The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Power Willbender build for PvP utilizing the most recent addition to Guardian's arsenal, the Spear. This build was made to deliver massive bursts in teamfights and while +1ing.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
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裁决纹章 over 
纯净沉思 - makes your cleansing worse but gives you a more frequently available stunbreak that also mitigates direct damage both on its active and passive effect. Great option against predominantly Power-based comps. Consider picking up 
纯粹决心 on Virtues to retain some of the cleansing though. -
闪现连击 over 
旋风之光 - sacrifices AoE damage for better mobility and some extra healing/cleansing while skill retaining much of the single target pressure.
Elite
"怒气冲天！" - this is seen as less competitive and thus much less popular, but the 
急速 could help you deliver burst damage while also buffing your team. 
阴鬼古物 is often used with this elite for even stronger bursts.
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Variants
- Take 纯粹决心 if you're struggling against conditions or just want more sustain in general. It's an equally viable option, but lowers your damage a bit.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Relics
争斗者古物 - less bursty than Stormsinger, but could work better if you get to spend more time in melee.
Usage
General
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决心 increases your critical strike chance by 40% via 
正义本能, pushing it near the crit cap while you have this boon. Always try to maintain Resolution or at least apply it before bursts. -
急速正义 is refreshed after each kill so make sure you always have it on cooldown right before a kill. Using it also applies AoE 
目盲 which can be useful for stomping or making high priority skills miss. It's also one of the hardest hitting skills in the build. -
Try to burn through all of your virtues before resorting to
专注复苏. RF is a great skill to use if you're being focused by the enemy team and you don't have any CDs left. Just keep in mind that this skill makes you lose capture point contribution for its duration. -
One of Willbender's greatest strengths is its mobility:
- Every virtue skill is a mobility skill.
- Both weapon sets have some sort of movement abilities. Most of the teleports require a target, but you can get creative with that by doing things like selecting a far away enemy target and spamming teleports to get across the map faster, or selecting objects such as a Trebuchet on Battle of Kyhlo to leave enemies behind.
突进猛击 is a good mobility skill even without a target as it makes you dash forward.
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目盲s are important even when bursting targets as Blind spam prevents them from counterpressuring you.
利刃符印 and 急速正义 all apply this condition on top of doing great damage. 旋风之光 could fill a similar role as the 
虚弱 is great for mitigating incoming damage while also pressuring opponents. -
英勇冲撞 grants you 
稳固 and 
抗性 (among other things) which allow you to ignore CC and debilitating conditions like 虚弱 while bursting targets. Being a shadowstep (teleport) skill it could also reposition you right on top of your target so that you may follow up with 旋风之光 immediately for burst damage.
Sword/Sword
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The main source of burst damage here comes from the the offhand skills:
- 突进猛击 deals good damage and sets up your next attack perfectly with Immobilize Immobilize and 决心 (it's a shadowstep).
处决呼唤 is the hardest hitting skill on this set and combos well with Advancing Strike.
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狂徒防御 is both defensive and offensive, deals solid damage while destroying enemy projectiles. Note that the damage of this skill can be very unreliable in anything but melee range. 突进猛击 is a good setup for this too. -
利刃符印 has many uses: vertical mobility via teleportation, symbol for cleaving, 目盲 to make an important skill miss, or a combo field which can be used to combo
光明光环 with a leap finisher.
Spear
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Spear has its own unique mechanic called illumination. Using any of skills 2-5 and fulfilling the right conditions gives you the Illuminated buff, which increases the effectiveness of your next skill.
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Starting off with
光照符印 is recommended, because it ensures that the rest of your combo is illuminated. -
闪耀圆转 and 
日光奔袭 go well together, you should aim to line up the 2nd strike of GD with the pass-through damage of HR. -
太阳风暴 is the main burst skill here, a powerful AoE with heavy damage that can also heal and cleanse allies in range. Make sure that this skill is always illuminated.
Burst combo examples
Willbender isn't a very complicated spec and you don't have to work hard to do a lot of damage. This section is only meant to give you a few ideas for sequencing, especially when it comes to doing damage with minimal risk.
Defensive burst combo
- 英勇冲撞 for defensive boons including
保护 and 稳固 which should ensure that you get to do the rest of the chain uninterrupted. - 突进猛击 to root the target into the flames left behind by Crashing Courage and the upcoming step.
- 旋风之光 for damage and 虚弱.
- 利刃符印 to 目盲 enemies and do AoE damage.
- You can continue adding skills that blind enemies from here. This chain does a lot of damage while making it hard for enemies to counterpressure you.
Spear Combo
You basically just go through your skills from right to left, 5 to 2.
- Optional
裁决干涉 if you're outside melee range. - 光照符印 for CC and to illuminate the rest of the combo. You don't have to stay inside the symbol!
- Optional - 太阳风暴. Note: consider skipping this when prioritizing single-target damage. ST has a long cast time, you might be better off focusing on the other 2 steps while the CC lasts. ST is best used against multiple targets who are spread, or if you're not in melee range.
- 闪耀圆转, the goal here is to hit the target with the second strike at the same time Helio Rush connects.
- 日光奔袭 through the target.
Sustain
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The build is rather squishy, Willbender relies heavily on its mobility to avoid damage, jumping in and out of fights to deliver burst damage while keeping melee contact to a minimum.
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流动决心 is an excellent reactive skill which cleanses several conditions and even has an evade frame in case you need to dodge something but don't have the endurance. -
决心纹章 is worth holding onto for its passive in order to get free condition cleansing, but don't hesitate to use it on low health (and even its active can cleanse conditions). -
纯净沉思 is a purely defensive stunbreak and your best answer against an overwhelming amount of conditions. Usually a last resort for when you're heavily pressured and other options don't cut it anymore.
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英勇冲撞 is an excellent and versatile defensive skill. Short CD, breaks stuns, grants boons, it's also a ground targeted ranged teleport which adds a lot of vertical mobility to the build. Leaving attackers behind while teleporting to the highground can save your life. As with most Willbender skills, it's not purely defensive - the AoE it leaves behind upon landing is a good source of cleave damage too, so you could sacrifice this skill to chase or pressure targets if you're fine with giving up a defensive CD.
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裁决干涉 is also a stunbreak but most of the time it'll be used to execute burst combos from range. Worth holding onto for defensive purposes when every other stunbreak is on CD though.
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As long as you have
专注复苏 you're somewhat safe. It's an incredibly powerful defensive skill which grants you immunity to incoming damage and CC (other than fall damage) when under heavy pressure, and refreshes all of your Virtues which could either help you stay alive longer or run away.
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