The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strikedamage and Control
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required:
Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on June 01, 2024 and is up to date for the June 25, 2024 patch.
Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Skill Bar
- 2.1 Skill Variants
- 3 Template Code
- 4 Specializations
- 5 Equipment
- 6 Equipment Variants
- 7 Usage
- 8 Top Streamers
- 9 Related Builds
Overview
A high damage Untamed burst build for PvP. Generally seen as one of the harder Ranger builds to play (mainly due to the improved pet control), Power Untamed is a formidable dueliest that can even pull its weight in larger fights when played right.
Skill Bar
Longbow
Greatsword
Utility
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Axe/Warhorn over Longbow is also a viable option.
Utility
Storm Spirit over
Signet of the Hunt - if you don't need the unblockable attacks from the signet, you could take Storm Spirit for AoE damage and CC plus some extra
Fury uptime.
Unnatural Traversal over
Signet of the Hunt - trades unblockable attacks for a gapcloser that allows you to do "ranged" Greatsword bursts. Switch to
Moment of Clarity on Marksmanship.
Nature's Binding over
"Protect Me!" - with this you gain an extremely powerful CC that can easily guarantee kills on a rather short CD, but give up a valuable source of sustain for it. Makes the build less forgiving to play, but also to play against.
Pets
Wolf can be replaced by:
Template Code
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Specializations
Variants
- Take
Nature's Shield when playing with more than 1 utility Cantrip.
Brutish Seals in Marksmanship can be played for a more bursty playstyle.
Equipment
Longbow
Sigil
Sigil
Greatsword
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Equipment Variants
Relic
Relic of the Midnight King - more fury & might uptime.
Rune
Rune of Dolyak - higher sustain.
Usage
Elite specialization basics
Untamed Rangers have more control over their pets than regular Rangers, allowing them to manually control their pet's 3 special attacks.
- Unleash is the central mechanic of Untamed. At any given time either you or your pet is in the Unleashed state, and you get to flip back and forth on a 1s CD.
- When you're unleashed, your first autoattack is empowered. Greatsword's turns into
Savage Slash while Longbow's becomes
Multishot. Unleashing yourself makes you deal more damage.
- Unleashing the pet grants you damage reduction while their pet skills flip over to new ones:
- F1 becomes
Venomous Outburst
- F2 becomes
Rending Vines
- F3 becomes
Enveloping Haze
- F1 becomes
General
- Use
Swoop for mobility.
Zephyr's Speed has several uses:
- It can be used offensively for the Quickness, most notably to boost
Rapid Fire,
Maul, or Greatsword autos for downed cleave.
- Alternatively the
Superspeed can help you escape damage or chase down targets while on Greatsword.
- It can be used offensively for the Quickness, most notably to boost
- Pet swapping acts as a Blast finisher thanks to
Clarion Bond. Being instant, you can have Smokescale place a
Smoke Cloud under you (even while you're stunned), and swap pets for AoE stealth.
Hunter's Shot is the easiest way to gain stealth in this build, but if the projectile misses then it won't be applied. To reduce the chance of that happening (and considering how the damage of this skill is insignificant) you should try to fire it at pets, mesmer clones, and other AI whenever possible. Alternatively, use it to quickly get rid of
Blind or
Aegis because it's the fastest projectile on this weapon.
Smokescale's F2
Smoke Cloud is a useful combo field:
- Projectile finishers like
Point Blank Shot and
Rapid Fire could
Blind your target, increasing your sustain.
- While your pet is Unleashed, Smoke Cloud is replaced by
Rending Vines which is a Blast finisher. Dropping the field, unleashing the pet and pressing the skill again could make your pet combo Stealth for you on his own. Such a good boy.
Swoop or the trait proc from
Clarion Bond could be used to stack
Stealth as well.
- Stealth fields are always valuable on any team! Consider dropping this for allies before arriving to a fight so they can make use of the field too.
- Projectile finishers like
Sustain
Forest's Fortification is one of your best survival tools but also one that has good synergy with your more offensive skills. Try to use
Barrage and
Multishot while this is active to reduce the CD of your elite, but anything works as long as you're trying to hit as many targets as often as possible.
Cleansing Unleash makes your Unleash ability remove 2 conditions every 10 seconds, which is your first line of defense against conditions.
Mutate Conditions is for emergencies in case condition damage is starting to overwhelm you. Consider disengaging/repositioning right after or following up with
Stealth so you have some time to recover. It's also a stun break.
"Protect Me!" is both a stun break and an excellent skill for damage mitigation. Hold onto it in case you get stunned if Mutate Conditions is on CD, otherwise you get to use it a bit more freely.
- Every unleashed pet skill can be used defensively, and
Unleash Pet itself grants you damage reduction.
Venomous Outburst is an instant source of ranged
Blind via trait synergy that could also be used if you're CC'd or casting skills.
Rending Vines applies
Slow but only if the target is CC'd. It's still useful for preventing them from counterpressuring you after the CC.
Enveloping Haze destroys projectiles while the
Chill makes it easy for you to kite enemies caught in it.
Doing damage
- On Longbow your main combo is
Point Blank Shot into
Rapid Fire. If the target doesn't have
Stability you should open with this whenever you swap sweapons because that way you could squeeze in a second
Rapid Fire before swapping back to Greatsword.
- Make sure that you're the one who's unleashed during burst combos, not the pet.
- Once evey 15 seconds unleashed autoattacks become available:
Savage Slash on Greatsword and
Multishot on Longbow. You don't suddenly gain access to them whenever they're off cooldown, only when you use
Unleash Ranger.
Let Loose makes it easier to manage these skills - whenever you swap weapons the CD is reset, so you always get to use unleashed attacks right after weapon swapping. After that the 15s CD still applies but only if you stay on the same weapon long enough.
- Whenever
Fury is applied to you your next attack will deal more damage and be a guaranteed critical hit. This only works on the next strike and doesn't cover entire skills that deliver multiple hits like
Rapid Fire. On GS however
Maul benefits a lot from this. Sources of
Fury applications in the build:
- Disabling a foe via
Two-Handed Training. Both weapon sets have access to CC skills but GS gets the most value out of this trait. Always try to use
Maul after
Hilt Bash, but even on Longbow
Multishot could do decent burst damage after
Point Blank Shot as Multishot is the most damage you can do in a single hit on bow.
- Swapping pets thanks to
Clarion Bond. This is instant and could even be used in the middle of casting skills to make them crit when they land.
Signet of the Hunt when playing with
Brutish Seals. This is another instant source.
- Disabling a foe via
Maul gives your pet a buff that increases their damage on their next attack. This is best used with either Tail Swipe or Chomp on Drake or Crippling Leap on Wolf.
The Longbow burst combo is rather simple:
Greatsword burst combo example (extended):
- Make sure you're on
Unleash Ranger
- Precast
Maul - the rest of the combo happens between this and Maul landing.
- Swap to
Wolf to trigger
Zephyr's Speed which grants
Fury and
Quickness. Fury gives you
Opening Strike for increased damage.
- Cast the pet's F1 (Crippling Leap) right as Maul's about to connect, the pet attack should go off after Maul (as Maul buffs the pet).
- Your pet should now have Attack of Opportunity as well as Opening Strike for maximum damage.
Hilt Bash your target for CC, hopefully a
Moment of Clarity proc, and to refresh Maul.
Maul again.
- Make sure you're on
Greatsword burst combo (short)
Maul
Hilt Bash to refresh Maul
Maul
Top Streamers
- Twitch: Boyce
- Twitch: ROM
- Twitch: CarolinDnB
- Twitch: Thelshin
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