Herald - Celestial Herald Roamer
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Hybrid damage and Sustain
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on January 12, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.
Overview
A Celestial Mallyx Herald build designed for WvW Roaming, bringing excepptional survivability and high sustained damage to the table.
Skill Bar
Mace/Shield
Sword/Axe
Utility
Utility
Template Code
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Specializations
Variants
- can be taken for a more sustain.
Equipment
Head
Celestial
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Celestial
Mace
Celestial
Celestial
Shield
Celestial
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Celestial
Celestial
Axe
Celestial
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
x6
Infusion
x18
x18
Relic
Sigils
- over Hydromancy - take Cleansing if you need more condition removal.
Consumables
Food
- - great overall stat boost and damage mitigation.
- and other similar Oyster consumables are fairly cheap on the Trading post if you don't have ascended cooking.
- - better endurance regen, more access to dodging (and thus better condition cleansing too with Salvation).
- - slightly worse endurance regen than that of the Orrian Truffle food, but the constant healing ensures effortless uptime.
Utility
- Optimal: or , whichever is cheaper (the difference beween them is negligible, a grand total of 2 condition damage stat in favor of Tuning Icicle).
- Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
General
- Invoking a legend resets energy to 50, procs various traits such as or , and could even trigger the sigils of your active weapon set (if they are not on CD) among other things. Swapping legends is basically the main resource management tool in the build - swap whenever you're out of CDs or low on energy. That's not all however, on Mallyx builds legend swapping may also be used to do AoE burst damage or manage conditions on yourself.
- Start on Dragon stance (Glint) and while still in the base activate the following 4 upkeep skills for party buffing:
- (use its active when your energy is about to hit 0)
- In combat is used for dealing with conditions. On Mallyx transfers conditions to nearby enemies which is the main purpose of the skill in this build.
- Swapping legends deactivates the upkeep skills of that legend without sending them on full CD.
- can be used to knock downed opponents away from their rezzing teammates.
Pressure
- Most of the damage coems from Mace and Mallyx.
- Chain ⇒ in order to stack Might. Use these two weapon skills on CD.
- is great for setting up this combo, making sure both skills hit your target.
- is a strong and cheap offensive ability, not only removing boons but also pressuring targets via procs.
- is a great followup for CoA. While generally viewed as a single target ability, it's capable of hitting multiple foes if they are close enough to each other.
is the best CC skill in the build, capable of balling up an entire team or pulling enemies off the highground. While it doesn't do much damage on its own, if you have enough allies around you may consider abusing this skill as much as possible to harass the enemy team and set up kills.
- should be activated before unloading weapon skills whenever your energy allows it.
- serves as a gapcloser in the build, but the second part can deal decent damage.
Self Sustain & Disengaging
- Every Mallyx skill has a chance to proc Resistance on a 5s ICD. Other sources of Resistance include swapping legends with equipped.
- is basically your third healing skill. It heals for a fair amount, blocks attacks and cleanses conditions.
- aimed at your character heals for a small amount and grants Protection.
- Dodge rolling removes conditions.
- Resistance. It's also a great support skill in general, removing conditions from allies and granting them Resistance. is the most reliable skill to use if you want quick access to
- will be your best mobility tool and on some maps can be used to leap to places where enemies can't follow (or at least, not easily).
- 's chain effect is your jail free card - makes you immortal for the duration by converting all incoming damage into healing. Some players may stop pressuring you once Face of Light's been activated, in this case you should just wait a couple of seconds before using Infuse Light. Make sure you get at least 10k healing out of this skill, try to predict when burst is coming and use Facet of Light in advance - FoL has a cast time thus cannot be used while stunned, while Infuse is instant.
Ratings
The addition of Spear and the rework of Retribution made this build a lot stronger. Really high burst damage as well as sustained damage, good sustain, decent mobility. The Cele nerfs almost can't be felt since base condi durations were already so high and the boon uptime is still top tier.
It's okay but wouldn't put it in the top 10 as far as cele builds go. Damage is too frontloaded into torment, even lower cleanse specs can sometimes hold out for a long time with only Cleansing sigil procs and evasion because condi variety is often not that great. I'd give it a 3-4 for solo roaming but a 5 for groups actually, demon stance can support the team and pull enemies together to be pummeled, or weaken cele specs with boon removal. In groups maybe I'd even play it with centaur stance instead of dragon and go more supportish but maybe that's just me.
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