Galeshot - Galeburst - MetaBattle

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Janthir Wilds builds Visions of Eternity builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A Power Galeshot build for PvP that goes all in on burst damage, both ranged and melee.

Skill Bar

Mechanic

Spear

Utility

Skill Variants

Elite

完美风暴 - this is still ok if you want a bit of extra damage or Squall trait synergy on medium CD. 自然精魂 with its ranged rez potential usually has higher impact on games though.

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Specializations

Equipment

Spear

Empty slot

Sigil

Sword

Mace

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relics

萨奇洛斯古物 - higher sustain.

Usage

Galeshot basics

Rangers with the Galeshot elite specialization gain access to a new set of skills with 召唤旋风之弓. This acts similar to an Engineer weapon kit - you can swap in and out of it anytime you want, there's no CD, and your weapon skill bar will be repalced by the Cyclone Bow's.
- Equipping and dropping the bow counts as weapon swapping for sigils for traits and sigils.
You can't use weapon stowing to cancel skill casts while on the Cyclone Bow.
Every Cyclone Bow skill costs at least 1 Arrow (aside from the auto), which is a new resource. Arrows are passively generated over time.
Using skills with an Arrow cost grants you stacks of Wind Force. At 5 stacks your autoattack becomes 鹰眼射击, a powerful ranged burst skill.
- Wind Force Stacks are lost upon leaving Cyclone Bow.

General

Both weapon sets have great damage, but Sword/Mace is your more defensive/utility focused one and Spear is geared towards offense.
Pet swapping acts as a Blast finisher thanks to 野性号角. Being instant, you can have Smokescale place a 障目烟云 under you (even while you're stunned), and swap pets for AoE stealth.
Smokescale Smokescale's F2 障目烟云 is a useful combo field:
- Projectile finishers like 猎鹰猛扑 could 目盲 your target, increasing your sustain.
- Both weapon sets have leap finishers for stealth stacking.
喷射蒸汽 gives you a baseline passive movement speed boost, but it's not as good as 迅捷. If you're about to leave combat and move to the next fight, consider swapping pets or weapons (or equipping Cyclone Bow). Both of these actions proc Swiftness from traits.
自然精魂 adds massive utility value to the build by allowing you to revive downed allies from range.

Spear

Spear's gimmick is stealth attacks - whenever you're stealthed, stronger versions of skills 2-5 become available. As striking an enemy reveals you, you only get to use 1 of these skills per stealth window.
- Stealth attacks share a CD with their regular versions! If you combo stealth with 战爪进攻 (which is a leap finisher), 肉食伏击 will be on CD so you won't get to use it as a followup.
Skills 2-4 deal heavy damage while #5 (Panther's Prowl) fills a utility purpose.
黑豹窥伺 is perhaps the most important skill on this weapon, as it's an easy way of obtaining 潜行. Not only that, but it allows you to use stealth attacks even when you're 暴露! So this could even fit into burst combos - in case you've just revealed yourself by doing a stealth attack, Panther's Prowl could unlock other stealth attacks without having to wait for Revealed to fall off.
Skill #2 on Spear, 猫鼬狂乱 is a simple melee cleave with high damage. Works fine as a followup to skill #4.
- Stealth attacks: 群狼猛攻 adds an extra strike at the end, increasing its damage significantly but also its cast time. Works best when the target's CC'd and can't fight back. It's the go-to option if raw damage is all you want.
Skill #3, 猎鹰猛扑 is a solid ranged attack. You can extend its range and make it unblockable by stealthing up.
Skill #4, 战爪进攻 is a highly versatile skill and the primary candidate for stealth attacks. Works as a leap finisher, mobility tool, has good damage and could 晕眩 targets if stealthed. If you can get stealth from other sources, use this in stealth. If you can't, use this to gain stealth by comboing with your Smokescale.
Both pets can help you with obtaining 潜行. On Smokescale you need to work for it by doing combos in the smoke field, but on Panther you just press 匿影随行.

Damage

Cyclone Bow (CB) is where most of the burst comes from.
Much of the CB playstyle revolves around 箭雨倾泻, a hard hitting ranged skill. You can reset its CD by using 连续射击 and 超声箭矢, so you should chain your skills with that in mind.
- The only skill (aside from the autoattack) that doesn't recharge Bluster is 疾驰风裔, but that's fine since that's your only defensive skill on this set and you wouldn't want to use it in burst combos anyway.
箭雨倾泻 is for single target damage, 连续射击 is AoE but good for single target too, and 超声箭矢 is better than both but makes you stationary - in exchange it CCs targets. All of these skills give you Wind Force stacks.
At 5 stacks of Wind Force your autoattack becomes 鹰眼射击, the true burst skill of this set. While it's AoE, it deals increased damage to your main target.
We've covered Spear already, so let's talk about Sword/Mace.
猛扑 is the hardest hitting skill here, and one that works best when used after 毒蛇奇袭, as SS can boost Pounce's damage by applying a movement impairing condition. SS also has a longer leap, so you can use this as a gapcloser.
Weapon swap gives you 激怒, and Fury refreshes Opening Strikes via the trait 赶尽杀绝. This casues your first attack to deal more damage following a weapon swap. This only covers 1 hit, not the entire skill.
- Swapping pets procs Clarion bond which also gives you Fury, so you can instantly boost the damage of your next hit by swapping pets.
If you're swapping to Sword and immediately do a 毒蛇奇袭, it'll do more damage because of Remorseless. Then you can boost 猛扑's damage too with a pet swap.
蓟菊防御 does less damage than the Sword skills but still hits relatively hard, and it has the shortest cast time on this set which makes it easy to fit into burst combos.
狂野打击 is harder to pull off because of the long cast time, it's best used for situations like downed cleave, or if you have 稳固 or 急速.

Sustain

You don't really have much in terms of consistent damage mitigation, but you do have tools for avoiding bursts, mainly in the form of evade frames. You'll find them on both weapons, Cyclone Bow, and even among your utility skills. These can even be used to avoid incoming attacks when you're Immobilize Immobilized, whereas you couldn't use regular dodges there.
- 毒蛇奇袭 on Sword.
- 战爪进攻 on Spear.
- 疾驰风裔 on Cyclone Bow.
- 旋风行动 on your utility bar.
磐石纹章 acts as a panic button. While it doesn't break stuns, it can be used while stunned and protects you from incoming strike damage for its duration.
"快保护我！" fills a similar role as Signet of Stone as it mitigates incoming damage and even absorbs some of it, but it's not quite as good. However it does break stuns.
- If another stunbreak or at least the signet is available then you're free to use it for just mitigation, but otherwise you should keep it for emergencies.
- The barrier can be used to soak condition damage too.
旋风行动 is perhaps the best defensive skill in the build. Not only does it break stuns, it repositons you while evading incoming attacks and even grants 奔驰疾速 to help kite or run to a safe spot. Being a Squall skill it also removes all movement impairing conditions + another 1 via trait synergy.
Condition cleansing in the build is rather bad. You mainly rely on not getting hit, but there are a few cleansing tools you could use when in trouble:
- 移动快乐 makes Squalls remove Cripple Cripple, Chill Chill and Immobilize Immobilize + 1 other condition. If you have a lot of conditions on you, consider using any Squall first in order to get rid of a bunch of non-damaging conditons. This is going to increase the odds of you cleansing damaging conditions with your remaining condi removal skills.
- 和煦微风 (healing skill) is your best cleanse, removing 2 conditions on top of having Squall synergy.
- Then comes 蓟菊防御 and 洁净法印 on Sword/Mace.
Consider using 潜行 from pets and disengaging a bit if you're really pressured, of if you've used up all your cleanses.
匿影随行 is able to instantly stealth you even while stunned. It won't help you vs AoE and cleave skills, but it could still be used in a last ditch effort to at least make it harder for enemies to land skills that require a target. If used before they start casting skills like 精准射击, 镜像飞刃, 单兵射击 or 寒冰叉戟, you might save yourself from a lot of damage.

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