Firebrand - Support Firebrand

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Part of the current metagame.

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: Ground control, Healing, Support, Utility.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Support firebrand provides a large amount of Stability as well as powerful healing and boon support.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Mace/Shield

Weapon Variants

Axe/Shield

Brings a powerful, low cooldown AoE pull at the cost of group support and healing.

Skill Variants

Heal

• viable burst heal option.

Utility

• Provides more personal sustain at the cost of supporting team.
• AoE condition cleanse at the cost of your 1 personal defense skill
• when quickness uptime is required
• if projectile hate is needed

Elite

• Personal defense

Specializations

• Increased healing at the cost of stability. Take monk runes if using this trait.

Variants

• If regen/protection uptime isn't an issue.

Variants

Swap Virtues to Valor for more personal sustain at the cost of tome uptime.

Variants

• excellent passive healing bonus, preferred option if having multiple guards using Valor as
  does not stack.
• increased availablility of group support with Tome of Courage. Balances loss of
  .

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Water

18x

Healing WvW Infusion

Consumables

Variants

Stats

• Nomad's can be an easier to obtain stat in place of Minstrel's but looses boon support.
• Cleric's can be used to add healing power at the cost of boon support and personal sustain.

Runes

• highest healing option
• strongest boon support and defensive option with less healing
• strong option for GvG

Sigils

• for Stability uptime.
• when confident on 25 stack uptime, Benevolence is an option when not stacking other modifiers for outgoing healing.

Food

• Defensive option.
• Useful feast option against condition pressure.

Utility

• Support option when lacking boon duration.

Usage

General

• Use
  to stun break for caught allies. Part communication and an attentive eye are key here.
• Use
  when you are being overwhelmed with conditions. Try to use it during fights and not on regroups.
• - gives area Stability to help secure stomps/resurrection or mitigate the effectiveness of an enemy CC (try to use SYG proactively, before a bomb). It is only a stun break for yourself, not your party.
• is your -and your party's- panic stability and area break stun. Use it only after
  is on cooldown and stability it urgently needed.
• and
  make up a significant part of your group healing. Try to use your dodge rolls and aegis skills not only just for personal defense but also when your group requires some healing.

Tomes

• Tomes will go on full cooldown once stowed so make sure to only pull them out when you can make full use of them.
• Use
  on spikes and for general DPS
  • Use Epilogue: Ashes of the Just as often as possible for a significant group damage increase.
  • On spikes pull enemies in with Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke} then follow up with Chapter 4: Scorched Aftermath and Chapter 2: Igniting Burst
• brings high healing and condition cleanse. As a support Firebrand, you will be fulling healing allies with only a few skills, and may sometimes have to camp the tome.
  • Try to use Epilogue: Eternal Oasis before other healing skills to benefit from the increased healing.
  • Chapter 4: Shining River creates a Water Field - coordinate with your allies to blast it for healing.
• Use
  for its Stability access to fill in gaps between
  • Chapter 4: Stalwart Stand brings a very strong pulsing Resistance field, make use of it against condition pressure.

Staff

• Rotation: Engage with
  , throw
  and pressure with
  ,
  and immediately after use Epilogue: Ashes of the Just then Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke to pull and catch enemies. After using tome pages
  to burst heal allies, followed by other Tomes or swapping to Mace/Shield as needed by the group.

Mace/Shield

• Use Mace/Shield to support your group and create heavy burst CC and healing. The autoattack provides very strong AoE healing.
• Rotation: Autoattack continuously throughout the fight. When bombing the enemy in Mace, use your
  to give an extremely high healing Regeneration plus AoE pressure. Then activate on your shield
  for a burst heal to allies and protection, followed by
  for a high damage skill and a small damage mitigation. Either when you see a downed enemy or ally, use
  to push back a res/stomp attempt, either double tapping for a large burst AoE heal or channeling for projectile defense.

Axe/Shield

• Use Axe/Shield for both defensive support from the shield and for offensive plays with
  , an AoE pull. This combos effectively with Wells and with
  , where you can pull enemies back inside of your group's ground pressure.