Part of the current metagame
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Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
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 March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Power Ritualist build for WvW roaming.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
There are plenty of viable options for the utility slots, just be sure to keep at least 2 stunbreaks:
Weapons
- Dagger/Focus over Spear - an equally viable option that doesn't require Janthir Wilds. Take
饥渴难忍 on Blood Magic.
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Equipment
Equipment Variants
Relics
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寻路者古物 - frees up the rune slot for something that doesn't involve movement speed, if you feel like you're not getting enough value out of the current relic and you're fine with sacrificing that slot. -
烟花古物 - stronger bursts.
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - passive damage mitigation and great stats. -
巨龙甜甜圈片 or 
怪异莓幽灵 (whichever is cheaper) - armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you. -
芫荽牡蛎汤球 - has the lifesteal bonus of Omnomberry Ghost but also increases all stats, this is both a defensive and offensive food. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation through better access to dodging.
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 - budget version.
Utility
Usage
Ritualist basics
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Necromancers with the Ritualist Ritualist elite specialization gain a new shroud:
祭祀帷幕. Functionally it's no different from core shroud - you build Life Force (LF) to enter, it drains passively while active and acts as a second health bar. -
The autoattack does heavy damage and causes spirits to attack your target. Skills 2-4 summon spirits and 5 repositions both you and your spirits while also making them unleash a powerful unique special attack.
- F2-4 skills are tied to your active spirits. You can use these to make them do another kind of special attack.
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For utilities you gain weapon spells that work a bit like Thief Thief venoms. They provide several stacks of beneficial effects and can be shared with allies.
General
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Staff marks generate Life Force (LF) and are unblockable. This includes marks created by traits.
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With
鲜血输送 you and your allies can also trigger staff marks, an enemy isn't required. -
You can keep stacking LF out of combat by making use of these 2 things: if you spam marks beneath your feet, you proc them and gain LF. This gives you something to do even if you're idling in a tower.
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灵魂召集 (shroud #5) can be used to traverse the map even out of combat, giving you both vertical and horizontal mobility. It's quite good at creating shortcuts, like teleporting up to the bridges on Temple of the Silent Storm or up the clocktower on Battle of Kyhlo.
Shroud
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Your real burst damage comes from shroud, weapon sets could almost be considered filler compared to it.
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灵魂扭曲 (ST) is a key part of the build, and has a huge impact on how you use shroud. It makes the first spirit you summon after entering shroud have no CD, so you can resummon it right away. -
流浪灵魂 is generally the best target for Soul Twisting. It does good damage, CCs targets, can be used from range, applies good conditions. Best all-arounder option. -
苦痛灵魂 can be a target for ST too if all you need is damage, as it's the strongest spirit in that regard. Works best against CC'd targets however, so it's a good followup to Wanderlust if you went with that. -
庇护灵魂 is support oriented, it's not a good first pick if you want to pressure targets but it does do some damage. It's quite good however if you need extra healing, damage mitigation or cleansing. It's always summoned in melee -
The autoattack
精华爆炸 does fairly high damage, so once your spirits are summoned, this is your main source of pressure in shroud.- Striking an enemy with the auto causes your spirits to focus your target. This is quite useful for switching targets.
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In combat
灵魂召集 is best used when all of your spirits are active. It'll make them unleash powerful special attacks. It's also a good escape tool if you need to disengage.- If you're using this with the intent of bursting some new target that was farther away, make sure to hit the new target with your shroud auto beforehand. The teleport itself will not cause the spirits to switch targets, so their special attacks might be wasted on a target that might not even be in range now.
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Summoning a spirit unlocks a new skill above your shroud bar (F2-4). The effects are related to the role the spirits fill - you use Anguish for damage, Wanderlust for CC, Preservation for survival in the form of
稳固.- These effects trigger around the spirits, not the Ritualist.
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Spirits die if you exit shroud, which also means you no longer get to use your F2-4 skills.
Spear version
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Spear has it own unique mechanic: soul shards.
千疮百孔 (skill #2) spends them, skills 3-5 build them. The cap is 6 soul shards. -
Leaving shroud resets the CD of Spear's
与世隔绝, and Isolate's chain skill 
悲痛欲绝 refreshes the CD of 千疮百孔. This will always give you an option to do good followup bursts after leaving shroud, or to chase down targets (shroud already has some mobility, and you can teleport to targets struck by the ranged Isolate). -
The main burst skill here is
千疮百孔. It's fine to use this skill as the first and second skill after swapping to Spear, even with low or no soul shards. You're naturally going to score a CD reset and build up your shard count as you're cycling through the rest of the skills anyways, so your 2nd use of this skill should happen while it's at full potential.
Dagger version
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Use the Immobilize Immobilize from
黑暗契约 to secure important skills like 
刺骨恶寒 and 
生命虹吸. -
While all Staff skills can generate LF, Dagger/Focus is still better at building it.
灵魂抓攫 gives you a large amount from a safe distance while the dagger autos can rapidly generate this resource, if you can afford to go melee for a bit.
Sustain
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Condition cleansing in the build is rather good. You can manage condi levels with
腐烂印记, 庇护灵魂 and 
治疗之器, or resort to 
症状吞噬 for a mass cleanse if you're starting to get overwhelmed. -
生命虹吸 can act as your second healing skill. You can increase its odds of landing by CC'ing targets beforehand - 黑暗契约 is perfect for this.
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鬼灵铠甲 (if taken) and 
守护之器 are similar, and fill the same role - stunbreak + damage mitigation. You're free to use them for 
保护 as long as you have at least 1 other stunbreak for emergencies. -
Weapon spells can be used to support others, as they're shared with nearby allies (albeit with fewer charges).
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Your elite
欣雷之器 offers a different type of mitigation, but it's mostly just used as a stunbreak and 稳固 source. -
灵魂召集 (shroud #5) is your best escape tool. While it doesn't break stun, you can use it even while CC'd to escape to a safe spot.
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Staff is your defensive/utility weapon.
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Every Staff mark heals you and gives you something beneficial via
鲜血输送. You can also place Staff marks behind your back when kiting enemies. -
凛冬印记 is good for snaring enemies with the Chill Chill} while 
夺魂印记 drives them away with 
恐惧. -
腐烂印记 offers a base amount of condi transfers + additional cleansing via Transfusion. For the cleansing part you don't even need to hit an enemy, you're free to drop the mark on your position.
Related Builds
- Ritualist - Blood Power Rit - sPvP version of this WvW build.