The newest Primalist Soul, Farseer, is now available on the Public Test Shard!

The Farseer is a powerful Area of Effect healer that focuses on averting harm and changing the flow of fate to protect allies. It’s Primal Avatar is the Ouroboros, the ancient symbol of eternal creation and destruction. We’ve just placed the Farseer soul on the Public Test Shard for you to explore and discover!

There are a few key mechanics to help effective gameplay of this unique soul.

First up, we have Soul Fragments and Empower. A Soul Fragment is generated when you cast some of your spells (Insight, Spiritual Guidance, and Rend Soul); Empower is OGCD (Off Global Cool-down) and consumes a single Soul Fragment to boost your next eligible ability. You may only hold one Soul Fragment at a time, and  cannot generate another until you Empower an ability. Each spell will have a unique behavior when empowered – refer to the individual tooltips for more information.

Secondly, the Farseer can harness Fates. These are unique buffs that dramatically affect your healing. The two most powerful are Delayed Fate and Impending Fate. Delayed Fate simply increases your AoE healing by 25%. Impending Fate causes direct AoE healing (such as that caused by Insight and Fortune Protection) to be increased by 400%, at the cost of consuming a Soul Fragment with each cast. Keep in mind that you may only employ one Fate at a time!

This all pairs well with an important Farseer talent and spell interaction… Prescience: a heal that periodically jumps to an ally not already affected by it, and reduces your major healing cooldowns each time it ticks. Smart use of cooldowns and liberal application of them in the right situations will leave you ready to tackle any event.

Please put some time into using and playing around with Farseer, and then come give us feedback on this Official Thread.

As always, we really appreciate it when you keep your comments on topic, and constructive!

~Chris “Keyens” Meyer

[Brasse note: We do not yet have any art for the Farseer soul – it’s THAT fresh and hot – we’ll follow up with a more detailed article once it’s further along in development! The new Primalist souls are scheduled to go live in the 4.2 update, this summer.]