CC skill.
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

This build uses the same gear as power ranger builds for raids for ease of gearing.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Marauder - defensive gear
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 Accuracy - if you can't reliable flank to benefit from Hunter's Tactics
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
- ascended feast
, , - DPS
- defense

Utility

(and variants) - farming
, - dps

Usage

Old Section

This section is out of date and requires considerable updates with the nerf of Fervent Force and the build's move to Ferocious Symbiosis.

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 all other axe skills are damage skills. Use Splitblade in melee range for maximum damage.

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.
- As you master this build, know that you can start the cast of Overbearing Smash or Thump (untamed) and then very quickly Unleash youself. This way, the Crowd Control will occur while you are unleashed, and will give you Quickness from Enhancing Impact.
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 and your berserker gear you will have very high crit chance, or 99% when attacking from behind due to Hunter's Tactics.

Defense

Perilous Gift - you take no damage 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 due to Natural Fortitude.

Crowd Control

Overbearing Smash
Thump (untamed)
Path of Scars
Exploding Spores
Head Toss