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Guild Wars 2: Best Harbinger Build for Solo Open World
This guide presents a Conduit build for the Revenant class in Guild Wars 2, optimized for solo play in the open world. It focuses on equipment, traits, skills, and rotation to maximize damage and survivability.
1. 🎮 Introduction to Open World Builds in Guild Wars 2
- ✅ There are three types of open world builds: tagging builds, glass cannon DPS builds, and solo builds.
- ✅ Tagging builds focus on collecting more loot during meta events.
- ✅ Glass cannon DPS builds seek to inflict the most damage possible during meta events, but have difficulty surviving alone.
- ✅ Solo builds are designed to complete all open world content, including achievements, side events, and story, while also being useful as support during meta events.
- ✅ The video creator specializes in solo builds.
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1. 🎮 Introduction to Open World Builds in Guild Wars 2
- ✅ There are three types of open world builds: tagging builds, glass cannon DPS builds, and solo builds.
- ✅ Tagging builds focus on collecting more loot during meta events.
- ✅ Glass cannon DPS builds seek to inflict the most damage possible during meta events, but have difficulty surviving alone.
- ✅ Solo builds are designed to complete all open world content, including achievements, side events, and story, while also being useful as support during meta events.
- ✅ The video creator specializes in solo builds.
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2. ⚔️ Equipment and Relic for the Conduit Build
- ✅ The main equipment is a full set of celestial gear with torment runes and condition damage infusions (optional).
- ✅ The Pirate Queen relic is recommended to keep quickness active easily.
- ✅ The main weapon is a spear with sigils of torment and ferocity to maximize damage.
- ✅ A spear is preferred due to its better damage, crowd control (CC) skills, and ease of use.
- ✅ Alternatively, if you don't have the End of Dragons expansion, you can use mace and axe, which are similar to the spear in terms of damage, but more intense to use.
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3. 🛡️ Traits and Trait Lines for the Conduit Build
- ✅ The Corruption trait line is used to maximize damage and condition duration.
- ✅ Key traits in Corruption: Battered Defense (heals a lot), Tormenting Acolyte (increases torment damage by 10%), Chilling Affliction (inflicts torment when chilling an enemy), Viscous Tenacity (generates resistance and heals every second while the resistance boon is active).
- ✅ The Retribution trait line is used to compensate for the lack of protection and the maintenance of power stacks.
- ✅ Key traits in Retribution: Spiritual Reckoning (generates resolution to reduce condition damage by 33% and strike damage by 15%), Steadfast Rejuvenation (generates a protection boon each time the F2 skill or legendary stances are used), Viscous Reprisal (increases all damage by 10% and generates power when hitting an enemy).
- ✅ The Invocation trait line is used to generate energy and reduce the cooldown of the legendary stance swap.
- ✅ Key traits in Invocation: Invoking Harmony (generates energy easily when using weapon skills), Expanded Intellect (gains resistance and heals when gaining energy, and more energy when reaching maximum energy level), Enhanced Empowerment (reduces the legendary stance swap cooldown to 5 seconds and increases the duration of cosmic wisdom).
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4. 🔥 Skills in the Demon and Dervish Stances
- ✅ In the Dervish stance: Enveloping Haze (inflicts six stacks of torment and removes five conditions), Glint's Defense (breaks stun), Twin Moon Sweep (inflicts more condition and helps maintain 25 stacks of power).
- ✅ In the Demon stance: Banish Enchantment (inflicts six stacks of torment and removes three boons), Call to Anguish (jumps and pulls five enemies to inflict AoE damage), Embrace the Darkness (elite skill that inflicts torment around the player and more when using skills that cost energy).
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5. ✨ Skill Priority and How to Use the Conduit Build
- ✅ The main goal is to keep Cosmic Wisdom active by always switching the legendary stance when available.
- ✅ Cosmic Wisdom increases condition damage, reaches 100% condition duration, and reduces the cost of the Demon stance utility skills.
- ✅ Skill priority: when switching to the Demon stance, use the elite skill and Banish Enchantment instantly. When switching to the Dervish stance, use the elite skill and Enveloping Haze instantly.
- ✅ Use the F2 skill after reaching the maximum energy level to maximize damage.
- ✅ The damage per second (DPS) rotation can be found in the video description link.
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6. 🐉 Jadebot Buffs
- ✅ If you have the End of Dragons expansion, load the Jade Protocols to increase defensive stats and net healing each time you enter combat.
- ✅ This buff can be stacked for up to 3 hours.
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7. 🏆 Build Demonstration and Combat Examples
- ✅ The build allows you to tank and kill champions solo in about 30 seconds and complete difficult legendary contracts in about 2 minutes.
- ✅ Combat examples are shown against various enemies, including Tengu, Chak, the Tarnished Traitor, Balthazar, the Frog, the Mushroom Queen, the Champion Forged Gunner, and the Legendary Forged Tormentor and Legendary Water Djinn contracts.