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Condi Willbender (Tank)

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · edited by Minas

Guardian

Tank (Fuma baiter)No-SpawnerDifficulty🗡️Recommended

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Tanky DPS that serves as Fuma baiter and Ura line-of-sight tank. Also provides a lot of Condition cleanse, some Stability and has good mobility.

Traits & Skills

Gear & Weapons

Armor

HelmTrailblazer's

ShouldersTrailblazer's

CoatTrailblazer's

GlovesTrailblazer's

LeggingsTrailblazer's

BootsTrailblazer's

Trinkets

Accessory 1Dire

Accessory 2Dire

Ring 1Trailblazer's

Weapons

Main-hand

Trailblazer's Pistol

Off-hand

Trailblazer's Pistol

Main-hand

Trailblazer's Pistol

Off-hand

Trailblazer's Torch

Infusions

Food / Utility / Jade Bot Core

Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread

Magnanimous Tuning Crystal

Jade Bot Core: Tier 10

Character Stats(Click to expand)

Level 80 · ascended gear · Passive effects only

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Unbuffed includes level base stats, selected gear, upgrades, Jade Bot, and supported passive traits. Infusions are included. Green values in parentheses include the food and utility consumable. Primary/Secondary switches between the weapon sets.

Unbuffed (with Food & Utility in green)

Attributes

Power: 1,080
Precision: 1,080
Toughness: 2,084
Vitality: 1,997

Secondary Attributes

Ferocity: 150
Condition Damage: 1,644(1,865)
Expertise: 381(451)
Concentration: 0
Healing Power: 0

Derived Stats

Health: 21,615
Armor: 3,355
Critical Chance: 8.8%
Critical Damage: 160%
Condition Duration: 25.4%(30.1%)
Boon Duration: 0%

Calculation breakdown▾

Level base: Power: 1,000Precision: 1,000Toughness: 1,000Vitality: 1,000
Gear and Jade Bot: Toughness: 1,079Vitality: 997Condition Damage: 1,264Expertise: 381Defense: 1,271
Superior Rune of Balthazar: Condition Damage: 175
Infusions: Toughness: 5Condition Damage: 85
Passive traits: Power: 80Precision: 80Ferocity: 150Condition Damage: 120
Food: Condition Damage: 100Expertise: 70
Utility: Condition Damage: 121

Not included in the stats above:

Superior Sigil of Bursting: +5% Condition Damage
Superior Rune of Balthazar: +50% Burning Duration
Relic of Thorns: a triggered effect, not a standing attribute

Some effects are not included

Only 18 attribute infusion slots are supported (because the other 2 are used on the other weapon set).

Traits & Skills · Radiance | Virtues | Willbender

Traits

Skills

Heal

Utility

Elite

Build variations

Scepter can be played if you are used to that rotation, but it's strictly inferior to an equally well played Pistol Willbender.

Weapon & Profession Skills(Click to expand)

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Pistol & Pistol

Pistol & Torch

Profession

Gameplay Notes · Build Essentials & PoV

PoV

by Mastro

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Gameplay notes

Fuma baiting works by just standing close to the center of Ura, slightly toward the side where the group is located.
Fumarollers tend to target the highest Toughness player in their cone of vision, hence this build runs slightly more Toughness. The best way to achieve this is to use 1x Toughness infusion.
Symbol of Ignition needs to cross the hitbox of your target for extra hits, so as long as it doesn't compromise safety, stand inside the hitbox for dps.
There is plenty of detailed information on how to improve Willbender in Mastro's cWillbender Manifesto that can be found here: Snow Crows discord link

Healing and defensive Support

Willbender is incredibly powerful on support for a dps:

Condition cleanses happen on Flowing Resolve due to Absolute Resolve.
Stability comes from "Stand Your Ground!". Try and stagger "Stand Your Ground!" usages within your subgroup in order to have more Stability uptime.

Crowd Control

Use your Heaven's Palm, whenever Crowd control is called.
Jurisdiction also does Crowd control, but outside of good timing, this is merely 'passive' Crowd control, due to it being part of the dps rotation.

Changelog

VersionEditorChanges

Aug 23, 2026Minas
Initial release.

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