Herald - Condition Mallyx
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Overview
A condition-based Herald build with decent boon removal, pressure, and utility. Once part of the PvP metagame, now struggling to reclaim its former glory.
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Specializations
Variants
Pulsating Pestilence is an equally viable alternative.
Weapons
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Superior Sigil of Annulment Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat will remove 2 boons from your target.
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Superior Sigil of Doom Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts poison (6 seconds). (Cooldown: 9s)
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Superior Sigil of Cleansing Remove 1 condition when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
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Superior Sigil of Courage On hit gain might for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 2s)
Superior Rune of Leadership (1): +8 to All Stats (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +12 to All Stats (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +16 to All Stats (6): +10% Boon Duration; when you use an elite skill, convert up to 3 conditions into boons of all nearby allies. (Cooldown: 45 seconds)
Deadshot Amulet +1050 Precision +1050 Condition Damage +560 Vitality +560 Expertise
Variants
Runes
Superior Rune of the Herald
Superior Rune of the Herald(1): +25 Toughness (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Toughness (6): When using a heal skill, apply protection to nearby allies (360 radius). (Cooldown: 10 seconds)
Usage
General
- Start the match on Dragon stance (Glint) and immediately activate the following 4 upkeep skills for party buffing:
Facet of Nature's upkeep effect pushes your extra boon duration to 78% which can be quite useful for skills that grant Resistance, Might, or your dodge which grants Stability. In combat it's best used with 
Pain Absorption and 
Facet of Chaos for a brief period of time before unleashing its chain skill for a plethora of boons.- Chain
Echoing Eruption with 
Searing Fissure in order to blast AoE 
Might or 
Unyielding Anguish for AoE 
Blind. - Swapping legends deactivates the upkeep skills of that legend without sending them on full CD.
Chaotic Release can be used to knock downed opponents away from their rezzing temmates, or to knock them off of capture points - this allows you to take the cap while bleeding them out, delaying their respawn.- Try not to use
Facet of Light's chain skill when 
Versed in Stone procs - incoming damage will be reduced by 50%. Less damage taken means less damage converted into healing.
Pressure
- Most of the damage will come from the trait Abyssal Chill, which inflicts 2 stacks of Torment whenever you chill a target, making Unyielding Anguish the strongest AoE skill of the build while significantly bumping up the damage of
Precision Strike on single-target. 
Frigid Blitz - unblockable, high pressure, good gap-closer and the Chill can slow down disengaging enemies.
Unrelenting Assault won't hit particularly hard but it's good for stacking Might and evading attacks.
Banish Enchantment hits everything between you and the target so targeting the furthest foe away from you will usually result in more boons removed and more pressure applied to the enemy team.- The corruption line has 2 viable Grandmaster traits, both with a 240 trigger radius:
Maniacal Persistence - adds some extra pressure even while using defensive skills. Best used against Power oriented teams with few sources of boon removal.- Pulsating Pestilence - great (and not exclusively used) versus other condi comps. Pros: instant activation, can be used with sword #3 to eliminate the chance of your opponent being out of range, chance to apply conditions you otherwise don't have access to. Cons: might not copy the best 3 conditions on you, less effective against Power based opponents.
- Downed targets: Searing Fissure + Unyielding Anguish +
Embrace the Darkness + Mace auto attacks. This chain will make sure that your opponent won't get up anytime soon.
Self Sustain & Disengaging
Resistance from 
Demonic Defiance pulses after the heal from , so use another Legendary Demon Stance skill beforehand to avoid the healing reduction from
Empowering Misery¾
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30Empowering MiseryLegendary Demon Stance. Heal yourself. Heal more for each condition currently applied to you.
Healing: 3,320Heal Per Condition: 980
Poison.
Crystal Hibernation is your third healing skill. It heals for a fair amount, blocks attacks but stops you in place making you an easy target -watch out for Unblockable abilities like 
Reaper's Mark traited with 
Soul Marks.- Unyielding Anguish will be your best mobility tool and on some maps can be used to leap to places where enemies can't follow (or at least, not easily).
Envoy of Exuberance aimed at your character heals for a small amount and grants Protection.- Pain Absorption is the most reliable skill to use if you want quick access to Resistance - while other Demon Stance skills may grant Resistance as well, this is your only on-demand access to the boon while Demonic Defiance is on CD.
Counters
- Heavy boon removal combined with high condition pressure
- Thieves
More viable right now, im playing it with staff instead of sword/shield, traits to change for me would be: Abysal Chill --> Banish Enchantment, Manical Pulse --> Pulsating Pestilence. I'm using Rune of Scavenging. This build is doing really good right now, im high gold (last 2 seasons low silver) and in a good match i'll output between 400k and 600k dmg, no joke. in average games more like 300k, plus the sustain is insanely good. Don't get why everyone is rating this so low right now. it's putting easy condition pressure on everyone close to any points, can 1v1 almost every build I met until now. The strongest fact is the boonstrip on Mallyx which can make lifes hard for engis, elementalists, warriors and guards which getting so much boons so you finally can apply your condis to them. For me this build is way better right now then power revenant due to its immense pressure and additional teamplay from mallyx conditionstrips.