User:Masel/Builds/CVindicator

Shortbow Ritualist's  Vindicator

Build Rating (Subjective)

Criterion	Rating
Burst Damage	3/5
Sustained Damage	4/5
Utility Options	4/5
Survivability	5/5
Difficulty	2/5

Condition Vindicator is a beast in open world that covers all the essential Boons like  Might,  Fury,  Protection and  Quickness on itself and frequently extends boons on allies via  Vassals of the Empire. It is one solid  Condition Damage modifier away from becoming a comparably strong choice for dps, but it does enough damage to complete all content in the game. It can share its gear with condition  Alacrity  Renegade and condition  Quickness  Herald, which allows you to flexibly change to those.

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Build

Playstyle & Skills

Skill Type	Skills
Aliance Skills
Mace + Axe
Shortbow
Legendary Alliance Stance
Legendary Demon Stance

Revenants are – together with Thieves– the only profession in the game that has a resource bar to manage determines how often you can use skills. On this profession, skills have different Energy costs. This leads to some skills being very powerful with comparably short cooldowns (moreso than on other professions), but the Energybar restricts your ability to use them. That is because they usually have a high Energy cost as the main trade-off.

Legends

• On revenants, Legends invoked from the Mists define your utility skill bar. You can still change the order of them, but each legend has a fixed selection of utility skills.
• Swapping Legends counts as a Weapon swap, and thus triggers all effects that occur when swapping weapons.
• You can swap Legends every 10 seconds, which will replace your entire utility skill bar and is NOT affected by  Alacrity.

In this build, the two legends of choice are   Legendary Demon Stance and   Legendary Alliance Stance, as they provide the highest combination of damage for a Condition-focused build.

Shortbow

•   Bloodbane Path is a ranged attack that applies  Bleeding and does great damage.
•   Sevenshot is a projectile attack that applies 7 stacks of  Torment. Each of these projectiles has a 20% chance to become a Projectile Finisher.
•   Spiritcrush is ground-targeted and a fire field that applies  Burning. Try to use this prior to   Sevenshot, as you may apply additional  Burning through the seven potential Projectile Finishers.
•   Scorchrazor as a cheap skill for Defiance bar damage through a Knockdown. Since it does decent damage as well, it has a fairly small trade-off in damage too!

Mace + Axe

•   Misery Swipe,   Anguish Swipe and   Manifest Toxin make a strong auto attack chain that applies both  Torment and  Poisoned. The damage ramps up towards the final hit, making it ideal to finish the chain.
•   Searing Fissure is a Fire field with a very short cooldown that does great damage via  Burning. Use on cooldown.
•   Echoing Eruption is a Blast finisher that can be used inside   Searing Fissure for area  Might. Also does nice damage via  Torment.
•   Frigid Blitz is a teleport skill that also does some damage and applies both  Chilled and  Slow. Not great for damage, but can be useful if you want to cover ground to your target.
•   Temporal Rift Pulls targets to a straight line in front of you. This is also the strongest damage skill on mace and axe, as it applies lots of  Torment!

Utility Skills

Utility Skills (Alliance)

Skill Choice	Notes
Selfish Spirit	Cheap and strong heal that also applies  Might to you and  Vulnerability to enemies. The short cooldown and scaling per enemy makes this very potent in open world.
Nomad's Advance	This skill is decent damage on a condition build and applies lots of vulnerability. Important part of survivability in open world; more on that later.
Scavenger Burst	is a mobility skill that also applies additional  Might to you. Use it to cover ground, also great in combination with   Scavenger Burst.
Reaver's Rage	is the cheapest Stun break available to you, so use it in emergency scenarios. Also provides  Stability!
Spear of Archemorus	This is the strongest  Condition Damage skill in   Legendary Alliance Stance. It deals damage after a ~3 second delay, so don't use it on mobs that die before it does damage.

Utility Skills (Mallyx)

Skill Choice	Notes
Empowering Misery	Cheap and strong heal that also heals you for each condition on you, but does not remove them.
Banish Enchantment	This skill applies  Chilled and removes 3 boons, which can be very useful for encounters like Dhuum, Qadim the Peerless or Vale Guardian.
Call to Anguish	Leap finisher that also Pulls enemies to the spot where you land and applies  Chilled. Can be used to group mobs up, but is very expensive to use.
Pain Absorption	Stun break that will transfer conditions from nearby allies to you and applies both  Resistance and  Resolution to you. Very expensive, should only be used in emergency situations on Mallyx.
Embrace the Darkness	This is an Upkeep skill that will slowly drain your Energy and applis  Torment every second. Very strong and the first thing you should actviate when you swap to Mallyx. Will apply even more  Torment whenever you used a skill that costs Energy.

CC Skills for Breakbar Damage:

•   Reaver's Rage
•   Scorchrazor
•   Call to Anguish
•   Temporal Rift

Gear

Important Stats (descending in Importance):

1. 100%  Bleeding Duration
2. 100%  Torment Duration
3. Maximize Condition Damage

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Shoulders	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Chest	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Gloves	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Legs	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Boots	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Viper's
Ring 1	Viper's
Ring 2	Viper's
Accessory 1	Viper's
Accessory 2	Viper's
Backpack	Viper's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Mace (Main Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Geomancy
Axe (Main Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Doom
Shortbow (Main & Off Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Earth & Superior Sigil of Torment
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Plate of Beef Rendang
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters Gnashblade
Damage	Utility	Toxic Tuning Crystal
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Fractal

• Since the vast majority of damage comes from  Bleeding and  Torment, it is important to reach 100% condition duration on it. We violate that rule here, as Superior Rune of the Trapper is the best overall choice despite Superior Rune of the Nightmare having longer condition duration.
• For a budget variant, simply replace all armor pieces of Viper's with rare/exotic Ritualist's. For the backpack, you can use a Crafter's backpack of the highest tier and select either Celestial or Rabid.
• Ascended food and gear is always ideal, but almost never required. Exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.

Traits

Corruption
Invocation
Renegade

DPS Rotation Showcase

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Open World Build

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Increasing General Survivability

For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.

• The first major step to increase survivability is to stay on Shortbow.
• You can also decide to change your amulet and helmet to Celestial or Trailblazer, as you can get them cheap via Ice Golem's Maw Box and Candy Corn Orichalcum Amulet, respectively. Make sure to put a Black Diamond or Chunk of Petrified Echovald Resin on the amulet, as it natively includes Berserker's on the upgrade.
• Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for another -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness!

Boon Coverage

• Instead, I recommend using   Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and   Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge.
• These give for 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from  Stability,  Resistance and  Resolution on entering combat. These effects can be pre-stacked by using an Enchanted Snow Diamond Tonic repeatedly when out of combat. They will fully cover  Protection in general roaming, where you enter and exit combat frequently!

Dealing with Incoming Conditions and Control effects

• The other Stun break you have available is   Pain Absorption, but that is rather expensive.