Firebrand - Quickness Support Healer

Fractals

Raids

Spirit Vale

Salvation Pass

Stronghold of the Faithful

Bastion of the Penitent

Hall of Chains

Mythwright Gambit

The Key of Ahdashim

Trait Variants

• 奉献大师 if you're running consecrations.
• 冰川之心 adds a moderate AoE heal to every CC, immobilize or chill you perform. This synergises well with a lot of your kit, but in particular Hammer.
• 纯洁之心 - Worse 威能 uptime for slightly better heal potential. Popular choice for Raids.
• 意志之力 if your party can't stay stacked in your symbols.
• 沉言重词 gives you more pages to use for utility. Make sure you're still providing enough 再生 and 保护 though.
• 防护复苏 if you want more 保护 for your party.
• 守护复苏 great trait for speedy reviving.
• 密语档案 if you want spam a lot of tome skills. Make sure you're still providing enough 急速 though.

Weapon Variants

• Sword also generates to your subgroup with , and provides a teleport on a low cooldown, useful on fights like Matthias where you move around a lot.
• Spear is an option for players that own Janthir Wilds. It offers the most healing of the weapons, along with , , , and even some condi cleanse. The generation is lower than Staff, its ranged capabilities are less impressive, and it lacks the utility of Shield, but the three weapons are all very strong and you can swap between different setups depending on the encounter.

Other weapon variants sacrifice your or generation, so make sure someone else is covering these boons before using!

• Hammer provides a knockback, , and , useful on fights like Samarog where pushing/CC is required. The auto chain also drops a symbol, providing a lot of healing and for your subgroup.
  • If using , Hammer becomes your second strongest healing weapon (after Staff) as every skill becomes a heal.
• Greatsword provides an AoE pull and good mobility, useful on fights like Slothasor for pulling adds and dropping poisons.
• Scepter is your only ranged weapon, useful for kiting mechanics like poison on Siax or flak on Sabetha while offering a bit of on the symbol. (But try not to kite if you can help it, as Firebrand loses a lot of effectiveness when not with the main group.)
• Mace provides an extra block and improved healing to your subgroup, as well as easy access to and .

Skill Variants

As Firebrand is a defensive support, it's important to swap skills to fit the encounter. All of the following utility skills and elite skills are viable depending on the situation:

Utility

• - A source of pulsing for your team. Longer duration, but harder to use than .
• - Instant AoE stun break and .

Fitting Into Party Compositions

• As you provide , and , you can be paired with any -provider. However, if they are able to provide or then this opens up your options for traits or weapons.
• If you’re planning to play Support Firebrand in high-level fractals, the high movement uptime can result in lower uptime as is harder to use. It might be worth ensuring your -provider also provides some to fill in the gaps.
• An important note is to make sure your teammates know you are a Support Healer and not Quickness Support Condi DPS or Condi DPS. This lets your group adapt their builds and avoids awkward moments where you have to explain why you're lowest on the DPS meter.

General Tips

• Know you should use via mob/boss attack (example: Ensolyss use his Upswing (orange AoE), Lunge, etc...)
• You don't have to use all charges on your books. Often using 1-3 abilities is enough and often more efficient.
• Use F2 for heavy pressure situations and Condi cleanse (Skill 2 and 5 remove conditions).
• Use F3 for , Reflects and bonus toughness for your group from Epilogue Unbroken Lines.
• Use F1 in low pressure situations for additional damage.

Healing

• Get your party to stack as closely as possible to you so they get the full benefit of your heals and mantras.
• In order of healing, your strongest heals in are:
  1. Chapter 4: Shining River
  2. Chapter 3: Azure Sun

Food

Utility

• (if you use minstrel variant in raids).

• Bring stability for Skorvald via skills and if No Pain No Gain is active as your Renegade should be boonstripping with Mallyx.
• During Skorvald's last phase, provide stability to the group. Enter either or both of and .
• You can use Chapter 3: Valiant Bulwark in to reflect Arkk's Solar Fury (the red balls).

• is worth taking to reduce general annoyance from the various bandit CCs.

For more information, see our Bandit Trio Guide.

• Use to pull adds into the stack.
• Use during the split phase and on the "puzzle islands" to clear condis, provide , and

keep everyone alive.

For more information, see our Xera Guide.

• You could bring as an emergency heal.

For more information, see our River of Souls Guide.

• Chapter 3: Valiant Bulwark in can be used to protect against the hand knockback in the split phase by camping the tome to keep using it. Note that will not be up for every split phase (unless you are very slow) so you will either need to alternate with another player, or just keep it as a backup.

For more information, see our Cardinal Adina Guide.

• Use Pre-stacking Buffs method before boss.
• Use 正义圣书 off cooldown, provide 威能 and 5, 4 for DPS boost
• Can bring "坚守阵地！" for 稳固

• "前进！" can be used to block Gorseval's slams.
• 燃焰利刃 can be used to pull the little spirits into Gorseval to they can be cleaved down.
• Use 决心圣书 during the break bar to help out-heal the returned damage.
• Outside of the break bar, the healing requirement is low on this encounter. Therefore it might be effective to bring 庇护之地 to end it quickly.
  • Place 庇护之地 on your group to heal them while you CC.

For more information, see our Gorseval the Multifarious Guide.

• "坚守阵地！" is worth taking to reduce general annoyance from the various White Mantle CCs.

For more information, see our Escort Guide.

• Epilogue Eternal Oasis in 决心圣书 can be dropped on the target of Brutalize to boost healing to them during the break bar.
• If your group's CC is lacking, you can bring 庇护之地. Try to drop it on the target of Brutalize to provide healing as well as CC.
• 吸收护盾 can be used to knock Rigom into Samarog.

For more information, see our Samarog Guide.

• As it's hard to maintain DPS during Nikare's charge, use 决心圣书 or 勇气圣书 to heal and clear condis, or provide extra toughness and 保护.
• The breakbar attack fires out projectiles than can be blocked with Chapter 3: Valiant Bulwark.

For more information, see our Largos Assassins Guide.

Minstrel Variant

This version gives you more toughness and vitality for surviving or tanking.

马克兰面甲

MinstrelHead

马克兰肩甲

MinstrelShoulders

马克兰胸甲

MinstrelChest

马克兰战拳

MinstrelHands

马克兰战腿

MinstrelLegs

MinstrelFeet

MinstrelBackpiece

MinstrelAccessory

MinstrelAccessory

MinstrelAmulet

MinstrelRing

MinstrelRing

MinstrelStaff

Sigil

Sigil

MinstrelAxe

MinstrelShield

• Bring both 学识咒语 and 自由咒语 in wisp stage for condi cleanse and stunbreak from traps for teammates

• 勇气圣书 can also be used to provide 稳固 during the flamewall attack.
• If it's available, use Epilogue Unbroken Lines in 勇气圣书 when Karde spawns, to provide toughness and protection for his flamethrower attack.

For more information, see our Sabetha the Saboteur Guide.

• 燃焰利刃 can be used to pull the orb into a rift.

For more information, see our Keep Construct Guide.

• "前进！" can block the pizza attack, as well as Mind Crush in an emergency (or CM).
• When blocking Mind Crush rather than hiding in the dome, you will take ticking damage for 10 seconds afterwards, so 决心圣书 will be useful to keep people alive.
• 仁慈干涉 can be used for quick ressing - especially useful on the hand kiter.

For more information, see our Deimos Guide.

• 燃焰利刃 can be used to pull Magma Elementals (either into the group or away, depending on strategy).
• If the squad is really struggling to prevent the Lava Elementals from reaching Qadim, you could consider bringing 庇护之地 as this will prevent them from being able to enter his hitbox for five seconds. Be aware that this will also push Magma Elementals out, so be very careful when you use it.

For more information, see our Qadim Guide.

• Bring "前进！" to block Ensolyss' slams.
• Avoid dying during Ensolyss' capture phase as you will have to charge your mantras again.

• Use 燃焰利刃 to pull slublings (NOT the friendly slubling) into the stack.
• Unless it's being covered by other people, bring "坚守阵地！" to provide 稳固 for the 恐惧 attack after Slothasor's defiance bar is broken.
• 决心圣书 can be used to quickly cleanse conditions if people are hit by the shake attack}}
• If slubling pressure is too high, then Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark in 勇气圣书 can reduce it, though some slubling attacks are unblockable.

For more information, see our Slothasor Guide.

• "坚守阵地！" is worth taking to reduce general annoyance from the various White Mantle CCs.

For more information, see our Twisted Castle Guide.

• Make sure not to pull the Tormented Dead into the group with 燃焰利刃.
• After the Tormented Dead has been knocked, you can use 守护界线 to prevent it from returning to the group.
• You can also knock the Tormented Dead away with 吸收护盾
• 决心圣书 can be useful in dealing with conditions if people are hit by scythes or the Tormented Dead AoE.
• You could take 庇护之地 to help with CC.

For more information, see our Soulless Horror Guide.

• 庇护之地 is a good choice here as Sabir cannot be damaged during one of his defiance bars, so breaking it quickly is a group DPS increase.

For more information, see our Cardinal Sabir Guide.

• Make sure not to face Seekers when using 燃焰利刃 to ensure you don't pull them into the group.
• 决心圣书 can be used to quickly recover after a skipped green, or at the end of the split phase.
• If you are skipping greens, players getting teleported and downed is often a death sentence. 仁慈干涉 can help you quickly recover them.
• 吸收护盾 can be used to knock away Seekers that get too close.

For more information, see our Vale Guardian Guide.

• You can be the group's primary reflect if you bring 反射之墙. Note that you must place the wall inside Matthias' hitbox, or the targeted person will need to remain still in order to ensure all the shards are reflected correctly.
• if you are not the main reflect, you can be a backup by using Chapter 3: Valiant Bulwark in 勇气圣书.
• If your group's CC is bad, take 庇护之地 to easily break the sacrifice. Matthias will no longer try to sacrifice players in the abomination phase, so you can use it to block the Shards of Rage attack instead (make sure not the block the bubble attack).
• Matthias will 恐惧 the whole squad when transitioning into the abomination phase. If it's available, enter 勇气圣书 and apply as much 稳固 and 决心 to your group as possible to protect against this.
• 吸收护盾 can be used to block shards from Matthias' jump attack (make sure not to block the shards from the bubble attack).

For more information, see our Matthias Gabrel Guide.

• Bring "坚守阵地！" to help your group if you are skipping greens.
• If you are skipping greens and "坚守阵地！" is not off cooldown, you can use 勇气圣书 to provide some 稳固 to your subgroup instead.

For more information, see our Cairn the Indomitable Guide.

• Use 燃焰利刃 to pull in swords and CC shields.

For more information, see our Conjured Amalgamate Guide.

• You should bring "坚守阵地！" to protect everyone from the knock-back attack at the start of each phase.

For more information, see our Qadim the Peerless Guide.