Support Troubadour

Key Concepts

Support Troubadour revolves around Notes to provide strong boons, utility and Heals to its party and squad. Notes are replacing Clones; they cannot serve as a distraction or target for enemies, but they cannot be lost in and out of combat.

Support Troubadour is mostly used as a Primary Support to provide Stability, the most important boon in WvW large scale. It also applies constantly a wide variety of boons with Notes in order to buff the squad and make sure it is kept strong after receiving the enemy incoming Boon Removal.

音浪渐强 is your most important ability. Use it wisely and aim to refresh its Cooldown as much as possible using your other Shatter skills.

Rifle will further improve our supportive playstyle and grant us the ability to assist players away from the squad : make a proper use of it and always look out for your allies.

Boons and Supporting Allies

Primary Support Boons

This build is aiming to frequently apply Stability, Quickness and Resistance. Your goal is to give these strong boons to your party on the main moves.

Stability

The main source is 强力突破 from 专注咒语. Try to use a Charge every time your squad pushes into potential range of Crowd Control.
音浪渐强 gives a few stacks too : we will aim to use it on our main call.
侠盗传说 is another filler stab to help you cover your rotation efficiently.

Quickness

This boon will mostly be applied through 音浪渐强 use. If you are playing 时间扭曲, make sure to place it on the main call from the Commander.

Resistance

The majority of this boon comes from 和谐竖琴 due to 精神防御.
奇点射击 is also a really interesting source of Resistance, thanks to its Range.

Other Boons

This build provides almost every other available boon to support your party and squad. You should try to apply these boons as much as possible so they get removed over the more important boons by the enemy squad, but also so you reapply them as fast as possible after the removal.

Swiftness will be partly covered by when pressing and its Charges.
F1—F3 Shatters once again help us by providing Might, Vigor, Protection and Fury. These skills are really important to press off Cooldown. Try to prioritise using your Notes for since the Protection duration scales off the amount of Notes consumed.
and from your Rifle grant a fair amount of Might, Fury, and some Regeneration from Range.
You can generate Notes with weapon skills, such as , and in order to strengthen your Shatters.

Example Rotation

This will be your global gameplan for your main boons to be applied, but bear in mind all the other skills that aren't mentioned here should be used off Cooldown to fill the downtime in your rotation!

Precast right before the clash.
Use the first Charge of when you are getting close to the enemies.
Get ready to support your allies with your Rifle skills untill the call.

Once the call drops:

or depending on your choice.
Start using Shatters F1—F3 everytime you get at least one Note.
when your Stability is about to run out.

From now on, you should always keep rotating your Stability with the 3 mentionned different sources : avoid overlaping their use unless an ally needs a crucial reapplication.

By following this rotation you will ensure your subgroup stays safe by receiving Stability, which is your main job as a Primary Support. Do not forget to give all the other boons in between moves.

Supporting Allies

Most of your Healing will come from Rifle, and Shatters.

Mantras Heal with . You can use and charge mantras to Heal allies if you run some of them, but try keeping them for their primary usage if possible.

Reactivating → will grant a large Healing burst instead of providing boons. It will also give Chaos Aura to the healed allies. You can double tap this skill whenever your party needs instant Healing rather than boons.

grants Barrier and Resistance to allies. It can be reactivated to open a portal from its location, at the cost of an increased Cooldown.

will Heal for a decent amount and should be used off Cooldown on the areas of your squad that need assistance.

If you are playing in a scuffed party setup and you need this trait, remember will Heal for each Note you consume, but also Remove Condition.

, and also largely support allies now with Heal and Barrier.

Try pairing any of the aforementioned skills with , as it will increase your following Heals and generate important bursts.

Supporting allies also goes by protecting them with your high Toughness, Vitality and mitigation tools. Always stand near your Commander at the front line of your squad.

and should be used to soak as much Damage and pressure as possible for your whole squad.

is a crucial elite skill granting a short party-wide Distortion and Chaos Aura. It can be really powerful but comes with a really long Cooldown and can be wasted easily, so mind using it properly to soak an enemy important move.