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Focused on: Strike damage and Dps
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds End of Dragons builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Hard
Overview
A Power based Vindicator build for WvW.
Skill Bar
Variants
Weapons
- Spear ⇒ Hammer
Template Code
Template Code
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Variants
刺客灵气 worth it if two other DPS in your party lack fury uptime
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Relics
Stats
- Feel free to use as much Berserker stats Berserker stats as you feel comfortable with
Sigils
Consumables
Usage
Quick Guide
- Shiro Vindicator is a hybrid melee/range DPS with strong CC attached to its damage abilities. It has many complex ways to combine its skills to efficiently use up Energy
- Swap between Shiro and Alliance as frequently as possible
- Dodge Dodge frequently for damage and to maintain
海兽之力/
死亡前兆 buff - In spear prioritize
深渊毁灭 then use your other Spear skills to recharge it
Spear Priority
- When you have melee uptime swap to Greatsword to burst along with your legend skills
Greatsword Priority
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- This build has high active defenses
Defensive Skill List
深渊突袭 - Movement + Evade Evade
幻影突袭 Movement
帝国守卫 - Block
暗影回撤 - Stunbreak + Immobilize Immobilize clear + Movement + Evade Evade
位面穿行 - Movement
同盟战术
- Archemorus (Red)
同盟战术
- Saint Viktor (Blue)
-
无我精魂 - Healing -
唤醒 - Stunbreak -
树木之歌 - Condition Clear -
幻影突袭 will lunge towards a target if they are within range, otherwise it moves you considerably less than 900 range
- Neutral creatures can be used as targets
-
Avoiding entering Saint Viktor (Blue) stance unless you'll die if you don't
Priorities
High
- Burst Damage
Moderate
- Damage
Low
- CC
Detailed Explanations
Burst Damage
Range Burst
Shiro
Alliance
Melee Burst
Shiro
- Channel 3 seconds of
压倒优势 either at the start if you can consistently turn it off in time or when 3 seconds remain on the legend swap cooldown if you can't
Alliance
- The goal of these combos is to maximize your damage output by spending the 100 energy you get across a 10s legend swap as efficiently as possible while using cooldowns at appropriate times to get multiple casts of energy efficient skills like
深渊原力 and 
迷雾释放 when possible - Consider these combos very loose guides, you'll often swap between range and melee and need to adjust what you're doing
- For example if you're in Alliance and Spear but your group closes into melee then
游牧突进 will outperform 
爆裂清扫 for the same energy cost - Your burst will need to be adjusted a lot based on cooldowns, especially if you don't get a chance to melee and need to stay in Spear for multiple legend swaps
- Two good rules of thumb:
- Melee skills hit harder than ranged skills, so prioritize melee skills with equivilant energy costs
- Fully charged 深渊毁灭 is the exception to the above rule, don't swap off Spear when its fully charged until you'll have good enough melee uptime to hit multiple skills
- For example if you're in Alliance and Spear but your group closes into melee then
- Whenever possible you should Weapon Swap Weapon Swap from Spear to Greatsword and vice versa as you legend swap
- Make sure to hit the free 深渊毁灭 you get for using Weapon Swap Weapon Swap with 3 stacks of Crushing Abyss
- Make sure to hit the free
- Move
深渊霹雳 up in priority, especially on Alliance, if you can make use of the 
拉拽 on your groups spike
Damage
Skill priority
Spear
Greatsword
- Start fights in Spear + Alliance stance for the superior range
- Swap legends off cooldown to gain energy
- Ideally you always use Spear in Alliance and Greatsword in Shiro, swapping weapons at the same time you swap legends but in practice this will not often happen
- In particular don't be afraid to camp Spear for multiple legend swaps if you don't have an opportunity for melee uptime
- The energy gain from
能量结合 + 
帝皇之托 represents significant potential damage. It should normally be used in Shiro to get extra casts of 
翠玉风暴
Spear
- Make sure to prioritize using at least 1 charge of 深渊毁灭 in Spear to avoid wasting the cooldown reduction that other spear abilities give
- 深渊突袭 is inconsistent, but if you can land all three mines the skill is much higher priority than listed
- Use it when your group is kiting while the enemy pushes into you or as your group pushes through the enemy group
- Move 深渊霹雳 higher in priority than 深渊原力 any time the 拉拽 would be valuable
Greatsword
- Cast 迷雾释放 quickly when swapping to Greatsword so you can cast it a second time before swapping back to Spear
- Autoattack whenever you can on Spear for the cooldown reduction on 深渊毁灭
- Only cast 游牧突进 and 幻影突袭 if the forced movement won't put you in danger
- Prioritize targeting enemies on the edge of the enemy group rather than the center so the skills move you to a safer position
- Use the skills while your group is pushing in and the enemy group is moving away when possible
Alliance
- 爆裂清扫 has a 3 second cooldown, this lets you cast it 3+ times per Alliance rotation which makes it a high priority skill when your have excess energy, such as at range, because it is an efficient way to use up your Energy even though its damage per cast is low compared to other skills
Shiro
- Try to cast 翠玉风暴 twice every time you enter Shiro stance
- Sometimes it is worth delaying a legend swap slightly to cast a third 翠玉风暴 if you have spare energy, but never start the cast more than 1 seconds after the swap is ready
- Keep in mind that 翠玉风暴 only pays its energy cost at the end of the cast, this means that if you swap legends during the cast and finish it in Alliance you'll waste 40 Shiro energy then lose 40 Alliance energy. Avoid this at all costs
- Sometimes it is worth delaying a legend swap slightly to cast a third
- 压倒优势 is useful for using up excess energy that would be wasted on legend swap, but its ICD (Internal Cooldown) is global rather than per target, so never prioritize it over other skills
CC
List of CC skills
