Harbinger - Quickness Support Condi DPS

A condition boon support build for Harbinger that provides permanent 急速 and optionally some 威能 and 激怒 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 致命急速 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 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.

Weapon Variants

• Players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure can just ignore the Torch.
  • 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 风险试剂 you can maintain permanent 激怒 and ~13 stacks of 威能, but it could be swapped out for other skills if different utility is needed.

• 怨恨纹章 offers the highest DPS.

Rotation

The rotation assumes use of 风险试剂 and 苦痛试剂, but 风险试剂 could be replaced with 福佑试剂 if it is deemed more valuable. See the General Tips section if you are not running 3 elixirs.

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

Opener

1. Throw 承诺试剂 to build some Blight
2. 先驱帷幕
3. 贪食跃冲
4. 吞噬切割
5. 黑暗弹幕
6. 离开先驱帷幕
7. 风险试剂, 苦痛试剂 and 勇气试剂 on the group for boons and to quickly build Blight stacks - make sure the boon rip has already happened!
8. 重压崩溃
9. 痛苦浪潮
10. 死亡束缚
11. 鲜血力量
12. 吞噬黑暗
13. 鲜血力量
14. Weapon Swap
15. 致命虫群
16. 恶毒爆冲
17. 哀嚎射击
18. 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. 恶毒爆冲
3. 孱弱之血, 勇气试剂 and 鲜血力量, if available - if you used Blood Is Power, immediately transfer your conditions to your target with
4. , and - make sure to aim them at your allies
6. Weapon Swap
8. and
10. 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
7. , and , if available - if you used , immediately transfer your conditions to your target with
8. , and - make sure to aim them at your allies
11. Repeat the Shroud Loop, then when you exit proceed to the Pistol-to-Scepter Loop

Utility

CC

• - if running Warhorn

General Tips

• 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 on Scepter, and only occasionally on Pistol while waiting for cooldowns.
• 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:

• or ascended versions

Utility:

• • for a cheaper alternative

• This setup provides ~19% boon duration (without a Jade Bot) which is enough to maintain getting 5 ticks of per shroud loop.
• You can run full Viper stats pieces if you are confident in your rotation.
• If you don't have stat infusions, use (or alternatives) as your food.
• requires you to be in melee range to hit, so may be unreliable. or can replace it if preferred.
• and are very similar damage. Akeem is AoE, but requires your CCs to be spaced out - if you deviate too much from the written rotation it may perform notably worse.

Non-SotO Gear

is the best relic for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure. As this adds a lot of condi duration, you should make the following changes to your gear:

• instead of
• instead of
• You don't have access to Torch so leave that slot empty, or bring a Warhorn.