Heal Herald will be the new Heal Mech/Healbrand

[Kuma.1503]

If Chrono is being forced to choose between quickness and Alac, Herald will be the only class capable of providing Quickness AND Alacrity thanks to Salvation. 

This, on top of bringing fury, ~10-12 stacks of might, protection, empowered regen, swiftness, and some vigor. It will also be able to bring assassin's presence, projectile reflects, great breakbar damage, cleanses, and phenomenal burst healing output. 

Unless Revenant loses Alacrity in Salvation, Herald will be STACKED. 

Edited June 22, 2022 by Kuma.1503

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

8 minutes ago, Kuma.1503 said:

If Chrono is being forced to choose between quickness and Alac, Herald will be the only class capable of providing Quickness AND Alacrity thanks to Salvation. 

This, on top of bringing fury, ~10-12 stacks of might, protection, empowered regen, swiftness, and some vigor. It will also be able to bring assassin's presence, projectile reflects, great breakbar damage, cleanses, and phenomenal burst healing output. 

Unless Revenant loses Alacrity in Salvation, Herald will be STACKED. 

That's a lot of energy though to upkeep all of that.

[Kuma.1503]

1 minute ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

That's a lot of energy though to upkeep all of that.

True, but they may start running Charged Mists to compensate. Plus Glint isn't that energy intensive

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

Just now, Kuma.1503 said:

True, but they may start running Charged Mists to compensate. Plus Glint isn't that energy intensive

Maintaining the elite along with the other ones is though. But then some smart juggling of the upkeep skills may work with F2.

[Kuma.1503]

4 minutes ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

Maintaining the elite along with the other ones is though. But then some smart juggling of the upkeep skills may work with F2.

That brings up a good question. Will draconic Echo still have it's current effect? If not  Herald becomes a lot more energy starved. 

If it does, you should be able to maintain perma prot by just double tapping with Dragonic echo and legend swapping on CD. It's already close to permenant on power herald with no boon duration by letting it tick for one auto attack chain then tapping it again and letting Echo do the rest. 

Edited June 22, 2022 by Kuma.1503

[Vidit.7108]

IDK, I'm pretty skeptical of that. If people find a way to provide might, fury, protection, quick and alacrity, and still heal, something is getting nerfed. Taking ventari still means no stability though. HealQuick Herald would still probably pair better with other alac providers than a heal scrapper does.

[Dahkeus.8243]

I doubt this, highly.  
 

Quick will only come from Herald, which can’t provide the Orders alc that Renegade has and it can’t prolong the Ventari quickness like Vindicator can.  Will it be able to provide some alac with quickness?  Maybe, but not likely to be 100% and that’s assuming it will still have Ventari alac after the salvation line changes.

[mindcircus.1506]

4 hours ago, Kuma.1503 said:

If Chrono is being forced to choose between quickness and Alac, Herald will be the only class capable of providing Quickness AND Alacrity thanks to Salvation. 

This, on top of bringing fury, ~10-12 stacks of might, protection, empowered regen, swiftness, and some vigor. It will also be able to bring assassin's presence, projectile reflects, great breakbar damage, cleanses, and phenomenal burst healing output. 

Unless Revenant loses Alacrity in Salvation, Herald will be STACKED. 

If you think they are leaving the alac in Centaur stance, you are smoking that good stuff.

[draxynnic.3719]

Reeeeeally depends on implementation. Unless they're completely discarding the Draconic Echo theme, for instance, maintaining quickness will probably require consuming facets as quickly as possible, which will likely make it hard to make use of Charged Mists.

It'll probably be like where they're going with chrono, where you can do either with the specialisation, but in practice you can't really do both in one build. Or they'll just remove the alacrity from Ventari.

[Obtena.7952]

In theory .. this build exists. In practice, not a chance most people could reliably pull it off. 

Edited June 23, 2022 by Obtena.7952

[Aeolus.3615]

On 6/23/2022 at 3:36 AM, mindcircus.1506 said:

If you think they are leaving the alac in Centaur stance, you are smoking that good stuff.

I dont think Anet will leave tablet boons as they are,  btw tablet also can provide a puny 1 migh on alacrity apliance.

Im expecting loss of alacrity for other boons, thing is if tablet starts to provide several boons means for every boon will also provide might.

Edited June 24, 2022 by Aeolus.3615

[lunaeclipse.6843]

Herald already can not maintain permanent alacrity. Wont happen. + you have to give up jalis stability, which heal mech does not have to trade off for.

[aymnad.9023]

I have not seen a healer herald in a while. It reminds me of the first raid training commander I met (many years ago). The healing was really good and he kept boons well.

I am not sure it will be meta, we need to see how they can keep the boons in a group (maybe in coordinated squads with something to extend boon durations?), but if they keep pushing boons on the dps builds (might / fury) it could be easy to play and strong.

Edited June 24, 2022 by aymnad.9023

[Zhaid Zhem.6508]

Quickness herald would already be good if others facets are unchanged.  Don't forget herald also gives +20% BD or +2sec to the group with facet of nature, which is nice buff for support renegade, mechanist etc.