Condition Harbinger

September 2024

Introduction

This Condition Harbinger is a great setup made for World vs World roaming.

Build Fundamentals

Unlike , does not protect the Harbinger’s health pool while it is active. Harbinger benefits from self-inflicted stacks by utilizing Shroud skills that consume in exchange for more damage.

Build Specifics

Throwing Elixirs on yourself will make you gain (10 stacks from the heal and utilities, 15 from elite). This will allow for higher damage thanks to at the cost of your max health so use with caution.

Additionally, if you are above a certain blight threshold when using an Elixir (5 stacks for the heal and utilities, 10 for elite) it will consume those stacks to double the strike damage of the Elixir and the duration of the conditions applied. This is useful to remove stacks on yourself to improve your max health during a fight and to increase the total damage of your .

Always use while above 10 stacks of as this doubles the duration of the conditions it applies to enemies! Generally, and your basic Elixirs generate enough that meeting this threshold isn’t an issue. The skill gives you every boon in the game, including , , and .

In general use your heal and utilities to manage your stacks by throwing them on you to gain stacks or away from you to lose them.

Transfer conditions on yourself by using . This also applies to the enemy and can be used tactically to prevent a high-damage skill from hitting you.

Block enemy projectiles with , additionally apply and . Be aware that this skill is a Corruption that inflicts on yourself too.

Use , , and for mobility and kiting enemy attacks. If you do not want to use , check the Alternatives section down below. The flip skill of , , is an additional leap and boon corruption.

generates life force, while and are good sources.

applies and its flip grants you and the enemy .

The auto-attack applies at the end of the chain.

A good combination is to chain into swapping weapons and using to activate and .

Enter to gain and pulsing thanks to and .

The Death Magic trait line makes you gain which increases your Toughness and with additionally increases your Power and Condition Damage.

Crowd Control

• with

Mobility

• and the follow-up skill

Alternatives

Traits

• over if you deem boon corrupt on not necessary.

Skills

• to corrupt enemy boons
• to cleanse conditions on yourself, gain , or remove it
• for and , and additional
• to reduce incoming condition damage and transfer conditions to the target and break stuns.
• to gain and a stun break

Relics

• for additional condition cleanses on any cleansing skill
• for additional condition cleanses on your healing skill
• for and
• possible candidate for extra healing while cleansing
• extra after using an Elixir or healing skill
• for