Playstyle & Rotation Vigour Fellowship Hero Guide

Playstyle Overview

Vigour revolves around utilizing his unique mechanic, Radiant Runes, to generate powerful healing, shielding, or damage. To help achieve our goal we follow a couple simple rules.

1. ABC: Always be casting. When in doubt, Dawnflare. You want to be generating as many radiant runes as possible and to do so we need to always be doing something to aid that. It’s important to learn what generates runes and what doesn’t to ensure you’re not wasting globals and missing out on what makes Vigour so great.

Keep important abilities on cooldown and maintain buffs/debuffs. There are maintenance-type tasks that you should try to maximize. Having 100% uptime of Soulbrand on enemies and Rune Of Renewal on at least 1 ally is crucial for Rune generation. Cast your short cooldowns like Radiant Blast frequently, since they also generate runes. In big AoE pulls it's good to get a Dawnbreaker Orb out for both rune generation and damage. The more friendly and enemy targets it hits, the more Runes you’ll generate, so aim carefully. Be mindful not to launch it into unintended enemy packs.

2. Avoid Wasting Radiant Runes: Runes are your primary resource, used to cast your spender abilities like Rune Of Renewal, Luminous Barrier, Dawnbreaker Orb and Soulbrand. Even when there’s not much to heal, avoid over capping them unless you’re intentionally saving for an upcoming damage event. Don't be hesitant to sneak in more damaging spells if damage intake is low and rune generation is high.

3. Mana management: Mana management becomes increasingly important as rune spenders fall off at higher Eternal levels. Keep a close eye on your mana bar and avoid unnecessary overhealing. If the party is around 80% HP and no incoming damage is expected, let Enduring Light’s HoT handle the recovery instead of spending mana. Likewise, when possible, rely on an overcharged Rune Of Renewal to top everyone off for free rather than dumping mana into active healing.

Ability Priority List (Rotation)

Before Grand Design (Early-Mid Game)

This is the priority list for early on (pre Grand Design). Focusing on maximizing your Radiant Rune generation and keeping your party alive with Greater Heals.

1. Keep Rune Of Renewal active on your Tank as often as possible. It’s always most efficient to reapply this before the buff fades for the increased heal.
2. Spend any other runes on applying Soulbrand to enemies. The more dots you have up, the more runes you’ll generate and the more healing and damage you’ll do.
3. Cast Radiant Blast off cooldown.
4. Cast Dawnbreaker Orb on more than 7 targets.
5. Cast Circle Of Light for party wide healing, just remember the circle is pretty small so positioning is important.
6. Cast Greater Heal. You’ll be spamming this a lot early on, swapping targets a lot. Just be wary of your mana.
7. Dawnflare spam enemies for rune generation and damage.

Don’t be afraid to use cooldowns such as Lightshaper's Ward on targets taking heavy damage, and try to use Runic Proliferation regularly. It’s a lot of additional runes you gain on a mere 60 seconds cooldown so missing multiple uses of this ability can hurt your healing, damage and mana over the course of a dungeon. Keep in mind as well every rune you generate will cast a Greater Heal on the lowest ally due to Master Of Triage, making Runic Proliferation a pretty strong cooldown just by activating it.

Remove Magic should be used on any dispellable debuff. Throw Book is our crowd control option, and is best used to help control caster mobs. Levitate is a nice personal defensive that also provides movement speed, so don’t be afraid to use it often early game. Later on this ability becomes more important via Ascending Avatar.

With Grand Design (Mid-Late Game)

This is the priority list once you gain access to the Grand Design talent and onwards.

1. Keep Rune Of Renewal on tank, as close as possible to 100% uptime.
2. If the party is taking damage, keep Circle of Healing HoT (Enduring Light) running on the whole party as much as possible. Remember: it stacks and it's very efficient.
3. If constant damage is expected to happen on the whole party, cast overcharged Rune Of Renewal to apply it to all of your allies. Casting this again with it already active is your primary way to heal significant amounts of AoE damage. Having this always on every member of your party greatly increases your rune generation and group healing on recasts.
4. Cast overcharged Soulbrand to apply your dot to multiple enemies for massive rune generation and damage.
5. Cast Radiant Blast off cooldown
6. Cast Circle Of Light as a way to heal up multiple party members within a small radius. You can comfortably spam this to meet AoE healing checks during your Avatar Of Light, or Ascending Avatar windows.
7. Cast Greater Heal. This is a great way to spot heal tanks, especially during Ascending Avatar when it's an instant cast.
8. Cast Dawnflare. This is your filler damaging ability that you’ll spam in-between everything else.
9. Cast overcharged Luminous Barrier whenever there is predictable group wide damage incoming. This loses a lot of value going into higher Eternal, plus you don't get any refund on runes out of this. Most of the time, you realistically want to cast this over overcharged Rune Of Renewal only to avoid one-shot mechanics.
10. Cast Dawnbreaker Orb on more than 7 targets if your party or tank are not in danger.

Some things to note are that Luminous Barrier quickly becomes the primary button you’ll use once you are familiar with the damage patterns in the dungeons. You’ll always want to have Rune Of Renewal and Soulbrand active for the rune generation, but preventing damage with Barrier is incredibly strong in scenarios where you can. You don’t want to do this at the cost of reapplying Renewal if it means your group will be one shot by an incoming boss or trash AoE.

Once you unlock the talent Radiant Soul, it becomes even more important to Radiant Blast off cooldown since it adds 3 seconds duration to any active Rune Of Renewal, Soulbrand, AND Luminous Barrier. In combination with the Beacon In The Dark talent you’ll get regular resets of Radiant Blast too, allowing you to do this even more.

Note: Grand Design loses value at higher Eternal levels, and it becomes valuable mainly to boost our overall DPS and a few niche scenarios like Shadowlord's. At that point, the healing requirements become too strict, forcing you to take Radiant Soul to reliably keep both the party and, more importantly, the tank alive. Most of the times you also need to spec into a defensive talent as well for survability.

Radiant Runes

We’ve mentioned Radiant Runes a handful of times now and how important it is to manage them properly, so let’s actually talk about it. Radiant Runes are Vigour’s unique class mechanic, displayed as orbs beneath your character.

Runes are generated through your various abilities, or with refunds from your Spirit stat, and are used to cast a handful of different powerful abilities that cost these runes instead of mana.

The more Runes you have, the more effective you can be. It can take some time to get used to this, and due to the nature of how you build these, it takes time to ramp up before you really get going too. Managing this mechanic is key to succeeding on Vigour.

Early on it’ll be far more difficult to be able to do everything you want with your runes. Consistently casting Radiant Blast off cooldown, alongside maintaining multiple Rune Of Renewal and Soulbrand will aid your generation a lot but I’ll touch on that more below.

Despite being Vigour’s core mechanic, Radiant Runes are never the solution for heavy damage phases. The only reliable way to survive is through Ascending Avatar and Circle Of Light spam, supported by the HoT from Enduring Light.

Rune Generation

Vigour can generate runes with Dawnflare, your filler damaging ability, Radiant Blast, Greater Heal, Circle Of Light and all of your Rune spenders.

Spending Runes

Vigour has 4 powerful abilities that cost runes. These are Rune Of Renewal, Soulbrand, Luminous Barrier and Dawnbreaker Orb. Each is potent and used in different ways.

Rune Of Renewal costs 1 Radiant Rune and you’ll always keep this active on at least your Tank. It causes all your healing to echo on that ally for an additional 25%. The bonus healing also generates Radiant Runes so it’s important to maintain. If you cast this again on a target that already has Rune Of Renewal active, it heals for an increased 200%, making it the largest heal in your arsenal when used this way. This is a great way to spot heal your tank/anyone with an active rune assuming you have the resources to do so.

Soulbrand is your 1 rune cost maintenance debuff you’ll apply to enemies. It deals quite significant damage, and generates Radiant Runes over time as it does damage. It refunds its cost over the duration and then some, so it's extremely efficient to apply this early in a pull.

Luminous Barrier is very powerful for managing predictable damage. It’s a large absorb shield at the cost of 1 rune on a single target. If you’re able to plan ahead this is decently strong. It's also extremely good to keep the tank alive in higher Eternals.

And lastly Dawnbreaker Orb. You conjure an orb that travels out from you slowly, healing allies it touches and dealing damage to enemies. I like to get an orb out early into AoE pulls if there isn't much damage happening as its a good rune generator that pays for itself + more if aimed properly. Be careful with aiming it into distant packs and pulling unintended mobs.

Grand Design

Later on you’ll gain access to a talent called Grand Design. This talent massively enhances your rune spenders, allowing you to hold down the cast to overcharge them. Doing this makes each ability hit 4 targets respectively. It helps your healing, rune generation, and damage by an absurd amount and it makes Vigour significantly stronger in the early game once this talent is acquired for the small cost of 1 additional rune per ability mentioned above.

Outside of dungeons, or sections, where the party is under constant pressure, this ability is mainly used to deal damage and to generate runes in higher Eternal levels.

Let's start with a couple of helpful tips for Vigour:

• I’ve already mentioned it previously in the guide but I want to emphasize it here: Always be casting. The difference between a Vigour who is always actively casting and uses cooldowns effectively is big.
• Picking up the Chalice Of Al’zerac’s Essence Relic early game when Vigour's mana can be an issue will be a massive quality of life improvement. It’s not overly necessary but can save some time where you’d otherwise be regenerating mana and allows your team to be more aggressive.
• Familiarize yourself with damage profiles of boss/trash mobs so you can make better use of your Luminous Barrier. Any predictable damage such as group soaks, single target soaks, big single target hits or debuff ticks on players are all great ways to get value out of your barrier. Keep in mind that at higher Eternal levels this becomes less effective, and you’ll rely more on reactive healing since it provides better results.
• Use your Lightshaper's Ward often on tanks, especially when climbing up the ranks early on in Fellowship. This is a great external to help keep the tank alive.

Interface Options

One of the most basic, but important things you can do in Fellowship is mark specific targets or locations. In the input settings you will notice you have the ability to keybind “Mark Unit” and “Mark location”. These can be exceptionally useful for designating targets to kill or important stack points on bosses. Keybinding world markers for difficult healing fights is a good way to communicate to your team that they need to stack up for group healing. This is important on Vigour as one of our most important group healing spells has a very small ground radius.

Buffs and Debuffs

Buffs and Debuffs in Fellowship are extremely important, but unfortunately the base UI doesn’t place the display of these in a great location. As a result, I’d recommend moving them closer to the middle of your screen using the “EDIT HUD” feature in the game menu. This especially becomes more important if you are playing the Treads Of Resplendent Dawn as you will want to maintain your 5 stack legendary buff for faster Dawnflares.

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