Firebrand - Support Firebrand
Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Healing, Boon support and Crowd control
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required:
This build was last updated on November 29, 2022 and is up to date for the November 29, 2022 game patch.
Overview
A support Firebrand build for WvW. Provides a large amount of 
Stability, powerful healing, cleansing and boon support.
Skill Bar
Staff
Mace/Shield
Utility
- Weapon Variants
- Axe provides excellent CC but at a short range
- Recommended for smaller numbers
- Skill Variants
- for large numbers or if rez is unneeded
- for smaller numbers
Template Code
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Specializations
- Variants
- can be useful for lower cooldown, especially if
Quickness is already covered
Equipment
Head
Minstrel
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Minstrel
Staff
Minstrel
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Mace
Minstrel
Minstrel
Shield
Minstrel
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
x6
Infusion
x18
x18
Equipment Variants
- Stats
- Healing infusions are also a viable choice
- Sigils
- for higher Stability uptime
- Runes
- better healing but less boons, boon uptime and survivability
Consumables
-
- personal food option
Usage
General
- Focus on using your pages for your highest value skills:
Epilogue Eternal Oasis, Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand, and 
Epilogue Unbroken Lines
Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke and 
Chapter 2 Daring Challenge can sometimes be worth the pages
Priorities
- High
- Stability
- Stunbreaking aliies
- - if applicable
- Moderate
- Condition clear
- CC
- Healing
- Primary boon support
- Low
- Cover boon support
Surviving
- This build has high passive defense
- This build has no mobility skill access
- This builds has high active defense
- While your active defenses are strong, they are ideally saved for your group and not used selfishly
- can be prioritized over , but only if your entire party is in range and not stunned (or not in range of )
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Detailed Explanations
Stability
- Apply Stability before allies get caught by enemy CC
- When using cover the application by applying other boons immediately after the cast
- is ideal for this
- Avoid overlapping multiple Stability sources on your party, both your own and other players
- Enemy CC is most likely to land when they spike your group, your group is moving through theirs, or your group is moving away from theirs.
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Stunbreaking
- is your group stunbreak, use its charges very carefully - the cooldown is too long to waste them
- Allies are most likely to be CCed at the same times they need Stability or while they are the focus target.
- Turn your camera, make use of a “Look Behind” keybind and listen to voice communications to pay attention to caught allies.
- Give them additional support after stunbreaking as needed
Signet of Mercy
- Watch for low allied health bars to enable precasting (Using the skill before an ally is downed so that it finishes casting on them as soon as they do go down)
- Give yourself quickness with before beginning the cast
- Cover the cast with Stability ( or only - the others are too slow)
- Make sure to communicate over voice comms. Broadcast that you are beginning, casting and finishing the rez, include the name of the person being rezzed if possible.
- If another player with a higher priority calls they are rezzing at the same time, cancel the rez (“Stow Weapon” keybind or Escape button while in a Tome skill) and communicate the fact you are cancelling.
Condition clear
- You have limited condition clear compared to other supports, focus on using yours when allies have
Immobilize
- Allies are very likely to get Immobilize at the same times they need Stability
- Allies are very likely to get
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CC
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike:
- Winds -
- Wells - +
- Shades -
- Traps - +
- On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
- Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike:
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Healing
- Be careful when healing others, and are powerful heals but can easily leave you out of position if misused
- Give yourself quickness with before casting
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Primary boons
- Defensive boons like
Protection or 
Aegis should be prioritized when your group is on the defensive - Offensive boons like
Might and Quickness should be prioritized when your group is on the offensive
- Especially as your group spikes, try to always use a charge of
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Cover boons
- Cover boons are low value boons applied to soak strips instead of critical boons like Stability
- While most boon rips randomly choose from the boons on a target, boon corrupts always work on a first in, last out priority.
- This means that cover boons should be applied after primary boons when possible
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Settings
- Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
- Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
- Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
- Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
Ratings
This is still the most important support in the game, since there is so much cc in the game. No other build has the ability to negate this much other than firebrand, even after the rework.
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