Most organized groups can maintain the following 11 boons, so we benchmark with those same 11 boons.

1. Might x25
2. Fury
3. Retaliation
4. Protection
5. Resistance
6. Stability
7. Quickness
8. Alacrity
9. Swiftness
10. Regeneration
11. Vigor

We no longer expect Engineers to bring as of the 10/07 patch, and so we do not currently record benchmarks with it - even for condition classes.

1. 
   Source: Warrior
2. 
   Source: Warrior
3. 
   Source: Warrior
4. 
   Source: Ranger
5. 
   Source: Ranger
6. 
   Source: Ranger

For the following classes you should only use 10 conditions.

Power Holosmith:
Condition Scourge and Condition Reaper:
Power Daredevil and Power Deadeye:

1. Bleeding
2. Burning
3. Confusion
4. Poison
5. Torment
6. Chilled
7. Crippled
8. Blind
9. Vulnerability x25
10. Weakness

Chronomancer: . You shouldn't apply Fear or Taunt to the golem when playing with Dueling. This applies to Support Chronomancer, Power Chronomancer and Condition Mirage.

For all other classes feel free to apply all conditions to the Golem.

Power based DPS classes are strong at Vale Guardian due to the low Toughness.

Classes like Power Soulbeast, Power Daredevil and Power Deadeye are still extremely strong at Vale Guardian and can be used to replace the Power Dragonhunters.

You can replace the Rifle Deadeye with another Power Dragonhunter.

Replacing the Power Dragonhunters will mean that you will not be able to split three ways during the split phase.

Power Dragonhunter provides extremely high burst DPS and allows your group to split three ways during each split phase.

Two Power Dragonhunters should go to the Blue Guardian with the Support Chronomancer. The other Power Dragonhunters, Rifle Deadeye and the Heal Druid should go to the Green Guardian.

Vulnerability is provided by the Condition Holosmiths and Power Dragonhunters which allows your Healing Druid to take an extra spirit.

The Condition Holosmiths are brought to help speed up the Red Guardian during the split phase due to the needed condition damage.

Power Holosmith, Condition Renegade and Sword Weaver also make suitable replacements as DPS classes.

You can run Healing Druid if you are struggling with Scholar uptime in the final phase.

Power Dragonhunters bring Vulnerability for both Gorseval and the split adds. It also provides a decent amount of CC and solid boss DPS.

Power Deadeye or Rifle Deadeye can be taken here.

Power Deadeye has the possibility of taking more CC, if required, through .

This composition allows you to split four ways during the split phase.

• Power Dragonhunter and Power Deadeye
• Power Dragonhunter and Power Deadeye
• Power Dragonhunter, Support Chronomancer and Condition Banner Berserker
• Power Dragonhunter, Support Chronomancer and Condition Druid

If you don't want to stack Scourges, there are a lot of other classes that perform extremely well here.

Power Deadeye, Power Daredevil, Power Holosmith and Condition Holosmith do very high boss DPS but, overall, slightly underperform compared to the Scourge composition.

Condition Scourge stacking is amazingly strong here and will carry groups due to the high DPS and barrier application.

In this setup the Condition Soulbeast should take cannons 1 - 3 and the Condition Banner Berserker cannons 2 - 4. With this setup it is possible to skip the southern cannon.

As no classes rely on multiple boons this allows your Support Chronomancers to play Dueling - Illusions instead. The Support Chronomancer who is in the same subgroup as the Condition Banner Berserker should play Dueling - Inspiration. This is to provide more boons to the Condition Banner Berserker as they will be off doing cannons more and will likely drop boons otherwise.

You can replace the Power Dragonhunter with another Power Daredevil to take the second shroom.

This composition requires the Support Chronomancers to provide Stability to negate the Fear. If you are struggling with this, then you can swap a Sword Weaver for a Power Dragonhunter to provide more reliable Stability.

If you are going to swap out any DPS classes make sure it is from the Power Warrior group. Replacements could be a Power Holosmith or Power Soulbeast.

Power Daredevil provides high boss DPS and decent CC for the Breakbar Phases through .

Power Daredevil has a stolen skill called Soul Stone Venom that will cleanse all conditions from your entire squad. This can be a lifesaver when Slothasor uses .

Sword Weaver provides really high boss DPS but lacks any kind of CC.

Power Soulbeast synergizes well with Sword Weaver due to and .

Your Support Chronomancers should both be running which will help massively to contribute to the frequent Breakbars.

Your Support Chronomancers can provide Stability, assuming that they are running Chaos - Inspiration.

Your Power Dragonhunter is there to take the second shroom. A Support Chronomancer should take the first shroom.

You can replace the Condition Mirage from the Condition Banner Berserker's subgroup with a Condition Soulbeast if you struggle with condition cleanse, as they can take .

You can swap out a Condition Mirage for a Condition Daredevil. The Condition Daredevil will help provide boons from their stolen skill Detonate Plasma. This provides boons to all 10 squad members. Detonate Plasma also means that the Healing Druid no longer needs to take , as the Condition Daredevil will cover Protection.

Condition Mirage is insanely strong here, not only does it provide very high DPS but also CC with .

One Condition Mirage should take and .

Your Condition Banner Berserker can run with the Discipline Trait Line instead of Tactics as you have no power DPS classes to benefit from .

Condition Chronomancers have better DPS than the traditional Support Chronomancer as they supply a lot of Torment and can also attack from range.

Sword Weaver provides high boss DPS but no cleave. This is why we recommend Power Dragonhunters to help with cleaving. extremely important when keeping Keep Construct in the middle of the arena.

Power Dragonhunter provides high boss DPS and also provides Vulnerability when the adds approach Keep Construct.

The Power Soulbeasts synergize well with the fast hitting Sword Weavers and Power Dragonhunters through and .

You can take a Healing Druid instead of a Condition Druid if you are struggling with keeping your party up. You can also take to help with Protection uptime.

You can take Power Daredevil instead of a Power Deadeye. Power Daredevil has a stolen skill called Soul Stone Venom which cleanses conditions from everyone in your squad. This can be a lifesaver while also buffing the Power Daredevil.

This team setup has high boss DPS and provides a decent amount of cleave for when the adds come in.

Power Deadeye provides very high boss DPS for this fight.

The Power Holosmith build provides decent cleave for the adds.

You can replace the Condition Mirages with Condition Holosmiths or Condition Daredevils to achieve similar results, in terms of DPS.

Your Healing Druid should take the first agony, your Support Chronomancer the second and your Condition Banner Berserker the third.

Your Support Chronomancer should be able to provide Stability for every single green, this will allow you to skip them. They can only do this if they are playing Chaos - Inspiration.

Your Condition Banner Berserker can run with the Discipline Trait Line instead of Tactics as you have no power DPS classes to benefit from .

Condition Mirage provides extremely high boss DPS for this encounter.

Condition Renegade provides Alacrity for your entire squad by taking the trait in the Renegade Trait Line and using .

If you find that you are struggling with Scholar uptime, you can always swap the Condition Druid for a Healing Druid.

Condition Renegade provides strong DPS when just brought as a DPS class. This can be swapped into the team composition instead of Power Deadeyes.

Power Deadeye provides extremely high boss DPS for this encounter and this is its sole purpose.

Condition Holosmith is there for the high boss DPS, providing Vulnerability and for the extra conditions that help buff the Power Deadeyes due to .

Condition Renegade provides Alacrity for your entire squad by taking the trait in the Renegade Trait Line and using .

Power Daredevils can be swapped out for Sword Weavers, Power Deadeyes and Power Holosmiths. Sword Weaver and Power Deadeye provide high boss DPS.

If you are struggling with a solo Condition Druid you can always swap it out for a Heal Druid.

This composition is based around high amounts of CC, through , and by providing a high amount of conditions to help buff the Power Daredevils through .

The Power Dragonhunter provides Vulnerability, a decent amount of CC and a faster split due to its high burst.

The Support Chronomancers need to take aggro and to coordinate who will use their CC at which Breakbar.

The same coordination of CC applies to the Power Daredevils when using .

Power Deadeyes can be replaced by Sword Weavers, Power Soulbeasts or Power Dragonhunters.

If you are taking a Power Soulbeast, you have to take due to the insane scaling with Unnatural Signet.

If you are struggling with keeping up your squad, you could consider swapping your Condition Druid to a Healing Druid.

One Condition Druid has enough healing for an organised party as you phase Deimos very quickly.

If at 25% the Condition Druid gets selected by the Eye of Janthir, the Hand Kiter will need to keep his Tablet on the squad to make sure they survive.

Power Deadeye is extremely strong here, especially during the opening burst while Unnatural Signet is up.

Power Holosmith is taken for instant Vulnerability application during the splits.

If you struggle to survive, you can take a second Healing Druid. With a second Healing Druid, one can be responsible for pushing and the other for healing the group.

Power classes are generally very weak on this boss due to the high constant damage which will cause you to have low scholar uptime. Any condition classes work well here, specifically Condition Renegade.

You need to make sure that you can push the Tormented Dead away before they get destroyed by . Try not to CC the Tormented Dead when they are close to your squad.

Your Condition Banner Berserker can run with the Discipline Trait Line instead of Tactics as you have no power DPS classes to benefit from .

We recommend Condition Mirage due to the insanely high boss DPS it provides.

Condition Holosmith is taken to provide Vulnerability to Soulless Horror.

Condition Chronomancers gain more DPS due to the fast attack rate of Soulless Horror which is why they are brought over the traditional power Support Chronomancers.

If you are struggling to sustain the group with only a single Healing Druid, you can swap a Renegade for an additional Druid.

Deadeye also has decent boss DPS and is a suitable replacement for a DPS class.

Condition Renegade provides the highest boss DPS on Dhuum and also provides boon strip through .

In this setup, the Support Chronomancer should take the first green, the Condition Banner Berserker the second green and the Healing Druid should take the third green.

Due to the large amount of mechanics that are in this encounter, we recommend that five Condition Renegades run and sixth one to run . This will void the problem of utilities from overlapping.

Sword Weaver is a suitable replacement for any of the DPS classes. If you replace the Power Holosmiths this will mean that you will need another source of Vulnerability.

Power Dragonhunter is funky here due to the weird interactions with and the arms from Conjured Amalgamate. We don't recommend playing this class here.

Power Holosmith provides very high boss DPS and CC for when you need to break the shields.

Power Daredevil provides extremely high boss DPS.

Power Banner Warrior is better than Condition Banner Berserker due to the fast phases and multiple adds.

Condition Mirage provides extremely high boss DPS due to the fast attack rate from both Kenut and Nikare. This means that the high amounts of Confusion you apply will tick a lot.

Condition Chronomancers gain more DPS due to the fast attack rates of the bosses which is why they are brought over the traditional power Support Chronomancers.

The Condition Banner Berserker is brought for their banners on the first two islands. It also provides very decent boss DPS.

Power Dragonhunter, Condition Renegade and Sword Weaver also make suitable replacements as DPS classes.

Rifle Deadeye can solo kite Qadim which frees up a squad slot for another DPS.

Power Holosmith and Power Daredevil provide CC for the Destroyer creater through and Throw Magnetic Bomb.

Power Holosmith also provides Vulnerability and decent burst for the creatures.