Preserver — guide

In short

Preserver is a Rare Banner Lords support with a team HP aura and one genuinely useful button: Freeze. She has no place in serious PvE, but in Arena and Faction Wars she can work as cheap crowd control. Build priority is Speed and Accuracy, not damage.

Strengths

• Ice Strike: 75% chance (up to 95% with books) to Freeze for 1 turn, and the cooldown drops by 1 at max level.
• Recuperate gives her own 7.5% Regen and a Shield equal to 10% of her HP — free survivability.
• 17% HP aura for all allies in all battles, which is a nice perk on a Rare.
• Force affinity: in Arena and Faction Wars she often hits Magic enemies.
• Rare rarity — tomes are cheap and she is quick to build.

Weaknesses

• Damage and Freeze chance scale off ATK, and her base ATK is 771: she deals no damage at all.
• Her role is Defense, yet she brings no team shields or barriers — only selfish ones.
• The Shield is just 10% of her own HP and applies to herself only.
• 102 Speed is slow; without a speed boost her Freeze lands too late to matter.

Where to use

Arena first (2.5/5) — that Freeze occasionally breaks an enemy turn. Faction Wars (2.0/5) is her second home, especially if your Banner Lords lack control. Chimera (1.5/5) only as an aura body. Clan Boss, Hydra, dungeons, Hard mode and Doom Tower (1.0/5) are not her thing: single-target Freeze and zero damage solve nothing there.

Stats and gear

Stat priority: Speed → HP (for the Shield) → Accuracy (Freeze and Decrease Speed) → Resistance. C.RATE and C.DMG are irrelevant. Rough targets: SPD 170–200, ACC 150–200 for Arena and Faction Wars, HP 40–50k+, RES 150+ if you have room. Recommended sets from the build: Defense and Speed; by skill logic, HP, Perception and Accuracy fit well if you are short on ACC.

Masteries and blessings

The build list only gives In For The Kill from the Offense tree — take it if you want any damage at all. Properly, she wants the Support tree (speed, cooldown and healing masteries) plus the Defense tree for survivability. The listed relic is Molten Deathbell. No blessings are listed: on a Rare it is not critical, so use a defensive one if a slot is free.

Tomes

Book Ice Strike first: level 7 cuts the cooldown by 1 and pushes the Freeze chance to 95%. Recuperate second for its cooldown reduction. That said, given the verdict, don't invest tomes unless she is your Faction Wars control.

Verdict

Vault (fusion). Keep a copy for fusion or Faction Wars, and only build her seriously if you have nothing else to cover control for Banner Lords.