Harbinger - Quickness Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing and Support

Designed for: Fractals and Raids

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

With the shortest Shroud 4 cooldown on Necromancer, Harbinger can get more use out of

Transfusion

than other builds. Between this and

Ritual of Life

, it has perhaps the strongest res potential in the game.

In addition to decent CC, it provides 20 Might, 25 Vulnerability and permanent Fury, Quickness and Regeneration.

Unfortunately, as it doesn't provide permanent Protection or much in the way of utility boons (mostly limited to

Elixir of Ambition

), the build is mostly a novelty.

Secrets of the Obscure added a number of potent healing weapons that significantly increased the gap between this build and the weakest "meta" healers. As such, it has been given the Basic rating.

Skillbar

Pistol/Warhorn

X/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

Elixir of Anguish

is not required to maintain Quickness, so it is the first choice to swap out, but the other utilities can be replaced if Might is covered by someone else.

• Well of Power
  if your group has a lack of Might (or you want a stunbreak and some self Stability)
• Corrosive Poison Cloud
  for projectile defence
• Corrupt Boon
  or
  Well of Corruption
  for boon removal
• Summon Flesh Wurm
  for body blocking certain attacks
• Signet of Undeath
  for an additional res
• Spectral Grasp
  for more CC
• Well of Power
  or
  Elixir of Bliss
  for condition removal

Elite

• Summon Flesh Golem
  for more CC.

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Specializations

• Fear of Death
  can be taken for slightly higher defiance damage.

Equipment

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Harrier

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Pistol
Harrier

Sigil

Warhorn
Harrier

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• With this setup you can use (mostly) the same gear as on Heal Scourge.

Equipment Variants

Stats

• Minstrel stats can be taken (if tanking or if the encounter has no toughness tanking) for higher Healing Power and significantly increased survivability at the cost of DPS and some boon duration.
• While not generally recommended, Plaguedoctor stats can be taken for higher DPS at the cost of Healing Power and boon duration. Take
  Septic Corruption
  if doing so and consider adjusting other aspects of the build for boon duration and healing.

Weapons

• Staff can be taken in the second weapon slot for more Regeneration, CC, and a condition transfer.
• Mainhand Dagger can be taken instead of Pistol for increased Life Force generation, boonstrip, and self-healing, at the cost of reduced damage and CC.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Water
  instead of
  Superior Sigil of Transference
  for an additional heal source at the cost of total outgoing healing.

Relics

• Relic of the Zephyrite
  adds an extra ~25% Protection uptime.
• Relic of Mercy
  as ressing is your party trick, this has obvious synergy.

Consumables

Food

• Delicious Rice Ball
  or ascended variants

Utility

• Bountiful Maintenance Oil

Usage

Standard Rotation

The primary goals here are to share Quickness and heal, so stay in

Harbinger Shroud

and use

Voracious Arc

to heal (and port downed allies to you). Aim to start and end each loop with

Voracious Arc

, as the ticking healing from

Transfusion

should last almost until

Harbinger Shroud

is ready again.

When out of

Harbinger Shroud

, use utility skills off cooldown.

Other sources of heal :

• Life from Death
  - your largest and most reliable burst heal.
• Locust Swarm
  - pulsing life steal
• Well of Blood
  - direct heal and Regeneration
• Mark of Blood
  - grants allies Regeneration when you dodge
• Superior Sigil of Renewal
  - triggers on weapon swap or entering/exiting
  Harbinger Shroud
• Ritual of Life
  - casts Lesser Well of Blood when you begin reviving a downed ally, healing and reviving nearby allies.
• Superior Sigil of Water
  - if taking instead of
  Superior Sigil of Transference
  , procs on crits every 5 seconds (you have 30% crit chance with Fury)