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Support Harbinger

Guild Wars 2 Support Harbinger - Staff / Greatsword Meta build for wvw: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

死灵法师 (Necromancer)harbinger

Build Template

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Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ○ ○ ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Fluid rotation
  • Easy to learn
  • Plenty of utility
  • Defensive options
  • Simple rotation
  • Relies on resource management
  • Forced movement
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

鲜血力量 图标鲜血力量 can be replaced :

  • 不死纹章 图标不死纹章 to revive a Downed ally at the cost of half your health points.

喷泉古物 图标喷泉古物 can be considered, especially if your subgroup has specializations relying on Dodges such as Vindicator or Virtuoso.

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Support Harbinger is a really unique Tertiary Support which provides mandatory offensive boons such as Might and Quickness. It also provides excellent utility inherent to Necromancer with Boon Removal aswell as heavy Crowd Controls.

As for every Necromancer specialization, we will be looking to synchronize 腐化法池 图标腐化法池 to remove boons from enemies and get them Downed. Same applies to 夜幕降临 图标夜幕降临 from Greatsword. It is vital to wait for your Commander's call to use these Cooldowns and you should never use them mindlessly.

Harbinger's Shroud allows us to grant unmatched amounts of Quickness in the meta, while also pulsing Fury. Staff will be giving other interesting boons, notably defensive ones like Protection, Vigor and Stability. Lastly, 鲜血力量 图标鲜血力量 will ensure our Damage dealers are fully buffed by granting massive amounts of Might.

Boons and Supporting Allies

Primary Boons

As an offensive Tertiary Support, we will be looking to grant the boons our Damage dealers greatly prize; Might, Fury and Quickness. We will also try to help on other boons uptimes thanks to the versatility of Staff.

Harbinger's Shroud naturally pulses Quickness and Fury thanks to 致命急速 图标致命急速. Our goal is to stay a few seconds in shroud in order to pulse multiple times these boons and then leave. By the same logic, we can also be heavily prestacking these boons at the start of the fight by anticipating it.

Might will be granted in a completely different way : we simply have to press 鲜血力量 图标鲜血力量 on important clashes to ensure reaching 25 stacks of Might on our Damage dealers.

Outside of these boons, Staff with 鲜血印记 图标鲜血印记, 凛冬印记 图标凛冬印记 and 夺魂印记 图标夺魂印记 respectively grant Vigor, Protection and Stability : mind using these skills frequently and keep an eye on their Cooldowns!

It is worth noting 无知试剂 图标无知试剂 grants a good amount of Resistance : it can be used as much as you are comfortable moving around without Stun Break.

Last but not least, remember 勇气试剂 图标勇气试剂 grants every single boon for 10 seconds, including the really rare Alacrity. This Cooldown must be used wisely, preferably right before the Well of Corruption Call in order to let the projectile hit the ground and grant its effects for the following move.

Healing and Supporting Allies

Support Harbinger relies exclusively on Staff and Blood Magic Trait Line to support allies. We will not have as much impact as the Secondary Supports but we will try to help them to keep the squad healthy. We have a few ways to Heal allies :

  • Every Staff marks slightly Heal allies hit thanks to 鲜血输送 图标鲜血输送.
  • 凛冬印记 图标凛冬印记 is our main Healing source to help Secondary Supports on important timings.
  • 离开先驱帷幕 图标离开先驱帷幕 also largely Heals due to 起死回生 图标起死回生, but we won't be specifically timing it as we just want to cycle through our shroud for boons.
  • Again thanks to 鲜血输送 图标鲜血输送, 贪食跃冲 图标贪食跃冲 will be generating another 凛冬印记 图标凛冬印记 to Heal allies : mind using this skill everytime you go into Harbinger's Shroud.

Well of Corruption Spike

As mentionned above, you should use 勇气试剂 图标勇气试剂 right before the Well of Corruption Call on your group and yourself. Due to its longer Cooldown, it won't be up on every call but you should synchronize it whenever it is possible. An ideal rotation on the Well of Corruption Call would look like this :

  1. 勇气试剂 图标勇气试剂 on the call, right before pushing.
  2. 腐化法池 图标腐化法池
  3. 先驱帷幕 图标先驱帷幕
  4. 贪食跃冲 图标贪食跃冲 in order to gap close at the wells location.
  5. 致命抽取 图标致命抽取
  6. Swap to Greatsword if you aren't on it already.
  7. 黑暗抓攫 图标黑暗抓攫

The idea behind this spike is rather simple : we are maximizing our Boon Removal output on the spike, entering shroud to proc 恶灵附体 图标恶灵附体 but also to keep pulsing Quickness. As we know enemies will lose a lot of their boons including Stability, we will aim to use as many Crowd Controls as possible to catch the weakened players out of their squad. 致命抽取 图标致命抽取 and 黑暗抓攫 图标黑暗抓攫 are extremely powerful Crowd Controls. They should be used wisely for the rest of the fight following that idea aswell : you can also decide to keep 致命抽取 图标致命抽取 for the 夜幕降临 图标夜幕降临 call.

Defense

Support Harbinger is naturally tanky thanks to its gear, but we still have a few tools to help ourselves when the pressure gets too high in hard situations.

  • Do not mind supporting yourself if you are about to die, just as if you were using your support skills on your allies following the explanations above.
  • Your unique Stun Break is 无知试剂 图标无知试剂. If you have a hard time surviving, keep this skill solely to help yourself rather than having a higher Resistance uptime.
  • 吞噬切割 图标吞噬切割 and 贪食跃冲 图标贪食跃冲 are your only gap closers and are available only in Harbinger's Shroud.

As your build doesn't provide any source of Blocks or Evades, position yourself in consequence and mind using your Dodges wisely !

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance BreakSource
黑暗抓攫 图标黑暗抓攫900 rangeGreatsword
致命抽取 图标致命抽取3 SecondsShroud Skill

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