Firebrand - Shout Support Firebrand
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Focused on: Support and Sustain
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on November 27, 2023.
Overview
A PvP support Firebrand build focusing on healing, cleansing and boon sharing.
Skill Bar
Staff
Sword/Shield
Utility
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Mace over Sword - more forgiving and beginner-friendly option with increased sustain/support but lower mobility. Take on Honor. Mace is also the preferred weapon of most Guardians in 2v2 and 3v3 seasons.
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Staff
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Shield
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Usage
Elite specialization basics
- Each Virtue skill is now a tome with 5 unique skills inside.
- These tomes have no cooldowns, you can swap in and out of them anytime you want, but certain traits related to activating virtues like still have CDs and can only proc once at certain intervals. You know when the traits are on CD because the tome icon will turn red, but you can still access the tome itself.
- Tome skills cost pages, and you generate 1 page every 6 seconds. Pages are a shared resource, if you blow all of them on 1 tome then you won't have any pages left for other tomes. Because of this you should always try to use the tome skills that benefit the situation the most, and shouldn't waste pages if you feel like you'll need them later.
Settings
- Under General Options / User Interface enable "Thick party health bars" and "Always show health bars". These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support. For more tips check out our settings guide.
Condition Cleansing
- and shout skills are your best tools for this.
- Every shout skill cleanses 2 conditions for allies via relic and trait synergy. Most of your shouts are also instant, which makes them quite strong under pressure but they tend to have long CDs.
- Opening Tome of Resolve cleanses multiple conditions for you and your allies immediately via trait synergy when the tome icon isn't red.
- Epilogue Eternal Oasis is the best mass cleanse in the build, converting several conditions on allies into boons.
- Opening with this skill in general is a good idea because it also increases healing done to allies for a few seconds.
- Chapter 2 Radiant Recovery is also quite good, it cleanses as many conditions as a shout does but on a much lower cooldown. If your team is under heavy condition pressure it's worth swapping back to this tome every 6 seconds just to use this.
- The 4th skill of Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand could also help here because of the Resistance, but that doesn't work against damaging conditions. However it's a Light field, which means allies could use this to combo AoE cleansing with blast finishers. called
- and are both Light fields, try to combo them with Staff's whenever you can for AoE cleansing.
Healing, Damage Mitigation
- When you dodge, try dodging towards allies. The end of your dodge roll heals you and nearby allies for a decent amount.
- Aegis heals when it blocks an attack, is the best Aegis provider in the build because it's an instant AoE skill.
- Stability or Aegis to negate interrupts. and are both powerful group healing skills with long cast times, you may want to protect them with
- is great at recovering health for allies while focuses on preventing and mitigating damage.
- Epilogue Eternal Oasis followed by Chapter 4 Shining River and the Chapter 1 Desert Bloom spam is great at keeping your allies at a stable health but this is more about sustained healing rathern than burst healing. These skills all have relatively long cast times for a medium amount of healing. If you quickly need to heal up a low HP ally who's being focused then Eternal Oasis followed by is the better option.
- Chapter 2 Daring Challenge is an instant AoE Taunt. It doesn't last long but sometimes this is all you need to disrupt enemy burst attempts and allow your allies to run away. Being a CC skill however this doesn't do anything against targets with Stability.
- Chapter 4 Stalwart Stand is the only stunbreak found on tomes and also grants Protection and Resistance to nearby allies. This could let them ignore conditions like Fear and Immobilize while mitigating incoming damage.
(ToC) skills are strong but quite expensive, they tend to cost more pages than skills from other tomes. Skills #2 and #4 are great reactive defensive skills:
- ToC's 5th skill Epilogue Unbroken Lines is one of the strongest skills in the build, offering multiple layers of damage mitigation while even defending against CC with the AoE Stability.
- ToC's Chapter 3 Valiant Bulwark is very situational, only worth using against projectile focused specs like Deadeyes. Otherwise you shouldn't waste pages on this. Chapter 1 Unflinching Charge isn't really worth using most of the time - you shouldn't waste pages on a few boons that half a dozen skills can also provide as a bonus.
Tome of Courage
- While is mainly a damage focused tome, it's not completely useless.
- Chapter 2 Igniting Burst offers strike damage mitigation through Weakness while Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke is a cheap ranged CC skill. While these two often can't compete with the strnger support tome skills, usually they are still better than spamming the basic tome skill 1s if you're out of CDs but still have pages left.
- Tome support skills tend to have melee range, Chapter 3 Heated Rebuke being a 900 range CC is actually quite useful for saving distant allies who are being targeted while you're trying to catch up to them. It could be considered your best ranged support skill in a way.
- Chapter 4 Scorched Aftermath is usually worth using on CD. It only costs 1 page, covers an entire capture point and does decent damage. It could help your team get kills or force enemies off the node. Might want to open with this at the start of a teamfight.
- Consider using Epilogue Ashes of the Just near allies a few seconds before entering a fight. It's a minor DPS boost with a 10 second duration, your pages should be back at max by the time you need them.
General
- Your role is to rotate wherever the teamfight is and keep your team alive. Avoid getting locked into 1v1s.
- is a powerful tool when used at the right moment. Against Thieves and Revenants for example you can put the ward beneath you and they get CC'd the moment they teleport to you. The ward may also interrupt evade frames such as regular dodging or if they bump into it.
- Might stacks to them will heal you for a considerable amount.
- While this skill is capable of doing a lot of healing, the fact that it makes you stationary while casting makes it rather bad under pressure. Use it either when you're not the main target or try to CC the enemies first with skills like .
turns into a very potent self-sustain skill that scales with the number of nearby allies. Not only does this skill already pulse healing to nearby allies, but applying all those
- Blind can be used to mitigate incoming damage and the teleport is still valuable especially for vertical mobility. SoB is great at navigating hard terrain, reaching allies at upper levels and leaving pursuing enemies behind (assuming you can target an enemy elsewhere). helps with rotating around the map, assuming you have a target you can lock on to. In combat the
- Get creative with
- Teleport to an enemy at the highground and knock them off with , setting up a kill for your allies below.
- Let's say you're at the Clocktower on Battle of Kyhlo, getting focused by multiple enemies. Target the one that's farthest away from you, jump off the building, wait for them to jump after you. Right before the farthest enemy jumps use them to teleport back up, leaving the rest of them below. Chances are even they will jump if you can time it just right.
- Use destructible objects to your advantage, like the Trebuchet on Kyhlo or doors on Legacy of the Foefire. Even if they are out of range, teleporting in their direction while being focused by the enemy team could put distance between you and those who are chasing you.
, for example:
- is one of the lowest CD anti-projectile skills in the game and even does decent damage in melee range.
- If you don't have access to stun breaks or Stability and you feel like you're in danger, consider using before you drop too low. With stun breaks and stability available you may comfortably sit on this skill until the last moment, but without them you don't want to get caught in a CC chain when you're say, below 25% HP.
- You may also choose to sacrifice the defensive aspect of this skill and use it as a resource management tool when you're out of pages, allowing you to stay in the fight longer.
is your best defensive cooldown. Complete immunity to both direct and condition based damage (except fall damage) and even CC, this is your "time out" button that also refreshes your tome traits and page count.
- The first part of the skill knocks back enemies which could be used to peel for allies or interrupt important skills/action like a .
- While channeled, the skill also acts as a Light Field. You could precast on Staff before swapping weapons and combo it with for AoE cleansing.
- The channeled portion also absorbs projectiles and could even shut down a .
- Finally you may choose to detonate the dome for AoE healing. This could be done right away by double tapping SoA if you don't want to channel the skill at all.
is a very versatile skill:
Reviving Allies
- Couple of things worth mentioning about
- This is easily the most gamechanging skill on your bar, so do not waste it. Just because you have an option to revive people from range doesn't mean you have to do it whenever this skill is available. Keep it for emergency situations where manual rez would be impossible or too risky!
- Try to use it with Stability to increase your odds of success. If possible, break line of sight while channeling the skill (for example run behind a pillar) to make it harder for enemies to interrupt you.
- If you're absolutely certain that your ally is going to hit the ground, you can start channeling in advance on your ally's location. With proper timing the skill should finish its animation a split second after your teammate went down, bringing them back up immediately.
- The signet basically restores a large chunk of downed health all at once. This counts as healing, and is therefore affected by healing reduction effects such as Poison. If your downed ally barely has any HP left and has Poison it's possible that the signet alone won't be enough to get the rez.
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Pre-game Buffing
- Stack Swiftness for your team before leaving the base! Use Swiftness. on the spawn point's exit gate ~4 seconds before the match starts. Each pulse of the symbol stacks
- Use a charge of Aegis duration on this skill is quite long which means your team gets to start the first fight with a "free" Aegis while you still have 1 charge of Advance left and chances are the second charge will be back up by the time you'd need it. too as you're about to leave spawn (or ~10 seconds before you expect to reach the first capture point). The
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