Herald - Quickness Support Power DPS

A power Herald build that provides permanent , , (optional), (optional), near-permanent , and around 22 to its subgroup. It also provides to its subgroup, increasing boon duration while channelling Glint, and giving life siphon while channelling Shiro.

It can also provide other utilities depending on the second Legend chosen, such as or damage reduction.

• / - lower dps in exchange for sustain, might be worth on very few fights with extreme pressure like Boneskinner.

Variants

• Your second Legend defaults to . Read the Legends section below to see other alternatives.

Your second weapon set matters little for damage output. Staff is taken for , which provides massive CC. When additional CC is not required, Staff can be swapped out for any of the following:

• You can provide by bringing a Shield in your second set.
• For encounters where melee is not always possible, Hammer can be taken for ranged damage. This also brings a moderate amount of CC.
• Players that own Secrets of the Obscure can replace Staff with Greatsword for maximum damage, but at a loss of CC.

Alternatively, if both CC and cleave damage is valuable, Greatsword can replace Sword/Sword, which is only a very minor loss in single-target damage.

Food

• ,

Utility

• This setup has ~40% boon duration without the need to invest into any concentration.
• is a tiny DPS loss.
• The Dragon stats piece is entirely optional and could be replaced with Berserker stats.

Equipment Variants

Sigil Variants

is taken because it deals more damage than due to Herald's relatively low damage and abundance of power modifiers, but it can be swapped out in some situations:

• On encounters where the target can be Stunned or Exposed (such as strikes, fractals, or Keep Construct) then you should use a instead.

Rune Variants

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

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.

• 传奇刺客姿态 provides the highest personal DPS through 压倒优势. It also offers personal mobility through 位面穿行, and CC through 翠玉风暴.

• 传奇矮人姿态 is a personal DPS loss of about ~1k. 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.

• 传奇半人马姿态 is an extremely niche option. It is a massive DPS loss that should only be taken if your group desperately needs projectile block through 慰藉屏护. It also offers 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.

• should never be played in bosses, but it offers a pull with 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.

Sword Rotation

Opener

• Start on Glint with , and active:

1. ⇒
3. to get to 6 upkeep
6. - we slightly delay using this to be sure that Quickness has pulsed at least once

Legendary Assassin Stance

When on , immediately activate and use , and off cooldown. The rest of the time is spent autoattacking (make sure to finish your auto chains). Swap back to as soon as possible.

Legendary Dragon Stance

You activate and consume and at the start and end of the Legendary Dragon Stance section, filling the remaining time with sword skills and activating and when they are available.

2. ⇒
3. ⇒
4. Auto-attack and use , and off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
5. and when they comes off cooldown - be careful not to tap them twice and immediately consume
6. Just before Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements come off cooldown, activate and
7. ⇒
8. ⇒

Greatsword Rotation

Opener

• Start on Glint with , and active:

1. ⇒
3. to get to 6 upkeep
6. - we slightly delay using this to be sure that Quickness has pulsed at least once

Legendary Assassin Stance

When on , immediately activate and use , and off cooldown. The rest of the time is spent autoattacking (make sure to finish your auto chains). Swap back to as soon as possible.

Legendary Dragon Stance

You activate and consume and at the start and end of the Legendary Dragon Stance section, filling the remaining time with sword skills and activating and when they are available.

2. ⇒
3. ⇒
4. Auto-attack and use , and off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
5. and when they comes off cooldown - be careful not to tap them twice and immediately consume
6. Just before Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements come off cooldown, activate and
7. ⇒
8. ⇒

Crowd Control

Accessing CC can be difficult on revenants as CC skills cost energy that you should have been spending on damage instead. Nevertheless, each legend has one skill:

• On , - this is a very expensive skill and you will usually need to plan ahead if you want the energy to use it.
• On , .
• On , .

Staff By default, this build uses Staff as your second weapon set. This doesn't provide any damage, but gives you access to , which is one of the best CC skills in the game. In general, the DPS loss isn't worth swapping to Staff in the middle of a fight but there are some cases where this is mitigated:

• Many fractal bosses start with an open defiance bar, so you can start on Staff then immediately swap to Sword/Sword after using and continue your rotation as normal.
  • The same logic applies to bosses that end a phase with a defiance bar, such as Keep Construct or Amala.
• Some bosses will be invulnerable while their breakbars are active. If you pre-emptively swap to Staff after your big DPS skills, you can minimise the DPS downtime.
  • Raid examples: Slothasor, Samarog, Sabir.
• It will always be worth sacrificing damage if it would prevent a wipe.
• It will almost always be worth sacrificing damage if it would save another player's life.

Hammer

For fights that have extended periods of time where you cannot melee the boss, Hammer can be used to apply damage from range. Just autoattack and use off cooldown. When all Hammer are off cooldown and you have at least 35 energy, the following burst combo can be used:

3. - should land during the use of this skill, resetting the cooldown of

• This combo only works while you have and are not ed.
• has to hit a target to reset the cooldown of .