As an experienced heal firebrand I actually recently swapped fom staff to spear and it is much better. One thing fb lacks is a good amount of sustain healing like druid or scourge and spamming spear 1 is provides constant healing and you also have the other boons that the spear skills provide.
Firebrand doesn't lack sustain at all, it has: - Regen ticking. - Tome 2 passive (with Loremaster and Absolute Resolve). - Tons of symbols on the ground (Axe/Mace 2, Staff 2, Lesser Symbol of Protection empowered by the trait Writ of Persistence). - Infinite amount of pages to spam (even more with Weighty Terms) to use 5-4-3 in your tome 2. - Relic of the Flock for on-demand barrier. If you somehow want more healing, there are also the Elite signet and Bows of Truth.
@@sanguin3 Yes but spamming 1 is still faster than having to go through tomes or swapping out your elite skill. And in comparison to druid and scourge, the sustain heal on firebrand is lower. As I said, I experience that the spear is better. You should try it.
@@SilhouetteGaming1 oh no man, have mostly played ele and casually at that on and off for 7 years now xD, life doesn't let me do much in game but it's still one of my favourites! Feel free to ignore my spam comments, i mostly upload them for the tiny boost but i prefer to be encouraging in them than just gibberish most of the time. Have a good one
Gonna give my super secret DH build away (literally just an old snowcrows one) that I like better than the current one: Berserker's shoulders and one ring with the rest of the gear being full assassin's to reach 75% crit chance. DH runes and relic, and force/accuracy sigils. Virtues 1-1-3, Zeal 2-2-3, and DH 3-2-3. What makes this better imo is the virtues trait that gives you a group stun break with your f3. Not sure about how much of a damage loss it is compared to radiance, but considering it used to be meta it should be pretty negligible, especially since spear 4's burst is insane compared to longbow.
Main difference is between virtues vs radiance is the requirement of ageis for a damage buff, where radiance requires resolution instead which is easier and more reliable to maintain. But yeah overall it's negligible.
5:32 I'm confused. You say to use 2/1/1 on qFB heal and then follow up by saying use only 2 charges on your mantra's which makes Weighty Terms pointless. Do you mean 2/3/3? For legendary lore & loremaster.
This is the metabuild I still use 2/2/3 I think. I have more comprehensive heal FB videos which talk about the trait selection overall. Definitely check those ones out!
Really wish they updated the Hammer to make it more of a viable support weapon. For dragon hunter, the dragon stats are really nice to have a bit extra vitality. The low health pool and little defense they have makes it feel a bit better in non-group pve to have that extra bit of health from gear
Been looking for solo builds and seems Condi Firebrand or Condi Willbender are the most on point ones. Maybe people can with the power builds but running 13K HP is a pass for me.
Amazing video as always Sil! Can we get Revenant soon? ^^ Just updated my herald build with your video and I would love to see your opinion on the whole class with the latest patch. Much love my man, your content is amazing. ❤
@@mrksgo6122 i dont dig just watching infinite guides / reading stuff or going just for whats meta. Sil is just some1 I enjoy watching and I somehow trust what I see / enjoy it. Therefore.. ^^
@garytheviking don't worry it's coming! Rev is one of my personal favorites andris in a good spot for almost all the roles available to it! Stay tuned!
@garytheviking i can make a video about the communities i hang with, but i frankly don't play enough to maintain or build a community myself. But I will advertise the communities i do interact with for those who do want to swing by. As nice as it would be to format a discord server and build a guild and stuff- off peak hours and short play windows don't really facilitate that kind of project. But there are already established ones that work for me as a member, and would be good for others as well.
for the dragonhunter, is it ok to go with dragons armor, berserker jewelery and assassins weapons? its what I got atm, or should I realy get berserkers weapons? and Im having a hard time letting go of the dragons armor because of the vitality. Or will i just realy do bad damage if i keep it
@internaut4257 as long as you have enough precision you should be alright without looking at the numbers or running it through the golem it's hard to tell. Download arcdps and check it out. Seems like it would be alright tbh but I don't have any way of knowing for sure without data
Do you think there are any other weapons that work fine for DH other than Longbow? I know people used to run sword/focus ages ago but have no clue how bad that is now. Spear got gutted this patch and I fucking hate going back to playing with Longbow after playing Spear, with how easy it is to cancel everything on LB.
I guess both options exist, but are they meta? If you needed an alac dps you're likely going to go condi alac or chrono. I'll cover those builds when we get there, last time I saw either of those builds played in pugs? Pre-Soto.
@@SilhouetteGaming1 i played alot of alac bladesworn in pug. And haven't had much problems. Only thing is low on CC. But you could always go dagger main hand for more 250 breakbar dmg, for a low dps loss. Alac bladesworn sworn has a great dps bench and pretty bursty for fractals. Also the 600 range alac range is great for people who are spreading in pug... Mechanic have a 32k bench on power alac. Haven't played it, so can't say much about it.
@Newman11111 ill definitely check them both out and give my thoughts when I make it to warrior and engineer! I do feel like they are both non meta, but I'll check em out none the less.
Quick question - I'm a returning player and used to play condi Firebrand, which used to be outright broken with the burst/cleave and utility option. Is firebrand not used as much anymore and will bender just an upgrade? Or is pure dps firebrand still good?
Condi fb as a dps option is still fine if you know how to play it, it just isn't as good as Condi Virt for most encounters, the Cwillbender is just significantly easier to play than the CFirebrand. But it's still a good option.
Thank you for this video! I love guardian but i have only pof and hot. Playing as hb atm in fractals. I cant use pistols :/ What you think about condi firebrand dps to do fractals? Isnt good?
I have a question - power dragonhunter - not a big fan of a greatsword, would it be viable to use spear + longbow? I just wanna do normal strikes and fractals up to T4 - not cms
It doesnt rly matter, nobody will kick you for doing mediocre dps in strikes and daily fractals, but longbow is aids, lot of animation locks and weak autos, gs on the other hand is best power weapon and its pretty chill to use. So yeah wouldnt recommend swapping gs for lb, but its not like it will make it unplayable in regular content
A prayer before watching: Please make a build so my my Longbow Dragonhunter can not be crap ... oh ... ... ... it is well that I have become used to disappointment.
@@SilhouetteGaming1 Well, it's more that I just crafted a Legendary Longbow - been working towards it for two years :O My Dragonhunter already has an Ascended one so the stats will be no different of course ... so I NEED a reason to use it as it sells for 2400 Gold on the TP :lol: I do need to redo that Dragonhunters gear I think - I put it together to buff up Concentration but it really gives me very little it seems. I don't know if it's a tool-tip bug or what but it seems to make no difference to anything that I can see on the Class skills or the Utilities. I got around 75% on Resolution duration but that's about all.
@dallassukerkin6878 yeah on a DPS build you want either assassins or berserker for 99% of all builds. Depending on the stats you might be able to use it for heal support or boon support though just not on DH.
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The meta dps build for DH being Dragon's stats, Dragonhunter runes, and Dragonhunter relic is extremely on-brand
@CadeAid1 honestly when putting this together I didn't realize it, but you're 100% correct.
On brand would also fit firebrand
Great video, short and to the point, but very complete with explanations for most of the choices and descriptions of your other, more in depth videos.
As an experienced heal firebrand I actually recently swapped fom staff to spear and it is much better. One thing fb lacks is a good amount of sustain healing like druid or scourge and spamming spear 1 is provides constant healing and you also have the other boons that the spear skills provide.
But you won't have swiftness
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Firebrand doesn't lack sustain at all, it has:
- Regen ticking.
- Tome 2 passive (with Loremaster and Absolute Resolve).
- Tons of symbols on the ground (Axe/Mace 2, Staff 2, Lesser Symbol of Protection empowered by the trait Writ of Persistence).
- Infinite amount of pages to spam (even more with Weighty Terms) to use 5-4-3 in your tome 2.
- Relic of the Flock for on-demand barrier.
If you somehow want more healing, there are also the Elite signet and Bows of Truth.
@@sanguin3 Yes but spamming 1 is still faster than having to go through tomes or swapping out your elite skill. And in comparison to druid and scourge, the sustain heal on firebrand is lower.
As I said, I experience that the spear is better. You should try it.
perfect, thank you very much you made my day and I presume you will be making my day at least
7 more times
@pordoklanian do you play all 9 classes? I will be covering the other 7, so you aren't wrong! (spoiler alert?).
@@SilhouetteGaming1 oh no man, have mostly played ele and casually at that on and off for 7 years now xD, life doesn't let me do much in game but it's still one of my favourites! Feel free to ignore my spam comments, i mostly upload them for the tiny boost but i prefer to be encouraging in them than just gibberish most of the time. Have a good one
Gonna give my super secret DH build away (literally just an old snowcrows one) that I like better than the current one: Berserker's shoulders and one ring with the rest of the gear being full assassin's to reach 75% crit chance.
DH runes and relic, and force/accuracy sigils. Virtues 1-1-3, Zeal 2-2-3, and DH 3-2-3. What makes this better imo is the virtues trait that gives you a group stun break with your f3. Not sure about how much of a damage loss it is compared to radiance, but considering it used to be meta it should be pretty negligible, especially since spear 4's burst is insane compared to longbow.
How do you deal with conditions?
Main difference is between virtues vs radiance is the requirement of ageis for a damage buff, where radiance requires resolution instead which is easier and more reliable to maintain. But yeah overall it's negligible.
5:32 I'm confused. You say to use 2/1/1 on qFB heal and then follow up by saying use only 2 charges on your mantra's which makes Weighty Terms pointless. Do you mean 2/3/3? For legendary lore & loremaster.
This is the metabuild I still use 2/2/3 I think. I have more comprehensive heal FB videos which talk about the trait selection overall. Definitely check those ones out!
Really wish they updated the Hammer to make it more of a viable support weapon.
For dragon hunter, the dragon stats are really nice to have a bit extra vitality. The low health pool and little defense they have makes it feel a bit better in non-group pve to have that extra bit of health from gear
When DH drops that a55 longbow weapon for spear: 😍
Been looking for solo builds and seems Condi Firebrand or Condi Willbender are the most on point ones. Maybe people can with the power builds but running 13K HP is a pass for me.
is celestial Firebrand also good or ill switch to ritualist?
It's still good. Ritualist is more for dps and boons only no additional survivability.
Amazing video as always Sil! Can we get Revenant soon? ^^
Just updated my herald build with your video and I would love to see your opinion on the whole class with the latest patch.
Much love my man, your content is amazing. ❤
so many guides on the dual spear condi renegade / Qherald already tho. Really straight forward builds
@@mrksgo6122 i dont dig just watching infinite guides / reading stuff or going just for whats meta.
Sil is just some1 I enjoy watching and I somehow trust what I see / enjoy it. Therefore.. ^^
@garytheviking don't worry it's coming! Rev is one of my personal favorites andris in a good spot for almost all the roles available to it! Stay tuned!
@@SilhouetteGaming1Ayy my man! When we getting a Sil discord? ❤
@garytheviking i can make a video about the communities i hang with, but i frankly don't play enough to maintain or build a community myself. But I will advertise the communities i do interact with for those who do want to swing by. As nice as it would be to format a discord server and build a guild and stuff- off peak hours and short play windows don't really facilitate that kind of project. But there are already established ones that work for me as a member, and would be good for others as well.
for the dragonhunter, is it ok to go with dragons armor, berserker jewelery and assassins weapons? its what I got atm, or should I realy get berserkers weapons? and Im having a hard time letting go of the dragons armor because of the vitality. Or will i just realy do bad damage if i keep it
@internaut4257 as long as you have enough precision you should be alright without looking at the numbers or running it through the golem it's hard to tell. Download arcdps and check it out. Seems like it would be alright tbh but I don't have any way of knowing for sure without data
Oh yeah Guardian ❤
Do you think there are any other weapons that work fine for DH other than Longbow? I know people used to run sword/focus ages ago but have no clue how bad that is now. Spear got gutted this patch and I fucking hate going back to playing with Longbow after playing Spear, with how easy it is to cancel everything on LB.
Sword focus still works or scepter focus. LB is fine too just use for opener and camp GS.
@@SilhouetteGaming1 Cheers, I'll have a look at those two and see how they play.
Chrono only other power alac?
What about bladesworn and mech?
I guess both options exist, but are they meta? If you needed an alac dps you're likely going to go condi alac or chrono. I'll cover those builds when we get there, last time I saw either of those builds played in pugs? Pre-Soto.
Condi mech is very good right now thanks to spear. And imo very fun to play. Bladesworn still has the same issues sadly
@@SilhouetteGaming1 i played alot of alac bladesworn in pug. And haven't had much problems. Only thing is low on CC. But you could always go dagger main hand for more 250 breakbar dmg, for a low dps loss.
Alac bladesworn sworn has a great dps bench and pretty bursty for fractals.
Also the 600 range alac range is great for people who are spreading in pug...
Mechanic have a 32k bench on power alac. Haven't played it, so can't say much about it.
@Newman11111 ill definitely check them both out and give my thoughts when I make it to warrior and engineer! I do feel like they are both non meta, but I'll check em out none the less.
Power alac tempest is rly strong and probably the best alac dps atm
Quick question - I'm a returning player and used to play condi Firebrand, which used to be outright broken with the burst/cleave and utility option. Is firebrand not used as much anymore and will bender just an upgrade? Or is pure dps firebrand still good?
Condi fb as a dps option is still fine if you know how to play it, it just isn't as good as Condi Virt for most encounters, the Cwillbender is just significantly easier to play than the CFirebrand. But it's still a good option.
Thank you for this video! I love guardian but i have only pof and hot. Playing as hb atm in fractals. I cant use pistols :/ What you think about condi firebrand dps to do fractals? Isnt good?
It's still fine, just not as broken as it once was and is outshined by condi virtuoso.
I have a question - power dragonhunter - not a big fan of a greatsword, would it be viable to use spear + longbow? I just wanna do normal strikes and fractals up to T4 - not cms
It doesnt rly matter, nobody will kick you for doing mediocre dps in strikes and daily fractals, but longbow is aids, lot of animation locks and weak autos, gs on the other hand is best power weapon and its pretty chill to use. So yeah wouldnt recommend swapping gs for lb, but its not like it will make it unplayable in regular content
You have guide about alac renegade condi?
Oh i will soon!
It's up now
@@SilhouetteGaming1 Does this build still work after the Snowcross update? for DH dps
@smokex2d309 yeah should still work fine, spear got nerves so they make changes.
A prayer before watching:
Please make a build so my my Longbow Dragonhunter can not be crap ... oh
... ... ... it is well that I have become used to disappointment.
@dallassukerkin6878 you can still run longbow in place of spear if you like it- it works fine and has similar results to this version.
@@SilhouetteGaming1 Well, it's more that I just crafted a Legendary Longbow - been working towards it for two years :O My Dragonhunter already has an Ascended one so the stats will be no different of course ... so I NEED a reason to use it as it sells for 2400 Gold on the TP :lol:
I do need to redo that Dragonhunters gear I think - I put it together to buff up Concentration but it really gives me very little it seems. I don't know if it's a tool-tip bug or what but it seems to make no difference to anything that I can see on the Class skills or the Utilities. I got around 75% on Resolution duration but that's about all.
@dallassukerkin6878 yeah on a DPS build you want either assassins or berserker for 99% of all builds. Depending on the stats you might be able to use it for heal support or boon support though just not on DH.
@@dallassukerkin6878 I use longbow in open world. Otherwise it’s spear now for me
again same metabattle bullshit