Herald - Shiro Roamer

• Power Shiro (sPvP) - Conquest PvP version.

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.

Food

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 强效超级磨刀石 or 罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

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:

• - great defensive option with high boon duration in case you want to be a bit more tanky.

• - worse crit chance but higher boon duration than Pack.

• - 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.

• - raw burst damage.

Relics

• - significantly improves your mobility, which uiltimately helps with everything from chasing enemies to kiting targets when you need to wait for CDs or energy.

• - converts some of your outgoing damage into healing, offering higher survivability.

• - greedy option for higher burst damage.

• - 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.

General

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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 , , Shiro's or 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 or . Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like , and to further increase the damage of your followup burst.

• will serve as the primary burst skill in the build.

• works best in 1v1s, where the damage isn't split. Against multiple targets it's mainly used defensively for the evasion.

  • Note: If you're facing an opponent with access to , land Facet of Darkness' chain skill on them to apply , as stealth cancels Unrelenting Assault.

• 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.

• is great for initiating fights from range and immediately starting off with 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 if you wish to interrupt them (and to cancel their blocking skill).

• is a skill with life steal, which means the damage it deals bypasses any damage mitigation including or even . That being said it still can't go through evasion or invulnerabilities such as .

• 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

1. then wait a bit for your energy to bounce back
4. or
5. 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

2. Activate 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 from 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.
3. Weapon swap

Glint AoE Combo

3. Cast but immediately swap legends, the skill won't be interrupted
4. Activate while still casting BoS

Self sustain & how to deal with conditions

• 's chain effect 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 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 and swapping legends can remove another one via the trait , 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 .
  • 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.

• 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.

• If taken The best way to proc or is to activate , 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 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 and you'll immediately stun them when they get to you, setting up an opportunity to burst them.