I leveled to 80 w/out tomes (first character) and unlocked all the herald skills but I don’t feel very confident in my usage of Glint. I’ve been running Shiro/Glint in PvE and I guess my problem is knowing when to turn on my boons, when to activate them and when to swap to Shiro.
I originally leveled as Shiro/Mallyx and found it fairly intuitive. I got to HoT and got my butt handed to me severely all throughout my personal story so I changed my build and went Shiro/Jallis. Found that way way more survivable, and the number of times I got frustrated dropped precipitously.
After unlocking Glint over the weekend I was like SWEET let’s go Shiro/Glint. Back to getting my butt handed to me. At present, I have on facets of darkness/ele/strength. When a fight starts though that prevents me from gaining any more of my resource (I’ve tried dropping one of the facets like elements but the gain is pretty slow still). Anyway, I then activate Chaos, things start dropping quickly, and before I run out of juice I pop all 4 of them, activating their secondaries. I will sometimes toggle facet of nature as a “steroid”.
I feel like this is a dumb strategy. But the problem is I don’t really know a more optimal way to be doing things, or even a basic decision making tree of when I should consider activating what facet in various circumstances.
Before I even attempt to play around in WvW or SPvP I want to at least know the various legendaries enough that I can make an informed decision as to my build and what to do and how to help my team, and right now, Glint is leaving me confused as to how to best (or better) utilize it. So any points of advice you can offer would be great. I realize there’s generally no set rotation, but usually there’s a standard approach people use and then based on various things that unfold they alter their strategy. Anyway thanks for any and all feedback.