Condition Harbinger

February 2023

Condition Harbinger is a powerful DPS build that focuses on applying lots of condition damage. It gains access to Harbinger Shroud which is tied to your life-force pool. Unlike similar effects, such as Death Shroud, it doesn’t protect your health pool while active. Harbinger’s unique effect is  Blight which will reduce your maximum health by 1.5% per stack while also boosting your damage output via Septic Corruption. You also gain access to powerful Elixir skills which will help you maintain Blight stacks, inflict damaging conditions or buff your allies with boons such as Regeneration, Fury and some Might.

This build focuses on profiting on self-inflicted Blight stacks by utilizing shroud skills. While not in Harbinger Shroud, the build will make use of weapon skills and utility skill such as Blood Is Power to maintain the damage output.

Universal build drops Superior Sigil of Geomancy on your Scepter sacrificing a very small amount of DPS. The upside is that you can switch to Condition Scourge and Condition Quickness Harbinger (Universal) easier as all builds use the same Scepter.

Build fundamentals

Blight increases your condition damage because of Septic Corruption. Use Elixir of Anguish, Elixir of Risk and Elixir of Promise to stack up Blight on yourself.

To utilize your Blight stacks, you will be using Voracious Arc and Devouring Cut in Harbinger Shroud. Remember to use these skills once their Blight thresholds of 5 and 10 are met in order to inflict extra Torment. Other than that, you want to be spamming Tainted Bolts while waiting for cooldowns as well as utilizing Dark Barrage whenever possible as well as using Vital Draw once per loop both for life force generation and more torment stacks thanks to Insidious Disruption.

Use Weeping Shots twice every time you’re out of Harbinger Shroud before re-entering.

If you enter Harbinger Shroud while using your Scepter weaponset, you will come out on Scepter weaponset. To continue your rotation, use Grasping Dead and Feast of Corruption before swapping to your Pistol weaponset. Use Weeping Shots twice before re-entering Harbinger Shroud.

If you are on your Pistol weaponset after leaving Harbinger Shroud, you will want to use Weeping Shots twice before swapping to your Scepter weaponset. Use Grasping Dead and Feast of Corruption before re-entering Harbinger Shroud.

To transfer the self-inflicted conditions of Blood Is Power use Deathly Swarm. Make sure to quickly use Deathly Swarm before your teammates manage to cleanse the conditions off of you or move slightly out of the group to avoid a condition cleanse and move back in after the transfer.

Crowd Control

• Vile Blast
• Voracious Arc
• Vital Draw
• Wail of Doom

Alternatives

Utility Skills

Use Spectral Grasp instead of Elixir of Risk if CC is lacking or a boss requires a lot of CC, like Samarog or Slothasor. You will have to stop using Voracious Arc or Devouring Cut if you are using Spectral Grasp because you won’t have enough Blight.