GW2. WvW Build. Celestial Vindicator WvW Roaming Build. Revenant WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.
Role: Bruiser 
The Celestial Vindicator is a build that provides boons very often by dodging to stack and maintain high sustain from powerful boons like Vigor, Resistance, and Protection. The damage is not very high but its sustain allows you to play a role similar to a tank.
Use Shiro Stance to engage with unblockable from Phase Traversal and follow with either Scorchrazor or Sevenshot. Alliance stance offers pretty much everything you need, like stun breakers, mobility, stability, cleanse, evade, and resistance. Using Battle Dance is very important as your main source of resistance which will negate the Immobilize condition. Use Greatsword for utility movement, block and to cleave faster.
Always swap between the two alliance stances before going into Shiro regardless of whether you need those skills because it will heal you and give regeneration. Use all your energy before changing legends to make use of the Charged Mists trait.
Survival requires a good rotation of dodges and movement skills in the Stances, so use dodges while in Shiro/Luxon and the Battle Dance in Kurzick stance to fill the gaps between your attacks. When kiting use the ports/evade from Shiro and Alliance stances to reposition.
Basic Combo:
- Enchanted Daggers > Phase Traversal >
- Shortbow 5 > 4 > 3 > 2 > Swap
- Greatsword 3 > 2 > 5
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Celestial | ||
| Shoulders Celestial | ||
| Coat Celestial | ||
| Gloves Celestial | ||
| Leggings Celestial | ||
| Boots Celestial |
| Shortbow Celestial |
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| Greatsword Celestial |
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Alternatives
- Sigil: instead of Doom
| Shortbow | Heal / Utility / Elite |
| Greatsword | |
Alternatives
- Legend: instead of Shiro for more team support
- Legend: instead of Shiro for more condition
- Legend: instead of Shiro for more team support
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5 Comments
Enjoyed the build video! Would it be advantageous to swap out some of the celestial pieces for say marauder, berserker or even dragon stats? I do like the condi idea but when it comes to greatsword play I love seeing the big juicy crits similarly to Reaper greatsword! I also absolutely love the Spear of Archemorus! It’s such a unique ability and can crit for really decent damage. I’m wanting to get into this class a lot more so all the advice would be helpful. Thank you for all the work you put into your builds!
If you want a marauder playstyle then this build is not how to get it. In short, use shiro alliance with invo devastation/retri and gs staff with the dmg dodge. I will eventually get around to that build
Are Durability runes fine as an alternative for this build? Or Fireworks is just really better?
You can but you become too bunker, can work anyway just less damage, and take Rapid Flow for swiftness
Will Tormenting runes work for this build? Also, are there any adjustments after the chill removal on Imperial Impact?