Luminary - Alacrity Support Healer

Food

• 美味饭团

Utility

• 富饶保养油
• 大师保养油 (if you use minstrel variant in raids).

Weapon Variants

The main weakness of this build is 威能 provision. This can be provided by Staff or Spear, which should be enough to cap might in most situations but be aware you may need to bring more.

• Other than "前进！" or relics, the only source of 迅捷 you have is on Staff, which is why it is recommended over Spear.

With the default build, you should be able to maintain 保护 and 再生, but your uptime is quite tight for a healer, so you may need to pad it with "守住阵线！" or:

• Mace/Shield can cover both boons
• Hammer can provide 保护.

Skill Variants

As Luminary is a defensive support, it's important to swap skills to fit the encounter. All of the following utility skills and elite skills are viable depending on the situation:

Utility

• 英勇姿态 - a good all-rounder that provides 稳固 on demand with bonus healing and padding of 保护 uptime.
• 辉耀姿态 - a good amount of barrier on a low cooldown, on a class with pretty limited access. Also CCs.
• 真理之弓 - the strongest sustained healing utility guardian has, and can provide it over a large area at range.
• 神圣之地 - A source of pulsing 稳固 for your team. Longer duration, but harder to use than "坚守阵地！".
• "坚守阵地！" - Instant AoE stun break and 稳固.
• 愤怒纹章 - alternative signet if the DPS in your subgroup deal mainly condition damage.
• 仁慈纹章 - if you think a ranged revive will be needed.
• "守住阵线！" - more 保护 and 再生 uptime.
• "前进！" - could be used if you need to apply 圣盾 in a large AoE.
• 复仇之盾 - destroys projectiles in fights like Arkk. Isn't always reliable as the shield has very low health and can be killed easily.
• 反射之墙 - reflects projectiles.
• 智慧之锤 - even more CC.
• 庇护之地 - very strong CC, plus the combination of and means this triggers the heal on CC seven times so it's a powerful heal (though not quite as powerful as ).
  • Also works well in situations where mobs heavily outnumber your team:
    • Subject 6 in Thaumanova Reactor Fractal, prevents mini oozes from coming to subject 6 when your teammates take down Veteran Ooze.
    • Elite Molten Flame Shaman(before crossing bridge)/Champion Molten Effigy in Molten Boss Fractal.
    • Abyss chamber and Last boss prevent spectral flames from reaching your team / The Voice in Deepstone Fractal.
    • Siren's Reef (Black Peter,Deposit treasure, last 3 bosses)

Elite

• helps you get up faster and offers a little CC and healing.
• gives you access to a little bit of group and .
• has good healing potential if you don't need to utility of other elites.

Trait Variants

All three of the Luminary grandmaster traits are useful to a support healer so you can pick depending on the playstyle you prefer:

• 光明启迪 allows you to access your virtue skills more frequently, which in turn gives you more of the empowered versions of your radiant forge skills. As well as the healing increase from more 光耀决心s, it improves your access to 圣盾.
• 光明君主 provides healing by detonating light auras, so the playstyle will revolve around frequent use of Luminary skills.
• 武器大师 gives you more frequent access to your radiant forge skills, also allowing you to use them more reactively if you keep your virtues passive.

The default build uses 光明启迪 as it provides more healing than 武器大师, while only offering slightly less 威能. More importantly, it allows for permanent 保护 and 再生 uptime without the need to use any particular weapon, as well as much better access to 光耀勇气. Additionally, while 光明君主 can compete in terms of raw healing, it also requires a stricter rotation and dedicating multiple slots to stances, while 光明启迪 is much more flexible.

Other trait options:

• 防护复苏 if you want more 保护 for your party.
• 守护复苏 great trait for speedy reviving.
• 纯洁之心 - Worse 威能 uptime for slightly better heal potential. Popular choice for Raids.
• 意志之力 if your party can't stay stacked in your symbols.
• 奉献大师 if you're running consecrations.
• Luminary's active virtue effects are much stronger than their passives, so in general you won't get much value out of 纯粹决心 or 战斗灵气.

敏捷 is provided by equipping weapons inside Radiant Forge, which is available on a low cooldown at all times. 威能 comes from a few places, but maximising uptime involves making frequent use of either Staff or Spear for 能量引导 or 闪耀圆转, respectively.

You can be effective by camping this weapon, activating your Virtues, and jumping into Radiant Forge whenever you would be autoattacking. 保护 and 再生 can be a little tight, so you will also want to switch to Mace/Shield on occasion to provide a buffer of these boons. A simpler alternative is to bring "守住阵线！" and use it off cooldown, but this requires giving up a utility slot. Weapon swapping efficiently will also maximise your healing output.

Virtues You can use 光耀正义 and 光耀决心 off cooldown as the timing of their active effects is not crucial. You may not always wish to do so with 光耀勇气 though, as it provides both 圣盾 and 稳固 which can be used to mitigate dangerous attacks. You have plenty of other ways of providing these boons, but they require sacrificing a utility slot or may be gated by weapon swaps or Radiant Forge cooldowns. If there aren't particular mechanics you must block, you can just use 光耀勇气 off cooldown as well.

The default builds uses 光明启迪, which drastically reduces the cooldown of your Virtues whenever you equip a radiant weapon. This can mean it is worth very slightly delaying your Radiant Forge if a Virtue is about to come off cooldown. At the very least, if a Virtue is off cooldown, you should use it before equipping any radiant weapons.

Radiant Forge There are two general approaches you can take to Radiant Forge use: enter nearly off cooldown and alternate between using three weapons, and just 晕眩巨锤; or slightly delay the use of Radiant Forge so you can use three each time. The former approach maximises 敏捷 and 威能 uptime, while the latter maximises healing and 保护 (though uptimes off all boons should be permanent regardless). You can maintain 敏捷 by just using 晕眩巨锤 and 夜光法杖, but there's little downside to throwing in 闪光利刃 as well.

Practically speaking, outside of the opener it is simplest to prioritise weapon skills and use as many skills as are available whenever you reach Radiant Forge.

When 夜光法杖 is available, make sure it is your last equipped weapon so that you will continue to benefit from the 15% healing modifier of . The flip skills of and are only for damage so there's no reason to use them. You should always use as it is a heal and condi cleanse.

can be used for extra , but it is also one of your sources of , and the is a CC, so it can be useful to hold on to it to deal with mechanics. Unlike other skills, and are triggered at the start of the animation rather than the end, so you can interrupt it and all you lose is the channelled block.

General Tips

• Open and close your Mace sections with . If running it's worth using it an additional time in between, but to avoid delaying your weapon swap too much make sure to use it as soon as it comes off cooldown rather than finishing auto chains.
  • Use for , but you can adjust the timing if the is needed. You can similarly adjust the timing of around mechanics or when healing is needed.
• On Staff, when running you have the choice of either doing one or two each loop. Using it twice lowers your healing, but increases your generation. If you're the only source of in your subgroup, you will need to either use two s or make sure to use Radiant Forge more frequently to maximise your uses of .
  • If using two s, open each Staff section with ⇒ ⇒ . Otherwise, open with ⇒ .
• If using Spear, open and close each section with , and try to use three times. can be saved to remove condis.
  • only provides if it is Illuminated, so if uptime is low then start with instead.

In real encounters, you may need to adjust your rotation to the situation based on whether healing is needed or when you need to provide / etc.

Example Opener Begin on Staff or Spear

1. and use all Virtues
2. (if using Spear)
6. ⇒
8. (if using Staff)
10. Use your weapon's Symbol and any healing skills if needed
11. Weapon Swap

Healing

Healing from traits:

• causes your dodge to heal
• causes all your symbols to pulse healing
• makes every hard CC skill (see below) heal in an AoE
• If running , every detonation heals in an AoE

Many Luminary abilities apply Luminary's Blessing. This effect reduces incoming strike damage while active, and heals when it expires. Like , reapplying the effect counts as it expiring. Luminary's Blessing is applied by the following:

• , when you - it does require you to already have the effect, but practically speaking you'll never without it
• applies Luminary's Blessing every time you equip a weapon inside Radiant Forge

The following healing is available regardless of setup:

• heals when activated, and causes your next use of to heal
• - provides a small heal when used without a weapon equipped, or with radiant staff or shield equipped
• doesn't provide any healing, but causes your next use of to apply AoE Barrier

There are two options for heal skill that aid allies:

• - a large heal with long range, thought the cast time is quite long and the cone shape could be awkward
• - heals for less and has a longer cooldown, but the AoE is easier to use and it also removes conditions

There are many utility options that heal:

• - long range, your most powerful sustained heal, and the ammo mechanic means it's easy to use for regular healing while keeping one use for emergencies
• - small AoE, but good healing (particularly when combined with and ). The real value comes from the fact the dome blocks projectiles and prevents non-defiant enemies entering the dome, which doubles as a powerful CC
• - not a bad heal, but the teleport effect is pretty niche and while the revive is nice a more powerful heal might prevent allies getting downed in the first place
• - a lot of barrier on a short cooldown. This is one of only two sources you have, and is much easier to access
• - the heal is small, but it applies per boon stack, making it surprisingly effective when combined with skills such as

There are two elite options that heal:

• - a small passive heal, with a massive active one over a large area if you channel it fully. The boons are a nice bonus but you shouldn't struggle with providing them from other sources
• - while it doesn't have any inherent healing, it applies Luminary's Blessing six times, which is something

Aside from symbols, the following weapons have skills that heal:

• Mace -
• Focus -
• Shield -
• Staff - and
• Spear - and

Finally, with any blast finisher becomes a heal (assuming there is a field to combo with):

• / (Hammer)
• (Staff)
• (Focus)
• - the blast is a nice bonus if bringing the skill for CC, it's not enough healing to bring as a support option

Condition Cleanse

You don't have a huge amount of condi cleanse for a healer, though your frequent combos with light fields means it is relatively consistent:

• ⇒ - removes 3
• - removes 3
• - removes 8 at a rate of one per second
• pulls allies conditions on to you, but it's rare that this would be more valuable that one of the other options

You could also consider running to help mitigate the effects of damaging conditions, but this is rarely useful.

Boons

Alacrity Applied in an AoE every time you equip a radiant weapon, via .

Aegis The duration on is long enough that uptime on allies is permanent (assuming they don't get hit). With the cooldown reduction of , and always having access to , and , it is rare that you'll need to dedicate a slot to .

• (Mace) - the first part provides an AoE blocking effect when channelled, and if an attack is blocked it will then provide in an AoE
• (Shield)

Fury You should be using frequently enough that is not a problem, but in case you want more:

• or
• (Spear)

Might can provide ~16 if used frequently enough, and (via ) can provide another ~6. If you need to provide all 25 stacks alone, you'll need to bring either Staff or Spear. You could also use , but it's not hard to bring either of these weapons.

• (Staff) provides 9-12 depending on your rotation
• provides ~12

Protection You can just about scrape 100% uptime of with , and using and nearly off cooldown. Practically speaking, you'll want at least one other source for it to be reliable:

• - offers nearly 40% uptime, and this is a pretty good skill anyway so it will often be part of your build
• - offers 75% uptime, which is overkill considering the skill doesn't do much else of value, but the 600-unit radius is nice
• (Mace) - potentially 80% uptime, but requires blocking an attack to trigger
• (Shield) - 25-40% uptime, depending on rotation
• (Hammer) - the final hit of the auto chain drops a short-duration symbol that pulses
• competes with , but this is a tiny tradeoff if you're not bringing Mace or blocking attacks frequently
• You could also run , but it is unlikely that you'll be in a situation where you can't spare a weapon or utility slot

Regeneration With , should be enough to maintain , but an extra source can be nice:

• - offers 75% uptime
• (Mace) - easily enough to provide permanent by itself

Resistance and Resolution You provide a small amount of with , and (Spear) offers a bit more.

Resolution can be found on , and you can make uptime permanent if you wish, but neither of these boons is so important that it's likely to be worth it:

• (Spear)

Stability uptime could be permanent if you dedicate two utility slots to it, but this is of niche use and your frequent makes it less necessary. Your sources are:

Swiftness It's preferable not to need to rely on a relic for (especially as it won't be permanent), so one of the following is very useful to bring:

• (Staff) - Staff is already a great weapon, and this just makes it even better
• - enough for permanent uptime if you use it frequently enough, and you could swap Staff for Spear if you want it for anyway

Vigor Unfortunately, your only source of is Longbow, which is not a great heal weapon and would compromise your other boon provision. The uptime would be permanent though, and with , you would still have some healing.

Pre-stacking Buffs (Fractals only)

The following is only a suggestion. This is enough to start you with 25 and a decent buffer of and .

1. - players will often blast for additional , and putting this down first means your light fields won't get in the way. Make sure to swap it back out before starting the fight.
3. and inside Radiant Forge
4. or , depending on which weapon you have
5. and all Virtues - these have no cast time so use them during the animations of other abilities
6. Take mistlock

CC

If running , all these skills will heal allies.

• ⇒
• - triggering the CC requires you and your target to move over 300 units apart during the tether duration, this is fine to do as a healer, but be careful if you're the tank
• (Hammer)
• (Hammer) - requires you to place the ring in the centre of your target's hitbox, which can be difficult
• (Staff) - like Ring of Warding, requires placing the line in the centre of your target's hitbox, but as you have fine control over the placement this is much more feasible
• (Spear)
• (Shield)

• As this build CCs fairly frequently, can be very effective in capping . In many situations though, you won't be required to provide all 25 stacks.

Minstrel Variant

This version gives you more toughness and vitality for surviving or tanking.