Tier 4 Predator Slayer Build Guide

Welcome to the Tier 4 Predator Slayer Build Guide! This build revolves around quickly building your Fury Meter at the beginning of the encounter and entering Burst Mode, then fighting against your own identity to remain in Burst Mode for as long as possible, until you inevitably become Exhausted.

Predator Slayer excels at inflicting significant amounts of Stagger and Destruction, but her Counter capability can often be unreliable.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Brutal Impact, Volcanic Eruption, Spiral Deathblade, and Guillotine are your main damage skills.
• Wild Stomp is your main Counter and your Synergy (Damage Amplification) skill, as well as your main way of maintaining your Burst Mode.
• Wild Rush and Furious Claw are generally used together to trigger the Conviction & Judgment runes, helping upkeep your high mana consumption.
• Punishing Draw is your back-up Counter skill, since most of the time Wild Stomp will be on cooldown.
• Fatal Sword is a versatile filler skill. It can serve as a damage skill, a Stagger skill, or a Destruction skill, depending on the situation.
• Ragna Break is your Awakening. It is preferred over Execute thanks to its animation speed and higher damage output.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Punishing Draw

• Purify - Allows you to cleanse your debuffs.

Execute

• This Awakening can fill up your Fury Meter on its own, but it deals less damage than Ragna Break.

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Guillotine is your main way to deal with both packs of enemies and Elite monsters..
• Final Blow, Mountain Cleave, Hurricane Sword, and Volcanic Eruption are all good choices to deal with enemies if Guillotine is not available.
• Brutal Impact is your main way of dealing with Boss type monsters.
• Wild Rush serves as a quick mobility option.
• Execute is your Awakening. It is preferred over Ragna Break thanks to its ability to fill up your Fury Meter at the beginning.

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.

Predator Slayer utilizes her skillset to constantly assault the enemy with strong and swift blows, making Burst Mode her naturally preferred state throughout the fight. However, Bloodlust (Z) is disabled.

While in Burst Mode, you gain the following effects for its entire duration:

• +20% Attack Speed
• +20% Movement Speed
• +30% Crit Rate
• +48% Crit Damage
• +10% of Fury Meter recovered on hit (1s cooldown)
• +5% of Maximum MP recovered on hit (1s cooldown)
• Enhanced basic attacks

Slayer Identity

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 to take advantage of this.

This build focuses on utilizing Burst Mode consistently to empower all of your attacks. However, every 3 seconds spent in Burst Mode, you gain a stack of Fatigue, increasing natural Fury Meter consumption by 10%. Inevitably, your Fury Meter will deplete and you will become Exhausted for 30 seconds, with each stack of Fatigue reducing this duration by 1 second. When Exhaustion ends, your Fury Meter fully recovers and you can enter Burst Mode again.

Standard Damage Rotation

• Using skills in this specific order is recommended thanks to each skill's specific damage contribution. However, they can often become desynced due to differences in cooldown, so feel free to improvise and adapt to the situation.
• Remember to use Wild Stomp whenever possible. As long as the lingering effect can hit an enemy, it helps you remain in Burst Mode even if you can't actively attack. This also ensures that you maintain your Synergy as well as possible.
• Try to pair Wild Rush and Furious Claw together in order to trigger the Conviction & Judgment runes. Doing this before using other skills offers a cooldown reduction effect on them, but the main benefit is mana regeneration.

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 that and your party's composition. 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
• Mass Increase
• Adrenaline

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 - Crit and Swiftness. 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.