Firebrand - Quickness Support Celestial DPS

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

Focused on: Condition damage, Healing, Support and Utility

Designed for: Fractals and Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on June 27, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

This build is a perfect mix between a healer and a DPS, which shines in less organized groups that normally run a full healer. Even though it's a condition build, the burst of a Firebrand is really solid and by no means bad in fractals.

Thanks to Writ of Persistence and Mantra of Lore this build heals up to five players for ~400/sec while still being able to hit for ~20k DPS on the golem.

It provides 100% Quickness, 100% Fury, 100% Regeneration, 35% Protection, ~14 Might, options for Aegis and a lot of condi cleanse because of Mantra of Lore.

This build should be played with an Alacrity provider that can also fill in the gaps in Might.

Skill Bar

Axe/Torch

Pistol/Pistol

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Even though it is lower damage than running only mainhand Pistol, Axe is taken to provide permanent Fury uptime and an extra symbol for Writ of Persistence.
• Staff can be taken to provide an additional burst healing option, or for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
  • If running staff, Pistol/Torch is the better option for the other set (unless you need Axe).

Skill Variants

Utility skills

Swap out Purging Flames if you need extra utility

• Mantra of Lore if you need extra Regeneration or condi cleanse. You should run this skill if you take Legendary Lore, as you won't have spare pages to cast Chapter 3 Azure Sun without Weighty Terms.
• Sanctuary if more CC is needed.
• Hallowed Ground if the stability of Tome of Courage is not enough.
• Wall of Reflection if the reflect of Tome of Courage is not enough.
• Bow of Truth for more healing.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• If you are not fully consuming your mantras, you can take Legendary Lore for ~5 extra Might.
• If you have classes in your group that provide enough Might, you could take one of the following instead of Empowering Might, but you will generate 9-12 less Might for your group:
  • Honorable Staff will give you 8% more boon duration, and another 8% if you're using staff.
  • Pure of Heart will result in more healing.

Equipment

This equipment has only 80 extra toughness.

• If that is too high, the celestial stats pieces can be swapped to seraph stats or viper stats.
• Too low, and celestial stats can be swapped in place of seraph stats.

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Seraph

Chest
Seraph

Hands
Seraph

Legs
Seraph

Feet
Seraph

Backpiece
Seraph

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Seraph

Amulet
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Axe
Seraph

Torch
Seraph

Sigil

Sigil

Pistol
Seraph

Pistol
Seraph

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup aims for 53% boon duration.

Equipment Variants

Relics

• Relic of the Fractal is a significant DPS increase, but you lose quite a lot of healing.

Sigils

For an ~800 DPS loss, you can replace Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting:

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference for better healing.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration for better boon uptimes.

Infusions

• You can also use healing infusions, if you prefer that.

Consumables

Food

• to hit 100% burning duration as well as providing a 10% boost to healing.

Utility

Usage

The basic idea is to maintain high uptime of symbols while spamming Burning with Tome of Justice. See Condi DPS for a detailed explanation of the DPS rotation.

Chapter 3 Azure Sun is an overloaded skill in terms of healing and utility, so use it whenever you reach max pages. Having the spare pages to enable this relies on taking Weighty Terms.

Notes

• Use "Feel My Wrath!" immediately, then as soon as it is available.
• Use Mantra of Solace and Mantra of Lore once immediately, then once every time it gains a charge. Also be sure to use it to block dangerous attacks for your group.
• Use all charges of Mantra of Flame.
• You can either consume all charges of Mantra of Potence, or use twice immediately then another stack every time you gain a charge. The former is higher Quickness and provides pages via Weighty Terms, while the latter can be useful to spread out the Quickness more evenly if people are bad at stacking.
• Never interrupt your axe autoattack chain.
• Your dodges heal for ~1k because of Selfless Daring, so don't forget to use it if needed. You also maintain 70% Vigor on yourself thanks to Vigorous Precision.
• Use Tome of Courage if reflection, Stability or Resistance is needed. It can also be used to spam Swiftness.
• Use Tome of Resolve if burst healing or even more condition cleanses are needed.