Heal Quickness Herald

October 2024

Heal Quickness Herald is a powerful defensive support build that reliably provides 25 , , , , , and in a large radius. This build provides strong sustain and burst healing and can serve as an excellent tank. Additionally, Herald extends boon duration for your allies, has very strong crowd control abilities, has access on shield and can be adapted to apply .

Boon Application

While in , maintain Facets to apply boons:

applies
gives
grants
applies
pulses

While in ,  has the unique effect of giving your group an additional 20% boon duration. This extra boon duration can extend the normal cap of 100% boon duration to 120%!

consume skill, , provides support utility based on your current Legend:

: Removes two conditions from allies and heals for each condition removed. Can be used for emergency cleansing, but usually and should suffice.
: Extends boons on you and allies by 2 seconds. Use this before using your final set of Facets before leaving to extend boons and generate even more .

You’ll typically use the version of in the boon application rotation. If you anticipate needing a different effect, delay consuming to use a more appropriate version of .

Healing & Build Specifics

Heal Quickness Herald has incredibly strong sustain healing from the following effects:

• is massively empowered from and all the other healing modifiers on this build.
• – Using Facet consume skills and skills (except ) activate a significant area heal.
• – Dodge rolling heals allies.
• – Moves Ventari’s Tabled around as needed, it pulses healing every three seconds to allies nearby.

The tablet features two powerhouse healing abilities:  easily heals up to five targets for over 10,000 hit points after a short delay. removes up to three conditions from five targets, and heals for each condition removed. Take advantage of the short cooldowns of these skills.

will shatter the tablet after a short delay, healing nearby allies and knockdown nearby enemies for Crowd Control. Use to resummon the tablet in order to use other Ventari skills again.

• Going into Centaur Stance, the next ability used is empowered, indicated by the effect.
  • More Healing and bonus endurance gain with .
  • around the tabled when starting to use .
  • to remove an additional condition (4 > 3) from all affected allies.
  • You can even apply 3x   on up to five players by using empowered .
  • While in Centaur stance, you can reapply by using .
  • Resummoning the tablet, when it was destroyed previously with , also grants the effect.

creates a projectile destruction field (not a reflect) around Ventari’s Tablet. Reposition the tablet as needed to either block the attacks at the source or shield your team by placing the bubble on them.

is a key boon ability and has a strong knockback that can manipulate the position of non-defiant enemies. It also applies which can help allies reposition.

The tablet allows you to be in two places at once. Sustain nearby allies using your Staff, Shield, and passive healing while using the tablet to heal allies who are further away handling mechanics.

Tanking

Heal Quickness Herald is an excellent choice for tanking because of Facets’ large boon radius and the ability to heal distant targets with . Your key defensives are , , and . These powerful tanking tools allow you to mitigate incoming damage without having to move, so you can keep bosses in position. For most situations, you’ll be able to stay on Staff and sustain yourself with Auto-attack chains, , and while utilizing to block key abilities. If you need an additional block, swap to Shield for . is useful for damage mitigation and self-sustain. Feel free to activate and deliberately get hit by as much damage as you can to get fully healed. If you need to be completely immortal, take for even more survivability at the cost of healing output. A full Givers setup is also an option to become a tanking god.

Crowd Control

• – This skill is capable of hitting the same target multiple times quickly disposing of breakbars.
• – This ability has a very short cooldown. If you pool energy or simply don’t spend energy, you can use this in quick succession for massive crowd control.

Alternatives

If you don’t own the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, fear not! This build doesn’t need a Scepter from the Weapon Mastery, simply swap it out for a Mace.