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Power Bladesworn Roaming Build

GW2. WvW Build. Power Bladesworn Roaming Build. Defense Bladesworn. Warrior World vs World.


Last Update: January 2024


The Power Bladesworn is a versatile build for WvW roaming due to its mobility, reflects, and ranged damage, but it can be tricky to control because of its susceptibility to CC and slower animations, making positioning key to survival.

Due to the Shield trait in Defense, you will reflect projectiles when blocking including the Aegis boon, and despite Aegis only blocking 1 attack, if it reflects an attack it doesn’t remove aegis. This synergizes very well with the Aegis application from Pistol 4 and Gunblade 4 to allow you to survive projectiles from ranges and deadeyes so long as you can apply your Aegis at the right time.

Reposition and maintain your Fury uptime by using the Gunblade 5 skill often. Your attacks that are ranged like Axe 3 and Gunblade 2/3 are great for baiting dodges and cooldowns so that you can land Bull’s Charge or your Dragon Slash into your big damage combo from the Axe/Pistol.

Use the Dragon Slash Boost (2) to stun targets and get in melee range to do heavy burst combos from either the gunblade or the axe/pistol, or use it without a target to gain distance from enemies when low on cooldowns or in a bad situation. The burst combo may look like this:

Burst Combo: Dragon Slash Boost > Gunblade 2 > 4 > F1 Swap to Axe > Axe 2 > 3

Or Bull’s Charge > Pistol 5 > Axe 2 > 3

If you don’t want to travel towards your target with Dragon Slash Boost (2), the Reach (3) can also be useful although it would do less damage, because it can still trigger your Adrenal Health and other traits that trigger on Dragon Slash to give you more sustain and damage over time. However, you can use the Blink (5) in Dragon Trigger to help you mind game and reposition your Dragon Slash to land the Force (1) which would do even more damage, but this is much harder to do.


NOTE: The Stun on Dragon Slash was removed on the latest patch. Currently this build won’t perform as good as before. Without CC it cannot chain damage anymore.


Difficulty
50%

Equipment

ItemStatRune / Sigil
Helm
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Coat
Berserker
Gloves
Berserker
Leggings
Berserker
Boots
Berserker

Primary Weapon Set

Axe
Berserker
Pistol
Berserker

Optional Weapon Set

Axe
Berserker
Pistol
Berserker
ItemStat
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker

Relic

Consumables

Infusions

Optional
x18

Alternatives

  • Relic: for more healing

Skills

Axe / PistolHeal / Utility / Elite

Alternatives

  • Heal: for more cleansing

Traits


Alternatives

  • Defense: for more stability and damage but less cleanse
  • Bladesworn: for more damage

Build Template

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

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Gameplay


Tactics Alternative

Credit to Vallun for the video.

12 Comments

  1. does the sigil from the secondary weapon set (shield: sigil of perception in this case) proc for bladesworn builds?

    • it only triggers more stacks when it is on, but you can maintain stacks if you swap weapons out of combat, essentially meaning you can stay on the stack weapon until its charged, then swap to the other and keep the stacks so long as you dont swap weapons and dont go underwater (unless your underwater weapon has bloodlust)

      • thank you for answering! my last question would be which sigil would you recommend more, bloodlust vs perception?

  2. Thanks for the great guide Vallun! Would you still use Tactical Reload after the October patch?

  3. Is Durability fairly required or can I use something like Scholar for more burst?

    • You will be too squishy and you will die a lot, the rune sustain is necessary, otherwise you can change other gear pieces for extra defensive stats

  4. I like this build but still viable with the recent nerf ? No more stun, and 0.5 sec to cast on Dragon Slash.

    • Wish I new this before making a warrior alt. just read about the nerf and it doesn’t make sense. whilst they keep buffing the plague of wvw, harbingers…

  5. What do you think about rune of the defender, with Discipline 2-3-3?
    Just made a Bladeswordn alt and it’s actually fun.

    • discipline is very redundant it has some nice things here and there, but its by far inferior to strength for bladesworn especially since you don’t even get any value for a secondary sigil for discipline.

      peak performance + berkser’s power alone are a 30% damage increase that’s an insane amount of burst potential you’re losing out especially when you are insanely tanky with with unshakable mountain+defense.

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