Herald - Hand Kiter

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Designed for:

Raid

Expansions required:

Overview

A specialized variant of the Renegade - Boon Support Healer build designed to be self-sufficient while kiting the Soul Feast mechanic at Deimos. Should only be used in the Deimos encounter, for other encounters see Renegade - Boon Support Healer

Skillbar

 

 

Mace/ShieldHealingUtilityElite

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

Sword/x

Healing

Utility

Elite

½

Preparation Thrust

Stab your foe with your sword inflicting vulnerability.

Damage: 293

Vulnerability (6s): 1% Incoming Damage, 1% Incoming Condition Damage

Range: 130

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4

5

Precision Strike

Strike nearby foes with precision, sending out blades which damage and chill them.

Damage: 312

Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 3

Combo Finisher: Whirl

Range: 450

½

12

5

Unrelenting Assault

Shadowstep and unleash a fierce attack on nearby foes. Gain might each time you damage a foe.

Damage: 202

Might (8s): +30 Power, +30 Condition Damage

Number of Hits: 7

Evade: ½s

Range: 450

Your mainhand weapon on the x/shield set doesn't really matter as you don't need to use any of the skills from it.

Traits

Salvation:

24px Vital Blessing 24px Resilient Spirit 24px Generous Abundance

Retribution:

Close Quarters Retaliatory Evasion Steadfast Rejuvenation

Herald:

24px Elder's Respite Hardening Persistence 24px Elevated Compassion

Devastation can be taken in place of Retribution to provide Assassin's Presence to your team in return of significantly reduced survivability. If you use Devastation you should also take a hammer instead of a staff in order to use Phase Smash to get in range of the main group to share Assassin's Presence.

Devastation:

Ferocious Strikes (revenant) Assassin's Presence Assassin's Annihilation

Equipment

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6x

Superior Rune of the Defender

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Vital +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

Stats

If additional durability is required Clerics or Minstrels gear can replace some pieces of Magi gear, but you should never use a full set of Clerics or Minstrels stats due to the massive amount of toughness you will have. Be sure to communicate your toughness to the tank in your group if you are using pieces of Clerics or Minstrels gear.

Sigils

• The Major version of
  is the default option because Superior and Major sigils do not share an internal cooldown therefore this provides maximum self-healing.

There are numerous viable sigil options and which option is selected makes little difference to the build's performance

• - Provides increased healing for the main group.
• - Provides longer boons
• - Useful if you find yourself using lots of dodges in your hand kiting.

Runes

There are numerous viable rune options and which option is selected makes little difference to the build's performance

• {{Rune|Superior Rune of Sanctuary

Consumables

Food

Any food that gives 10% damage reduction can be used

• is a common option
• can be used at almost no cost in exchange for a minor loss of survivability compared to a damage reduction food

Utility

Usage

• Use Warding Rift to block every second set of hand spawns
• Heal through the other set of hands using Project Tranquility, Natural Harmony and either Renewing Wave or Envoy of Exuberance.
• Use Crystal Hibernation to block Mind Crush
• Facet of Light

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  1

  Facet of Light

  Legendary Dragon Stance. Place the Facet of Light on yourself to grant nearby allies regeneration every few seconds.

  Facet of Light: Pulse regeneration to nearby allies every few seconds.

  Regeneration (4s): 520 Heal

  Number of Targets: 5

  Interval: 3 seconds

  Radius: 600
    
  Infuse Light

  

  30

  Infuse Light

  Legendary Dragon. Consume facet of light to heal yourself and invert all incoming strikes to healing for a short duration.

  Healing: 1,853

  Infuse Light (3s): Inverts all incoming damage to healing.
  can be activated prior to Crystal Hibernation to prevent damage from any hands that spawn while channeling the block.

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