Auriel Talents

Level	Choices
1	? ? ✓
4	? ? ✓
7	? ? ✓
10	? ✓
13	? ? ✓
16	✓ ? ?
20	? ? ✘︎ ✓

Increasing Clarity is a decent Quest-based Talent that increases the center damage of Sacred Sweep, something that provides you with additional burst damage and waveclear.

The requirement to hit enemy Heroes with Sacred Sweep will unnecessarily force yourself to expose during the early game.

Righteous Assault is a good Talent that allows you to cast Sacred Sweep more often than usual, increasing both your damage done and Energy generation.

To increase the chances that enemy Heroes will be hit by the center area of Sacred Sweep, you can combine this Talent with Majestic Span at Level 4 and/or Converging Force at Level 13.

The cooldown reduction provided by this Talent can be used to Blind enemy Heroes more often with Blinding Flash at Level 13.

Searing Light is a good Talent that makes Ray of Heaven deal damage to enemy Heroes hit, but only for 30% of the Energy paid for casting it.

The damage done by Ray of Heaven thanks to this Talent will contribute to your Energy Regeneration via Bestow Hope.

As your primary task is to heal your team, you should rarely use Ray of Heaven only to deal damage—basically only if you can kill an enemy Hero without causing an allied Hero to die in the process.

Thanks to the area of effect nature of Ray of Heaven, Searing Light is better against team composition that feature multiple short-range or melee Heroes.

Majestic Span is a good Talent that increases the distance covered by Sacred Sweep, helping you to hit enemy Heroes from a slightly safer position.

We find this Talent useful when planning to pick Blinding Flash or Converging Force at Level 13 because it increases the chances that enemy Heroes will be hit by the center area of Sacred Sweep.

Heavy Burden is a decent Talent which empowers Detainment Strike in two ways: makes the Stun slightly longer and empowers the Slows. If the collision on impassable terrain happens, then the Slow will be stronger and last longer.

Repeated Offense is a strong Talent that increases the knockback distance of Detainment Strike. Furthermore, successfully Stunning enemy Heroes with it makes Detainment Strike deal more damage.

The additional distance increases the number of situations where Detainment Strike can result in a Stun when near impassable terrain, and it also makes Detainment Strike slightly better for peeling when a collision is not possible.

Glimmer of Hope is a good Talent that, after collecting a Regeneration Globe, reduces the cost of your next Ray of Heaven by 75% of the amount of Energy you have while casting it.

The requirement of having a Regeneration Globe is not that easy to fulfill during team fights, however, Glimmer of Hope will still help you to start team fights with way higher Energy than usual.

Thanks to its percent-based effect, Glimmer of Hope is great when paired with Reservoir of Hope as it gets better when your maximum Energy increases.

Given it requires a Regeneration Globe to work, this Talent gives more value on Maps were your team can easily rotate from a lane to another (notably Tomb of the Spider Queen) and/or where team fights happen near where Minions clash (for example Dragon Shire).

Empathic Link is a good Talent that allows Auriel to convert part of the damage taken by the allied Hero with Bestow Hope on them into Energy.

We find this Talent more valuable when in team with Cho'Gall as it allows you to get Energy when Cho takes damage, when Cho deals damage at melee range, and when Gall deals damage from the distance.

Energized Cord is a good Talent that makes Auriel gain more Energy when hitting enemies with Basic Attacks: 60% more Energy against Heroes and 35% more Energy against non-Heroes. In addition to that, Auriel gains 1.1 Attack Range.

The first part of the Talent mostly helps during team fights as you will basically be able to fill up your Energy with half the Basic Attacks than usual when hitting enemy Heroes, however, keep in mind that Blinds will counter this Talent.

The second part of the Talent mostly helps outside of team fights because she gets way less Energy from damaging non-Heroes compared to damaging Heroes, a gap that gets reduced after picking Energized Cord.

The additional Attack Range mostly helps in team fights as it allows you to hit enemy Heroes that are farther away but also allows you to stay slightly safer when attacking non-Heroes in an area where enemy Heroes could punish you.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Resurrect is a decent Heroic Ability that enables allied Heroes to play more aggressively as it can turn an even trade into a favorable one.

Due to its relatively long cooldown, we only find this Heroic Ability playable when having Cho'Gall in team because by using it on them you will basically be resurrecting 2 allied Heroes at the same time.

Crystal Aegis is a strong Heroic Ability that counters burst damage and various debuffs.

While not that easy to use, we recommend picking this Heroic Ability in most if not all games because it lets you protect allied Heroes from incoming damage when Ray of Heaven is on cooldown and/or when the damage is too much for them to survive.

Blinding Flash is a good Talent that adds a Blind component to the center of Sacred Sweep.

While we find this Talent good in most if not all scenarios, you should definitely pick this Talent against Heroes who deal most of their damage via Basic Attacks.

Converging Force is a decent Talent that gently displaces enemy Heroes hit with the outer area of Sacred Sweep towards its inner area.

The slow knockback effect provided slightly increases the chance that you will deal bonus damage by hitting with the inner area of Sacred Sweep. Furthermore, it can be used to interrupt the following effects, although you will probably never be in range for dealing with some of them. Abilities not present in this list cannot be interrupted via this Talent.

• Fend by Cassia
• Mosh Pit by E.T.C.
• Drain Life by Gul'dan
• Celestial Charge by Imperius
• Dwarf Toss by Muradin
• Natural Agility by Hanzo
• Icing by Mei
• Blade Dash by Artanis
• Lurking Arm by Stukov
• Ravenous Spirit by Nazeebo
• Eye of Horus by Ana
• RIP-Tire by Junkrat
• Disintegrate by Li-Ming

Piercing Lash is a good Talent that makes Detainment Strike pierce enemy Heroes hit and proportionally reduce its cooldown.

The pierce component of this Talent lets you use Detainment Strike to interrupt a Hero that is behind another one, or to Knockback or Stun multiple Heroes at the same time.

We find this Talent particularly good against team compositions that feature multiple melee Heroes with low mobility as you will easily get multi-hits to peel them away from yourself or the rest of your team.

Reservoir of Hope is a strong Quest-based Talent that increases the amount of maximum Energy that Auriel can store by a small amount each time she uses Ray of Heaven while having full Energy.

In practice, this Talent increases the amount of healing you can do with a single cast of Ray of Heaven, effectively increasing your healing output if your Bestow Hope can quickly and constantly generate Energy for you by dealing damage to enemy Heroes.

Will of Heaven is a situational Talent that increases the Attack damage of allied Heroes affected by Bestow Hope by a good amount and your Attack damage by a decent amount. As a consequence, you will also generate more Energy.

We find this Talent not great for increasing your healing output because Auriel will easily reach full Energy without it, however, you may want to consider picking it when your team lacks damage and your preferred Bestow Hope's target does most of their damage via Basic Attacks.

Wrath of Heaven is a situational Talent that increases the Spell Power of allied Heroes affected by Bestow Hope by a decent amount and decreases the Armor of enemy Heroes hit by the center area of Sacred Sweep or the terrain collision of Detainment Strike. As a consequence, you will also generate more Energy.

We find this Talent not great for increasing your healing output because Auriel will easily reach full Energy without it, however, you may want to consider picking it when your team lacks damage and your preferred Bestow Hope's target does most of their damage via Abilities.

Light Speed is a decent Talent that gives a high amount of Movement Speed to whoever you Resurrect and makes you use your Heroic Ability more often by reducing its cooldown.

The cooldown reduction is conditional: the longer your latest Resurrect stays alive, the more cooldown reduction you get. You can get up to 50 seconds of cooldown reduction this way.

Diamond Resolve is a decent Talent that makes Crystal Aegis give a huge amount of Armor to the affected Hero when the Stasis ends, drastically increasing their survivability for 5 seconds.

The additional survivability can allow the affected allied Hero to get away to safety if low on Health or play more aggressively if high on Health.

Angelic Flight is a weak Talent that, after channeling for 2 seconds, makes you fly to a chosen location within 75 range.

Due to its slow cast time, this Talent is not reliable for escaping from danger, although it can still be used for that if you are in a desperate situation, hoping you will not die or get interrupted before it goes off. At most, it could be used to quickly join your team if you are the only Hero that died during the previous fight, acting as a sort of Death Timer reduction.

Shield of Hope is a strong Talent that gives a powerful Shield to Auriel and any allied Hero within 8 range.

The amount of Shield will be lower for allied Heroes with high Health and higher for allied Heroes with low Health, so you should try to use it when whoever is getting focused by the enemy team is below 50% Health to get at least 25% of their maximum Health as Shield.