Difference between revisions of "Harbinger - Quickness Support Condi DPS"

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| utility2 = Elixir of Risk
 
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| utility3 = Blood Is Power
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| infusion1 = Malign +9 Agony Infusion
 
| infusion1 = Malign +9 Agony Infusion
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| infusion1-qt = 9
 
| infusion2 = Spiteful +9 Agony Infusion
 
| infusion2 = Spiteful +9 Agony Infusion
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| infusion2-qt = 3
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| infusion2-qt = 9
 
| head = Ritualist
 
| head = Ritualist
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* This setup provides ~28% boon duration (without a Jade Bot) which is enough to maintain {{tooltip|Quickness}} getting only 4 ticks of {{trait|Deathly Haste}} per shroud loop.
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* This setup provides ~19% boon duration (without a Jade Bot) which is enough to maintain {{tooltip|Quickness}} getting 5 ticks of {{trait|Deathly Haste}} per shroud loop.
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* You can swap in extra {{tooltip|Viper stats}} pieces to lower your boon duration as low as 18% if you do a longer shroud loop that gets 5 ticks of {{trait|Deathly Haste}}.  
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* You can run full {{tooltip|Viper stats}} pieces if you are confident in your rotation.
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* If you don't have stat infusions, use {{food|Koi Cake}} (or alternatives) as your food.
  
  
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'''Food:'''
 
'''Food:'''
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* {{food|Koi Cake}} or ascended versions
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* {{food|Plate of Beef Rendang}} or ascended versions
  
  
 
'''Utility:'''
 
'''Utility:'''
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* {{utility|Master Tuning Crystal}}
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* {{utility|Toxic Focusing Crystal}}
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** {{utility|Master Tuning Crystal}} for a cheaper alternative
  
  
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<big>'''Opener'''</big>
 
<big>'''Opener'''</big>
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# {{Skill|Plaguelands}} - We want to cast plaguelands early so that the {{tooltip|Poison}} expires before you enter shroud. If it doesn't you will transfer the {{tooltip|Poison}} instead of the {{tooltip|Bleeding}}, leading to a loss of DPS.
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# Throw {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} on the group for boons to quickly build Blight stacks - make sure the boon rip has already happened!
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# Throw {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} at your feet to quickly build Blight stacks.
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# {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}
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# {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}} and {{Skill|Grasping Dead}}
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# {{Skill|Devouring Darkness}}
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# {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}
 
# {{tooltip|Weapon Swap}}
 
# {{tooltip|Weapon Swap}}
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# {{skill|Deathly Swarm}}
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# {{skill|Elixir of Ambition}}
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# {{Skill|Vile Blast}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
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# {{Skill|Blood Is Power}} - We cast this just before shroud so that the self-conditions are immediately transferred via {{trait|Plague Sending}}
 
 
# {{Skill|Harbinger Shroud}}
 
# {{Skill|Harbinger Shroud}}
  
  
 
<big>'''Shroud Loop'''</big>
 
<big>'''Shroud Loop'''</big>
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# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
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# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} is nearly off cooldown
 
# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
 
# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
 
# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
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# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
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# {{skill|Vital Draw}} - You can this at any point in the shroud loop as long as it doesn't make you delay skills
 
# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} is off cooldown
 
# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} is off cooldown
 
# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
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# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Voracious Arc}} is off cooldown
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# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
 
# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
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# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
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# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
 
# {{Skill|Exit Harbinger Shroud}}
 
# {{Skill|Exit Harbinger Shroud}}
  
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# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Vile Blast}}
 
# {{Skill|Vile Blast}}
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# {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}, {{Skill|Plaguelands}} and {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}, if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}}  
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# {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Ambition}} and {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}, if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}}  
 
# {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} - make sure to aim them at your allies
 
# {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} - make sure to aim them at your allies
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
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# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Vile Blast}}
 
# {{Skill|Vile Blast}}
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# {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}, {{Skill|Plaguelands}} and {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}, if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}}  
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# {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Ambition}} and {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}, if available - if you used {{Skill|Blood Is Power}}, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with {{Skill|Deathly Swarm}}  
 
# {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} - make sure to aim them at your allies
 
# {{Skill|Elixir of Promise}}, {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} and {{Skill|Elixir of Anguish}} - make sure to aim them at your allies
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
 
# {{Skill|Weeping Shots}}
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[https://youtu.be/X_Ak6XvLQRk Rotation Example]
 
[https://youtu.be/X_Ak6XvLQRk Rotation Example]
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<big>'''Longer Shroud Loop'''</big><br>
 
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By slightly re-ordering skills you can stay in shroud an extra ~second, which is sufficient to get an extra tick of {{trait|Deathly Haste}}. Use instead of the regular shroud loop if running lower boon duration.
 
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# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
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# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} is nearly off cooldown
 
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# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
 
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# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
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# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
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# {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} until {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} is off cooldown
 
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# {{Skill|Dark Barrage}}
 
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# {{Skill|Voracious Arc}}
 
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# {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}
 
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# {{Skill|Exit Harbinger Shroud}}
 
  
  
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===General Tips===
 
===General Tips===
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* When running three elixirs, the rotation above is not sustainable (you use more life force than you gain each loop). Many encounters have extra sources of life force gain, or are short enough that you don't run out of life force, but if you need to you can adjust in the following ways:
 
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** Using {{Skill|Vital Draw}} during step 4 or 6 of the shroud loop gains you the equivalent of ~2 more seconds in shroud, and so is a DPS increase if you would otherwise be forced out.
 
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** Swapping {{Skill|Elixir of Risk}} out for an extra source of life force (or utility) will make the rotation much easier. However, as you won't have the Blight stacks needed to consume for extra damage, you will need to skip one use of {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} in the '''Shroud Loop'''.
 
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** Though the rotation will still be unsustainable, the extra vitality from higher tiers of Jade Bot Power Cores make you take a lot longer to run out.
 
 
* Both {{Skill|Voracious Arc}} and {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} have aftercasts that can be easily cancelled by using any other skill. If you are following the rotation, the aftercast of {{Skill|Voracious Arc}} should always be cancelled by {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}, but you should manually use {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} or {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} after {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} rather than wait for autoattacks to take over.
 
* Both {{Skill|Voracious Arc}} and {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} have aftercasts that can be easily cancelled by using any other skill. If you are following the rotation, the aftercast of {{Skill|Voracious Arc}} should always be cancelled by {{Skill|Devouring Cut}}, but you should manually use {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} or {{Skill|Dark Barrage}} after {{Skill|Devouring Cut}} rather than wait for autoattacks to take over.
 
* Try to finish the second attack of {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} before using another skill.
 
* Try to finish the second attack of {{Skill|Tainted Bolts}} before using another skill.
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** You want to cast {{Skill|Weeping Shots}} twice each time you end up on '''Pistol'''. Delaying the first use will therefore delay your entire rotation so it should always be used first.
 
** You want to cast {{Skill|Weeping Shots}} twice each time you end up on '''Pistol'''. Delaying the first use will therefore delay your entire rotation so it should always be used first.
 
** {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}} is a fairly low priority skill, and this means that its effective cooldown is slightly longer than your loop, causing it to drift backwards in the rotation. This shouldn't be a problem if you're good at pressing it off cooldown, but if you're a little slow it can end up delaying your rotation (or need to be skipped). You can offset this by prioritising it over {{Skill|Vile Blast}} and '''Scepter''' skills.
 
** {{Skill|Enfeebling Blood}} is a fairly low priority skill, and this means that its effective cooldown is slightly longer than your loop, causing it to drift backwards in the rotation. This shouldn't be a problem if you're good at pressing it off cooldown, but if you're a little slow it can end up delaying your rotation (or need to be skipped). You can offset this by prioritising it over {{Skill|Vile Blast}} and '''Scepter''' skills.
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** If {{Skill|Plaguelands}} is not available at the expected point in the rotation, but comes off cooldown before entering shroud, you can use it alongside {{Skill|Blood Is Power}} at step 8.
 
 
* Performed correctly, you should never need to autoattack on '''Scepter''', and only occasionally on '''Pistol''' while waiting for cooldowns.
 
* Performed correctly, you should never need to autoattack on '''Scepter''', and only occasionally on '''Pistol''' while waiting for cooldowns.
 
* If you have downtime during an encounter where {{Skill|Harbinger Shroud}} is not needed, you can repeatedly enter and immediately exit it to build up life force via {{trait|Corrupted Talent}}.
 
* If you have downtime during an encounter where {{Skill|Harbinger Shroud}} is not needed, you can repeatedly enter and immediately exit it to build up life force via {{trait|Corrupted Talent}}.

Revision as of 16:17, 9 May 2023

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

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on May 09, 2023 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

A condition boon support build for Harbinger that provides permanent Quickness Quickness and optionally some Might Might and Fury Fury too. Unlike other Necromancer specialisations, its shroud offers no defence, and it uses Elixirs to lower its own maximum health to provide boons and gain higher damage. This makes it very much a glass cannon, and while its weapon skills are all ranged, it needs to be in melee for Deathly Haste so it can feel very squishy. Fortunately, you are not denied healing while in shroud.

It has a slow ramp-up of damage and focuses mostly on Torment Torment, so it prefers long-phased, stationary encounters. It provides very high Vulnerability Vulnerability uptime and a good amount of CC.

As a Necromancer, it has a lot of valuable utility options, though it must trade damage or boons to bring them.


Skill Bar

Pistol/Dagger
Scepter/Dagger
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • You could bring a Warhorn on your Scepter set for extra CC, life force generation and a tiny bit of healing.
    • If the rotation is performed correctly, this won't be a DPS loss.


Skill Variants

  • With Elixir of Risk you can maintain permanent Fury Fury and ~13 stacks of Might Might, but it could be swapped out for other skills if different utility is needed.


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Specializations


Equipment

Head
Ritualist
Shoulders
Viper
Chest
Ritualist
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
x9
Infusion
x9
  • This setup provides ~19% boon duration (without a Jade Bot) which is enough to maintain Quickness Quickness getting 5 ticks of Deathly Haste per shroud loop.
  • You can run full Viper stats Viper stats pieces if you are confident in your rotation.
  • If you don't have stat infusions, use (or alternatives) as your food.


Consumables

Food:

  • or ascended versions


Utility:

    • for a cheaper alternative


Usage

Rotation

The rotation assumes use of Elixir of Risk and Elixir of Anguish, but Elixir of Risk could be replaced with Elixir of Bliss if it is deemed more valuable. See the General Tips section if you are not running 3 elixirs.

Opener

  1. Throw Elixir of Promise, Elixir of Risk and Elixir of Anguish on the group for boons to quickly build Blight stacks - make sure the boon rip has already happened!
  2. Blood Is Power
  3. Devouring Darkness
  4. Blood Is Power
  5. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  6. Deathly Swarm
  7. Elixir of Ambition
  8. Vile Blast
  9. Weeping Shots
  10. Harbinger Shroud


Shroud Loop

  1. Devouring Cut
  2. Dark Barrage
  3. Tainted Bolts until Devouring Cut is nearly off cooldown
  4. Voracious Arc
  5. Devouring Cut
  6. Dark Barrage
  7. Vital Draw - You can this at any point in the shroud loop as long as it doesn't make you delay skills
  8. Tainted Bolts until Dark Barrage is off cooldown
  9. Dark Barrage
  10. Devouring Cut
  11. Voracious Arc
  12. Exit Harbinger Shroud


Pistol-to-Scepter Loop

  1. Weeping Shots
  2. Vile Blast
  3. Enfeebling Blood, Elixir of Ambition and Blood Is Power, if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with Deathly Swarm
  4. Elixir of Promise, Elixir of Risk and Elixir of Anguish - make sure to aim them at your allies
  5. Weeping Shots
  6. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  7. Devouring Darkness and Grasping Dead
  8. Blood Is Power
  9. Harbinger Shroud
  10. Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Scepter-to-Pistol Loop below


Scepter-to-Pistol Loop

  1. Devouring Darkness and Grasping Dead
  2. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  3. Weeping Shots
  4. Vile Blast
  5. Enfeebling Blood, Elixir of Ambition and Blood Is Power, if available - if you used Blood Is Power, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with Deathly Swarm
  6. Elixir of Promise, Elixir of Risk and Elixir of Anguish - make sure to aim them at your allies
  7. Weeping Shots
  8. Blood Is Power
  9. Harbinger Shroud
  10. Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Pistol-to-Scepter Loop


Rotation Example


Utility

CC

  • Voracious Arc
  • Vital Draw
  • Vile Blast
  • Wail of Doom - if running Warhorn


General Tips

  • Both Voracious Arc and Devouring Cut have aftercasts that can be easily cancelled by using any other skill. If you are following the rotation, the aftercast of Voracious Arc should always be cancelled by Devouring Cut, but you should manually use Tainted Bolts or Dark Barrage after Devouring Cut rather than wait for autoattacks to take over.
  • Try to finish the second attack of Tainted Bolts before using another skill.
  • Voracious Arc and Devouring Cut are only worth using if you are above the Blight threshold for each skill (10 and 5 respectively). If for some reason you are not at high enough Blight, skip these skills.
  • Leaving Harbinger Shroud during the cast of Dark Barrage can cancel some of the hits, so be careful not to leave too early.
  • Most of your weapon skill cooldowns are longer than your loop, meaning that you can pretty much cast them in any order, with a few exceptions:
    • You want to cast Weeping Shots twice each time you end up on Pistol. Delaying the first use will therefore delay your entire rotation so it should always be used first.
    • Enfeebling Blood is a fairly low priority skill, and this means that its effective cooldown is slightly longer than your loop, causing it to drift backwards in the rotation. This shouldn't be a problem if you're good at pressing it off cooldown, but if you're a little slow it can end up delaying your rotation (or need to be skipped). You can offset this by prioritising it over Vile Blast and Scepter skills.
  • Performed correctly, you should never need to autoattack on Scepter, and only occasionally on Pistol while waiting for cooldowns.
  • If you have downtime during an encounter where Harbinger Shroud is not needed, you can repeatedly enter and immediately exit it to build up life force via Corrupted Talent.
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Ratings

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5 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 5 stars • April 2024
Impressive damage for a boon support, and provides more might than most options too - which opens up the alacrity slot for more variety. Really shines in condi fractals.
5 stars
Böjömö gave this build 5 stars • August 2022
Current meta for Harbinger. Permanent Quickness, high damage. The butterfly rotation requires some time to get used to, but the build is top tier.

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