Red Warden

Red Line DPS Warden ‘Reckless’ Build

By Ace of Arkenstone – Updated for Yondershire, U33

Trait Trees

This is how to trait Red Warden:

You get everything you need here, the extra Light-type damage from Blue line, extra duration of mitigation debuffs (+ making them AoE based), 70K finesse and 5% critical chance from Yellow line. While also having everything you need from Red line.

Pre-fight, you should also swap to Blue line and use Never Surrender from there so it becomes a shorter, 5 minute cooldown. Then swap back to Red line.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers:

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners:

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. I use mostly Offensive options, but if need be, some of them can be switched to more Defensive options as well, depending on the type of fight. More explained down below.

Here are the Virtues which go along with the Stat Goals:

1. Determination (Great for Mastery and Critical Rating)
2. Valour (Great for Mastery, Finesse and Critical Rating)
3. Confidence (Great for Critical Rating and Finesse)
4. Wit (Great for Finesse, Mastery and Critical Rating)
5. Loyalty (Great for Vitality and survival)
   • If you need extra Survivability, swap Wit with Fidelity

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Fidelity (Great for Vitality + Tactical Mit)
• Tolerance (Gives great amount of Tactical Mit, decent Physical Mit and Resistance)
• Innocence (Gives great amount of Physical Mit, decent Tactical Mit Mit and Resistance)

Legendary Items

With new LI revamp, legacies are more or less the same for Red Wardens, there is a new Tracery though, Mastery Cooldown tracery, which is a good addition. Red Warden just needs two LIs for DPS.

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Sparrow
Word of Power	Damage Over Time
Word of Power	Damage Over Time Criticals
Word of Mastery	Fist Gambit Damage & Critical Chance
Word of Mastery	Gambit Builder Damage
Word of Mastery	Hampering Javelin Duration & Reset Chance
Word of Mastery	Marked Target Double-cast Chance
Word of Mastery	Mastery Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Recklessness Critical Rating Buff
Word of Craft	Heroic Precision
Word of Craft	Heroic Precision

Warden’s Javelin

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Sparrow
Word of Power	Area Effect Attack Criticals
Word of Power	Area Effect Attack Damage
Word of Power	Single Target Attack Criticals
Word of Mastery	Careful Step Duration & Movement Penalty
Word of Mastery	Javelin Skills Critical Chance
Word of Mastery	Javelin Skills Damage
Word of Mastery	Spear Gambit Damage
Word of Mastery	Spear-Shield Gambit Damage
Word of Mastery	Surety of Death Damage Over Time
Word of Craft	Ascendent Light
Word of Craft	Ascendent Light

Rotation

Before I begin, I will explain how to use Warden’s Mitigation debuffs properly and which weapon to use for which Gambit.

Debuffs:

1. Marked Target has a base 5% Physical Mitigation debuff. With the legacy on the LI, it has a ~40% proc chance to apply that same debuff again, which it makes it 10% Physical Mitigation Debuff in total.
2. You should use Marked Target every ~20 seconds to get the proc for the double debuff.
3. You have another skill, called Diminished Target, that reduces Tactical Mitigation by 5%.
4. How to properly include both these skills into rotation precisely, is explained down below.

STATIC ROTATION

by Ace of Arkenstone

-> Ranged Stance

RRC -> Marked Target -> Diminished Target

-> Melee Stance

Recklessness -> Spear of Virtue -> Unnering Strike ->

Surety of Death -> Desolution -> Piercing Strike ->

Mighty Blow -> Power Attack -> Wall of Steel ->

Brink of Victory

—> Repeat

DPS Rotation Video

Consumables

There are the consumables to use on Warden:

Updated as of U33.

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