Renegade - Condi DPS

The condition DPS Renegade build for raids. This build has a difficult rotation which requires lots of practice to perform well with. In exchange for the difficulty it brings high sustained damage, high 易伤, and options for good CC and supportive auras such as 断刃壁垒 and 断魂之峰.

Trait Variants

• For the Spear/Spear rotation 地狱酷寒 performs slightly better.
• 迷雾之歌 is a small DPS loss, and removes the need to worry about only legend swapping below 10 energy. This makes the rotation significantly easier, so may perform better for some players.
  • This is also recommended if running Spear & Shortbow
• 公正反叛 can be taken at roughly 10% DPS loss for roughly 50% 敏捷.

Weapon Variants

Mace/Axe, Shortbow and Spear are all very close to each other in terms of damage, and can be mixed and matched depending on your preferences:

• Spear somewhat mitigates the very slow ramp time of renegade, making it a strong option.
  • Spear/Spear has the highest potential DPS and is perhaps the easiest weapon set to do well on, but unlocking the full potential requires much more precision than other options, as well as having the most forced movement. It also requires slightly different sigils.
  • Spear & Mace/Axe can deal almost as much damage as Spear/Spear but has a faster ramp and more structure. The major downside is the difficulty in spending energy fast enough on Mace/Axe.
  • Spear & Shortbow is the lowest damage of all the options, but comes with the advantage that both weapon sets are fully ranged. As this setup struggles to spend energy fast enough, it also means not having to deal with 迷雾涌能 or forced movement on Spear.
• For players that don't own Janthir Wilds, the best weapons are Mace/Axe and Shortbow.

Food

• • You could also use (or ascended versions) - this is only a small DPS loss

Utility

• • or for a cheaper alternative

• On encounters with significant enough time where you cannot melee the boss, replacing the with a may be higher damage.
• If using Spear/Spear, replace the with a and pair this Spear with .

Non-SotO relics

Unfortunately none of the core damage relics are particularly strong for condi renegade. You could pick an option that offers some utility instead, or:

• is trivial to maintain on Spear, and it could work on Mace/Axe & Shortbow if you switch the pairings of legends and weapons, so that you can build stacks up in with , and in .
  • You should use (or ascended versions) with this.
• wouldn't be completely terrible.

Rotation Fundamentals

Every ability a Revenant has (apart from autoattacks) uses energy. While this regenerates slowly on its own, you will typically spend more that you can regain so swapping legend is necessary. Swapping legend resets energy to 50 (or 75 if you swapped below 10 energy and are using ) so in general you will want to do this off cooldown so you can afford to keep using your skills.

For condi Renegade, you combine your legend swaps with weapon swaps to better spend energy and as legend swaps will also trigger weapon swaps, you can "double dip" on swap sigils ( and ) by legend swapping before you weapon swap.

Spear & Mace/Axe Rotation

Start on Mace/Axe and . Maximising damage on the Mallyx sections involves weaving single autoattacks between other skills to ensure each pulse of is enhanced. This can be very tricky to do without delaying your rotation, so it may be better to just use skills as fast as you are able.

Opener

1. - this buffs Razorclaw's Rage and makes it activate instantly
6. Weapon Swap
7. ,
8. ,
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10. ,
11. ,
12. ,
13. ,
14. ,

Kalla After Temporal Rift, the focus needs to be on spending energy as quickly as you can to ensure you are below 10 before you legend swap. If you don't make it, use just before.

2. Weapon Swap

The next step will be to add in weapon swapping, but keeping 迷雾之歌 as the grandmaster trait in Invocation.

The fundamental ideas are the same, but shortly after legend swapping, you should also weapon swap. With only 50 energy to spend in each legend, it is better to pair Shortbow with 传奇龙魂使姿态 and Mace/Axe with 传奇恶魔姿态. In comparison to the full rotation, this also has the convenient effect of pairing the ranged weapon with legend skills that can be used at range. You can also swap the positions of the 超级地能法印 with the 超级大地法印 on your weapons - this will ensure that all your melee damage is on the same set, and also allow you to remain in 传奇龙魂使姿态 if you are forced to be at range for an extended period of time.

Be aware that the pairing of legends and weapons is the other way around in the full rotation, so you may develop muscle memory that you then have to unlearn if you move on to the full rotation later.

Opener Start on 传奇龙魂使姿态 and Shortbow

1. 冰刃怒火
2. 刃爪之怒
3. 七箭
4. 传奇恶魔姿态

Rest of the Rotation

• When swapping to 传奇恶魔姿态, immediately activate 拥抱黑暗 and leave it running - this pulses damage in a small area around you, so if you cannot be close to your target, stay in 传奇龙魂使姿态.
• On Mace/Axe, use skills 2, 3 and 5 off cooldown.
  • If you start with 灼热裂痕, you can get four uses off before switching back to 传奇龙魂使姿态 and Shortbow. This is secondary to ensuring you can legend swap off cooldown, so don't worry about it if you can't reliably use 血灾路径 off cooldown or you think you won't have permanent 急速 and 敏捷.
• When swapping to 传奇龙魂使姿态, you will have enough energy to use 刃爪之怒 and 冰刃怒火 once each - make sure to cast 冰刃怒火 first so that it enhances 刃爪之怒, but otherwise the timing isn't very important, just don't delay the next legend swap.
• On Shortbow, use skills 2-4 off cooldown.
  • If you start with 血灾路径, you can get four uses off before switching back to 传奇恶魔姿态 and Mace/Axe. This is secondary to ensuring you can legend swap off cooldown, so don't worry about it if you can't reliably use off cooldown or you think you won't have permanent and .

The full rotation is heavily optimised to ensure that you end up below 10 energy just as it is time to legend swap, to gain the extra 25 energy each swap from 迷雾涌能. This means the rotation needs to be performed well, as well as being very dependent on good 急速 and 敏捷 uptime.

Opener Start in 传奇龙魂使姿态 and on Mace/Axe.

1. 冰刃怒火 - make sure to cast this first, so that it enhances Razorclaw's Rage
2. 刃爪之怒
3. 回荡喷发
4. 传奇恶魔姿态

Mallyx The stronger effect of 拥抱黑暗 can only be activated once per pulse, so a single autoattack is added after key skills to ensure that no pulses are wasted. This requires precision to avoid either cancelling 碎裂射击 or delaying your legend swap, so it may be better in practise not to worry about it.

1. 拥抱黑暗
2. 灼热裂痕
3. Weapon swap
4. 血灾路径, 碎裂射击
5. 灵魂碾压, 碎裂射击
6. 七箭, 碎裂射击
7. 血灾路径, 碎裂射击
8. 碎裂射击 until 血灾路径 is available
9. 血灾路径, 碎裂射击
10. 七箭
11. 灵魂碾压
12. 传奇龙魂使姿态

Kalla

1. 血灾路径
2. Weapon swap
3. 灼热裂痕
4. 回荡喷发
5. 壁垒轰炸
6. 瞬现裂隙
7. 悲惨横扫 - it is efficient to get a single auto in here, but don't worry too much about it
8. 灼热裂痕
9. Auto-attack chain twice
10. 灼热裂痕
11. 冰刃怒火 - make sure to cast this first, so that it enhances Razorclaw's Rage
12. 刃爪之怒
13. ⇒ - it is efficient to get two autos in here, but don't worry too much about it
15. Repeat from Mallyx