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Focused on: Strike damage, Control and Mobility
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 15, 2025.
Overview
A high damage Power Spellbreaker WvW roaming build with great mobility, featuring the Greatsword. This version of GS Spellbreaker takes the Strength specialization for maximum burst damage while relying on Staff for sustain. Not playing Defense makes it a bit harder to play than other builds.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Dagger/Shield over Staff - GS/Dagger is the more traditional way of playing Spellbreaker in WvW, but it's currently being overshadowed by Staff. This is a way higher pressure set with unblockable boon removal and more CC, but your sustain will be considerably lower on it. Going for Defense Defense to make up for the loss of Staff is worth considering.
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Variants
巅峰表现 offers even better damage, but as a Warrior you should grab any 
抗性 source you can get so blinds don't destroy you. Taking Peak Performance is yet another cut to your Resistance uptime.- Take
强力正义 if you want to have a bit more sustain. 
反攻突袭 can make it easier to land your burst.
Variants
混斗复元 gives you more condi cleanse but makes it harder to kill some of the high sustain, boon focused builds. Without Dagger's boon removal that could soften up enemies, you rely a lot more on raw damage to overpower other roamers in WvW.
Specialization Variants
Defense Defense over Strength Strength also works. This is a more sustain focused version of the build:
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Stats
- You can replace the Dragon Dragon pieces with Marauder Marauder for higher crit chance, improving your consistency but lowering your burst potential slightly.
Runes
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超级夺魂者符文 - mix of defense and offense. -
超级神枪手符文 - higher crit chance, lower burst potential. -
超级争斗者符文 - better sustain without sacrificing much damage.
Relics
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河流古物 - CD reductions give you more of everything, especially sustain. -
伊斯加然古物 - passive damage boost that's easy to maintain.
Consumables
Food options
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黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - passive damage mitigation and great stats. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - a very strong defensive option which improves your endurance regen and adds a bit more damage. Even has synergy with dodge related traits.- Budget version:
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲
- Budget version:
Utility
Usage
Elite specialization basics
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全力反击 (FC) recharges your Burst skills 
弧线斩切 and 
胜利之路. Try to use it FC when you can reset their cooldowns, except if you're under heavy pressure in which case you can use FC purely for defensive means. -
Always try to make sure Full Counter goes off: briefly move into hostile AoE spells, tank Mesmer clones or Ranger pets, etc.
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FC is both the best defensive and offensive skill in the build as it blocks, evades, grants
稳固 and performs an unblockable AoE damage/CC attack when triggered. -
Both burst skills and Full Counter cost adrenaline. If you only need a little more till you can use them then
通用怒火 can get you there.
General
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Settings: disable auto targeting, otherwise it'd be impossible to use skills like
突击斩 for disengaging.- For more tips check out our settings guide.
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Playstyle: this build is all about weaving hard hitting skills into chains of block and evade frames while tethering yourself to the target with
武者束缚 as often as possible. The combos aren't set in stone, rather you'll need to adapt based on what CDs are available. Minimize melee contact, dodge/block/evade as many things as possible, and spike targets when an opening shows. -
眼疾手快 reduces the CD of weapon swapping to 5 seconds, which keeps gameplay rather fast paced with minimal downtime. As a result you won't be auto attacking much unless you're cleaving a downed enemy. -
CCing a target removes a boon and deals damage/grants adrenaline via
规避损失. -
Thanks to
无路可逃 whenever you 
晕眩 or 
昏迷 a target you also Immobilize Immobilize them. This is especially useful with 全力反击 which dazes targets and then recharges your burst skills, perfectly setting up your followup. -
All movement skills remove the Immobilized condition - list of movement skills in the build:
Burst combo examples
WvW builds don't really have rotations, how you use your skills always depends on the circumstances. These are just a few ideas for sequencing that maximize damage while minimizing your window of vulnerability in melee.
GS to Staff:
回旋剑 from outside melee range.- Dodge towards the target in order to safely get into melee range, or to get rid of
目盲 by making 
野蛮闪避 consume the Blind insead of it causing the next step to miss. -
弧线斩切
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旋风斩
- Weapon swap into
快速拉拽 -
胜利之路
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英勇飞跃
CC focused:
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弧线斩切
- 全力反击 for the Immobilize Immobilize and to reset Arcing Slice.
公牛冲锋 while the Immob lasts.-
弧线斩切
- Weapon swap into 胜利之路
Staff to GS
Conditon cleansing & general survival
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Mobility is a major part of your survivability. Both sets have several mobility skills, then there's also
公牛冲锋 (which is especially great because it's also evading attacks while building distance) and even your elite skill. Whenever damage is starting to overwhelm you or you don't have your defensive CDs at the ready, feel free to leave melee range until it's safe again. -
Almost every Staff skill has some healing attached to it, making this set excellent at recovering your lost HP especially while you're briefly outranging your opponents. It's fine to use your Staff skills including
胜利之路 just to heal up, even if you don't hit an enemy. -
While
链接破碎者 can cover quite the distance, you don't always want to aim it far even when running away. The healing and boons are only applied upon reaching the destination - on low HP you might even get killed by a ranged build or conditions before the skill could end. The closer you aim it to your feet, the sooner you'll get healed and protected by boons. -
平衡姿态 isn't just an anti-CC skill, it also mitigates direct damage by giving you immunity to critical hits. -
"重整旗鼓！" (SIO) is both a stunbreak and a source of condition removal.- You can use it more as a cleansing tool as long as your other stunbreak is not on CD.
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伤势愈合 cleanses 5 conditions and should be used pretty much on CD, assuming you're missing a large chunk of health or need to deal with conditions.- In condition matchups you should consider holding onto Mending for longer, especially when SIO is on CD. Use it mainly as a source of cleansing, unless you get dangerously low on health.
Rampage
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怒神附体 is what you use when you quickly want to burst/CC a target, or desperately need mobility to either chase down someone, or run away from a fight. Bonus points if you manage to attach 武者束缚 just before using your elite. -
CC skills barely do any damage anymore, most of the damage in this form comes from autoattacks and
猛冲. -
投掷巨石 is a popular opener, allowing you to CC targets from range and then either follow up with 猛冲 for burst damage or 
地震跃击 to keep the CC chain rolling.