魂兽师 Soulbeast - Condition Trapper SB Roamer

特性 Specializations

• is worth considering when you're running at least 2 stances or you're roaming in a group.

装备 Equipment

装备变体 Equipment Variants

Stats

• A full set of Celestial gear is an equally viable option. Your condition burst becomes weaker but the extra Power on Axe can compensate for it to a degree. Toughness goes down but you gain slightly higher healing and much better uptime on defensive boons.

Relics

• - improves your burst damage and condition variety.

• - adds a strong offensive proc whenever you use an elite skill. Enemies under the eye get hit every second, so the value of this relic goes up significantly if you can root them right under it with 。

• - defensive option that could give you permanent Vigor uptime which also means higher Protection uptime and healing from the trait 。

• - adds a new condition to the build with a high uptime, making it harder for enemies to cleanse your more important conditions while providing a small damage boost.

Runes

• - a bit more defensive option that retains all the most important stats of Trapper, and you don't need to craft this. Quite cheap too.

消耗品 Consumables

There are several viable options:

• - this food offers passive damage mitigation and a general stat boost.

• - keeps the 10% mitigation of the Oyster Soup, but focuses only on your offensive stats.

• - great defensive option with 和 synergy.
  • Budget version:

• - optimal but expensive.
  • Budget version: - comes from Canned Food Crates, way easier to get and barely weaker.

• - if you're playing with Celestial gear, use this.

使用说明 Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Soulbeast allows Rangers to meld with their pet, becoming one. This is done through which has a 10s CD.

• Pet related traits and skills such as continue to function even while merged, but this time you'll be the one who benefits from them, not the pet (although sometimes the effects are lessened)。

• Melding with a dead pet and then exiting Beastmode instantly revives them.

General

• Usually you should merge with your pet whenever it comes off CD for the Vigor，cleansing and Protection： 。 Don't idle in Beastmode too long, use whatever Beast ability isn't on CD and then exit.

• allows you to swap pets while in Beastmode! This makes it significantly easier for you to adapt to the situation. For example you could use both pets' mobility skills back-to-back or you could swap to Wolf for the stunbreak even if you're on Hawk.
  • With this trait you should usually cycle through both pet's Beastmode skills before unmerging.

机动性

• Maintain permanent Swiftness with 和 。
  • Turn around before using Quick Shot in order to move "forward".

• Use 和 either as gapclosers or tools to disengage (make sure you have no target selected if you inted to run away)。

Damage

• Both of your weapon sets are great at dealing damage.

• On bow spam as much as you can between bursts, ideally from behind. Many short bow skills have increased effectiveness when striking from behind or the sides.

• is one of your burst skills and should be used on CD. Due to the cone shape of the volley it's best used in point-blank range, right in melee to ensure that all the arrows hit the target. The same goes for on axe.

• is yet another cone attack similar to ，so try to use it in melee range.

• is the best skill on Axe. While it does less condition damage than Splitblade it applies up to 3 conditions to the target, which overall puts more pressure on them. The Weakness even helps with mitigating incoming damage.
  • This is best used in as the Weakness will immediately apply when the skill hits instead of having to wait for your pet to attack.
  • In Beastmode the Winter's Bite effect is applied to you for 15 seconds even if you throw this skill at the ground with no target, while out of combat. As the duration is longer than the skill's CD it's worth using as you're traveling the map because you'll be able to begin the next fight with a free Weakness。

• If you're using ：the damage and not the evasion, you should first make sure your target is crippled. has the benefit of allowing you to use as the first skill after swapping weapons for synergy, while still getting the most damage out of it.

• (Hawk F2) is a spammable source of Bleeding 和 Poison： 。 Use it as often as possible.

• Hawk's Beastmode F3 skill is one of the best skills when it comes to condition variety and should be used on CD to pressure enemies.

生存

• Dodging removs a damaging and a non-damaging condition.

• When that's no longer enough there's also 和 while (if taken) serves as the panic button.

• 和 both remove certain non-damaging conditions. Consider using them before other sources of cleansing in order to maximize the amount of conditions removed and to increase the chance of getting rid of damaging ones.

• is your last resort against both condition pressure and CC. Try not to touch this skill if you can solve things in some other way. The passive is also valuable enough to be worth maintaining.
  • If your pet is in range, the signet will transfer all your conditions to them. If you are merged, you'll gain Resistance instead. Keep in mind that the condition transfer can kill your pet (that's not a real concern on Soulbeast though)。

• If damage is starting to overwhelm you and you are out of CDs, just run away with and wait a little before reengaging.
  • Make sure you don't have a target selected before using this skill to disengage! Also disable auto-targeting in the settings menu if you haven't already.

• Dodging applies Protection，which also heals thanks to the trait 。

• Applying Poison steals some health from the target, damaging them and healing you.

• grants Protection and as has no cast time, this can be used even while CC'd in order to survive enemy burst.

相关配装 Related Builds

• 魂兽师 Soulbeast - Poisonbeast - sPvP version of the build.

• 魂兽师 Soulbeast - Condition Stancebeast Roamer - a very similar WvW build with a Trapless take on condition Soulbeast roaming.