The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage and Sustain
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Visions of Eternity builds
Difficulty: Normal
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 Power Luminary build for PvP with extreme burst damage but low survivability.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
For the optional slot you should pick a stunbreak of your choice:
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纯净沉思 - mass cleanse, great option against condition-heavy comps. Highly recommended for the current version, as we've traded multiple condi cleansing traits for more damage in order to offset the Luminary nerfs. -
裁决纹章 - passive direct damage reduction and a very low CD.
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Variants
净化之光 could give you better condi cleansing if you don't mind giving up some damage.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Sigils
勇气法印 over 
洁净法印 - makes it easier to maintain 10+ 
威能 stacks for your relic, but trades some condi cleansing for it.
Runes
神枪手符文 - higher burst potential but lower consistency.
Usage
Luminary basics
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You can access a new set of weapon skills with
进入光辉熔炉. -
The time you get to spend in the forge is limited, you start running out of energy gradually.
- This isn't a resource you can build or manage. You always start with a full bar upon entering the forge. It's more of a timer.
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The minimum recharge for the forge itself is 5 seconds. If you use 2 or more weapon skill, the recharge goes up.
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Skills 2-5 have flipover chain skills. The chain skills don't add extra recharge time.
- You lose the chance to use chain skills if you cast another skill before using the previous one's chain. For example if you used skill #2 then went straight to skill #3, you can use skill #3's chain skill now, but #2's is no longer available.
General
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决心 increases your critical strike chance by 40% via 
正义本能, pushing it near the crit cap while you have this boon. Always try to maintain Resolution or at least apply it before bursts. -
Your healing skill
决心姿态 isn't just for you - half of its healing is shared with nearby allies! This gives you an extremely potent support tool, and you should always try to heal next to allies. -
Try to burn through all of your virtues before resorting to
专注复苏. RF is a great skill to use if you're being focues by the enemy team and you don't have any CDs left. Just keep in mind that this skill makes you lose capture point contribution for its duration.- Since your virtues are instant, you can also just use them towards the end of Renewed Focus to make sure they aren't wasted. They'll be recharged even if you active them a split second before RF goes off.
Mobility
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Use
闪光利刃 for mobility when roaming the map. -
Stay in forge mode for at least 10 seconds to maintain the mobility boost. After 10 seconds you can drop out, the speed boost will be refreshed for another 10 seconds, which should cover the recharge of the skill.
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Alternatively stack
激怒 with 
利刃符印 and 
晕眩巨锤, as Fury gives you a 33% movement speed boost from 
暴怒聚集.
Sword/Focus
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This is more of a defensive secondary set, but still offers plenty of damage.
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狂徒防御 is both defensive and offensive, dealing solid damage while destroying enemy projectiles. Note that the damage of this skill can be very unreliable in anything but melee range. -
利刃符印 has many uses: vertical mobility via teleportation, symbol for cleaving,
目盲 to make an important skill miss, or a combo field which can be used to combo 
光明光环 with a leap finisher. -
裁决光束 isn't very powerful but makes up for it with its versatility. The 目盲, cleanse, heal, boons and damage make it useful in just about any situation. -
愤怒护盾 is a highly valuable defensive skill if used correctly. Having instant access to a blocking skill could save your life if you get caught in a CC with no available stunbreaks, but it could also cover important casts like your healing skill or allow you to pressure enemies while tanking hits.- If the 3 charges aren't consumed, the shield explodes for heavy damage. In combat this is a rather unlikely scenario, the only reliable way of getting the explosion off is casting this skill at a safe distance and jumping in with a teleport just as it's about to expire. When combined with other heavy hitting skills (especially on Greatsword) and
裁决干涉 for an instant teleport, the shield can add quite a bit of burst damage to your opener.
- If the 3 charges aren't consumed, the shield explodes for heavy damage. In combat this is a rather unlikely scenario, the only reliable way of getting the explosion off is casting this skill at a safe distance and jumping in with a teleport just as it's about to expire. When combined with other heavy hitting skills (especially on Greatsword) and
Greatsword
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愤怒回旋 is the main burst skill on this set, make sure that it lands - do an unexpected ranged burst with 裁决干涉, or use it after pulling targets in with 
束缚之刃. -
When in combat, always try to combo
信仰之跃 in a Light field such as 
决心符印 for 光明光环. Few things to note when using this for mobility:- If you're OOC (out of combat), swap weapons just before the leap finishes in order to cancel the final part of the skill which would otherwise bring you to a halt.
- In combat this can be used for jumping away from the fight to avoid damage. To do that simply just detarget (click anywhere on your screen that's not an enemy player) before using the skill, and make sure that auto-targetting is disabled.
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束缚之刃 is useful even when the target has
稳固 and thus cannot be pulled. The damage over time part of this skill is decent, and you could time it in a way that the target's stability runs out before Binding Blade does, allowing you to pull them in later. Note: while the initial projectile itself can be dodged, once the blades are attached you can pull targets out of any kind of evade frame! The blades also seek out enemies even if they are 
潜行ed.
Burst combo examples
PvP is an unpredictable environment, so builds don't really have rotations. These are only meant to give you some ideas for sequencing, you don't have to follow them all the time.
Ranged AoE combo
- Optional: use 愤怒护盾 and wait a bit. Proceed with the chain when it's close to running out, as you want it to explode shortly after jumping in with Judge's Intervention. The better your timing is, the higher the chances are for it to explode in melee. It only blocks 3 attacks, and any random damage could consume those, in which case the shield won't explode.
- Optional: use
辉耀姿态 in a similar way to SoW, but a bit later. While you want it to explode shortly after jumping in, you also want to give yourself enough time to land all the hits from Whirling Wrath in order to charge up the damage bonus of Effulgent Stance. - Pre-cast 愤怒回旋 from a distance.
- 裁决干涉 to teleport to the target right before WW starts doing damage (WW has a cast bar, jump in as the bar's about to fill up).
光耀正义 for 
急速. If you don't trust your timing, use it before jumping in with JI, that way your Whirling Wrath is guaranteed to reap the full benefits of this skill, but you lose out on a 目盲.-
愤怒回旋
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决心符印
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信仰之跃
- Any Luminary skill in order to detonate the Light Aura you got from doing Leap of faith in a symbol
Melee GS burst
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束缚之刃
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决心符印
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辉耀姿态
利刃拉拽 enemies onto the symbol- 光耀正义 for 急速 and to detonate the Light Aura of Effulgent Stance
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愤怒回旋
- 信仰之跃 - if you did it well, Symbol of Resolution should still be active, granting you another Light Aura.
Hammer Burst Rotation
- Use a symbol from either weapon sets, you'll want to stand in it for Dazzling Spin. 利刃符印 is especially good for this as it teleports you into melee range and drops the symbol right at your target.
- 进入光辉熔炉 - this grants 光明光环
- 光耀正义 (F1) both to detonate the aura and to reapply 光明光环
- 晕眩巨锤 for damage and to detonate the aura. Standing in a symbol reapplies 光明光环
闪耀旋转 for damage and to detonate the aura- Optional: if you end the chain now and drop out of the forge, you can reenter it in 5 seconds
Extended Burst Rotation (without symbol precast)
- 进入光辉熔炉 - this grants 光明光环
- 光耀正义 (F1) both to detonate the aura and to reapply 光明光环
- 晕眩巨锤 for damage and to detonate the aura
- Optional, if you have it: 辉耀姿态 for 光明光环
- 闪耀旋转 for damage and to detonate the aura
夜光法杖 to place a symbol, which is a combo field- 闪光利刃 inside the symbol to combo 光明光环
光亮戳刺 (chain skill of Gleaming Blade) to detonate the aura
Sustain
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愤怒护盾 can be used to block attacks even when you're stunned.
- It's also a blast finisher, always try using it inside a symbol - you'll cleanse 1 condition for you and nearby allies.
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Condition cleansing in the build is rather good. Sources include:
- 裁决光束 on Focus.
- 决心姿态 (your heal).
光耀决心 (F2), this one's instant.- 纯净沉思) (if taken) is your best cleanse, removing all conditions and converting them into boons. It's often a last resort option for cases where your other removals wouldn't be enough, or you can't afford to cast skills and need instant condi removal.
复苏微光 inside the forge.- Trait dependent Any source of 光明光环 when playing with 净化之光.
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If you plan on chaining multiple smaller cleansing tools together, start with
决心姿态. It has a lingering bonus that heals you for each condition removed. -
There's plenty of strike damage mitigation too, especially when it comes to stances. Every stance gives you
保护 on activation, and those that interact with enemies in any capacity apply 目盲 too. -
While
辉耀姿态 is often used in burst combos, it has plenty of defensive value too. It applies 保护, barrier and 光明光环 when activated, and 
晕眩 + 目盲 when it ends. While not a stunbreak, it can be used while stunned. -
You should have at least 2 utility stunbreaks +
光耀勇气. -
Every Virtue skill can be used defensively, including
光耀正义 which 目盲s in melee. Blinds are an important part of your survival kit and can be found on both weapons as well as the forge. -
Every forge skill can be used defensively:
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裁决干涉 is also a stunbreak but most of the time it'll be used to execute burst combos from range. Worth holding onto for defensive purposes when every other stun break is on CD though.
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As long as you have
专注复苏 you're somewhat safe. It's an incredibly powerful defensive skill which grants you immunity to incoming damage and CC (other than fall damage) when under heavy pressure, and refreshes all of your Virtues which could either help you stay alive longer or run away.
Related Builds
- Luminary - Radiant GS Luminary Roamer - WvW version of the build.