Low Intensity Herald Guide: Easy DPS Or DPS + Quickness 

Other Low Intensity Build Guides: mukluklabs.com/gw2-builds/#LiBuilds Pure DPS Build Link: [&DQkPKgM2NDbcEQAA1BEAACsSAAAGEgAAyhEAAAIDAADUESsSBhIAAAAAAAACMgBZAAA=] Quickness Build Link: [&DQkPKgM2NBbcEQAA1BEAACsSAAAGEgAAyhEAAAIDAADUESsSBhIAAAAAAAACMgBZAAA=] Edit: Tested after the nerfs to greatsword 1 and greatsword 2 on Sept 26th 2023, the build still did 26-29k dps in "pure damage" mode, and 22-26k dps in "quickness" mode after the nerfs. Still viable if you wish to use it!

Thanks for the updated LI build! Hope to see more for the other classes :)

This was so much easier to understand than the Signet build- though that one is fantastic.. this is more my style for sure. LI allows me to just have fun and not worry about missing my rotation.

I love to see these and hope we eventually see LI builds for every spec in the game. Maybe consider a LI playlist for each profession?

I love LI builds!! this is great, going to share it in a few places!

Hey Muk, nice guide! Happy to see you cover one of my favourite specs. I'd like to touch on a couple important notes, both for the low intensity and the meta build since they can be very useful. For the LI dps build, you'll want to keep the F2 active as much as possible, as this will provide you an extra 5% dps from the trait, as well as lifesteal for yourself and allies when on Shiro. Try to avoid using the road or taunt, as these take away from available energy for hammers, which gives 15% damage boost while active. For the support build I'd like to touch on the main reasons for upgrading to Glint as soon as possible. As a support you're expected to do more than simply quickness, and Glint gives you access to far greater boon uptimes, as well as fury, might, swiftness, protection and regen, all in a 600 radius, as well as a damage boost from burst of strength which can be carried over to Shiro. Glint also helps the alacrity provider by passively granting 20% extra boon duration, and 3 second boon extension. While this LI build is great for learning, it misses so much in terms of support potential for herald. That said this is an amazing guide for those looking to get into herald in SotO, and I highly recommend this spec to anyone looking to play a dps support.

I am so glad you made this video. I played GW2 years ago and returned very recently. I had only played reaper and renegade previously. While I still play them I wanted to try something else and started a second revenant to try herald of vindicator as I bought EOD on return. Once I leveled up to add a specialization, I found Glint to be baffling and hard on the finger joints. As a result I basically stopped playing herald.. Since I already leveled both revs using Shiro/Jalis this build was like mana from heaven. Hope to branch out eventually into fully utilizing Glint but at least I feel like I can apply quickness and still do some damage now. Many thanks.

Perfect guide for an Li build! Another advise: try to not only doubletap f2 - try to keep it active too for the whole time! While it may need more upkeep you have more benefits from it plus your legend is always ready before you run out of energy Dwarf gives a flat 10% dmg reduction on top of protection which helps healers immensely and shiro gives with life steal a bit more dps for the whole group! And you can still doubletap if you need stability or boon strip! Its a bonus without any drawbacks 😊

I'm glad to see that low intensity builds aren't completely dead. I got back into the game because of LI builds.

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"More brain wrinkles to spare" ... Ok, this caught me off guard 😀

I was going to offer my guild mates quickness support for ages and couldn't make up my mind. this video finalised it. thanks again, Muk & team. one question: is it permissable to swap staff for hammer? the only thing the staff seems good for is CC (granted, very powerful CC) but more often than not one needs to put some distance between boss and oneself. hammer #5 is just 200 defiance bar damage compared to theoretically 1350 from staff #5, *IF* you hit the target 9 times, the maximum possible. the hammer can still do something useful from a distance, the staff not so much

Nice guide as always. Something Herald can do pretty well that you didn't mention is projectile protection esp. for the two Djinns in wing 7.

Bold of you to make this 5 days before the balance patch, i dont think this one is surviving unfortunately.

Do you think you'll give a go at LI support setups in the future? I think it would be cool to see how far those types of builds can be simplified down to the core aspects, since they tend to be more button intensive than DPS builds. Heal alac mechanism can be reduced down to 4 (5, technically) buttons - F2 for alac, barrier signet, f3, and then med kit AA to spritz people (hence 5 buttons, since they gotta press heal skill -> then 1 for the AA) if they're suffering. The only real potential issue there is the positioning required for mech f3, but setting the mech to passive and just hugging your group will make it hit most everyone it needs to 99% of the time. Mace 2, shield skills (for prot), elixir gun/mortar kit, etc are nice for extra stuff. Swap to scrapper and replace barrier signet with blast gyro and add in barrier gyro if someone is feeling super spicy, and it's basically the same thing except weapon skills instead of mech skills- hammer 5, hammer 3, blast gyro. Ofc that's more complicated since hammer3 needs to be in a field, and if there ins't one available the player would need to know to press another gyro or something, but maybe these kinds of simplified support builds would be helpful. IIRC it's all been DPS and DPS-boon builds so far.

Quick herald beats quickbrand so hard that I've benched my quickbrand. If someones just out of range or dodges while I'm casting they just miss out, even if we are more closely stacked. Compared to a 100% uptime on my herald..I don't even need to pay attention to it

Hi, with the recent GS nerf, does SW/SW better ?

how come I do like 5k less dps with same build and rotation?

Is this viable with dual swords? I don't have the latest expansion, I can't use GS.

Muk is amazing

Is it provides 100% quickness to the group?

Condi Mechansit is probably the best Li build there is including Condi Alac Mechanist. You run Flamethrower Turret instead of Kits which has 37k benchmark 😂 the Alac variant is +25k which is good for new players. You spam 234 and now and then 90 tough you skip 9 if you play alac.

I missed your LI guides. Hope next one is scourge without weapon swap lol

Ur a legend

Hey Muk, how is this possible? I tried the build that you showed in the video but it won't let me use the GS.

Is GS so much better than 2xSwords? I'm pretty used to play 2xSwords, tho I don't mind giving GS a try.

Is this still a good LI build as of current patch?

Seems to still be working atm

No Glint for Quick variation?

so, just getting back into the game. how do you use greatsword without being the new spec?

Greatsword with herald? how?

is this viable to open world for noobs?

I made a 10k DPS build where all you do is auto attack lol

Scrapper crying in the corner

I don't get it lol

That's great but you're using Legendary gears! Not everyone has their or ascended...

Is this already nerfed? I Dont see the quickness at the trait

Is it weird that I'm excited for a nerf patch?

As someone who has autism and has a hard time learning things in this game due to it, builds like this are my favorite because I don't need to get hyper-aggressive and learn rotations and whatnot I just wish ANet had like, an autism awareness title that I can use that tells my team that I have autism Just so people could have some understanding as to why I have a hard time learning

Please stop making videos on this I do not want the guild wars 2 team to take away my favorite build in the expansion lol Love the videos man husband one of my favorite games for years definitely this is one of my favorite builds to play right now