Spellbreaker - Greatsword Spellbreaker Roamer

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Focused on: Strike damage, Control and Mobility

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on February 24, 2025.

Overview

A Power Spellbreaker build for WvW roaming with great mobility, featuring the Greatsword. Attempts to get away with playing the Strength specialization by opting for Staff as its defensive backup set.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Dagger/Shield over Staff - GS/Dagger is the more traditional way of playing Spellbreaker in WvW, but it's currently being overshadowed by Staff. This is a way higher pressure set with unblockable boon removal and more CC, but your sustain will be considerably lower on it. Going for Defense to make up for the loss of Staff is worth considering.

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Specializations

Variants

• Take Might Makes Right if you want to have a bit more sustain.

Specialization Variants

Defense over Strength also works. This is a more sustain focused version of the build:

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Demolisher

Ring
Demolisher

Ring
Demolisher

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Replace the Dragon pieces with Marauder if you're NOT playing with a Precision rune, or if you're willing to trade some burst potential for higher consistency.

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Reaper - mix of defense and offense.

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar - higher burst potential, lower crit chance.

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Brawler - better sustain without sacrificing much damage.

Relics

• Relic of Rivers - CD reductions give you more of everything, especially sustain.

• Relic of Isgarren - passive damage boost that's easy to maintain.

• Relic of the Daredevil - better consistency on important skills, but overall lower burst potential.

Consumables

Food options

• - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• - a very strong defensive option which improves your endurance regen and adds a bit more damage. Even has synergy with dodge related traits.
  • Budget version:

Utility

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Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Full Counter (FC) recharges your Burst skills Arcing Slice and Path to Victory. Try to use it FC when you can reset their cooldowns, except if you're under heavy pressure in which case you can use FC purely for defensive means.

• Always try to make sure Full Counter goes off: briefly move into hostile AoE spells, tank Mesmer clones or Ranger pets, etc.

• FC is both the best defensive and offensive skill in the build as it blocks, evades, grants Stability and performs an unblockable AoE damage/CC attack when triggered.

• Both burst skills and Full Counter cost adrenaline. If you only need a little more till you can use them then Versatile Rage can get you there.

General

• Settings: disable auto targeting, otherwise it'd be impossible to use skills like Rush for disengaging.

• Playstyle: this build is all about weaving hard hitting skills into chains of block and evade frames while tethering yourself to the target with Magebane Tether as often as possible. The combos aren't set in stone, rather you'll need to adapt based on what CDs are available. Minimize melee contact, dodge/block/evade as many things as possible, and spike targets when an opening shows.
  • Any burst skill can proc Magebane Tether, including Full Counter.
  • The goal is to maintain the tether as long as possible for the damage boost and Might Makes Right synergy.
  • Whirlwind Attack, Arcing Slice, and Path to Victory are your main damaging skills, everything else is basically a filler or something that's used to set up burst / survive enemy burst.
• Fast Hands reduces the CD of weapon swapping to 5 seconds, which keeps gameplay rather fast paced with minimal downtime. As a result you won't be auto attacking much unless you're cleaving a downed enemy.

• CCing a target removes a boon and deals damage/grants adrenaline via Loss Aversion.

• Thanks to No Escape whenever you Daze or Stun a target you also Immobilize them. This is especially useful with Full Counter which dazes targets and then recharges your burst skills, perfectly setting up your followup.

• All movement skills remove the Immobilized condition - list of movement skills in the build:
  • Greatsword: Whirlwind Attack and Rush. These two skills also provide excellent mobility both in and out of combat.
  • Staff: Valiant Leap and Line Breaker.
  • If taken Dagger/Shield: Aura Slicer, Shield Bash, and the burst skill Breaching Strike. The Dagger skills are also excellent gap closers.
  • Rampage: Kick (Rampage), Dash, and Seismic Leap.
  • Utility: Bull's Charge

Conditon cleansing & general survival

• Brawler's Recovery and Warrior's Sprint will be used to manage condition levels before resorting to mass cleanses.

• "Shake It Off!" (SIO) is the only stun break in the build, and one that comes with AoE condition removal. This skill has 2 charges: if you're under heavy condition pressure and the aforementioned 2 traits aren't enough, you're free to use one of the charges.

• Kite, a LOT. You want to run out of harm's way using mobility skills as much as possible before resorting to major defensive CDs.

• Bull's Charge is great if you want to run away from pressure as it can build quite the gap while providing an evade frame.

Rampage

• Rampage is what you use when you quickly want to burst/CC a target, or desperately need mobility to either chase down someone, or run away from a fight. Bonus points if you manage to attach Magebane Tether just before using your elite.

• CC skills barely do any damage anymore, most of the damage in this form comes from autoattacks and Dash.

• Throw Boulder is a popular opener, allowing you to CC targets from range and then either follow up with Dash for burst damage or Seismic Leap to keep the CC chain rolling.