Spellbreaker - Spear DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage, Dps and Boon removal

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Path of Fire Builds Janthir Wilds builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on July 15, 2026 and is up to date for the July 15, 2026 patch.

A Spellbreaker build for WvW. Combines high personal damage, good personal survivability and boonrip.

Variants

Weapons

• Sword/Axe ⇒ Greatsword
  • Sword/Axe has higher potential damage and some utility, but is worse defensively and requires much higher melee uptime

• - Convert incoming damage into healing
• - Stunbreak + Critical hit immunity
• - Evade + Movement ()
• - Movement ()
• - Movement ()
• - Evade

• It is almost always worth switching to Sword/Axe for ⇒ if you can land both even if you need to switch back to Spear without using any other skills
• Beware the animation lock of . Its best use is for single target damage while already in melee, but even then it must be used very carefully if at all

• is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability.
  • Don't be afraid to cancel after only a few ticks of damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
• Save to disengage back to your group, but try to hit enemies with it when possible since the Evade will protect you while dealing decent damage
• Beware the animation lock of . Its best use is for single target damage while already in melee, but even then it must be used very carefully if at all