This is a list with a good variety of viable roaming builds for WvW. While roaming you may experience a variety of situations all within a short span of time because of how diverse WvW can be. So there are three main things you want on a roaming build:

• Self Sustain
• Mobility
• Burst Damage

When roaming you can’t rely on your team to cleanse conditions and heal you with dedicated support players. Even though you can roam with a support it is slow and generally only good in situations where the fights are even or favored for you. If the situation doesn’t favor you, a support build can often get run over or can be rendered useless when their teammates scatter.

If you are in a vastly outnumbered situation the only option may be to retreat. Mobility can allow you to survive until you can reach the safety of your territory or allies. Also having the ability to chase down an enemy who is running away is important to having kill potential. You gain a lot more control over situations the more mobility you have.

Due to this opportunistic nature of WvW roaming it is only natural that roamers want to get in when situations favor them and get out quickly before they become too dangerous. Burst damage is useful for getting the kill unnoticed and then retreating back to safe positioning before the enemy can punish you for it.

Power builds often have better burst damage but lack sustain, while Condition builds have more sustained damage over time but lack instant impact. Celestial or hybrid builds will not specialize in anything but be decent at everything while gaining extra utility from boons.

Remember! There’s no “meta” for roaming, use these builds as a starting point and adapt to your playstyle!

All classes are viable, the builds are rated between other builds of the same class.

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Thief

• Power D/P Daredevil – ⭐
• Power Rifle Deadeye – ⭐
• Power S/D Daredevil – ⭐
• Power S/D Core – 💗
• Condition Specter – 💗
• Celestial P/P Daredevil – 💎
• Condition P/D Core – 💎
• Power Specter – 💎

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Ranger

• Power “Sic ‘Em!” Soulbeast – ⭐
• Condition Immobilize Druid – ⭐
• Power Daze Druid – 💗
• Celestial Soulbeast – 💗
• Power Combo Untamed – 💗
• Celestial Untamed – 💎

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Engineer

• Power Grenade Holosmith – ⭐
• Celestial Scrapper – ⭐
• Power Tools Holosmith – 💗
• Power Mortar Scrapper – 💗
• Power Rifle Mechanist – 💗
• Celestial Mechanist – 💎
• Celestial Grenade Core – 💎

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Mesmer

• Condition Ambush Mirage – ⭐
• Celestial Virtuoso – ⭐
• Power Ambush Mirage – ⭐
• Power PU Virtuoso – 💗
• Condition Chronomancer – 💗
• Power Shatter Chronomancer – 💗
• Power PU Shatter Core – 💎

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Elementalist

• Scepter Catalyst – ⭐
• Celestial Daggers Catalyst – ⭐
• Hammer Catalyst – ⭐
• Celestial Fire Weaver – 💗
• Celestial Tempest – 💗
• Power Fresh Air Weaver – 💗
• Power Air LR Tempest – 💎
• Lightning Rod Weaver – 💎

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Necromancer

• Celestial Harbinger – ⭐
• Power Reaper – ⭐
• Condition Core Terrormancer – 💗
• Celestial Corrupt Reaper – 💗
• Power Harbinger – 💎

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Warrior

• Power Spellbreaker – ⭐
• Power Axe/Hammer Core – ⭐
• Power Axe Berserker – 💗
• Condition Burst Berserker – 💗
• Power Bladesworn – 💗
• Power Rifle Berserker – 💎

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Guardian

• Power Willbender – ⭐
• Power Trapper Dragonhunter – ⭐
• Celestial Willbender – 💗
• Celestial Firebrand – 💗
• Condition Dragonhunter – 💎
• Power Radiance Core Guardian – 💎

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Revenant

• Power Vindicator – ⭐
• Celestial Renegade – ⭐
• Power Herald – 💗
• Celestial Herald – 💗
• Celestial Vindicator – 💎

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