Build:Harbinger - Condi Harbinger

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on March 19, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Harbinger is a versatile build for Necromancer that shares gear with the condition Quickness variant for group PvE content and only requires minor tweaks to be able to be played as a full dps build. It provides itself and its subgroup with permanent Quickness and Fury as well as a good amount of Might. It also has great CC capabilities through Vital Draw, Voracious Arc and Vile Blast.

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Skill Bar

Pistol/Dagger

Scepter/Dagger

Utility

• Epidemic can be taken instead of Blood Is Power whenever cleave damage is required to kill adds quickly.
• If you need a stun break and additional condi cleanse, Spectral Walk is a good choice that includes both.
• Focus is used for easy life force generation whenever you do not have enemies dying around you (boss fights without or with only a few adds); for general OW roaming, dagger is the go-to weapon.

Specializations

• Parasitic Contagion can be taken for a nice boost to survivability at the cost of some condition damage.

Death Magic

• Death Magic leads to a vast amount of defense at the cost of damage and replaces Soul Reaping.
• For condi cleanse and transfer, you can replace Plaguelands by Summon Flesh Golem and take Necromantic Corruption.
• With more minions, take Flesh of the Master as well.

Equipment

• Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

This build uses the standard raid gear, making it ideal for general PVE.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Pistol
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Ritualist Variant

This variant provides higher personal boon duration but does not use the standard raid gear.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Pistol
Ritualist

Focus
Ritualist

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Ritualist

Sigil

Rune
x6

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.
• You should aim to maximize the condition duration on Bleeding and Tormentsince they are the two largest sources of your damage.
• - farming
• - DPS

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• - dps

Usage

Damage

• You can avoid a lot of damage by staying at range; only Devouring Cut and Voracious Arc require you to be close to the target.
• Outside of shroud, you can use all skills aside from Spinal Shivers on cooldown.
• You provide Quickness and Fury periodically while in Harbinger Shroud, so make sure to go into shroud as often as possible.
• Blood Is Power should be used close to going into Harbinger Shroud to transfer the self-applied Torment and Bleeding with the maximum duration through Plague Sending and avoid them being cleansed in the meantime.

Survivability

• Elixir of Promise is your main source of healing, so use it whenever you need it. Make sure to throw it close to yourself to apply the stacks of Blight to yourself.
• You heal passively for every stack of Blight through Alchemic Vigor, so try to have many stacks on you. If you want to maintain 20-25 stacks at the cost of some damage, skip Devouring Cut and Voracious Arc because they are the main sources of Blight consumption.
• For harder encounters, swapping to Death Magic instead of Soul Reaping is the most convenient and easy-going option for additional surviability.

More information on the general usage and rotation is provided in the video down below:

Guide Video (as of May 2022)