The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage, Utility and Crowd control
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds End of Dragons builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 10, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A glass cannon spike based melee build that combines several skills to hit at the same time while stacking damage modifiers. Prefers being played in a party with support tempest/catalyst for higher Fire Aura uptime.
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Relics
Sigils
Consumables
Usage
Quick Guide
- DD Catalyst is a glass cannon burst DPS with exception spike but high downtime
- Use your burst combo as your group pushes into the enemy to generate downs
Burst Combo
- Fill downtime in
流水协调/
大地协调 while waiting for your combo to be ready again and proc 
元素典范 to maintain 
元素赋能
General
- As soon as you get 25 stacks of
超级嗜血法印 and get out of combat, swap back to the Daggers without a stacking sigil - You are much stronger with full stacks of 元素赋能
Surviving
- This build has low passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- This build has low active defenses
Defensive Skill List
风驰电掣 gives so much movement that you probably won't use it for mobility unless you get very separated from your group
- Make sure to drop your target before using 风驰电掣 for mobility
- Make sure to drop your target before using
- Be careful with the animation lock on
疾风升流 if using it defensively
Priorities
High
- Burst damage
Moderate
- Damage
Low
- CC
Detailed Explanations
Burst Damage
- Your burst combo is:
Burst Combo
- The goal of this combo is to land as many hard hitting skills as possible in as short a window as possible
- Use your spike when your group is pushing into the enemy group
- If properly executed
能量汇聚 and 
炽焰疾步 should land at the same time - If you need extra range for 炽焰疾步 use
电光火石 during the cast time to land 炽焰疾步 at the 电光火石 location - When
元素迅捷 is off cooldown use it to reset 炽焰疾步, 
炙火之环 and 
烈焰之攫 and extend the combo by repeating from step 5
Damage
- After your spike combo is done, use
龙蜥吐息 then swap to 流水协调
- Maintain full stacks of 元素典范 by cycling through your attunements and using your Combo Finishers and Aura skills every time you finish your main combo
- Keep in mind that while 元素典范 has a 10 second per attunement cooldown on giving an aura when using a Combo Finisher it has no cooldown for applying an aura to yourself to gain stacks of the buff
- You can also begin the cast of a Combo Finisher in one attunement, swap attunement during the cast and get the 元素典范 proc in the new attunement
- You can also begin the cast of a Combo Finisher in one attunement, swap attunement during the cast and get the
- Keep in mind that while
