The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strikedamage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required:
Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on May 26, 2024 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.
Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Template Code
- 3 Skill Bar
- 3.1 Weapon Variants
- 3.2 Skill Variants
- 4 Specializations
- 4.1 Variants
- 5 Equipment
- 6 Consumables
- 6.1 DPS
- 6.2 Defense
- 6.3 Farming
- 7 Usage
- 7.1 Facet of Nature
- 7.2 Damage
- 7.3 Defense
- 7.4 Crowd Control
Overview
A power Herald build for open world. Herald shines as a boon dps, providing their allies and themselves with permanent boons, most notably permanent 25
Might and permanent
Fury and
Quickness. It deals decent damage and has some innate sustain, but it lacks condition removal and requires the player to be constantly swapping legends to regenerate energy.
Template Code
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Skill Bar
Greatsword
Staff
Utility
Utility
Weapon Variants
- If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure you will not be able to wield a
Greatsword, use mainhand and offhand
swords instead.
Staff is taken mainly for the breakbar of
Surge of the Mists.
Hammer - ranged AoE; use this in place of
Staff if you require ranged damage.
Shield - defense, pair with
Sword mainhand.
Skill Variants
Legendary Dwarf Stance - replaces Shiro, trading a bit of damage for defense.
Specializations
Variants
Cleansing Channel - condition cleanse.
Dance of Death - sustain.
Forceful Persistence - when playing in groups and someone else is already providing permanent
Quickness.
Equipment
Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. The pure DPS and Boon DPS options for Power Herald use identical gear.
Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Relic
Rune of Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter and
Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar are interchangeable.
- You can use
Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain,
Relic of the Cavalier to start combat with boons, or
Relic of Durability for a little extra defense.
- For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use
Knight trinkets.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- /
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Facet of Nature
Facet of Nature is the profession mechanic of the herald. Activate it to consume 2 energy pips to pulse an effect depending on your channelled legend to yourself and nearby allies. On Glint, this provides +20% boon duration. On Shiro, it provides a small amount of life stealing. On Jalis, it reduces damage taken by 10%.
The facet can be consumed for an additional effect. On Glint, it increases the duration of existing boons on yourself and nearby allies by 2 seconds. On Shiro, it removes 2 boons from nearby enemies. On Jalis, it provides Stability.
Damage
The key to this build is to maintain permanent Quickness from
Elevated Compassion by having an upkeep cost of 6 or higher. This is easily accomplished by using
Impossible Odds (or
Vengeful Hammers when using Jalis instead of Shiro). When channelling Glint, you should use
Facet of Nature,
Facet of Darkness, and
Facet of Strength, but any combination of facets that maintains a minimum of -6 upkeep is valid.
- Maintain
Facet of Nature for its passive bonuses.
- This build maintains permanent 25
Might,
Fury, and
Quickness on itself and nearby allies.
- In
Legendary Assassin Stance, simply use
Impossible Odds
- In
Legendary Dragon Stance, maintain any number of facets to hit -6 upkeep, though prioritize maintaining
Facet of Darkness as this is both our stunbreak and our primary
Fury source. Consume
Facet of Elements off cooldown.
- If using
Legendary Dwarf Stance, ensure you are maintaining
Vengeful Hammers.
- Our main damaging weapon is
Greatsword. Follow a loose priority of
Eternity's Requiem,
Mist Unleashed, and
Phantom's Onslaught. It is very important to not interrupt auto-attack chains.
- It's important to watch energy in
Legendary Assassin Stance. Sometimes, it's better to not use
Phantom's Onslaught and just auto-attack instead.
Defense
Infuse Light is one of the strongest heal skills in the game.
Facet of Chaos provides nearly permanent
Protection uptime.
- Both
Greatsword and
Staff have very powerful channeled blocks.
Dance of Death is a relatively small DPS loss but a massive boost to personal sustain.
Cleansing Channel helps cover one of the build's main weaknesses, condi cleanse.
Legendary Dwarf Stance has many powerful defensive tools. If you want a more comfortable playstyle, it may be better to use this over
Legendary Assassin Stance, though you must still upkeep
Vengeful Hammers to maintain
Elevated Compassion.
Vengeful Hammers provides passive damage reduction.
Inspiring Reinforcement provides
Stability for yourself and allies.
Forced Engagement provides heavy CC
Soothing Stone is a fantastic heal that cleanses conditions
Rite of the Great Dwarf breaks stun and provides significant damage reduction.
- In rare circ*mstances, it may be beneficial to use
Legendary Centaur Stance for
Protective Solace as a powerful projectile block. This shouldn't be common, as even very powerful projectile-based attacks can often simply be dodged.
Crowd Control
We lose a lot of damage by swapping to Staff for
Surge of the Mists, so it should be a last resort if we absolutely need to break a bar. On encounters with a very early breakbar, opening on
Staff with
Legendary Assassin Stance and using
Surge of the Mists into
Jade Winds can be beneficial.
Facet of Chaos ⇒
Chaotic Release
Jade Winds - emergencies only
Surge of the Mists