Difference between revisions of "Harbinger - Celestial Elixir Roamer"
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− | A Celestial Harbinger WvW build designed for | + | A Celestial Harbinger WvW build designed for roaming known for its high sustain, strong damage and decent mobility. |
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− | * Offhand ''Focus'' over ''Dagger'' - equally viable option. {{Skill|Spinal Shivers}} adds a great boonrip skill with high damage, but your condition cleansing and sustain's going to be a bit lower if you drop dagger. | + | * Offhand ''Focus'' over ''Dagger'' - an equally viable option. {{Skill|Spinal Shivers}} adds a great boonrip skill with high damage, but your condition cleansing and sustain's going to be a bit lower if you drop dagger. |
Revision as of 10:31, 12 January 2024
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Hybrid damage and Mobility
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on January 12, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.
Overview
A Celestial Harbinger WvW build designed for roaming known for its high sustain, strong damage and decent mobility.
Skill Bar
Pistol/Dagger
Staff
Utility
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Offhand Focus over Dagger - an equally viable option. adds a great boonrip skill with high damage, but your condition cleansing and sustain's going to be a bit lower if you drop dagger.
Utility
Viable choices for the optional slot:
- Resistance is useful against Blind spamming specs like D/P Thief or Holosmith. - low CD stun break and the
- - stun break that could also be used as a mobility tool, iT's especially useful at scaling difficult terrain and kiting to the highground. The downside is the long cast time, especially when you're trying to set this up as an escape tool while disengaging.
- - if you need more cleansing.
- - area denial skill that could ward off attackers or trap enemies inside.
Template Code
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Specializations
Variants
- Take if you want more passive survivability.
Variants
- Stability access. is an equally viable option, improves your Pistol skills in exchange for lower burst damage and less
- lets you share your elite's boons with allies, something that's worth considering if you're roaming with a group.
Specialization Variants
Taking Soul Reaping instead of Death Magic for more condition damage, better Life Force management and unblockable Staff Marks is also a viable choice. This however is a high risk/reward option, as your sustain is going to be considerably lower:
Equipment
Head
Celestial
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Celestial
Ring
Celestial
Celestial
Staff
Celestial
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Pistol
Celestial
Celestial
Dagger
Celestial
Celestial
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
x6
Infusion
x18
x18
Relic
Equipment Variants
Runes
- - passive mobility boost.
- - good hybrid damage rune.
- Quickness uptime. - nearly permanent
Relic
- - better burst damage and condition variety, but Demon Queen is better at bringing down other high sustain Cele specs because of the healing reduction.
- - improves both your strike damage and condition pressure, easy to maintain.
- - extra survivability.
Consumables
Food
- - passive damage mitigation and great stats.
- - active damage mitigation.
- - budget version
Utility
- , , or .
- Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Usage
Elite specialization basics
- doesn't replace your health bar! Unlike other Necromancer shrouds, Harbinger Shroud can't be used to soak damage, which makes this spec more squishy by default. Death Magic should offset this a bit.
- You can enter shroud even with no Life Force to use, but staying inside still drains your LF each interval.
General
- Entering Shroud triggers Weakness and boon rip as a defensive measure and even proc for some cleansing and additional counter-pressure. . If you're CC'd and getting focused you can enter shroud for the
- The healing and endurance reduction from Poison and Weakness is great for wearing down enemy bunkers/supports.
- Could be used defensively for AoE projectile denial, helping you and your teams survive pressure, even shutting down elites such as .
- It's unblockable and the Poison does solid damage on its own.
is one of the more versatile skills in the build:
Sustain
- Both entering and staying in shroud removes conditions thanks to and .
- Removing and applying conditions generates Carapace stacks from Death Magic, reducing direct damage taken. At 25+ stacks Protection for, well, further protection. This boon also reduces condition damage taken thanks to .
- grants Carapace even if the condition was removed through other means, like .
is going to start pulsing
- Activate SW ⇒ jump off a cliff while being chased ⇒ when your enemies jump after you.
- Activate SW ⇒ (Flesh Wurm skill) ⇒ teleport back when they catch up to you. This works for stomping downed enemies as well, the channeling isn't interrupted by either of these teleports!
(SW) is great for preventing condition pressure from ramping up on you. Activating its chain skill which "ends" Spectral Walk does not stop the cleansing. This skill has many uses, for example:
- provides much needed vertical mobility, allowing you to teleport to the highground if you need to escape or chase someone.
- Harbinger has better mobility than the average Necromancer build which could prove useful when it comes to surviving damage. and are both great for building (or closing) gaps.
- and are the closest things you have to a mass cleanse.
Ratings
if you are bad and need training wheels to do anything in this game mode - play this
Continues to be S+ tier, one of the strongest roamers around. Somehow it even keeps getting buffed (Deadly Strength) and is one of the biggest winners of the relic patch.
God Mode Activate! Literally nothing kills it if you're not stupid enough to attack into reflects. I normally play Heavy classes but Cele Harbinger stomps everything else roaming in WvW rn. You can even BloodBank it up and be double immortal.
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