Key Points
- Sylvie will have flutterflies and flowers to bring healing to allies.
- Two abilities are going ot take center stage here: Fluttercall: Restore Life and Heart Blooms.
- We will focus on damage dealing on the build; it can be a great maneuver for the downtime during cooldowns.
- The talent we pick for Sylvie will focus on her healing output and dealing damage.
The gameplay of Sylvie breaks down to making use of her flutterflies to heal the allies. She has five flutterflies that you must manage throughout the gameplay to make her work.
Sylvie Build Overview
| Character | Sylvie |
| Playstyle | Healer |
| Spirit Ability | Refunds mana |
| Healing Type | Group Heal and Heal Over Time |
| Battle Type | Sylvie is perfect for dungeon-type battles |
| Healing Ways | Flutterflies and Plants |
Best Healing Abilities for Sylvie
- Fluttercall Heal: Here, you can assign one of your pink flutterflies to an ally and heal them over time.
- Fluttercall: Protect: Send your blue flutterfly to protect your target ally. It will give the player 150% increased healing from the flutterfly healing effects.
- Fluttercall Restore Life: Release two pink flutterflies to the target ally, releasing a burst of healing and an over-time healing effect.
Note: You must have two fluterflies with you to activate this one.
- Fluttercall: Jubilee: Here you call upon dream flutterflies to give protection to 4 players for every 2 seconds over 10 seconds.
- Life Petal: This little petal will heal up one ally for 14 seconds. Mind you, this skill will only heal the ally with the least health.
- Heart Bloom: It stores 15% of all flutterfly healing, and every 3 seconds, it releases a pulse healing up allies, covering a 4000 radius for 15 seconds.
Best Utility Abilities for Sylvie
- Iron Bark: Targated ally takes 20% less damage for 12 seconds.
- Cure Ailment: Remove all harmful magic effects from the target ally.
- Hidden Trail: Your movement speed increased by 50% for 6 seconds.
- Safe Haven: Place a safe haven at a location that will heal allies for 40% within the radius for 15 seconds.
- Enfeebling Rootsap: You command one of your prickly vines to enfeeble the enemy, reducing all damage that the enemy deals by 20% for 6 seconds.
- Nettlebolt: Cast a bolt that does nettle damage to the enemy. You can use it to restore mana.
- Prickly Vine: Summon prickly vine for 27 seconds to throw thorns at the enemy, dealing magic damage. The best thing about Prickly Vine is that each one of them spawns Boomshrooms when the vine withers.
- Shroomsplosion: Allows you to command all Boomshrooms to attack the target.
Note: You can also use Shroomsplosion to heal your allies by getting the talent Bloomin’ Boomshrooms. With this talent, you can detonate 3 Boomshrooms, healing over 380% intellect each.
Best Talents to unlock for Sylvie
- Verdant Restoration: The very first Fluttercall Restore now has a 50% chance of raising critical strike.
- Natural Protector: The Iron Bark and Safe Haven abilities will provide a shield for 15 seconds, and absorb up to 1421% intellect damage.
- Nurtured Haven: Effects the cooldown of Safe Haven every time your plant (Prickly Vine, Life Petal, or Heart Bloom) withers.
- Flower Power: Heart blooms has two charges but only accumulates 10% of all flutterfly healing. You can apply haste to the recharge rate of the Heart Bloom.
- Magic Ward: Take 10% less magic damage.
- Spirited Fortitude: take 10% less area of effect damage.
- Symbiosis: Prickly Vines deal 8% more damage based on the number of players that have pink flutterfly.
A good set of alternatives for Symbiosis is Trailing Restoration, Elusive Wildling, and Bluey’s Gambit.
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Stat Priority for Sylvie
- Haste: Raises your attack speed, casting speed, the tick rate of damage over time, and heal over time effects.
- Expertise: Effects damage, healing, and effect absorption.
- Critical Strike: Raises the chance of damage and healing effects.
- Spirit: It will be able to refund any mana spent using abilities. Every time a spirit refund takes place, it will spawn a Prickly Vine.
Best Gear for Sylvie
| Slot | Equipment | Benefits |
| Neck | Amulet of Unyielding Bloom | Raises stamina, critical strike, and expertise |
| Weapon | Iceshaper’s Brand | Allow you 60 stacks of Frozen Light to all of your allies. Each time your allies take damage, a single stack is consumed, healing the ally. |
| Relic | Sinbinding Stone | It grants 15% damage reduction to yourself and your allies near you for 15 seconds. |
- Elheryn’s Cache and Zeraleth’s Scythe are great weapon alternatives.
- Chalice of Al’zerac’s Essence is another great Relic choice.
Tips for Playing Sylvie Build
- Always cast Fluttercall: Protect on the tank. Make sure to have a blue flutterfly on the tank.
- You can boost your healing by having Prickly Vines with Symbiosis.
- Power up your Heart Bloom, as they will become incredibly handy later on in boss fights.
- Rely on Enfeebling Rootsap for the AoE damage.
- During heavier fights, keep the blue flutterfly on yourself and focus on dealing AoE damage.
Sylvie comes with strong healing cooldowns compared to other healers in the game. But the learning curves make learning Sylvie a difficult option in many books. However, the learning curve is worth it as the build gives a good mix of healing and offensive capabilities.
FAQs
What if I don’t have Flutterflies around to cast a Fluttercall: Restore Life?
If you don’t have any Flutterflies around you, then when you cast Fluttercall: Restore Life, it will automatically drag any Flutterflies that you have on your ally to make use of the ability.
What are the best healing cooldowns for Sylvie?
Life Petal and Heart Bloom are going to be the best cooldowns. Heart Bloom will be a better cooldown ability than Life Petal.
Should I ignore damage dealing as Sylvie?
No, dealing damage will convert the damage into mana, resources, and most especially use the damage skills in the downtime.
Should I Start as Sylvie?
If you are new to the game, then you might have trouble figuring everything out with Sylvie, since timing certainly carries a strong factor for Sylvie.
Can Sylvie be used as a quick healer?
No, many players choose Sylvie as an effective healer for dungeons where snap healing is required to a minimum requirement. Compared to the burst healing of Sylvie, others fall flat.
