The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Direct damage and Utility
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 23, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A power DPS build for Herald. One of the very first raid DPS builds in the Heart of Thorns era, this build has now returned to viability. Its ability to provide good sustained damage, very good CC and 
易伤, while supporting your whole squad with a variety of boons, life-siphon and extra boon duration makes Power Herald an extremely helpful addition for every encounter.
While not being the best choice in most encounters, this build is easy to play and is able to sustain itself very well, making it a good build for beginners.
Skill Bar
- Bring a Staff instead of a Greatsword to provide access to incredible CC.
Template Code
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Trait Variants
- Use
怒火迸射 if your other supports are unable to keep your might uptime capped. - Use
活力涌流 if you have another party member providing protection. - Consider using
龙吟回响 instead of 
强力执念 if your party is desperate for extra might and fury generation. Making this change will significantly reduce your personal damage output but is better for the group if there are no better sources of boons. - Use
核心价值 if extra boon removal is needed.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
超级学者符文 is a tiny DPS loss.- The Dragon stats Dragon stats piece is entirely optional and could be replaced with Berserker stats Berserker stats.
- You can swap the
超级空气法印 for a 
超级冲击法印 if playing an encounter where the boss can be Stunned Stunned.
Consumables
Food
Utility
Usage
- Try to maintain
自然多面体 as long as possible. - In the order that you should use them, CC-Skills are:
混乱疾风, 
迷雾激流 and 
翠玉风暴.
- 翠玉风暴 should only be used as a last resort as the large energy cost will heavily impact your ability to do damage.
Sword Rotation
Opener
Start on Sword/Sword and 
传奇巨龙姿态 with 自然多面体 active.
Legendary Assassin Stance
-
压倒优势
- Auto-attack while using
冰冻隔离 off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains. - 传奇巨龙姿态 as soon as it's available
Legendary Dragon Stance
- Activate
力量多面体, 
元素多面体 and 
黑暗多面体 -
元素轰击
-
力量爆发
- Auto-attack while using 冰冻隔离 off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
- Activate
混沌多面体 as soon as its available - Continue Auto-attacking until Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements are nearly available. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
-
桎梏波动
-
死亡打击
-
混乱疾风
- 元素多面体 ⇒ 元素轰击
- 力量多面体 ⇒ 力量爆发
-
传奇刺客姿态
- Return to start of Legendary Assassin Stance
Greatsword Rotation
Opener
Start on Greatsword and 传奇巨龙姿态 with 自然多面体 active.
Legendary Assassin Stance
-
压倒优势
- Auto-attack while using
迷雾释放 off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains. - If
永恒挽歌 will come off cooldown while you're on Legendary Assassin Stance, only use Mist Unleashed once and use Eternity's Requiem when it's available. - 传奇巨龙姿态 as soon as it's available
Legendary Dragon Stance
- Activate 力量多面体, 元素多面体 and 黑暗多面体
-
力量爆发
-
元素轰击
- Auto-attack while using 迷雾释放,
幻影突袭 and 永恒挽歌 off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains. - Activate 混沌多面体 as soon as its available
- 混乱疾风 after the next use of 迷雾释放
- Continue Auto-attacking until Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements are available. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
- 力量多面体 ⇒ 力量爆发
- 元素多面体 ⇒ 元素轰击
-
传奇刺客姿态
- Return to start of Legendary Assassin Stance
Notes
- Try to not interrupt your auto-attack chain - much of the damage from it is loaded onto the final strike.
- Only swap to staff if breakbar contribution is needed - staff has no strong damaging skills so swapping to it is a major damage loss.
- 自然多面体 should always be maintained, so make sure to swap legends before your energy drains completely.
- If boon strip is required, you can activate it while in Assassin stance for the boon strip from
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- If boon strip is required, you can activate it while in Assassin stance for the boon strip from