Herald - Sustain Shiro Roamer

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Focused on: Direct damage with increased sustain.

Designed for:

Roaming

Overview

A modification of Herald - Shiro Roamer for greater sustained capabilities, especially against conditions.

Skill Bar

 

 

Sword/SwordHealingUtilityElite

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Specializations

Variants

• is a situational choice which can be useful against enemies who rely a lot on blocking for sustain like Guardians or Warriors.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Leadership

18x

Mighty 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:
• - precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heals you.

Utility

Variants

Runes

• 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
  - defensive option that is stronger against power based enemies.

Things to Know

• will keep your facets running for 6 seconds after using their active skill. Most importantly this increases your protection uptime vastly upon using
  .
• is one of the most versatile and strongest skills in the build:
  • Because of
    its passive is the best source of Might in the build.
  • 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.

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
  and
  is a perfectly fine thing to do - these are also some of your best AoE skills.
• The
  Superior Sigil of Agility

  9

  Superior Sigil of Agility

  Gain 5 seconds of swiftness and 1 second of quickness when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
  on your sword allows you to use
  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.
• 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
    ,
    or
    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
    or
    . Make every moment count by capitalizing on the setup with tools like Quickness and
    to further increase the damage of your followup burst.
• Use
  often, it is a long evade and deals a decent amount of damage.
• will serve as the primary burst skill in the build.