The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on August 02, 2024 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A condition DPS build for Harbinger. Unlike other Necromancer specialisations, its shroud offers no defence, and it uses Elixirs to lower its own maximum health in order to 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 maximum damage from its Shroud abilities 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 
折磨, so it prefers long-phased, stationary encounters. It provides very high 
易伤 uptime, and Elixirs offer decent self-buffing options too.
As a Necromancer, it has a lot of valuable utility options, though it must trade damage to bring them.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
- For maximum DPS you can instead run Pistol/Torch & Scepter/Dagger. This has a slightly different rotation and you have to use
瘟疫纹章 to make it work, lowering your versatility. - Players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure can just ignore the Torch.
- If extra CC is needed, you can run a Warhorn on the Scepter set for theoretically no DPS loss.
Skill Variants
苦痛试剂 can be replaced with 
福佑试剂 or 
风险试剂, depending on which boons you think you might lack.- You can swap
恶疾肆虐 out for other encounter-specific utility such as 
鬼灵缚爪, 
腐蚀毒云, or 瘟疫纹章 for DPS.
- If using 腐蚀毒云, you may want to bring 福佑试剂 to cleanse the self-conditions.
- If you miss the condition transfer from
传播瘟疫, you can use 瘟疫纹章 in place of 
致命虫群 in the rotation (this is a smaller DPS loss than swapping the trait). This allows you to keep 致命虫群 as a backup in case extra condi removal is needed.
- If using
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- 传播瘟疫 is a minor DPS loss and will add some additional condi transfer to the build. This can end up being higher DPS if your healers are cleansing condis too fast for you to get the transfer from 致命虫群.
- For a ~5% DPS loss, you could bring
扭曲药剂 to provide some extra boon uptime to your subgroup (depending on which elixirs you pick). Including ~10% of each boon from 
勇气试剂:
Equipment
Equipment Variants
- The above setup deals practically identical damage to one using
芦笋肉串 and a 
超级恶毒法印 instead of 
超级恶魔法印.
- In this setup, it is optimal to use 12 Malign and 6 Spiteful infusions.
- If using 扭曲药剂, make the following changes:
- For players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, the best relic is
望族古物, along with the following changes:
- If you're using 扭曲药剂 AND don't have access to Secrets of the Obscure, just run the default setup with 望族古物.
- In this setup, it is optimal to use 9 Malign and 9 Spiteful infusions.
Consumables
Food
盘装牛肉仁当, or ascended versions
Utility
Usage
This rotation also uses Torch. Players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure can just ignore any torch skills.
Rotation
Opener
- Throw
承诺试剂 and 苦痛试剂 at your feet to quickly build Blight stacks. -
鲜血力量
-
吞噬黑暗
-
鲜血力量
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
-
致命虫群
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勇气试剂
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恶毒爆冲
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哀嚎射击
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先驱帷幕
Shroud Loop
-
吞噬切割
-
黑暗弹幕
污浊弹矢 until 吞噬切割 is nearly off cooldown-
贪食跃冲
-
吞噬切割
-
黑暗弹幕
致命抽取 - You can this at any point in the shroud loop as long as it doesn't make you delay skills- 污浊弹矢 until 黑暗弹幕 is off cooldown
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黑暗弹幕
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吞噬切割
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贪食跃冲
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离开先驱帷幕
Pistol-to-Scepter Loop
-
哀嚎射击
- 承诺试剂 and 苦痛试剂 - try to hit both yourself and your target so you deal damage as well as gaining Blight
- 恶毒爆冲,
孱弱之血 and 鲜血力量, if available - if you used Blood Is Power, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with 致命虫群 -
哀嚎射击
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
-
痛苦浪潮
- 吞噬黑暗 and
死亡束缚 -
先驱帷幕
- Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Scepter-to-Pistol Loop below
Scepter-to-Pistol Loop
-
重压崩溃
-
痛苦浪潮
- 吞噬黑暗 and 死亡束缚
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
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哀嚎射击
- 承诺试剂 and 苦痛试剂 - try to hit both yourself and your target so you deal damage as well as gaining Blight
- 恶毒爆冲, 孱弱之血 and 鲜血力量, if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with 致命虫群
-
哀嚎射击
-
先驱帷幕
- Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Pistol-to-Scepter Loop
Video example (using Plague Signet and different weapons setup)
Video example (using Twisted Medicine)
Video example (using Plague Sending)
Utility
CC
General Tips
- If you find yourself running out of life force you can adjust in the following ways:
- Swapping 恶疾肆虐 out for an extra source of life force.
- The extra vitality from higher tiers of Jade Bot Power Cores make you take a lot longer to run out.
- Swapping
- If using 腐蚀毒云, make sure to use it after transfering the conditions from 鲜血力量 so that you transfer the right conditions.
- Both 贪食跃冲 and 吞噬切割 have aftercasts that can be easily cancelled by using any other skill. If you are following the rotation, the aftercast of 贪食跃冲 should always be cancelled by 吞噬切割, but you should manually use 污浊弹矢 or 黑暗弹幕 after 吞噬切割 rather than wait for autoattacks to take over.
- Try to finish the second attack of 污浊弹矢 before using another skill.
- 贪食跃冲 and 吞噬切割 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 黑暗弹幕 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 哀嚎射击 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.
- 孱弱之血 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 恶毒爆冲 and Scepter skills.
- You want to cast
- Performed correctly, you should never need to autoattack.
- If you have downtime during an encounter where 先驱帷幕 is not needed, you can repeatedly enter and immediately exit it to build up life force via
腐化天赋.