The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Power-based Herald build for WvW Roaming with exceptional burst damage and good chase potential. While the build has plenty of active defenses in the form of block and evade frames, its passive sustain and condition cleansing are rather low, which makes this build rather unforgiving but also highly rewarding to play.
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Variants
- The combination of
名声狼藉, 
迅捷处决 and 
迷雾翻腾 on Invocation could create a more high risk/high reward build by sacrificing the passive life stealing for better damage. 
战斗狂热 could be considered for slightly higher sustain.
Variants
- 迷雾翻腾 - pushes you near the crit cap which should yield higher damage but it does give up some utility value with the loss of things like
急速 access, and even results in lower self-healing due to the loss of 
死亡舞蹈 synergy from Call of the Assassin. If you go for this trait make sure to take a different rune, one with no Precision or else you're actually going to overcap crit chance.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Runes
Rune choices don't make or break the build and there are several viable ones to pick from based on personal preferences, but retaining some boon duration is generally recommended:
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超级预告者符文 - great defensive option with high boon duration in case you want to be a bit more tanky. -
超级烟花符文 - worse crit chance but higher boon duration than Pack. -
超级抗性符文 - condition management in the build isn't great, this rune coupled with food that reduces incoming condition duration could help you out if you're struggling in those matchups. -
超级学者符文 - raw burst damage.
Relics
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速度古物 - significantly improves your mobility, which uiltimately helps with everything from chasing enemies to kiting targets when you need to wait for CDs or energy. -
萨奇洛斯古物 - converts some of your outgoing damage into healing, offering higher survivability. -
伊斯加然古物 - greedy option for higher burst damage. -
领导古物 - adds a new source of condition removal to the build, cleansing several conditions whenever you use an elite skill (once every 30 seconds). Works especially well with the Glint elite because it has no cast time.
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - great offensive stats and some direct damage mitigation.
黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 - a bit more defensive but equally viable option.
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芫荽柠檬真空烹调肉排 - highest damage option, no damage mitigation but the life steal procs still provide some sustain. -
蘑菇丁香真空烹调肉排 - this food provides some defense against condition damage without sacrificing damage. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation via more frequent access to dodging, and the 
威能 generation has synergy with various traits.- Budget version:
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲
- Budget version:
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巨龙甜甜圈片 or 
怪异莓幽灵 - cheap precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you.
Utility
Usage
General
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Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, breaks stun, removes 1 condition, and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. 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.
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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. -
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 or CDs.
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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 目盲ed while channeling 混乱疾风 you can use 黑暗凝视 at the last moment before the skill finishes its animation - in this case Gaze of Darkness will miss instead of your elite.
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自然多面体's active chain skill is best used while on Shiro as a source of ranged poking/AoE cleave.
Dealing damage
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Playstyle:
- 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.
- Use skills like 元素轰击,
冰冻隔离, Shiro's 
真正本质 or 
桎梏波动 to poke from a safe distance if going into melee would be too dangerous. - Create openings where you can pressure targets uninterrupted by utilizing your CC skills such as
迷雾激流 or 混乱疾风. Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like 急速, 
附魔匕首 and 
压倒优势 to further increase the damage of your followup burst.
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桎梏波动 will serve as the primary burst skill in the build.
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无情突击 works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. Against multiple targets it's mainly used defensively for the evasion. -
压倒优势 can augment any skill and increase 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.
- 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.
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位面穿行 is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with 急速 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 迷雾激流 if you wish to interrupt them (and to cancel their blocking skill). -
附魔匕首 is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including
保护 or even 
痛苦忍耐. That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as 
失真. -
翠玉风暴 won't be used much because it blows pretty much your entire energy pool, leaving you defenseless and with barely anything to capitalize on the CC. This should only be used to set up kills for your teammates, or to interrupt very important channels like a rez or a stomp.
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
- 附魔匕首 then wait a bit for your energy to bounce back
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位面穿行
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压倒优势
- 冰冻隔离 or 桎梏波动
- 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
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迷雾激流
- Activate 压倒优势 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 急速 from
迷雾之歌 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
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桎梏波动
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死亡打击
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冰冻隔离
Glint AoE Combo
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混乱疾风
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元素轰击
- Cast 力量爆发 but immediately swap legends, the skill won't be interrupted
- Activate 压倒优势 while still casting BoS
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冰冻隔离
Self sustain & how to deal with conditions
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圣光多面体's chain effect 
圣光灌注 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:
- Ideally start with
暗影回撤 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
超级洁净法印 and swapping legends can remove another one via the trait 
净化引导, 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
复原波动. - 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.
- Ideally start with
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真正本质 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.
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If taken The best way to proc
领导古物 or 
激荡古物 is to activate 
混沌多面体, which is a cheap instant skill. You don't even need to use the second part of the chain to get the effect to proc, although you may still want to do that in order to get rid of the energy draining (in case you can't just legend swap out of it in due time).- Surging: you're able to instantly gain
电击光环 to stun attackers. With this you can quickly tourn around the situation - you're CC'd, pop the Glint elite, now they're CC'd, allowing you to counterattack or at least avoid their the followup burst. It's really good in mirror matchups too - simply pop the Glint elite the moment the other Revenant jumps you with 位面穿行 and you'll immediately stun them when they get to you, setting up an opportunity to burst them. - Leadership: the instant cleanse is quite useful, it could even stunbreak you when you're
恐惧ed. Using the proc "offensively" is also an option, in case you want to get rid of 
虚弱 and other debilitating conditions without letting up the pressure.
- Surging: you're able to instantly gain
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The combination of Staff and Shiro gives the revenant amazing tools for disengaging/stalling.
暗影回撤 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 
裂隙结界 and 迷雾激流. -
Safest way to benefit from
附魔匕首 when you need it for the healing is to use skills with evasion/blocking that also deal damage, such as Warding Rift, Surge of the Mists, or Unrelenting Assault.
Related Builds
- Power Shiro (sPvP) - Conquest PvP version.