The Most Fun GW2 Janthir Wilds Open World Spear Builds (2024)

Finally someone is talking about new builds with spears. Thank you

5 - 2 - 4 - 3 - 5 is especially important on Ele's spear in fire since fire 3 buffs the damage of your next spear skill, which will be your big damage 5

Great vid, but pro tip for anything in Janthir open world: Consider taking a sigil of nullification if your build doesn’t already have boon strip. There’s a lot of mobs/bosses out there with protection and being able to strip that makes a big difference.

Thanks for keeping accessibility in mind. I’m one of the people who needs easy play builds at times and sometimes it seems like the build makers forget that needs to be a thing that allows those who are less able to have fun

Willbender with the alacrity traits and f2 vigor and skill reduction. Sword sword/spear is really fun. Both in open world and wvw. Do your normal willbender things with swords to get to your targets > swap spear > 5,4,3,2 or f1. The alacrity let’s you pretty much stay just in spear, use swords for mobility. Rage/hydromancy on spear feels good. Bring sword of justice for a little range and vulnerability.

I love this patch. I mained warrior for years and have not been able to get a good patch to make me want to play it again. This spear has revived the class for me and it feels so good. Not too strong but just right in the middle for wvw. And pve side of it is also great. Been hooked and I’m still doing all things on first map only. Anet nailed it with this one.

Thank you for this. I was looking for something like this since spears came out

This is exactly what I was looking for! Fun builds for open world :)

I always enjoy your builds. Thank you for this!

Spot on dude! Great channel and another excellent video! TY!

Thx for the post! Surprisingly having a lot of fun with the Catalyst Elementalist

Thank you for this well-made video and the very good builds. "Fun builds for the open world" and still effective, that's exactly my thing... unfortunately, it's treated rather poorly by many GW2 RUclipsrs.
Having fun alone or with others is still the most important thing in GW2, at least that's how I see it and luckily my daughter and my girlfriend see it too, the three of us often go out on the maps together as a fun and successful trio.
I really enjoy playing the new landspear with my Renegade and am really excited, especially about the spear skill 3 "Abyssal Blitz/Blitz Mines". For a fun and stress-free open world build I like celestial stats plus traveller runes.

great breakdown as always. thanks once again!

dont give me hope with that bladesworn clickbait

Thank you so much Vallun!

Man that holo build is SO fun, ty ty

That renegade build is pure greatness .I go SB for full ranged but it's more condi that what way ,I believe axe/mace is better burst and good condi for that balanced hybrid build for open world

Why Bountiful Blades in Domination on Mirage if you're not using a greatsword?

the words "dodging is a loss of dps" in the context of an open world build are totally crazy.

This is what I've been waiting for. I love that you went holo with no kits on Engi. I will probably try all of these out.

I should note that spear is a very init friendly weapon for thief, allowing you to drop trickery for another trait line

Hope you will do a same sort of video for pvp/wvw with all the spear options

Like always, thanks for the builds :)

I'm finding Spear and Sword/X on Reaper is a lot of fun in open world. I'm currently also using Spectral Walk. It's a fast, powerful build.

In my Opinion they have to rework a little bit on the Ele Spear. But overall im very very happy about the Ele Spear and i really love it. Much better than my staff i used before. But about the Rework, Spear dont have Blocks or Auras, also only one Condi Cleanse (2 or 3 effects only) and most Skills are Ground Skills with a very small Circle and i would be happy if they change some to make it like Dragons Tooth (Scepter Fire2)

Lately, I have lots of fun with the celestial Vindicator+spear+Relic of rivers build. Has 25k health, tons of resistances, alacrity(from dodging)+quickness; I've never felt so indestructible before, as with this build.

Been having a bit of fun with a Vindi spear/shortbow, full Viper with trapper runes and relic of rivers. Having alacrity and quickness 100% uptime is really cool, the open world traits I take are Retribution, Salvation and Vindicator, in fractals, strikes etc. I swap Ret for Corruption. Still pretty new to this game so no legendries yet but ascended has been very easy to obtain and most of my 80's have near complete set's and pretty close to making the Gen 1 spear from the Wizard's Vault which will be a really nice first legendary.

The elementalist skills looks so good, it's what I thought I would get when I first created my character, now I just need to buy jantir wilds and end of dragons to play this build lol

What’s frustrating about catalyst is that there is no good way to generate enough energy with the spear to use the jade spheres as often as you should. It just feels much worse than hammer, especially if you want perma quickness for any group content

Was testing a build similar to the one shown in the video for Thief. It is a fun build to play and probably first power build with some cleave since Daredevil with staff came out.
Real shame that Specter traitline has no power boost traits so it is not viable dps option in endgame group content.

Im trying the FB one and its a blast!

Condi mech spear is sooooo fun, the burn and bleeds is insane

Great work Vallun

I tried a lot of different things with Guardian spear, as its hybrid support nature makes it not as great for open world farming.
It's undoubtedly great for Hybrid Support Celestial Firebrand, replacing Staff, but it's something I use for world bosses and massive events when there's other players to boon and heal.
When it comes to damage, I've ended up on Power Zeal Radiance Dragonhunter. Zeal traits along with Spear 3 help stack a lot of might and fury (some of the greatest weak points of DH), and the Spear's overall burstiness fits into DH playstyle quite well. Other weapon is flexible depending on you need, I'm running longbow cause annoying titan mobs, but scepter or greatsword works well too.
Power Willbender is not that bad with spear either, but wasn't feeling as exciting and powerful to me.

I was about to call bullsh*t on your bladesworn thumbnail until I re-read the title like 3 times and saw "Open-World" lol 😄

Are these up on the website or no?

why are you doing bountiful blades for mesmer if you are using Dagger/Sword and spear? doesn't it only buff the Great sword abilities? should that one actually be empowered illusions to increase their strike dmg?

I am having a lot of fun with engineer spear and scrapper build. It's just an open world PvE, Cele gear build, that has ok mixed power/condi dmg and amazing substain, plus good group support. The scrapper healing and barrier compensates for the lack of defensives on the spear skills.

For mirage, any specific reason for traveler runes vs surging (more power focused, same boon duration and movement). Or given warclaw's ability to mount in combat and having various teleports, maybe just mixing in some diviner's gear and using scholar runes?

i like to use spear mech (engi) but agree that holo is so much funnier then mech but mech is just a save and easy mode for OW
Also like the power DH or WB with spear and longbow (or gs, depends on the situation)

Yeeessss, thanks Vallun!

i enjoyed engineer, rev, mesmer and thief but warrior not so much, which other one is most fun?

pet for untamed looks to be rock gazelle

Necros and elementalista God

Love this! Would like to see someting like this for pvp and wvw builds

6:10 Mirage... Why Bountiful Blades? Is there an improvement to the Spear that we are not told about?

now you are happy with the new expansion bro, events are fun/ how much do you score the new expac from 1-10 hahaha im evandergreen

Are these on any build sites? just because it's a bit easier to parse in that format for me :)

im gonna 'haboob!' until i drop 😄

Why dom 1 for mirage if youre not taking greatsword?

Why did they nerf spear on thief, its so trash now, we gotta use the same damn weapons again....

will there be any other new spec i wonder

which gear should i use when there are two recommended? Like Firebrand Harrier/Dragon

is the other weapon for specter sword and dagger not scepter?

How do you get your health so high? Even if I do a marauder build with all the trinkets etc with marauder and my jadebot + plus food I can't get it that high :(

how do you proc streamlined kits on engineer?

is there possibilityt for power mirage buiold with spear for raids and strikes

Why are u taking "Bountiful Blades" (Domination traits) for ur Mesmer build when u're runnin D/Sw + Spear???... not GS...

Sad that thief 3 skill is underwhelming
Atleast you get more survivability

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played a willbender power build with sw/sw and spear as 2nd weaponset. with rage sigils i have sonme quickness.

I'm enjoying the warrior spear.. a bit janky but its not comparable to the jankiness that is bladesworn.
I do feel like its overtuned... like man even in open world.. for warriors at least*. Spear 3 dazes for 2.5 secs? Good damage. Spear 4 damage stacks fast and its "lingering". Spear 2 is aight. Spear 5 is a meme.
I mean.. I don't want a nerf... I only bought the expansion cuz I wanted a new game style since SoTO offered nothing game changing with relics and EoD spec for warrior was dogsh*t.
But man.. spear is fun. Knowing anet, even with that new balance lead... I'm expecting the fun to end soon.

Engi spear sux because its still bugy, Spear 2 misses = u lost 50% of ur dps and the spear 5 isnt affected by quickness

For ranger spear you can combine first 4 words and the last one. The Ranger Spear is Boring.

Pressing buttons constantly is even worse than auto-attacking for a bit.
But thanks for the video, appreciate it as always.

"fun open-world builds"... come necro time, goes on to solo a fractal - that's how _fun_ necro is.