I Tried DPS SPELLBREAKER in Guild Wars 2 - Thoughts

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[FlyingFlumpasaurus]

As a Spellbreaker main of many years I can tell you we've been desperate to have a utility boon for ages. The fact that Bladesworn, the Ooga-Booga Hit Things With a Big Sword spec gets alacrity when the spec with a load of meditation-themed skills doesn't is frustrating.

[Notsram]

I love Spellbreaker. It's exactly what Muk said: when you land your counters just right, it's a chef's kiss.

[Talmead]

Wished Spellbreaker got alacrity instead of Bladesworn

[SpiritOfTheHeretic]

I really wish Full Counter still did damage in WvW. Now it's basically just a defense measure.

[mistereiswolf]

Wow did not expect spellbreaker to be this good and fun to play. I only saw it as a pvp class until now.

[minkuspower]

muk, if you ever play more of this build (i doubt you will, i know your view of warr lol), it's helpful to know that full counter is technically not a block. it's like it's own unique thing. the tooltip says "absorb"

[wintlona]

This is my main build, and I find it so fun. Feels simple to learn and yet can be very technical to squeeze that extra bit of dps out with animation cancels on some of the slower hammer skills. Glad you liked it on first impression!

[deadcommand]

So Muk, a few extra tips for Spellbreaker:

1 - Winds of Disenchantment works like no other boon rip in the game and so some groups will use it to skip stability pylon (and only do protection pylon) on Qadim 1 if they don't have high enough DPS to phase before it comes up or if they just want to be safe.
2 - The full melee is an issue sometimes, but assuming you're not on a CM encounter where standing in a danger puddle inflicts a damage debuff, you can absolutely just pop your heal skill and get a few more hits in on the boss. Depending on the encounter, it might last longer than the puddle. Dagger 2 and both Dagger and Hammer F1 are leaps, so they can help you back to the boss quickly, as can Bull's Charge. Hammer 3 also has a bit of range. Not much, but it does.
3 - Unfortunately, aftercast cancelling is a huge part of dealing with spellbreaker. It's a easy to pick up hard to master class, but it is also great fun, as is easily living through moments where your higher bursting but squishier friends did not.

[michaelcoffey]

@Muk love the longer look into each class lots of good knowledge here, appreciate it you global Icon you

[DanilloMagalhaes]

warrior main with 2.7k hours of play here. played berserker for years, played bladesworn for around 2 years till i felt like i was working for high risk and mid rewards on the most recent patches and switched back to spellbreaker. gotta say it, it might be percieved as the newbie entry build for dpsing, but it is flowy and hella fun, but also easy to misshaps the perfect sequence. I do love the rotation version of snowcrows, as in basically you do f1 twice in every weapon with the most amount of usage of the high dmg value skills as possible. like winds>bullscharge daggerf1>weaponswap as the opening, then hammer2-f1-3-4-2 chains of auto attacks - 2-5-2 - f1 - 3 - weapon swap - daggerf1 - 4 -3 - 5 - bullscharge - 2 - auto attack - f1 - weapon swap. You basically entry a weapon rotation with f1 and leave It after you hit f1 a second time, except on Hammer you hit 2 before f1 because then u can use Hammer 2 atleast 3 times before swapping and its the heavy hitter skill u have. you can implement fullcounter as needed and swap bullscharge for break enchantments for more strips in situations like fractals. build only truly sucks in no cc fights and ranged fights, but they are so few you just accept the other dpsers to carry u a lil bit.

[brunomunemassa]

Spellbreaker dps is the Black Dynamite response to "Parry this you filthy casual" with "Casually: I parry you".

[joshuaherring]

Haven’t sent he video yet…… but I’m excited about this. It’s my main class 🤩

Edit: Can’t wait for someone to make a gif of you slamming the F1 @ 5:03

Edit #2: Now I’ve seen the vid. Very well done. 😊 Also happy

[TheRedGauntlet]

Still dont get why Spellbreaker isnt one of the boon specs of the warrior class

[thaxycab]

Funny thing... The ranged option is spear. 😂

[leahwatts]

I always like having a range option, which means my spellbreaker carries a rifle along with axe/dagger, but I may give this build a try.

[riddlesphinxx]

I hope ANET pays attention to your videos in order to fix their tool tip glitches

[Tankunish]

I love playing on my spellbreaker. I normally use it in openworld though and I find I'm always yelling at my screen for the mobs to hit me when I have fullcounter up lol

[tauronmitronion]

At long last, you covered the only reason I still play warrior. Heartily agree with what you said about how good it feels to land a well-timed Full Counter.

[soundreads]

I wish you would have mentioned the number of gap closers SB has. Dagger 2, F1, bulls charge, hammer F1. All of them help you get back to the boss when they move away and keep the dps up.

[UnboundJoy]

Not me bragging to the guild about my 700 defiance damage hammer skill... only to find out it's a bugged tooltip 😅