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

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Difficulty:

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This build was last updated on August 28, 2023 and is up to date for the September 19, 2023 game 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 and 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, 17-20 Might, options for Aegis and a lot of condi cleanse because of .

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

Skill Bar

Axe/Torch

Scepter/Torch

Utility

Weapon Variants

Staff can be taken instead of Scepter to provide an additional burst healing option, though you will lose ~2 Might as swapping to staff only for would be a significant DPS loss.

Skill Variants

Utility skills

Swap out , or if you don't need the Regeneration.

if more CC is needed.
if the stability of is not enough.
if the reflect of is not enough.
for more healing.
over for a significant DPS increase.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

You can take to have access to more pages for utility, but less Might.
If you have classes in your group that provide enough Might, you could take one of the following instead of , but you will generate 9-12 less Might for your group:
- will give you 8% more boon duration, and another 8% if you're using staff.
- will result in more healing.

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Seraph

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Seraph

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Axe
Celestial

Torch
Celestial

Sigil

Scepter
Celestial

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

This setup aims for ~51% boon duration.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

For an ~800 DPS loss, you can replace :

for better healing.
for better boon uptimes, or to give yourself sufficient boon duration to run - the DPS difference is small, but gaining access to extra Regeneration and Protection can be valuable.

Infusions

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

Low toughness variant

This build can also work in raids, but it has 381 extra toughness, which can interfere with tanking. The variant below has only 80 extra toughness. If that is still too high, the celestial stats pieces can be swapped to seraph stats or viper stats.

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Seraph

Chest
Seraph

Hands
Seraph

Legs
Seraph

Feet
Seraph

Backpiece
Seraph

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Seraph

Amulet
Seraph

Ring
Seraph

Axe
Seraph

Torch
Seraph

Sigil

Scepter
Seraph

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

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 . When is not available, axe skills are used to fill the downtime. See Condi DPS for a detailed explanation of the DPS rotation.

Notes

Use immediately, then as soon as it is available.
Use once immediately, then once every time it gains a charge. Also be sure to use it to block dangerous attacks for your group.
Use and twice immediately, then once every time it gains a charge.
Never interrupt your axe autoattack chain.
Your dodges heal for ~1k because of , so don't forget to use it if needed. You also maintain 70% Vigor on yourself thanks to .
Use if reflection, Stability or Resistance is needed. It can also be used to spam Swiftness.
Use if burst healing or even more condition cleanses are needed.

Firebrand - Quickness Support Celestial DPS

Contents

Overview