The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Hybrid damage and Sustain
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Celestial Herald build designed for WvW Roaming. By dropping Mallyx for Shiro we get to have better reach and mobility as well as burst damage and evasion. The addition of Spear now allows condi Revenants to have even less downtime in their damage.
Skill Bar
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Variants
位面保护 is also a viable option, but be warned that it has some anti-synergy with 
圣光灌注 as the dome could mitigate incoming damage when you pop your Glint heal (which ultimately reduces the amount of healing you receive). If you want to avoid that then stick with 
精魂清算.
Equipment
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 - great overall stat boost and damage mitigation.
热辣扇贝 and other similar Oyster consumables are fairly cheap on the Trading post if you don't have ascended cooking.
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碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - better endurance regen, more access to dodging and higher 
敏捷 uptime from the relic.
Utility
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Optimal:
尚雅调谐水晶 -
Budget:
紧密优质调谐水晶 either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW 
突袭宝箱s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
General
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Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as
唤醒折磨 or 精魂清算, and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs or low on energy. -
Start on Dragon stance (Glint) and while still in the base activate the following 4 upkeep skills for party buffing:
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Swapping legends deactivates the upkeep skills of that legend without sending them on full CD.
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黑暗多面体 is one of the most versatile and strongest skills in the build:
黑暗凝视 is a cheap stun breaker and one of the few skills in the game that can reveal stealthed targets.- The
目盲 from Gaze can be used to avoid powerful attacks without wasting dodges, and can help you stomp warriors / revenants / engineers / rangers by blinding their downed CC. Even mesmers can be stomped with a little luck because of the AoE reveal. - If you're 目盲 while channeling
混乱疾风 you can use 黑暗凝视 at the last moment before the skill finishes its animation - in this case Gaze of Darkness will miss instead of your elite.
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混乱疾风 can be used to knock downed opponents away from their rezzing teammates, or to knock them off of capture points - this allows you to take the cap while bleeding them out, delaying their respawn.
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Upkeep skills continue to provide their bonuses for a few seconds after their chain skills have been used up.
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Shiro's quite good at chasing targets due to
位面穿行. The unblockable attacks coupled with 
急速 make this especially great at initiating fighs and immediately putting pressure on enemies, but the high cost can often force you to swap to Glint for an energy refill shortly after.
Damage
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Both weapon sets and both legends have great offensive capabilities.
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传奇刺客姿态 (Shiro) is mainly for single target. 
附魔匕首 and 
压倒优势 can either be used to deliver burst damage or even to boost the damage of your filler attacks like the Spear auto 
深渊射击 while all your other skills are on CD, or if you want to stay in range.- Maintaining 压倒优势 costs quite a lot of energy, use it only for a few seconds at a time when you're sure that you can keep landing hits.
- Maintaining
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真正本质 when used on Shiro is a cheap and strong AoE skill with boon removal. The passive bonus lingers for a few seconds, giving you armor ignoring damage procs. -
传奇巨龙姿态 (Glint) brings midrange AoE pressure to the table. Using some of your upkeep skills just to follow up with their chain skill is a perfectly fine thing to do, and 
元素轰击 + 
力量爆发 provide decent damage even from range. These are also extremely cheap, so you can weave them into burst combos anytime. -
Mace is fairly simple, just use
灼热裂痕 ⇒ 
回荡喷发 in this order (for 
威能 stacking) whenever you can. -
The spear autoattack automatically flips between melee and ranged versions depending on your distance to the target.
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Spear is built around
深渊毁灭.- The skill becomes more powerful the more you use it (you can see the stacks above the right side if your skill bar), and swapping weapons at 3 stacks of AR does an AoE attack.
- It has multiple charges and you should never sit at max charges for too long, so keep using this as much as possible.
- Every other Spear skill reduces its CD by a certain amount.
- It'd make sense to use this skill right as you swap to Spear so you can start reducing its CD immediately with other skills, but
深渊霹雳 (for CC) and 
深渊突袭 (for evasion) often end up taking priority. - The AoE ring is small and the skill's a bit slow, so it can be hard to land on moving targets. Works great as a followup to CC though, or if you're getting attacked in melee in which case the enemy isn't moving around as much.
- The weapon swap bonus at 3 stacks is more of just a nice bonus. Don't camp spear just because you're chasing the 3rd stack, especially if you're out of CDs or getting focused by the enemy team.
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深渊霹雳 is the strongest skill on spear, delivering heavy AoE damage while also CCing targets and enabling you to land other skills freely. Makes it much easier to land AR too.
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深渊原力 does decent damage and also recharges AR by a significant amount, use it whenever it's available but make sure that you're missing an AR charge. -
深渊突袭 is a skill with evasion and should be kept for defensive purposes.
Sustain
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Every weapon and legend offers some level of survivability.
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Spear and Shiro are the least defensive ones but even these two have evade frames, namely on
深渊突袭 and 
暗影回撤. -
Mace has
回荡喷发 which mitigates incoming strike damage through 
虚弱. -
Both of the shield skills provide healing, cleansing and even blocking, although
水晶休眠 is a much stronger block than 
茂盛特使. CH can also function as a time-out button - you can't move, but at least you should be protected from most attacks while stabilizing yourself as every pulse of this skill heals and cleanses conditions. At least you can move while using EoE though, and EoE can even be shared with allies, adding a small bit of group support to the build's toolkit. -
暗影回撤 by itself won't help you against damaging conditions, but it does cleanse several movement-impairing ones all at once. Using this before your other condi removals will significantly increase the odds of those removing damaging conditions (like shield skills or 真正本质 when used on Glint).
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圣光多面体's chain effect 圣光灌注 is your jail free card - makes you immortal for the duration by converting all incoming damage into healing (except for fall damage). It's also by far your best tool for dealing with condition spikes. Some players may stop pressuring you once Face of Light's been activated, in this case you should just wait a couple of seconds before using Infuse Light. Make sure you get at least 10k healing out of this skill, try to predict when burst is coming and use Facet of Light in advance - FoL has a cast time thus cannot be used while stunned, but Infuse can. -
混沌多面体 can instantly apply 
保护 even while CC'd, which makes it a really potent source of damage mitigation.
Related Builds
- Herald - Spear Condi Shiro - sPvP version of the build.