(outdated) Power Quickness Herald | 31.421 - June 27th patch
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Read below how quickness on Herald now functions.
Build: snowcrows.com/en/builds/reven...
Log: No log from patch day, but here's one as reference dps.report/USsd-20230628-1310...
The only dps difference to last patch is the gear itself, as the rotation is functionally the same.
If you had this geared before the patch, I recommend keeping your setup!
There are two important parts of the opener, aside from doing our basic damage with Glint utilities. To have the most uptime of upkeeps, the idea is to activate all the facets immediately upon entering Glint, and that requires Facet of Chaos to be off cooldown. Therefore I do not use it in the opener. The rotation is now very similar to that of Condi Quickness, so that's nice I guess.
It's important to use the elite skill around halfway into Glint, the F2 can be done whenever, but we do still have the passive boon duration when it is pulsing of course.
Secondly, I stagger the legend swap a bit with Sword 2 to allow the quickness to get applied properly before using F2 boon extension. You don't have to delay if you have quickness, but with how much it can fluctuate this is what I recommend.
The quickness is tied to an internal timer (3 seconds) that checks if you are above the upkeep threshold, and the timer never stops meaning you will at random have to wait 0-3 seconds before quickness is applied once you have enough upkeep going.
This is extremely annoying (and seems like a last-minute effort to me), meaning there's some 'RNG' to it. Likewise, when you swap legends and temporarily have no upkeep, you might miss an application of quickness.
The solution? Add a ton of boon duration I guess. With the previous 25% build it was quite comfortable and mostly not an issue, but with 15% I found it to be consistent enough as long as I made no mistakes.
Additionally, we have lost our full power of sharing boons to the party. Herald can no longer be a strong source of might, and we can't even maintain fury or protection properly. If you need a lot of that, consider taking Assassin's Presence or playing a different build.
This is truly the worst way the specialization could have gone, as there is no longer any identity to Herald. Enjoy your quickness.
Check out the gameplay guide on SnowCrows as well.
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Anet clowning with this update. As the initial feedback pointed out this design ain't it, and I'm happy to see none of it was received even remotely! :D /s
I did try pqherald yesterday in raids and strikes with a scuffed rotation that looked a bit different, it felt OK outside of there being almost no other boon outputs. At least the damage is nice.
Spiritbox big W
So if I'm seeing it right (please correct me if I'm wrong), the new rotation is roughly:
Opener:
Start Glint.
1) Socket Nature, Darkness, Strength, Elements, Chaos.
2) Consume Nature, Strength, Elements and Darkness, but not Chaos (so it's available for loop)
Glint loop:
1) Facet of Darkness socketed, but only consumed at end of loop.
2) Facet of Chaos socketed, consumed half way through loop.
3) Facet of Strength socketed and immediately consumed, twice.
4) Facet of Elements socketed and immediately consumed, twice.
5) Facet of Light unused (great, finally have our cheat death readily available, and backup upkeep if you mess up something in the rotation)
6) Facet of Nature socketed when available, consumed after consuming Chaos if possible (sad we no longer get the safe window of being able to consume it early and still keep passive).
7) Loop ends after the second consume of Strength + Elements.
Shiro loop:
Unchanged.
How would you adapt the build if you didn't have alacrity? Probably just not consume Chaos so you'll have your big upkeep consumption available on the next loop?
The 3-second internal cooldown is so frustrating though, need to pack in extra boon duration in case the RNG decides to mess with you on legend switch.
- Consuming Darkness does not do anything beyond applying vulnerability, but that is worth using I suppose.
- You can use Facet of Nature whenever is convenient, this just fit better since it's what I have been doing for condi.
- Without alacrity I would do exactly that.
@@Umbrrra Awesome, thanks! That helps a lot :D
Man this is so discouraging. I loved playing Herald, both as a healer and as a Boondps class. Guess I'm going back to FB jail. Can't have another Quickness Class with decent boon coverage beyond Quickness I guess.
When it becomes available could gs replace s/s? If it could then would be an upgrade?
I am too sad that now everyone can use my beloved main vindicator's signature weapon
They destroyed herald. Feels like a prisoner playing it now
Lol, I'm so glad that it does not need to press all of the button on cd... except it steel need. 😆 🤣 😆
You only need to eat 2 facets instantly now, it's much better than spamming all tbh.
@@sanguin3 Well, before you COULD hold Nature and Glint for a little bit to pulse protection, so it's still basically the same damn thing except we don't push Facet of Darkness anymore. TL;DR arenanet found the single most roundabout way to nerf the boon output by forcing us off Draconic Echo lol..