Part of the current metagame
Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on September 26, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A power Herald Herald build for open world. Herald shines as a boon dps, providing their allies and themselves with permanent boons, most notably permanent 
激怒 and 
急速, and 
威能 (25 permanent for self, and about 12 for allies). It deals decent damage and has great innate sustain, but it lacks condition removal and requires the player to constantly swap legends to regenerate energy.
Template Code
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Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure you will not be able to wield a Greatsword Greatsword, use mainhand and offhand swords Swords instead.
- Staff Staff is taken mainly for the defiance damage of
迷雾激流. Only swap to staff when you need to break a defiance bar quickly, and return to your other weapon set as soon as possible. - Hammer Hammer - ranged AoE; use this in place of Staff Staff if you require ranged damage.
Skill Variants
传奇矮人姿态 - replaces Shiro, trading a bit of damage for defense.
Specializations
Variants
净化引导 - condition cleanse.
死亡舞蹈 - sustain.
强力执念 - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing permanent 急速.
Equipment
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. The pure DPS and Boon DPS options for Power Herald use identical gear.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Devona" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Ebonblade" greatsword, "Deathwish" staff, "Bonetti's Rapier" sword. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
超级猎龙者符文 and 
超级学者符文 are interchangeable.- You can use
萨奇洛斯古物 to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, 
骑兵古物 to start combat with boons, or 
耐久古物 for a little extra defense. - For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food or skills if required.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐-
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)
Usage
Facet of Nature
自然多面体 is the profession mechanic of the herald. Activate it to consume 2 energy pips to pulse an effect depending on your channelled legend to yourself and nearby allies. On Glint, this provides +20% boon duration. On Shiro, it provides a small amount of life stealing. On Jalis, it reduces damage taken by 10%.
The facet can be consumed for an additional effect. On Glint, it increases the duration of existing boons on yourself and nearby allies by 2 seconds. On Shiro, it removes 2 boons from nearby enemies. On Jalis, it provides Stability.
Quickness and Facets
The key to this build is to maintain permanent 急速 from 
高尚慈悲 by having an upkeep cost of 6 or higher. When channelling Glint, the best combination for this is 自然多面体, 
黑暗多面体, and 
力量多面体.
- In
传奇刺客姿态, maintain 
压倒优势.
- In
传奇巨龙姿态:
- Always maintain 黑暗多面体 for 激怒 which also activates
怒火迸射. Only consume it if you need the stun break. - Maintain 力量多面体 for 威能 generation. In short fights, it can be consumed for a small damage buff.
- Maintain 自然多面体. Its passive effects are decent. It can be consumed in Glint to save energy in Shiro, but then you will need to activate other Facets when you return to Glint to maintain an upkeep cost of 6 or more.
圣光多面体 is not worth maintaining since regeneration is extremely weak in dps gear. Only maintain it if Facet of Nature is on cooldown and you need the upkeep cost. Only consume it when under much pressure.
元素多面体 should be consumed off cooldown for damage unless you need the upkeep cost if Facet of Nature is on cooldown.
混沌多面体 consumes too much energy, only use it if your other Facets are on cooldown and you need the upkeep cost. Consume it if you need crowd control.
- Always maintain
As with all revenant builds, you have to swap legends pretty much off cooldown for energy by pressing F1. When you swap legends in combat, you start at 50 energy.
Damage
- This build maintains permanent 激怒 and 急速 on itself and nearby allies. You will also provide about 12 威能 to allies while you will easily maintain 25 stacks on yourself due to 怒火迸射.
- Our main damaging weapon is Greatsword Greatsword, use all skills except
帝国守卫, save it in case you need an emergency block. Try to not interrupt auto-attack chains.
- Watch energy in 传奇刺客姿态, do not consume all your energy, you want to maintain 压倒优势.
Defense
圣光灌注 converts all damage to healing, but watch its long cooldown.- 混沌多面体 can be used for
保护 uptime. - Both Greatsword Greatsword and Staff Staff have channeled blocks.
迷雾翻腾 heals you for a percentage or your critical strike damage.- Consider 死亡舞蹈 for a relatively small DPS loss but a massive boost to personal sustain.
- Use 净化引导 if you need condition cleanse.
- 传奇矮人姿态 can replace 传奇刺客姿态 to trade damage for more defense.
- In rare circumstances, it may be beneficial to use
传奇半人马姿态 for 
慰藉屏护 as a powerful projectile block. This shouldn't be common, as even very powerful projectile-based attacks can often simply be dodged, and the upkeep cost of it is massive.
Crowd Control
We lose a lot of damage by swapping to Staff Staff for 迷雾激流, so it should be a last resort if we absolutely need to break a bar. On encounters with a very early breakbar, opening on Staff Staff with 传奇刺客姿态 and using 迷雾激流 into 
翠玉风暴 can be beneficial.
