Harbinger - Power Quick Harbinger

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022.

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/ Vulnerability generation and AoE Quickness. Not recommended for soloing harder content as your sustain is limited.

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Skill Bar

Axe/Focus

Dagger/Warhorn

Utility

Specializations

Equipment

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

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Dragon

Ring
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Focus
Berserker

Sigil

Dagger
Berserker

Warhorn
Berserker

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.
- farming
- DPS
- defense

Utility

(and variants) - farming
, - DPS

Usage

Usage Section Pending ...

Variants

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 Darkness - AoE Blind and Damage.
Signet of the Locust - Passive movement speed while in combat and damage/heal/boon-rip when activated

Elite Skills

Summon Flesh Golem - For minion builds.

Trait Variants

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

Variant Equipment

Stats

Depending on what equipment pieces are available to you, it is possible shuffle the armour stats to suit your needs (with the aim of having ~47% critical chance without buffs/shroud):

Berserker - Highest damage.
Assassin - More crit chance without increasing HP.
Marauder - Defensive option which also increases crit chance and reduces ferocity.
24px Dragon - Defensive option which decreases crit chance and increases ferocity.
Diviner - More boon duration.

Runes

Rune of Superior Rune of the Ogre - More reliable damage modifier and an extra summon to distract enemies (which also can gain quickness from your shroud aura)

Sigils

Replace Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact with:

Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defense