Tier 4 Control Glaivier Build Guide

Welcome to the Tier 4 Control Glaivier Build Guide! This build revolves around locking your Focus stance, only allowing you to use Flurry skills. It pays back by significantly increasing the power of Flurry skills and focuses on incredibly high uptime with high Attack and Movement speed, focusing on Back Attacks.

Outside of that, this build provides some nice Stagger and Destruction to the party. However, it can struggle with some severe mana issues and must be attacking at all times to maintain efficient damage output.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Soul Cutter, Half Moon Slash, and Chain Slash are our main damage skills.
• Raging Dragon Slash and Blue Dragon's Claw are our additional damage skills.
• Half Moon Slash and Chain Slash additionally have extra Destruction.
• Shackling Blue Dragon is our self-buff and Synergy from Target Weak Point with some extra Destruction.
• Thorn Jab is our Counter and provides a small amount of mobility.
• Yeon-style Spear Technique: Spear Meteor is your Awakening. It does not contribute significant damage so is mainly used as a filler, however, you should always focus on your main skills if they are available.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Thorn Jab can be swapped for Flash Kick, using Excellent Mobility and Purify.

• This should only be used in situations where you are struggling for mobility and do not require a Counter.

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Half Moon Slash and Raging Dragon Slash are your best elite killing skills.
• Chain Slash, Soul Cutter, Wheel of Blades, Windsplitter, and Cutting Wind are all amazing mob clearing skills.
• Flash Kick is a mobility skill.
• Yeon-style Spear Technique: Spear Meteor is your Awakening. It can one shot any elites or large waves from range.

Recommended Engravings

• Preemptive Strike
• Contender
• Raid Captain
• Cursed Doll
• Magick Stream

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Warning

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

Control locks out stance which removes our identity interaction entirely. This means that our Dual Meter will only be used to buff skills like Chain Slash, Half Moon Slash, and Blue Dragon's Claw from tripods such as Final Decision.

Her identity is locked to the Flurry stance. These effects instead come from the Control engraving.

• 40% Damage Increase to Flurry skills
• Dual Meter gain increased 100%
• When spending Dual Meter reduce Spacebar cooldown by 2 seconds.

All attacks with a Back Attack affix receive +10% Crit Rate and +5% Damage when they land on the target's back-side indicator as well as the bonuses from Ambush Master. It is important to position yourself accordingly as much as possible in order to take advantage of this.

Glaivier Identity

This build revolves around trying to spam as much as possible to maintain high uptime and damage output. Shackling Blue Dragon provides us with a significant self-buff giving us 20% Crit Rate and 8% Multiplicative Crit Damage from Target Weak Point. Then we try to unleash as much damage as possible focusing on the back of the boss.

Standard Damage Rotation

• This rotation is incredibly simple, follow it trying to deal as much damage as possible Soul Cutter and Chain Slash will come off of cooldown fast and can be recast to fit in even more damage.
• Blue Dragon's Claw will trigger Conviction then Half Moon Slash will trigger Judgment giving us bonus mana regeneration and cooldown reduction.
• Weave in Dragon's Rampage when possible.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Simply follow this rotation to do some great Stagger. Remember you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped.

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.

Engravings are a core part of your build. You can equip up to five at a time, freely swapping between them.

Recommended Setup

• Grudge
• Ambush Master
• Raid Captain
• Adrenaline
• Cursed Doll or Keen Blunt Weapon

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 this build - Swiftness and Crit. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Please note that this system is heavily reliant on RNG, and you should not expect to get much more beyond your main stats early on.

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Critical.