Herald - Sustain Shiro Roamer
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Contents
Overview
A modification of Herald - Shiro Roamer for greater sustained capabilities, especially against conditions.
Skill Bar
Specializations
Variants
Malicious Reprisal is a situational choice which can be useful against enemies who rely a lot on blocking for sustain like Guardians or Warriors.
Equipment
6xSuperior Rune of Leadership
18xMighty WvW Infusion
- Any mix of commanders, diviners, and marauders gear should do fine. Remember that boon duration is important for increasing your sustain.
Consumables
Food
- - more sustain through dodges.
- Budget version:
- Budget version:
- - precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heals you.
Utility
Variants
Runes
- - defensive option that is stronger against power based enemies.
Superior Rune of Durability
Superior Rune of Durability(1): +25 Toughness (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds) (5): +100 Toughness (6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality
Usage
Things to Know
- 24px Draconic Echo will keep your facets running for 6 seconds after using their active skill. Most importantly this increases your protection uptime vastly upon using
Chaotic Release. 
Facet of Darkness is one of the most versatile and strongest skills in the build:
- Because of
Incensed Response its passive is the best source of 
Might in the build. 
Gaze of Darkness is a cheap stun breaker and one of the few skills in the game that can reveal stealthed target. Use this against thieves or engineers and you'll more often than not catch them unaware.- The
Blind from Gaze can be used to avoid powerful attacks without wasting dodges and can help you stomp warriors/revenants/engineers/rangers by blinding their downed CC. Even mesmers can be stomped with a little luck because of the AoE reveal.
- Because of
General Tips
- In combat don't try to maintain your Glint upkeeps for too long, in most cases they shouldn't stay up for more than 3 seconds. Activating Facet of Elements and Strength only to immediately follow up with using
Elemental Blast and 
Burst of Strength is a perfectly fine thing to do - these are also some of your best AoE skills. - The on your sword allows you to use
Superior Sigil of Agility9
Superior Sigil of AgilityGain 5 seconds of swiftness and 1 second of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
Unrelenting Assault almost instantly upon switching to your swords, evading and dealing damage. - Both elite skills have obvious tells and are easy to dodge, stow weapons to cancel casting if they're about to be evaded/blinded - this will save all the energy cost and only send the skill on a cd of 5 seconds. The same qualities make these skills perfect for fake casting by stowing weapons immediately after beginning the cast, baiting enemy dodges/blocks.
Riposting Shadows is a very strong ability that evades, moves you backward, and refills some endurance. Use it to kite enemy attacks.
Dealing damage
- Playstyle:
- Use skills like Elemental Blast,
Precision Strike or 
Shackling Wave to poke from a safe distance if going into melee would be too dangerous. - Create openings where you can pressure targets uninterrupted by utilizing your CC skills such as
Surge of the Mists or Chaotic Release. Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like 
Quickness and 
Enchanted Daggers to further increase the damage of your followup burst.
- Use skills like
- Use Unrelenting Assault often, it is a long evade and deals a decent amount of damage.
- Shackling Wave will serve as the primary burst skill in the build.
A build that mitigates the weaknesses of Revenant, condition and sustain, while sacrificing some of Revenant's burst capabilities. It is superior to the regular Shiro-Roamer against condition based classes, and almost as good when faced against power.