Harbinger - Spear Vampbringer Roamer

• Harbinger - Power Spear Vampbringer - sPvP version of the build.

Skill Variants

Utility

For the optional slot:

• - mobility tool + stunbreak.

• - low CD stunbreak and the is useful against / spamming specs like D/P Thief, Fresh Air Ele or Willbender.

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

• - extremely low CD stunbreak with condi transfer.

Weapons

• Staff over Sword/Sword is also a viable option, especially if you don't have access to the Secrets of the Obscure expansion. This gives you better reach and sustain in exchange for worse mobility. Take on Blood Magic.

Food

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

• 巨龙甜甜圈片 or 怪异莓幽灵 (whichever is cheaper) - armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you with 残暴古物 synergy on top.

• 芫荽牡蛎汤球 - has the lifesteal bonus of Omnomberry Ghost but also increases all stats, this is both a defensive and offensive food.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation through better access to dodging.

  • 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 up damage, which makes this spec more squishy by default.

• You can enter shroud even with no Life Force, but staying inside still drains your LF each interval.

General

• Entering 先驱帷幕 gives you life force, so start dropping in/out of shroud the moment the game starts (before you'd even leave spawn) and keep doing it even out of combat for the rest of the match for free LF (and mobility from skills 3-4).

• Your elite is both defensive and offensive, dealing decent damage while applying defensive boons.

• Swapping to Sword/Sword procs 超级水能法印. The purpose of this is twofold - you can either use it as a followp after a spear burst for instant extra damage, or 冰冻 enemies in melee to slow their movements while you run away with 暴食征途.

Damage

• Spear and shroud are your main sources of damage, Sword is more of a utility weapon used for survival.

• Spear has it own unique mechanic: soul shards. 千疮百孔 (skill #2) spends them, skills 3-5 build them. The cap is 6 soul shards.

• Leaving shroud resets the CD of Spear's 与世隔绝, and Isolate's chain skill 悲痛欲绝 refreshes the CD of 千疮百孔. This will always give you an option to do good followup bursts after leaving shroud, or to chase down targets (shroud already has good mobility, and you can teleport to targets struck by the ranged Isolate).

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

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

  • 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.

• (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.

• does decent AoE damage too. While this could act as a ranged skill, you need to be inside the landing area if you want to get the boons from it.

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

• While life steal provides some bonus healing in combat, mobility is your real survival tool. Use sword, shroud and utilities to get out of harm's way. The build is very squishy, you need good awareness and reaction times to know when to get out.

• Important mobility skills:

  • Sword: and
  • 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 . Both entering and leaving shroud cleanses conditions, and entering it also gives 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.

• The build has several tools for condi cleansing: , and entering shroud.

• (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!

There are 2 very similar versions you could run when it comes to gear. Overall the differences are relatively minor, but the option 1 should give you a bit better consistency on your bursts due to higher crit chance without sacrificing a significant amount of other stats which is why we recommend it.

Option 1 uses a mix of Demolisher/Dragon stats for high crit chance and toughness, but putting this together could be harder especially without access to Legendaries for easy stat swapping.

Option 2 is the older version which uses more readily available stat combos to produce very similar results, but with slightly higher crit damage/HP in exchange for lower crit chance/toughness:

史瓦德假面

MarauderHead

史瓦德肩章

MarauderShoulders

史瓦德紧身衣

MarauderChest

史瓦德绑臂

MarauderHands

MarauderLegs

MarauderFeet

AssassinBackpiece

AssassinAccessory

AssassinAccessory

CavalierAmulet

CavalierRing

CavalierRing

MarauderSpear

Sigil

Sigil

MarauderSword

MarauderSword

Equipment Variants

Relics

There are several viable options for the relic slot, Atrocity is just one of many. It's worth noting that Atrocity also has synergy with sigils and consumables that steal life, not just skills and traits. Other great picks are:

• - the added helps your CD recovery. Endurance regen food like is highly recommended with this relic.

• - you can essentially sacrifice your relic slot for passive mobility in order to free up your rune slot for something else, like for sustain or for higher damage.

• - passive damage boost that's easy to maintain.

• - slightly weaker than Isgarren, but you have more control over it.