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Power Conduit

Guild Wars 2 Power Conduit - Sword & Sword / Staff Meta build for open-world: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

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Power Conduit is a high damage Open World build that deals fairly high amounts of strike damage while providing many boons for solo and group content.

Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ● ○ ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Fluid rotation
  • Easy to learn
  • Defensive options
  • Provides party boons
  • Relies on resource management
  • Forced movement
  • Fast paced rotation
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

Overall the shown Weapon sets of Swords and Staff are just an recommendation and there are many ways to adjust to fit your own playstyle.

  • Swords offer high mobility and highest damage.
  • Greatsword offers similarly high damage, a counter and better cleaving.
  • Staff offers great utility through a lot of Crowd Control, Evade, Block, Cleanse and heals (the latter affects allies aswell)
  • Hammer and Short Bow are good options for ranged damage, while also bringing some Crowd Control options.

What weapon sets are combined or if you want to only camp one set is fully up to you and your own interests.

Options for Devastation Trait Line:

  • 死亡舞蹈 图标死亡舞蹈 can increase your survivability through Life Siphon by quite a bit, but lowers your damage a bit too (only recommended when running Swords or Greatsword due to high Vulnerability generation).

Options for Invocation Trait Line:

  • 灵魂增益 图标灵魂增益 can increase the Might output for you and your allies by a small amount.
  • 怒火迸射 图标怒火迸射 ensures, that you can reach 25x Might on yourself easily.

The shown 萨奇洛斯古物 图标萨奇洛斯古物 is a part of Secrets of the Obscure and allows you to heal by a good amount just through dealing damage. Other alternatives are:

Visions of Eternity Relics:

  • 迷雾异客古物 图标迷雾异客古物 provides sustain through Life Siphon, while also bumping the damage by an small amount.

Janthir Wilds Relics:

  • 悲伤古物 图标悲伤古物 turns your elite skill into a powerful panic button.
  • 河流古物 图标河流古物 grants you Alacrity and Regeneration when you Dodge.

Secrets of the Obscure Relics:

  • 术士古物 图标术士古物 inflicts Vulnerability when you apply Cripple, Chilled or Immobilize.
  • 寻路者古物 图标寻路者古物 provides increased Movement Speed and Superspeed when entering combat.
  • 巫师塔古物 图标巫师塔古物 grants your elite skill an additional Pull and Reflect.

Core Game Relics:

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Affinity is gained when using Legend skills and improves the effects of your profession mechanic skills;

压倒优势 图标压倒优势 should be active most of the time while in 传奇刺客姿态 图标传奇刺客姿态 as it is one of your strongest abilities for damage, kept up via passive Energy drain.

宇宙智慧 图标宇宙智慧 F3 is the other profession mechanic, which is mostly passive damage in 传奇实体姿态 图标传奇实体姿态 & 传奇刺客姿态 图标传奇刺客姿态, while also granting additional attributes. Try to combine it with 压倒优势 图标压倒优势 in 传奇刺客姿态 图标传奇刺客姿态, as it gives you a strong Life Siphon.

Dealing Damage

Use 双月横扫 图标双月横扫 for damage alongside your weapon skills while in 传奇实体姿态 图标传奇实体姿态. In 传奇刺客姿态 图标传奇刺客姿态 try to maintain 压倒优势 图标压倒优势 at all cost, as it deals extra damage for every taken hit on an enemy. Pair it up with 宇宙智慧 图标宇宙智慧 F3, whenever it is available.

Outside of those, try to use 释放潜力:苦行僧 图标释放潜力:苦行僧 F2 and 释放潜力:刺客 图标释放潜力:刺客 F2 as often as possible, while not delaying your Legendary Stance Swap.

Depending on what weapon sets you run, the priority of your weapon skills may vary to deal the most damage. You can also freely combine the weapon sets for more damage (like Swords + Greatsword), when your highest weapon priority skills were recently used.

Sword & Sword:

  1. 桎梏波动 图标桎梏波动 | 4 |
  2. 死亡打击 图标死亡打击 | 5 |
  3. 冰冻隔离 图标冰冻隔离 | 2 |
  4. 突刺预备 图标突刺预备野蛮利刃 图标野蛮利刃裂隙劈砍 图标裂隙劈砍 1Auto Attack

Greatsword:

  1. 永恒挽歌 图标永恒挽歌 5
  2. 迷雾释放 图标迷雾释放 2
  3. 幻影突袭 图标幻影突袭 3
  4. 迷雾挥斩 图标迷雾挥斩迷雾劈砍 图标迷雾劈砍迷雾弧切 图标迷雾弧切 1Auto Attack

Hammer:

  1. 聚能崩灭 图标聚能崩灭 2
  2. 天降巨锤 图标天降巨锤 5
  3. 巨锤飞矢 图标巨锤飞矢 1Auto Attack

Short Bow:

  1. 灵魂碾压 图标灵魂碾压 4
  2. 七箭 图标七箭 3
  3. 血灾路径 图标血灾路径 2
  4. 碎裂射击 图标碎裂射击 1Auto Attack

Staff: * as this is an utility weapon, it is not advised to camp or integrate it to your main damage sources.

  1. 回复惩戒 图标回复惩戒 2
  2. 疾速横扫 图标疾速横扫强力猛击 图标强力猛击回春突击 图标回春突击 1Auto Attack

Defense

角斗防御 图标角斗防御 & 暗影回撤 图标暗影回撤 lets you Break Stuns, in case you are stuck in a bad position.

Using any skill with Energy Cost upon activation will trigger 活力涌流 图标活力涌流 and grant sustained healing.

除魔旋涡 图标除魔旋涡 should help cover most condition pressure, but 复原波动 图标复原波动 from Staff can be taken for additional help.

You can Evade attacks with a lot of your skills:

You also have a few Block:

You can also reposition yourself very quickly with teleports like:

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance DamageSource
迷雾激流 图标迷雾激流150 up to 9xStaff
灼刃 图标灼刃200Short Bow
天降巨锤 图标天降巨锤300Hammer
翠玉风暴 图标翠玉风暴300传奇刺客姿态 图标传奇刺客姿态