魂兽师 Soulbeast - Boonbeast Roamer

特性 Specializations

• trades defense against direct damage for better condition cleansing.

• offers better pressure at the expense of lower sustain and less Quickness。

装备 Equipment

符文

Viable alternatives:

• - a very tanky rune which provides uptime for your most important boon while also synergizing with all the sources of healing in the build.

• - excellent boon duration.

消耗品 Consumables

There are several viable options:

• - considered to be optimal by many, this food offers passive damage mitigation and a general stat boost.

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

• - cheap crit chance boost plus armor ignoring damage procs which also heal you.

• 或 。

使用说明 Usage

Elite specialization basics

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

• Pet related traits and skills such as the Attack of Opportunity from will 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)。

General

• 和 are your two main mobility skills. Make sure you do not have anyone targeted while using them. Make sure you do not have an enemy targeted when using these skills for general mobility or disengaging.

• passively maintains a high uptime of healing reduction in duels via Poison，which is very important when fighting other bunker specs.

• Dodging applies Protection，which also heals thanks to the trait 。 also reduces the condition damage you take by 33% while affected by this boon.

• Survival skills each cure 2 conditions and grant Fury.

Beastmode

• Owl is for sustain/mobility while Smokescale's mainly for damage, offering you great offensive stats as well as new damaging and CC skills.

• Smokescale's could be used both offensively (delivering damage while making it impossible to kite you) and defensively (it's an instant cast evade frame)。

• is a great setup for 或 。

• Owl adds some extra mobility for chasing people or disengaging from fights via 。

• Owl's F3 is your second healing skill and also a potent support tool when roaming in a group.

• Don't forget to unmerge once beast skills are on CD or you're done with your burst combo, as you have greater DPS while you let your pets attack your enemies.

Weapon sets and damage

• Most of the damage will come from spamming auto attacks on Axe.
  • is an excellent filler which stacks Might and bounces off to other targets. This skill allows you to keep some distance from the target while constantly pressuring them. The bouncing axes can also clean up Mesmer clones nicely.
  • is best used in melee range to make all attacks land on the target. The axes also pierce, hitting enemies behind your target as well.
  • doesn't hit as hard is it used to but still does the most damage on this set (as far as single strikes go)。 In you deliver all of the conditions in 1 hit instead of having to rely on the pet for the Weakness，which is a great conditin for keeping Power based specs in check.

• is the hardest hitting skill in the build and the reason why there's on GS. Should be used right after swapping weapons.
  • refreshed the cooldown on which is a great followup, you could try to chain ⇒ ⇒ before the sigil expires.

• Greatsword is also the defensive/utility weapon set, offering a block in ，an interrupt in and mobility in 。

Stances

• allows you to share your stances with allies, including your pet. Try to do this whenever possible.

• is a high uptime stance which increases boon duration. Aim to sync it with your most important sources of boons such as ， 或 。

• is very straightforward, just use it against any kind of CC whenever necessary. Consider using it before while under heavy condition pressure. Dolyak Stance can remove 3 conditions and make you immune to those for its duration, which means there's a higher chance for your heal to remove 2-4 damaging conditions (depending on traits)。 It also provides you with a safe way to finish off downed enemies.

• If taken is best used with and Axe auto attacks. The rapid strikes proc this elite often, adding burst to a weapon set that otherwise has none.