Herald Open World Build

GW2. Best Open World Build. Celestial Herald. Revenant PvE.

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The Celestial Herald provides incredible sustain, good damage, very good utility and CC, and permanent quickness as well as many other boons for allies. The build touches nearly to immortality with how much healing and damage reduction it stacks.

Mainly use Mace/Axe. Since your weapon swap sigils trigger on legend stance swapping, you don’t need to swap to Shortbow unless you need ranged damage.

While in Mallyx Stance make sure to activate Embrace the Darkness, and while in Glint Stance pulse protection, regeneration, and swiftness using your facets. Activate the consume effect of the Facet of Elements for more damage and the Facet of Darkness and Strength for more damage modifiers. Upkeeping your Embrace the Darkness in Mallyx Stance is often enough to build your quickness uptime so it isn’t necessary to use all of your energy to maintain facets in Glint. You can use more energy on weapon skills in Glint Stance.

Skill Priority:

Swap Legend Stances off cooldown to maximize the sigils and energy gain, and swap weapons when out of cooldowns to use your energy on.

• Embrace the Darkness if in Mallyx Stance
• Prioritize Mace 2/3 or Shortbow 4/3 off cooldown
• Activate Facets in Glint Stance
• Use Axe 5 or Shortbow 2 to fill gaps
• Swap Legend Stance when below 10 energy
• Swap Weapon when out of cooldowns to use

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Equipment

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Alternatives

• Jade Bot Core: for extra vitality
• Rune: if you cannot get Tormenting
• Sigil: instead of Torment

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Skills

Mace / Axe	Heal / Utility / Elite
Shortbow

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Traits

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Build Template

Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)

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Gameplay

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