Spellbreaker - Power DPS

Weapon Variants

• Offhand Axe can be used if you have doubts about your 急速 uptime (it can generate ~35% for yourself).

Skill Variants

Qadim Lava Elemental Kiter Variant

• 治疗纹章 gives you more sustain while kiting Lava Elementals
• 破除幻术 does increased damage to enemies that have boons. Qadim regains boons on a very short interval. Replaces 公牛冲锋
• 盛怒纹章 can be used if adrenaline generation is an issue. Alternatively, use your 怒气纹章 actively to make up any adrenaline deficiency, which allows you to take 弱化之风 in case DPS isn't high enough to skip Qadim's defiance bar (or on Challenge Mode)

• For players that don't own Janthir Wilds, a 潜行者古物 is the best option.
• Against bosses that don't get Stunned, a 超级空气法印 on Dagger/Mace and a 超级水能法印 on Hammer will do more DPS than the 超级冲击法印s.
• If you're able to reliably use CC during a bosses attack animations, then 超级隔离法印 will trigger, which can make it better than 超级冲击法印.
• Against bosses where you can reliably remove boons (such as Qadim), 努里斯古物 may offer higher DPS. Be aware that you will also stack this relic passively in combat, so the damage buff may trigger on a moment where it's not useful.

Spellbreaker is a great all-rounder, combining high sustained damage, consistent boonrip, big CC and good survivability thanks to 全力反击.

Hammer unlocks great CC as well as the Defense traitline, allowing for even higher sustain and near-permanent 稳固. This build fits the melee brawler archetype perfectly, and as such cannot really do anything if forced out of melee range.

• 规避损失 - On bosses that regain boons very regularly you will not gain the benefit of 日月同辉, and you can reliably gain the extra damage and adrenaline for removing boons with this trait.

Food

• 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 or ascended versions

Utility

• 超级磨刀石

Offhand mace rotation

Start on Dagger

Opener

1. "突破极限！" - If you don't have time to precast this, use Bull's Charge before Breaching Strike so that you have some adrenaline
2. 弱化之风
3. 突破打击
4. Weapon Swap
5. 震撼锤击
6. 公牛冲锋
7. 撼地重击
8. 巨锤冲击
9. 凶猛打击
10. 裂背重锤 - this recharges Fierce Blow
11. 凶猛打击
12. Weapon Swap

Dagger/Mace section

1. 碎裂重锤
2. 大地震颤 ⇒ 碎裂重锤 (if available)
3. 突破打击
4. 干扰戳刺
5. 精准切割 ⇒ 聚焦挥砍 ⇒ 敏锐打击 until Weapon Swap is available - finish your auto chains
6. Weapon Swap

Hammer section

The Hammer section has more variability than Dagger. The idea is to line up 公牛冲锋 and 裂背重锤 in the same loop, and use 震撼锤击 whenever it comes off cooldown.

1. 撼地重击
2. 震撼锤击 - the position of this skill will vary from loop to loop
3. 公牛冲锋 (if available)
4. 巨锤冲击
5. 凶猛打击
6. 裂背重锤 ⇒ 凶猛打击 (if available)
7. 巨锤挥击 ⇒ 巨锤重击 ⇒ 巨锤猛击 x2 - You only need to autoattack on the loop without Bull's Charge and Backbreaker
8. Weapon Swap
9. Return to start of Dagger section

Kiting Qadim's Lava Elementals

This build can reliably kite Lava Elementals at Qadim, while also bringing decent DPS on the boss and utility in removing during Parry by using . It is however very unforgiving for mistakes and becomes more difficult quickly when Qadim gets stacks of Fiery Surge. This guide assumes the use of offhand Axe.

Build variation

• gives you more sustain
• can be used if adrenaline generation is an issue. Alternatively, use your actively to make up any adrenaline deficiency, which allows you to take in case DPS isn't high enough to skip Qadim's defiance bar (or on Challenge Mode)
• (Optional) does increased damage to enemies that have boons. Qadim regains boons on a very short interval. Replace and use off cooldown (be aware that it interrupts other skills)
• (Optional) - Qadim regains boons very regularly, so you will not gain the benefit of . You can however reliably gain the extra damage and adrenaline for removing boons with this trait.
• (Optional) can be taken since Qadim regains boons constantly that you can remove to stack this effect.

Kiting Strategy

For a general overview, see this section.

Since this build has no ranged capabilities, we will be running around to kill the Lava Elementals up close. The elementals spawn in an anti-clockwise pattern around the platform Qadim is on. The main strategy for killing the elementals is to go through a loop of three methods (and since the platform is a triangle, that means that we'll be using every method in the same corner every time).

• or and (alternate between them every loop)

Since we don't have , it's possible we won't crit every time. Just finish the elemental with some auto attacks in that case.

Running around the platform means most of Qadim's attacks won't hit us. The main danger comes from , but this attack can be dodged or jumped over. Fire Dance will usually occur right before going back to the first elemental spawn spot, but this can deviate based on Fiery Surge stacks. If we avoid all the attacks, the only sustain we need is for the passive aura. This sustain is provided by the passive of and building up by hitting . If an emergency block is needed, can be used which will also add stacks of if it hits an enemy. Adrenaline can be topped off by using the active of or bringing .