Housing Blueprints
Playstyle Overview
Xavian’s core gameplay loops around precise management of Shining Halo and Swift Reprieval stacks, with the ultimate objective of keeping Shining Halo active for as long as possible to capitalize on its massive buffs. Mastering this requires adherence to two fundamental principles:
- Never Waste Swift Reprieval Stacks: Nearly your entire rotation builds Swift Reprieval up to a maximum cap of 3 stacks. Because these stacks are vital for extending Shining Halo, letting them overcap means losing out on extensions and wasting casts.
- Smooth Out Your Damage Intake: You must stand inside Shining Halo as much as humanly possible. This zone grants vital damage reduction and avoidance, making it absolutely non-negotiable for your survivability.
Swift Reprieval
Swift Reprieval functions as Xavian’s primary builder-spender resource. You can track your 3 available stack slots via the diamond indicators on your resource bar or the active tracker on your buff bar.
Your various rotational abilities each have a distinct chance to generate a single stack. When active, these stacks transform Brilliant Flare into Brilliant Flash—an instant-cast variant that can be directed at enemies for damage or allies for healing. As your premier output ability, efficiently spending these stacks and preventing them from overcapping will dramatically boost your performance in dungeons.
Rotation & Priority System
Xavian utilizes a relatively straightforward rotation governed by a priority system rather than a rigid sequence. When running the optimal talent setup, you will trigger frequent cooldown resets on your primary builders, allowing you to use your generator abilities much more often.
Ability Priority List:
- Aura Of Solace (Activate pre-pull if you have high Mana; deactivate between pulls or if Mana runs low)
- Shining Halo (Maintain maximum uptime; do not recast until it completely expires)
- Solar Shield (Prioritize here when paired with the Invictus talent)
- Solar Blades (Off the global cooldown, so weave this seamlessly with other casts)
- Blinding Slash
- Omnistrike
- Brilliant Flash
- Sun Strike
Early-Game Mana Management:
In the early game, your Mana regeneration will be significantly weaker than it is in later stages. To offset this bottleneck, always cast Sun Strike at least once before every Omnistrike to ensure you consistently trigger Mana refunds.
Furthermore, single-target encounters will heavily strain your Mana economy. Because of this, it is highly recommended to keep Aura Of Solace toggled off during single-target fights. You can briefly activate it to shield your group from lethal boss mechanics, but toggle it off immediately afterward to avoid bottoming out your Mana. On a single target, you essentially must choose between maintaining Aura Of Solace or liberally casting Solar Shield and you should always choose Solar Shield, as the Aura's single-target damage contribution is negligible anyway.
Cooldowns & Utility
Xavian boasts some of the strongest group utility in the game. Armed with high-volume off-healing, powerful shielding, and a signature damage-redirection aura, you can effortlessly keep your party safe.
Omega Reprieval: Instantly awards 2 stacks of an empowered version of Swift Reprieval. Casting this empowered version on an ally triggers an AoE heal across your entire party, while targeting an enemy deals heavy Brilliant Flash damage to all nearby foes. Generally, fire this on cooldown to maximize your damage and extend Shining Halo, though you can occasionally hold it if a burst of party healing is imminent.
Aura Of Solace: A toggleable aura that boosts your parry by 8%, deals respectable passive damage, and redirects 10% of all damage taken by your allies directly to you. This is a premier tool for protecting your group during high-damage phases when your own defensive scaling is safely ahead. Keep an eye on its heavy Mana drain.
Solar Shield: An instant-cast, 8-second shield that provides the target with a flat 20% damage reduction while active. This ability is a cornerstone of Xavian's strength; its low cooldown allows you to blunt incoming trash damage continuously, or completely trivialize lethal targeted mechanics on boss fights. Use it incredibly liberally.
Ruptured Dawn: Xavian’s sole crowd control tool. On a short 60-second cooldown, this frontal cone ability pulls mobs in and stuns them, making it perfect for grouping stubborn enemies or interrupting dangerous spellcasts.
Ultimate Ability
Decree Of The Sun is Xavian’s ultimate powerhouse button on a baseline 2-minute cooldown. Upon activation, it grants complete immunity to all damage for 3 seconds, culminating in an explosive burst of damage when it expires. Immediately following the immunity, you gain 50% damage reduction for 5 seconds while pulsing continuous AoE healing to yourself and your party.
To top it off, the ultimate grants you a massive 30% Haste buff and 600% Mana recovery for 20 seconds. Send this ability as often as possible throughout a dungeon, only delaying its use if you need to counteract a specific, highly lethal mechanic.
Tips
Utility & UI Setup
One of the simplest yet most vital habits you can form in Fellowship is marking specific targets or locations. Within your input settings, make sure to bind keys for "Mark Unit" and "Mark Location". These are exceptionally useful tools for instantly designating priority kill targets or calling out vital stacking points during intense boss mechanics.
Interrupts
Interrupting dangerous spellcasts is absolutely critical to your success in dungeons. To coordinate smoothly, you must be able to track your teammates' Interrupt cooldowns, and they must be able to see yours.
To streamline this process, you can customize your controls with two essential keybinds:
- "Select Interrupt Target": This places a small Hero Icon directly onto the nameplate of your chosen target.
- "Trigger Interrupt Target": Pressing this keybind instantly interrupts that designated enemy, no matter who you are currently attacking.
This setup allows you to maintain your active rotation on a primary target while swiftly interrupting a secondary caster without ever losing your place or hunting down nameplates. Once triggered, the game automatically broadcasts your Interrupt status to the entire group and displays a timer showing when it will be ready again. It is incredibly handy, and configuring this setup is 100% recommended.
Buffs & Debuffs
Tracking your buffs and debuffs is essential, but the game's default user interface doesn't position them in an ideal spot. To improve your reaction times, use the "EDIT HUD" feature in the game menu to relocate these trackers closer to the center of your screen where they are easily visible during combat.
UI Import
Here is my UI import from the Image shown if you just want to pick up and play:
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