Firebrand
Rotation
Ranged Spike
Heal and Cleanse Burst (Tome of Resolve)

Leave Tome and Empower
Burst Stability (Tome of Courage)

In your squad, Firebrands play a vital role as they embody the traditional guardian virtues using powerful tomes. They serve as the backbone of the party, bolstering allies to keep them moving via sources of damage mitigation skills and boons. Additionally, they support their comrades with mantras that offer healing, stun breaks, and powerful boons. While this build is forgiving to learn because of its survivability, mastering it can be quite challenging.
Build Fundamentals
The Firebrand build excels as a boon support with both defensive and offensive capabilities. While it offers moderate healing, its true strength lies in burst cleansing, stun breaking for allies, and providing a substantial number of boons. Notably, the Firebrand’s Virtues are transformed into Tomes, replacing your weapon abilities with potent offensive or defensive skills when activated. Not every skill within each book is worth using due to page costs, so knowing each tome skill is critical in managing pages and being effective.
Tome of Justice
Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke
Tome of Resolve
Tome of Courage
Stability
Resistance
Tip: In the Squad Options, deselect “View as a grid.” By doing this, you’ll be able to monitor your allies’ boons, conditions, and health more effectively, leading to improved decision-making and skill management.
Main Priorities
As a support class, your utmost priority should be ensuring your survival, as offering assistance becomes impossible if you’re incapacitated. Maintaining your health pool above zero hinges on timely dodges and strategic positioning. The significance of positioning cannot be understated, especially given that numerous skills are directional and have a set radius or range. By excelling in these aspects, you’ll be better equipped to fulfill your supportive role effectively. Your main responsibility is to stun break allies, keep your party moving and to mitigate damage. To achieve this, you can provide a range of valuable boons via skills, including stability, swiftness, resistance, protection, and aegis. You’ll want to stay as close to the commander tag as possible, this allows you to more reliably mitigate damage however you will want to pay close attention to your party and be ready to turn at a moments notice to support. Maintaining a proper rotation of skills and tomes is very important when playing Firebrand.
TIP: In the General Options (F11), navigate to User Interface and ensure to tick the boxes for “Always show squad health bars” and “Always show party health bars.” These adjustments will significantly improve your ability to monitor those requiring your support. Lastly, don’t forget to enable “Thick Party Health Bars” for even clearer visibility during intense moments.
Stability and Resistance
You are the main source of Stability
Resistance
Stability
Resistance
Immobilize
"Stand Your Ground!"
Tip: note the stun break part of
only applies to you, so make sure if you need to stun break your allies you use either "Stand Your Ground!"
or go into Portent of Freedom
which activates the trait Tome of Courage
if its off of cooldown. Dormant Courage is applied on using Indomitable Courage
and lasts for 75 seconds, you can check if this effect is active by looking for the red icons of Tome of Courage
and another small red icon above your heal skill. Tome of Courage
Tome of Courage
Indomitable Courage
Stability
increases your allies’ toughness, reducing incoming damage, gives more stability, aegis and protection.Epilogue: Unbroken Lines
is a stationary field that pulsesChapter 4: Stalwart Stand
. This negates non-damaging debilitating conditions such asResistance
on your allies, allowing you to escape an enemy bomb and regroup. Note that this is not a condition cleanse – it simply allows you to temporarily ignore crowd-control conditions.Immobilize
appliesChapter 1: Unflinching Charge
.Protection
Hallowed Ground
Stability
Stability
Mantra of Liberation
Stability
Tip: It is not advised to use the last charge of any mantra’s as it will put them on a long cooldown! Only do this in an emergency or at the end of a fight, this means it will allow enough time for it to be ready again.
Cleansing and Healing
You provide reasonable passive sustain on each Dodge
Selfless Daring
Dodge
Superior Sigil of Energy
Dodge
Superior Sigil of Energy
Tome of Resolve
Absolute Resolve
Tip: See above examples of typical rotations in this tome
Only If your party is overloaded with conditions and they need re-booning, enter Tome of Resolve
Epilogue: Eternal Oasis
Empower
Might
Mantra of Solace
Aegis
Pure of Heart
Crowd Control
Line of Warding
Stability
Chapter 3: Heated Rebuke
Tome of Justice
Signet of Mercy
Signet of Mercy
Illusion of Life
Signet of Mercy
If a member of your party has gone down, indicate to your zerg that you’ll be using your revive utility to avoid stacking revives. Apply Stability
Signet of Mercy
If your downed ally is knocked out of position or fully dies before the cast ends you can cancel your signet to avoid its long cooldown by hitting your escape key or by stowing your weapons. Note that if you are in a tome only escape will work.
Tip: You can speed up the cast of your signet rezz via quickness, entering
will provide this and is instant cast or you may use your heal or elite skill if you need thanks to the trait Tome of Justice
Stalwart Speed
Weapon Skills
Mace:
- Your third auto-attack,
, heals nearby allies.Faithful Strike
places a symbol that appliesSymbol of Faith
.Regeneration
appliesProtector's Strike
andAegis
. This should be used on ranged spikes.Protection
Shield:
appliesShield of Judgment
andProtection
to allies in front of you. This should be used on ranged spikes.Aegis
casts a dome that blocks projectiles and detonates to a strong heal. Typically this skill is double-tapped, as the heal is often a higher priority to the block.Shield of Absorption
Staff:
is a good ranged heal, as well as a blast finisher.Holy Strike
is a light field that also appliesSymbol of Swiftness
. When blasted bySwiftness
this will remove a condition from allies.Holy Strike
burst heals and appliesEmpower
.Might
creates a line that stops enemies from crossing.Line of Warding
Alternatives
Skills & Traits
If you are struggling with sustain you can make some utility skill swaps:
can be swapped out if you feel its not valuable for either of the followingSignet of Mercy
for improved condition cleanse orMantra of Lore
if you want more damage mitigation/blocks and heals."Advance!"
may also be an interesting pick, and can provide some heals and hard CC.Sanctuary
If your party is needing more stability and you have sufficient heals and cleanses you may change the trait line and swap out honor in favour of valor (traits are: top bottom bottom) you lose heals but reduce you cooldown of Tome of Courage
Tenacious Defense
Indomitable Courage