Herald - Condition Mallyx - MetaBattle

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 - and apply a lot of conditions, and legend swapping while on the Mace set could even proc and .
Glint's 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.
might not do a whole lot of damage but a ranged, unblockable boon removal with and synergy can still pressure targets by softening them up or preventing them from building distance.
(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.
- 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 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 .
Both elite skills can proc , 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 gains even more value with - try pulling multiple enemies under the eye whenever you can.

Self Sustain & Disengaging

Every Mallyx skill has a chance to proc 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 which you can use to bounce back to max HP.
- Shield skills cleanse conditions.
- Staff has .
is basically your third healing skill. It heals for a fair amount, blocks attacks and cleanses conditions.
aimed at your character heals for a small amount and grants .
Staff is the defensive set of the build, swap to it when you're getting overwhelmed. (block) and (evade) could quickly stabilize you.
is the most reliable skill to use if you want quick access to . 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. could help with that - if you break stun with Pain Absorption you'll gain just enough to cover the channeling.
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).
's chain effect 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.