Herald - Power Shiro - MetaBattle

General

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.
Begin on 传奇巨龙姿态 (Glint) and immediately activate the following 3 upkeep skills for party buffing:
- 元素多面体
- 力量多面体
- 黑暗多面体
- Optional: add 自然多面体 to the mix just before leaving from spawn, especially if a teammate wants to stack boons (a ranger using 荒野召唤 for example)
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.
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 while channeling you can use at the last moment before the skill finishes its animation - in this case Gaze of Darkness will miss instead of your elite.
Movement speed is capped at 33% while out of combat, making just as strong as . During combat however can be used for boosting your mobility, which is also useful for disengaging.

Dealing Damage

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.
delivers an attack whenever you swap legends. Swapping to Shiro is an easy way of instantly getting , setting the stage for burst combos or helping you cleave downed targets with autoattack spam.
Use skills like , , Shiro's or 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 or . Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like , and to further increase the damage of your followup burst.
and will serve as the primary burst skills in the build.
works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. In teamfights it's mainly used for the evasion.
- Note: If you're facing an opponent with access to land chain skill on them to apply , as stealth cancels Unrelenting Assault.
Glint's and and Shiro's are cheap and excellent sources of AoE burst damage.
is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with 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 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 for a few seconds before swapping to Glint to replenish your energy.

Stacking Damage Sources

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 might not be a major threat on its own but when every attack also delivers 2-3 other attacks it's suddenly quite formidable.
is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including or even . That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as . It's more of a burst CD than a healing skill in many cases and it's quite cheap.
Consuming Shiro's (F2) causes the passive life steal effect to persist for several seconds thanks to .
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.
While doesn't add another source of damage, it does provide a bonus damage modifier and further increases this bonus by keeping 's passive 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

then wait a bit for your energy to bounce back
or
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

Activate 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 from 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

Glint AoE Combo

Cast but immediately swap legends, the skill won't be interrupted
Activate while still casting BoS

Damage Stacking Combo (works best against single target)

(Shiro) - use the chain skill immediately, the passive effect will linger for a few seconds

Self Sustain & Conditions

's chain effect 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, which you should attempt to remove before starting the chain).
- Ideally start with 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 (if taken) and swapping legends can remove another one via the trait , 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 .
- 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.
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.
The combination of Staff and Shiro gives the revenant amazing tools for disengaging/stalling. 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 and .