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Condi Willbender

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  • last updated on Sat Jun 03 2023
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Overview

The Condi Willbender is a strong build with high damage, very good CC, and great mobility, making it a strong choice for all groups. It can also easily slot more supportive utility skills allowing you to provide Stability, Aegis, reflects and more to yourself and your party.

This build comes with a very simple priority-based rotation as well as the ability to adapt to your group by having various utility options. It also has a great amount of self-sustain and can even bring Might for itself if needed through Holy Reckoning . It is therefore a great build to get started within fractals. On top of this, it also shares gear with the Condi Firebrand allowing you to easily swap between the 2 builds if you want more variety or situationally use some of the utility that is unique to Firebrand.

Before reading the advanced version of this page, we recommend acquiring an in-depth understanding of your CC skills and when to use them efficiently as well as executing the basic step-by-step rotation provided below without spending too much thought on it.

The advanced page provides a more complete overview of all the utilities the Guardian has to offer. If you ever feel like you are missing information feel free to already swap to the advanced page!

Equipment
Profession
Heal
Utilities
Elite
Sinister
Sinister
Sinister
Sinister
Sinister
Viper
Food
Utility
Build

Traits

Radiance
Virtues
Willbender

Defiance Bar Damage

Sanctuary 1050 damage over 7 seconds (thanks to Master of Consecrations )
Hammer of Wisdom 200 damage
Chains of Light Immobile 50/s
Heaven's Palm 400 damage (Knockdown)
150 damage (Knockback)
Pull (after Binding Blade )150 damage

Situational Skills

Used as a source of Vulnerability
Huge CC and projectile destruction.
Taken as a 3rd utility if no other skill is needed.
When Stability or a stunbreak is needed.
A stationary reflect lasting for 10 seconds.
Rotation / Skill usage

Step-by-Step Rotation

Step 1: Basic Priority

The Condition Willbender has a rather simple, mostly priority-based rotation. In the first step, we will use 4 basic abilities off-cooldown in the following order of priority:

Use these skills in this order once at the start, then use them off-cooldown with the same priority if multiple come up at the same time. The hardest part of this should be the opening where all 4 skills are up at the same time.

Step 2: Torch 4

Zealot's Flame is the most intricate skill we will use in this rotation. If you want a visual example of how it is used based on the text below, check out one of the videos on the right side.

Using Zealot's Flame will give a stack of Zealot's Fire that we can then throw at the target.

  • Radiant Fire will give an additional Zealot's Fire once every 10 seconds.
  • Since we have a few seconds to throw the Zealot's Fire , we can use this time to press other priority skills first if any are up.

We will use this skill in the following way:

  • In the opening, we will press Zealot's Flame while casting the first skill. We will then gain an additional stack from Radiant Fire . After using the priority skills from step 1, we can throw both stacks at the target.
  • You can also throw the Zealot's Fire before casting Whirling Light .
  • After the opening, we will cast Zealot's Flame off-cooldown and throw Zealot's Fire (from both sources) as soon as possible, only delaying it slightly if another priority skill is up.
  • After the opening, the 2 stacks of Zealot's Fire will often not align anymore due to Restorative Virtues reducing our weapon cooldown, but not the trait cooldown.

Step 3: Torch 5

Finally, we will add Cleansing Flame into the rotation. This skill has a very long channel (approx. 2.5 seconds) and has less of a priority than the other skills we have used so far.

Therefore we will only use this skill when there is at least a 2.5-second gap between other abilities so we do not delay anything more important. Ideally, there should never be another priority skill coming off-cooldown in the middle of the cast of Cleansing Flame if used correctly.

Step=by-Step Video

This video shows the step-by-step approach to the rotation listed on the left.

test by Ascers

Golem Rotation

Please note the setup used in this benchmark is optimized for raids, it is fine to be used in fractals and is only a small DPS loss compared to the setup listed on this page.

test Sword rotation by Support Hero