Herald - Condition Mallyx - MetaBattle

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage, Utility, Control and Boon removal

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty: Easy

Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.

This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A condition-based PvP Herald build with decent boon removal, pressure, and utility. The current version specializes in teamfighting, putting constant AoE pressure on the enemy.

Skill Bar

Mechanic

Mace/Shield

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

Spear over Staff - a more offensive setup for people who own the Janthir Wilds expansion.
Off-hand Axe over Shield - this cuts back on sustain significantly in exchange for more CC and mobility. Higher risk/reward option. Take 闪耀天相 on Herald Herald.

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Specializations

Variants

净化引导 helps you deal with conditions. However giving up 耀眼决心 increases the chance of getting your 吸收苦痛 interrupted after breaking stuns, which prevents the condition cleanse and boon application from happening.
灵魂增益 is a defensive option, as it will give AoE 保护 when swapping into Glint and AoE 抗性 when swapping into Mallyx

Variants

核心价值 trades mobility for an improved F2.

Equipment

Mace

Shield

Sigil

Staff

Empty slot

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Runes

欧尔符文 - helps against conditions and has good stats.
魂武者符文 - makes the build even tankier.

Amulet

狂暴项链 - tanky amulet against power-based damage

Relics

恶魔女王古物 - extra healing reduction and a few more 中毒 procs.
领导古物 - better condition cleansing, works especially well with Glint's instant 混沌多面体.
噩梦古物 - this works as both a defensive and offensive pick. Adds a bit of extra damage plus the CC on elite could be used to set up other skills. Glint's elite could also proc it while you're CC'd, potentially saving your life by getting enemies off you with 恐惧.

Usage

General

Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as 唤醒折磨 or 灵魂增益, 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. That's not all however, on Mallyx builds legend swapping may also be used to do AoE burst damage or manage conditions on yourself.
Start on Dragon stance (Glint) and while still in the base activate the following 4 upkeep skills for party buffing:
- 自然多面体 (use its active when your energy is about to hit 0)
- 元素多面体
- 力量多面体
- 黑暗多面体
In combat 自然多面体 is used for dealing with conditions. On Mallyx 真正本质 transfers conditions to nearby enemies, while on Glint it extends the duration of boons on nearby allies, which is best used when you have 抗性.
Swapping legends deactivates the upkeep skills of that legend without sending them on full CD.
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.

Pressure

Most of the damage comes from Mace and Mallyx.
拥抱黑暗 is a core part of any burst combo, offering significant AoE damage especially when combined with Mace skills. Even just a few seconds of this upkeep can apply a lot of pressure. If your main goal is to do damage, you can ignore all the other Mallyx skills for the time being and maintain this upkeep while unloading weapon skills.
Chain 灼热裂痕 ⇒ 回荡喷发 in order to stack 威能. Use these two weapon skills on CD.
Legend swapping is also a significant part of burst combos - 魔王炼狱 and 迷雾之歌 apply a lot of conditions, and legend swapping while on the Mace set could even proc 厄运法印 and 暴露法印.
Glint's 元素轰击 is a cheap but powerful AoE skill with good condition variety. You could also use it to poke from range and cover an entire capture point on some maps without having to go into melee.
驱逐附魔 might not do a whole lot of damage but a ranged, unblockable boon removal with Chill Chill and 地狱酷寒 synergy can still pressure targets by softening them up or preventing them from building distance.
苦痛召唤 (CoA) is a rather strong CC skill, capable of balling up an entire team or pulling enemies off the highground. While it doesn't do much damage on its own, if you have enough allies around you may consider abusing this skill as much as possible to harass the enemy team and set up kills.
- 驱逐附魔 is a great followup for CoA (if you have the energy for it). While generally viewed as a single target ability, it's capable of hitting multiple foes if they are close enough to each other.
- Consider activating 拥抱黑暗 right before doing a CoA jump, as CoA is a leap finisher and EtD is a Dark field. By combining them you can grant yourself 黑暗光环.
Both elite skills can proc 塞鲁斯古物, which is something you should attempt to do once every 30 seconds. Targets right below the eye can be hit by the beam multiple times so 拥抱黑暗 gains even more value with 苦痛召唤 - try pulling multiple enemies under the eye whenever you can.

Self Sustain & Disengaging

Every Mallyx skill has a chance to proc 抗性 on a 5s ICD.
The build doesn't have any mass cleanses, but every weapon set and legend offers something to deal with conditions:
- The F2 on Mallyx transfers conditions to enemies.
- Glint has 圣光灌注 which you can use to bounce back to max HP.
- Shield skills cleanse conditions.
- Staff has 复原波动.
水晶休眠 is basically your third healing skill. It heals for a fair amount, blocks attacks and cleanses conditions.
茂盛特使 aimed at your character heals for a small amount and grants 保护.
Staff is the defensive set of the build, swap to it when you're getting overwhelmed. 裂隙结界 (block) and 迷雾激流 (evade) could quickly stabilize you.
吸收苦痛 is the most reliable skill to use if you want quick access to 抗性. It's also a great support skill in general, removing conditions from allies and granting them Resistance.
- As with all stunbreaks with a cast time, the second part of this skill can be interrupted and instead of just going on CD, you'll lose all the energy for nothing. 耀眼决心 could help with that - if you break stun with Pain Absorption you'll gain just enough 稳固 to cover the channeling.
苦痛召唤 will be your best mobility tool and on some maps can be used to leap to places where enemies can't follow (or at least, not easily).
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. 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, while Infuse is instant.

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