Power Harbinger

October 2024

Introduction

Power Harbinger is a powerful DPS build similar to Power Reaper with high damage in a bursty profile. Harbinger focuses more on single-target damage and good mobility. does not protect the Harbinger’s life pool while active, making it easier to manage Life Force and maintain your rotation during encounters as taking damage will no longer consume your Life Force.

Build Fundamentals

Enter and exit regularly to increase damage via . Taking damage in Shroud still affects your HP and will not consume your Life Force.

Precast just before entering the fight to instantly get 10 stacks of to increase the damage from the skills you use after.

Use and on yourself as soon as they’re off Cooldown to upkeep stacks.

Before entering always place (if on Greatsword), , and  to maximize burst damage. Never delay entering or using Well skills with this combo. During the opener, use just after .

Your Spear Loop doesn’t change at all during the entire rotation, and you can invert the order of some skills while having the same DPS output. Here below an example:

• Addle Extirpate
• Isolate Perforate Distress Perforate
• You can either use Addle first and then Isolate as long as you don’t use the second activation immediately.

Perforate is one of your main DPS gains if you correctly reset it’s cooldown. In order to do this, first use Isolate, then after finishing the cast of Perforate make sure to use Distress. This will make you use Perforate twice in your loop.

Your Life Force is generated by using the following skills:

•  and  when hitting multiple or single targets. Try to hit multiple targets if they’re in range of the boss.
• When entering you gain some Life Force. Then, when you cast  you gain Life Force up to 3 times per enemy inside the floating area up to a maximum of 5 targets.
• Addle and Extirpate on first target hit. An additional amount of lifeforce is granted from Addle if the enemy is casting a skill, and an additional amount of lifeforce is granted from Extirpate for multiple targets hit.

The rotation changes slightly when the enemy is below 50% life: When you exit from and you’re in Greatsword, use one more time, and once you Weapon Swap, maintain the same Spear Loop.

Build Specifics

Use the following to upkeep :

• Greatsword: and
• During Spear loop: Extirpate
• . When using do not cast immediately, since you’ll lose the uptime when you continue the Shroud Loop.

shoots two projectiles. Count 6-8 projectiles before using and/or again.

Use and when your is above 20 stacks. can be delayed or used as an evade skill if a dangerous attack is coming.

aftercast can be canceled by using  right after.

While in , your life bar decreases for each stack of . At 25 stacks you lose 37.5% of your maximum health (level 80 stats), making you much more vulnerable to dangerous attacks from multiple bosses. Sometimes might not be enough to prevent you from going down, so you might want to consider delaying or adapting the rotation to the fight, using and to consume and gain back a portion of your maximum health.

Crowd Control

• Voracious Arc
• Addle
• – instead of if you need much more CC.

Alternatives

Utility skills

Replace with any other utility skill you need in specific encounters:

• – for CC and pull.
• – for better Life Force generation and to instantly revive a downed ally.
• – to block projectiles.
• – if you need more boonstrips.
• – if you need pulsing boonstrips and less DPS loss.

Sigils

For night time encounters, you can replace your with  for a slight DPS increase.

You can also use in areas where you can kill multiple mobs that grant stacks.

Gear

You can change the stats of Helmet and Leggings to Assassin’s and the rest of the gear to Berserker’s. You’ll reach 100% crit chance by just having ascended gear with this selection (no precision infusions), and almost no DPS loss if you decide to go with all Might Infusions.