Troubadour - Quickness Support Healer

causes all instruments to provide you with , but applies it to allies too. and can be used if you need more.

Healing

In addition to the heal sources listed below, you want to maintain an active as it provides you with a 10% healing boost via .

heals each time you summon a phantasm, and each time you gain a note - if you are at maximum notes, this will not trigger so you don't want to be sat with full notes if possible.

Healing from instruments

• heals when summoned.
• pulses healing four times during the cast.
• provides a large barrier to allies. If using , it will also do a large heal if was the last instrument you used.
• heals whenever you summon an instrument or use , scaling with the number of notes consumed.

Healing from weapons Rifle is the only weapon that has healing beyond illusion/note generation:

• .
• .
• ⇒ - you don't rely on this skill at all for boons, so you can almost always detonate it.
• provides barrier.

Healing from skills

• heals whenever you use a mantra charge.
• heals in an AoE whenever you use a heal skill - there is a 10-second cooldown, but this is only relevant for .
• Charging - the cooldown on this is shorter than the charge refresh, so feel free to consume all charges.
• heals and also increases allies incoming healing for a short duration.
• All Tales heal via , plus the healing from any notes gained.

Rotation fundamentals

As a healer, you don't really have a fixed rotation beyond using certain skills off cooldown, but fundamentals of the build are quite simple:

• Use off cooldown with at least one (preferably two) notes to ensure it is always active and to maintain and
• Use off cooldown with three notes, to maintain .
• Use off cooldown to maintain , , and .
• Use off cooldown to maintain and provide consistent note generation and healing.

Additionally, you can go a long way by just using rifle skills 2-4, (with three notes) and off cooldown. The rest of your kit is easy to save for CC or other mechanics.

Compared to the DPS build, you don't benefit as much from maintaining multiple instruments, though you always want to maintain for the bonus from . Extra instruments increase your stats, and if you maintain three, your boon duration will be at 99%. If using , it is beneficial to use all your instruments with at least one note to reduce the cooldown of , but is still worth saving for CC.

Note generation In most cases, notes and clones are interchangeable - any time you would generate a clone, you will instead generate a note. The key distinction is that you are NOT considered to have generated a note for the purposes of if you are at full notes. As such, it is ideal to not waste notes, and you will generally have more than enough notes to max out the duration of all your instruments.

Your sources of notes are:

• Any skill that generates clones.
• Any skill that generates phantasms will generate twice a note when the phantasm appears, thanks to , and another when it would turn into a clone.
• Each Tale generates notes if a certain instrument is playing.
• generates six notes at a rate of one per second after use - this can easily overcap you, but don't worry too much about it.
• Each charge of , plus the channel, creates a note via .

The accessibility of makes it perfect for ensuring you always have three notes for your instruments, and means you generally won't need to worry too much about structuring your rotation around your other sources of note generation. Feel free to use the final charge, as the cooldown of the skill is much shorter than waiting to regain charges.

Altered Chord The structure of the rotation doesn't change much if you run , though it's important to make sure to have at least one note for each instrument so that the cooldown reduction is triggered.

As a healer, the damaging effects on are worthless, so you want to make sure either or is the last instrument used before . Encounter knowledge is valuable for knowing ahead of time whether the CC or healing effect will be most useful.

Example opener The focus of the opener is to get and up quickly. It is ideal to start with three notes, but failing that start with charged and spam it as soon as you enter combat to reach at least two notes.

1. (optional) - This can be nice to start with , and you could even cast it when running in as it will not be removed by the boonstrip.
2. Weapon Swap
3. - let this explode automatically for boons
4. - even if you are at full notes, this will quickly give you for
7. - refunds two notes if Lute is playing

This opener quickly applies all key offensive and defensive boons

Tanking

You have many options to deal with incoming damage. Aside from your inherent healing you have the following:

• - a two-second channel that blocks an attack and causes you to evade afterwards. Also generates two clones so you are immediately healed via . The cooldown is very short so you can use it liberally even if you're not tanking.
• - A lengthy channelled block that will provide AoE after use, as well as triggering twice from the phantasm. If you block an attack, it flips to for 10 seconds, allowing you to repeat the skill.
• - two seconds from , , or any signet via (though the latter requires giving up a healing trait). This allows you to completely ignore the majority of attacks. Activating one also provides in an AoE.

Crowd Control

Always have:

• - . You shouldn't need to use this for boons, and so can save it for CC.
• - if using and was the last instrument used.
• -

On off-set:

• - (shield)
• ⇒ - (focus)
• - (greatsword)
• - (staff)

Optional utility: