Vindicator - Shiro DPS Vindicator - MetaBattle

Quick Guide

Shiro Vindicator is a hybrid melee/range DPS with strong CC attached to its damage abilities. It has many complex ways to combine its skills to efficiently use up Energy
Swap between Shiro and Alliance as frequently as possible
Dodge frequently for damage and to maintain 海兽之力/死亡前兆 buff
In spear prioritize 深渊毁灭 then use your other Spear skills to recharge it

Spear Priority

When you have melee uptime swap to Greatsword to burst along with your legend skills

Greatsword Priority

Surviving

This build has moderate passive defense
This build has high mobility skill access
This build has high active defenses

Defensive Skill List

- Movement + Evade
Movement
- Block
- Stunbreak + clear + Movement + Evade
- Movement

Archemorus (Red)

- Healing
- Stunbreak

Saint Viktor (Blue)

- Healing
- Stunbreak
- Evade
- Condition Clear
will lunge towards a target if they are within range, otherwise it moves you considerably less than 900 range
- Neutral creatures can be used as targets
Avoiding entering Saint Viktor (Blue) stance unless you'll die if you don't

Priorities

High

Burst Damage

Moderate

Damage

Low

Detailed Explanations

Burst Damage

Range Burst

Precast Dodge for / buff if needed

Shiro

Alliance

Melee Burst

Precast Dodge for / buff if needed

Shiro

Dodge

Channel 3 seconds of either at the start if you can consistently turn it off in time or when 3 seconds remain on the legend swap cooldown if you can't

Alliance

Dodge
Optional: ⇒ - 5 charges

The goal of these combos is to maximize your damage output by spending the 100 energy you get across a 10s legend swap as efficiently as possible while using cooldowns at appropriate times to get multiple casts of energy efficient skills like and when possible
Consider these combos very loose guides, you'll often swap between range and melee and need to adjust what you're doing
- For example if you're in Alliance and Spear but your group closes into melee then will outperform for the same energy cost
- Your burst will need to be adjusted a lot based on cooldowns, especially if you don't get a chance to melee and need to stay in Spear for multiple legend swaps
- Two good rules of thumb:
  - Melee skills hit harder than ranged skills, so prioritize melee skills with equivilant energy costs
  - Fully charged is the exception to the above rule, don't swap off Spear when its fully charged until you'll have good enough melee uptime to hit multiple skills
Whenever possible you should Weapon Swap from Spear to Greatsword and vice versa as you legend swap
- Make sure to hit the free you get for using Weapon Swap with 3 stacks of Crushing Abyss
Move up in priority, especially on Alliance, if you can make use of the on your groups spike

Damage

Skill priority

Spear

Dodge for / buff
Dodge

Greatsword

Dodge for / buff
- 5 charges
Dodge

Start fights in Spear + Alliance stance for the superior range
Swap legends off cooldown to gain energy
Ideally you always use Spear in Alliance and Greatsword in Shiro, swapping weapons at the same time you swap legends but in practice this will not often happen
- In particular don't be afraid to camp Spear for multiple legend swaps if you don't have an opportunity for melee uptime
The energy gain from + represents significant potential damage. It should normally be used in Shiro to get extra casts of

Spear

Make sure to prioritize using at least 1 charge of in Spear to avoid wasting the cooldown reduction that other spear abilities give
is inconsistent, but if you can land all three mines the skill is much higher priority than listed
- Use it when your group is kiting while the enemy pushes into you or as your group pushes through the enemy group
Move higher in priority than any time the would be valuable

Greatsword

Cast quickly when swapping to Greatsword so you can cast it a second time before swapping back to Spear
Autoattack whenever you can on Spear for the cooldown reduction on
Only cast and if the forced movement won't put you in danger
- Prioritize targeting enemies on the edge of the enemy group rather than the center so the skills move you to a safer position
- Use the skills while your group is pushing in and the enemy group is moving away when possible

Alliance

has a 3 second cooldown, this lets you cast it 3+ times per Alliance rotation which makes it a high priority skill when your have excess energy, such as at range, because it is an efficient way to use up your Energy even though its damage per cast is low compared to other skills

Shiro

Try to cast twice every time you enter Shiro stance
- Sometimes it is worth delaying a legend swap slightly to cast a third if you have spare energy, but never start the cast more than 1 seconds after the swap is ready
- Keep in mind that only pays its energy cost at the end of the cast, this means that if you swap legends during the cast and finish it in Alliance you'll waste 40 Shiro energy then lose 40 Alliance energy. Avoid this at all costs
is useful for using up excess energy that would be wasted on legend swap, but its ICD (Internal Cooldown) is global rather than per target, so never prioritize it over other skills

CC

List of CC skills

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Both of your CC skills are part of your damage rotation, you can adjust their priority slightly to land more effective CC but it isn't worth delaying them significantly