Harbinger - Power Elixir Roamer

• Harbinger - Power Harbinger - Conquest PvP version.

Skill Variants

Utility

Viable picks for the optional slot include:

• 福佑试剂 - if you need more cleansing.

• 无知试剂 - low CD stun break and the 抗性 is useful against 目盲 spamming specs like D/P Thief.

• 鬼灵圆环 - area denial skill that could ward off attackers or trap enemies inside.

• 鬼灵铠甲 - protection and stun break on medium CD.

Food

• 黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation.

  • 碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 - budget version

Utility

• 强效超级磨刀石 or 罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

Elite specialization basics

• 先驱帷幕 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 衰弱帷幕. If you're CC'd and getting focused you can enter shroud for the 虚弱 and boon rip as a defensive measure and even proc 传播瘟疫 for some cleansing and additional counter-pressure.

• 先驱帷幕 is unique in a sense that it doesn't require Life Force to activate - this skill even gives you LF! Because of that LF management is much less of a concern on Harbinger builds.

• On Staff always try to use 腐烂印记 AFTER 凛冬印记 for a free 虚弱 combo.

Damage

• Staff is more of a utility weapon while Axe/Focus and Shroud skills are for burst damage.

• Elixirs apply Blight to you and Shroud skills can consume Blight, empowering them. Consider using elixirs right before entering Shroud. 勇气试剂 is especially good at kicking off burst combos.

• 黑暗弹幕 is best used in melee range where all of the projectiles hit your main target.

• 致命抽取 is an excellent setup for burst combos as it's quite a long CC.

  • Follow up with any other shroud skill except for 贪食跃冲 as that one dazes targets and could therefore stunbreak your enemies. It's still good to use near the end of Vital Draw.

• (shroud auto) can do a lot of damage with and makes for a great filler skill if you're out of CDs or don't want to go into melee.

• is the best burst skill on Axe. Sometimes when you drop out of shroud you'll have a few seconds of left, which might be enough to cover an entire cast of GC to make it harder to avoid.

Shroud burst combo example:

1. to get into melee range.
2. to deliver damage while avoiding incoming attacks and dazing the target, making it harder for them to prevent the next step of the chain. It's also yet another mobility skill in case you were still not in melee range.
3. for CC.
4. at point-blank range for maximum effectiveness.
5. spam.

Sustain

• Use to kite enemies or wall yourself off from them. Crossing the ring also gives you .

  • Casting insdie the ring results in AoE (but only if an enemy triggers the mark).

• (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:

  • 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!

• mainly serves as an escape/vertical mobility tool.

• 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.