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First Intention Wardancer Build Guide for PvE
Build
is a flashy, high speed and mobile build that excels on progression/learning content. It is also the tankiest wardancer build, allowing the player to be greedier than others. It has low stagger damage and weak point destruction.
The build can be set up either as a non-positional for comfort or back attacker to hit those high numbers. Although the back attack variant can reach a higher ceiling, non-positional output is still very close.
Compared to other classes at the same powerlevel, this build isn’t for the MVP chasers. It’ll only be able to out damage most classes if the player gets a very good damage uptime, which means you need to be hitting your skills while others can’t for any reason, like cooldowns or bad positioning.
It is also important to note that all Wardancer builds feel very weak without high tripod levels and their respective relic sets.
12
Flash Heat Fang
7
Sky Shattering Blow
12
Moon Flash Kick
10
Sleeping Ascent Celebration
10
Wind's Whisper
10
Roar of Courage
12
Sweeping Kick
12
Energy Combustion
Skill priority
Awakening skill
is only useful for activating Dominion Fang set’s buff, so you should always tap it, not hold
How to play
Main Damage Combo
- Start with
- Apply buffs with +
- Damage combo + +
The rotation is very fluent, meaning you can adjust based on the character’s Swiftness amount and level of cooldown gems on each skill.
is mostly used for mobility and proccing Conviction and Judgement.
If you already have enough skill points to pick up tripod, you can squeeze in a + short combo while you wait for and
For stagger checks, most of your stagger comes from
First Awakening Cheese
You might consider pressing inside the yellow circle where you can change equipment. This will provide you the buff for the next 2 minutes of the current fight without consuming your Awakening charges (you usually have 6 or 7 per fight). This is very useful for prolonged fights.
Tips to maximize DPS
- Avoid using skills without and or buffs.
- tripod must pop inside buffs window. If it happens to pop while skills are on cooldown, you can use to buff it right before it explodes.
You should ALWAYS proc Judgement Rune before using your Awakening. This will greatly lower its cooldown, allowing you to use it again a little bit after the ‘Inner Awakening’ buff from Dominion Fang expires.
engravings
3
First Intention
3
Grudge
3
Keen Blunt Weapon
3
Mass Increase
3
Raid Captain
These are recommended engravings for a 5x3 setup.
For a 5x3 + 1 setup with ancient accessories add level 1 or
If you have 9-7 ability stone with ancient accessories add level 2 or
3
Ambush Master
3
Cursed Doll
instead when using 2-piece Entropy gear set
can be replaced by
combat stats
Crit
Swiftness
Specialization
Endurance
Domination
Expertise
doesn’t really have any stat breakpoints. Aim to achieve high Swiftness since it will lower the cooldown of Dominion Fang’s “Inner Awakening”
Attack Gems
Sweeping Kick
Moon Flash Kick
Flash Heat Fang
Energy Combustion
As damage goes, the priority should be > > >
Cooldown Gems
Sweeping Kick
Moon Flash Kick
Flash Heat Fang
Wind's Whisper
Roar of Courage
Sleeping Ascent Celebration
Sky Shattering Blow
is your bottleneck cooldown. The higher CDR gem for it the better, but there’s no reason to get more levels of CDR gems into the other skills if they get lower cooldowns, but aim to have and {{skill.wardancer-roar-of-courage} 2 levels above the rest
gear tripods
Magick ControlQuick PrepFatal WaveBlessing of the WindQuick PrepReady AttackWeak Point DetectionShadowcleavePure ExcellenceIntense ShockSingle HitFull Moon KickSpiral KickQuick PrepLeaf SweepFist of DarknessWeak Point DetectionAdrenaline RushExcellent MobilityReady AttackCombustible ArmorIntense BattleLast WhisperThe following tripods are a priority level 5 by skill:
Gear Set
Non-positional
- Dominion Fang (4/6) + Nightmare Flower (2/6)
- No mana problems
- Dominion Fang (6/6)
- 30% cooldown on your movement skill (spacebar)
- +3% damage
- 1 Awakening Charge
Back Attack Variant
- Earth’s Entropy (2/6) Dominion Fang (2/6) + Nightmare Flower (2/6)
- No mana problems
- Earth’s Entropy (2/6) Dominion Fang (4/6)
- Around +2% damage
- 1 Awakening Charge
Note: Not being able to use your skills because of lack of mana annihilates your damage output.