Galeshot - Power Galeshot

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on February 02, 2026 and is up to date for the December 09, 2025 patch.

Overview

Galeshot build for open world. Summon Cyclone Bow to overwhelm your enemies with all your projectiles, dealing respectable damage even at range, while providing yourself and nearby allies with permanent Quickness.

As a downside, this build struggles against enemies that can block or reflect projectiles, and requires frequent weapon swapping between your 2 basic weapons and the Cyclone Bow.

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Skill Bar

Axe/Axe

Longbow

Utility

Weapon Variants

Dual Maces - maces can replace axes to trade damage for more resilience through barrier, stability, healing, and more crowd control. Requires Expanded Weapon Proficiency from Secrets of the Obscure.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

We default to "We Heal As One!" for its good healing, low cooldown, and boon extension. If needed, it can be replaced by:

Soothing Breeze - slightly higher cooldown but it cleanses 2 conditions and recovers 1 arrow.

Utility skill

We default to:
Piercing Gales because it deals good damage
Mistral because it increases your projectile damage, and galeshots fire lots of projectiles.
Whirlwind as a stunbreak and mobility skill. Can be replaced if you don't need this defensive option.
If you want or need to run other skills, here are some suggestions:

Storm Spirit - extra AoE damage and cc.
Frost Trap - extra AoE damage.
"Protect Me!" - AoE stunbreak and personal barrier.
Signet of the Wild - passive damage. Never activate it.
Signet of Renewal - in condition heavy fights to cleanse conditions, but be ready to swap pets if its health gets too low.

Elite skill

We default to Perfect Storm for its great damage and crowd control. On very rare situations, it can be replaced by:

Spirit of Nature - sacrifices your damage for an AoE revive.

Pet variants

The suggested Cheetah is a feline, a family of pets that deal good damage. Its beast skill, Savannah Strike helps with Swiftness uptime, which is important for the trait Bird of Prey. The second pet, the Jacaranda has good AoE damage and is somewhat tanky.
Other options include:

High damage pets

Jacaranda, any feline such as Lynx, and bird such as Hawk.

Good mix of damage and crowd control

Smokescale, Rock Gazelle, Boar, any canine such as Alpine Wolf.

Good on-demand crowd control

Rock Gazelle, Pink Moa, Electric Wyvern, Wolf.

Tanky pets

Drakes such as Marsh Drake provide the best mix of damage and tankiness, but bears, porcines, and devourers are also very tanky pets.

Specializations

Variants

Predator's Onslaught - significant damage increase but your arrows no longer pierce, so it might be worse when fighting packs of enemies.
Sharpened Edges - minimal damage increase at the cost of Vigor generation.
Strider's Strength - if not using a feline, avian, or drake pet.

Note that Farsighted currently doesn't work with Summon Cyclone Bow, so you can consider Wolfsong instead. It is unknown if this is intended or a bug.

Equipment

Berserker

This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Soulbeast_-_Power_DPS, making it excellent for general PvE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Longbow
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Nika" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Serpentstone" mace, "Maw of the Damned"/"Shattered Axe"/"Serpent's Wrath Axe" axe, "Ebonblade" greatsword, "Impaler" spear, "Ironfist" hammer, or "Eir's Longbow" longbow. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

This set provides 100% critical chance thaks to Vicious Quarry and Hunter's Tactics.
You can use Relic of Fireworks if you lack access to Claw, or Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain.
For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Defense

Farming

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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(and variants)

Usage

Summon Cyclone Bow is the profession mechanic of the galeshot. It replaces your current weapon with a wind bow. The bow starts with 8 arrows which replenish over time. Using Squall skills (the galeshot heal, utility, and elite skills) also replenishes arrows.

Casting bow skills 2 to 5 consumes arrows. After consuming 5 arrows, Hawkeye replaces skill 1. However, if you leave the Cyclone Bow, your stacks of consumed arrows are lost.

Due to the trait Cloudburst, the cooldown of Bluster (skill 2) is reset when using Quarry's Peril (skill 4) or Supersonic Arrow (skill 5).

Damage

Gain Quickness by using Bluster and Hawkeye thanks to the trait Cloudburst.
To effectively use Cyclone Bow, you want to enter, cast your skills to generate 5 Wind Force, cast Hawkeye and leave. One way to do that is to enter the bow, use Bluster, Quarry's Peril, Bluster, Supersonic Arrow and Hawkeye.
- If Supersonic Arrow is on cooldown, replace it with Fleeting Zephyr and auto attack until you can cast Bluster again and finish with Hawkeye.
- Remember that your stacks of Wind Force are lost when you stow the bow.
Be careful with the cast time of Hawkeye, do not interrupt it.
Use Mistral before unleashing your projectile burst to deal higher damage.
Maintain Swiftness or Superspeed to activate Bird of Prey. You can easily gain switness from Lead the Wind and Tail Wind, which also activates when swapping to/from the Cyclone Bow.
Crowd control recovers 1 arrow thanks to Thrill of the Catch. Squall skills, such as Mistral also recover one arrow.