User:Lady Elyssa/Builds

View Builds by Profession[edit]

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Some of the open world builds found here may be outdated and have been left here for reference. Please check my main characters pages for some up-to-date options.

— Lady Elyssa

Elementalist

Engineer

Guardian

Mesmer

Necromancer

Ranger

Revenant

Thief

Warrior

Criteria[edit]

Open World Solo Builds must provide their own:

Boons - Might, Fury
Conditions - Vulnerability, Weakness.
Condition Cleanse
Self Sustain / Survivability
Crowd Control - Hard CC
Mobility / Disengage so as not to get bogged down
Kill Chains / Streaks for smooth transition without waiting for long cooldowns skills.
Easy / Relaxing rotations to play.

Open World Group Builds must provide:

Boons - Might, Fury, Quickness, Alacrity
Conditions - Vulnerability, Weakness.
Condition Cleanse
Group Sustain / Survivability
Crowd Control - Hard CC
Greater skill / ability required to play effectively.

Builds have been organised in to the following group types:

Direct damage (damage takes effect immediately).
Condition Damage and Duration (damage over time).
Hybrid - These can contain any mixture of Power, Condition, Healing or Support.
Explorer - Swiftness, Evades, Endurance/Vigor, Stealth to get around quickly and unhindered and to be able to quickly disengage from combat.
Utility - Boons / Support / Healing / Condi Cleanse
Support / Healing
Tanking - High Toughness (vs direct damage), Vitality (vs Conditions), Damage Resistance.
Thematic - Based around a particular theme including gear suggestions (where possible).

Crowd Control (CC)[edit]

The only time an enemy with a break bar is susceptible to crowd control skills is when the break bar is a teal colour. Any other time and control effects will have no effect and simply be wasted.

Soft Crowd Control Effects are: Fear, Taunt, Immobile, Slow, Chill, Blind, Weakness, Crippled provide Damage Over Time (D.O.T.) to the Defiance Bar.
Hard Crowd Control Effects are: Daze, Stun, Knockback, Knockdown, Pull, Float, Sink and inflict damage directly to the Defiance Bar.

Hard CC is the go to choice for bosses that only have a small window of opportunity and these are now included for each profession for easy reference.

For more information check out the Wiki pages for Control Effect and Defiance Bar.

Consumables[edit]

I really cannot state this enough, but there is absolutely no requirement to use any food or consumables at all when in the open world.

However...

Some foods that I can recommend taking along with you are those that increase Magic Find (MF), Karma or Gold from Monsters. Newer Players might want to consider using food for the additional experience it provides if nothing else.

I have included some examples here for easy reference, for a full list please take a look at the wiki page on Food.

Might on Crit

Fried Golden Dumplings can be replaced with Plate of Roasted Cactus (better suits strong Crit Dmg profs like Ele or Thief).

Power + Ferocity

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup can be replaced with any other Power Food like Plate of Truffle Steak or Plate of Steak and Asparagus.

Condition Damage / Duration<

Rare Veggie Pizza can be swapped for Koi Cakes, Super Veggie Pizza, Garlic and Kale Sautee or Red-Lentil Saobosa.
Bowl of Fire Meat Chilli can be changed for Bowl of Spicy Meat Chilli.

Magic Find