Herald - Quickness Support Power DPS
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Focused on: Direct damage, Support and Utility
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: 
Overview
A power Herald build that provides permanent 
Quickness, 
Fury, 
Swiftness (optional), 
Regeneration (optional), near-permanent 
Protection, and around 22 
Might to its subgroup. It also provides to its subgroup, increasing boon duration while channelling Glint, and giving life siphon while channelling Shiro.
It can also provide other utilities depending on the second Legend chosen, such as 
Stability or damage reduction.
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Variants
- Your second Legend defaults to . Read the Legends section below to see other alternatives.
Your second weapon set matters little for damage output. Staff is taken for , which provides massive CC. When additional CC is not required, Staff can be swapped out for any of the following:
- You can provide
Aegis by bringing a Shield in your second set. - For encounters where melee is not always possible, Hammer can be taken for ranged damage. This also brings a moderate amount of CC.
- Players that own Secrets of the Obscure can replace Staff with Greatsword for maximum damage, but at a loss of CC.
Alternatively, if both CC and cleave damage is valuable, Greatsword can replace Sword/Sword, which is only a very minor loss in single-target damage.
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Specializations
- / - lower dps in exchange for sustain, might be worth on very few fights with extreme pressure like Boneskinner.
Equipment
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Dragon
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x18
- This setup has ~40% boon duration without the need to invest into any concentration.
- is a tiny DPS loss.
- The
Dragon stats piece is entirely optional and could be replaced with 
Berserker stats.
Equipment Variants
Sigil Variants
is taken because it deals more damage than due to Herald's relatively low damage and abundance of power modifiers, but it can be swapped out in some situations:
- On encounters where the target can be
Stunned or 
Exposed (such as strikes, fractals, or Keep Construct) then you should use a instead.
Rune Variants
- Many of the popular
Alacrity providers also provide Might, but in the event this is not the case, you could use to gain an extra ~5 stacks of might generation.
Consumables
Food
- ,
Utility
Usage
Quickness
You apply Quickness through the trait . This pulses healing and Quickness whenever you are using upkeep energy of six or above. Fortunately, all of your non- legends have a skill that uses exactly six. Thus while in these legends you want to maintain the skill in question for almost the entire time. Glint is a little trickier as all the skills use upkeep, but and combined are six energy, so these two are maintained together.
Swiftness
By default, the rotations below only generate ~35% Swiftness uptime. To provide more, you need to skip the first use of and maintain while on (you should still use before swapping legend). You may need to toggle off early to ensure you have enough energy for weapon skills.
Alternatively, as Swiftness is not stripped at the start of encounters, you can make sure to channel before the fight starts. If you manage to start with 60s, you should be able to maintain it for a further two minutes without compromising your damage, or even longer if there are split phases in which to refresh it.
Legends
- - absolutely key to the build, this is your source of almost all your non- Quickness boons. It's —Dragon increases the duration of boons your subgroup provides by 20%. Note this effect does not actually increase Concentration, it increases Boon Duration (and is not shown in the Hero Panel), so a build with this effect and 100% Boon Duration would provide boons lasting 120% longer.
- provides the highest personal DPS through . It also offers personal mobility through , and CC through .
- is a personal DPS loss of about ~1k. You can provide Stability through , CC through , and reduce personal incoming strike and condition damage by 20% with . If needed, it can also reduce incoming strike damage to your subgroup by 50% with .
- is an extremely niche option. It is a massive DPS loss that should only be taken if your group desperately needs projectile block through . It also offers condition cleanse through , CC through , and a very weak heal through —Centaur.
- should never be played in bosses, but it offers a pull with which may be useful when fighting trash mobs if your group does not have pulls.
- It can also be used in fractals to remove the boons from No Pain, No Gain if no-one else is able to.
Greatsword Rotation
Opener
- Start on Glint with , and active:
- ⇒
- to get to 6 upkeep
- - we slightly delay using this to be sure that Quickness has pulsed at least once
Legendary Assassin Stance
When on , immediately activate and use , and off cooldown. The rest of the time is spent autoattacking (make sure to finish your auto chains). Swap back to as soon as possible.
Legendary Dragon Stance
You activate and consume and at the start and end of the Legendary Dragon Stance section, filling the remaining time with sword skills and activating and when they are available.
- ⇒
- ⇒
- Auto-attack and use , and off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
- and when they comes off cooldown - be careful not to tap them twice and immediately consume
- Just before Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements come off cooldown, activate and
- ⇒
- ⇒
Sword Rotation
Opener
- Start on Glint with , and active:
- ⇒
- to get to 6 upkeep
- - we slightly delay using this to be sure that Quickness has pulsed at least once
Legendary Assassin Stance
When on , immediately activate and use , and off cooldown. The rest of the time is spent autoattacking (make sure to finish your auto chains). Swap back to as soon as possible.
Legendary Dragon Stance
You activate and consume and at the start and end of the Legendary Dragon Stance section, filling the remaining time with sword skills and activating and when they are available.
- ⇒
- ⇒
- Auto-attack and use , and off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
- and when they comes off cooldown - be careful not to tap them twice and immediately consume
- Just before Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements come off cooldown, activate and
- ⇒
- ⇒
Video example (sword & greatsword)
Crowd Control
Accessing CC can be difficult on revenants as CC skills cost energy that you should have been spending on damage instead. Nevertheless, each legend has one skill:
- On , - this is a very expensive skill and you will usually need to plan ahead if you want the energy to use it.
- On , .
- On , .
Staff
By default, this build uses Staff as your second weapon set. This doesn't provide any damage, but gives you access to , which is one of the best CC skills in the game. In general, the DPS loss isn't worth swapping to Staff in the middle of a fight but there are some cases where this is mitigated:
- Many fractal bosses start with an open defiance bar, so you can start on Staff then immediately swap to Sword/Sword after using and continue your rotation as normal.
- The same logic applies to bosses that end a phase with a defiance bar, such as Keep Construct or Amala.
- Some bosses will be invulnerable while their breakbars are active. If you pre-emptively swap to Staff after your big DPS skills, you can minimise the DPS downtime.
- Raid examples: Slothasor, Samarog, Sabir.
- It will always be worth sacrificing damage if it would prevent a wipe.
- It will almost always be worth sacrificing damage if it would save another player's life.
Hammer
For fights that have extended periods of time where you can not melee the boss, Hammer can be used to apply damage from range. Just autoattack and use off cooldown. When all Hammer are off cooldown and you have at least 35 energy, the following burst combo can be used:
- - should land during the use of this skill, resetting the cooldown of
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