Bladesworn - Defense Bladesworn Roamer

• Defense Bladesworn - sPvP version of the build.

Food options

• 黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• 巨龙甜甜圈片 - extra Precision and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you. It's cheap too.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - a very strong defensive option which improves your already great endurance regen. Even has synergy with 威能 related traits and the Strength line in general.

  • Budget version: 碗装鲜肉冬菜煲

Utility

• 强效超级磨刀石 or 罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

Skill Variants

Heal

• 伤势愈合 - better condition cleansing. However both 力量恢复 on Strength and your elite skill 战术装填 lose some value if you take Mending.

Variants

• 狂战之力 could be a significant damage increase at the expense of sustain, but also requires you to hit highly charged Dragon Slashes consistently - which might be difficult against better players or builds with lots of mobility skills/CC/evade frames.

Variants

• 心流如江 improves your healing but could make the build too sluggish to chase enemies or disengage from fights.

Elite specialization basics

• Warriors who spec Bladesworn lose access to weapon swapping in combat but gain access to the Gunsaber, which works a bit like an Engineer kit (F1 by default).

• Instead of Adrenaline you build Flow in combat. If you have enough Flow you gain access to 巨龙扳机 (F2), which roots you in place and starts consuming Flow when used. Dragon Trigger empowers your Gunsaber skills. The more Flow you consume, the stronger the first 3 skills get. These 3 skills are the main source of your burst damage.

• While swapping in and out of Gunsaber has a 10s CD, this can sometimes be bypassed. 巨龙扳机 is on a separate CD and using it puts you back into Gunsaber mode.

General

• Gunsaber isn't a very complicated weapon. 1-4 are damaging skills and 5 is for mobility/ 激怒 application. Skills 1-3 are ranged, 4 can be both melee and ranged. Spam them in whatever order you wish if they're not on CD.

• The 3 Dragon Trigger burst skills are:

  • Dragon Slash - Force: replaces the autoattack, melee cleave.
  • Dragon Slash - Boost: replaces skill 2, a gap closer/mobility skill with good damage. This is the most commonly used Dragon Trigger skill as it deals high damage and has the reach to hit enemies that are farther away.
  • Dragon Slash - Reach: replaces skill 3, ranged projectile attack.

• While Dragon Trigger is active, Gunsaber skill #5 turns into a ground targeted teleport. While the range is short, this could still allow you to reposition yourself in a way to hit targets who escaped to the highground or are hiding behind a pillar.

  • When playing with this could also act as an instant source of that could help you avoid being interrupted.

• makes it easier to land Dragon Trigger skills by giving you immunity and unblockable attacks.

  • Skill #4's application could also come in clutch if your timing is good, potentially blocking a CC skill that would otherwise interrupt the channeling.

• Axe/Pistol has plenty of burst damage and could act as a quick finishing move against low HP targets

• is both a defensive and offensive skill. You can either use it to heal yourself via stacking or boost your damage depending on the situation.

• Mobility skills give you .

• causes to reflect projectiles. This is way more impactful than it sounds because attacks you reflect don't consume the Aegis, allowing you to block far more than just 1 attack as long as you don't get hit in melee.

  • Skill #4 on both sets (Pistol and Gunsaber) are sources.

• Dodge rolling grants which is especially useful against and spamming specs. With this trait you can keep on pressuring targets by sacrificing a dodge, or end up getting it as a passive bonus anyway when dodging attacks.

Sustain

• Every source of application heals you thanks to , turning otherwise damage focused skills like into healing skills.

• gives one charge to all Bladesworn ammo skills and makes your next Dragon Trigger charge faster. It's primarily a defensive skill best used to recharge your healing skill and Gunsaber #5 for extra mobility. To get full value out of it make sure that all of your Gunsaber skills are on CD and your heal doesn't have more than 1 charge.

• Be careful with the timing of ! The charges don't stack, if you use the second one before the first heal goes off the first one won't heal you.

• Your best source of condition cleansing is also one of your only stun breaks: so plan your CD management accordingly.

• is the best skill in the build for surviving Power based damage, even allowing you to tank some enemy burst while counter pressuring them. It's also a stun break, so if you're not under any condition pressure you might want to use this first before resorting to later.

  • This skill could also be used offensively, using the to protect your Dragon Trigger casts.

Equipment Changes

Relics

• - much better healing thanks to the many sources in the build. Your survivability is already top tier though, so usually you're better off with a damage focused relic.

• - it's good against slippery targets like Thieves or Mesmers, in which case you can't keep doing damage constantly and have to focus on smaller burst windows.

• - better mobility.

• - improved cleansing.

Runes

• - if you want some boon duration without giving up too much damage.

• - in case you want to focus on boon duration even more. With this you could achieve near permanent uptime too.

• - if you can't afford Demolisher stats, just use this rune and replace the Demolisher pieces with Assassin gear.