Condition Herald

Skill Reference Guide

Key Concepts

Condition Herald is a sturdy condition spec, focusing on Torment to pressure opponents.

It gains access to amazing boon uptime with . brings great damage and crowd control.

Damage

Herald focuses on being melee to hit , which will apply Burning, Torment and Poison, and /.

The rest of your damage comes from a mix of crowd control and simple abilities but note everything you do is AoE.

On Mace always use before to generate some Might.

On Spear we get access to a small AoE: . Every other skill we use on Spear will lower cooldown.

• is a simple damage ability you can use off cooldown.
• will Evade in the direction you choose. It has some damage potential but should mostly be used defensively or for mobility.
• is by far your best skill. It does Pull, Poison, Chilled, Torment and Burning.

On your best damage option is to use to leap and Pull into its second part .

If you want to pressure from range you can use as it will apply 6 stacks of Torment.

Lastly your elite will pulse Torment around you at the cost of losing Energy every second.

→ is a good source of damage on .

Defense

has access to a decent Stun Break:

on will transfer your conditions to enemies around you.

Most of our active defense comes from abilities.

• → makes all the damage you would take heal you instead for 2 seconds.
• → will Stun Break and Blind.
• Upkeeping will give you Protection.

Your biggest source of active sustain will be as it blocks, Heal and cleanses conditions from yourself at the cost of not being able to move for the full duration.