Troubadour - Support Troubadour

Support

• The biggest challenge when playing Support Troubadour is the fact that you need to hardcast almost everything. You have next to no instant cast skills, except for maybe a utility or two depending on your choices. Even your shatters have cast times, so getting caught in a CC could be fatal. Much of your decision making will revolve around how to secure your next cast.

• Some ideas to increase the odds of getting your heals off:

  • Use CC skills like 时间潮汐 to prevent enemies from landing hits.
  • Sacrifice 勇帅传说 for the 稳固. This is an easier call to make if you still have 闪光传送 at the ready, as you're using a stunbreak for boons.
  • Use skills with 失真.
  • Make use of the 急速 and 稳固 of Crescendo.

• While shatter skills grant 稳固 via traits, it's only after you've already finished channeling them. You could still make use of this brief stability to protect other support skills, if you sequence fast enough.

• 活跃琵琶 and 次子传说 are among the first skills you should use for healing, because they increase the effectiveness of subsequent healing skills on allies.

• Every shatter skill heals, removes 1 condition and grants boons via traits, but 活跃琵琶 and 和谐竖琴 are the best at healing because they have base healing tied to their core functionalities too.

  • The Harp also increases healing done via a stat boost, but we didn't list it in the previous point as it's far too powerful of a CD to blow early into a fight if you don't need to.

• 和谐竖琴 is especially great at providing support while you're low health or under heavy enemy focus, as it opens with 失真 while it's pulsing AoE healing.

• The F2-3 shatters have value other than healing because they also CC enemies.

• 尊后传说 (your elite) is one of the strongest support skills in the entire game, because it gives allies 失真. This makes them immune to incoming attacks and cancels damage from conditions already on them. An extremely powerful tool if used correctly, but also has a rather lengthy cast time which makes it more suited for helping allies than yourself.

  • Make sure that at least 1-2 instruments are active in the background, if possible. That increases the secondary effect of this skill, which activates all instruments (duration is extended for all for each instrument that was already active).
  • This is another great setup for , which scales in effectiveness with the number of active instruments.

• The build doesn't really have any mass cleansing tools, it's mostly just smaller ones you can chain together. Your best emergency options are Distortion sources, which can at least buy you time. For the most part you rely on outhealing the conditions.

  • Every shatter skill removes 1 condition and Rifle's removes 2.
  • is usually worth putting on your utility bar vs condition-heavy comps.

• Rifle has 3 ranged support skills (not counting the auto): , and .

• heals the least amount out of the 3 but is the quickest to go off, making this the most reactive support skill on rifle.

• is slower, has a travel time and creates a combo field on the ground called . You heal allies by detonating Abstraction. Abstraction is a mix of raw healing and damage mitigation through and and is the only source of condition removal you have aside from shatters.

• doesn't heal but rather it grants a higher amount of barrier than what the other skills could heal for. This can be used proactively to shield allies who are expected to take damage, or it could buy you time to heal low HP allies back up.