Harbinger - Condi DPS

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.

• 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 .
• 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 :
  • ~35% 急速 and ~60% 迅捷 from
  • ~5 stacks of 威能 and ~60% 激怒 from

This rotation also uses Torch. Players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure can just ignore any torch skills.

Rotation

Opener

1. Throw 承诺试剂 and 苦痛试剂 at your feet to quickly build Blight stacks.
2. 鲜血力量
3. 吞噬黑暗
4. 鲜血力量
5. Weapon Swap
6. 致命虫群
7. 勇气试剂
8. 恶毒爆冲
9. 哀嚎射击
10. 先驱帷幕

Shroud Loop

1. 吞噬切割
2. 黑暗弹幕
3. 污浊弹矢 until 吞噬切割 is nearly off cooldown
4. 贪食跃冲
5. 吞噬切割
6. 黑暗弹幕
7. 致命抽取 - You can this at any point in the shroud loop as long as it doesn't make you delay skills
8. 污浊弹矢 until 黑暗弹幕 is off cooldown
9. 黑暗弹幕
10. 吞噬切割
11. 贪食跃冲
12. 离开先驱帷幕

Pistol-to-Scepter Loop

1. 哀嚎射击
2. 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
3. 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
4. 哀嚎射击
5. Weapon Swap
6. 痛苦浪潮
7. 吞噬黑暗 and 死亡束缚
8. 先驱帷幕
9. Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Scepter-to-Pistol Loop below

Scepter-to-Pistol Loop

3. and
4. Weapon Swap
6. and - try to hit both yourself and your target so you deal damage as well as gaining Blight
7. , and , if available - if you used either of the last two skills, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with
10. Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Pistol-to-Scepter Loop

Utility

CC

• - if running Warhorn

General Tips

• If you find yourself running out of life force you can adjust in the following ways:
  • Swapping 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.
• If using , make sure to use it after transfering the conditions from so that you transfer the right conditions.
• Both and have aftercasts that can be easily cancelled by using any other skill. If you are following the rotation, the aftercast of should always be cancelled by , but you should manually use or after rather than wait for autoattacks to take over.
• Try to finish the second attack of before using another skill.
• and 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 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 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.
  • 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 and Scepter skills.
• Performed correctly, you should never need to autoattack.
• If you have downtime during an encounter where is not needed, you can repeatedly enter and immediately exit it to build up life force via .

Food

• 盘装牛肉仁当, or ascended versions

Utility

• 剧毒调谐水晶

Equipment Variants

• The above setup deals practically identical damage to one using and a instead of .
  • In this setup, it is optimal to use 12 Malign and 6 Spiteful infusions.
• If using , make the following changes:
  • instead of
  • 9 Malign and 9 Spiteful infusions
• For players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, the best relic is , along with the following changes:
  • instead of
  • 18 Malign infusions
• If you're using AND don't have access to Secrets of the Obscure, just run the default setup with .
  • In this setup, it is optimal to use 9 Malign and 9 Spiteful infusions.