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Revision as of 13:07, 12 July 2023

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Direct damageSupport and Utility

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on July 12, 2023 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

A power Herald build that provides permanent Quickness Quickness, Fury Fury, Swiftness Swiftness, Regeneration Regeneration, Protection Protection, and around 13 Might 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 Stability or damage reduction.


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Skill Bar

Sword/Sword
Staff
Utility
Utility


Specializations


Equipment

BE AWARE: On July 18th, Herald will no longer need boon duration to maintain quickness, so if the cost of gearing is prohibitive you may wish to wait.

Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Diviner
Hands
Assassin
Legs
Diviner
Feet
Assassin
Backpiece
Diviner
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
  • 25% boon duration is taken to provide a healthy safety net on Quickness Quickness uptime.


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:


Rune Variants

  • Many of the popular Alacrity Alacrity providers also provide 25 stacks of Might 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 Quickness through the trait

. This pulses healing and Quickness 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.


Legends

  • - absolutely key to the build, this is your source of almost all your non-Quickness 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.
  • 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.


Rotation

Opener

  1. to get to 6 upkeep
  2. - 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.

  1. Auto-attack and use , and off cooldown. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
  2. and when they comes off cooldown - be careful not to tap them twice and immediately consume
  3. Just before Facet of Strength and Facet of Elements come off cooldown, activate and


Video example


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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5 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 5 stars • May 2023
Great boon coverage, respectable damage and groupwide support from the Nature passive. Really excels when you need access to huge amounts of stability or CC, and experienced groups can use it to run lower boon durations on their other supports.
5 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 5 stars • May 2023
Even though its damage is not very high, power quickness herald is a great build thanks to all the boons it provides to its subgroup and the unique effects from Facet of Nature. It also has great CC by using staff.

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