Build:Herald - Condi Herald

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 15, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Herald is a powerful generalist for open world with absurdly high defense and decent DPS. It can perform a variety of roles but operates best on its own or with small groups.

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Skill Bar

Mace/Axe

X/Shield

Utility

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Sword (offhand) - applies considerable vuln and has a teleport; good for trash mobs

Legend Variants

Herald is a very versatile class with a swiss-army-knife style skill set. You should swap legends according to the situation.

• Legendary Demon Stance - The best choice for condi-heavy variants. This is required for the Rune of Superior Rune of Tormenting variant to work.
• Legendary Dragon Stance - The strongest hybrid option; provides boon support and burst damage
• Legendary Centaur Stance - Provides condi clear, projectile hate, and very high healing.
• Legendary Assassin Stance - The strongest strike-based legend.
• Legendary Dwarf Stance - Provide large amounts of defense and CC.

Specializations

• Shining Aspects - more sustain
• Permeating Pestilence - more condition cleanse

Invocation Variant

Invocation offers a smoother playstyle at the cost of most of your sustain. Run this when you're facing weak mobs.

• Rising Tide + Roiling Mists - provides higher strike damage
• Cleansing Channel - condition hate
• Rapid Flow - extra sustain
• Spirit Boon - access to various boons

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Viper

This set uses gear similar to Build:Renegade_-_Condi_DPS, making it an excellent option for general PVE.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Mace
Viper

Axe
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

x
Viper

Shield
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Trailblazer - trades ~20% dps for a massive increase to defense
• Celestial - offers higher boon duration and ally support
• Rune of Superior Rune of Tormenting - extremely high sustain
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper - use five of these + 1 Black Diamond for a very close analogue to Rune of Superior Rune of the Nightmare
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Elementalist - similar DPS to Rune of Superior Rune of the Nightmare
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive sigil

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps
• - dps if using gear with high toughness

Usage

Legend Breakdown: Damage & General Use

Two big pieces of general advice here:

1. Swap legends often, typically off cooldown.
2. Try not to interrupt your auto-attack chain if possible.

Other than that, you can spam weapon skills and use your utilities appropriately as outlined below:

Glint

Legendary Dragon Stance

Glint offers a wide variety of options and is the go-to hybrid spec. You have to options while in Glint.

1. Consume Facet of Elements and Facet of Chaos for damage and CC, then maintain Facet of Darkness and Facet of Strength for extended offensive boons.
2. Consume all facets other than Facet of Light and Facet of Chaos, then maintain Facet of Chaos for Protection.

Either way, always consume any active Facets before legend swapping to trigger Draconic Echo.

Shiro

Legendary Assassin Stance

Shiro is our power DPS legend and is incredibly simple to use. Turn on Impossible Odds until you run out of energy. Hit things.

Jalis

Legendary Dwarf Stance

At first blush Jalis may not seem like much, but he's likely the most powerful legend in Rev's kit for most solo play. A few big things to note:

• Forced Engagement is a huge amount of CC
• Forced Engagement and Rite of the Great Dwarf provide a LOT of damage reduction.
• Vengeful Hammers deal decent damage and provide some healing
• Inspiring Reinforcement is a good stability source.

Generally with Jalis, you want to assess if the threat warrants a Rite of the Great Dwarf. If not, wear the target down with Vengeful Hammers and Forced Engagement (if it has a breakbar).

It should be noted that Facet of Nature is very powerful on Jalis.

Mallyx

Legendary Demon Stance

Mallyx is our edgy spec and is the best option for heavy condition pressure, both in and out. As a bonus, it gets a phenomenal combo we'll talk about later that provides some of the highest sustain in the game.

While in Mallyx, it's often best to simply activate Embrace the Darkness and let it run out. You can use Pain Absorption to break stun or give yourself a break from conditions, and Call to Anguish is a short-range leap which can group enemies up for you to burst down.

If running Rune of Superior Rune of Tormenting, your Embrace the Darkness will heal you for absolutely absurd amounts of health. Seriously. No, like really. Just try it. Its hilarious, we promise.

Ventari

Legendary Centaur Stance

Our old friend Ventari is the worst of the legends for general play but you'll be happy he's there when you really need him. Ventari has two major components to remember:

1. Protective Solace is a long-duration, low-upkeep dome of projectile hate. This skill trivializes content that relies heavily on projectiles, such as Carin in Bastion of the Penitent or the Champion Commander Razorwing. It does eventually expire, but it lasts quite a long time. Try to conserve energy while its up so you don't run out too fast.
2. Purifying Essence is a spammable condition cleanse in an AOE. This is fantastic for random open world zergs.

That's about it with Ventari. He's pretty straightforward.

Facet of Nature

This ability is quite powerful depending on which legend you have active. In general, you should strive to keep Facet of Nature active during Legendary Assassin Stance, Legendary Dragon Stance, and Legendary Dwarf Stance due to the high healing and damage reduction it applies. Thanks to Draconic Echo, you can also consume it and keep the bonus for a short time.

• Legendary Assassin Stance - provides you lifesteal with a 0.5s ICD, allowing you to heal for roughly 160 hp/s.
• Legendary Dragon Stance - provides 20% boon duration; this can exceed the duration cap
• Legendary Dwarf Stance - 10% damage reduction while active
• Legendary Demon Stance - pulls conditions from allies to you; not recommended in open world

Defense

• Shield skills remove a condition on use.
• Infuse Light and Empowering Misery are your heal skills.
• Pain Absorption is great for anti-condition pressure.
• Crystal Hibernation is a very powerful heal.
• Hardening Persistence grants damage reduction based on current upkeep.

Crowd Control

• Chaotic Release
• Surge of the Mists if running staff offhand.

Video Examples

Bounty Solo: Forged Maverick