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Power Amalgam

Guild Wars 2 Power Amalgam - Shortbow Meta build for pvp: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

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Build Template

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Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ● ● ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Strong bursts
  • Lots of cleave
  • Plenty of CC
  • Requires accurate positioning
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Equipment

Item
Stat
DemolisherAmulet
Relic of RiversRelic
Primary Weapon Set
Other Items
Superior Rune of the Reaper (PvP)Rune

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

进攻协议:穿透 图标进攻协议:穿透 防护协议:净化 图标防护协议:净化 防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘

Rotation & Extras

Key concepts

CC Amalgam has been granted the choice of choosing your F2-F4 toolbelt skills from 8 different ones, these skills go under Morph skills. They play a role in granting different effects and boons once you 进化 图标进化. 进化 图标进化 also grants an attribute increase. The build revolves around 炸弹包 图标炸弹包 crowd control and 喷火器 图标喷火器 Damage to pressure and kill your opponent.

It gains Alacrity from Dodge and 进化 图标进化 to use its abilities as much as possible. Additionaly the Tools Trait Line will lower the cooldowns of your Morph skill and elite 流体状态 图标流体状态.

Every Crowd Control CC Amalgam hits gives it two seconds of Quickness and Stability, two gamebreaking boons.

Dealing Damage

Your main source of damage is 喷火器 图标喷火器. It gives you access to a really strong burst skill 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油, which you can pair with 爆燃烈焰 图标爆燃烈焰. You will want to use it with Crowd Control to ensure hitting it.

炸弹包 图标炸弹包 brings you most of the Crowd Control you need for your 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油 setup. You should space the use of each of them to not override your own CC. They take a few seconds before doing their effects.

  1. 超级炸弹 图标超级炸弹 takes three seconds to Knockdown. It's by far your best CC and should be used as often as possible.
  2. 磁力炸弹 图标磁力炸弹 takes two seconds to Pull. It's a short CC you should use to hit bigger abilities.
  3. 电流弹 图标电流弹 takes only one second and is a short Daze you can simply use for Quickness and Stability.

Additionaly 进攻协议:穿透 图标进攻协议:穿透 and 进化 图标进化 Stun for two seconds each.

For the highest burst finish your CC chain with those abilities:

  1. 流体状态 图标流体状态
  2. 进化 图标进化
  3. 爆燃烈焰 图标爆燃烈焰
  4. 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油

Short Bow has good damage and CC with 苟且精华 图标苟且精华 into 流沙精华 图标流沙精华 but is mostly used for sustain.

Defense

All of your morph and toolbelt skills grant you Barrier. Having Barrier Heals you overtime. It is crucial to have Barrier during your healing skill 分裂状态 图标分裂状态 to increase the amount it Heals over time.

You have 2 strong Stun Break skills which are Morph skills: 防护协议:净化 图标防护协议:净化 which also turns conditions into boons and 防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘, dealing some cheap Damage to enemies attacking you.

Your main Condition Removal turns conditions into boons and Heals you based on how many boons you have.

Short Bow gives you access to Healing, Condition Removal and Protection via 影流精华 图标影流精华 and 液怒精华 图标液怒精华.

Shortbow

Make sure you always use another Short Bow skill after using 影流精华 图标影流精华 to get the chain reaction value.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance ValueSource
进攻协议:穿透 图标进攻协议:穿透2 secondsProfession Mechanic
进化 图标进化2 secondsProfession Mechanic
苟且精华 图标苟且精华1½ seconds and 1½ secondsShort Bow
气流爆破 图标气流爆破Knockback气流爆破 图标气流爆破
电流弹 图标电流弹1 seconds超级炸弹 图标超级炸弹
磁力炸弹 图标磁力炸弹Pull超级炸弹 图标超级炸弹
进化 图标进化3 seconds超级炸弹 图标超级炸弹
流体状态 图标流体状态PullElite