Greatsword / Rapier PvP Build

The fastest melee build in the game. Can easily hit the haste cap, has fantastic durability / healing, and as always it hits like a truck. This build was super fun to play on the new OPR map, easily escaping large groups and hunt down foes.

You can play this guy with ANY of the artifact Rapiers / Greatswords too!

With the healing changes and this being a melee build that uses regen pots, we need 150 - 200 CON. The health pool is super important for your survivability!! 50 FOC is also a must have to boost all our healing.

100 STR gives great boosts to both weapons damage since this is an all physical spec.

300 DEX is super important for that CC break on top of both weapons scaling from DEX.

50 INT is the finishing touch for that additional crit damage and boosted damage vs bleeding foes.

You will need at least four 725 items and the best food (+48 stat) in order to reach these stat thresholds. If you don’t have this then just run 150+ CON!

Strength

• 25: +5% light attack damage. +10% mining speed.

• 50: +10% heavy attack damage. +25 encumbrance.

• 100: +10% physical damage. +50 encumbrance.

Dexterity

• 25: +5% critical hit chance. +10% skinning speed.

• 50: +5% damage while at full health. +20% haste for 3s after skinning.

• 100: +5% damage while stamina is not full. +50 encumbrance.

• 150: +15% duration to damage over time effects. -10% weight of skinned items.

• 200: +10% bonus backstab and headshot damage. +20% skinning speed.

• 250: Gain 10% empower for 3s after successfully dodging an attack. +10% yield increase when skinning.

• 300: Weapon swapping will cleanse all stun and root crowd control status effects (30s cooldown). Gain 20% haste for 5s after killing Prey (Effect is removed when a hit is taken).

Intelligence

• 25: +5% damage increase to backstabs and random critical hits. +10% harvest speed.

• 50: +5% damage increase to targets inflicted with a damage over time effect. +5% chance for 1 azoth when harvesting.

Focus

• 25: +5% ability cooldown reduction. +5% chance to catch larger fish.

• 50: 10% incoming healing. +3% fishing cast distance.

Constitution

• 25: All health consumables are 10% stronger. +10% Logging speed.

• 50: +10% physical armor when at or above 50% health. 10% reduction on durability loss for tools.

• 100: Increase max health by 10%. +50 encumbrance.

• 150: -10% to critical damage taken. -10% weight of logging items.

• 200: +10% increase to physical and elemental armor. +20% Logging speed.

You can use any artifact weapon of choice here, but I love Grace for the speed it gives even after swapping weapons! Gambit is the gem of choice for both weapons.

Since Grace cannot have Trenchant Strikes, I opted for an attunement perk.

The ideal Rapier would be Omni Evade, Penetrating Backstab, and Vicious / Rouge.

The ideal armor perks would be Refreshing / Health / Shirking Heals. Hasted Vigor is also a must have since it will have excellent uptime in PvP.

On the armor, Leeching Flurry is also a must have to add tons of utility to Flurry. Relentless Freedom would be a good weapon perk to have too.

The jewelry is perfect. You don’t need an artifact item here, but Ankh would be a good option! The elemental band works just fine if you just need another 725 piece.

As always use the best food you can find, honing stones, and mana pots for that healthy toast perk! I greatly prefer Regen Serums for the healing and stamina sustain they give, but regular regeneration pots work well too.

Greatsword

Rapier