Herald - Condition Frontline

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Focused on: Condition damage and Utility

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A condition based Herald sustain build for WvW. Utilizes legend abilities to support the frontline with heavy boon application and damage mitigation along with strong crowd control.

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Skill Bar

Mace/Axe

Staff

Utility

Utility

Legend Variants

Legendary Dwarf Stance Swap Glint (Dragon) out for Jallis (Dwarf) if you remove the Herald traitline.

Specializations

Variants

• Add more damage reduction to your group for a loss in damage and boon support.

Equipment

Head
Trailblazer

Shoulders
Trailblazer

Chest
Trailblazer

Hands
Trailblazer

Legs
Trailblazer

Feet
Trailblazer

Backpiece
Trailblazer

Accessory
Trailblazer

Accessory
Trailblazer

Amulet
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Ring
Trailblazer

Mace
Trailblazer

Axe
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Trailblazer

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Dire weapons are generally more efficient.

Consumables

feast option with additional Condition Damage and Expertise

Variants

Stats

• Keep in mind your food which should be readily available in feast form from commanders and aim for 100% duration on Torment. Once at 100% duration, fill with Dire pieces for increased damage.

Sigil

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Hydromancy
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy

Staff Only

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Draining
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Absorption
  • Both sigils combo well with Surge of the Mists.

Usage

• This build aims to use a combination of utility and weapon skills to quickly burn through energy in order to legend swap off cooldown, taking advantage of Invoking Torment and Charged Mists.

General Usage

• Begin fights in Glint (Dragon) stance and maintain Facet of Darkness, Facet of Elements and Facet of Strength before engaging.
  • It can be beneficial to lower yourself to 9 energy when out of combat by using Facet of Chaos and activating it before your energy fully drains, letting your first legend swap into Mallyx stance activate Charged Mists for extra energy on the initial damage spike.
• Activate Elemental Blast and then quickly swap legends to Mallyx. For AoE damage, activate Embrace the Darkness and then Call to Anguish.
• Use Temporal Rift, Echoing Eruption and Searing Fissure to rapidly consume your energy during embrace the darkness. You may also be able to use Call to Anguish again. Once your energy is about to run out, swap back to Glint and repeat.

Staff

• Renewing Wave is a blast finisher and also cleanses conditions.
• Avoid damage with Warding Rift.
• Use Surge of the Mists to disrupt enemy players while evading. Can also be used defensively to reposition yourself.
  • Works greatly with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Absorption and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Draining due to the multiple hits.