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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

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.
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 崇高矮人仪式.
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 is one of your most energy-efficient healing skills.

Other sources of passive healing:

If you maintain in then it will pulse healing every three seconds.
makes your legend skill activations heal. This is most relevant in 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:

(Shield) - a strong, cheap heal that also applies . The only downside is being locked out of Staff for 10 seconds, so your average healing will drop.
(Staff) - this is cheap and has a low cooldown so you can use it any time your team's health dips.
(Ventari) - an enourmous, but relatively costly heal. If empowered (see below), it heals even more and regenerates endurance to affected allies.
(Staff) - heals about the same amount as Envoy of Exuberance but costs twice as much. This is most valuable as a condi cleanse.
(Sceptre) - provides a small amount of AoE barrier (allow to channel fully)
(Ventari) - a big, but expensive heal that also cleanses conditions and does CC. When empowered it provides lots of to allies. Its multi-functional nature means you're unlikely to use it for healing, but it's a nice bonus.

Legendary Centaur Stance

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:

- Increases healing by 25% and regenerates Endurance.
- Provides AoE .
- Removes an extra condition.
- Provides AoE .

During your regular rotation, you most likely just want to activate to maintain and treat the extra as a nice bonus.

If you need to access the empowered effects later in the rotation, you have two options:

Consuming while in will re-apply Tranquil (as well as cleansing conditions).
Using will destroy the tablet, and allow you to resummon it with , 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 and to reduce incoming damage and automatically heal up a small amount (such as from a boss with a ticking aura).

Thanks to , you apply 10 seconds of whenever you swap to , and ideally you are doing this approximately every 20 seconds. The only other source of you have is . This applies eight seconds of 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 .

Similarly you apply six seconds of whenever you swap to . provides another six seconds every three seconds, to relying on just these two skills, you would need three pulses of to make it permanent. Both or an empowered would allow this to be reduced to just two pulses, and it is highly likely that your will be empowered as part of your rotation. As is quite expensive to maintain, it is therefore efficient to consume it after you have enough 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 . As a healer, you have an abundance of boon duration, which means you pulse 2.5s of second. Technically this means that you only need to be maintaining half of the time. In practise, there's little reason not to maintain it (as thanks to it is also providing ), 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. however, can pulse additional boons depending on your preference.

As discussed above, you likely want to maintain the entire time you're in this legend (unless you need to use ). You also want to maintain for 3-6 seconds, along with one extra facet in order to keep 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 if 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 and reset your energy. As this build runs Invocation, this also provides an extra boon via and ideally you want to swap below 10 energy to gain the bonus from .

It is quite easy to use up excess energy on most legends, but less so on , as none of the consume skills have an energy cost. Even if using and off cooldown, you may struggle to use all your energy within 10 seconds. This means it may be worth maintaining even if the 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 from the autoattack and by targeting an ally with . 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:

(Shield) - a long duration block that heals you as it channels.
(Staff) - another channeled block. Not as strong as Crystal Hibernation but has lower cooldown and costs less energy.
(Ventari) - for three seconds, turns all incoming damage into healing. Even allows you to survive some abilities that go through invulnerability!
- your only stunbreak. If you think you might need it, maintain while in .

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 with active. Position your tablet slightly in front of you.

- targetting an ally
& to quickly get below 10 energy
- triggers
- to immediately reach 6 upkeep and start
- for
- maintain at least until you reach 25 stacks of
If you don't need in the next 10 seconds, swap to Staff once and expire

It is likely you will need to provide at least a little with , but with four facets running, you won't have be able to activate it. You can consume once you hit 25 and activate . If there is no at all, you may have to immediately consume instead.
Once below 10 energy, swap to

Ventari

On Ventari you can just maintain the bubble and use skills reactively. When is available again, you can just spam random skills to use up any remaining energy.
If you need :
- In less than 10 seconds - use ⇒ ⇒ when you enter this Legend.
- In 10 seconds or more - before it's needed, then ⇒ ⇒ .
Once below 10 energy, swap to .

Maintaining and will leave you with 35-45 energy to spend when comes off cooldown. If you haven't needed to use any extra healing, you can just use and swap. Alternatively, you can use once or twice.

Glint

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 .
If you use , activate other Facets to keep at least 6 upkeep.
Use your other Facets as desired.
Once below 10 energy, swap to and return to start of Ventari section.

Maintaining , and leaves 45-55 energy to spend by the time comes off cooldown. It is convenient to also maintain to make permanent and also use another 10 energy. You can also maintain or to use up another 20 energy, and this would mean you can use for the rest. Otherwise, you will need to spam and 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, . This skill hits up to 8 times, applying 150 Defiance Break per hit, potentially providing up to a massive 1200 Defiance Break total. 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 , provides 232 Defiance Break.
On , provides 300 Defiance Break.
On , applies both and for 4 seconds, providing up to 500 Defiance Break over the duration.

General Tips

Consuming 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 after your opener. This means you don't have to deal with trying to regularly target an ally.
If on Mace/Shield, combo ⇒ to blast some extra might.