Heal Quickness Herald PVE Build Guide - Guild Wars 2

are you tired of your team not having Boons do you watch in despair as everyone around you Falls to damage they should easily be avoiding do you lie in bed at night dreaming of carrying your entire team to Victory even as you're tanking the most challenging bosses in Guild Wars 2 well you're in luck today we're covering the Majestic ill quickness Herald welcome back everyone your quickness Herald has been one of my favorite defensive support builds for quite a while now here you have the easy to learn gameplay that comes with Herald as well as truly insane healing potential you can also trade off some of this healing to Grant huge amounts of AOE stability while still offering fantastic healing not only that you have an utterly trivial time keeping up permanent might Fury protection regeneration swiftness and quickness normally power quickness Herald needs at a minimum 25 Boon duration to function today we're pumping that all the way to 100 to top all this off Hill quickness Herald is insanely durable with access to blocks on each of our main weapon sets and the ability to flat out ignore incoming damage with the glint healing skill all this comes together to make this one of the easiest to play healing and tanking builds in the game so with that let's jump into it before we jump into the detail about everything he'll Herald related we'll quickly cover off on where your healing actually comes from your regeneration you pump out from facet of light will heal for a ton due to it being buffed by Elders respite generous abundance will cause you to heal allies whenever you consume faster skills and use any other Legend skills your staff Auto attack will heal allies at the end of the chain and this goes really fast when you're under quickness which with this build you will always have staff two and four give some nice burst healing the star 4 also granting some additional Conde cleanse Shield 4 will give you a burst of healing and Grant protection to you and your team the trait healer's gift will make your Dodge roll heal nearby allies and having your ventari tablet active will pulse healing to nearby allies for a surprising amount natural Harmony will also offer a huge chunk of burst healing especially if it's the first skill you use after summoning your tablet it's also on a super short cooldown now with that let's cover off on the weapons for our weapons our typical Loadout will be staff mace and shield staff is what you'll be swapping to when you need some burst healing comedy cleanse and catastrophic levels of CC your staff Auto attack will simply deal some strike damage and heal nearby allies on the third attack in the chain this pumps out a surprising amount of healing and is a key part of your sustained healing mender's rebuke will deal some strike damage heal allies after a short delay and heal even more if you manage to strike an enemy warding Rift will grant you a super handy two second block which can come in clutch if you find yourself without a Dodge roll renewing weight will grant you a nice chunk of burst healing remove two conditions from allies and is also a blast finisher to boot search of the Miss as I will mention on every Revenant guide from now until the end of time provides god-like levels of CC you'll charge Ford attack nine times and deal 150 Defiance buyer damage for each strike this is an insane level of CC you use it mace is included in this build only for its ability to blast might with the two and three skills your mace Auto attack chain will deal some strike damage and inflict torment and poison it's not overly relevant for this build but use it whenever you have nothing better to do Syrian Fisher will deal with some strike damage inflict burning and lay down a fire field we'll be blasting this for Mike with our next skill Echo Interruption will inflict some torment and weakness and lay down three impacts in a line with each of them acting as a blast finisher when you pair this with searing fissure you'll typically Grant seven stacks of Mite from one round of this combo it's only seven because the last blast finisher usually occurs too far away from you and you also Grant an additional stack of mic whenever you apply Boons due to Shared empowerment this is incredibly useful in helping your team upkeep 25 stacks of mine Shield should be your default offhand weapon when using mace you have access to a very nice healing skill and an absolutely insane block which gives you yes another way to avoid mechanics Envoy of exuberance will grant protection and heal both you and your allies which is very handy for topping off your healing Crystal hibernation will block attacks for three seconds which is an obscenely long flock by the way and allow you to regenerate Health this is one of the skills that lets you just ignore One-Shot mechanics like the Minecraft on damos and makes your tanking life so much easier if you need additional CC I use this all the time in fractals then feel free to swap out shield for offhand ax this will trade the excellent defense and group supportive shield with some extra mobility and CC Bridget Blitz will throw and ax at your target inflict chill and once your ax reaches your target you'll teleport to them and deliver a larger strike this skill is exceptionally useful to move around Arenas and chase after bosses that have an annoying tendency to move around temporal Rift will inflict some torment deal damage and pull enemies in to inflict CC this is a very useful skill to group up mobs for your team to burst down now for our skills your glint skills consist entirely of facets which you can toggle on to pole spoons to nearby allies you can then consume them for additional effects and with the trait draconic Echo we'll also apply quickness this Legend is critical for any quickness Herald build so never leave home without it facet of nature is a massively loaded skill and has different effects depending on your current Legend there's a lot to cover here so for now I'll just focus on the effects that are relevant to heal quickness Herald the passive effect while in glint will grant you an extra flat 20 duration to any Boons you apply this is on top of the standard 100 Boon duration cap when you consume the facet of nature while in glint it will increase the duration of all your allies Boons by two seconds when we consume this facet we'll generally always want to do so when wearing Glenn for this massive increase in Boon duration the passive effect inventari will heal nearby allies once every three seconds when you consume the faster inventory you'll cleanse two conditions from nearby allies and heal for each condition removed the passive effect in jealous will reduce incoming damage to allies by 10 this is separate to protection and the 10 damage reduction you get from ascended Foods if you start stacking these modifiers you can greatly reduce the pressure on your team and have much smoother boskills this is a really under red skill if you consume the facet while in jealous you'll Grant two stacks of stability to your allies however you'll generally use inspiring reinforcement for this acid of light will pulse regeneration and when you consume it will convert all incoming damage to healing for three seconds you can use this to flat out ignore mechanics that would otherwise down you passive strength will pulse mine and Grant you a 15 damage increase for 10 seconds and deal some damage after you consume it like all versions of quickness Herald builds we're going to want to maximize the uptime of this buff as much as possible so this will be the first thing that we use when we enter glint and one of the last things we activate before we leave it positive elements will pulse witness and pop down a damaging AOE that applies weakness shield and burning a very nice damaging skill facet of Darkness or pulse Fury and when you consume it will apply 10 stacks of vulnerability reveal nearby enemies and apply blindness it's also a stun break which is super handy facet of chaos or pulse protection and when you consume it will knock back enemies and grant super speed to allies this will be one of your key CC skills so try try and save this for cc bars if you know one's going to be coming up soon ventari will be your default Legend choice if you don't need to provide stability with jealous if you have access to some insane healing skills long lasting projectile protection condition cleanse and great CC one important thing to touch on before we chat about the ventaro skills is how to empower your tablet when you take a look at the tool tips for all the ventari skills you'll see a section that tells you about the sweet effects that you get when your tablet is empowered now Connor I hear you asking how on Earth do I Empower my tablet well your first tablet will be empowered the first time you swap to ventari stance you'll also be able to reapply the status once you re-summon your tablet after destroying it with your Elite skill energy expulsion your empowered status will be used up on the first skill you use after this so Choose Wisely project Tranquility will summon your ventari tablet it will automatically summon when you enter ventari as well you'll Empower your tablet and and you can also move it around freely this allows you to heal your allies at range if they need to leave the group stack for whatever reason very useful on fights like social and Matthias protective Souls will summon a barrier that blocks enemy projectiles this barrier can be kept up for an obscenely long period of time and can completely trivialize some encounters with lots of projectile pressure if your tablet is empowered activating the barrier will also Grant protection just remember this is not a projectile reflect like wall of reflection on Guardian so don't get the two mixed up natural Harmony will heal allies around the tablet after a short delay this skill is on a super short cooldown and has fantastic burst healing which makes your healing output on ventari completely unhinged when the tablet is empowered you'll heal for even more as well as restore endurance for nearby allies purifying Essence will remove three conditions from nearby allies and heal for each condition removed again it's on a very short cooldown so it's a fan fantastic way to alleviate condition pressure from your team when empowered you'll remove an additional condition energy expulsion is a really stacked skill you'll destroy your tablet eel nearby allies remove a condition and knock down enemies for three seconds for some amazing brake bar damage it's also a blast finisher for good measure when empowered you'll knock down enemies for an additional second for even more Defiance bar damage you'll need to re-summon your tablet if you want to use more ventari skills before swapping back to Glenn however this will Empower your tablet once again so you can get some sweet Buffs on your next Bend Ira skill if you need to provide stability to your team feel free to swap out ventari for jalis you'll lose access to a fair amount of healing so you'll need to rely more on the healing you get from activating your Legend skills as well as your Star skills to keep up the healing on your team soothing Stone will remove five conditions from you yearly and Grant your resolution which grants you some nice benefits from the retribution traitline and we'll be chatting about soon inspiring reinforcement is the main reason that you'll be bringing Jowers over ventari you'll lay down a yellow brick road and pull stability to anyone who stands on it if you activate this as soon as you enter jealous and again just before you exit you'll have a huge amount of stability up time for your team letting them ignore mechanics and grieve for DPS Force engagement will launch a chain of your Target and any enemies around them if it connects it will slow and taunt them which is fantastic for some soft CC you also take less damage from enemies that get taunted from this skill as well this damage reduction is massive at 33 stack this with protection and you won't even notice them attacking you ventral hammers will summon hammers to spin around you letting you beyblage your way through enemies you'll also take 20 percent less strike and condition damage as well even more damage reductions that we can stack on top of each other writer the great dwarf is an expensive but stacked skill your brakes done for nearby allies and Grant them an insane 50 damage reduction for five seconds again stack this on top of protection and enemies will barely tickle you now for our traits retribution is basically here to give you access to the resolution burn which then grants you some extra handy bonuses spiritual Reckoning will grant you protection when using Elite skill you'll be using your glint Elite fairly frequently and your ventari Elite skill is great for some extra Cc or if you have pulled some extra energy that you need to burn Resolute evasion will grant you some additional resolution after you dodge determined resolution will cause you to take 10 reduced strike damage whenever you have resolution on you this is going to make surviving and tanking much easier freeing up your attention to focus on healing vicious reprisal gives you a lot of benefits whenever you have resolution you'll deal increased damage your resolution will last longer and you'll gain mire whenever you strike bows when this is paired with your Herald traits shared empowerment each time you grant yourself might you'll also apply mic to nearby eyes this is going to make it much easier to upkeep 25 stacks of Might on your teammates salvation is where the bulk of your healing comes from here we have a few alternative traits that you can sub in for specific situations I'll touch on these after we go through the default choices healer's gift will let you heal nearby allies after you dodge invoking Harmony will grant you a massive 20 increase for outgoing healing for 10 seconds each time you swap Legends words of censure will cause you to heal nearby allies whenever you blind immobilize or CC an enemy Serene Rejuvenation will grant you an additional massive 20 healing modifier and cause your ventara skills to Grant additional Boons when you activate them the resistance you get from activating your ventari Elite skill can be particularly useful especially when you need to avoid being feared on fights like slothazar generous abundance will cause you to heal allies around you whenever you use a legend skill this healing gets increased even further when you use a ventari skill this trait allows you to heal your allies whenever you consume one of your facet skills in glint now for some Alternatives eluding nullification will grant you some extra condition cleanse each time you dodge great some more conditioned heavy encounters resilient spirit will grant you barrier for each unique Boon you have this only applies for up to 5 Burns but this can really help your survivability if you need to tank unyielding devotion will grant you a massive 15 damage reduction after you heal yourself or an ally once you stack this with protection and determine resolution you become obscenely tanky fantastic choice if you need to tank and you don't need the extra healing in Herald Elder's respite will cause your regeneration to heal for 20 more and given that you'll be pulsing permanent regeneration for your subgroup this will result in a huge amount of healing shared empowerment will cause you to Grant might to nearby allies whenever you apply Burns to yourself or your team this is going to help you upkeep 25 my on your team draconic Echo makes any quickness Herald function it will let you apply quickness to yourself and your team whenever you consume a facet you'll also retain the facet passive effects for six seconds after consuming them now it's time to chat about our gear and food gearing for quickness Herald is actually a tricky question quickness Herald at its core doesn't need a lot of Boon duration to function although here more is generally better so we can make the build work with a wide range of gear the main thing you'll want to think about is whether you want a tank or not first up if you're not interested in tanking just run harrier's gear in every slot this will make sure that you hit 100 Boon duration or maximum Boons for you and your friends while cranking your healing power and minimizing your toughness a full set of minstrels gear will work just fine but you won't hit 100 balloon duration but you'll still have plenty to perform your heel Herald duties you'll be rocking over 2 100 toughness and 1800 Vitality so you'll have a very easy time tanking a lot of tanking classes like to use minstrel's gear as well so you may have an easier time swapping gear between your classes this way a full menstrual set will also give you a higher level of healing power compared to gibbers which we'll chat about next a full set of givers gear will crank your toughness to the absolute maximum you'll end up with almost 2 400 toughness and easily reach 100 Boon duration you will have lower Vitality but that's not too much of an issue at this level of toughness my preference when tanking is to run a mix of minstrels and givers gear this lets you run some of the HP from minstrels the insane toughness from givers and lets you reach 100 Boon duration for maximum Boon up time you can do this by running givers armor and give us weapons a givers amulet and having the rest of your trinkets mean menstrual stats I'll include all these versions in the description below so you can pick whichever one is right for you my recommendation though would be harrier's gear if you don't want a tank a mix of givers and minstrels gear if you want to have the peak Herald tanking experience full minstrels gear if you want a tank but want to swap your gear more freely between classes and last a full givers set if you just want one gear stat for Simplicity insane toughness and 100 Boon duration for your Rune as you'd expect for any healing build take Rune of the monk here you get extra healing power and burn duration as well as a massive healing modifier which can reach up to 20 depending on how often you apply Boons to allies for our sigils we're going to be taking Sigil of concentration and transference this will give us 10 extra burn duration to help us reach the Boon duration cap as well as an extra 10 healing modifier for our consumables we'll be taking the bowl of fruit salad with mint garnish this gives us extra healing power concentration and yet another 10 healing modifier we'll also take Bountiful maintenance oil as our utility this will grant us an additional healing modifier based on our healing power and concentration this utility is insane and you're griefing your team if you're not using it or some perspective with a full set of harrier's gear this utility alone will grant you an extra 18 outgoing healing absolute Madness due to this being a healing build you don't really have a strict rotation to worry about you're more focused on playing reactively making sure to keep People's Health topped up and watching for mechanics that will chunk your party's health bars however when wearing glint we're going to want to pump out as much quickness as we can this way we can build up as much of a quickness buffer as possible so we can swap to ventari or jalis and still maintain our quickness up time so how do I do this I hear you asking basically spam your fastest off cooldown with some slight refinement and tweaks that we'll go through now first activate facet of Nature and leave it alone this way your team benefits from the passive Boon extension while in Glen then we're going to activate and consume our three main facets passive strength facet of elements and facet of Darkness we'll then activate passive light and facet of chaos we'll leave these alone for now so that we can pulse regeneration and protection this also lets us activate them if we need the healing from facet of light or the CC from facet of chaos we'll then wait for our facets to come off cooldown consume facet of nature for the manual burn extension activate and consume our main facets again facile strength faster development and facet of Darkness will then consume passive chaos then you can Legend swap if you need to if you don't need the extra healing or stability feel free just to chill out in glint and keep spamming your facets with this level of Boon duration you'll have an incredibly easy time keeping up 100 quickness if you need to swap to ventari just use your healing projectile barrier and Conde cleanse depending on what you need for a specific encounter if you need stability swap to jealous and activate inspiring reinforcement I like to activate it once again just as I'm exiting jealous so my team can have at least some extra stability when I'm not in Dallas in terms of which weapons to use mace and shield should be your default choice because you can blast a huge amount of Might with a combination of Mace 2 and mace 3. without mace kill Harold is going to struggle to keep up 25 might by itself however if someone else in your team is providing just a little bit of might you shouldn't have any issues camping on staff with the increased healing output this will give you easy access to the burst healing from staff 2 and 4 the block from 3 and the Omega CC from staff 5. just play around with the weapons during each encounter and you'll find what works best for you always swap to staff though if a break bar pops up the CC from Star 5 alone is one of revenant's biggest selling points at last we've arrived at the end of our journey together we have vast in the magnificence of Hill quickness Herald here we have a build that is one of the easiest times imaginable keeping up permanent might Fury protection regeneration swiftness and quickness it's incredibly easy to play has outstanding healing and stability access and you have all the blocks You'll Ever Need to make tanking an absolute Breeze of all the healing builds I've tried heal Herald sticks out as one of the most reliable relaxing and effective ones that I've tried give this build a crack I know for a fact you're going to love it thank you all so much for watching if you want to hang out and watch me practice the classes we'll be covering in our upcoming build guides I stream on Twitch at least twice a week I hope you enjoy the pure magic that has heal quickness Herald and I'll catch you all next time cheers

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Published: Wed May 31 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/EffectiveShare]

Heal Herald is good at what it does, but its biggest weakest is ironically that it's well-designed.

Heal Herald needs to make tradeoffs in exchange for things that it does well. Want to bring big group healing? Sure, but you can't have any stability then. Want stability? Sure, but you lose your big group healing. Unlike most other healers, Herald lacks any way to access Aegis, and condition cleansing is a huge weakness of the spec, especially without Ventari.

Now, this is a great design, actually. Herald has some strong strengths and some huge weaknesses. This actually follows the "holes in roles" design that Anet was talking about before.

But here's the problem. Some other healers don't actually have any "holes". Firebrand being a great example. It brings everything a healer could possibly ever want. Big healing, tons of cleanses, on demand stability and aegis, nearly every boon in the game. It's just the complete package.

Next to these "hole-less" healers like Firebrand, Herald just doesn't quite stack up to the same degree. It's good, but it's not Firebrand.

[u/Drazpat]

How does everyone else think it compares to Heal Firebrand and Heal Scrapper?

Both scrapper and herald suffers if you compare them to hfb. Why? Because of the utility. Yes you also have nice utility on herald but the way you need to use it isn't as good as fb's way to use it. Take stab for exemple, as herald you need to be on dwarf (wich has 9sec cd if you switched stance before) while fb can just use it anytime.

The only advantage herald has over fb is the ventari bubble wich is easier to maintain for a long period ( + occasional superspeed). It doesn't heal more, doesn't provide more utility, doesn't do more dps. So hfb is overall better.

Scrapper only has superspeed and possible invis, a bit more damage reduction than other healers above (bulwark gyro) but a small amount of utility besides that (bad bubble, worse boons, almost no stab). That's the worst of the 3 by far.

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All of them can clear the end game content. But if I want to bring a qheal in my group it's gonna be an hfb 99% of the time (the 1% being random speedkills in low man setup).

[u/megaman1665]

I still prefer healbrand over heal herald. They lack access to stability (you have to either swap glint or ventari stance to get stability from dwarf, which either way make them cant access to boon or healing) and one important thing is that healbrand can swap utilities depend on the encounter (reflect, aoe heal, …)

So yeah you can play heal herald but the fact is healbrand still better overall

[u/_dizzee_]

Strong, viable, balanced and fun build. If someone prefers to play it over Firebrand in my group, I'm cool with that.

But a lot of it's utility is locked behind different legends and 1 of your legends is mandatory for quickness. It doesn't feel great having to make trade-offs, especially when other classes - Firebrand do not.

If you want the utility that Herald brings in your party, then I don't see the benefit of bringing Heal Quick Herald over a DPS Quick Herald currently.

[u/[deleted]]

Heal Herald is good and better than most people give it credit for, but at the end of the day, you don't have aegis and stability comes at a much greater tradeoff than it does for HB/Mech. Personally, I don't think the Jalis tradeoff is as bad as most people make it out to be, but some groups use the Aegis for specific mechanics and not being able to provide that will keep this out of meta for the really hardcore groups even when nothing else will.

[u/YasaiTsume]

Just look at the boons in the thumbnail and you will know how it compares to Healbrand.

Healbrand would have eaten into the space where the character is posing with the boons and other unique utility they have.

But don't let this discourage you: Heal Herald is still pretty good. It's Healbrand that's overtuned af.

[u/lanerdofchristian]

It's a flavorful, but slightly worse version of HB, best used for niche comps where its unique utility would be needed anyway. It can't do as many things as once, can't as easily build a massive quickness buffer, can't do its unique utility and give quickness at the same time, doesn't have nearly as good of a hybrid build for low-pressure scenarios where more damage is useful, and is still miles better than heal scrapper.

TBH, though, most groups would benefit more from running either an HB (in fractals and most strikes for maximum role compression), or a Druid (since there's not much a heal herald can do that a power quick also can't, and the DPS alacs don't have nearly the same utility or CC).

I don't do Fractals, so I primarily see Heal Herald on the following fights:

• Twin Largos, where it has better uptime of everything without Alacrity, and alac mirage or condi alac mech scale well with confusion damage.
• Aetherblade CM, where bubble is nice. My group subbed out one HB for a herald here because they wanted to play it.
• (rarely) XJJ CM. This one is kind of a tossup, IMO, since two HBs bringing Sanctuary is really good for clearing Snakes and CCing the eye and ritual target simultaneously.

Outside of that, I see HB on KC CM, SH, River, Q1 CM, Deimos CM, and 50/50 on wing 7 (ham is also common here, and druid can do it well enough while being able to range CC and rez while tanking).

[u/Xanasthiel]

I tank raids on heal herald and I love it. It's so effortless, especially with the trait that gives you 1500 barrier every 3 seconds for achieving the difficult task of having boons.

Also tablet 10k heals go brrrr

[u/m00ndoggies]

It is my favorite build in the game. Yes you have to make tradeoffs to provide certain utility, but I think that is a strong design choice that something like heal firebrand lacks, for better or worse. You can swap out a traitline and/or hero to adapt to any encounter you wish, and you hold the privilege of running condi or power. The Ventari tablet is also just a really fun concept for a healer.