Herald - Power Herald

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, use mainhand and offhand Swords instead.
• 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 - ranged AoE; use this in place of Staff if you require ranged damage.

Skill Variants

• 传奇矮人姿态 - replaces Shiro, trading a bit of damage for defense.

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.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Defense

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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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

• and are interchangeable.
• You can use to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, to start combat with boons, or for a little extra defense.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food or skills if required.

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.
  • If you replaced Shiro with 传奇矮人姿态, maintain 复仇之锤.
• 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.

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 and on itself and nearby allies. You will also provide about 12 to allies while you will easily maintain 25 stacks on yourself due to .
• Our main damaging weapon is Greatsword, use all skills except , save it in case you need an emergency block. Try to not interrupt auto-attack chains.
  • If using Swords, use , , and .
• Watch energy in , do not consume all your energy, you want to maintain .

Defense

• converts all damage to healing, but watch its long cooldown.
• can be used for uptime.
• Both Greatsword and Staff have channeled blocks.
• heals you for a percentage or your critical strike damage.
• Consider for a relatively small DPS loss but a massive boost to personal sustain.
• Use if you need condition cleanse.
• can replace to trade damage for more defense.
  • provides passive damage reduction.
  • provides for yourself and allies.
  • provides heavy CC
  • is a fantastic heal that cleanses conditions
  • breaks stun and provides significant damage reduction.
• In rare circumstances, it may be beneficial to use for 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 for , 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 with and using into can be beneficial.

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