Part of the current metagame
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Focused on: Condition damage and Sustain
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Janthir Wilds builds Visions of Eternity builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Condition Conduit build with high sustain and extreme pressure, designed for WvW roaming.
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Variants
位面保护 and 
矮人训练 could add a lot more 
虚弱 uptime to the build at the expense of 
决心 access. This makes you better against power builds but worse against conditions. Taking these would also improve your condition variety, making it harder for enemies to cleanse your damaging conditions.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Stats
- Using a full set of Dire Dire gear is an equally viable option. Your damaging conditions have rather long base durations so they barely benefit from expertise, it's mostly your non-damaging conditions that do. Dire can give you slightly better burst damage.
Relics
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阿奇姆古物 - more bursty than Agony, but has a CD. -
恶魔女王古物 - improves your condi variety and healing reduction.
Runes
- The current rune is picked for the movement speed boost, but you could also take
寻路者古物 and pick a rune with higher damage, like 
超级唤灵师符文.
Consumables
Food
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胡椒味熏肉薄饼 - great overall stat boost and damage mitigation. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - better endurance regen, more access to dodging. -
全息超级蛋糕 - slightly worse endurance regen than that of the Orrian Truffle food, but the constant healing ensures effortless permanent 
不屈奉献 uptime when playing with Salvation.
Utility
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Optimal:
尚雅调谐水晶 -
Budget:
紧密优质调谐水晶 either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW 
突袭宝箱s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
Conduit basics
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宇宙智慧 is a passive that has a different type of effect based on your legend:
传奇矮人姿态 (Jalis) - does damage when you're attacked, as long as either your elite or your upkeep skill is active.
传奇恶魔姿态 (Mallyx) - makes your Mallyx skills cheaper, but sends them on a longer CD. This is the more powerful of the two, as it allows you to use defensive skills during emergency situations even if you don't have the energy, or gives you just a little bit more damage to finish a kill.
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You gain a Release Potential skill based on your legend. On Mallyx this is a
晕眩 with good damage, while on Jalis it's a leap finisher with evasion and barrier stacking.- These have short CDs and no energy cost, make sure to use your Release Potential at least once per legend cycle!
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Release Potential becomes more powerful with Affinity stacks. You build Affinity by using skills that cost energy, up to 5 stacks. It happens passively so you don't have to pay much attention to it.
General
- Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as
唤醒折磨, and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs or low on energy. That's not all however, on Mallyx builds legend swapping may also be used to do AoE burst damage or manage conditions on yourself.
Damage
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Mace, Spear and Mallyx all bring solid pressure to the table. Jalis is more of a defensive legend.
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On Mace, chain
灼热裂痕 ⇒ 
回荡喷发 in order to stack 
威能 while doing damage. Use these two weapon skills on CD. -
Mallyx has 3 strong abilities for pressuring enemies, each with their own niches.
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The first one is
驱逐附魔. It's good for softening up targets who have defensive boons like 
稳固 or 决心 while the Chill Chill and ranged nature of this skill can also snare enemies, slowing their escape and allowing you to catch up to them. It's not that dangerous by itself though, there are better skills to spend energy on if raw damage is what you're after. -
The second one is
苦痛召唤. A powerful CC with high damage especially on its chain skill. The damage itself isn't great, but it's useful for setting up burst by CC'ing and balling up targets while also moving you into melee range. Its chain skill, 
破势猛击 is far more dangerous in terms of raw pressure. It's best to just use Unyielding Impact right after Call to Anguish. -
The third and most powerful one is the elite
拥抱黑暗, which is an upkeep skill. EtD pulses AoE 
折磨 every second while active, and applies more Torment if you're using skills that cost energy. The best use for this elite is to be a cost-effective damage boost for weapon skills. Activating it and quickly rotating through your damaging weapon skills significantly increases your damage without much of an energy cost. After your weapon skills are spent, you're free to deactivate it. -
The Spear autoattack automatically flips between melee and ranged versions depending on your distance to the target.
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Spear is built around
深渊毁灭.- The skill becomes more powerful the more you use it (you can see the stacks above the right side if your skill bar), and swapping weapons at 3 stacks of AR does an AoE attack.
- It has multiple charges and you should never sit at max charges for too long, so keep using this as much as possible.
- Every other Spear skill reduces its CD by a certain amount.
- It'd make sense to use this skill right as you swap to Spear so you can start reducing its CD immediately with other skills, but
深渊霹雳 (for CC) and 
深渊突袭 (for evasion) often end up taking priority. - The AoE ring is small and the skill's a bit slow, so it can be hard to land on moving targets. Works great as a followup to CC though, or if you're getting attacked in melee in which case the enemy isn't moving around as much.
- The weapon swap bonus at 3 stacks is more of just a nice bonus. Don't camp Spear just because you're chasing the 3rd stack, especially if you're out of CDs or getting focused by the enemy team.
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深渊霹雳 is the strongest skill on Spear, delivering heavy AoE damage while also CCing targets and enabling you to land other skills freely. Makes it much easier to land AR too.
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深渊原力 does decent damage and also recharges AR by a significant amount, use it whenever it's available but make sure that you're missing an AR charge. -
深渊突袭 is a skill with evasion and should be kept for defensive purposes.
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Swapping to spear procs
超级地能法印 and 
超级厄运法印. The damage from the Geomancy proc immediately applies the Doom proc if you swap in melee range of an enemy. This is a way of instantly applying burst damage.
Sustain
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Every Mallyx skill has a chance to proc
抗性 on a 5s ICD. -
Mace/Shield can be considered your defensive set.
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Shield's
水晶休眠 is basically your third healing skill. It heals for a fair amount while blocking attacks. It also acts as a time-out button while you're waiting for your more important defensive cooldowns to come back up. -
茂盛特使 is weaker, but at least you get to keep moving while using it and it does offer some damage mitigation too. -
回荡喷发 applies 虚弱, which provides damage mitigation in its own way.
- It's also a blast finisher, using it inside a dark field (like the Mallyx elite) applies
目盲.
- It's also a blast finisher, using it inside a dark field (like the Mallyx elite) applies
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While Spear only has
深渊突袭, an extra evade frame is always nice to have as it can substitute a dodge. -
Condition cleansing on this build isn't the best, but you're not completely helpless either:
抚伤之石 (Jalis heal) is your best one, and the closest thing you have to a mass cleanse.
超级洁净法印 on Mace is your second best option. Revenants can proc sigils on legend swap too, which means that you could potentially use this sigil twice in a 10 second window - first when you swap to Mace, and then again 9 seconds later if you're on Mace but decide to swap legends. You'll know that the sigil's CD is ready when your weapon swap has recharged. Syncing them up is beneficial.- Legend swapping itself can transfer conditions via
瘟疫侵染, but keep in mind that this one has a delay, and you must be in melee range when it goes off, which makes it a lot less practical. 
复仇之锤 doesn't cleanse conditions, but it does reduce condi damage taken while active. It's fairly cheap to maintain and has no cast time, so it can work as a last resort option. It's also worth using when you're channeling your Jalis heal for cleansing - sometimes it buys you just a bit more HP so you can pull off the heal without going down.
吸收苦痛 on Mallyx offers mitigation with 决心, so it's worth using against condi builds even if you don't have to stunbreak.
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Both of your stunbreaks have a cast time. While the stunbreak effect happens at the start, to get the other benefits of these skills you must finish the cast.
崇高矮人 should only really be used to break stuns. While its effect is strong, it hardly ever justifies the energy cost or the cast time.
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稳固 from
稳固激发 can be used to secure your healing skills and the 虚弱 on the initial hit serves as damage mitigation. -
强制束缚 can also serve as a defensive tool, as enemies with 
嘲讽 are far less dangerous and can't use CCs. -
Conduit abilities of both legends have defensive applications:
Related Builds
- Conduit - Condition Mallyx - sPvP version of this WvW build.