The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage, Mobility and Utility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A high skill cap PvP Power Revenant burst build, created primarily to roam between capture points looking to +1 fights, or teamfight. The build's a pure glass cannon with high damage and very low survivability - while the build has several tools for avoiding damage, it can do very little to correct mistakes, which makes this rather unforgiving to play.
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Variants
迅捷处决 trades sustain/armor ignoring procs for higher burst damage, makes you better at finishing off low HP targets.
Variants
迷雾翻腾 gives up a powerful proc for better crit chance.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Sigils
- If you want more defense against conditions replace one of the Sword sigils with
洁净法印 and replace Cleansing on Staff with 
逃脱法印.
Relics
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领导古物 - adds a new source of condition removal to the build, cleansing several conditions whenever you use an elite skill (once every 30 seconds). Works well with Glint's elite because Facet of Chaos has no cast time. -
伊斯加然古物 - higher burst potential. -
萨奇洛斯古物 - better sustain. -
阴鬼古物 - this might seem like a condi relic at first, but it scales quite well with Power. 
翠玉风暴 is the perfect setup for this relic, spawning the pool under a stunned target.
Usage
General
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Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, removes 1 condition and could even proc the sigils of your current weapon if they're not on CD. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs, low on energy, or need to cleanse.
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Begin on
传奇巨龙姿态 (Glint) and immediately activate the following 3 upkeep skills for party buffing: -
In combat don't try to maintain your Glint upkeeps for too long, in most cases they shouldn't stay up for more than 3 seconds. Activating Facet of Elements and Strength only to immediately follow up with using
元素轰击 and 
力量爆发 is a perfectly fine thing to do - these are also some of your best AoE skills. -
混乱疾风 can be used to knock downed opponents away from their teammates who are trying to revive them, or to knock them off of capture points - the latter allows you to take the cap while bleeding them out, delaying their respawn. -
Both elite skills have obvious tells and are easy to dodge, stow weapons to cancel casting if they're about to be evaded/blinded - this will save all the energy cost and only send the skill on a cd of 5 seconds. The same qualities make these skills perfect for fake casting by stowing weapons immediately after beginning the cast, baiting enemy dodges/blocks without spending energy/CDs.
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黑暗多面体 is one of the most versatile and strongest skills in the build:
黑暗凝视 is a cheap stun breaker and one of the few skills in the game that can reveal stealthed targets.- The
目盲 from Gaze can be used to avoid powerful attacks without wasting dodges, and can help you stomp warriors / revenants / engineers / rangers by blinding their downed CC. Even mesmers can be stomped with a little luck because of the AoE reveal. - If you're 目盲 while channeling 混乱疾风 you can use 黑暗凝视 at the last moment before the skill finishes its animation - in this case Gaze of Darkness will miss instead of your elite.
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Movement speed is capped at 33% while out of combat, making
迅捷 just as strong as 
奔驰疾速. During combat however 
压倒优势 can be used for boosting your mobility, which is also useful for disengaging.
Dealing Damage
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Herald no longer has the sustain it once had, and staying in melee range without active blocks or evasion could quickly overwhelm it. Although generally perceived as a melee build, there are quite a few ranged skills that will play an important part. The build's geared towards massive burst damage and utilizes hit-and-run tactics.
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迷雾之歌 delivers an attack whenever you swap legends. Swapping to Shiro is an easy way of instantly getting 
急速, setting the stage for burst combos or helping you cleave downed targets with autoattack spam. -
Use skills like
元素轰击, 
冰冻隔离, Shiro's 
真正本质 or 
桎梏波动 to poke from a safe distance if going into melee would be too dangerous (bunch of hostile AoEs on point for example). -
Create openings where you can pressure targets uninterrupted by utilizing your CC skills such as
迷雾激流 or 混乱疾风. Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like 急速, 
附魔匕首 and 压倒优势 to further increase the damage of your followup burst. -
桎梏波动 and
死亡打击 will serve as the primary burst skills in the build. -
无情突击 works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. In teamfights it's mainly used for the evasion. -
Glint's
力量爆发 and 元素轰击 and Shiro's 真正本质 are cheap and excellent sources of AoE burst damage. -
位面穿行 is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with 急速 coupled with unblockable attacks. Quickness can be used to do burst damage or cleave downed targets better through auto attacking, while the unblockable attacks could seal the fate of enemies relying on blocking as their last resource option for sustain. Either follow up with hard hitting attacks or a 迷雾激流 if you wish to interrupt them (and to cancel their blocking skill).- This skill is quite expensive though, you might want to blow your remaining energy on a few weapon skills while upkeeping 压倒优势 for a few seconds before swapping to Glint to replenish your energy.
- This skill is quite expensive though, you might want to blow your remaining energy on a few weapon skills while upkeeping
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翠玉风暴 won't be used much because it blows pretty much your entire energy pool, leaving you defenseless and with barely anything to capitalize on the CC. That's not to say this skill is useless, it's quite a strong CC but you need to know when to use it. Some examples:
- Setting up kills for your teammates, in which case it doesn't matter if you run out of energy because they can finish off the stunned enemies for you.
- Joining a fight that's already in progress. Here you could use Jade Winds as an opening move trying to tip the scales in your team's favor and then simply swap legends for an energy refill.
- Interrupting very important channels like a rez or a stomp.
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You should interrupt Jade Winds with a weapon stow if you feel like the skill's going to miss, for example if you got
目盲. It's too expensive to be wasted.
Stacking Damage Sources
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Most Sword skills deliver multiple strikes per use, making this set ideal for stacking damage procs. Proper use of these effects contribute a lot to the burst damage of the build. A skill like
无情突击 might not be a major threat on its own but when every attack also delivers 2-3 other attacks it's suddenly quite formidable. -
附魔匕首 is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including
保护 or even 
痛苦忍耐. That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as 
失真. It's more of a burst CD than a healing skill in many cases and it's quite cheap. -
Consuming Shiro's
真正本质 (F2) causes the passive life steal effect to persist for several seconds thanks to 
龙吟回响. -
压倒优势 can augment any skill and increases your damage output significantly while active. It's quite expensive though, so don't maintain it for more than a few seconds at a time, use it only for bursts. Note that it's only single target damage, doesn't cleave.
- Always stop maintaining this skill if you're about to hit 0 energy - turning it off sends it on a 1 second CD while running out of energy results in a 4 second CD.
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While
力量爆发 doesn't add another source of damage, it does provide a bonus damage modifier and 龙吟回响 further increases this bonus by keeping 
力量多面体's passive 
威能 stacking going for a few seconds after use.
Burst Combo Examples
These are merely supposed to give you some ideas for doing burst damage, you don't have to follow them all the time
Ranged combo
- 附魔匕首 then wait a bit for your energy to bounce back
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位面穿行
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压倒优势
- 冰冻隔离 or 桎梏波动
- Any of your other skills on the weapon set, or swap to staff for a CC (skill 5). If you don't have the energy for followup skills just swap legends for a refill. Alternatively you could cut Impossible Odds from the rotation if you're energy-starved.
Melee Combo
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迷雾激流
- Activate 压倒优势 when SotM starts moving forward. Note: if you started this chain on Glint then legend swapping to Shiro for this step would also grant you 急速 from 迷雾之歌 and could even proc the sigils of Staff. The Quickness however is wasted on SotM so in this scenario you might want to consider swapping legends near the end of the cast and only activate Impossible Odds when you use Shackling Wave.
- Weapon swap
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桎梏波动
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死亡打击
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冰冻隔离
Glint AoE Combo
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混乱疾风
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元素轰击
- Cast 力量爆发 but immediately swap legends, the skill won't be interrupted
- Activate 压倒优势 while still casting BoS
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冰冻隔离
Damage Stacking Combo (works best against single target)
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附魔匕首
- 真正本质 (Shiro) - use the chain skill immediately, the passive effect will linger for a few seconds
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压倒优势
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无情突击
Self Sustain & Conditions
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圣光多面体's chain effect 
圣光灌注 is your jail free card - makes you immortal for the duration by converting all incoming damage into healing. It's also by far your best tool for dealing with condition spikes. 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, but Infuse is instant. -
Revenant doesn't have any mass cleanses, instead it's the proper chaining of smaller removals that's going to do the trick:
- The highest possible number of conditions that can be removed in one combo is 8 (9 if we count Blindness Blindness, which you should attempt to remove before starting the chain).
- Ideally start with
暗影回撤 to get rid of all snares and hard-CC such as Fear and Taunt. This skill alone could remove 4 different non-damaging conditions thus increasing the chance of cleansing the more important, damaging ones with other skills. The evade frame of the skills also ensures that you won't be inflicted with new conditions. - Swapping to staff removes a condition thanks to 洁净法印 (if taken) and swapping legends can remove another one via the trait
净化引导, bringing the total count to 6. If you were already on Staff it's still possible to proc the Cleansing sigil with a legend swap, as explained earlier. - Finish the chain with
复原波动. - After this you should be safe, but you've also exhausted your kit so play defensively for a while in order to avoid getting hit with new conditions by chaining blocks/evasions, or just staying at a safe distance for a couple of seconds.
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真正本质 cleanses 3 conditions when used on Glint. Against condition specs you should hold onto this skill for longer in case you need to use it defensively.
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The combination of Staff and Shiro gives the revenant amazing tools for disengaging/stalling.
暗影回撤 gives 15 endurance whilst also evading and removing every hard-CC / snare from the player. In addition to that Staff has a short CD block/evasion in form of 
裂隙结界 and 迷雾激流. -
Safest way to benefit from
附魔匕首 when you need it for the healing is to use skills with evasion/blocking that also deal damage, such as Warding Rift, Surge of the Mists, or Unrelenting Assault.
Related Builds
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