Herald - Quickness Support Healer

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on July 28, 2023.

Overview

A heal Herald build that provides permanent Quickness, Fury, Swiftness, Regeneration, Protection, and 25 Might to its subgroup. It also provides Facet of Nature to your group, increasing boon duration while channelling Glint.

It can also provide other utilities depending on the second Legend chosen, such as Stability or damage reduction.

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Skill Bar

Mace/Shield

Staff

Utility

Your second Legend defaults to Legendary Centaur Stance. Read the Legends section below to see other alternatives.

Specializations

Equipment

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Harrier

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Magi

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Magi

Mace
Harrier

Shield
Harrier

Sigil

Staff
Harrier

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

This setup is intended to cap boon duration with +70 concentration food. You could replace the Magi stats pieces with Harrier stats if you want extra boon duration.

Consumables

Food

or ascended healing food

Utility

Usage

Quickness

You apply Quickness through the trait Elevated Compassion. This pulses healing and Quickness whenever you are using upkeep energy of six or above. Fortunately, all of your non-Legendary Dragon Stance 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 Facet of Chaos and Facet of Nature combined are six energy, so these two are maintained together.

Legends

Legendary Dragon Stance - absolutely key to the build, this is your source of almost all your non- Quickness boons. It also 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.

Legendary Centaur Stance is your primary heal source and also offers some Vigor and Resistance if desired. It provides projectile block through Protective Solace, condition cleanse through Purifying Essence, CC through Energy Expulsion, and a very weak heal through Facet of Nature—Centaur. Can be swapped out if necessary for one of the options below.

Legendary Dwarf Stance provides your squad with Facet of Nature—Dwarf which reduces damage taken by 10%. You can provide Stability through Inspiring Reinforcement, CC through Forced Engagement, and reduce personal incoming strike and condition damage by 20% with Vengeful Hammers. If needed, it can also reduce incoming strike damage to your subgroup by 50% with Rite of the Great Dwarf.

Legendary Demon Stance should never be played in bosses, but it offers a pull with Call to Anguish 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

As with most healers, there is no need for an exact rotation, however the following guidelines may be useful:

You will need to start in Glint so that you can immediately start providing boons.
Each facet should be activated and consumed once before swapping.
- It is recommended to maintain Facet of Strength until your group hits 25 Might
Consuming Facet of Nature while in Glint will extend boons in your subgroup, but maintaining it provides +20% boon duration to your subgroup, so both have their merits.
Combo Searing Fissure ⇒ Echoing Eruption as often as possible to blast some extra might.
Swap to Staff if you need the CC from Surge of the Mists, or some burst healing when you're not in Legendary Centaur Stance.
Dodging provides Resolution (which in turn provides AoE Might) and a heal from Healer's Gift.

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