Herald - Hand Kiter

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

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on January 19, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A specialized variant of the Build:Renegade_-_Boon_Support_Healer build designed to be self-sufficient while kiting the Soul Feast mechanic at Deimos. Should only be used in the Deimos encounter, for other encounters see Build:Renegade_-_Boon_Support_Healer

Skill Bar

Mace/Shield

Staff

Utility

Utility

Weapon Variants

Your mainhand weapon on the x/shield set doesn't really matter as you don't need to use any of the skills from it while kiting.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

Shining Aspects and Elevated Compassion provide comparable survivability to Hardening Persistence and Draconic Echo, only through healing rather than damage reduction. Which traits work best will depend on your playstyle.

Devastation can be taken in place of Retribution to provide Assassin's Presence to your team in return of significantly reduced survivability. If you use Devastation you should also take a hammer instead of a staff in order to use Phase Smash to get in range of the main group to share Assassin's Presence. This is likely unnecessary, as many groups will already have a renegade providing Assassin's Presence.

Equipment

Head
Magi

Shoulders
Magi

Chest
Magi

Hands
Magi

Legs
Magi

Feet
Magi

Backpiece
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Amulet
Magi

Ring
Magi

Ring
Magi

Mace
Magi

Shield
Magi

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Magi

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

Stats

If additional durability is required Clerics or Minstrels gear can replace some pieces of Magi gear, but you should never use a full set of Clerics or Minstrels stats due to the massive amount of toughness you will have. Be sure to communicate your toughness to the tank in your group if you are using pieces of Clerics or Minstrels gear.

Sigils

• Sigil of Major Sigil of Renewal is the default option because Superior and Major sigils do not share an internal cooldown therefore this provides maximum self-healing.

There are numerous viable sigil options and which option is selected makes little difference to the build's performance

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Transference - Provides increased healing for the main group.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration - Provides longer boons
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - Useful if you find yourself using lots of dodges in your hand kiting.

Runes

There are numerous viable rune options and which option is selected makes little difference to the build's performance

• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Monk
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Water
• Rune of Superior Rune of Sanctuary

Consumables

Food

Any food that gives 10% damage reduction can be used

• is a common option.
• can be used at almost no cost in exchange for a minor loss of survivability compared to a damage reduction food.

Utility

Usage

• Use Warding Rift to block every second set of hand spawns.
• Heal through the other set of hands. Your skill priority is (in descending order): Envoy of Exuberance, Natural Harmony, Ventari's Will, Mender's Rebuke, Renewing Wave.
• Dodge over hands to give yourself Vigor and activate Determined Resolution.
• Be sure to pick up the healing orbs that are dropped after dodging or using Ventari skills.
• Use Crystal Hibernation or Infuse Light to survive Mind Crush.
• Facet of Light's upkeep can be activated prior to Crystal Hibernation to prevent damage from any hands that spawn while channeling the block, or if you are not confident with the timing of Mind Crush.

While on Ventari

• Spam Natural Harmony on yourself (or your allies if they need it), leaving enough energy for Warding Rift or Envoy of Exuberance.

While on Glint

• Activate Facet of Light and Facet of Chaos. Leave them active.
• Activate and immediately consume your other facets (including Facet of Nature, last) off cooldown to provide multiple boons.

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