Renegade - Power DPS

A power DPS build for Renegade featuring impressive burst that scales well with hitbox size, a fluid rotation and a small amount of incidental boon support and healing. It can also trade DPS for extra utility and sustain.

The melee requirement, fast pace and energy management can make it a somewhat difficult build to play on actual encounters, and it also loses not insignificant damage if forced to dodge. Energy on revenant in general, but especially on builds with can take some getting used to, but once you get comfortable with which skill costs how much energy and how that let's you reset your rotations and burst windows, you will become a lot more adaptable on actual encounters.

Food

• , or ascended versions

Utility

• On bosses that can be regularly stunned, 超级冲击法印 will be better than 超级空气法印/超级水能法印.
• The optimal number of Dragon stats pieces will depend on how many infusions are used. Full Berserker stats is only a small DPS loss.
• 雄鹰古物 less initial burst, traded for more damage below 50% boss health. Worse in bursty fights like fractals. Net equal on the golem.
• In situations where sustain is more important than maximum damage, you can take 辩证澄清 over 永恒遗产 for a minor dps loss in exchange for great self sustain. If this is somehow still not enough sustain, you can also consider 迷雾异客古物 for even more self sustain at an additional cost of dps.

刃爪之怒 is essentially interchangeable with 暗刃勇气, the latter can be useful if you need 稳固 or CC in your opener, if your supports for some reason aren't bringing any, i.e. on Gorseval or on fractal fights that start on a CC bar. Keep in mind that 稳固 can be corrupted into 恐惧, so on encounters with boon corruption 刃爪之怒 is better.

During the loops below, you want to cast 壁垒轰炸 whenever it becomes available, without interrupting your auto attack chains. The only exception to this rule is when you can manage to cast it so early in the sword loop, that it will still fit inside 争斗者古物 uptime. Eventually, you will also reach a sword loop, where 壁垒轰炸 never comes off cooldown at all. You need to spot this early and replace it with 高层命令, as well as casting 冰冻隔离 off cooldown in between your auto attack chains, otherwise you will not be able to drain enough energy to trigger 迷雾涌能 without significantly reducing your dps potential.

Rotation

Start on 传奇龙魂使姿态 and Greatsword

Opener

1. 永恒挽歌
2. 冰刃怒火
3. 刃爪之怒 - this will be instant cast thanks to being Enhanced by the previous skill
4. 传奇刺客姿态
5. Weapon Swap
6. 壁垒轰炸

Assassin/Sword Loop

1. 冰冻隔离 + 压倒优势
2. 桎梏波动
3. 死亡打击
4. 突刺预备 ⇒ 野蛮利刃 ⇒ 裂隙劈砍 x5
5. 突刺预备
6. 传奇龙魂使姿态
7. Weapon Swap

Renegade/Greatsword Loop

1. 冰刃怒火
2. 迷雾释放
3. 永恒挽歌 + 断刃壁垒 whenever available as instant cast. Do not forget to cast this, or you will lose 人人为我 uptime!
4. 幻影突袭
5. ⇒ ⇒
7. ⇒ ⇒ x2
12. Weapon Swap
13. Return to start of Assassin/Sword Loop

Video Example: Power Renegade (Gs/SwSw) - 42.297 dps

General Usage

• 23% of your crit chance comes from having full endurance (via ), so try to avoid dodging if you can.
  • Both weapon sets have active defense - on Sword and on Greatsword.
• Your most important DPS skills are , , and along with and (on sword), and and (on greatsword) in this order of priority. If your dps window is small or coming to an end, try to fit as many of these skills in before the target phases.
• When you're not casting skills make sure you're consistently auto-attacking the boss, being careful not to interrupt the chain as the damage is heavily back-loaded.

Break bars

Due to their large energy costs (or requirement to swap to staff) all of this build's CC options will result in a large drop-off in your DPS. However, they are all powerful AoE control effects so they can be used to rescue your group from dangerous situations and are well worth pressing once you get comfortable with resetting your burst windows.

• outputs a large amount of breakbar damage after a noticeable delay, be aware that you have to stay within 600 units for the skill to function so you can't move away if cast at max range as well as casting it slightly ahead of a breakbar to account for the delay.
• is less value than due to the large energy cost for relatively low CC output in comparison, but can still be useful given the correct situation.
• (only if using Staff) is one of the strongest CC skills in the game. However be aware that this is only a last resort CC option, as it will reduce your damage enormously just to bring a staff at all, even if you never use it. If possible, step back from the target slightly before casting this to maximize the impacts that land on the boss. Be careful using this skill near the edges of platforms, such as on Xera or the final boss of the Chaos fractal as the forced movement can send you over the edge.