Booster Herald

October 2024

This Celestial Booster Herald is a great offensive support made for open-world and is beginner friendly. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes, weapons, and sigils. If one does not have the level 80 booster available to them then the equipment can be obtained through crafting or purchasing directly from the trading post. This build utilizes the Herald elite specialization of a Revenant. Specifically, this build will allow you to provide you and your party with 100% , , , , uptime and up to 25 stacks of . Booster herald also possesses excellent sustain, defensive options, and control abilities so it can survive almost all situations and performs well in almost any solo or group scenario!

Build Fundamentals

abilities are called facets, activating them once will drain your energy over time and pulse out boons in a large radius around your location for you and your allies. While in , activate and to pulse . While in keep active for damage and around you. Herald applies via whenever you channel an ability that drains 6 or more energy per second (upkeep). Whenever your energy is being drained, you pulse around you. Swapping legends will instantly restore your energy to 50 so you can use more skills, this means you’ll want to swap legends frequently.

Build Specifics

Power Quickness Herald provides many boons with  and can extend all boons on allies with .

Maintain facets while in to generate a substantial amount of for you and your subgroup via . Optionally keep pulsing for Fury, and Might via .

Managing Facet Abilities

Facets are primarily used to pulse boons to you and allies around. They also have very powerful active abilities that you’ll sometimes want to use a bit more situationally or regularly for a damage increase.

• pulses
  • is one of the best self-healing skills in the entire game and works by converting all incoming damage into healing!
• pulses
  • is a self . While stunned, you can swap legends, so if you are caught with no , swap legends and then you’ll probably have access to one. This is especially true when swapping to because has no cooldown.
• pulses
  • grants a damage increasing presonal buff to you if you hit an enemy with it. Because of the excess this builds already has, this Facet is usually used for , providing damage and high uptime of the unique buff.
• pulses
  • casts magical dragonfire to the targeted area which inflicts conditions on enemies, including for damage. This Facet is usually used for a damage increase, and with the same cooldown as both can be used in conjunction, one after another.
• pulses
  • great knockback capabilities. Applies superspeed to nearby allies making it a great mobility tool for you and your team.

Crowd Control

• is an excellent survivability skill. (Requires a Staff)
• is great for pulling groups of enemies together.

Alternatives

• While Food and Enhancement aren’t required for this build to function, missing out completely will come at a cost in damage output. A cheap alternative food option are .
• If you don’t own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, fear not! This Booster Herald comes in another variant with more defense, which uses a Staff instead of the Shortbow and instead of .
• and can be taken in order to increase damage output, at a cost of survivability and tankiness.
• This build is similar in playstyle to Condition Quickness Herald, which trades survivability and tankiness for tremendous amounts of damage.