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Harbinger - Power Quick Harbinger

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD

Overview

A relatively simple to play strike damage based Harbinger build for general open world play focused on quickly clearing enemies with strong self-Might Might/Vulnerability Vulnerability generation and AoE Quickness Quickness. Can also be used with Minions if desired. Not recommended for soloing harder content as your sustain is limited.


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Skill Bar

Pistol/Focus
Utility


Weapon Variants

Weapon choice for this build is mostly for utility and lifeforce generation as most of your time dealing dps should be in shroud. Pistol/Focus is chosen as the default as it provides quick life force generation with passable damage.


Skill Variants

Healing Skills
  • Summon Blood Fiend - For minion builds.
Utility Skills
  • Spectral Grasp - Pulls in enemies.
  • Spectral Armor - Stunbreak + Life force and defense vs strike damage.
  • Spectral Walk - Stunbreak + Life force and defense vs conditions.
  • Summon Shadow Fiend - For minion builds.
  • Well of Suffering - AoE Damage.
  • Well of Darkness - AoE Blind Blind and Damage.
  • Signet of the Locust - Passive movement speed and damage/heal/boon-rip when activated
Elite Skills
  • Summon Flesh Golem - For minion builds or a strong CC with the command skill.


Specializations


Specialization Variants

  • Awaken the Pain - More damage if not using signets.
  • Vital Persistence - Extra HP and self/incoming healing.


Equipment

  • Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required.
Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Pistol
Berserker
Focus
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Equipment Variants

  • For more damage, you can use Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar, but you will need a little more crit chance through an Assassin Assassin headgear and 6 Precise Agony Infusions.
  • For more defense, you can use Marauder Marauder or Dragon stats Dragon stats gear.

Consumables

Food
  • Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
  • - farming
  • - DPS
  • - defense
Utility
  • (and variants) - farming
  • , - DPS


Usage

This build is relatively simple to use as most of your damage comes from your Harbinger Shroud auto-attack.

Harbinger Shroud
  • With Signets of Suffering, the passive effect of Signet of Undeath continues to regenerate your lifeforce even while in shroud.
  • Your auto-attack Tainted Bolts also generates might might as long as you are attacking so try to always be attacking if possible.
  • Dark Barrage - burst cleave damage.
  • Vital Draw generates life force when striking enemies. If possible try to strike as many foes as possible to maximise lifeforce gains.
  • The other Shroud skills should be saved mostly for mobility or to quickly finish off weakened foes.
Crowd Control
  • Vile Blast - AoE Stun
  • Vital Draw - Long duration PBAoE Float


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 3 votes.
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3 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 3 stars • January 2023
Compared to condi quickness harbinger, this build is simply lacking. The condition version is way superior because necromancer in general doesn't have good power damage options. The only thing this build does better is burst damage, but it falls off super fast.
5 stars
Talis whitewolf gave this build 5 stars • December 2022
A Big Green 'Pew Pew' Machine... I don't know if it'll ever get into the testing stage, but in my opinion this build is good to go.
5 stars
Galetrixia gave this build 5 stars • September 2022
Very powerful shroud especially for veteren/elite and champions where you have a little more time - With full exotics with a few ascended accessories averaging 9k dps on longish fights. Easy to use too.

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