Fellowship Elarion Hero Guide

Elarion is an Agility-based DPS hero who uses a bow and cosmic-based magic. He uses Focus to cast his abilities, generating charges for attacks and popping Marks on his enemies for extra damage. His high movement allows him to move and even dodge while charging attacks, making for an agile ranger style hero.

This guide will teach you the basics of playing Elarion in Fellowship, how to use his abilities, and which talents to choose for the best build.

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Elarion’s Abilities

Ability/Icon	Name	Cast / Recast	Range / Radius	Effect
	Focused Shot	1.5s	↔ 30yd	Fire a well-aimed arrow at target enemy, dealing 125% Agility physical damage. CELESTIAL IMPETUS Your Focused Shot hits have a chance to grant you Celestial Impetus for 15 seconds, causing your next Celestial Shot to apply 3 stacks of Lunarlight Mark to the target. You can have up 2 charges of Celestial Impetus at any one time. (2.0 Procs Per Minute) Generates 20 Focus
	Celestial Shot	GCD	↔ 30yd	Costs 15 Focus Fire a magical arrow at the target enemy, dealing 200% Agility magic damage to it.
	Multishot	GCD	↔ 30yd	Costs 20 Focus Fire multiple arrows at your enemies, each dealing 214% Agility physical damage to them. When your Highwind Arrow ricochets to at least 3 enemies, you gain 1 charge of Multishot
	Highwind Arrow	2.0s 12.0s (3)	↔ 30yd ↔ 10yd	Costs 30 Focus Fire a Highwind Arrow, dealing 585% Agility physical damage to target enemy. Highwind Arrow ricochets to up to 2 additional enemies near your target, dealing 351% Agility physical damage to them.
	Starfall Volley	GCD 30.0s	↔ 30yd ↻ 10yd	Costs 30 Focus Fire a volley of celestial arrows into the sky that pelt the targeted location for 8 seconds, dealing 77% Agility magic damage every 1 seconds to enemies within the radius.
	Roll	Instant 8.0s (3)	Self	Swiftly Roll in the direction you are moving. Roll does not cancel casting or channeling abilities.
	Disrupting Shot	Instant 20.0s	↔ 30yd	Instantly Interrupt target casting enemy and prevent them from casting for 4 seconds.
	Lunarlight Mark	Instant 30.0s	↔ 30yd	Instantly apply 3 stacks of Lunarlight Mark that lasts for 15 seconds to target enemy and up to 4 additional enemies near your target. Ability damage you deal to enemies with Lunarlight Mark has a 25% chance to trigger Lunarlight Salvo, causing a beam of celestial energy to strike them from above, dealing 208% Agility magic damage. Critical strikes have a 50% chance to trigger Lunarlight Salvo.
	Heartseeker Barrage	2.0s Channel 20.0s	↔ 30yd	Costs 30 Focus Let loose a barrage of arrows in quick succession at your target, dealing 122% Agility physical damage every 0.2 seconds for 2 seconds while channeling.
	Ranger’s Resilience	Instant 30.0s	Self	You take 40% reduced damage for 4 seconds.
	Skystrider’s Supremacy	GCD 45.0s	Self	For the next 4 seconds you are enraptured in celestial energy, causing your Multishot ability to shoot Empowered Multishot EMPOWERED MULTISHOT Empowered Multishot always fire at least 3 arrows regardless of how many targets are in range, costs 50% less Focus, and deals magic damage.
	Grappling Arrow	GCD 90.0s	↔ 30yd ↻ 8yd	Fire a Grappling Arrow at the targeted area. Once the arrow lands, it grapples and pulls all enemies within 800 radius to the arrow’s location and reduces their movement speed by 65% for 8 seconds.
	Skystrider’s Grace	Instant 180.0s	Self	Your Haste is increased by +30% for 20 seconds.
	Event Horizon	0.7s SPIRIT ABILITY	Self	The power of the stars flow through you as you prepare to decimate your foes. For the next 20 seconds, you gain Cooldown Recovery equal to your Haste and all Focus costs are reduced by 50%. While Event Horizon is active, your Highwind Arrow reduces the cooldown of Heartseeker Barrage by 0.5 seconds, and every hit from your Heartseeker Barrage reduces the cooldown of Starfall Volley by 0.5 seconds. Spirit Ability When you activate your Spirit ability you gain Spirit of Heroism, granting +30% haste for 20 seconds.

Focus Mechanic

Elarion is a builder / spender hero who uses Focus as their resource, capped at 100. Focus is used to cast most of his abilities, and regenerates over time or by casting Focused Shot. Haste also increases the regeneration rate.

The Focus bar is shown just underneath Elarion.

Where Elarion is heavily cooldown based, Focus is secondary to cooldown management. You’ll want to make sure you have enough focus to allow casting your high impact abilties as soon as they are ready to use.

Elarion Talents and Build

Elarion has a couple of viable choices for talent builds. We are suggesting a Highwind Arrow build to start with when you have few talent choices and lower stats. But as you get more talent points we shift over to a Heartseeker Barrage focused build for it’s Spirit Ability synergy and priority damage. We’re also making sure to pick up the Multishot talents for greater AoE potential.

Quick Reference Talent Table

Final Crescendo (1C) makes every 4th Highwind Arrow deal double damage to 8 total targets, up from 3, reliable and strong.

Skyward Munitions (2C) will let you cast your strongest abilities, Highwind Arrow and Heartseeker Barrage slightly more often.

Lethal Shots (3C) buffs Highwind Arrow again further with Grevious Critical chance. Hitting a Final Crescendo with this buff feels great, but isn’t required to still make it a solid pick.

Resurgent Winds (5C) is the first 3-point talent we’ll take, giving an extra instant-cast GCD of Highwind Arrow every 30 seconds when you cast Lunarlight Mark. Be sure to target marked enemies.

Fusillade (1B) significantly increases the amount of shots of our Heartseeker Barrage and synergises incredibly well with our Spirit Ability, Piercing Seekers and Impending Heartseeker.

Piercing Seekers (2B) is a powerful cleave talent to add to our Heartseeker Barrage playstyle allowing each hit to ricochet to a nearby target. For the purposes of our Spirit Ability this doubles the amount of hits from Heartseeker Barrage allowing us to get Starfall Volley‘s cooldown refreshed much faster.

Impending Heartseeker (5B) is our biggest damage proc for single target and priority damage. After we use our empowered Celestial Shot our Heartseeker Barrage is refreshed and does massive damage. This combined with Last Lights is going to finish most enemies below 30% health. This also synergises very nicely with Fusillade, Piercing Seekers and our Spirit Ability for massive damage potential.

Last Lights (6A) is a solid filler talent that increases your output quite effectively for only one point. When fighting bosses, be sure to save some resources when 30% HP is approaching for a big burst.

Fervent Supremacy (5A) is a second 3-point talent you’ll pick up which gives us reliable Multishot charges on AOE and they also have a nice damage increase. Not only does it make our Multishots more effective, but allows us to use Multishot as an impactful single target button.

Focused Expanse (1A) is worth picking up alongside 5A to make Empowered Multishots even more effective.

Magic Ward (4C) is our go to defensive for when we need it. Passively reducing most scary boss abilities by 10% can make the difference between success and a wipe.

Path of Twilight (4A) is a situationally very effective defensive talent we have the option to take. The dispel can come in very useful but the extended duration on our defensive can be incredibly impactful on certain boss encounters.

Remember to not take talent trees as is and adjust for any legendary or weapon trees you get, or content you are doing.

How to Play Elarion — Basic Ability Guide

Elarion’s rotation between single target and AoE is very similar where our big single target abilities also cleave but the ability priority switches slightly. Make sure to be prioritize targeting the highest threat enemy or the enemy with the largest health pool. Our priority damage is one our greatest strengths and we want to make use of it.

You’ll be keeping everything you can on cooldown through a priority system, Heartseeker Barrage is our highest priority on up to 4 targets and Starfall Volley becomes highest priority on 5 or more targets.

If you’re running the Heartseeker Barrage build you want to be using Barrage as often as possible for major priority damage and vice versa if you’re running a Highwind Arrow build that will become your priority.

Focused Shot is going to be our filler we weave in. Try and get the habit of using a Focused Shot every 3 or 4 abilities so we can fish for procs and prevent Focus issues.

Note that Highwind Arrow has 3 charges, so once you get your first off you can start putting your other abilities on cooldown first. When managing buffs like Skystrider’s Supremacy pressing them early lets the cooldown start earlier even if we don’t hit the ability right away.

Lunarlight Mark is a powerful tool for gaining some essentially free damage is it not tied ot the global cooldown. Unless you are using Resurgent Winds it is best to use this as often as possible.

Event Horizon gives a huge CDR and Haste buff, as well as creates a feedback loop between Starfall Volley, Heartseeker Barrage and Highwind Arrow. On AOE especially it’s important to make we use Starfall Volley prior to Heartseeker Barrage as we want as much efficiency on the cooldown reduction as possible.

Ability priority

1. Skystrider’s Grace
2. Event Horizon
3. Skystrider’s Supremacy
4. Lunarlight Mark
5. Starfall Volley
6. Empowered Multishot (5+ targets)
7. Heartseeker Barrage/Highwind Arrow *
8. Multishot (5+ targets)
9. Celestial Shot (Celestial Impetus)
10. Heartseeker Barrage/Highwind Arrow *
11. Empowered Multishot (Single Target)
12. Focused Shot

*Heartseeker Barrage and Highwind Arrow swap places in the priority depending which build you are talented into.

Gearing and Stat Priority

Substats have the following effect for Elarion:

• Critical Strike – Chance for damage effects to crit, doubling their effect.
• Expertise – Increases all damage effects triggered by Elarion.
• Haste – Increases attack speed, casting speed and cooldown recovery rate of some abilities. Increases hits when casting Heartseeker Barrage and Starfall Volley.
• Spirit – Gives a chance to refund the Focus cost of an ability. Increases the rate you charge your spirit ability.

Item level is king and will have the greatest effect on your damage. However, when choosing substats we need to consider the following.

Critical Strike provide a chance for your abilities to deal double damage.

Expertise increases his damage by a flat percent.

Haste decreases the cast times of every ability, Focus generation, and gives Heartseeker Barrage and Starfall Volley extra hits. It also gives a bonus effect during Event Horizon. However, he already has base sources of Haste such as the ultimate and Skystrider’s Grace.

Spirit increases the Spirit gained for his ultimate from all sources including Curses and weapon traits and offers the chance to get free refunds on Focus. Where Elarion is primarily cooldown reliant Focus has very little effect on your output compared to the other three substats.

Gearing Priority

1. Weapon with a Trait Tree
2. Legendary Item
3. Item Level
4. Completed Set Bonus
5. Substat Priority

Substat Priority

1. Haste
2. Expertise
3. Crit
4. Spirit

Elarion Legendaries

• Shimmering Silver Cape (Back)
  • Shimmer: Enemies hit by your Highwind Arrow are afflicted by Shimmer for 5 seconds, causing you to deal 10% more damage to them. Shimmer stacks up to 2 times.
• Chain of Starstriker’s Ascent (Neck)
  • Starstriker’s Ascent: Your Spirit Refunds grant 1 stack of Resurgent Winds.

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