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Herald - Condi Herald

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on February 12, 2025 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

Condi Herald shines as a boon dps, providing their allies and themselves with permanent boons, most notably permanent 25 Might Might and permanent Fury Fury and Quickness Quickness. It deals decent damage and has some innate sustain, but requires the player to be constantly swapping legends to regenerate energy.

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Skill Bar

Spear
Mace/Axe
Utility
Utility


Weapon Variants

Usage of spear spear requires Janthir Wilds. If you don't have access to spear, use mace mace+mace mace and axe axe instead.


Specializations

Variants
  • - if a healer is providing regeneration, your Elder's Respite will be overwritten by it, so replace it with Core Value.


Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to Build:Renegade_-_Condi_DPS, making it an excellent option for general PVE.
Head
Viper
Shoulders
Viper
Chest
Viper
Hands
Viper
Legs
Viper
Feet
Viper
Backpiece
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Amulet
Viper
Ring
Viper
Ring
Viper
Spear
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Spear
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic


Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Defense

Farming


Usage

Spear

The spear playstyle revolves around

. Hitting targets with it empowers the next Abyssal Rage. Try to acquire 3 stacks of this buff before you weapon swap.

Spam

and for damage and to reduce the recharge of . Save for whenever you need an extra dodge.

Legend Breakdown: Damage & General Use

Swap legends often, typically off cooldown and use your utilities appropriately as outlined below. Remember to maintain an energy upkeep of at least 6 pips to generate Quickness Quickness from

.

Glint

Glint provides a plethora of boons. Maintain

, , , and .

Mallyx

Maintain

. You can use to break stun or give yourself a break from conditions, and is a short-range leap which can group enemies up for you to burst down.

Facet of Nature

can be activated and consumed while in to extend the duration of your boons and cleanse 3 conditions, or while in to transfer 2 conditions to nearby enemies and gain a bit of might.

Always consume this Facet, the passive bonuses are not needed and it consumes your energy which you need for other skills.

Defense

Crowd Control


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 1 votes.
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5 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • April 2023
Condi Herald is one of the most versatile build options for solo open world play, featuring plenty of options to deal with virtually any problem you may encounter in the open world. It has very good damage when alone due to its heavy self-buffs and high base damage and also falls into the "Juggernaut" playstyle - That is, being a simple, effective build that has very high passive defenses while also featuring incredibly powerful active defenses. cHerald is my personal favorite build for tackling very hard content solo. It's easy to play and absolutely broken, even after the sustain nerfs.

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