Troubadour - Quickness Support Healer

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Focused on: Support and Utility

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on November 09, 2025.

Overview

Like chrono, troubadours real strength lies in the broad range of utility it can bring with its skills.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Shield

Rifle

Utility

Weapon Variants

Rifle should be considered mandatory, with Scepter/Shield being a potent defensive set. If desired, Scepter/Shield can be swapped out:

• Staff can provide burst healing and it can also be used to provide some random extra boons via Chaos Storm.
• Offhand Focus can be taken if you need Temporal Curtain to pull adds into the boss.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Tale of the Second Scion is strong, but currently does not proc Ego Restoration.
• Mantra of Recovery provides consistent healing, as well as being able to trigger Mender's Purity and Ego Restoration frequently. Crucially, as the charges are instant cast it can be used to provide an AoE condi cleanse to counter Fear or Taunt.
• Mirror doesn't provide any group healing, but does offer a short projectile reflect, and if running Chaos with Master of Manipulation it can also be used to provide AoE Aegis.

Utility

• All Tales heal, grant notes, and provide Protection, though Protection can be maintained without any:
  • Tale of the Soulkeeper is not completely necessary, but it allows you to easily maintain permanent Might without needing to rely on the boons from Inspiring Imagery.
  • Tale of the Tortured Mastermind is a powerful CC on a low cooldown.
  • Tale of the Honorable Rogue offers good access to Aegis, and the Superspeed can somewhat make up for the lack of Swiftness.
  • Tale of the Valiant Marshal is a little more powerful than Mantra of Concentration, but the ammo nature of the latter may make it more useful.
• All mantras heal with each charge:
  • Mantra of Pain is the lowest cooldown option, making it a decent heal skill.
  • Mantra of Distraction is not as strong as Tale of the Tortured Mastermind but recharges on a much shorter cooldown, which may make it better on encounters that require very frequent CC. When charging the mantra, it also reduces the cooldown on Deafening Drum.
  • Mantra of Resolve for condi cleanse.
  • Mantra of Concentration provides Stability to your group.
• Signet of Domination has a long cooldown, but could be taken along with the above if you really want to go overboard on CC.
• Blink can provide Aegis if running Chaos with Master of Manipulation - short cooldown and instant cast, but be aware that the Aegis triggers at the location you activate the skill, not where you end up.
• If running Blurred Inscriptions, any signet will also provide Aegis.
• Feedback provides a long-duration reflect.
• Portal Entre if you need a portal.
• Mimic allows you to get a second use out of a key skill if you'll need it more often than the cooldown. Often used together with Portal Entre.

Elite

• Time Warp is not required to maintain quickness, but it provides an easy way to start fights with quickness and can be used to cover up any mistakes in the rotation.
• Signet of Humility - your biggest and fastest CC.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Warden's Feedback can be taken if running Focus and the reflect will be valuable.
• Blurred Inscriptions gives you greater access to Distortion and Aegis, but you lose a major source of healing.
  • If taking this, you can constantly spam Mantra of Pain to trigger Restorative Mantras as your sustained healing instead.
• Call and Response could be effective if it worked.

Equipment

The build below uses the same gear as heal chrono for convenience.

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Scepter
Harrier

Shield
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Rifle
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup will hit ~100% boon duration with +70 Concentration food, but this isn't necessary.

Gear Variants

• If toughness isn't desirable, you can run full Harrier stats. In this case, you won't have any need for the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration and can use something like a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Paralyzation instead.
• If you want more toughness, you can use as many Giver stats pieces as desired.

Relic Variants

• Relic of Febe provides you with the main boon you struggle to provide - Swiftness.

Consumables

Food

• or any Healing Power/Concentration ascended food with the 10% outgoing healing effect.

Utility

Usage

As a healer, you don't really have a fixed rotation beyond using certain skills off cooldown, but consider the following guidelines.

Tanking

You have many options to deal with incoming damage. Aside from your inherent healing you have the following:

• Illusionary Counter - a two second channeled that blocks an attack and causes you to evade afterwards. Also generates two clones so you are immediately healed via Illusionary Inspiration. The cooldown is very short so you can use it liberally even if you're not tanking.
• Echo of Memory - A lengthy channeled block that will provide AoE Protection after use, as well as triggering Illusionary Inspiration twice from the phantasm. If you block an attack, it flips to Deja Vu for 10 seconds, allowing you to repeat the skill.
• Distortion - Up to four seconds of invulnerability with three clones, allowing you to completely ignore the majority of attacks. Activating it also provides Aegis in an AoE.

Crowd Control

Always have:

• Deafening Drum - Daze. You shouldn't need to use this for boons, and so can save it for CC.
• Phantasmal Sharpshooter - Stun

On off-set:

• Tides of Time - Stun (shield only)
• Temporal Curtain ⇒ Into the Void - Pull (focus only)
• Illusionary Wave - Knockback (greatsword only)
• Chaos Storm - Daze (staff only)

Optional utility:

• Tale of the Tortured Mastermind
• Mantra of Distraction
• Signet of Domination
• Signet of Humility