Herald - Spear Condi Shiro

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.