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
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 glass cannon PvP Power Willbender build that's all about massive burst damage (with nearly 100% crit chance when fully buffed) and exceptionally high mobility to chase down any target or avoid damage. Willbender is sometimes referred to as "blue Thief" due to the similarities in playstyle.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Heal
命运逆转 - worse cleansing but it might work better under pressure due to the lower cast time (assuming it blocks an attack). The same's true the other way around, this could let you quickly recover some health while pressuring targets without skipping a beat. Both healing skills are popular options.
Utility
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裁决纹章 over 
纯净沉思 - makes you 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. -
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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Equipment
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. -
Every Virtue skill is a mobility skill on Willbender. Besides their base functionality they are great for sticking to targets or escaping damage.
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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 focues 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 either teleports or leaps. 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, 
信仰之跃 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 
愤怒回旋 or 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.
Greatsword
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愤怒回旋 is the main burst skill on this set, make sure that it lands - do an unexpected ranged burst with
裁决干涉, or use it after pulling targets in with 
束缚之刃. -
When in combat, always try to combo
信仰之跃 in a Light field such as 
决心符印 for 光明光环. Few things to note when using this for mobility:- If you're OOC (out of combat), swap weapons just before the leap finishes in order to cancel the final part of the skill which would otherwise bring you to a halt.
- In combat this can be used for jumping away from the fight to avoid damage. To do that simply just detarget (click anywhere on your screen that's not an enemy player) before using the skill, and make sure that auto-targetting is disabled.
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束缚之刃 is useful even when the target has 稳固 and thus cannot be pulled. The damage over time part of this skill is decent, and you could time it in a way that the target's stability runs out before Binding Blade does, allowing you to pull them in later. Note: while the initial projectile itself can be dodged, once the blades are attached you can pull targets out of any kind of evade frame! The blades also seek out enemies even if they are
潜行ed.
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 1
- 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.
Defensive burst combo 2
- 利刃符印 for the teleport while immediately applying 目盲, also creating a combo field.
- 突进猛击 to root the target.
- 急速正义 while they can't dodge, this should also 目盲 them.
- Optional - 旋风之光 if you can fit it in, but if you're slow then the combo field from step 1 could run out before you'd get to step 5. You could also skip it if you fear interruption and want to keep the blind spam going.
- 信仰之跃 after weapon swap in order to combo 光明光环 with Symbol of Blades and to apply yet another Blind.
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决心符印
- Note: swapping steps 1 and 3 would yield more damage, as the F1 gives you an extra damage modifier via trait synergy. Doing so however would leave you a bit more exposed at the start of the combo, as Rushing Justice has a much longer cast time before applying Blind. It's more risky, but sometimes worth it. Careful with 抗性 though, against enemies with this boon you'll be vulnerable as they can ignore your conditions.
Ranged AoE combo
- Pre-cast 愤怒回旋 from a distance.
- 裁决干涉 to teleport to the target right before WW starts doing damage (WW has a cast bar, jump in as the bar's about to fill up).
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旋风之光
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). -
If taken
命运逆转 (your healing skill) is best used when an attack is already coming your way or you're absolutely certain that you're going to be hit in order to get maximum healing (and block value) out of it. If you're not being focused but want to heal consider moving briefly into an enemy AoE skill. -
纯净沉思 is a purely defensive stun break 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 stun break but most of the time it'll be used to execute burst combos from range. Worth holding onto for defensive purposes when every other stun break 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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