Herald - Quickness Support Condi DPS

A condi Herald build that provides permanent 急速, 激怒, 迅捷 (optional), 再生 (optional), high 保护, and around 23 威能 to its subgroup. It also provides 自然多面体, increasing boon duration while channelling Glint.

It can also provide other utilities depending on the second Legend chosen, such as 稳固 or damage reduction, though this a more significant damage loss than it would be for the power build.

• For the Spear/Spear rotation 地狱酷寒 performs slightly better.

Quickness

You apply 急速 through the trait 高尚慈悲. This pulses healing and 急速 whenever you are using upkeep energy of six or above. Fortunately, all of your non-传奇巨龙姿态 legends have a skill that uses exactly six. Thus while in these legends you want to maintain the skill in question for almost the entire time. Glint is a little trickier as all the skills use upkeep, but 混沌多面体 and 自然多面体 combined are six energy, so these two are maintained together.

Swiftness

By default, the rotations below only generate ~35% 迅捷 uptime. To provide more, you need to skip the first use of 元素轰击 and maintain 元素多面体 while on 传奇巨龙姿态 (you should still use 元素轰击 before swapping legend). You may need to toggle off 黑暗多面体 early to ensure you have enough energy for weapon skills.

Alternatively, as 迅捷 is not stripped at the start of encounters, you can make sure to channel 元素多面体 before the fight starts. If you manage to start with 60s, you should be able to maintain it for a further two minutes without compromising your damage, or even longer if there are split phases in which to refresh it.

Legends

• 传奇巨龙姿态 - absolutely key to the build, this is your source of almost all your non- 急速 boons. It's 自然多面体—Dragon increases the duration of boons your subgroup provides by 20%. Note this effect does not actually increase Concentration, it increases Boon Duration (and is not shown in the Hero Panel), so a build with this effect and 100% Boon Duration would provide boons lasting 120% longer.

• 传奇恶魔姿态 is by far the highest DPS legend, and also offers a pull with 苦痛召唤 which may be useful when fighting trash mobs if your group does not have pulls.

  • It can also be used in fractals to remove the boons from No Pain, No Gain if no-one else is able to.

Other legends are a significant DPS loss, and will leave you doing less damage than the power build taking the same legend.

• is a significant DPS loss. You can provide through , CC through , and reduce personal incoming strike and condition damage by 20% with . If needed, it can also reduce incoming strike damage to your subgroup by 50% with . This legend is much easier to bring on the power build, as it loses much less damage.

• is an extremely niche option. It is a massive DPS loss that should only be taken if your group desperately needs projectile block through . It also offers condition cleanse through , CC through , and a very weak heal through —Centaur.

• provides personal mobility through and , and CC through . It has no real use in combat, but could be used in between encounters.

Spear & Mace Axe Rotation

Opener Start on Mace/Axe and with , and active.

1. ⇒ - make sure the boonstrip at the start of an encounter has already happened
2. (optional) - this allows a few extra pulses of but to ensure you have enough energy for the whole opener you should be at 50+ energy
12. Weapon Swap

Mace/Axe The stronger effect of can only be activated once per pulse, so the first auto chain is split up to ensure that pulses aren't wasted. This requires precision to avoid either cancelling or delaying your legend swap, so it may be better in practise not to worry about it.

4. - you can sneak this in without interrupting the auto chain
5. ⇒
7. ⇒ ⇒ x2
9. ⇒ ⇒
12. ⇒
13. ⇒
15. Weapon Swap

Spear You can trade a little bit of boon uptime for extra damage if you immediately activate after and use the extra energy for an .

4. and
5. Autoattack, and activate and as they become available
10. ⇒
11. ⇒
14. Weapon Swap
15. Return to start of Mace/Axe section

Spear Rotation

Mace/Axe & Shortbow Rotation

Spear & Shortbow Rotation

Food

• , , , or ascended alternatives (such as )

Utility

• or

• This setup has ~35% boon duration without the need to invest into any concentration.
  • uptime is quite tight with this amount, so feel free to swap in as many Ritualist stats pieces as are needed to make it permanent.
• You can tank by swapping some pieces to Celestial stats.
• If using Mace/Axe & Shortbow, it is important that the is on the Mace/Axe set, as this section of the rotation is slightly longer which makes triggering it three times per loop more reliable.
• If using Spear/Spear, replace the with a and pair this Spear with .

Equipment Variants

Rune Variants

• Many of the popular providers also some , but in the event this is not the case, you could use to gain an extra ~5 stacks of might generation.

The concept of Spear is rather simple. All your Spear skills reduce the cooldown of 深渊毁灭, which in turn is your most powerful ability.

The gist of the rotation is then to use 深渊原力 and 深渊霹雳 off cooldown, and spam 深渊毁灭 with your remaining energy (while also providing boons).

If using two spears, start on the set with 超级厄运法印 and 超级地能法印. If not using, just ignore any weapon swaps.

Opener Start on Glint and Shortbow with 力量多面体, 元素多面体 and 黑暗多面体 active:

1. 自然多面体
2. 深渊原力
3. 深渊毁灭
4. 深渊霹雳
5. 深渊毁灭
6. 元素轰击
7. 力量爆发
8. 混沌多面体
9. 真正本质
10. 传奇恶魔姿态
11. 拥抱黑暗
12. Weapon Swap

Mallyx Activate 拥抱黑暗 as soon as you enter this legend, then Weapon Swap.

The pulsing damage of 拥抱黑暗 is boosted when a skill is used, though this effect can only be activated once per pulse. A single autoattack is added after key skills to ensure that pulses aren't wasted. This requires precision to avoid either cancelling 深渊打击, so if it may work out better to just use abilities as fast as you can.

Energy is tighter on this legend, so use 深渊毁灭 a maximum of two times if 深渊霹雳 will come off cooldown while on it.

Glint When 传奇巨龙姿态 is available:

1. 传奇巨龙姿态
2. 元素多面体 ⇒ 元素轰击
3. 力量多面体 ⇒ 力量爆发
4. Weapon Swap

Activate 3-4 seconds into this legend, along with if you need to provide , or otherwise. If using here, just activate when comes off cooldown.

Use spear skills as normal, and as and come off cooldown:

1. ⇒ (optional) - quickly using this skill allows you to provide a small amount of while still benefitting from Facet of Nature
2. - if you weren't already maintaining this, flip it on and immediately consume
3. ⇒
4. ⇒

Your spear skills have higher value when used on Mallyx, so don't delay your legend swap.