Sw/A Power Untamed[edit]
Build Rating (Subjective)
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Power Untamed is a simple yet strong choice for all aspects of PvE gameplay. It does great damage with a simple rotation and can provide itself with most essential offensive and defensive boons: Might, Fury, Quickness, Protection, Vigor, Stability and Aegis. It can be adjusted to supply Quickness to allies without any adjustments to gear whatsoever.
Link to the Build on the Editor
Playstyle & Skills[edit]
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- On Untamed, you have the choice between two skill sets for your pet: Unleash Pet will replace your pet skills with Venomous Outburst, Rending Vines, and Enveloping Haze. All of these are instant cast and can be used during other skills.
- In Unleash Pet, you also become more resilient via Vow of the Untamed, which gives a 25% damage reduction.
- Contrary to that, Unleash Ranger will make Vow of the Untamed give 25% increased damage dealt, meaning that you want to spend as much time as possible in Unleash Ranger for damage purposes.
- Additionally, once you go into Unleash Ranger, Unleashed Ambush skills replace your auto attack for 4 seconds. This can happen once every 10 seconds. These are very strong abilities that deal damage, siphon health and/or apply CC. As a result, going into Unleash Pet quickly to use all three pet abilities and Unleash Ranger for an Unleashed Ambush is worth doing for the damage gain.
- The default choice for the pet is the Fanged Iboga, as it does high damage with its abilities . Since the dps differences between pets are rather small, you have many options in a sheer endless toolkit of pet skills (more on those in the open world section)
- For Defiance bar damage, I like to use the Juvenile Electric Wyvern.
Rotation Concept[edit]
You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.
Damage Log
Gear & Traits[edit]
Important Stats in Hero Panel (descending in Importance):
If you want to supply Quickness: Make sure to put the Sword and Axe on two seperate bars to enable yourself to weapon swap with just those two weapons!
- At least 50% Critical Chance: Fury gives 40% due to Vicious Quarry, Hunter's Tactics adds another 10% against enemies with a breakbar.
- Maximize Power
- Maximize Ferocity
Traits
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- For a budget variant, simply replace all ascended armor pieces of Berserker's with rare/exotic Berserker's.
- Superior Sigil of Air is cheaper than Superior Sigil of Impact and yields similar results on the golem, but it is only single-target and lower damage against bosses with frequent breakbar phases.
- Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals
- Ascended Food is always ideal, but never required.
Open World Build[edit]
You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.
Link to the Open World Build on the Editor
For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.
Increasing General Survivability[edit]
- The first step to increase survivibility on Untamed is to stay in Unleash Pet to maintain the 25% reduced incoming damage from Vow of the Untamed. This mechanic is really neat, as it gives you on demand damage or survivability.
- Second, use Dual Maces on the secondary weapon bar and alternate between them and Sword + Axe. More on that in the section on boon coverage.
- Maces drastically enhance sustain via Barrier, Protection and healing. All that while maintaining strong damage and Defiance bar damage.
- When using Mace skills, you accumulate stacks of Nature's Strength. At 5 stacks, all your mace skills reset. I recommend using Wild Strikes last to reset all other skills, as it gives 2 stacks and you gain 1 from Rampant Growth after swapping to maces.
- You can use a Relic of Zakiros for another boost to survivability at a small damage loss.
- Finally, we'll swap out Marksmanship for Nature Magic:
Open World Build
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- This will increase your Concentration, make all Boons you receive apply to your Pet. This allows for an insane synergy with "We Heal As One!" explained below.
- It increases your damage in solo gameplay and costs little damage in group scenarios, making it the ideal allrounder Specialization.
- It will further make your Spirits apply their slam twice, increasing their potency.
- As for utility skills, swap out Frost Trap, Signet of the Wild and "Strength of the Pack!" for Stone Spirit, "Protect Me!" and Forest's Fortification.
- Forest's Fortification is a massive reduction to incoming damage. During it's time window, try to get as many damage hits in as possible to reduce its cooldown.
- You can also swap the pets to the Blue Moa Bird and Siege Turtle, as they are a) really tanky and b) include sources of area Protection! This isn't required, so you can use whichever pet suits your needs.
- If you can, make use of jade protocols! Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge give 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from Stability, Resistance and Resolution for 10 seconds on entering combat every 30 seconds. The Alacrity from this is another free gain to damage!
- Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for another -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness!
Boon Coverage[edit]
- Unleash Ranger whenever weapon swap becomes available,
- use an Ambush - Deft Strike or Rampant Growth,
- Swap Weapons and
- use another Ambush - Deft Strike or Rampant Growth.