Herald - Hand Kiter

Trait Variants

• 不屈奉献 offers similar survivability to 慷慨丰腴 if you are able to reliably hit other allies with your tablet, and less reliance on 自然调和 for healing can give you more energy for blocks. You should also run 不屈奉献 if you use Jalis instead of Ventari.

Revenant has a great variety of options for hand kiting, so feel free to experiment and go with the option that fits you best.

Retribution

Salvation can be swapped for Retribution for a greater focus on damage reduction over healing. This makes it easier to deal with hands, but harder to deal with the ticking damage after Mind Crush as it cannot be reduced. You should always run Jalis instead of Ventari when using Retribution.

• As this variant lacks 坚韧气魄, boon uptime is much less important and you should take 高尚慈悲 instead of 龙吟回响 in Herald.
• If you are not confident, you could use 石刻造诣 as a safety net. Note that you are giving up a significant amount of healing by doing so, which can make this something of a false economy.

• Legend swap off cooldown to maintain 抗性 from 凶残韧性.
• Try to maintain 自然多面体 at all times.
• Use 裂隙结界 to block every second set of hand spawns.
• Heal through the other set of hands. Your skill priority is (in descending order): 茂盛特使, 先哲意念, 自然调和, 回复惩戒, 复原波动.
• Use 水晶休眠 or 圣光灌注 to survive Mind Crush.
• 圣光多面体
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  圣光灌注
  can be activated prior to 水晶休眠 to prevent damage from any hands that spawn while channeling the block, or if you are not confident with the timing of Mind Crush.

While on Ventari

• Bounce 先哲意念 to allies and back to yourself to trigger the extended duration on 不屈奉献 (if using).
• Use 自然调和 on yourself (or your allies if they need it), leaving enough energy for 裂隙结界 or 茂盛特使.
• Be sure to pick up the healing orbs that are dropped after dodging or using Ventari skills.

While on Jalis

• Activate 复仇之锤 and leave them running.
• Dodge over hands to give yourself 活力 and activate 坚毅决心.
• Try to keep 抚伤之石 for emergency healing.

While on Glint

• Activate 圣光多面体 and 混沌多面体. Leave them active.
• Activate and immediately consume your other facets off cooldown to provide multiple boons.

Equipment Variants

Stats

The exact gear doesn't really matter, but ideally you should aim to cap boon duration to ensure permanent uptime for and . You can just use the gear from Boon Support Healer, even though the bonuses from and don't affect you. This setup also avoid extra toughness (which can interfere with tanking) and vitality (which can be a double-edged sword as the ticking damage from Mind Crush is %-based).

Sigils

There are numerous viable sigil options and which option is selected makes little difference to the build's performance

• - Useful if you find yourself using lots of dodges in your hand kiting. This synergises especially well if you're running Retribution.
• - If you're using a hammer, this can give you a small amount of extra survivability.
• If you really want to try and do as much damage as possible, you could run self-buffing sigils on your hammer such as:

Runes

There are numerous viable rune options, as long as you have enough boon duration.

Relics

is very nice as this build blocks a lot, but it's up to personal preference. Some other possibilities:

• allows you to get back to staff sooner after swapping for Mind Crush.
• adds some nice padding to your uptime.
• improves your passive healing.

Food

• is ideal as it offers damage reduction, healing power and boon duration.
  • Otherwise, any damage reduction food such as will do.
  • or can be used at almost no cost in exchange for a minor loss of survivability compared to a damage reduction food.

Utility

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