Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceVerdant Oracle Lifebind Spec GuideBest build and how to play the class.

Basic ATK

Vines’ Embrace

Skill

Life Bloom

Ultimate

Divine Circle Bloom

Slot 1 - Mandatory

Feral Seed

Slot 2 - Mandatory

Nourish

Slot 3 - Mandatory

Blossom Charge

Slot 4 - Flex

Grove Wish

/

Nature Ward

Energy - This resource is consumed to cast Life Bloom and some of our Expertise skills. It regenerates 4 points every second, and thanks to a talent in the base tree, the recovery scales with Haste.

Regen Bud - Regen buds are our other resource, which can be consumed by our Ultimate and Expertise skills to create Seeds that either release a strong heal or deal AoE damage, depending on the ability used. Triggering the Seeds with a heal launches the healing Seed, while triggering them with a damaging ability launches the damage one. Eight buds can be stored with our baseline talents unlocked. Buds are generated via abilities thanks to our talents, the most basic of which allows us to gain 1 bud every time we use our Special, Life Bloom.

Flower Time Dance - Unlocked after allocating “Flower Time Dance” and adds a new flower petal tracker. Flower Time Dance grants us a cycling buff/bonus in the form of 3 varieties of flowers that spawn every 45s (22s with talents). Upon appearing, each flower grants us a different effect:

• Red: Crimson Insight reduces the cooldown of the next expertise used by 50%. This is best used on our long cooldown abilities like Grove Wish or our Ultimate.
• Yellow: Golden Devotion increases our healing bonus by 20% for 10s after the use of an Expertise skill. We want to use Nourish with this.
• Blue: Moonlight Solace empowers the next Life Bloom to provide a shield equal to 200% of our MATK, and at the same time, shielded targets will have 10% damage reduction.

The order flowers spawn is always red, yellow, then blue, and which is active can be tracked using the flower petal tracker.

Fixed Skills

• 

  Vines’ Embrace
  - Verdant Oracle’s basic attack provides healing when not attacking enemies, and deals damage in addition to healing when attacking enemies. It is mainly used during rotational downtime or to heal when bosses aren’t targettable. Has a small chance to grant Regen Buds on hit thanks to one of our talents.
• Life Bloom- Lifebloom is the Special Attack for the Lifebind spec. It consumes energy and heals nearby allies after a brief cast. With the help of a specific talent, this cast time can be instantly skipped if used immediately after
  

  Blossom Charge
  . Not responsible for a lot of our healing, but a key part of ensuring that healing can occur in the first place.
• 

  Divine Circle Bloom
  - Creates a barrier that inflicts damage to the enemies and heals the allies that are inside the barrier. It also provides the caster and up to 10 allies within a radius 25% damage reduction. It can be used as soon as available or saved as more of a defensive cooldown to mitigate threatening abilities.

Mandatory Skills

• 

  Feral Seed
  - Summons a Seed that does damage in a small AoE and reduces the movement speed of enemies hit, while restoring 30 energy. Has 2 charges and a 15s cooldown and has many incredible synergies with our talents. This is our primary source of energy regeneration.
• 

  Nourish
  This is the backbone of the class, providing strong, consistent healing over time. It has a base duration of 10 seconds, which can be refreshed and stacked up to 5 stacks after getting one of our endgame talent nodes. Crucially, the healing intervals scale with Haste, making it an essential stat. At maximum strength, its healing potential is five times its base amount.
• 

  Blossom Charge
  - A powerful ability that deals AoE damage, heals allies, and can instantly stun enemies. This ability has two charges, and with our endgame talent tree, can provide us with Energy. Casting this skill also lets you instant cast Lifebloom for some quick healing.

Flex Skills (Choose 1)

• 

  Grove Wish
  - Initiates a long channel that consistently provides healing over its duration while also applying a significant elemental damage reduction effect to allies. Later talents can reduce the channel time and increase the effectiveness, making this a potent option. The superior choice when aiming to maximize total healing output.
• 

  Nature Ward
  - An instant cast ability that provides a shield to up to 10 allies based on our MATK. This ability notably does not consume energy and can serve as a strong tool to increase allies' total effective HP poo,l but at the cost of higher healing and potential damage mitigation.

Skill Priority

Nourish

>

Grove Wish

(If Using) > Life Bloom =

Nature Ward

(If Using) >

Blossom Charge

=

Divine Circle Bloom

>

Feral Seed

>

Vines’ Embrace

*

Nourish

Grove Wish

Nature Ward

Blossom Charge

Divine Circle Bloom

Feral Seed

Vines’ Embrace

If you want to create your own Talent tree, check our tool:

Talent Planner

Important!

All gear & talent related info is based on extensive in-game testing, parsing, theory crafting and simulations. If you want to learn more about how damage works to understand our decisions, check out our Damage Formula Guide.

Stat Priority

Crit Rate

   

Haste

     

Luck

 

Mastery

    

Versatility

   

Main Stats

1. Haste - Haste increases our energy recovery, improves our Lifebloom and Grove Wish cast times, all while increasing the frequency of Nourish ticks. Based on all this, Haste is definitely worth building a strong amount of, but due to the nature of breakpoints, there is certain amounts that are optimal when chasing extra Nourish ticks. Our best breakpoints on release, assuming we remain in our Grass Domain, are 1140 haste and 1910 haste. Any additional points beyond 1910 won’t provide a significant gain and are better allocated to other stats instead.
2. Mastery - Lifebind gains 1% increased healing per 1% Mastery, which unfortunately stacks additively with other sources of healing. Despite this, Mastery is still solid and as it’s one of our thumbs up stats, we’ll get a good amount of it from class gear and weapon, meaning it’s fine to focus on other stats like Versatility, Haste (if not capped), and Crit Rate when you get them. Pick some up before class gear if it’s low, though.
3. Versatility - This stat is always beneficial as it provides an extra multiplicative boost on top of all other healing boosts. Because of this and how diminishing returns work, we always recommend picking up some Versatility on your build. You can seek out Versatility or Crit after reaching your desired Haste Breakpoint.
4. Crit Rate - Crit Rate is a direct multiplier to our healing output, making it a solid choice and in contention with Mastery and Versatility, which do similar things. You can seek out Crit or Versatility after reaching your desired Haste Breakpoint.
5. Luck - Luck does not scale with any major abilities, and many of our skills cannot trigger a lucky hit, making it generally better to focus on other stats instead. You can completely skip this stat.

Bonus Stats

In gear slots you’re not using Set Gear in and which aren’t taken up by your class's signature Class weapon (if you have it), prioritize the following Purple Stats:

Helmet, Armour, Gloves, Boots

Intelligence%

Weapons & Accessories

MATK% = Healing% > Cast speed%

Set Gear

Lifebind 2P and 4P set bonuses are both definitely worth equipping as soon as you’re able to complete Raids and are better than Purple Bonuses. Lifebind’s 4P specifically is one of the strongest mechanical gains of all set gear. Here is what they do:

2-piece SET

Increases

Grove Wish

healing by 20% on the lowest HP allies.

4-Piece SET

Overhealing will be converted to a shield that lasts 8s, and that can stack up to a maximum of 30% of the target's HP.

Class weapon

Our Class weapon is also definitely worth using over a Legendary weapon with a purple line. Instead of a purple line, it grants:

• 5% Healing intensity.
• Increased stats.

Here are the best modules for Verdant Oracle - Smite - listed in priority order:

1. 

   Healing Enhance
   - A module that provides additional Magic Attack and INT, two things we can always use. It also boosts our healing capabilities from Expertise, which includes Nourish.
2. 

   Healing Boost
   - A good module for additional Magic Attack, INT, and enhancing our Special Skill healing.
3. 

   Crit Focus
   - When scaling Crit Rate, the rare Crit Healing multiplier is well worth investing in.
• This bonus loses significant power when not pursuing reasonable amounts of Crit Rate.
4. 

   Intellect Boost
   - A good module for additional Magic Attack and INT, enhancing the buff we can provide. Even if it appears on the DPS nodes, it is still worth considering till we unlock the extreme nodes.

Attention!

The best Lifebind Imagines are incredibly flexible with what’s best depending on the content you’re running and the Imagines your other support party members are using. Below is a guideline of what we recommend for different goals. Also, Sustain and Support-based Imagines have some of the most unique effects in the game, often meaning they don’t have direct equivalents. Due to this, there is no exact F2P substitution; please refer to our purple Imagine listing for more information.

Note

The damage from Imagines and their passives works with Symbiotic Mark, allowing them to boost our healing and damage at the same time.

Premium Offensive

Tina

+

Brigand Leader

Premium Defensive

Tina

+

Golden Juggernaut

/

Airona

Top Gold Imagines - Universal

• 

  Tina
  - Tina is the best supportive Imagine in the game and is usually expected to be run by sustains. Tina grants the party a 50% cooldown reduction for 20 seconds. This allows us and our party to regain their cooldowns more quickly, improving survivability, healing, and most importantly, group damage significantly.
• Once a party member is affected by this effect, they can’t be affected again for 60 seconds.

Top Gold Imagines - Offensive

• 

  Brigand Leader
  - Brigand Leader increases your and your team’s Attack %, allowing for more damage. Time using the active of this Imagine to maximize your party's damage.
• The ATK buff is unique and cannot be stacked, meaning in high party count content, you may want to use a variety of support Imagines.
• 

  Venobzzar Incubator
  - This Imagine pulses damage in a large area, applying up to an 8% generic damage taken debuff on enemies hit for the whole party. This debuff isn’t that strong as it only lasts 8 seconds, and stacks additively with all other sources of non-elemental DMG%, resulting in it usually being heavily diluted. Mostly useful in 20-man content; otherwise, Brigand Leader will perform better.

Top Gold Imagines - Defensive

• 

  Airona
  - When cast, summons Airona who performs a short prayer before reviving up to 4 downed teammates. Airona is powerful in standard play to resurrect teammates and can be used as a part of resurrection cheese strategies as well. While very useful, this Imagine is frequently run on tanks, meaning you won't always need to run it unless you’re running strategies that require 2 or more Airona.
• Allies resurrected by Airona can’t be resurrected again for 60 seconds.
• 

  Golden Juggernaut
  - Grants a HP scaling shield for the whole party on use, serving as an outstanding healing/survival cooldown while also adding in a bit of extra damage as well.
• The additional hit granted to allies can Crit and Lucky Hit, has a 0.5 second cooldown, and is unique, meaning only one of these buffs can be held at a time.
• 

  Muku King
  - Upon use, Muku King joins the battle and provides healing and 10% healing received for up to 10 allies and dispels debuffs from them during his channel duration. Passively, he provides an 8% Healing buff and a shield that triggers when allies are healed. The shield is based on our attack and is relatively small. From a utility standpoint, there are better options since Lifebind already has a lot of healing.

Top Purple Imagines

• 

  Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]
  - Providing passive 10% intellect and 20% upon activation. One of our few effective purple Imagine choices. A reasonable pick for increasing healing output passively and in burst.
• 

  Shadow Captain [A5]
  - An alternative passive healing amplification option to Inferno Goblin Mage in the Purple Imagine slot. Boosts the healing and damage of expertise skills by up to 15% passively and a further 32% when activated. Shadow Captain is effective as the largest source of our healing is Nourish. which is an Expertise skill. Sadly, it stacks additively with our mastery, putting it behind Inferno Goblin Mage.

• Sapphire - Intelligence (Haste) - Use these gems if you are not yet at your desired breakpoint.
• Emerald - Intelligence ( Mastery) - The next best choice after hitting your desired nourish breakpoint.
• Ruby - Intelligence (Crit) - If you’re satisfied with how much mastery you have, or are pursuing a dedicated Crit Build, Crit Rate can also be embedded.

Imagines

The Battle Imagines are powerful tools meant to be used during damage burst windows to significantly upgrade our allies’ damage.

We should prioritize coordinating Imagine usage with the team's DPS to maximize their output. For example:

• Use
  

  Tina
  to reduce the cooldowns of the DPS's most important abilities right after they've been cast.
• Use the
  

  Brigand Leader
  to provide a strong, immediate Attack % buff to the entire team.

Rotation Focus and Priority

The primary focus of the rotation is to maintain

Nourish

• Energy Management: Maintain high energy levels and utilize your filler abilities during downtime.
• Healing/Mitigation: Use energy-consuming abilities to provide stronger healing or apply damage mitigation to allies.

Skill Usage

• 

  Feral Seed
  : This skill is used mainly to regenerate energy and keep your resource bar topped up.
• 

  Grove Wish
  : This should be used proactively to either reduce incoming damage or reactively to provide a strong burst of healing to low-health allies.
• 

  Blossom Charge
  & Life Bloom:
  

  Blossom Charge
  empowers the subsequent Life Bloom, causing it to instantly autocast and also serving to interrupt enemies. This combination helps simplify the rotation and maintain consistent effects.

Flower Stalks

Flower Stalks: The final point of the rotation is actively tracking the status of your three Flower Stalks to ensure you use them on the proper skills whenever they are available.

• Red: Halves the CD of the skill used; use it on your longest CD ability at the time.
• Yellow: Increases healing by 20% after your next expertise cast. We want this to be
  

  Nourish
  if possible.
• Blue: The next Life Bloom we cast will provide a shield.

Ultimate and Positioning

Divine Circle Bloom

Positioning: It is highly recommended to stay inside the "Grass Domain" as much as possible, as doing so grants you 10% Haste, leading to faster animations and cast times.

Can Smite be played on auto?

This class does not perform well on autoplay because it will spam Life Bloom and mismanage the Energy-generating skills. You will occasionally be left only basic attacking with no Energy available to cast anything or contribute to the party. If you were to play on auto, you would need to attempt it with a different skill tree so that skill spamming is a bit more possible.