Herald (ascendancy class)

The Herald sees calamity in the future, hopefully only for your enemies. She forsakes auras to go all in on Herald skills, empowering them beyond being simply minor buffs.

The end of all things is inevitable.
It is sooner than you think.

The Herald is a Legacy of Phrecia ascendancy class for the Witch. It is exclusive to the Legacy of Phrecia event, replacing one of the original ascendancy classes.

Overview

The Herald is an ascendancy class focused purely on Heralds. They are forced to take Coming Calamity as their first skill, which prevents them from using auras. From there on, they can pick one Herald to gain a large bonus from, then empower their Heralds even further or gain elemental offensive or defensive bonuses.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Skill	Stats
Herald Damage and Buff Effect	Herald Skills deal 10% increased Damage 5% increased Effect of Herald Buffs on you

Notable skills

This class has the following notable passive skills:

Skill		Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Coming Calamity		Your Aura Skills are Disabled 200% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Herald Skills		Herald Damage and Buff Effect
Herald Specialty	Future Anguish	Herald of AshHerald of AshSpell, AoE, Fire, Herald, Duration Level: (1-20) Reservation: 25% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: Instant AoE Radius: 10Requires Level 16Grants a buff providing fire damage based on your physical damage. While you have this buff, if you kill an enemy, other enemies near them will be burned based on the overkill damage. The burn inflicted by this skill can only be affected by modifiers to damage over time (burning damage is damage over time).Base duration is 4.00 seconds Base Burning Damage is 25% of Overkill Damage (0-38)% more Burning Damage Buff grants (15-20)% of your Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base burning damage is an additional (0.25-5)% of Overkill DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has 100% increased Buff Effect +5% to maximum Fire Resistance while affected by Herald of Ash	Coming Calamity	Herald Damage and Buff Effect
	Future Fear	Herald of IceHerald of IceSpell, AoE, Cold, Herald Level: (1-20) Reservation: 25% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: Instant Effectiveness of Added Damage: 80%Requires Level 16Grants a buff adding cold damage to spells and attacks. If you shatter an enemy, this skill will cause them to explode and deal AoE cold damage to enemies near them. This damage is not affected by modifiers to spell damage.Deals (18-308) to (26-462) Cold Damage Damage cannot be Reflected Base radius is 1.2 metres Buff grants (4-38) to (5-56) Added Attack Cold Damage Buff grants (4-38) to (5-56) Added Spell Cold Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has 100% increased Buff Effect +5% to maximum Cold Resistance while affected by Herald of Ice
	Future Regret	Herald of ThunderHerald of ThunderSpell, AoE, Duration, Lightning, Herald Level: (1-20) Reservation: 25% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: Instant AoE Radius: 32Requires Level 16Grants a buff which adds lightning damage to spells and attacks. If you kill a shocked enemy, this skill will create a storm, causing lightning bolts to strike enemies around you for a duration. The damage inflicted by this skill is not affected by modifiers to spell damage.Deals (1-23) to (31-1108) Lightning Damage Cannot inflict Shock Base duration is 6.00 seconds Storm Hits an Enemy every 0.25 Seconds Creates a storm when you Kill a Shocked Enemy Buff grants (2-19) to (7-76) Added Attack Lightning Damage Buff grants (2-19) to (7-76) Added Spell Lightning Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Storms Hit Enemies with (1-20)% increased FrequencyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has 100% increased Buff Effect +5% to maximum Lightning Resistance while affected by Herald of Thunder
	Future Guilt	Herald of PurityHerald of PuritySpell, Herald, Minion, Duration, Physical Level: (1-20) Reservation: 25% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Grants a buff which lets you deal more physical damage. When you kill an enemy while you have this buff, this skill will summon a Sentinel of Purity, or refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them. The Sentinels of Purity have a single-target melee attack and an area melee attack.Base duration is 12.00 seconds Maximum 4 Summoned Sentinels of Purity Minions have (0-38)% more Maximum Life Summon a Sentinel of Purity when you Kill an Enemy 20% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Purity when you Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy Buff grants (9-12)% more Physical Damage Minions deal (0-95)% more Physical Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has 100% increased Buff Effect 15% additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by Herald of Purity
	Future Nostalgia	Herald of AgonyHerald of AgonySpell, Herald, Minion, Chaos, Physical Level: (1-20) Reservation: 25% Mana Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Grants a buff giving more poison damage and a chance to inflict poison. When you poison an enemy while you have this buff, you gain Virulence, and summon an Agony Crawler minion that uses projectile and area attacks. You will lose Virulence over time, at a rate which increases the more Virulence you have. The minion will die when you have no Virulence.Maximum 1 Summoned Agony Crawler Buff grants 20% chance to Poison on Hit Grants Virulence when you Poison an Enemy Buff grants 10% more Damage with Poison 40 Maximum Virulence Minions cannot Taunt Enemies Agony Crawler has (2-4)% increased Attack Speed per Virulence you have Agony Crawler deals (5-9)% increased Physical Damage per Virulence you have Agony Crawler has (1-45) to (3-84) Added Physical Damage per Virulence you have Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.25-5) to Maximum VirulencePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has 100% increased Buff Effect +75% to Chaos Resistance while affected by Herald of Agony
Scourge		+2 to maximum number of Sentinels of Purity +25 to Maximum Virulence Minions deal 66% increased Damage while you are affected by a Herald	Herald Specialty	Herald Damage and Buff Effect
Persecution		+5% to Critical Strike Chance of Herald Skills Herald Skills have 50% increased Area of Effect	Herald Specialty	Herald Damage and Buff Effect
Apocalypse		+3 to Level of all Herald Skill Gems	Scourge or Persecution	Herald Damage and Buff Effect
Damnation		For each Element you've been hit by Damage of Recently, 20% reduced Damage taken of that Element 20% of Cold Damage taken Recouped as Life 20% of Fire Damage taken Recouped as Life 20% of Lightning Damage taken Recouped as Life	Herald Specialty	Herald Damage and Buff Effect
Retribution		20% Chance to gain Elemental Conflux for 4 seconds when you Kill an Enemy	Herald Specialty	Herald Damage and Buff Effect

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.3d	Introduced to the game.