Esoteric Skill Enhancement Wardancer Build Guide
Last Updated:April 22, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Esoteric Skill Enhancement Wardancer Build Guide! This build revolves around consistently generating Esoteric Orbs and using them to unleash powerful Esoteric Skills against your enemies.
Esoteric Wardancer can inflict reliable amounts of Stagger and Destruction, but her Counter is often unavailable.
This build is still undergoing testing, and is subject to change.
- If you want a simpler and more robust playstyle, check out our First Intention guide.
- For more information on some of the systems that make up your build, check out the guides below:
Builds
Raids
Kurzan FrontArk Passive
Skills Setup
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist, Rising Fire Dragon, Blast Formation, Thunderclap Kick, and Spiral Impact are your Esoteric Skills.
- Roar of Courage is your main Synergy (Weakness Exposure) skill. Additionally, it provides +20% Crit Rate for 6 seconds, but only to yourself.
- Wind's Whisper is a self-buff skill.
- Sky Shattering Blow is your Counter skill. Besides that, it serves as a secondary Synergy skill, and a meter generation skill.
- Ultimate Skill: Fist of Dominance is your Awakening. It is preferred over Ultimate Skill: Flash Rage Blow thanks to its damage reduction effect.
Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options
Wind's Whisper
- Purify - Allows you to cleanse your debuffs.
Ark Passive
Skills Setup
- Roar of Courage, Leaping Dragon, Wind's Whisper, and Blast Formation are your main ways to deal with large packs of enemies.
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist and Sweeping Kick can both deal with Elite monsters on their own.
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist is your primary way of dealing with Boss type monsters.
- Sky Shattering Blow serves as a quick mobility option.
- Ultimate Skill: Fist of Dominance is your Awakening. It is preferred over Ultimate Skill: Flash Rage Blow thanks to its wider area of effect.
Recommended Engravings
- Preemptive Strike
- Contender
- Raid Captain
- Cursed Doll
- Magick Stream
This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Kurzan Front. For Ebony Cube use a Raid build.
Identity & Gameplay
Esoteric Wardancer constantly generates Esoteric Orbs, allowing her to use powerful Esoteric Skills.
Each Esoteric Orb you possess when casting an Esoteric Skill increases the skill's damage by +6%, regardless of how many orbs the skill consumes.
All attacks with a Back Attack affix receive +10% Crit Rate and +5% Damage when they land on the target's back-side indicator. It is important to position yourself accordingly as much as possible in order to take advantage of this.
This build focuses on strategically utilizing the Crit Rate buff from Roar of Courage and the Attack Power buff from Wind's Whisper to empower your strongest Esoteric Skills.
Other than that, you should be constantly generating Esoteric Orbs using Energy Combustion.
Wardancer Identity
Rotation
Standard Damage Rotation
- Using skills in this specific order is recommended for the general flow of your rotation.
- Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Sky Shattering Blow, even if you aren't planning to attack immediately after.
Stagger Check Rotation
- Using skills in this specific order is recommended for most stagger checks. However, each check can vary in duration, so you may need to readjust depending on the situation and your party's composition. Remember, you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!
Gems
Gems are another significant aspect of your build, as they directly impact the damage and cooldowns of your skills. You can equip up to 11 gems at a time. Here are the ones you should focus on to maximize this build's potential, listed according to their priority.
Damage Gems
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist
- Blast Formation
- Rising Fire Dragon
- Spiral Impact
Cooldown Gems
- Wind's Whisper
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist
- Sky Shattering Blow
- Blast Formation
- Rising Fire Dragon
- Spiral Impact
- Lightning Kick
Engravings
Engravings are a core part of your build. You can equip up to five at a time, freely swapping between them. Engravings are listed in order of importance.
Recommended Setup
- Grudge
- Raid Captain
- Adrenaline
- Keen Blunt Weapon
- Cursed Doll
Tripods
Tripods affect your skills directly by providing utility, damage, cooldown reduction or gauge generation. These are the ones you should prioritize:
- Wind's Whisper: Quick Prep and Ready Attack
- Sky Shattering Blow: Abundant Resources
- Spiral Impact: Weak Point Detection
- Roar of Courage: Quick Prep and Abundant Resources
- Azure Dragon Supreme Fist: Fire Dragon Fist and Dragon's Fury
Bracelet
Bracelets provide beneficial effects to yourself or to your party members depending on the rolls they have.
The primary goal is to get the main stats used by your build. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Here are the effects you should look out for, in no particular order:
| Tier 3 | Tier 4 |
|---|---|
| Specialization | Specialization |
| Crit | Crit |
| Strength | Crit Rate +3.4/4.2/5%. Crit Hit Damage +1.5%. |
| Circulate | Crit Damage +6.8/8.4/10%. Crit Hit Damage +1.5%. |
| Fervor | Damage +2/2.5/3%. Damage against Staggered foes +4/4.5/5%. |
| Hammer | Additional Damage +2.5/3/3.5%. Demon & Arch-Demon Damage +2.5%. |
| Wedge | Damage +4.5/5/5.5%. Skill Cooldown +2%. |
| Assail | On hit, Weapon Power +1,160/1,320/1,480 and Att. & Mov. Speed +1%. (max 6 stacks, 10s duration). |
| Precise | Weapon Power +7,200/8,100/9,000. When HP is above 50%, on hit Weapon Power +2,000/2,200/2,400 for 5s. |
| Superiority | Weapon Power +6,900/7,800/8,700. On hit, Weapon Power +130/140/150 (max 30 stacks, 120s duration). |
| Weapon Power | Damage +2/2.5/3%. |
| Additional Damage +3/3.5/4%. | |
| Crit Rate +3.4/4.2/5%. | |
| Crit Damage +6.8/8.4/10%. | |
| Weapon Power +7,200/8,100/9,000. | |
| Strength |
Elixir
The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Master.
Credits
Written by Raeinor
Reviewed by Perciculum