Vindicator - Power DPS

Like Daredevil before it, DPS Vindicator turns its dodge into a powerful strike that buffs its damage but unlike Daredevil, it only needs its endurance to not be full, so it is able to keep a dodge in hand for defence. Greatsword also brings with it 帝国守卫, which makes Vindicator a durable fighter.

Vindicator can bring 传奇矮人姿态 and/or a Staff to dramatically increase the utility it brings to a group, but the DPS loss is fairly significant.

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

• would be a good option if you are not permanently at 25 .

• If you don't have in your subgroup, you can replace with .
• is a tiny DPS loss.
• The backpiece is a tiny DPS gain, but gives you a little bit of extra vitality. It can be swapped to Berserker stats without any noticeable difference.

Rotation Fundamentals

As a revenant, Vindicator wants to constantly swap between two legends to regain the energy needed for their skills.

Vindicator also wants to regularly dodge to maintain two powerful buffs:

• 海兽之力 gives you a damage buff whenever your endurance is not full.
• 死亡前兆 gives you a damage buff for 10 seconds after dodging, as well as making your dodge deal damage.

To make best use out of these buffs, you want to make sure to dodge before reaching full endurance, and at least every 10 seconds. With 林木之曲, you refill enough endurance for a dodge every ~5.7s (assuming permanent 活力), so you will be dodging a lot!

Be aware that this creates small windows where you don't have enough endurance to dodge attacks. With experience, you can learn to time your dodges around incoming mechanics, but each weapon set also has some active defence that you can use instead:

• On Greatsword, 帝国守卫.
• On Sword, 无情突击.

Simplified Rotation

The rotation can be greatly simplified from the one below by camping Sword/Sword (or Greatsword). This setup also allows you to bring a Staff in your other set to give access to the potent 迷雾激流 - one of the best CC skills in the game. Alternatively, you could bring Hammer to have a ranged option.

• On 传奇刺客姿态, you want to activate 压倒优势 as soon as you swap to it, and leave it running.
  • Legend Swap as soon as its available.
• On 传奇同盟, use 阿契摩洛斯之矛 as soon as you swap to it.
  • Use 游牧突进 if you have spare energy.
  • Use 阿契摩洛斯之矛 a second time when it comes off cooldown, then legend swap.
• If using Sword/Sword, use the following skills off cooldown:
  • 冰冻隔离
• If using Greatsword, use the following skills off cooldown:
• Use off cooldown, and make sure to Dodge within six seconds.
• Dodge to maintain and stop your endurance becoming full.

Rotation

Opener

Start in on Greatsword

3. as soon as you land
7. Weapon Swap

Assassin/Sword Loop

4. - activate during Shackling Wave
6. ⇒ ⇒ x2
10. ⇒ ⇒ x2
14. Weapon Swap

Alliance/Greatsword Loop After the first seven steps, this you are mostly just using skills as they come off cooldown, fitting autoattack chains in the gaps.

7. ⇒ ⇒
11. ⇒ ⇒
13. ⇒ ⇒
18. Weapon Swap
19. Return to start of Assassin/Sword Loop

General tips

• You may wish to dodge twice at the start of the rotation to give yourself more breathing room to avoid reaching full endurance. This will leave you without any ability to dodge for defence though.
  • In this case, you will need to rely on your weapon skills instead: on Greatsword, and on Sword.
• In extreme cases, you can use to access the second Alliance legend and provide support to your group.

Crowd Control

Accessing CC can be difficult on revenants as CC skills cost energy that you should have been spending on damage instead. Nevertheless, each legend has one skill:

• On , - this is a very expensive skill and you will usually need to plan ahead if you want the energy to use it.
• On , .
• On , .

Staff On the Greatsword only rotation, you can use Staff as your second weapon set. This doesn't provide any damage, but gives you access to , which is one of the best CC skills in the game. In general, the DPS loss isn't worth swapping to Staff in the middle of a fight but there are some cases where this is mitigated:

• Many fractal bosses start with an open defiance bar, so you can start on Staff then immediately swap to Greatsword after using and continue your rotation as normal.
  • The same logic applies to bosses that end a phase with a defiance bar, such as Keep Construct or Amala.
• Some bosses will be invulnerable while their breakbars are active. If you pre-emptively swap to Staff after your big DPS skills, you can minimise the DPS downtime.
  • Raid examples: Slothasor, Samarog, Sabir.
• It will always be worth sacrificing damage if it would prevent a wipe.
• It will almost always be worth sacrificing damage if it would save another player's life.