Power Grenade Holosmith Roaming Build

GW2. WvW Build. Power Grenade Holosmith WvW Roaming Build. Engineer WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.

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Role: Assassin

Preferred Group Size: 1-15

The Power Grenade Holosmith is a WvW Roaming engineer build that can overcome almost any situation just by doing insane damage while kiting. It has medium-range burst damage from grenades and plenty of mobility from superspeed while also having strong defensive cooldowns like the Elixir S or the Shield 5.

Maintaining your heat above 100 is important because, due to the Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit trait, it gives might which not only gives a damage boost that scales with the Mistburn relic, but also heals from alchemy traits and will give more condition to boon conversion when leaving forge. The mobility is high due to the superspeed on Holo Leap (Forge 2), which will also cleanse Immobilize, Cripple, and Chill, allowing an aggressive playstyle that goes in and out.

To keep your heat high without overheating, use Corona Burst (Forge 3) and Holo Leap more freely. Use Photon Blitz (Forge 4) only when you can guarantee the hit, just throwing it out and missing is a big waste of heat. Avoid Holographic Shockwave (Forge 5) if your heat is high. Corona Burst can be used at the end of your forge rotation and so long as you leave the forge before the skill pulses your heat to 100 you will not overheat. This is important for maintaining your might stacks.

Basic Rotation

• Preheat using Forge skills to 75 (half) heat
• Forge 2 > 3 > 4 > 1 1 1 > 2 > 3 > Exit Forge
• Shield 44 > Sword 3 > 2 > Grenade Barrage > Swap to Grenades and begin kiting
• Grenade 2 > 4 > 5 > 2 > 1 1 1
• Keep using Grenade 1 and casting Elixirs until Heat is around 75 then repeat

Grenade Tips

Set up your Ground Targeting option as “Instant” as well as enable “Skill Retargeting” and practice aiming with your Grenade Kit while moving for better accuracy. This improves your damage output while under pressure or kiting drastically. If you still have issues to land grenades you can try using the option “Snap Ground Target to Current Target” and the grenades will go to your target as long you are in range, just make sure to detarget before using any other AoE like if you want to throw an elixir at your location. You can see a tutorial on this at the start of this video: Click!

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Sword / Shield	Heal / Utility / Elite
Photon Forge	Grenade Kit

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Alternatives

• Elite: for stun and utility fields

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Alternatives

• Explosives: for more damage but less sustain
• Explosives: for more damage but less sustain
• Alchemy: for protection against cc burst

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Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)

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Video Build Guide:

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Updated Gameplay:

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