Spellbreaker - Power Arms DPS

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Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on February 27, 2025.

Overview

Spellbreaker is a great all-rounder, combining high sustained damage, consistent boonrip, big CC and good survivability thanks to Full Counter.

Skill Bar

Sword/Mace

Dagger/Axe

Utility

Weapon Variants

• You can drop the mainhand Sword to keep only Dagger mainhand. This makes the rotation simpler, and it deals greater damage against targets above 50% health. It does less DPS overall though, and this damage drops further against targets that regularly gain boons.

Skill Variants

Qadim Lava Elemental Kiter Variant

• Break Enchantments does increased damage to enemies that have boons. Qadim regains boons on a very short interval. Replaces Kick (warrior utility)

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Specializations

• Loss Aversion - On bosses that regain boons very regularly you will not gain the benefit of Sun and Moon Style, and you can reliably gain the extra damage and adrenaline for removing boons with this trait.

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Mace
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• For players that don't own Janthir Wilds, a Relic of the Thief is the best option.
• Against bosses that don't get Stunned, a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air on Sword/Mace will do more DPS than the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impacts.
• If you're able to reliably use CC during a bosses attack animations, then Sigil of Superior Sigil of Severance will trigger, which can make it better than Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact.
• Against bosses where you can reliably remove boons (such as Qadim), Relic of Nourys may offer higher DPS. Be aware that you will also stack this relic passively in combat, so the damage buff may trigger on a moment where it's not useful.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

Usage

Offhand mace rotation

Start on Sword/Mace. If possible, you can precast all your signet skills before the encounter starts to stack up Signet Mastery. Make sure Signet of Fury is the last one you use, as it has its own potent buff when cast. You can repeat this trick whenever you have downtime and can't hit the boss.

Opener

1. Kick (warrior utility)
2. Flurry, but cancel the cast as soon as you get a hit as you're only casting it to trigger Berserker's Power and Magebane Tether.
3. Crushing Blow
4. Tremor - this recharges Crushing Blow
5. Crushing Blow
6. Weapon Swap

Dagger section

1. Disrupting Stab
2. Dual Strike
3. Breaching Strike
4. Whirling Axe
5. Precise Cut ⇒ Focused Slash ⇒ Keen Strike x4
6. Kick (warrior utility)
7. Precise Cut ⇒ Focused Slash ⇒ Keen Strike
8. Breaching Strike
9. Precise Cut ⇒ Focused Slash ⇒ Keen Strike
10. Disrupting Stab
11. Dual Strike
12. Weapon Swap

Sword section

1. Final Thrust
2. Sever Artery ⇒ Gash ⇒ Hamstring x7
3. Kick (warrior utility)
4. Flurry, but cancel the cast as soon as you get a hit as you're only casting it to trigger Berserker's Power and Magebane Tether.
5. Signet of Fury
6. Crushing Blow
7. Tremor
8. Crushing Blow
9. Final Thrust
10. Weapon Swap
11. Return to start of Dagger section

Kiting Qadim's Lava Elementals

This build can reliably kite Lava Elementals at Qadim, while also bringing decent DPS on the boss and utility in removing Stability during Parry by using Winds of Disenchantment. It is however very unforgiving for mistakes and becomes more difficult quickly when Qadim gets stacks of Fiery Surge. This guide assumes the use of offhand Axe.

Build variation

• (Optional) Break Enchantments does increased damage to enemies that have boons. Qadim regains boons on a very short interval. Replace Bull's Charge and use off cooldown (be aware that it interrupts other skills)
• (Optional) Loss Aversion - Qadim regains boons very regularly, so you will not gain the benefit of Sun and Moon Style. You can however reliably gain the extra damage and adrenaline for removing boons with this trait.
• (Optional) Relic of Nourys can be taken since Qadim regains boons constantly that you can remove to stack this effect.

Kiting Strategy

For a general overview, see this section.

Since this build has no ranged capabilities, we will be running around to kill the Lava Elementals up close. The elementals spawn in an anti-clockwise pattern around the platform Qadim is on. The main strategy for killing the elementals is to go through a loop of three methods (and since the platform is a triangle, that means that we'll be using every method in the same corner every time).

• Whirling Axe or Disrupting Stab and Dual Strike (alternate between them every loop)
• Breaching Strike
• Aura Slicer

Since we don't have Fury, it's possible we won't crit every time. Just finish the elemental with some auto attacks in that case.

Running around the platform means most of Qadim's attacks won't hit us. The main danger comes from , but this attack can be dodged or jumped over. Fire Dance will usually occur right before going back to the first elemental spawn spot, but this can deviate based on Fiery Surge stacks. If we avoid all the attacks, the only sustain we need is for the passive aura. This sustain is provided by the passive of Healing Signet and building up Adrenal Health by hitting Breaching Strike. If an emergency block is needed, Full Counter can be used which will also add stacks of Adrenal Health if it hits an enemy. Adrenaline can be topped off by using the active of Signet of Fury or bringing Signet of Rage.