The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Healing and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Easy
This build was last updated on July 25, 2024 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A heal Herald build that provides permanent 
急速, 
激怒, 
迅捷, 
再生, 
保护, and 25 
威能 to its subgroup. It also provides 
自然多面体 to your group, 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.
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- If you don't own Secrets of the Obscure, your choice of mainhand weapon is somewhat irrelevant. Mace allows faster 威能 generation, but Sword could work as well.
- Your second Legend defaults to
传奇半人马姿态. Read the Legends section below to see other alternatives.
Specializations
- The first trait in Invocation and second trait in Salvation are up to personal preference and can be adapted to what you're most likely to need in a given encounter.
Equipment
群聚古物 is a very strong option, and will be better if you end up swapping out 传奇半人马姿态.- If you're using Mace instead of Sceptre,
卡拉科萨古物 becomes a reliable source of healing on your second set. - This setup is intended to cap boon duration with +70 concentration food. If you are using +100 concentration food, swap the head piece to Harrier stats Harrier stats and the chest piece to Minstrel stats Minstrel stats.
超级流水法印 and 
超级新生法印 are very similar amounts of healing. 超级流水法印 was chosen as they are significantly cheaper and the more frequent healing is likely to be more effective.
- If you find yourself camping one weapon set, then you could put 超级新生法印 on the other to benefit from the burst healing should you need to swap.
- If you find yourself camping one weapon set, then you could put
No-toughness variant
The recommended setup has 1665 toughness. Herald is an excellent choice to tank on many encounters due to the self-sustain and large range of its boons, but if you don't wish to tank, the setup below has no toughness.
Consumables
Food
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碗装薄荷配菜水果沙拉
美味饭团 for a cheaper alternative
Utility
Usage
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.
Legends
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传奇巨龙姿态 - absolutely key to the build, this is your source of almost all your non- 急速 boons. It also 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.
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传奇半人马姿态 is your primary heal source and also offers some
活力, 
抗性 and 稳固 if desired. It provides projectile block through 
慰藉屏护, condition cleanse through 
净化精华, CC through 
能量爆发, and a very weak heal through 自然多面体—Centaur. Can be swapped out if necessary for one of the options below. -
传奇矮人姿态 provides your squad with 自然多面体—Dwarf which reduces damage taken by 10%. You can provide 稳固 through 
稳固激发, CC through 
强制束缚, and reduce personal incoming strike and condition damage by 20% with 
复仇之锤. If needed, it can also reduce incoming strike damage to your subgroup by 50% with 
崇高矮人. -
传奇恶魔姿态 should (almost) never be played in bosses, but it 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.
Healing
A lot of your healing is essentially passive - you have no trouble maintaining 再生 (boosted by 
长者舒缓) and 高尚慈悲 grants additional healing every second.
One downside of this is that no healing will overflow into the second subgroup of a squad (as it is applied via boons, which will always prioritise your own subgroup). The easiest method to apply extra healing is to autoattack on staff: The final attack of the auto chain applies healing in an area, and 
回复惩戒 is one of your most energy-efficient healing skills.
Other sources of passive healing:
- If you maintain 自然多面体 in 传奇半人马姿态 then it will pulse healing every three seconds.
慷慨丰腴 makes your legend skill activations heal. This is most relevant in 传奇巨龙姿态 as there is otherwise no inherent healing on these skills. Be aware that the heal only applies when you consume a facet, rather than activating it.
In many encounters, your passive healing will be insufficient, so you should always be ready to spend energy on burst healing if required. Your burst heals, in order of energy efficiency, are:
茂盛特使 (Shield) - a strong, cheap heal that also applies 保护. The only downside is being locked out of Staff for 10 seconds, so your average healing will drop.- 回复惩戒 (Staff) - this is cheap and has a low cooldown so you can use it any time your team's health dips.
自然调和 (Ventari) - an enourmous, but relatively costly heal. If empowered (see below), it heals even more and regenerates endurance to affected allies.
复原波动 (Staff) - heals about the same amount as Envoy of Exuberance but costs twice as much. This is most valuable as a condi cleanse.
绽放光环 (Sceptre) - provides a small amount of AoE barrier (allow to channel fully)- 能量爆发 (Ventari) - a big, but expensive heal that also cleanses conditions and does CC. When empowered it provides lots of 稳固 to allies. Its multi-functional nature means you're unlikely to use it for healing, but it's a nice bonus.
Legendary Centaur Stance
传奇半人马姿态 has a fairly unique mechanic attached to it. When swapping to this legend, you will gain a buff called Tranquil. This buff causes the next Legend skill you use to become "empowered", providing an enhanced effect and consuming the Tranquil buff.
This means you want to pay attention to the first skill you use in this stance:
- 自然调和 - Increases healing by 25% and regenerates Endurance.
- 慰藉屏护 - Provides AoE 保护.
- 净化精华 - Removes an extra condition.
- 能量爆发 - Provides AoE 稳固.
During your regular rotation, you most likely just want to activate 慰藉屏护 to maintain 急速 and treat the extra 保护 as a nice bonus.
If you need to access the empowered effects later in the rotation, you have two options:
- Consuming 自然多面体 while in 传奇半人马姿态 will re-apply Tranquil (as well as cleansing conditions).
- Using 能量爆发 will destroy the tablet, and allow you to resummon it with
祥和投映, which in turn provides the Tranquil buff.
Rotation Fundamentals
As with most healers, there is no need for an exact rotation, however there are some helpful guidelines to consider.
Protection and Regeneration
As with any healer, you want to prevent the need for healing in the first place. This means maintaining 再生 and 保护 to reduce incoming damage and automatically heal up a small amount (such as from a boss with a ticking aura).
Thanks to 
灵魂增益, you apply 10 seconds of 再生 whenever you swap to 传奇半人马姿态, and ideally you are doing this approximately every 20 seconds. The only other source of 再生 you have is 
圣光多面体. This applies eight seconds of 再生 every three seconds, so only two pulses are needed to make it permanent. However, as the skill is so cheap to maintain (and the active has a long cooldown), you can typically just activate this and leave it running. This is also helpful if you're running a Legend other than 传奇半人马姿态.
Similarly you apply six seconds of 保护 whenever you swap to 传奇巨龙姿态. 混沌多面体 provides another six seconds every three seconds, to relying on just these two skills, you would need three pulses of 混沌多面体 to make it permanent. Both 茂盛特使 or an empowered 慰藉屏护 would allow this to be reduced to just two pulses, and it is highly likely that your 慰藉屏护 will be empowered as part of your 急速 rotation. As 混沌多面体 is quite expensive to maintain, it is therefore efficient to consume it after you have enough 保护 so you can benefit from other Facets.
Quickness
As mentioned above, in general you want to maintain upkeep skills worth six energy in order to pulse 急速. As a healer, you have an abundance of boon duration, which means you pulse 2.5s of 急速 second. Technically this means that you only need to be maintaining 高尚慈悲 half of the time. In practise, there's little reason not to maintain it (as thanks to 
威能共享 it is also providing 威能), but you have a lot of freedom to use your energy for other skills if required.
Other Boons
In your secondary legend, you mostly want to maintain 6 upkeep and use skills reactively. 传奇巨龙姿态 however, can pulse additional boons depending on your preference.
As discussed above, you likely want to maintain 圣光多面体 the entire time you're in this legend (unless you need to use 
圣光灌注). You also want to maintain 混沌多面体 for 3-6 seconds, along with one extra facet in order to keep 高尚慈悲 going. After this, you can consume it and replace it with two other facets of your choice (so you will have four Facets active). You can probably skip 
力量多面体 if 威能 is already at 25 stacks, or better yet, immediately consume it for a damage increase.
Legend Swapping
In general, you want to legend swap off cooldown to maintain 
和谐咒唤 and reset your energy. As this build runs Invocation, this also provides an extra boon via 灵魂增益 and ideally you want to swap below 10 energy to gain the bonus from 
迷雾涌能.
It is quite easy to use up excess energy on most legends, but less so on 传奇巨龙姿态, as none of the consume skills have an energy cost. Even if using 回复惩戒 and 复原波动 off cooldown, you may struggle to use all your energy within 10 seconds. This means it may be worth maintaining 混沌多面体 even if the 保护 is wasted.
Alternatively, you could swap to Scepter/Shield in order to burn off any excess energy.
Weapons
Staff offers sustained healing, and so is likely to be the default choice for many people, particularly if they are the only healer in a squad. Remaining in Sceptre/Shield instead is totally viable though, only swapping to Staff for emergency healing. Sceptre allows you to generate more 威能 from the autoattack and by targeting an ally with 
异世链接. Swapping between the two weapon sets can be helpful while tanking, as each set has a powerful active defence skill.
Tanking As a healer, you have naturally great sustain, but there are several abilities that are worth highlighting:
水晶休眠 (Shield) - a long duration block that heals you as it channels.
裂隙结界 (Staff) - another channeled block. Not as strong as Crystal Hibernation but has lower cooldown and costs less energy.- 圣光灌注 (Ventari) - for three seconds, turns all incoming damage into healing. Even allows you to survive some abilities that go through invulnerability!
黑暗凝视 - your only stunbreak. If you think you might need it, maintain 
黑暗多面体 while in 传奇巨龙姿态.
Rotation
Putting it all together, a rough outline of a rotation could look like this (weapon skills are not included outside of the opener):
Opener
Start on Sceptre/Shield in 传奇半人马姿态 with 自然多面体 active. Position your tablet slightly in front of you.
- 异世链接 - targetting an ally
- 能量爆发 & 绽放光环 to quickly get below 10 energy
- 传奇巨龙姿态 - triggers 和谐咒唤
- 混沌多面体 - to immediately reach 6 upkeep and start 高尚慈悲
- 圣光多面体 - for 再生
- 力量多面体 - maintain at least until you reach 25 stacks of 威能
- If you don't need
圣盾 in the next 10 seconds, swap to Staff once 绽放光环 and 异世链接 expire
- It is likely you will need to provide at least a little 激怒 with 黑暗多面体, but with four facets running, you won't have be able to activate it. You can consume
力量爆发 once you hit 25 威能 and activate 黑暗多面体. If there is no 激怒 at all, you may have to immediately consume 自然多面体 instead. - Once below 10 energy, swap to 传奇半人马姿态
Ventari
- On Ventari you can just maintain the bubble and use skills reactively. When 传奇巨龙姿态 is available again, you can just spam random skills to use up any remaining energy.
- If you need 稳固:
- Once below 10 energy, swap to 传奇巨龙姿态.
Maintaining 自然多面体 and 慰藉屏护 will leave you with 35-45 energy to spend when 传奇巨龙姿态 comes off cooldown. If you haven't needed to use any extra healing, you can just use 能量爆发 and swap. Alternatively, you can use 自然调和 once or twice.
Glint
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混沌多面体
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圣光多面体
- If Facet of Nature is not active, activate at least one of the other facets to reach 6 upkeep.
- If you don't anticipate needing to use any extra energy (e.g. for CC or burst healing), maintain 混沌多面体.
- If you use
混乱疾风, activate other Facets to keep at least 6 upkeep. - Use your other Facets as desired.
- Once below 10 energy, swap to 传奇半人马姿态 and return to start of Ventari section.
Maintaining 自然多面体, 圣光多面体 and 混沌多面体 leaves 45-55 energy to spend by the time 传奇半人马姿态 comes off cooldown. It is convenient to also maintain 
元素多面体 to make 迅捷 permanent and also use another 10 energy. You can also maintain 黑暗多面体 or 力量多面体 to use up another 20 energy, and this would mean you can use 复原波动 for the rest. Otherwise, you will need to spam 回复惩戒 and 复原波动 as well as probably switching to Sceptre/Shield to use those skills.
Crowd Control
Staff gives you access to one of the best CC skills in the game, 
迷雾激流. This skill hits up to 8 times, applying 150 Defiance Break per hit, potentially providing up to a massive 1200 Defiance Break total. 迷雾激流 will move you forward naturally, however, so to maximize hits on target that you can pass through, back away from your target slightly before using. Additionally, be careful using this skill near the edge of a cliff as you might end up falling off of it.
Additionally, each legend has one skill that can apply CC/Defiance Break:
- On 传奇巨龙姿态, 混乱疾风 provides 232 Defiance Break.
- On 传奇半人马姿态, 能量爆发 provides 300 Defiance Break.
- On 传奇矮人姿态, 强制束缚 applies both
嘲讽 and 
迟缓 for 4 seconds, providing up to 500 Defiance Break over the duration.
General Tips
- Consuming 自然多面体 while in Glint will extend boons in your subgroup, but maintaining it provides +20% boon duration to your subgroup, so both have their merits.
- On Sceptre/Shield, you can rely on autoattacks to maintain 威能 after your opener. This means you don't have to deal with trying to regularly target an ally.
- If on Mace/Shield, combo
灼热裂痕 ⇒ 
回荡喷发 to blast some extra might.