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Disambig icon.png This article is about the elite specialization. For the point of interest within Orr, see Harbinger (point of interest).
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"Volatile powers, all at my fingertips..."

The Harbinger is a gunslinger and an alchemist, empowering their pistol and utilizing elixirs imbued with dark energies. But strength comes at a cost, and the Harbinger must balance on a knife's edge between power and corruption.

— In-game description

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Harbinger is an elite specialization for the necromancer unlocked with the End of Dragons expansion. Harbingers combine magic and alchemy, extracting ancient energy from the Dragonjade to empower their magic. Instead of using life force as a second health pool, harbinger’s Harbinger Shroud does not protect against incoming attacks, becoming a far more aggressive transformation with ranged attacks and mobility. These gunslingers walk the fine edge between life and death, afflicting themselves with Blight to reduce their vitality in exchange for more damage.

They learn how to concoct elixirs, beverages that they throw to provide allies with boons, and damage enemies. They can wield pistols in their main hand, firing corrosive, noxious bullets. Harbingers focus on damage dealing, but can opt to also provide important boons to their allies.

List of harbinger skills[edit]

See also: List of necromancer skills

Profession mechanic[edit]

Harbingers replace Death Shroud with Harbinger Shroud, which applies Blight to the harbinger every second while in shroud.

# Skill Activation.png Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
F1 Harbinger Shroud.png Harbinger Shroud 10 Enter Harbinger Shroud, granting powerful offensive skills but leaving you vulnerable to attack.
As you remain in Harbinger Shroud, you accumulate blight over time.
Blight decreases your maximum health.
F1 ChainExit Harbinger Shroud.png Exit Harbinger Shroud Leave Harbinger Shroud and return to your normal form.
Harbinger Shroud
1 Tainted Bolts.png Tainted Bolts 0.5½ Fire quick bolts of dark energy that explode on impact, inflicting torment to enemies in the area.
2 Dark Barrage.png Dark Barrage 0.75¾ 6 Fire six bolts of tormenting energy that fan out from you, piercing all enemies in their path.
3 Devouring Cut.png Devouring Cut 1 8 Channel twisted energy to launch yourself at your foe, damaging nearby enemies on impact.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and torment struck foes.
4 Voracious Arc.png Voracious Arc 0.75¾ 10 Leap to your destination, evading through the air. Daze enemies near your impact point.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and torment struck foes.
5 Vital Draw.png Vital Draw 1 20 Twist the souls of nearby enemies, suspending them in the air while you siphon their life force. Gain life force for each target struck.

Weapon skills[edit]

# Skill Activation.png Tango-recharge-darker.png Description

Pistol[edit]

1 Vicious Shot.png Vicious Shot 0.5½ Fire a tormenting bullet that bounces between nearby foes.
2 Weeping Shots.png Weeping Shots 10.25¼ 6 Pierce your enemies with a series of corrosive bullets, inflicting torment and vulnerability. Gain life force for the first target hit by each bullet.
3 Vile Blast.png Vile Blast 0.75¾ 12 Fire a dart that shatters on impact, releasing noxious liquid that stuns, weakens, and poisons foes in the area. Gain life force for each target struck.

Slot skills[edit]

Healing[edit]

Skill Underwater skills Activation.png Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
Elixir of Promise.png Elixir of Promise 0.5½ 25 Elixir. Infuse an elixir with the promise of good health, healing yourself and gaining regeneration, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, poisoning foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double damage and condition duration.

Utility[edit]

Skill Underwater skills Activation.png Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
Elixir of Risk.png Elixir of Risk 0.5½ 25 Elixir. Infuse the magical essence of risk into an elixir, gaining might and fury, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting weakness on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.
Elixir of Anguish.png Elixir of Anguish 0.5½ 25 Elixir. Infuse the magical essence of anguish into an elixir, gaining swiftness and quickness, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting cripple on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration
Elixir of Bliss.png Elixir of Bliss 0.5½ 20 Elixir. Infuse the magical essence of bliss into an elixir, gaining resolution and converting conditions on yourself into life force, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, corrupting a boon on targets into a condition. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and corrupt an additional boon on targets
Elixir of Ignorance.png Elixir of Ignorance 0.5½ 20 Elixir. Infuse the magical essence of ignorance into an elixir, gaining resistance and protection and breaking stuns, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting blindness on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.

Elite[edit]

Skill Underwater skills Activation.png Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
Elixir of Ambition.png Elixir of Ambition 0.5½ 60 Elixir. Infuse your boundless ambition into an elixir, gaining every possible boon, and then toss the elixir at the targeted area, inflicting all damaging conditions on foes. If you are in the splash area of the elixir, gain Blight.

If you are at or above the Blight threshold when you activate this skill, consume that amount of Blight to double the damage and condition duration.

List of harbinger traits[edit]

See also: List of necromancer traits
Tier Trait Tango-recharge-darker.png Description
Minor Proficiency Pistol Proficiency.png Pistol Proficiency You can wield pistols.
Minor Adept Dark Disciple.png Dark Disciple Death Shroud is replaced with Harbinger Shroud, granting powerful offensive skills but leaving you vulnerable to attack.
As you remain in Harbinger Shroud, you accumulate stacking Blight.
Blight decreases your maximum health.
Major Adept Wicked Corruption.png Wicked Corruption Deal increased strike damage for each stack of blight you have. Critical strikes deal increased damage to targets with torment.
Major Adept Bolstering Brew.png Bolstering Brew Elixir skills grant protection.
Major Adept Septic Corruption.png Septic Corruption Deal increased condition damage for each stack of blight you have. Shroud 2 skill also inflicts poison.
Minor Master Alchemic Vigor.png Alchemic Vigor Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.
Major Master Implacable Foe.png Implacable Foe Gain stability and damage reduction when entering Harbinger Shroud. Gain ferocity based on your vitality.
Major Master Twisted Medicine.png Twisted Medicine Elixir skills also grant their boons to allies within the elixir impact radius. Gain concentration based on your vitality.
Major Master Dark Gunslinger.png Dark Gunslinger Pistol skills gain reduced recharge. Gain expertise based on your vitality.
Minor Grandmaster Corrupted Talent.png Corrupted Talent Gain life force when you enter Harbinger Shroud.
Major Grandmaster Cascading Corruption.png Cascading Corruption Your power is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to damage and cripple nearby enemies.
Major Grandmaster Deathly Haste.png Deathly Haste While in Harbinger Shroud, gain an aura that pulses each interval to grant quickness to yourself and nearby allies.
Major Grandmaster Doom Approaches.png Doom Approaches Your condition damage is increased. While in Harbinger Shroud, you gain an aura that pulses each interval to torment and weaken nearby enemies.

Lore[edit]

A harbinger makes no clean kills, wielding a pistol to devastate their enemies with noxious, corrosive bullets. These skilled alchemists have developed elixirs to inflict Blight on themselves, converting their own pain into power. In Harbinger Shroud, they gain devastating abilities while suffering from Blight.

— Official site

The harbinger borrows a dash of old west gunslinger, and mixes it with a splash of wandering apothecary, expressed by their elixir skills and related support traits. The result is a fast-paced, frenetic combat style that rewards skill, risk, and biting off exactly as much as you can chew (but no more) while subverting the traditional, more methodically-paced gameplay of Necromancer.

— Elite specialization lore[1]

In Cantha people have discovered, that you can extract ancient magic from the jade (as a result of the jade wind), and the Harbingers who are also very adept alchemists have realised that they can take that energy and imbue it into their elixirs as well as their bullets (for their main hand pistol) and the result is incredibly deadly and noxious

— Indigo Boock

Notable Harbingers[edit]

Associated items[edit]

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Notes[edit]

  • Equipping a pistol with unique projectiles will cause the Harbinger projectiles to be overridden. This effect will also apply in Shroud.
  • The Harbinger NPC is Yuryong[2], found in the Kaineng Ruins.
  • In the concept art, the Harbinger wears the Minister's Hat.

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