GW2. Best Open World Builds. Hammer Greatsword Power Untamed Open World. Ranger PvE.
The Power Untamed for Open World PvE is a ranger build that uses quickness and burst damage to play very aggressively in melee range.
The F5 keybind allows you to swap between unleashing yourself or your pet. Prefer to be unleashed as it gives you more damage modifiers and allows Ambush abilities, but you may often want to toggle your pet unleash once every rotation because all of the Unleashed Pet abilities (F1/F2/F3) can be used very quickly and then toggled back. Also when your pet is unleashed you gain a significant damage reduction boost, which can be useful to swap to if you get stunned and can’t use any attacks.
Each weapon has an Ambush (replaces the 1 skill) that is enabled when entering Unleash every 10 seconds, but whenever swapping weapons with the Let Loose trait they will be available immediately, so long as you are Unleashed. You have a couple of seconds to use the Ambush skill before it returns to the basic 1 skill.
Both the Greatsword and Hammer have strong burst potential as well as CC, and you gain Quickness when disabling enemies while Unleashed and deal extra damage to targets that are disabled or have movement-inhibiting conditions on them. Always try to keep the Chill from the Frost Trap on your main targets to keep up this extra damage. Also place your pet skills on auto-cast with CTRL-Right Click to make sure your pets are constantly using their CCs to lock down enemies.
Skill Combos
Swap between Greatsword and Hammer whenever you are able to.
Greatsword Combo
- Unleash Ranger (F5) > Greatsword Ambush (1) > 2 5 2 > 3
Hammer Combo
- Unleash Ranger (F5) > Hammer 2 > Ambush (1) > 4 > 5 > Unleash Pet (F5) > 3 > F1/F2/F3
The pet unleashed abilities may not be off cooldown when you want to hammer 3 for CC and quickness generation, but don’t delay the rotation just to wait for them.
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Dragon | ||
| Shoulders Dragon | ||
| Coat Dragon | ||
| Gloves Dragon | ||
| Leggings Dragon | ||
| Boots Dragon |
| Hammer Berserker |
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| Greatsword Berserker |
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| Item | Stat |
|---|---|
| Amulet Dragon | |
| Ring Dragon | |
| Ring Dragon | |
| Accessory Dragon | |
| Accessory Dragon | |
| Backpiece Dragon |
| Optional x18 |
Alternatives
- Jade Bot Core: for extra vitality
- Stats: Berserker can replace Dragon if it is more accessible to you, for less optimization of defensive stats
| Sky-Chak Striker / Rock Gazelle | Unleashed Pet |
| Hammer / Unleashed Hammer | Heal / Utility / Elite |
| Greatsword | Unleashed Ambushes |
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8 Comments
Do you have any alternative suggestion for sigil of impact/paralyization? Its pretty costly for me.
air sigil or blood
Thank you for this. Any possible ranged options with Axe/SB/LB for the Untamed? Or would you recommend just going back to Core or Soulbeast for ranged?
Soulbeast is much better for a ranged type build. Untamed works better with a melee playstyle.
Can you update the build, it’s a lot of fun to play it even tho untamed isn’t the best ranger spec. So they say 😀
it is updated
Small advice from my side: If you take Firework Runes, you can enjoy some nice quickness uptime while still having a lot of damage and sustain c:
Makes a lot of fun this way!
fireworks runes are a definite option here for more boons, and I like them in many other places, but other than quickness which I believe has a decent uptime already there isn’t too much need for more uptime so I prefer the extra 9% or more crit damage from scholar