Low Intensity Harbinger Guide: Group Quickness & 20k+ DPS, 4 Buttons

[@MuklukYoutube]

Tested after SotO Release: - Signets of Suffering was nerfed hard -> Used Awaken the Pain instead (Spite middle trait) - Swapped Implacable Foe for Twisted Medicine (Harbinger middle trait) - Added Relic of the Thief With full boons/condis, cake buff, thief relic, and the signet nerfs since soto launched, the build now does 17k dps while providing quickness. Tested after Janthir release: - follow all instructions listed above, got 20k dps while still providing 100% uptime on quickness to party. Still viable if you enjoy playing it!

[@herbertwalter8693]

give this guy a medal for finding a way to make something as low intensity as harbinger even lower intensity

[@Gardao6]

That Joko edit at the end "chef's kiss"

[@Wiseguy123456789]

Praise him!

[@cynhanrahan4012]

This whole series has so far vastly improved my ability to keep up and excel in open world, so I'm really excited to try this build on my Harbinger, who is already my strongest character. Thank you!

[@makareenapina4225]

I seriously love all of the LI builds, this one especially. I get very easily overwhelmed with too many things to focus on, so limiting the time I need to be looking at my skillbar has allowed me to actually take the time to look at what's happening in the fight. My performance in strikes has gone way up and I'm feeling confident to start exploring raids for the first time in my 4+ years in this game. Seriously, thank you Muk

[@ClockworkBard]

Was running an unoptimized this in celestials last night just for fun. Can confirm. Face rolled many things. Did end up swapping in Dread for some zip-a-dee-doo-dah shenanigans.

[@themeltedchocolate]

Could you maybe at the end of this series rank all these builds from easiest to hardest?

[@JustPixelNoIDontWantAnyNumbers]

Just in case anyone is looking at this after SotOs release: The Build no longer works that well as they reworked the trait that let you keep Signet Passives. You now need to press more buttons to gain Lifeforce back and probably a Weaponswap as well, which LI builds generally dislike because its another thing to keep track of. You can change the Grandmaster Trait in Soul Reaping to the top one to decrease the downtime of Shroud, and go for full Diviner Gear to grab as much Boon Duration as possible. I have not tested the Uptime of it but it should be fairly close.

[@PlayanBerserker]

i've been using a build pretty similat to this since your LI reaper video, stole the "etermal life force" idea and its GREAT, loved it. specially for chilling doing events on the open world, although i use a mix of dragon and berserkers, and rune of vampirism to heal (a ton) during shroud

[@PlayanBerserker]

Thanks for the heart muk! if anyone see this comments and is interested in my openworld build is this, note that this is not a quickness build, its meant to be for solo play. gw2skills.net/editor/?PSgAc2lRgpxuYt4odlGLB-zRZYBRDyTMow5wOjKUA5MB8zA-e the goal is to reach 47% crit with berserker/marauder/dragon/valkyrie you can do this mixing a lot of ascended gears, or you can mix certain exotic marauders and valkyrie exotic, try to play around on this page reaching the highest power/ferocity with a nice vitality and reaching the 47% crit cap. 47% crit cap is needed to reach 100%, reason is you get 20% from your perma fury for a 67% and 33% from the soul reaping grandmaster trait for the sweet 100%. For my utilities i use the trifecta signet, amazing sustain, dps increase and "eternal" life force. For elite i use elixir of anguish for the sole reason of giving myself alacrity, i use it to get my shroud quickly back, you can use golem if you please. For the empty utility slot i use spectral grasp as a "main", shadowfiend, a panic stunbreak to leave shroud in case of emergency. but normally only spectral grasp and use shroud 4 and dodges to get out of danger. I love spectral grasp due to the combo it has with the shroud 5, you pull then cc float them. its crazy

[@PlayanBerserker]

A, i use sigil of nuliffication due that lots of elites / champions in EOD has ways to get protection, since we dont want to leave shroud just to strip protection i've got that sigil. alternative can be sigil of absorption to steal the boon, but that would require you to CC which is not "optimal" scenario on some cases

[@gregorybousley9091]

@3:13 "THAT'S IT!" - Hahaha. Thanks for the build will try tonight.

[@saewels]

Using this built because of spooky October and my love for harbinger. Pretty new player here and I was top 3 DPS in most of the mad 👑 encounters. You are amazing!

[@KotMatroskin]

This is pure gold, ty. Just ran around getting hp for harbinger, so excited to have an easy quickness option

[@cristianzirbau6872]

Awesome 1 more checked. Looking ahead for the rest. Great work as always!

[@Deathelement53]

Wow literally watched the reaper one yesterday and now I get this!? Epic!

[@arielsanabria3572]

Amazing, I was thinking about "theres no easy power quickness", scrapper is full of buttons (easy, but too much buttons), make a power firebrand (but its the rotation of DH with weapons swap), make a chrono but chrono stm is sick and no talking about mementalyst (or the new herald is just spam utilities). I tried the harbinger and learn about that dagger hits like more than axe. And then... in reddit someone share this. Ty Mukluk

[@mrbacon8553]

Was waiting for this!!! Thank you Muk Sir! 😊

[@lunarezlycablood1838]

For more lax Quickness uptime, use Elixir of Anguish when out of shroud instead of Shadow Fiend. This will let you drop boon duration entirely in trade of a small dps. You can also use summon Blood Fiend instead if you still want 2 minions taking. if you want more dps, while in shroud, other than spam 2, use your 4>3 whenever you have 15 blight stack.

[@Chronyk-uz8so]

Except this is pressing the fewest buttons possible so adding more defeats the purpose

[@lunarezlycablood1838]

@@Chronyk-uz8so this is more so for anyone want to go further beyond 4 buttons but staying in this build mostly. And this build is pretty much an easier geared quickness/boon support than Ritualist version. while a quickness ritualist probably deal more dps on full rotation, going power/quickness is far more easier than even quick scrapper

[@arielsanabria3572]

@@Chronyk-uz8so certainly, Mukluk uses the attack skill from the Shadow when is out of shroud, so changing shadow for the quickness elixir will be the same LI

[@AndriyKolesnyk]

How to remove conditions when in shroud?

[@Jaqles-DSG]

CRAP!!! ...Now I have to make more gear! 🙀(Still a loooooooooooong way off from being full legendaries!) LOL Most folks who know me, are aware that I'm disabled and sometimes I have mobility issues, especially with my hands. I've left the game numerous times, whether it be slaughtering stuff, just hanging out with folks, or when I still roleplayed, because my hands either started shaking/twitching, they'd curl up/lock in place, or the digits or entire hand/arm go "dead". Brain signals go BRRR! I cannot thank Mukluk, Noxxi, and everyone else who has been contributing to the LI Builds! These are truly a gamer's lifesaver, for times they'd have to stop what they're doing because of it. I'm definitely going to give this one a go (I've gotta do all of my dailies still, first!), ASAP, and I'll post back once I've had time to play around with it! THANK YOU MUKLUK, NOXXI, ET ALL! 💜🖤😻 EDIT: P.S. Can y'all tell I main Necro? 💀

[@matsug5704]

Great Harbinger build guide for Guild wars 2 !

[@Re2OnlyMove]

This is the perfect build if you are new to raids and have to focus on mechanics. I tried this after completely failing with the best build because focussing on a rotation AND new mechanics was overwhelming. The 20k dps per second are also very nice. A top build that messes up its rotation cause of mechanics also doesnt do more :D

[@ivangutierrezcasanova98]

Good morning. Is this build still working overall? I would like to use it.

[@matheusspable]

Oh!!! I'll finally be able to go on strikes and so and so with my necro. They always ask for dps with quickness and my reaper knows no boons.

[@WizardSTOMP]

How does low intensity harbinger do with condi and ritualist gear?

[@The_Quaalude]

Never seen a power quickness harbinger before

[@chester1882]

Paise Joko. Also TIL that the quickness pulse also pulses Furry

[@arkanaloth2617]

excellent.. EXCELLENT! as always great stuff!

[@pkmnswampmaster]

Joko is not dead, he lives as the plot armor for Aurene!

[@tropiq]

both shadow fiend and spectral graps are also a minor cc from the condis they do (cripple/chill) and both give back life force so they're pretty exchangeable in that slot depending on what you want for range outside of shroud i'd recommend axe/focus and just pop 4 2 4 to get life force back while im mostly a condi necro main, i have been trying out some power stuff recently for the first time since HoT came out and its been pretty decent (nowhere near as tanky as a trailblazer scourge but ok for most stuff outside of soloing some tougher champs)

[@rutgerschutten5730]

I´d call spectral grasp a major cc since it is also a pull besides the chill.

[@wewake2940]

Actually spectral grasp is a major cc..... It almost does 400 breakbar dmg. It just doesn't mention in the skill description. It also does some more cc with the chill condi too...... It funny cuz with samaroh boss, u can stand inside boss hitbox during cc phase and use spectral grasp. All 5 hands hit the boss for cc and u alone do almost 33% breakbar dmg for the boss.

[@myfrestuff3453]

How does this build work on Devourers? I'm asking for the ayCHIVEment, not the uhCHEEVment. 😂

[@HtAc1804]

On behalf of all the ppl with shaky hands: thank you!

[@eridanuskelpi3908]

Ah yes, the classic dieviner gear. How fitting

[@gavwyatt5314]

Sorry if it's been asked, but what food and Oil's / sharpening stone buff you use for this build pls

[@missk1697]

Could we get LI scourge next?

[@helianthe3457]

I've been using this for a few days and it's been fun, but I'm dying pretty often in open world situations like drizzlewood final meta. Any tips when playing open world solo? Thanks a lot for this vid/build! EDIT: So, i'm not dying anymore, the key is really to mind your own business and stay away. You cannot play this like your regular reaper with an additional health bar, meaning no recklessness and no going into aoes ignoring damage. Setting up golem and haunter is very important in solo situations. 5 will help you stun and get away if you get overwhelmed by foes. North drizzlewood is just generally very intensive damage wise and if you're not in a team with a healer you'll probably sustain serious dmg either way so it's not representative.

[@RiylanCorma]

Been waiting for this. Now I can see if these suckers actually work.

[@icata12345]

i went for the snowcrows build and keeping uptime quickness is hard for me

[@dennisforbes2532]

I noticed on the Low Intensity Reaper and this one you use the dagger. Would it work with the Axe instead? I like the game play and range of the axe better.

[@mihailghiga2732]

Just got healing/kills/damage (over300k)/revives stats in ranked with this build. Minor changes but 90% there.

[@semitangent]

3:19 "and a generic food buff" - ah yes, remind me please which of the icons in the buff bar is the one from the food? ;)

[@MuklukYoutube]

Oh did the food buff wear off for that part? well hell it should be even higher then!

[@blankoninyo]

Is this build still viable?

[@aivenchris3888]

For the advanced variation, how will the rotation looks like ? Is it still using shroud skill 245 like in condi variant or just stricly 2 ?

[@herbertwalter8693]

the advanced version is condi with different build and gear

[@kiurizenful]

great video, need cunlai cm guide pls

[@MuklukYoutube]

cunlai cm?

[@tbull1663]

Lmfao the ending. Harbinger main... can or "cannot 😉" confirm 😂😂🥳

[@diogoreis6367]

DISCLAIMER: This video contains 1.25s of GW2 LWS4 spoilers. You have been warned.

[@jimbobjoe]

lol, that warhorn is sill on asura

[@Asderuki]

I'm suprised you didn't went with condi harbringer. It is only three or four buttons and insane dps. But maby something changed.

[@Popperofski]

Do you have a video or link to a build? I run the viper/ritualist build from Snowcrows and I struggle to get about 21-22k for condi quickness and would love to know what I'm doing wrong lol

[@Asderuki]

@@Popperofski I speak of the full condi version. I think since beta it got nerfed, but it was like two buttons in the shroud and one on the pistol (propably). Also he used superior runes of torment instead of nightmare as they are now on the SC. Maby it is not as powerfull as it was.

[@PolarI3ear]

Im running almost the same thing but with blood and death magic and with minions not signets.

[@MrJueKa]

same, but without scholar runes, I don`t like their trait No 6, because imo its a waste in most cases, so I think they are overrated

[@PolarI3ear]

@@MrJueKa i run firework runes

[@MrJueKa]

@@PolarI3ear same again, bro ... Cheers ! 😊👍🍀🍻 ...... Don't tell me your necro is a skinny male charr dressed in the design of the Archon armor (charr`s light Tier 2 culture armor)?

[@PolarI3ear]

@@MrJueKa Super tall skinny male norn with boneskinner weapons, boneskinner back item and the witch outfit ;D

[@MrJueKa]

@@PolarI3ear in my case Dreamthistle weapon skins and Dark Matter Cape back item and different black and grey dyes because of charr`s Ash Legion ... anything but shiny and blinky

[@bolt6572]

is this still relevant?

[@JustPixelNoIDontWantAnyNumbers]

Kinda 5 months late but sadly no, they reworked the trait that let you keep Signet Passives in Shroud and now it strips Boons when using a Signet active. This leads to a pretty big downtime in Shroud which results in more buttons having to be pressed to bring the Shroud back faster, making it less Ideal for LI Builds

[@dominiontower7487]

anyone else bothered by the way muk pronounces 'diviners' as Dye-viners?

[@MuklukYoutube]

No matter how I've said it before people in the comment section have told me I'm saying it wrong. So now I'm committed to saying it as wrong as I possibly can.

[@CrusaderKnight]

Your pronunciation of "Diviner's" is wrong... ROFL

[@MuklukYoutube]

Yes

[@bloodthirstyworks]

First