Condi Soulbeast

Condi Meta Damage Build

Overview
Information:
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Key Skills
Rating
  • Condi Meta
Group Layout Info
Viability:
Synergy very high
DPS high
Independence average
Acquiring basicseasy
Achieving masteryaverage

This build is META in Sunqua Peak. Outside Sunqua Peak in faster groups this build will fall massively behind Power Soulbeast - the power damage counterpart.

Condi Soulbeast is a DPS build with high sustained damage and reasonable burst that also provides strong party buffs with

and
, and crowd control (CC) skills. This build is mostly used for 100CM, for most other fractals you will be better off playing the power variant found here.

This build is rather self sufficient due to:

  • Boon extension by
    ,
  • Good CC with
    and
  • High mobility via
    and

Overall this is a very well rounded build that is rewarding to play in both PuGs and organized teams alike.

Equipment
Armor
  • Viper

    Krait

  • Viper

    Krait

  • Viper

    Krait

  • Viper

    Krait

  • Viper

    Krait

  • Viper

    Krait

Weapons
  • Viper Dagger

    Bursting

  • Viper Torch

    Earth

  • Viper Shortbow

    Bursting, Earth

Consumables
Food
Utility
Infusion
Back and trinkets
Sinister
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Swap Weapons
  • An Axe/Dagger set to replace Shortbow for fights where range is not needed.
  • A weapon set to precast and before getting into fight.

This build is probably only worth running in a static group. It's damage depends on the amount of Soulbeast in the party. The build deals similar DPS with 2 condi Soulbeasts, and outperforms the Krait build if you have 3 Soulbeasts in the party. If you are going to be on your own run the Krait rune setup!

Armor
  • Viper

    Afflicted

  • Viper

    Afflicted

  • Viper

    Afflicted

  • Viper

    Afflicted

  • Viper

    Afflicted

  • Viper

    Afflicted

Weapons
  • Viper Dagger

    Malice

  • Viper Torch

    Earth

  • Viper Shortbow

    Malice, Earth

Consumables
Food
Utility
Infusion
Back and trinkets
Sinister
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Swap Weapons
  • An Axe/Dagger set to replace Shortbow for fights where range is not needed.
  • A weapon set to precast and before getting into fight.
Build
Traits

  • Wilderness Survival

  • Skirmishing

  • Soulbeast

Skills
Heal
Utilities
Elite
Pets
Warthog - Best CDPS pet that also brings CC, also this is the pet you use in
.
Bristleback - Used to precast some extra Bleeding. Is also the best CDPS pet for when there are multiple targets.
Further information
Situational Traits
Take this instead of
if boon uptime in your party is bad and you want some extra generation.
Take this instead of
if the boss you will be fighting doesn't change position often.
Shortbow vs Axe/Dagger

Although Axe/Dagger benches higher, typically this build is only run in 100CM where Shortbow shines due to the amount of moving Ai does. This allows you to keep attacking while at range. If you are running this build elsewhere you will probably find that Axe/Dagger will do more DPS. If you are swapping shortbow for Axe/Dagger you will want to run the following sigils:

  • Viper Axe

    Bursting

  • Viper Dagger

    Earth

Situational Skills
A replacement for
, this allows your Renegade to lower their boon duration and deal substantially more DPS! Altenatively if you have more than one Soulbeast, one can drop
.
A replacement for
. Only taken if you do not need to provide
or
.
Area condi cleanse, also for allies if you play
.
Area condi cleanse, taken if you are playing
or your party needs a long lasting condi cleanse. Very useful on 100CM!
Defiance Bar Damage
300 damage (F2 in
)
200 damage (Shortbow 5)
50/s
, 15/s
(Shortbow 4)
33/s
, 20/s
(Axe 3)
Rotation / Skill usage
Information

Soulbeast Golem rotations from raid builds are generally suboptimal in fractals due to bosses moving around much more this makes

much more attractive than
which is used in raids. The rotations are fairly easy to adapt though, all you do is skip the second cast of a skill that has been Quickdrawn and dodge as much as you can to upkeep
.
rotations can still work providing the boss doesn't move too much but if there is any doubt take
.

With both condi rotations you want to use

and
off cool-down, and your
skills and
when you don't have anything else to do but auto attack.

Shortbow Golem Rotation
by Leder [SC]
Shortbow Golem Rotation
  5. Weapon Swap
  6. +
  12. Autoattack chain x2
  15. Autoattack chain x3
  18. Weapon Swap
  22. Autoattack chain x3
  25. Autoattack chain x8
  27. Autoattack chain x8
  30. Repeat from Step 5
Precasting

In 100CM boons get stripped but unique buffs do not, so you can precast these skills and traits:

  1. If you can get in combat briefly stack and
  2. While in combat you can precast
    by using a
    ability.
  3. while merged with Bristleback then swap to your desired pet and enter
    (If you are staying with Bristleback you can cast
    a second time after taking the Mistlock Singularity)
  4. With
    selected, use
    and dodge twice.
  5. As you are dodging use
    ,
    and
  7. Swap skills if necessary
  8. Cast
  9. Take the Mistlock Singularity
  10. Cast
    again
Axe/Dagger Golem Rotation
by Eren
Axe/Dagger Golem Rotation
  5. Weapon Swap
  6. +
  13. Autoattack chain x1
  16. Autoattack chain x3
  19. Weapon Swap
  28. Autoattack chain x5
  32. Repeat from Step 6