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Power Untamed

Unleash the potential of your pet with our Guild Wars 2 Power Untamed build.
Published Feb 13, 2024 Updated Mar 5, 2025
Open World - February 2025 Balance
Pros +
Fluid rotation Easy to learn Sustained damage
Cons -
No ranged DPS Fast paced rotation Relies on enemy conditions
Gear
Item Stat

Berserker'sHelm

Berserker'sShoulders

Berserker'sCoat

Berserker'sGloves

Berserker'sLeggings

Berserker'sBoots

Item Stat

Berserker'sBackpiece

Berserker'sAccessory

Berserker'sAccessory

Berserker'sAmulet

Berserker'sRing

Berserker'sRing

Relic

Primary Weapon Set

Berserker's AxeMain Hand

Berserker's AxeOff Hand

Secondary Weapon Set

Berserker's MaceMain Hand

Berserker's MaceOff Hand

Other Items

Enrichment

Food

Utility

Jade Bot Core

Traits & Skills
Skills

Pets
Skill Notes

can be replaced when needed:

  • for pulsing Condition Cleanse
  • for a strong heal and to share your boons with your pet.

can be replaced when needed:

  • for a Stun Break that also converts all your conditions into Vulnerability
  • for mobility, Quickness and Vulnerability
  • Defiance Break
  • provides a backwards Evade and Stun Break
  • for Quickness, Superspeed and a Stun Break
  • provides Invulnerability to Strike Damage but not Condition Damage. Also applies to your Pet.
  • provides Fury and decent damage when is used
  • for a spike of damage on your burst
  • for Defiance Break.

can be replaced when needed:

  • allows you to Revive up to ten Downed allies at Range
  • to Immobilize up to five targets in a large radius.
Skill Reference Guide
Axe & Axe Default Keybind
Ambush Attack
Auto Attack
2
3
4
5
Mace Default Keybind
Ambush Attack
Auto Attack Chain
2
3
4
5
Pet Default Keybind
F1
F2
F3
Unleash Default Keybind
F1
F2
F3
/ F5
Pet Notes

Jacaranda can be replaced when needed:

  • Jungle Stalker for Might
  • White Tiger for Aegis
  • Warclaw for Superspeed and Defiance Break
  • Rock Gazelle for more Defiance Break
  • Electric Wyvern for more Defiance Break
  • Siege Turtle for more Defiance Break and to Block Projectiles via
Trait Notes

for a minor increase in damage.

can be taken if you need additional Quickness. If you make this swap, you will only have Boon Removal on to trigger .

Equipment Notes

Feel free to run the same equipment as the raid build for Power Untamed and the following traits if you already have Quickness covered.

can be taken instead of if you do not have access to Secrets of the Obscure (SotO).

Hammer can be taken instead of dual Mace if you do not have access to Secrets of the Obscure (SotO).

  • Hammer provides similar Defiance Break but loses out on utility and survivability.
Rotation & Extras

You should be in almost all the time to increase your damage via .

Unleashed Ambush skills are the primary source of boons via . This is how to use it:

  • Every nine seconds, you will gain the effect
  • While affected by , use to gain access to Ambush skills for four seconds
  • You also gain when you Weapon Swap which lets you Ambush a second time.

The basics of your rotation will look like this:

  1. Gain the buff
  2. Ambush
  3. Weapon Swap Ambush Weapon Skills
  4. Repeat from step one

Weapon Swap and Pet Swap frequently to get boons:

  • for Swiftness
  • for Fury
  • for Might and Fury
  • Access your Unleashed Ambush skills

Gain stacks of every few seconds in combat. At 10 stacks, gain significant buffs to both offense and defense for five seconds.

Nature's Strength and what you need to know:

  • Every skill on Mace generates one stack. Use all your Mace skills to gain five stacks.
  • At five stacks, gain Force of Nature, refreshing all Mace skills.
  • When this happens, use all your Mace skills again.

On Axe, use skills with the following loose priority:

Use to Pull enemies.

Always Swap Pets before your Pet dies to avoid a longer Cooldown.

Use your offensive Pet skills and off Cooldown.

Use , and off Cooldown when you are in .

Strip boons on enemies using unleashed ambushes. This gives a stack of .

grants Life Siphon on each Unleashed Ambush skill.

Mace skills have inherent defense and is the best set to stay on when threatened.

  • Regeneration from
  • Protection from
  • Barrier from

makes you invulnerable to damage for a short time and heals for half your miss health.

grants healing and Protection upon using your Pet's F2 skill.

Save to mitigate damage or Stun Break.

provides Projectile Destruction.

Use for significant damage reduction and Stability. While active, strikes will reduce its Cooldown. Hitting multiple enemies can recover its Cooldown entirely.

Skill Defiance Break Source
150 Axe
250 Mace
200 Mace
232 Alternate Utility
200 Alternate Utility
200 Alternate Utility
232 Alternate Pet Skill

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