The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage, Dps, Burst and Boonrip
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Path of Fire Builds Secrets of the Obscure builds Visions of Eternity builds
Difficulty: Easy
This build was last updated on April 14, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A build designed to strip boons and lay down high area damage.
Skill Bar
Variants
- Offhand Sword
- Spear
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Equipment
Equipment Variants
Stats
- Feel free to use as much Berserker's gear as you can without dying
- The given setup aims for maximum Effective Health
- You can swap Marauder's to Demolisher's to make healing more efficient in exchange for increasing your chance to be spiked from 100%
Relic
Sigils
Consumables
Usage
Quick Guide
- Power Ritualist is a utility DPS that sets up its group with boon corruption
- Your highest priority is using your
腐化法池 and 
苦难法池 together with other necros in squad on the commanders call to create an opportunity for your group to generate kills - Use
夜幕降临 like wells - at the same time as other necros on the commanders call
- If you commander doesn't call 夜幕降临, use it to punish the enemy group pushing into yours
- If you commander doesn't call
- Use
分裂之器 with your groups spikes to add burst - Use
祭祀帷幕 ⇒ 
流浪灵魂 to add extra damage on top of your other spikes - Wait in 祭祀帷幕 for 流浪灵魂 to finishing pulsing to recast it with
灵魂扭曲, filling time with your other Spirit skills and Autoattacks - Save
黑暗抓攫 to 
拉拽 enemies into your groups spikes or catch enemies when they try to kite your group - Focus on using Axe/Focus until you need 夜幕降临 or 黑暗抓攫 on Greatsword
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has low mobility skill access
- This build has low active defenses
Defensive Skill List
Overall Priorities
High
- Wells
- Boon rip
Moderate
- Damage
- CC
Low
- Support
Detailed Explanations
Wells
- Try to save your Well skills for the commanders call
- If you aren't using voice communication, use your wells at the same time as the other Necromancers in your group
- Cast 腐化法池 before 苦难法池, due to the longer cooldown
- Only use your Well skills at the same time, do not use one early and desync their cooldowns
- When using ground AoEs like 腐化法池 or 苦难法池, try to place them so that one edge is on the enemy group and the other edge is in the direction they are moving to
- Immediately after placing both wells cast 分裂之器 then enter 祭祀帷幕 to activate
致命洞察 and remain in shroud for the duration of the wells
Boon rip
Boon Rip Skill List
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腐化法池
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夜幕降临
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噬灵盛宴
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刺骨恶寒
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As with wells, use
夜幕降临 on your commanders call- If you commander isn't calling 夜幕降临 instead use it when the enemy group is pushing towards you or your group is in melee
- If you commander isn't calling
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Combine
噬灵盛宴 with 腐化法池 and 夜幕降临 whenever you can- Otherwise cast 噬灵盛宴 as often as possible while in range
- Otherwise cast
Damage
Skill priority
- 腐化法池 + 苦难法池 - always together, on call
- 夜幕降临 - on call
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分裂之器
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噬灵盛宴
- 祭祀帷幕 ⇒ 流浪灵魂
- 祭祀帷幕 ⇒
苦痛灵魂 - 祭祀帷幕 ⇒ 苦痛灵魂 ⇒
支配苦痛 - 刺骨恶寒 ⇒
恐怖之爪 - only on single target -
死亡漩涡
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掘墓剑斩
灵魂抓攫 - only if low on Life Force
- Use 噬灵盛宴 immediately after Weapon Swap Weapon Swap and use it again immediately before swapping back
- Delaying your Weapon Swap Weapon Swap slightly for the cooldown is fine
- 分裂之器 adds significant burst, use it when you group is spiking together, especially when you cast Wells or 夜幕降临
- Always cast 流浪灵魂 first when entering 祭祀帷幕 to proc 灵魂扭曲
- You must wait for the 流浪灵魂 spirit to finish casting its skill before reactivating 流浪灵魂 or its cast will be cancelled
- The spirit is finished casting when it creates the green AoE on the ground that ticks damage, once that appears you can recast safely
- This also applies to leaving Shroud after casting the second 流浪灵魂
- Once your second 流浪灵魂 cast is ticking, leave shroud unless you are getting unblocked
精华爆炸 hits - Use 苦痛灵魂 and
庇护灵魂 before casting 精华爆炸 to fill downtime waiting for the 流浪灵魂 spirit to cast
- You must wait for the
灵魂召集 can be used to reposition for 支配苦痛 or to reposition in general
- Be careful not to move your 流浪灵魂 spirit before it drops its AoE
- Be careful not to move your
- 死亡漩涡 and 掘墓剑斩 are very short range and come with long cast times, only use them when your entire group is pushing melee and it is safe to do so
- Use 刺骨恶寒 ⇒ 恐怖之爪 ⇒
撕裂之爪 pick off isolated players
CC
CC Skill List
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Use
黑暗抓攫 when:- Your group calls a spike such as Wells
- Your group is range spiking the enemy
- Enemy groups move defensively while your group is pushing
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Do not use
黑暗抓攫 when:- Your group is pushing and the enemy group is pushing
- Your group is moving away from the enemy
- It would pull the enemy group out of your groups spike (except for range spikes)
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You can use a Stow Weapon keybind halfway through the cast of
黑暗抓攫 and the pull will finish casting while you can immediately start casting other skills
