Harbinger - Power Spear Vampbringer

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

Burst combo examples

Shroud combo:

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.

Spear combo:

1. Optional: if you're on Sword, use for the ranged and immediately swap weapons. This will make it easier to land the next skill.
2. from range.
3. Cast from a safe distance.
4. Teleport in with as Extirpate's cast bar is starting to fill up. Your goal is to hit the target right after using Distress.
5. Optional: for
6. with max soul shards.

Sustain

• Whether you've picked Staff or Sword/Sword for the second set, this is your defensive weapon slot. Staff provides healing on every skills whereas Sword makes you better at kiting enemies.

• Important mobility skills:

  • Sword: and . Note: when you're using these out of combat, swap weapons just before Gorge ends. This prevents Gorge from putting you in combat with the health sacrifice and slowing you down.
  • Shroud: and (VA also evades attacks which is especially nice while you're Immobilized and can't dodge)
  • Utility: and
  • We could also list Spear's (chain of skill #4), but it can't really be used for escaping (long cast time on + requires a secondary target to port to other than the enemy who's chasing you).

• Other than mobility, your main line of defense is . Entering shroud cleanses conditions while giving you as well as damage reduction + a proc on enemies. If you're being focused, entering shroud just for damage reduction/cleansing and to use the 2 mobility skills before dropping out of shroud is a perfectly fine thing to do.

• Condi cleansing is mainly limited to shroud, and .

• (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!

• should be placed well before entering combat, preferably at a spot where your enemies can't reach it easily. Wurm provides you with an escape route and makes it easier to move around the map in general.