裁决者 Vindicator - GS/Shortbow Vindicator Roamer

特性 Specializations

变体 Variants

All 3 options are viable for the last slot of Invocation:

• improves Quickness uptime.
• allows you to spend more energy each legend swap cycle, giving you more of everything.
• is an excellent passive damage boost that pushes you near the crit cap, and the build has permanent Fury uptime to go with it. With this you also get to drop on bow for something else.

装备 Equipment

You can customize the gear based on what you want to get out of this build.

The Power-based one is centered around Berserker / Marauder stats. Sustain's still good and you'll have excellent burst damage on both sets. This variant is better at killing tankier builds like Celestial ones:

The other way to go about this is Celestial，this variant trades some damage for better passive survivability. It makes the build more forgiving to play, but the lack of Might stacking on Vindi is not ideal for Celestial so you might struggle to get kills against tankier opponents:

装备变体 Equipment Variants

Runes

Other viable runes include:

• - good defensive rune with boon duration.

• - offensive rune with boon duration, works well on both sets. On the Power variant you might slightly overcap crit chance when playing with this rune and ，so you should swap out a ring for one that has Dragon stats.

Relics

provides quite a lot of extra endurance regen which is important for various trait synergies. If you want to play a more offensive version of the build you could play with a different relic too, but in that case using endurance regen food is highly recommended. Other viable relic options are:

• - better burst damage.

• - improves the consistency of some of your harder hitting skills on Greatsword. Has some anti-synergy with but works well with other Invocation GM traits.

• - significant mobility boost, could be useful for chasing down enemies or keeping distance while on shortbow or waiting for CDs/energy to come back up.

Sigils

• Consider replacing one of the Shortbow sigils with when NOT playing with on Invocation. Making crit is very important for the build, both for the Celestial and the Power variant.

消耗品 Consumables

食物 Food

• - extra endurance regen, and the healing procs ensure effortless 100% uptime on 。

• - same as the previous option but offers slightly higher damage instead of sustain. More endurance means more dodges, and dodging is a key part of the build.

• - great offensive stats and extra tankiness via damage reduction.

增强 Utility

• 或 ，whichever is cheaper.

• Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner。

使用说明 Usage

General

• Invoking a legend resets energy to 50 (potentially 75 if traited), removes 1 condition, and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs, low on energy, or need to cleanse.

• allows for easy permanent Swiftness uptime.

• Dodging removes 1 condition via 。 This is your primary line of defense against conditions.

• provides damage mitigation for a short while after you're healed. Ideally you should have permanent uptime, and the Holo cake consumables could help with that.

Shiro

• is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including Protection or even 。 That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as 。

• can augment any skill and increase your damage output significantly while active. It's quite expensive though, so don't maintain it for more than a few seconds at a time, use it only for bursts. Note that it's only single target damage, doesn't cleave.
  • Always stop maintaining this skill if you're about to hit 0 energy - turning it off sends it on a 1 second CD while running out of energy results in a 4 second CD.
  • With this skill could also boost your sustain, making it that much more of a versatile tool.

• is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with Quickness coupled with unblockable attacks. Quickness can be used to do burst damage or cleave downed targets better through auto attacking, while the unblockable attacks could seal the fate of enemies relying on blocking as their last resource option for sustain. Either follow up with hard hitting attacks or a / if you wish to interrupt them (and to cancel their blocking skill)。

• won't be used often because it exhausts most of your energy pool, leaving you defenseless and with barely anything to capitalize on the CC. This should only be used to set up kills for your teammates, or to interrupt very important channels like a rez or a stomp.

Weapons and damage

• 和 are great AoE skills, but the latter deals more damage against single targets. Use these on CD.

• Archemorus in a way acts as your 3rd offensive set.

• 和 add a bit of extra reach if you're on GS or out of shortbow CDs. The Spear has a huge delay so you could even precast it in a fight and line it up with other damage sources for burst damage, or burst targets while the spear is charging which forces them to choose between using their defensives to avoid the spear or your other attacks.
  • Swapping legends doesn't cancel 。
  • applies Quickness which makes it a great setup skill for GS burst combos or it could speed up your attacks when you need downed cleave.

• does a lot of damage on a very short CD, if your weapon skills are spent then this is a solid option for pressuring targets at a reasonable energy cost. Being a mobility tool is a nice added bonus and makes it more versatile.

• 和 are your primary burst CDs on bow. Use them as often as possible.
  • 和 work really well with these skills as multiple hits can mean multiple procs, and stacking several sources of damage at the same time is a big part of Revenant bursts in general.
  • Sigil-dependent: Use these two skills right after procs to make the most of this sigil.

• is more of a defensive, area denial type of skill. Enemies are unlikely to stand in it to tank the damage but you can drop this on yourself to discourage melee from engaging, or on stealth fields to punish enemy stealth combos. While it's true that CC could set this skill up, usually you're better off using something more impactful to capitalize on CC like Sevenshot.

• is a strong ranged CC, use it to root enemies into your burst combos.

• If you're out of CDs spam with Impossible Odds can still do a lot of damage.

• While Shortbow attacks pierce and hit multiple targets thanks to ，you should still consider using Staff auto attacks over Shortbow's for things such as downed cleave.

生存

• Greatsword is the more defensive of the 2 sets.

• is great for blocking attacks under pressure and could be used not only as a gap closer but also a gap builder (just make sure you don't have an enemy targeted)。

• The Kurzick (blue) side of is your defensive legend, atlhough both the Luxon side and Shiro have some great defensive skills too.

• is your mass cleanse and basically a 4th healing skill on the build because of how much it heals for each condition that's removed.

• Both legendary stances have access to an evade skill: on alliance stance and on Shiro. If you have energy but not endurance to dode then these are great options for avoiding damage. While Battle Dance doesn't directly remove movement impairing conditions (unlike Riposting Shadows) it does give you Resistance - it can be used while Immobilized so you'll be able to move freely after the evade frame.

• The best defensive skill is actually found on the most offensive legend: the Luxon skill is always useful. The Daze can stop incoming burst attempts while the Stability makes it easier to get a full channel of your heal off. It even breaks stun and does decent damage.

• If you're low on health it's common practice to use both 和 back-to-back, especially after Reaver's Rage for Stability。

• is good for surviving heavy incoming damage if you have no other way to avoid it. It offers strong mitigation but also drains your HP and makes it so you won't be able to heal yourself, so don't maintain it for long. Only use it briefly, and rarely.