Herald - Spear Condi Shiro

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Hybrid damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Janthir Wilds builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A high damage Condition Herald build for PvP, built around the Revenant Spear. Spear Condi Shiro can perform well in combat of any size, be it 1v1s or teamfights.

Skill Bar

Mechanic

传奇巨龙姿态

传奇刺客姿态

自然多面体

Spear

深渊打击深渊突袭深渊霹雳深渊毁灭

Utility

附魔匕首位面穿行压倒优势翠玉风暴

Skill Variants

Weapons

• You could play Staff instead of Mace/Shield for a more defensive setup. Take 闪耀天相 on Herald.

Template Code

Specializations

腐化 / Corruption · 魂武者 (Revenant)

固定特性：唤醒折磨

折磨侍僧恶魔藐视恢复绝望

固定特性：涌动恶意

地狱酷寒恶魔抗性苦痛契约

固定特性：强烈渴嗜

魔王炼狱凶残韧性瘟疫侵染

惩戒 / Retribution · 魂武者 (Revenant)

固定特性：耐力恢复

位面保护远距规避精魂清算

固定特性：坚定闪避

亘古不变决心闪避矮人训练

固定特性：坚毅决心

强力复仇石刻造诣恒定回春

预告者 / Herald · 魂武者 (Revenant)

固定特性：水晶使者

长者舒缓核心价值升腾动能

固定特性：巨龙坚韧

威能共享闪耀天相顽强执念

固定特性：强化效力

高尚慈悲龙吟回响强力执念

Equipment

长矛

Spear

Empty slot

逃脱法印

Sigil

洁净法印

Sigil

钉锤

Mace

盾牌

Shield

厄运法印

Sigil

能量法印

Sigil

唤灵师符文

Rune

暴君项链

Amulet

风裔古物

Relic

Equipment Variants

Runes

• 牦牛符文 - extra tankiness.

• 欧尔符文 - high damage rune that also offers defense against conditions

• 幻象术士符文 - high damage rune with good defensives

• 亡灵符文 - similarly tanky rune to 牦牛符文 but with more condition damage stats

Relics

• 恶魔女王古物 - further reduces enemy healing.

• 寻路者古物 - consistent mobility if you're struggling to maintain 迅捷 uptime.

• 瘟疫使者古物 - offensive option, great for bursting with multiple conditions

Amulet

• 腐朽项链 - could be better in condi matchups due to the higher HP.

Usage

General

• Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as 唤醒折磨 or 精魂清算, 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 or low on energy.

• Start on Dragon stance (Glint) and while still in the base activate the following 4 upkeep skills for party buffing:

  • 自然多面体 (use its active when your energy is about to hit 0)
  • 元素多面体
  • 力量多面体
  • 黑暗多面体

• Swapping legends deactivates the upkeep skills of that legend without sending them on full CD.

• 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 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.

• 混乱疾风 can be used to knock downed opponents away from their rezzing teammates, or to knock them off of capture points - this allows you to take the cap while bleeding them out, delaying their respawn.

• Upkeep skills continue to provide their bonuses for a few seconds after their chain skills have been used up.

• Shiro's quite good at chasing targets due to 位面穿行. This can even be used as a mobility tool when moving between capture points, provided that you can lock onto a target. The unblockable attacks coupled with 急速 make this especially great at initiating fighs and immediately putting pressure on enemies, but the high cost can often force you to swap to Glint for an energy refill shortly after.

Damage

• Both weapon sets and both legends have great offensive capabilities.

• 传奇刺客姿态 (Shiro) is mainly for single target. 附魔匕首 and 压倒优势 can either be used to deliver burst damage or even to boost the damage of your filler attacks like the Spear auto 深渊射击 while all your other skills are on CD, or if you want to stay in range.

  • Maintaining 压倒优势 costs quite a lot of energy, use it only for a few seconds at a time when you're sure that you can keep landing hits.

• 真正本质 when used on Shiro is a cheap and strong AoE skill with boon removal. The passive bonus lingers for a few seconds, giving you armor ignoring damage procs.

• 传奇巨龙姿态 (Glint) brings midrange AoE pressure to the table. Using some of your upkeep skills just to follow up with their chain skill is a perfectly fine thing to do, and 元素轰击 + 力量爆发 provide decent damage even from range. These are also extremely cheap, so you can weave them into burst combos anytime.

• Mace is fairly simple, just use 灼热裂痕 ⇒ 回荡喷发 in this order (for 威能 stacking) whenever you can.

• The spear autoattack automatically flips between melee and ranged versions depending on your distance to the target.

• Spear is built around 深渊毁灭.

  • The skill becomes more powerful the more you use it (you can see the stacks above the right side if your skill bar), and swapping weapons at 3 stacks of AR does an AoE attack.
  • It has multiple charges and you should never sit at max charges for too long, so keep using this as much as possible.
  • Every other Spear skill reduces its CD by a certain amount.
  • It'd make sense to use this skill right as you swap to Spear so you can start reducing its CD immediately with other skills, but 深渊霹雳 (for CC) and 深渊突袭 (for evasion) often end up taking priority.
  • The AoE ring is small and the skill's a bit slow, so it can be hard to land on moving targets. Works great as a followup to CC though, or if you're getting attacked in melee in which case the enemy isn't moving around as much.
  • The weapon swap bonus at 3 stacks is more of just a nice bonus. Don't camp spear just because you're chasing the 3rd stack, especially if you're out of CDs or getting focused by the enemy team.

• 深渊霹雳 is the strongest skill on spear, delivering heavy AoE damage while also CCing targets and enabling you to land other skills freely. Makes it much easier to land AR too.

• 深渊原力 does decent damage and also recharges AR by a significant amount, use it whenever it's available but make sure that you're missing an AR charge.

• 深渊突袭 is a skill with evasion and should be kept for defensive purposes.

Sustain

• Every weapon and legend offers some level of survivability.

• Spear and Shiro are the least defensive ones but even these two have evade frames, namely on 深渊突袭 and 暗影回撤.

• Mace has 回荡喷发 which mitigates incoming strike damage through 虚弱.

• Both of the shield skills provide healing, cleansing and even blocking, although 水晶休眠 is a much stronger block than 茂盛特使. CH can also function as a time-out button - you can't move, but at least you should be protected from most attacks while stabilizing yourself as every pulse of this skill heals and cleanses conditions. At least you can move while using EoE though, and EoE can even be shared with allies, adding a small bit of group support to the build's toolkit.

• 暗影回撤 by itself won't help you against damaging conditions, but it does cleanse several movement-impairing ones all at once. Using this before your other condi removals will significantly increase the odds of those removing damaging conditions (like shield skills or 真正本质 when used on Glint).

• 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 (except for fall damage). 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 can.

• 混沌多面体 can instantly apply 保护 even while CC'd, which makes it a really potent source of damage mitigation.

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