Build Template
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Build Difficulty: ● ● ○ ○ ○
- Good mobility
- Plenty of CC
- Provides party boons
- Easy to learn
- No ranged DPS
- Fast paced rotation
- Relies on resource management
- Relies on total number of boons
- Power
- 2799
- Toughness
- 1000
- Vitality
- 1078
- Precision
- 1948
- Critical Chance
- 50.14%
- Ferocity
- 1343
- Critical Damage
- 239.5%
- Condition Damage
- 0
- Healing Power
- 0
- Expertise
- 0
- Condition Duration
- 0%
- Concentration
- 586
- Boon Duration
- 39.06%
Equipment
Traits & Skills
Traits
Skills
One of your weapon sets can be swapped to Staff for better Breakbar damage.
- The primary use for Staff is
迷雾激流. It will charge in the direction your character is facing and hits up to 9 times. To maximize the number of hits, start outside the boss's hitbox and position yourself to charge straight through the center of the hitbox. - 迷雾激流 will move you a set distance, so watch your positioning to ensure you don't fall off the platform.
- While you are in Staff, you have access to other useful skills.
裂隙结界 is a channeled block; 
复原波动 cleanses 2 conditions from your allies and is a blast finisher. - Weapon Swap back to your primary set as soon as it is off Cooldown.
Rotation & Extras
Quickness and Facets
Often praised as one of the best boon supports, Herald has quickly risen to fame as a build that's easy to learn while providing amazing boon uptime even while you /sleep.
First things first, 
高尚慈悲 pulses Quickness when you have 6 or more Upkeep. To maintain Quickness, use the following skills in each stance:
There's more to Facets than just using them to maintain Quickness; the skills are multi-faceted and it's important to understand how they work to manage them correctly.
- The first activation of each Facet has no cast time and can therefore be used while casting other skills. Each Facet costs Upkeep and pulses a unique boon while active.
- The secondary activation of each Facet is an active skill that consumes the Facet for an effect. Until the skill is first-activated again, it will not pulse boons or contribute Upkeep.
圣光多面体 is the exception. As a heal skill, its first-activation will cancel any ongoing skill cast, but its consume skill, 
圣光灌注, has no cast time.
See the Introduction to Revenant for a breakdown of each Facet and what boon it provides.
Step One - Basic Gameplay Loop
力量爆发 is the consume skill of 
力量多面体 and provides a buff that increases your damage dealt by 15% for 10 seconds. The rotation is structured to maximize the uptime of this buff by using 力量多面体 off Cooldown. 
元素多面体 has the same Cooldown so the skills are always used together.
Starting in 
传奇巨龙姿态, the full rotation loop is:
黑暗多面体
- Activate
混沌多面体 and 
自然多面体 - Filler
- As soon as they are off Cooldown, use:
元素多面体 →
元素轰击 →
力量多面体 → 力量爆发 - Legend swap to
传奇刺客姿态 -
压倒优势
- Filler
- Legend swap to 传奇巨龙姿态 as soon as it's off Cooldown.
For now, use Auto Attack Chains in Swords for the Filler steps of the rotation. Other weapon skills will be added in Step 3.
Do not delay consuming 元素多面体 and 力量多面体 as soon as they are off Cooldown to maintain the buff from 力量多面体.
自然多面体 will be consumed in the next step, but for now leave it active. It will always be paired with 混沌多面体 moving forward.
Step Two - Consume Facets
When used in 传奇巨龙姿态, 
真正本质 extends your allies' boons by 2 seconds. 
混乱疾风 shares the same Cooldown, so both should be consumed before the other Facets come off Cooldown. The 传奇巨龙姿态 loop will look like:
黑暗多面体
- Activate 混沌多面体 and 自然多面体
- Filler
- Consume 真正本质 and 混乱疾风
- As soon as they are off Cooldown, use:
元素多面体 → 元素轰击 →
力量多面体 → 力量爆发
- Legend swap to 传奇刺客姿态
真正本质 and 混乱疾风 do not strictly have to be consumed at the end of the loop. Let their Facet skills pulse boons and Quickness for a few seconds before consuming them. The next step will provide more details on this concept.
Step Three - Weapon Skills
Pair Greatsword with 传奇巨龙姿态 and Swords with 传奇刺客姿态 respectively. Use your weapon skills off Cooldown, but do not interrupt your Auto Attack Chains.
You can start out by using only skill 2 in each set, accompanied by Auto Chains, but your damage will be higher by incorporating more weapon skills.
Use 
迷雾释放, 
幻影突袭, and 
永恒挽歌 in Greatsword.
You will typically only have time for one cast of 永恒挽歌, but it is by far your strongest skill.
Example of a filler:
You can optionally use 永恒挽歌 twice by having it be the very first and last skill in 传奇巨龙姿态.
Use 
冰冻隔离, 
桎梏波动, and 
死亡打击 in Swords.
A filler loop should look as such:
桎梏波动 and 死亡打击 have the same Cooldown and should be used together. 桎梏波动 → 死亡打击 will replace one Auto Chain in the Filler Loop.
If timing allows, use a third 冰冻隔离 in 传奇刺客姿态, but do not delay swapping back to 传奇巨龙姿态.
Weapon skills generate stacks of 
潜行者古物, and can be maintained by using 迷雾释放 and 冰冻隔离 frequently.
Using a Facet skill in combination with weapon skills will contribute to a cleaner rotation. For example, the second time you use 迷雾释放 in 传奇巨龙姿态, you could do 迷雾释放 → 真正本质 → 混乱疾风 for a smoother rotation.
The same can be done with 桎梏波动 → 死亡打击, using them immediately before or after 冰冻隔离.
Transitioning to the Full Build
To improve further, you should visit the Power Quickness Herald page for the opener and a complete overview of the build and rotation.