Tier 3 First Intention Wardancer Build Guide

Need some tips for general content? Check out our Guardian Raids and Abyssal Dungeons guides.

• Sweeping Kick, Leaping Dragon, Energy Combustion, Flash Heat Fang, and Lightning Kick are your main damage skills.
• Roar of Courage is your 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 self-buff 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.

Check the Rune Guide for more details on Runes and how to obtain them.

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Chaos Dungeons. For Ebony Cube please use a Raid build.

• Roar of Courage, Leaping Dragon, Wind's Whisper, and Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation are your main ways to deal with large packs of lesser monsters.
• Esoteric skill: Azure Dragon Supreme Fist and Sweeping Kick can both deal with Elite monsters on their own.
• Esoteric skill: Azure Dragon Supreme Fist is your primary way of dealing with the Boss on the 2nd Floor.
• Sky Shattering Blow serves as a quick mobility option. It can also easily break crystals on the 3rd Floor.
• 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 Engraving Setup

While you can freely experiment with any engravings you want for this content, here's a recommended setup, based on the Engraving Support system:

• Preemptive Strike causes your attacks to deal immense amounts of damage to monsters that you haven't attacked yet, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Contender is a stacking Attack Power effect that increases in strength once you kill a monster, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Raid Captain provides damage based on your Bonus Movement Speed, synergizing well with the Buff Nodes scattered throughout Chaos Dungeons.
• Cursed Doll increases your damage with essentially no drawback in Chaos Dungeons.
• Esoteric Skill Enhancement increases the damage of your Esoteric Skills.

Opening Rotation / Dominion Maintenance

• Using your Awakening activates the Inner Awakening effect of the Dominion Fang gear set. You should keep an eye on its remaining duration and use your Awakening again to refresh it each time it's about to run out. Timing the Conviction + Judgment effect to trigger before using your Awakening is key to maintaining Inner Awakening with as little downtime as possible.

Standard Damage Rotation

• Using skills in this specific order is recommended in order to maximize damage output.
• Since it lasts for 20s, but the cooldown is lower than that, you should remember to reactivate Energy Combustion towards the end of its cooldown and quickly reactivate it afterwards.
• Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Roar of Courage, 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!

Tripods written in bold text are your highest priority, make sure to level them first!

Nightmare Set - 2 Pieces

This set's two-piece effect reduces your skills' mana costs by -50%, as well as providing damage.

Dominion Set - 4 Pieces

This set lowers your Awakening's cooldown and damage, as well as granting additional casts. After using your Awakening, you receive the Inner Awakening buff, significantly lowering the cooldown of your regular skills and increasing their damage.

The name of your set will change every time you acquire a higher tier of gear, but the set effect will remain the same. Look for your set's keyword when recrafting it to find it more easily (e.g Entropy, Hallucination etc).

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Master.