Void Highlord

Void highlord, despite being in the game for several years now seems to still hold some misinformation around it. It’s a very simple class conceptually, but is a very powerful endgame class allowing you to pretty much solo any game content with it’s high survivability and great DPS.

This guide will mainly go over how to use it, not bothering to make a How to obtain VHL guide yet as it’s been done constantly.

Skills Overview

• Contract
  • 125% Physical Damage / 1.25 AP2
  • Short Range Auto Attack
  • 2.3 second cooldown
  • Single target
  • If Shackled (2 skill) applies a HoT to yourself for 5 seconds
  • If Unshacked (4 skill) applies a DoT to enemy for 5 seconds

In terms of gameplay this just allows user to have extra survivability or extra damage.

• Shackle
  • 125% Physical Damage / 1.25 BT3
  • Short Range Attack
  • 4 second cooldown
  • Single target
  • Applies Shackled
    • Increases Damage Resistance by 50%
  • Applies Soul Void
    • Increases Haste, DoT out and HoT out by 30%
    • Lasts 12 seconds
  • Replaces Unshackled (skill 4)
  • Can’t miss
  • Costs 20% of Max Health (always leaves 1 hp)

Shackled Aura is basically your “defensive mode”, providing a fat damage resistance buff. This also increases the HoT you receive from your Auto for extra survivability.

• Highlord’s Gaze
  • 130% Physical Damage / 1.3 Leech1
  • Infinite Range Attack
  • 5 second cooldown
  • Single target
  • Deals damage and applies a lifesteal heal
    • Around 3x the damage you dealt
  • 30% Chance to stun
  • Applies Congealed
    • Reduces hit chance, haste, dodge by 30% for 6 seconds

Very strong lifesteal heal, good damage too.

• Unshackled
  • 85% Physical Damage / 0.85 BT3
  • Short Range Attack
  • 4 second cooldown
  • Single target
  • Applies Unshackled
    • Increases outgoing damage by 50%
    • Lasts 15 seconds
  • Applies Soul Void
    • Increases Haste, HoT Out, DoT Out by 30% for 12 seconds
  • Always Crits
  • Can’t Miss
  • Replaces Shackled (skill 2)
  • Costs 20% of Max health (always leaves 1 p)

Your “offensive mode” due to strong all out buff, good idea to use this skill before proccing skill 5.

• Armageddon
  • 420% Physical Damage / 4.2 AP2
  • Applies Arbiter’s Wrath
    • Increases your Crit Damage by 75%
    • Lasts 12 seconds
  • Applies Kneel Before the Nation
    • Increases outgoing damage by 50%
    • Reduces incoming damage by 50%
    • Lasts 12 seconds
  • At Rank 10 Sacrifice Soul to Void
    • Increases enemy incoming damage by 5%
    • Stacks to 10

Fat damage nuke thing yes. Also applies a great amount of offensive and defensive buffs that you can loop. This is important for tanking the harder hitting bosses.

• Undying Highlord (Rank 10 passive)
  • From rank 1
    • All skills excluding contract (auto) have a chance to give a 30% END boost and HoT
      • Bolsters survivability
  • Rank 10 permanent END buff
  • Armageddon increases enemy incoming damage by 5%, stacks to 10

I usually don’t have passives here but just to show there’s additional effects that may be applied, these are mostly bonuses.

Enhancements

Gameplay/Combos

Very braindead not a lot of effort but a LOT of value. You can pretty much solo the entire game with it if you understand how the skills work.

For general DPS-ing using Ravenous/Valiance/Smite I like to use 4 before 5 (so you get damage buff before nuking) and spam 234 off cooldown.

So rotation is something like this
2345-234-234-2345

However, if boss hits harder than usual you can probably start with 5, to give yourself the defensive buffs from 5, then carry on as usual.

5234-234-234-2345

In the minority of content where boss hits really really hard you should avoid going into unshackled and just 235. This is to maintain HoT from auto and defensive buffs applied from shackled.

When using dauntless you’re going to be in shackled by default. Use 2-4 to reduce your HP. Then once you’re at like 500 HP, just spam 2 and 5.