Introduction
The Chaos build heavily focuses on large Area of Effect (AoE) skills with low Cooldowns to clear the content as fast as possible. This content isn't difficult and can easily be completed by spamming skills.
The Combat Stats are not as important as they are for PvP or Raid builds. Simply use the recommended Raid gear and Combat Stat distribution from the Death Blow Striker Raid Guide and Esoteric Flurry Striker Raid Guide.
Chaos Dungeon Skill Build
- Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God is a strong pack clearing skill as it vacuums nearby mobs and does decent damage over time while channeling.
- Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation is a massive frontal cone AoE clearing skill.
- Lightning Whisper generates a lot of Identity Gauge and also applies an increased critical strike chance to the target.
- Moon Flash Kick provides strong single target burst that also generates a high amount of Identity Gauge.
- Violent Tiger and Swift Wind Kick are filler skills that generate a decent amount of Identity Gauge to enable spender skill usage.
- Berserk Circle is used as a filler AoE skill for clearing trash mobs and it generates a decent amount of Identity Gauge as well.
- Storm Dragon Awakening grants mobility and has a low Cooldown. This becomes very spammable damage skill with the 40% Cooldown Reduction buff from breaking Rift Cores, allowing you to trigger Rage more frequently.
Gameplay
Chaos Dungeon is fairly easy to complete. A simplified rotation is used:
- If the player is running Esoteric Flurry, Berserk Circle can be dropped for another spender skill of choice. Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges is a great choice for more AoE clearing and decent burst damage to Elites and Bosses.
- Use all of your skills to generate enough Elemental Orbs then group the mobs and Elites together and use your spender skills to deal massive AoE blasts.
- If a Red Portal(Boss Room) appears, switch to a Raid Build for better damage against the single boss in the room then switch back to this AoE build after killing the Boss.
- You don't have to be conservative with Awakening skill usage, as the Cooldown refresh and Cooldown Reduction buff from Elites/Bosses and Rift Core works on Awakening skills as well.
- Killing Elites/Bosses will grant 40%/100% Cooldown refresh while breaking Rift Cores will grant 40% Cooldown Reduction buff.
Check out the Chaos Dungeon Guide for more information.
Combat Stats
Sub-stat priority is not important, as the content is easy as long as the player is using matching Tier Gear and accessories.
Runes
Runes enhance Skills with extra bonuses. All Rune drops are account bound and have limited availability, so placement of Runes on the correct Skills is important. Below are the recommend parings. Check the Rune Guide for more details.
| Skills | Runes |
| Esoteric Skill: Call the Wind God | Galewind |
| Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation | Galewind |
| Storm Dragon Awakening | Rage |
| Berserk Circle | Galewind |
| Swift Wind Kick | Galewind |
| Lightning Whisper | Wealth |
| Moon Flash Kick | Wealth |
| Violent Tiger | Wealth |
- Storm Dragon Awakening is paired with Rage because you can cast it 3 times and each time the button is pressed the rune has a chance to proc. Chaos Dungeons have insane Cooldown Reduction buffs allowing this skill to be spammed, resulting in tons of rune procs.
- Wealth is used on Violent Tiger, Moon Flash Kick and Lightning Whisper as these 3 skills generates a high amount of Identity Gauge which makes it easier to get enough Elemental Orbs to use spender skills more frequent.
- Esoteric Skill: Call the Wind God and Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation are paired with Galewind to reduce duration of the cast animation.
Summary
- Generate Elemental Orbs quickly with Lightning Whisper, Violent Tiger and Moon Flash Kick to get the spender skills going.
- If the player is running Esoteric Flurry, Berserk Circle can be dropped for another spender skill of the player's choice or preferably Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges for more AoE and decent burst damage.
- Switch to a Raid Build when you encounter a Red Portal(Boss Room) spawn then switch back to this AoE build for the next portal.
- Killing Elites/Bosses and breaking Rift Cores grant Cooldown refresh or Cooldown Reduction buff.
- Use an Awakening skill whenever a group of Elites are close together so the Awakening skill Cooldown can be refreshed and ready to use for the next packs. Killing Bosses will refresh Cooldowns completely as well, so don't be too conservative with Awakening skill usage.
Credits
Written by Rei
Reviewed by Facefoot