Herald - Power DPS
The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Direct damage, Support and Utility
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Overview
A power DPS build for Herald. One of the very first raid DPS builds in the Heart of Thorns era, this build has now returned to viability. Its ability to provide good sustained damage, very good CC and Vulnerability, while supporting your whole squad with a variety of boons, life-siphon and extra boon duration makes Power Herald an extremely helpful addition for every encounter.
While not being the best choice in most encounters, this build is easy to play and is able to sustain itself very well, making it a good build for beginners.
Skill Bar
Template Code
Specializations
Trait Variants
- Use if your other supports are unable to keep your might uptime capped.
- Use if you have another party member providing protection.
- Consider using instead of if your party is desperate for extra might and fury generation. Making this change will significantly reduce your personal damage output but is better for the group if there are no better sources of boons.
- Use if extra boon removal is needed.
Equipment
Berserker
Berserker
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Assassin
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
x18
Equipment Variants
- can be used if extra might generation is required.
- You can swap the Stunned. for a if playing an encounter where the boss can be
Consumables
Food
- or ascended versions
- Recommended Budget-Food: or
Utility
Usage
- You will spend most of the time in Sword/Sword as it is by far your strongest damaging weapon set.
- Try to maintain as long as possible.
- In the order that you should use them, CC-Skills are:
- should only be used as a last resort as the large energy cost will heavily impact your ability to do damage.
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Rotation
Opener
Start on Sword/Sword and
with active.- Activate + +
- +
- Activate
Loop
- Auto attack until Chilling Isolation is available
- Auto attack until Chilling Isolation is available
- Activate , and during the cast of Chilling Isolation
- Auto attack until Chilling Isolation is available
- One auto chain
- Activate
- Repeat from step 1
Notes
- Try to not interrupt your auto-attack chain - much of the damage from it is loaded onto the final strike.
- Only swap to staff if breakbar contribution is needed - staff has no strong damaging skills so swapping to it is a major damage loss.
- If boon strip is required, you can activate it while in Assassin stance for the boon strip from .
should always be maintained, so make sure to swap legends before your energy drains completely.
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