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Power Luminary

Guild Wars 2 Power Luminary - Greatsword / Sword & Focus Meta build for pvp: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

守护者 (Guardian)luminarypower damage

Build Template

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Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ● ○ ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • High damage
  • Good mobility
  • Fluid rotation
  • Provides self boons
  • Provides party boons
  • Easy to learn
  • Strong bursts
  • Lots of cleave
  • Access to healing & support
  • Plenty of utility
  • Sustained damage
  • No ranged DPS
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Equipment

Item
Stat
Berserker'sAmulet
Relic of the BrawlerRelic
Primary Weapon Set
Main HandSword
Other Items
Superior Rune of the Vampirism (PvP)Rune

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

净化之光 图标净化之光 can be replaced with 强化军械 图标强化军械 for more damage.

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Power Luminary is a teamfighter and a roamer which deals significant damage while being quite tanky. You have minor supportive skills you can use for your teammates.

It relies on getting a lot of boons very frequently, such as Resolution and Protection, and to heal itself and stack high amounts of Might.

Damage

Luminary spends all of its time dealing damage, therefore you will need a good knowledge of your abilities to rotate them correctly in any situation.

Always make sure you have Resolution. It is easiest generated by pressing a virtue skill.

With Radiant Forge you gain access to 4 radiant weapons. For damage we are looking at using 晕眩巨锤 图标晕眩巨锤 and 闪光利刃 图标闪光利刃. Your 耀眼爆发 图标耀眼爆发 changes effect depending on which radiant weapon you last used. You always want to use the flip skills in Radiant Forge.

Using a Luminary Virtue causes the next radiant weapon you use in Radiant Forge to have increased or new effects depending on the virtue you use. 光耀正义 图标光耀正义 empowers your hammer, meanwhile 光耀勇气 图标光耀勇气 empowers both your sword and shield.

辉耀姿态 图标辉耀姿态 is an amazing skill granting you Light Aura, Barrier and Protection. Once you reach max stacks on it, similar to 愤怒护盾 图标愤怒护盾 you explode dealing great AoE damage.

Due to using 光明君主 图标光明君主 you can Detonate your Light Auras using Radiant Forge weapons, stances or your Luminary Virtues. Dealing significant damage while also healing your allies. Your Light Aura sources are: 决心姿态 图标决心姿态, 辉耀姿态 图标辉耀姿态, 光耀正义 图标光耀正义 ,光耀决心 图标光耀决心, 光辉壁垒 图标光辉壁垒, 晕眩巨锤 图标晕眩巨锤 and using 信仰之跃 图标信仰之跃 through a light field.

Both Greatsword and Sword/Focus weaponsets give you access to mobility, damage and defensive options.

First things first, you are using abilities as much as you can but do not underestimate your autoattacks, especially weaving some in between said abilities.

愤怒回旋 图标愤怒回旋 simple spin-to-win button. Usually paired with 光耀正义 图标光耀正义 and 裁决干涉 图标裁决干涉 to deal near instant damage.

信仰之跃 图标信仰之跃 short leap that does great damage, applies Blind and Heals.

决心符印 图标决心符印 the symbol of this weapon, does okay damage to enemies standing in it and grants Resolution.

束缚之刃 图标束缚之刃 -> 利刃拉拽 图标利刃拉拽 is the CC of this weapon, the flip skill is best used after an enemy is trying to escape.

利刃符印 图标利刃符印, a simple shadowstep paid with a symbol. It is very good to use onto any enemy damage dealer as the Blind it applies stops them from trading back easily.

狂徒防御 图标狂徒防御, it blocks projectile but mostly is used for damage when you're a bit too far to autoattack.

裁决光束 图标裁决光束 use it on your target right before porting in with 利刃符印 图标利刃符印.

A simple high damage combo looks like this:

1. 光耀正义 图标光耀正义 -> 辉耀姿态 图标辉耀姿态

2. 裁决干涉 图标裁决干涉 -> 愤怒回旋 图标愤怒回旋

3. 进入光辉熔炉 图标进入光辉熔炉 -> 晕眩巨锤 图标晕眩巨锤 -> 闪耀旋转 图标闪耀旋转

Defense

Similar to a lot of roamers all of your mobility can also be used defensively to get out of a fight or kite.

Power Luminary is quite durable in fights due to having access to a lot of Protection, Luminary's Blessing and some minor Heals from detonating Light Auras.

愤怒护盾 图标愤怒护盾 can be used for damage before teleporting but is also 3 blocks. It is insta cast and therefore can also be cast while CCed.

光耀决心 图标光耀决心 is an instant cast Heal and self Condition Removal.

决心姿态 图标决心姿态 is your burst Healing skill, causing Condition Removal to Heal you for a short while.

忠诚姿态 图标忠诚姿态 is your only purely defensive stunbreak but don't be scared of using it often. It has a very low cooldown. It also stunbreaks your allies and grants self -% incoming condition and strike damage.

光耀勇气 图标光耀勇气 stunbreaks you and your allies while granting Stability. Also makes 光辉壁垒 图标光辉壁垒 a stunbreak due to it being empowered by the virtue.

专注复苏 图标专注复苏. Invulnerable and resets your virtues cooldowns.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance BreakSource
利刃拉拽 图标利刃拉拽PullGreatsword
晕眩巨锤 图标晕眩巨锤2sRadiant Forge
光耀劈砍 图标光耀劈砍1sRadiant Forge