Firebrand - Support Icebrand

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Focused on: Support, Sustain and Crowd control

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty: Hard

This build was last updated on May 11, 2025.

Overview

A PvP support Firebrand build focusing on healing, cleansing, and boon sharing, as well as crowd control. Generally considered to be one of the hardest support specializations to play due to the high number of available skills and resource management. However, this makes the build excellent for adapting to any situation when played well. It's worth noting that personal survival can be more difficult than on the Core version due to the lack of 专注复苏 and overall healing/cleanse/boons may be worse than on the more traditional Firebrand build.

Skill Bar

正义圣书勇气圣书

Hammer

巨锤挥击奋力锤击狂徒束缚驱逐重击守护之环

Utility

"接受圣光！""前进！""守住阵线！"自由咒语

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Mace over Axe - more forgiving and beginner-friendly option with increased sustain/support but less crowd control. Take 活力壁垒 in Honor and change 无情之判 in Firebrand to another trait.

Template Code

Specializations

荣耀 / Honor · 守护者 (Guardian)

固定特性：活力精准

活力壁垒守护复苏防护复苏

固定特性：无私英勇

荣耀法杖纯洁之心强化力量

固定特性：纯净之躯

纯净之音坚毅令状意志之力

• Take 活力壁垒 if using a Mace.
• Can take 意志之力 if conditons are not a problem or if using 异端项链.

美德 / Virtues · 守护者 (Guardian)

固定特性：美德启发

无伤斗魂潜在决心奉献大师

固定特性：决心美德

美德激励纯粹决心冰川之心

固定特性：美德之力

愤怒侵染战斗灵气不屈勇气

燃火者 / Firebrand · 守护者 (Guardian)

固定特性：纯洁言词

无情之判解放之誓密语档案

固定特性：敏捷学者

沉言重词稳健急速传奇学识

固定特性：急速灌注

泰然处之急速烈焰博学之士

• Take 解放之誓 or 密语档案 if using a Mace.
• 稳健急速 can be taken for a more aggressive playstyle but reduces team healing and 保护.

Equipment

巨锤

Hammer

Empty slot

转移法印

Sigil

能量法印

Sigil

利斧

Axe

盾牌

Shield

转移法印

Sigil

能量法印

Sigil

守护者符文

Rune

化身项链

Amulet

夺魂者古物

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulet

• 异端项链 - lower health but higher damage. Only take if running 意志之力 to make up for the lost health and consider an alternate rune, such as the ones below.

Rune

• 德鲁伊符文 - higher healing for less tankiness.
• 牦牛符文 - tankier vs. high Power teams for lower healing.
• 梅兰朵符文 - tankier in general for lower healing.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Each Virtue skill is now a tome with 5 unique skills inside.

• Tomes have no cooldown, so you can swap in/out of them at will. Passive Virtue effects still go on cooldown (turning the icon red until they recharge) and effects which trigger on Virtue activation share a cooldown with the Virtue passives.

• Tome skills cost pages; you generate 1 page every 8 seconds. Pages are a shared resource between all your tomes, so spend them carefully and don't waste them on skills that won't have much of an impact in the moment.

Settings

• Under General Options > User Interface, consider enabling "Thick party health bars" and "Always show health bars". These will make it much easier to keep track of which allies need your help. For more tips, check out our settings guide.

Healing, Damage Mitigation

• 冰川之心. heals you and nearby allies whenever you disable, immobilize, or chill an enemy. A lot of your healing comes from spamming crowd control effects to proc this trait while keeping enemies locked down (therefore preventing them from dealing as much damage). See the Crowd Control section below for more details.

• "守住阵线！" grants 保护 and 再生 to affected allies.

• "前进！" grants on-demand 圣盾 to block incoming attacks.

• 圣盾 heals when it blocks an attack thanks to 纯洁之心.

• 勇气圣书 focuses on preventing and mitigating damage.

  • Chapter 1 Unflinching Charge Chapter 1 Unflinching Charge can be used in fights for some clutch AoE 迅捷 and 保护 or to help you rotate faster, but usually not worth spending pages on.
  • Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark creates a bubble to reflect enemy missiles. Very strong against specific builds which rely heavily on projectiles.
  • Epilogue Unbroken Lines Epilogue Unbroken Lines one of the strongest skills in the build, this should be used proactively to protect your team right before the enemy team's burst.

• 决心圣书 focuses on healing and cleansing conditions.

  • Chapter 1 Desert Bloom Chapter 1 Desert Bloom is a small spammable AoE heal.
  • Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery cleanses allies and heals them for each condition removed.
  • Chapter 3 Azure Sun Chapter 3 Azure Sun heals allies and grants them boons (including 再生).
  • Chapter 4 Shining River Chapter 4 Shining River creates a Water field that pulses a small heal to allies in it and grants them Swiftness, and which can be blasted with 冰川猛击 or Chapter 2 Igniting Burst Chapter 2 Igniting Burst for extra AoE healing.
  • In addition to being a massive cleanse/boon source, Epilogue Eternal Oasis Epilogue Eternal Oasis increases your healing to affected allies.

• The end of your dodge roll heals you and nearby allies for a decent amount, so try to dodge into allies when you can.

Condition Cleansing

• 决心圣书 is the go-to skill for cleansing conditions.

  • Epilogue Eternal Oasis Epilogue Eternal Oasis is the best mass cleanse in the build, converting several conditions on allies into boons. Use it before healing allies to increase the healing by 20%.
  • Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery is another good cleanse with a low CD. If your team is under heavy condition pressure it's worth swapping back to this tome every 6 seconds just to use this.

• 纯净之音 makes your Shouts convert a condition into a boon.

• 复仇符印, 防护符印, and 守护之环 are Light fields; try to combo them with 冰川猛击 (or possibly Chapter 2 Igniting Burst Chapter 2 Igniting Burst) for some AoE cleansing.

• Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand (the 4th skill in 勇气圣书) is also a Light field and is a group stun break that provides 抗性 to help deal with non-damaging conditions (including 恐惧).

• 泰然处之 provides you and nearby allies with 抗性 and 威能 whenever you disable, immobilize, or slow an enemy (sadly, 冰冻 does not count).

Crowd Control

• In addition to slowing down or disabling your enemies, your goal is to proc 冰川之心 and 泰然处之 as much as possible. This will keep your allies healed up, dealing more damage, and immune to enemy soft CC. With 稳健急速, you'll feel like a walking 时间扭曲!

• 夺魂者古物 causes your Shouts to inflict nearby enemies with 冰冻, which in turn procs 冰川之心. Why should Warriors have all the fun?

• 冰川猛击 chills and procs 冰川之心. It is also a Blast finisher.

• 复仇符印 (with 无情之判), 吸收护盾, 燃焰利刃, 狂徒束缚, 驱逐重击, 守护之环, Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke, and Chapter 2 Daring Challenge Chapter 2 Daring Challenge all proc both 冰川之心 and 泰然处之. Dare your foes to bring enough 稳固!

General

• Your role is to go wherever the teamfight is and keep your team alive. Avoid duels or sidenoding as much as possible.

• Play proactively and aggressively! This build can't react as quickly as some other support builds out there due to the long cast times, so think ahead and try to anticipate your opponents' moves. You also can't heal from afar as well as some other builds, so position carefully and try to stay in the middle of the fight to get the most value from your skills. Keep your enemy on the back foot and maintain tempo advantages because big mistakes will be harder for you to recover from.

• Your main weakness is personal survivability, so be ready to pivot to protecting yourself if you become your enemy team's focus target.

• 自由咒语 is your primary stunbreak and it also affects allies! As it grants 稳固, you can use it to safely execute a finisher during a fight or to protect an important skill cast (such as 仁慈纹章).

• 勇气圣书 focuses on damage but can still be worth using.

  • Chapter 2 Igniting Burst Chapter 2 Igniting Burst mitigates strike damage via 虚弱.
  • Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath does decent damage and covers an entire node, as well as being a Fire field (can be blasted for AoE 威能). As it costs only 1 page, it's often worth throwing down to help your team win fights on point.
  • Use Epilogue Ashes of the Just Epilogue Ashes of the Just a few seconds before entering a fight to give nearby allies a minor damage boost. Your pages will likely be back to full again before you need them.

• 吸收护盾 is quite versatile:

  • The knockback can be used to peel for allies or interrupt important enemy skills like 仁慈纹章, etc.
  • While channeling, it is a Light field around you even while moving, though it is difficult to combo with it yourself (requires precasting something that takes long enough to blast).
  • The channeled bubble absorbs projectiles (does not count as blocking) and can blank a wide range of enemy skills.
  • The dome can be detonated at any time for AoE healing. This can be done immediately if you don't need the channeled portion.

• Just before the start of the game, stack 迅捷 on your allies by casting "前进！", Chapter 4 Shining River Chapter 4 Shining River, and Chapter 3 Azure Sun Chapter 3 Azure Sun.