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| specialization = Vindicator
 
| specialization = Vindicator
 
| designed for = WvW Roaming
 
| designed for = WvW Roaming
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| focus = strike damage, sustain
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| rating = great
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| rating = good
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| difficulty = 1
 
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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
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A Vindicator build with a healthy mix of sustain and damage for WvW Roaming.
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A Power Vindicator for WvW Roaming focusing on high survivability with medium damage.
  
  
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| legend2 = shiro
 
| legend2 = shiro
 
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===Skill Bar Variants===
 
===Skill Bar Variants===
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==Template Code==
 
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==Specializations==
 
==Specializations==
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{{Specialization|Salvation|bot|mid|mid}}
 
{{Specialization|Retribution|top|mid|top}}
 
{{Specialization|Retribution|top|mid|top}}
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{{Specialization|Invocation|top|mid|top}}
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{{Specialization|Vindicator|top|bot|mid}}
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{{Specialization|Vindicator|mid|bot|mid}}
 
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'''Variants'''
 
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* {{Trait|Leviathan Strength}} is also a viable option.
 
  
  
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| weight = Heavy
 
| weight = Heavy
 
| stats = Marauder
 
| stats = Marauder
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| rune = Superior Rune of Durability
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| rune = Superior Rune of Surging
 
| rune-qt = 6
 
| rune-qt = 6
 
| weapon1 = Greatsword
 
| weapon1 = Greatsword
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| weapon3 = Sword
 
| weapon3 = Sword
 
| weapon4 = Sword
 
| weapon4 = Sword
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| sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Energy
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| sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Vision
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| sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Cleansing
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| sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Hydromancy
 
| sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Energy
 
| sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Energy
 
| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Cleansing
 
| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Cleansing
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| backpiece = Marauder
 
| backpiece = Marauder
 
| amulet = Diviner
 
| amulet = Diviner
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| relic = Relic of Evasion
 
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===Equipment Variants===
 
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''Stats''
 
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* Replacing all the {{Tooltip|Diviner}} pieces with {{Tooltip|Berserker stats}} is also a viable option if you're willing to give up sustain for more damage, or you already have a Berserker set and don't want to get Diviner. Both are fine, but right now we recommend Diviner because the build has access to plenty of strong boons and good {{Tooltip|Might}} stacking along with {{Tooltip|Vigor}} + {{Tooltip|Resolution}} uptime is important.
 
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''Runes''
 
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* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Speed}} - higher mobility to help you build (or close) the gap between you and the enemy, decent defensive stats.
 
  
  
 
==Consumables==
 
==Consumables==
 
'''Food'''
 
'''Food'''
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* {{Food|Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak}} - great stats all around and some damage mitigation.
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* {{Food|Holographic Super Cake}} - pushes you near the endurance regen cap when combined with {{Tooltip|Vigor}} and {{Trait|Enduring Recovery}} while providing some extra healing. These healing procs also ensure effortless 100% uptime on {{Trait|Unyielding Devotion}}.
  
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* {{Food|Oysters with Zesty Sauce}} - this and other oyster consumables are decent (and cheap) defensive options if you can't afford the ascended feast.
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* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}} - with this and Vigor/traits you'll reach the cap of 100% bonus endurance regen and it provides slightly higher damage than Holographic Super Cake does.
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** {{Food|Bowl of Meat and Winter Vegetable Stew}} - cheaper version.
  
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* {{Food|Omnomberry Ghost}} - cheap non-ascended option.
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* {{Food|Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak}} - great stats and extra tankiness via damage reduction, but you'll no longer be endurance regen capped. The build's still going to work just fine, but you do lose out on some trait synergy.
  
  
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==Usage==
 
==Usage==
 
'''General'''
 
'''General'''
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*Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, removes 1 condition, procs {{Trait|Song of the Mists}}, and could even proc the sigils of your current weapon set if they're no longer on CD. Swapping legends is basically the main '''resource management''' tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs, low on energy, or need to cleanse. As the CD on legend swap is 10 seconds you want to plan ahead with your energy pool accordingly.
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*Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, removes 1 condition, procs {{Trait|Song of the Mists}} and could even proc the sigils of your current weapon set. Swapping legends is basically the main '''resource management''' tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs, low on energy, or need to cleanse. As the CD on legend swap is 10 seconds you want to plan ahead with your energy pool accordingly.
 
  
 
* {{Skill|Legendary Alliance Stance}} Vindicators have access to 3 legends in a way, but swapping between the Kurzick legend Saint Viktor and the Luxon legend Archemorus does not proc legend swap related traits and class mechanics.
 
* {{Skill|Legendary Alliance Stance}} Vindicators have access to 3 legends in a way, but swapping between the Kurzick legend Saint Viktor and the Luxon legend Archemorus does not proc legend swap related traits and class mechanics.
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** You can swap between the two with {{Skill|Alliance Tatics}} (F3 by default).
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** You can swap between the two with Alliance Tactics (F3 by default).
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* {{Trait|Rapid Flow}} allows for permanent {{Tooltip|Swiftness}} uptime. The easiest way to trigger this is to turn either {{Skill|Impossible Odds}} or {{Skill|Vengeful Hammers}} (if you chose Jalis) on and off every 5 seconds.
 
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* The build works just fine from 1v1s to teamfights, although you can make certain tweaks to specialize in a given role.
 
  
  
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*{{Skill|Impossible Odds}} can augment any skill and increase your damage output significantly while active. It's quite expensive though, so don't maintain it for more than a few seconds at a time, use it only for bursts. Note that it's only single target damage, doesn't cleave.
 
*{{Skill|Impossible Odds}} can augment any skill and increase your damage output significantly while active. It's quite expensive though, so don't maintain it for more than a few seconds at a time, use it only for bursts. Note that it's only single target damage, doesn't cleave.
 
**Always stop maintaining this skill if you're about to hit 0 energy - turning it off sends it on a 1 second CD while running out of energy results in a 4 second CD.
 
**Always stop maintaining this skill if you're about to hit 0 energy - turning it off sends it on a 1 second CD while running out of energy results in a 4 second CD.
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** Most Greatsword skills are rather slow, you only really want to use this for {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}} (or autoattack spam with Quickness) before turning it off unless you really need to squeeze out all the damage you can in your situation. Works much better with the Sword/Sword set's more rapid attacks.
  
 
*{{Skill|Phase Traversal}} is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with {{Tooltip|Quickness}} coupled with unblockable attacks. {{Tooltip|Quickness}} can be used to do burst damage or cleave downed targets better through auto attacking, while the unblockable attacks could seal the fate of enemies relying on blocking as their last resource option for sustain.
 
*{{Skill|Phase Traversal}} is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with {{Tooltip|Quickness}} coupled with unblockable attacks. {{Tooltip|Quickness}} can be used to do burst damage or cleave downed targets better through auto attacking, while the unblockable attacks could seal the fate of enemies relying on blocking as their last resource option for sustain.
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'''Weapons and damage'''
 
'''Weapons and damage'''
  
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* Greatsword is the set you'll be using to pressure targets, but it does have some defensive capabilities too.
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* {{Skill|Imperial Guard}} is great for blocking attacks under pressure and {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}} could be used not only as a gap closer but also a gap builder (just make sure you don't have an enemy targeted). These are not purely defensive skills though, their damage shouldn't be underestimated either. Imperial Guard hits particularly hard once it's charged up.
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* {{Skill|Imperial Guard}} is great for blocking attacks under pressure and {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}} could be used not only as a gap closer but also a gap builder (just make sure you don't have an enemy targeted). These are not purely defensive skills though, their damage shouldn't be underestimated either.
 
 
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* {{Skill|Shackling Wave}} and {{Skill|Deathstrike}} will serve as the primary burst skills in the build, they are quick and deal high damage.
 
* {{Skill|Shackling Wave}} and {{Skill|Deathstrike}} will serve as the primary burst skills in the build, they are quick and deal high damage.
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* {{Skill|Unrelenting Assault}} works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. In teamfights it's mainly used for the evasion.-->
 
* {{Skill|Unrelenting Assault}} works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. In teamfights it's mainly used for the evasion.-->
  
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* {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}} and {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}} are great AoE skills, but the latter deals more damage against single targets.
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* {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}} and {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}} are great AoE skills, but the latter deals more damage against single targets. Use these on CD.
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* {{Skill|Unrelenting Assault}} works best against single targets, this is a great skill for sticking to targets. While it doesn't hit that hard, it strikes multiple times and you could boost its damage significantly with {{Skill|Enchanted Daggers}} and {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}.
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* {{Skill|Shackling Wave}} and {{Skill|Deathstrike}} are the main burst skills on the Sword set, and they work well in this order too. You could use the Shackling Wave even from outside melee range and then teleport in for a Deathstrike while they are still rooted with the {{Tooltip|Immobilize}}. Try to get some {{Tooltip|Quickness}} for this combo, makes it harder to avoid.
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* Archemorus in a way acts as your second offensive set in case your GS skills are on CD or you need better range.
  
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* Archemorus adds a bit of reach to an otherwise very melee focused build with {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}} and {{Skill|Scavenger Burst}}. Use these to poke from a safe distance if you don't want to go melee for some reason. The Spear has a huge delay so you could even precast it in a fight and line it up with other damage sources for burst damage.
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* {{Skill|Scavenger Burst}} and {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}} add a bit of extra reach to an otherwise very melee focused build. Use these to poke from a safe distance if you don't want to go melee for some reason. The Spear has a huge delay so you could even precast it in a fight and line it up with other damage sources for burst damage, or burst targets while the spear is charging which forces them to choose between using their defensives to avoid the spear or your other attacks.
 
** Swapping legends doesn't cancel {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}}.
 
** Swapping legends doesn't cancel {{Skill|Spear of Archemorus}}.
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** These skills have value in any fight not just in ranged scenarios. When your offensive weapon skills are on CD these will help you keep the target pressured.
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** {{Skill|Scavenger Burst}} applies {{Tooltip|Quickness}} which makes it a great setup skill for GS burst combos or it could speed up your attacks when you need downed cleave.
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* {{Skill|Nomad's Advance}} does a lot of damage on a very short CD, if your GS skills are not available this is a solid option for pressuring targets at a reasonable energy cost. Being a mobility tool is a nice added bonus and makes it more versatile.
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'''Combo examples'''
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''Greatsword/Shiro melee''
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:# {{Skill|Enchanted Daggers}}
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:# {{Skill|Eternity's Requiem}}
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:# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}} - activate this right before Eternity's Reqiem starts dealing damage and maintain it for the rest of the chain
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:# Dodge while ER's doing damage, land on top of your enemy
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:# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}
  
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''Defensive/counterpressure combo''
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:# Block attacks with {{Skill|Imperial Guard}}
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:# Dodge
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:# Hit them with {{Skill|True Strike (Vindicator)}} (IG's chain skill)
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:# CC them and gain {{Tooltip|Stability}} with {{Skill|Reaver's Rage}}
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:# Heal up with {{Skill|Selfish Spirit}}
  
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Ranged burst combo example:
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''Disengaging if you're getting chased''
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:# {{Skill|Enchanted Daggers}}  
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:# {{Skill|Phase Traversal}}  
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:# About face into {{Skill|Riposting Shadows}} for moblity, cleansing and to avoid damage while swapping to Alliance Stance
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:# {{Skill|Impossible Odds}}  
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:# {{Skill|Nomad's Advance}} away from the fight, without a target
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:# {{Skill|Mist Unleashed}}  
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:# Use {{Skill|Selfish Spirit}} if you can afford it, swap to Kurzick and keep running if they're still on you
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:# ''Optional'' About face once more and use {{Skill|Battle Dance}} to build more distance while evading attacks
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:# ''Optional'' {{Skill|Phantom's Onslaught}} without a target to build even more distance
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:# Heal up with {{Skill|Selfless Spirit}}
  
  
 
'''Sustain/Support'''
 
'''Sustain/Support'''
  
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* Staff is the defensive set in the build, offering ways to avoid damage via {{Skill|Surge of the Mists}} and {{Skill|Warding Rift}} or AoE cleanse conditions through {{Skill|Renewing Wave}}.
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* Dodging removes a condition via {{Trait|Eluding Nullification}}.
  
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* While Archemorus is an offensive legend with plenty of damage, most of the time you'll be swapping to {{Skill|Legendary Alliance Stance}} because either you or an ally is under pressure and you need Saint Viktor's help. In teamfights you're more than just a damage dealer, keep an eye on allies too as you have some tools for helping them.
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* {{Trait|Unyielding Devotion}} provides passive damage mitigation, you should aim for a permanent uptime. Maintaining {{Tooltip|Regeneration}} from {{Trait|Balance in Discord}} and Kurzick skills is key, but even dodging heals you so you don't have to worry too much about keeping this buff up.
  
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* {{Skill|Tree Song}} is an excellent source of AoE condition cleansing, something the build otherwise desperately lacks. Your best way of dealing with conditions is not getting hit by them, luckily the build has plenty of block/evade frames.
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* {{Trait|Resilient Spirit}} passively grants you barrier every few seconds for each boon you have (up to 5 boons). You don't have to try too hard to achieve that, but do keep an eye on your boons. Easiest ones to maintain are:
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** {{Tooltip|Resolution}}, {{Tooltip|Might}}, {{Tooltip|Vigor}} and {{Tooltip|Protection}} from dodging.
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** {{Tooltip|Regeneration}} from legend swapping and Kurzick skills.
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* Alliance stance can be defensive on both of its legends, in fact one of the Luxon ones could be better for survival than any of the Kurzick ones: {{Skill|Reaver's Rage}}. The CC is great for taking pressure off you even against multiple opponents and the {{Tooltip|Daze}} is just long enough to cover an entire cast of {{Skill|Selfish Spirit}}. Even if the CC didn't work the skill itself has {{Tooltip|Stability}} to protect your casts. You can also extend the Stability with dodges.
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** This is quite an expensive skill, but could make all the difference if you're seriously pressured.
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** If you can choose between using {{Skill|Reaver's Rage}} and {{Skill|Awakening}} to break a stun, Reaver's Rage is usually the better choice.
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* {{Skill|Tree Song}} is your best source of source of mass condition cleansing and acts as a 2nd Kurzick healing skill but with a way shorter cast time than {{Skill|Selfless Spirit}} which makes it ideal under pressure.
 
** '''Tip:''' if you need to cleanse a lot of conditions and you're on Shiro, try to use {{Skill|Riposting Shadows}} first. This way you'll potentially get rid of a few non-damaging conditions, increasing the chance of {{Skill|Tree Song}} cleansing the damaging ones.
 
** '''Tip:''' if you need to cleanse a lot of conditions and you're on Shiro, try to use {{Skill|Riposting Shadows}} first. This way you'll potentially get rid of a few non-damaging conditions, increasing the chance of {{Skill|Tree Song}} cleansing the damaging ones.
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** This is an AoE skill, keep an eye on allies and share it with them if you're roaming in a group.
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* Both Shiro and Saint Viktor have tools for evading attacks, these are {{Skill|Riposting Shadows}} and {{Skill|Battle Dance}}. Quite useful when you've got energy to spare but not enough endurance to dodge and you need to avoid attacks.
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* Try to share {{Skill|Selfless Spirit}} with allies whenever you can.
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* {{Trait|Vassals of the Empire}} transforms your dodge into a source of AoE boon application, try to land on top of as many allies as possible to share it with them.
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* Both Shiro and Saint Viktor have tools for evading attacks, these are {{Skill|Riposting Shadows}} and {{Skill|Battle Dance}}. With only 1 dodge bar these will come in handy, along with the block from {{Skill|Imperial Guard}}.
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==Related Builds==
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* [[Build:Vindicator_-_Greatsword_Shiro|Vindicator - Greatsword Shiro]] - closest PvP counterpart of this WvW build.

Latest revision as of 06:22, 30 April 2024

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on April 30, 2024 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

A Power Vindicator for WvW Roaming focusing on high survivability with medium damage.


Skill Bar

Greatsword
Sword/Sword
Utility
Utility


Skill Bar Variants

Weapons

  • Staff over Sword/Sword - much better sustain and some extra CC, but we only recommend this against enemies with low sustain. Giving up the Sword set makes it way harder to win against tanky opponents, your damage might not be enough with Staff.


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Specializations


Equipment

Head
Marauder
Shoulders
Marauder
Chest
Marauder
Hands
Marauder
Legs
Marauder
Feet
Marauder
Backpiece
Marauder
Accessory
Diviner
Accessory
Diviner
Amulet
Diviner
Ring
Diviner
Ring
Diviner
Greatsword
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Marauder
Sword
Marauder
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic


Consumables

Food

  • - pushes you near the endurance regen cap when combined with Vigor Vigor and Enduring Recovery while providing some extra healing. These healing procs also ensure effortless 100% uptime on Unyielding Devotion.
  • - with this and Vigor/traits you'll reach the cap of 100% bonus endurance regen and it provides slightly higher damage than Holographic Super Cake does.
    • - cheaper version.
  • - great stats and extra tankiness via damage reduction, but you'll no longer be endurance regen capped. The build's still going to work just fine, but you do lose out on some trait synergy.


Utility

  • or , whichever is cheaper.


Usage

General

  • Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, removes 1 condition, procs Song of the Mists, and could even proc the sigils of your current weapon set if they're no longer on CD. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs, low on energy, or need to cleanse. As the CD on legend swap is 10 seconds you want to plan ahead with your energy pool accordingly.
  • Legendary Alliance Stance Vindicators have access to 3 legends in a way, but swapping between the Kurzick legend Saint Viktor and the Luxon legend Archemorus does not proc legend swap related traits and class mechanics.
    • You can swap between the two with Alliance Tactics (F3 by default).


Shiro

Damage, mobility, CC, minor sustain through evasion and condition cleansing

  • Enchanted Daggers is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including Protection Protection or even Endure Pain. That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as Distortion. It's not a great healing skill, so most of the time it'll be used to boost your burst damage.
  • Impossible Odds can augment any skill and increase your damage output significantly while active. It's quite expensive though, so don't maintain it for more than a few seconds at a time, use it only for bursts. Note that it's only single target damage, doesn't cleave.
    • Always stop maintaining this skill if you're about to hit 0 energy - turning it off sends it on a 1 second CD while running out of energy results in a 4 second CD.
    • Most Greatsword skills are rather slow, you only really want to use this for Eternity's Requiem (or autoattack spam with Quickness) before turning it off unless you really need to squeeze out all the damage you can in your situation. Works much better with the Sword/Sword set's more rapid attacks.
  • Phase Traversal is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with Quickness Quickness coupled with unblockable attacks. Quickness Quickness can be used to do burst damage or cleave downed targets better through auto attacking, while the unblockable attacks could seal the fate of enemies relying on blocking as their last resource option for sustain.
  • Jade Winds won't be used often because it exhausts most of your energy pool, leaving you defenseless and with barely anything to capitalize on the CC. This should only be used to set up kills for your teammates, or to interrupt very important channels like a rez or a stomp.


Weapons and damage

  • Imperial Guard is great for blocking attacks under pressure and Phantom's Onslaught could be used not only as a gap closer but also a gap builder (just make sure you don't have an enemy targeted). These are not purely defensive skills though, their damage shouldn't be underestimated either. Imperial Guard hits particularly hard once it's charged up.
  • Mist Unleashed and Eternity's Requiem are great AoE skills, but the latter deals more damage against single targets. Use these on CD.
  • Unrelenting Assault works best against single targets, this is a great skill for sticking to targets. While it doesn't hit that hard, it strikes multiple times and you could boost its damage significantly with Enchanted Daggers and Impossible Odds.
  • Shackling Wave and Deathstrike are the main burst skills on the Sword set, and they work well in this order too. You could use the Shackling Wave even from outside melee range and then teleport in for a Deathstrike while they are still rooted with the Immobilize Immobilize. Try to get some Quickness Quickness for this combo, makes it harder to avoid.
  • Archemorus in a way acts as your second offensive set in case your GS skills are on CD or you need better range.
  • Scavenger Burst and Spear of Archemorus add a bit of extra reach to an otherwise very melee focused build. Use these to poke from a safe distance if you don't want to go melee for some reason. The Spear has a huge delay so you could even precast it in a fight and line it up with other damage sources for burst damage, or burst targets while the spear is charging which forces them to choose between using their defensives to avoid the spear or your other attacks.
    • Swapping legends doesn't cancel Spear of Archemorus.
    • Scavenger Burst applies Quickness Quickness which makes it a great setup skill for GS burst combos or it could speed up your attacks when you need downed cleave.
  • Nomad's Advance does a lot of damage on a very short CD, if your GS skills are not available this is a solid option for pressuring targets at a reasonable energy cost. Being a mobility tool is a nice added bonus and makes it more versatile.


Combo examples

Greatsword/Shiro melee

  1. Enchanted Daggers
  2. Eternity's Requiem
  3. Impossible Odds - activate this right before Eternity's Reqiem starts dealing damage and maintain it for the rest of the chain
  4. Dodge while ER's doing damage, land on top of your enemy
  5. Mist Unleashed

Defensive/counterpressure combo

  1. Block attacks with Imperial Guard
  2. Dodge
  3. Hit them with True Strike (Vindicator) (IG's chain skill)
  4. CC them and gain Stability Stability with Reaver's Rage
  5. Heal up with Selfish Spirit

Disengaging if you're getting chased

  1. About face into Riposting Shadows for moblity, cleansing and to avoid damage while swapping to Alliance Stance
  2. Nomad's Advance away from the fight, without a target
  3. Use Selfish Spirit if you can afford it, swap to Kurzick and keep running if they're still on you
  4. Optional About face once more and use Battle Dance to build more distance while evading attacks
  5. Optional Phantom's Onslaught without a target to build even more distance
  6. Heal up with Selfless Spirit


Sustain/Support

  • Dodging removes a condition via Eluding Nullification.
  • Unyielding Devotion provides passive damage mitigation, you should aim for a permanent uptime. Maintaining Regeneration Regeneration from Balance in Discord and Kurzick skills is key, but even dodging heals you so you don't have to worry too much about keeping this buff up.
  • Resilient Spirit passively grants you barrier every few seconds for each boon you have (up to 5 boons). You don't have to try too hard to achieve that, but do keep an eye on your boons. Easiest ones to maintain are:
  • Alliance stance can be defensive on both of its legends, in fact one of the Luxon ones could be better for survival than any of the Kurzick ones: Reaver's Rage. The CC is great for taking pressure off you even against multiple opponents and the Daze Daze is just long enough to cover an entire cast of Selfish Spirit. Even if the CC didn't work the skill itself has Stability Stability to protect your casts. You can also extend the Stability with dodges.
    • This is quite an expensive skill, but could make all the difference if you're seriously pressured.
    • If you can choose between using Reaver's Rage and Awakening to break a stun, Reaver's Rage is usually the better choice.
  • Tree Song is your best source of source of mass condition cleansing and acts as a 2nd Kurzick healing skill but with a way shorter cast time than Selfless Spirit which makes it ideal under pressure.
    • Tip: if you need to cleanse a lot of conditions and you're on Shiro, try to use Riposting Shadows first. This way you'll potentially get rid of a few non-damaging conditions, increasing the chance of Tree Song cleansing the damaging ones.
    • This is an AoE skill, keep an eye on allies and share it with them if you're roaming in a group.
  • Both Shiro and Saint Viktor have tools for evading attacks, these are Riposting Shadows and Battle Dance. Quite useful when you've got energy to spare but not enough endurance to dodge and you need to avoid attacks.
  • Try to share Selfless Spirit with allies whenever you can.
  • Vassals of the Empire transforms your dodge into a source of AoE boon application, try to land on top of as many allies as possible to share it with them.


Related Builds

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Ratings

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4 stars
Hanz gave this build 4 stars • August 2023
It's still strong against high damage, low sustain builds but tanky cele ones can be a struggle. Damage is not what it used to be and losing the Chill on dodge hurts more than expected. Still a very sturdy, beginner friendly build that can stand its ground in just about any matchup, but it's not as faceroll as it used to be, and it's worth swapping to some harder builds that have more damage once you're more familiar with Revenant.
5 stars
Kanok gave this build 5 stars • April 2023
After playing this for about a week and going up against some stiff builds, I can say this build is pretty amazing. With the flexibility of dual Alliance for both DPS and self healing and the benefit of Impossible Odds for higher damage output, Retribution Vindi is so good for survivability. The roaming Willbender is a heavy hitter and really annoying to combat, but with proper mitigation of damage and dodging at the right times, you can easily take them down and survive their onslaught. Highly recommend in the current meta!

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