Secretly Overpowered BOON LORD HERALD Build Guide!

[@SierraMike8633]

I found this to be one of the best explanations of the Herald role and how it serves your role in groups. You have a way of explaining the uses of utilities and skills in a way that gives a better sense of role than most guides and videos. I hope you did more of these and update some of the videos that have been overtaken by game changes in balance patches. Thanks.

[@VirtuesOfSin]

"Thanks Crono for those awesome boons" - RIP Herald.

[@vond5829]

Some heroes don't wear capes

[@aizza2506]

Thanks for giving me the chance to work on this project with you! Such a fun build to play and one of my favorites

[@oddslod6807]

thanks for the help with all the footage, couldn't have done this without you!

[@imagorilla95]

This was an awesome guide and I'm definitely going to learn how to play this build. Might hit you up with some questions about it if you don't mind Aizza

[@dantepeterson556]

I love how passionate this video is. You clearly love it. I was looking for an open world herald build and I definitely found it haha.

[@nadine5616]

This is my main build, I play all the time I find it more survivable in almost all situations you find yourself in, I can fight my way out. Thank you for shedding a light on this awesome build

[@KidDynamite22]

Just levelled a Herald on a second Rev mostly for flavour and there is a relatively small amount of PVE info on Herald, this makes me happy thanks Teapot!

[@TooMuchInfoToTrust]

@MightyTeapot, this video is damn awesome!!! I haven't seen such good breakdowns of builds/elites very often. As somebody trying to pick up Herald (150h of mainly renegade and vindicator vs 1400h on my Guard) this video is super inspirational, expecially digested alongside Muk's "LI quickHerald", Hizen's "Stomp PvE" meme builds and MrMystics "faceroll to DPS boonspam" build. Those vids are all great builds - but lack the detail and depth of this. This was just really great; thanks :)

[@alphaxneo]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees herald

[@devduguay2814]

revenant is honestly the hardest class to play in gw2. Its like a thief, but with power management, double clicking's, and cooldowns.

[@shadycat8898]

I was a noob and now I am a boon

[@ominous0803]

best comment

[@theblackspark2644]

lol what

[@skollybob]

Lol quality 1🤣🤣

[@Grayard]

This is what I needed, I felt like herald was not worth my time but I think that I was wrong and I want to give it a try to this build. Thanks You very much

[@LLPTV]

Teapot sounding like he started smoking pack a day

[@skollybob]

He might do for all the Carries he does 🤣🤣

[@njorun1829]

As a Herald main that often feels underestimated, I thank you.

[@FreeDoM_nl]

great video! Loved the plaguedoc one and that build was amazing so I cant wait to give this one a try!

[@Uninteruptable]

Only thing forgoten here is that not only dwarf stability , but also Centaur find its uses for high upkeep proejctile block , that trivializes some fights , like a certain strike mission :D Otherwis good job :D

[@amisfitpuivk]

I was playing this on Samarog for a while and it was really good. The main problem for me is all the Herald boons are usually covered already and the Prot isn't very useful in many fights if people know the fight. It really should just make 25 might and have a concrete role in a squad. It's so hard to fit optimally, and now I can just swap to Renegade (unless we need a push) and do even more damage. For starter raids it's great, but the better people get, the more redundant Herald is imo

[@isam8579]

>As soon as people know you can play alacrity rev, there is no escape Story of my life since 2019 😔

[@Howluffu]

I have a trick for this. I don't actually have renegade spec fully unlocked nor the gear. So either they kick me or they are fine with my herald :) probably the first one :(

[@saulius614]

You can escape the jail

[@danieborja5042]

Same but Druid

[@JRZTT]

I love Healing Herald lol, more than Rev at least XD

[@cloudricklloyd1]

I have literally played this build for the last 5 years haha. My go to. Glad to see it getting some attention.

[@FractalFab]

Is it still viable (are you still playing it) ? I heard some nerfs came after this video

[@cudanny]

I've basically been running this build for the past year or so without really realizing it! It started as power Rev and I tweaked the traits to make it a bit more comfortable for group content

[@davidbaker805]

Pug squads dont realize how important prot uptime is and this build can really change the win/loss chances of each boss just from helping boon uptime

[@skollybob]

Totally agree David

[@lysine_my]

renegade can also maintain 100% protection uptime with kalla. this build is mostly taken in pugs where boon uptimes are patchy. in statics. you pretty much maintain 100% fury and 25 might for most of encounter, while protection uptimes are generally high. with druid, hb and ren

[@davidbaker805]

@@lysine_my why I said pugs

[@JeffHzak]

Nice boon uptime Druid :)

[@arkanaloth2617]

I will HAVE to play with this in open world, which is where I mostly run... I love Revvy and this just sounds like a great setup.

[@aviatejazii1738]

would say this is a build u could use in fracs too?

[@invadecanadanow]

I've loved holo and berserker and scourge over the years but damn... PBH may be my favorite build in this game

[@yuriboyka9927]

From Noob Lord to Boon Lord in few simple steps.

[@John-qo1kh]

great video, very informative and exciting to watch, hope for more vid like this.

[@robin4677]

chrono support facet of nature herald was already a thing back before w2 release

[@iNioiiviiaiNie]

Com asks u if u can alacren as u have full div gear setup, me: BOON LORD

[@fliessa4950]

Yay boon herald guide is finally here ^^

[@Contam]

this is just condi tempest but for sloth and samarog

[@griffon8952]

1 thing: herald(and probably revenant overall) require time to learn how to manage your energy because if you don't - your own class punish you more than boss mechanics or mobs

[@skollybob]

Agreed, bin persisting at rev for a while but damn its tricky.

[@mattortue]

His heal version is probably the best healer/boon right now. You can provide 900/s perma regen + perma prot,speed,fury + some might for 10, huge cc available, 20% more boon in herald. In ventari, you have an 2k regen when you add regen+F2+tablet passiv without using any skill. If you want to be the only healer/boon, you probably need a miralac to provide might. On low pressure boss, you can swich ventari to Shiro, to provide +2k dps group with F2 life steal. Regen is the first healing output on all healer class. With a such high regen, you praticly don't need any heal. Boss in raid don't attack really often so regen will proc mutiple time between 2 stricks. In term of heal, HScg is best because it's best to prevent damage. But if you have both (Herald heal/boon + HScg), you're squad is just invincible. Regen proc under you barrier.

[@skarnexonline4446]

Got discord?? Very much wanna play this!!

[@faramund9865]

Rev has such cool aspects, but it’s stuck on the lamest build imaginable with alacregade. Alacrity share on Kalla is such a jank shoehorn design. And the legend is otherwise so boring... On top there’s ONE cool skill on your weaponset and you don’t use it because it’s a dps loss, awesome. Even Glint/Jalis boonsupport back in the day felt less jank.

[@skollybob]

Teapot ur a legend man, keep up the vids mate👍👍

[@trevorcoates918]

Fun Fact: Dance of death is even MORE broken underwater because the underwater skills are loaded with vuln, much more than the land weapons. And I really mean a lot of vuln. Trident 5 is up to 22 vuln stacks, 50% chance per hit. Trident 2 is 8 on a 6 sec cd, the autos apply vuln. Spear 2 is 8 vuln on a 5 sec cd.

[@Metallex]

On the one had, Alacrity Rev jail. On the other, press F4 to win.

[@Crowmeda]

MAKING THIS RI8GHT NOW, was running similar to this blindly

[@Firepingwin1000]

This is very close to my own build, except I play with Sentinel Gear as a tanky boy, Glint + Jalis. The spinning hammers also triggers Shiro's vamp stacks. 33% damage reduction + 20% damage reduction + Perma quickness upkeep, life is good.

[@otakuribo]

Rev has always been my weakest class but you've just about convinced me to give it another go!

[@neurosis404]

I mainly play condi Rev, but I had an old Power Herald build lying around that I modified to this boon build. So far it is fun, but I'm having serious issues with surviving, battle scars don't heal as much as I need. Did you try to play this build with celestial gear? I could imagine that it is quite powerful, even if you trade in damage, but you'd get a lot of concentration, sustain and heal.

[@MightyTeapot]

Use your defensives wisely, between staff, shiro and glint heal you have huge defensive tools!

[@neurosis404]

@@MightyTeapot Thanks for your answer. I quickly farmed a whole set of Celestial (bladed armor) and I'm really happy with it. The damage in open world is still fine on Shiro and even Glint, and when running Metas, people benefit from better boon uptime :) And sustain is obviously way better. Still running ranged renegade with torment runes for tough situations tho until I can handle the herald better

[@tvrdy3]

Just made my herald. Is this still viable?

[@NikTheFury]

Does rising momentum stack with swiftness or superspeed? Some say yes, some say no. Any confirmed info available pls?

[@MightyTeapot]

It won't make you go faster than superspeed because superspeed is the 'movement speed cap' but it will stack with everything else!

[@trevorcoates918]

Use sword and staff whirl finishers in lighting fields while standing inside enemy hitboxes for more Battle Scar damage. Now for the impractical Lifesteal Rev advice; For even more battle scars, you can run sigil of frailty. If you want to go nuts on lifesteal as a rev, also take a sigil of leaching (weapon swap runes also proc on legend swap), take Grieving stats and torment runes, with Shiro/malyx. Battle scars cannot crit, so they only need power. Now go underwater with a trident, and put out as much vuln and torment as you can. Use mallyx elite and trident 3 for dark fields so your projectiles gain extra lifesteal with your multihit projectiles. If your luck is perfect, you could use trident 5 and put out 24 stacks of battle scars, and 24 lifesteal procs, or 24 more vuln with a lightning field instead.

[@Zyga21]

"oh you're playing boon herald? swap to alacren."

[@remydantes12]

Compared this to shortbow + axe & mace cRen Rev, which one is better for open world? It seems more for a team play, possible to make it a solo build for open world?

[@samsquanch934]

Does this work in pvp?

[@ItsTavs]

cant i just use assassin runes to get to the crit cap? if so it would make the axe warrior and boon heralds gearing almost identical

[@philipj.fredholm5147]

Changing out Invocation for Retribution and going Spiritual Reckoning- Resolute Evasion - Vicious Reprisal allowed me to easily maintain 25 might on myself on my alacrev running full diviner's. Do you know if this works on full berserker's as well?

[@skarnexonline4446]

How much dps is rhat

[@magnapeccatrix]

One question. True Nature has description that says increases applied boons for 2 seconds but in video it's said to increase by %20. I already checked wiki and no changes to ability since video is posted. Can someone explain to me why 2 seconds regarded as 20% boon uptime in the video? Ty.

[@MightyTeapot]

The passive f2 is what we're talking about here! You don't want to activate the ability a second time, just leave it being upkept!

[@GOLDFingazZz]

any chance i can make this work with celestial? (budget build for 80 boosted character)

[@Stinger05]

My church's livestream was taken down for showing 30 seconds of the bee movie...

[@vanrottn2356]

10/10 for open world events. -10/10 if seen in any other content thanks to people not actually beeing that terrible to have decent boon uptime. Love how when someone in your pug is just bad you can talk to them, maybe sort them out with some quick exotic/food option/buildadvice/rotationadvice/kick and the problem is resolved without bringing a noobherald.

[@xezzee]

The funny part is that when 10 target boon application got nerfed and everyone lost their 10 target unique stuff Herald 20% Boon Duration is still 10 target. Raid Wing 7 was interesting to run Heal Quick Herald in full Celestial which some how was more than enough healing. You take Centaur on the first two bosses and Dwarf for the last one. I think full minstrel would be better for Tanking but hey, that is the old 10 target ala condi renegade stats :D I got to use my old gear without stat swapping yay.

[@elizabethsimpson9631]

This was 2 years ago. Is it still worth playing after all the recent nerfs ?

[@MightyTeapot]

Yes, slightly different build now though

[@AntofaEsAzulxd]

If i only play Fractals (max t3 until now) and open world, is this viable? i really want to play something that deal damage and support with boons. I was going to make a FB condi quickness until i saw this video haha

[@Bunnyblaster12]

Open world zergs this build is absurdly good. In fractals it will fall pretty short though (in CMs at least) and I would not recommend it there. It will be fine in T4s, but almost any build is fine in T4s so that is not a good metric.

[@dw22509]

Animal planet needs to hire you as a narrator.

[@aconcretemoth9382]

dont most herald boons and facet effects only affect 5 players now? or was that a wvw only change

[@DrKlenk-cx4hx]

Only wvw&pvp

[@solarvslunar]

is there a wvw version of this?

[@tylerking439]

I'll just stick to my Celestial/Viper Renegade which is a very strong solo build for just about everything in the Open World. Massive DPS, super high self-sustain, fun skill floor to learn and play, and just very overpowered in general when used properly. Herald is subpar in comparison.

[@tylerking439]

@@Moo.1336 invocation 222, devastation 333, renegade 223, celestial everything, mix and match viper pieces as needed for extra DPS, and superior runes of tormenting for mad sustain. Pretty flexible with legend choices as well.

[@fendox3845]

very cool

[@Wymhero]

hey, why sigil of air?

[@MightyTeapot]

Because the overall dps of the build is relatively low, air sigil outperforms the 3% from impact

[@insertthecoinz]

what dps thingy is that? :)

[@NicotheRM]

so without Ranger/Banner I get these 3 assassin pieces and without BOTH I get in total these 6? btw, why exactly these 6 pieces?

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

each type of equipment gives different amounts of each stat. But like he said if you aren't using ascended/legendary just go full berserkers gear.

[@Darkz.-]

looks fun

[@CadeAid1]

the boon lord is dead

[@m__zombi]

Is this build viable for solo open world?

[@MightyTeapot]

Yeah it’s super strong for it too because of the lifesteal and self boons!

[@m__zombi]

@@MightyTeapot thanks! im gonna learn the rotations for this build as i love the herald.

[@dirtnap9641]

Ive been running with sword/ axe and demon instead of assassin. Feels good, but thats just in open-world pve. Im returning from since vanilla so Im experiencing the game.

[@faramund9865]

It’s hard for me to imagine the place and time for this build given the fact that Druids or Healbrands give all of those boons already.

[@ghostapi874]

In almost every pug raid, if you look at the boon uptime afterwards. It is pretty bad.

[@Draxynnic]

In theory with good players, yes. In practice, with a ten-player group, this build does a pretty good job of covering any gaps in boon coverage, still does decent DPS if you run Shiro (because of Facet of Nature: Shiro spread across ten players on top of your personal DPS), does not rely on a strict rotation and thus is less impacted by things that can disrupt a rotation, can facetank some things that will down more specialised builds, and is probably one of the best builds for continuing to contribute while dealing with a mechanic. Like alacrigade, too, it has flexibility to switch to another core legend if that will help with a specific issue presented by an encounter. Which is not to say that it's a must-include, but sometimes having a bit of redundancy at a small DPS lost is a good trade.

[@aviatejazii1738]

@@Draxynnic would say this is a build u could use in fracs too?

[@Draxynnic]

@@aviatejazii1738 Less useful because the ten-player part is irrelevant, and you probably wouldn't bring it if you were looking to set records, but it's still a decent DPS with a bit of utility.

[@3Tomatoess]

this man will SAVE gw2

[@MightyTeapot]

G A M I N G

[@sprites75]

i'll have to watch this like 3 times to really understand the build but yeah. with legendary armore i'll soon have one

[@viegasvitor]

so as boon herald main for years am i just a noob??????

[@noobamsteuer4002]

hay teapot, please start mentioning Curry Butternut squash soup instead of having different gear (to replace spotter or Precision banner). that is MUCH more affordable and doesnt clutter your inventory as much.

[@skollybob]

The robed lord will always go ascended food my friend.

[@bagels6271]

whoa gamer

[@RainbowSkyDancer]

herald is totally ace. i play a cele herald, just wow...

[@skollybob]

What format do you play that in? Just out of interest 1😊😊

[@RainbowSkyDancer]

@@skollybob bit of everything, except PvP

[@SeuRafinha]

Still working?

[@Identificador757]

Not anymore. 5 players only on Facet of Nature now.

[@NoggDogYT]

Love how after this video came out I saw at least 4 separate Heralds running it as DPS in W1-4, and none of them were good at it. As in, Banner did more damage kind of bad.

[@MightyTeapot]

Banners should do more damage than this build! It's a support/dps hybrid!

[@DrKlenk-cx4hx]

@@MightyTeapot banners are support build aswell. They have decent boon output, strong cc and generate 4500-6500 raw stats permanently,for free. + The ability to get a ranged insta rez

[@RexxyRobin]

I managed 5k DPS with this build xD Guess I will have to do some training

[@HelgeM1407]

Keep in mind that you can only reach these damage numbers (25k or 30+k) with a proper golem setup, granting you all boons and many class buffs. Also, the golem will have all conditions including 25 vulnerability, meaning 25% damage increase for you.

[@b1ngnx33]

Anet watches MT to find out what to nerf.

[@deadbard796]

Love this build and it's pretty much what I use on my Herald main, too bad it seems like I'm the only one liking it and never find a good spot in a party. The big issue is probably the fact that despite being absurdly awesome at buffing and keeping up buffs while maintaining a very respectable DPS most compositions already have more than enough sources of the buffs you pulse and they'd rather have alacrity, quickness or just pure DPS

[@tmeuscarmine2580]

Auta bot pog

[@LCAyoutube]

I love herald ;_;

[@ethans7567]

Rev is the most op class atm

[@saulius614]

You havent seen guardians and scourges then

[@skollybob]

Scourge and guardians sit and laugh!!!

[@Kelthoras1]

Assassin's Presence has been reworked: is no longer a unique boon (a common fury provider now)

[@Nytrusdeathcyde]

i was gona use this then you said its a support i wana deal high dps not support =/

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

then play condition weaver

[@SnoreBearz]

because of this Elementalist gonna be nerfed again

[@MrToxic0]

WICKED GAMING

[@Angeels]

Advice: Play this build

[@Muten1988]

Nice meme, but seriously, give us the real build? :)

[@lowanatpeace]

I'm confused is this not the build guide?

[@teodorkrustev2729]

25k at Sama, really cute ^^

[@Saskiarxo]

😁

[@lowanatpeace]

What do I call this in lfg? Loll boon lord ?

[@gizzle1990]

ebin :D

[@billylorsung7566]

This is just meta zerg bust wvw herald

[@brolaf3792]

ppl kick me they just want alac instead >_>

[@skollybob]

You in a guild?

[@JHawke12]

well that makes sense, its overall just easier for a pug to take an alac rev for the ap and alac than gimmick around with this

[@meemigemeemes7875]

I guess this is Not viable anymore?

[@NikeDnT]

Yet another build stolen from me by another content creator.

[@CallenIGuess]

Is it not probable that they just made similar builds? gw2 builds aren't exactly the most complex things.

[@NikeDnT]

@@CallenIGuess Not in this case, clear plagarism.

[@weaselteat]

Yup. When you take out the differences between your build and this one they're exactly the same.

[@ghostapi874]

A clear attempt to steal intel from condor dusk to aid eagle dawn.

[@NikeDnT]

@@weaselteat why dont you enumerate the vast differences?

[@Arknoodle]

2nd

[@Tom_makes]

3th

[@Howluffu]

No pls no pls no pls nooooooo. Now they will nerf it!!(if it is possible to nerf it more...). R.I.P. soon my dear herald :(

[@stefanlaurentiu7084]

They will not. They give birth to staff mirage witch can provide 25 might and alac to 10 player while doing 35 k dps and you aonly need to pres 1. You don't need to be sad my friend

[@DrKlenk-cx4hx]

It's already dead :D