先驱者 Harbinger - Celestial Elixir Roamer

特性 Specializations

• Take if you want more passive survivability.

• is also a viable option, improves your Pistol skills in exchange for lower burst damage and less Stability access.

• lets you share your elite's boons with allies, something that's worth considering if you're roaming with a group.

特性变体 Specialization Variants

Taking Soul Reaping instead of Death Magic：more condition damage, better Life Force management and unblockable Staff Marks is also a viable (albeit much less popular) choice. This however is a high risk/reward option, as your sustain is going to be considerably lower:

装备 Equipment

装备变体 Equipment Variants

Runes

• 或 - passive mobility boost.

• - good hybrid damage rune.

• - nearly permanent Quickness uptime.

Relic

• - better burst damage and condition variety, but Demon Queen is better at bringing down other high sustain Cele specs because of the healing reduction.

• - improves both your strike damage and condition pressure, easy to maintain.

• - extra survivability.

Sigils

• over Cleansing - slightly worse condition removal for increased pressure. In most cases Generosity should be enough, but Cleansing is the safest and most forgiving option.

消耗品 Consumables

• - passive damage mitigation and great stats.

• - active damage mitigation.
  • - budget version

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• Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner。

使用说明 Usage

Elite specialization basics

• doesn't replace your health bar! Unlike other Necromancer shrouds, Harbinger Shroud can't be used to soak damage, which makes this spec more squishy by default. Death Magic should offset this a bit.

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

General

• Entering Shroud triggers 。 If you're CC'd and getting focused you can enter shroud for the Weakness and boon rip as a defensive measure and even proc ：some cleansing and additional counter-pressure.

• is one of the more versatile skills in the build:
  • The healing and endurance reduction from Poison 和 Weakness is great for wearing down enemy bunkers/supports.
  • Could be used defensively for AoE projectile denial, helping you and your teams survive pressure, even shutting down elites such as 。
  • It's unblockable and the Poison does solid damage on its own.

生存

• Both entering and staying in shroud removes conditions thanks to 和 。

• Removing and applying conditions generates Carapace stacks from Death Magic, reducing direct damage taken. At 25+ stacks is going to start pulsing Protection for, well, further protection. This boon also reduces condition damage taken thanks to 。
  • grants Carapace even if the condition was removed through other means, like 。

• (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!

• provides much needed vertical mobility, allowing you to teleport to the highground if you need to escape or chase someone.

• Harbinger has better mobility than the average Necromancer build which could prove useful when it comes to surviving damage. 和 are both great for building (or closing) gaps.

• 和 are the closest things you have to a mass cleanse.