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Firebrand - Quickness Support Celestial DPS

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

Focused on: HealingBoon support and Condition damage

Designed for: Fractals

Difficulty:
TBD

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 Quickness, 100% Fury Fury, 99% Regeneration Regeneration, 35% Protection Protection, ~19 Might Might, a lot of Aegis Aegis with Mantra of Solace and a lot of condi cleanse because of Mantra of Lore.
This build should be played with a Build:Renegade - Boon Support Power DPS (Fractal) providing alacrity.

Skill Bar

Axe/Torch
Scepter/Torch
Utility

Skill Variants

Utility skills
  • Swap out Purging Flames, or Mantra of Lore if you don't need the Regeneration Regeneration.
  • 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.
  • Signet of Wrath over Mantra of Lore for a ~1k dps increase.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

  • Pure of Heart instead of Empowering Might if you have a Weaver and a good Renegade in your group that provide enough might. Will result in more healing, but only providing ~7 Might Might for your group.
  • Legendary Lore instead of Weighty Terms for higher dps, but less boon uptime.

Equipment

Head
Seraph
Shoulders
Seraph
Chest
Seraph
Hands
Seraph
Legs
Seraph
Feet
Seraph
Backpiece
Seraph
Accessory
Viper
Accessory
Seraph
Amulet
Seraph
Ring
Seraph
Ring
Seraph
Axe
Seraph
Torch
Seraph
Sigil
Sigil
Scepter
Seraph
Torch
Seraph
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

Sigils

  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference over Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting for better healing, but less dps.

Infusions

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

Consumables

Food

  • to hit 100% burning duration.

Utility

  • for concentration (recommended).
  • for more healing.
  • for ~1k more dps.

Usage

The basic idea is to maintain high uptime of Symbol of Punishment and Symbol of Vengeance while spamming Burning Burning with Tome of Justice. When Tome of Justice is not available, axe skills are used to fill the downtime. See Build:Firebrand_-_Condi_DPS for a detailed explanation of the DPS rotation.

Notes

  • Use "Feel My Wrath!" immediately, then as soon as it is avaiable.
  • Use Mantra of Solace once immediately, then once every time it gains a charge.
  • Use Mantra of Lore and Mantra of Potence twice immediately, then once every time it gains a charge.
  • Never interrupt your axe autoattack chain.
  • Your dodges also heal for ~950 because of Selfless Daring, so don't forget to use it, if needed. You Also mentain 70% Vigor Vigor on yourself thanks to Vigorous Precision.
  • Use Tome of Courage if reflection, Stability Stability or Resistance Resistance is needed. It can also be used to spam Swiftness Swiftness.
  • Use Tome of Resolve if burst healing or even more condition cleanses are needed.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 2 votes.
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3 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 3 stars • May 2023
Great for groups that don't quite need a full extra healer.
4 stars
BeastNHisHarlot gave this build 4 stars • December 2021
An okay build that can deal a good amount of damage but starts to struggle when the group struggles. I have tried this build on a few CMs and find it to do really well with damage and moderate with group sustain. You can easily expect 12-15k dps in nearly every CM fractal and have the potential to still provide a lot of utility. In good groups this build feels amazing to play. In less than good groups, you will find yourself or your party getting frustrated with frequent downs and occasional resets. The lack of a staff removes a good bit of burst healing and the removal of the scepter takes away a lot of dps, so there isn't a good middleground. Additionally, despite having 70% boon duration, taking legendary lore saw a significant decrease in quickness uptime, requiring boon duration food to maintain 90% or greater quickness duration and defeating the purpose of taking the trait. What you get in exchange for these potential negatives is a very independent build that does a lot of things well without committing to pure heals. In a group with sufficient DPS, you can expect that fights go by a lot quicker and smoother thanks in part to the DPS that this build brings while still offering the same utility. Overall, this build is pretty good. With higher AR, this build can be fine-tuned to do most things well rendering the standard HB obsolete for fractals. However, for most of us this build will be a large trade off that requires our party to be better than

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