Harbinger - The Warrior Ultimate Build

[Madrush]

You don't know what build to do, and you want to go to legendary and kick every monster easy shot. This build is made for you.

After 1 weak of playing Immortal Throne, I was building an Harbinger. I'm now lvl 61 at Act4 Legendary and I found that this build is really powerfull and easy to do. Here is my Harbinger Build:

Firts of all, this build is focused on offance, speed and strong damage. I don't really have alot of defence beacause my "pirate stuff" have only 288 Def. eash parts, but in revange I have 9200 health and 45% of damage resistance. In fact I don't really need defence because I own every monster in a few second.

Here is my Skill build:
Normalbuild:TitanCalc by stonedonkey - A Titan Quest Calculator - Harbinger
BossRunbuild:TitanCalc by stonedonkey - A Titan Quest Calculator - Harbinger
Ultimate build:The ultimate build is the best of the two world. Combine BossRunBuild and NormalBuild.

Warfare Mastery
For sure an Harbinger was not an Harbinger if you're not maxed all the dual wield skills. Most of the strenght of this buill is in Dual Weild, The speed is restrict at 199% but dual = double damage and double speed. Max out the usual warface skills ( all the Onslaught branch, weapons traning and dodge attack)
Put 1 points in battle rage, crushing blow and counter attack. Battle rage is really useful, apend often and boost your attack power and critical hit chance.

Dream Mastery
The first skill that you must use in the beginning is PhamtonStrike, begin per put 1 point in phamtomStrike and then max DreamStealer. you can also use Trance of Empathy at the beginnig. (Replace it per maxed Trance of Wrath lately in the game.) put some point in Lucid dream and Premoniton. Later max Phamtom Strike, LucidDream, Premoniton and Temporal Flux. Put 1 point in Distort Reality and max TemporalRift. Petrification is really usefull, none of ennemy have resistance to this skills (WARNING: DOESN'T WORK ON BOSS)
You can also use Distortion Fiel, but not really usefull or put only one point.

BOSS RUN:
When you're doing boss run use Battle Standard and Ancestral Horn instead of PhamtomStrike and Distort Reality ( those skill are not useful against Boss(they are Immute to petrify and phamtom strike is more useful against mass of ennemis). So use the original Battle Standard and Ancertral Horn, always strong against boss.


Equipements and Stuff
Most of the stuff I wear are really easy to find in the secret passage in legendary for Iris, Aphodite's Favor, Phobos and Epic for Buccanneer'Grab.
You'll need also 2 ring that give you Strenght and health.

The Buccanneer'grab is really nice cause he give you a bonus of 1000 health when the set is complet and elemental resistance, poison, pierce,stun,sleep. This set give you a good attack power, +26% total damage , 400 offensive ability. Low defance but so mush power and really easy to find.

Iris, the mort powerfull weapon in the game, also easy to find (20 run in legendray'secret passage.) This weapon hit hard, elemental damage, bonus dmg, dex, and a fast attack speed for a club.

You need also a good arm bracer, I took phobos that I found in the Secret passage again. But you can easily take warrior bracer, conqueror bracer, someting that give you attack speed. (30% -40% needed)

You need 2 good ring, Strenght and healt is your priority, I've found some heal ring in chop (those ring are preaty easy to find in epic and legendary in shop, In normal you can have it often when you make sme spiderqueend run (just before Delfy) You can also put some Dionysus' wineskin on it. Really powerfull for 6% dmg resistance and health bonus.

And then you need a great amulet, like Aphodite's favor (bonus of 800 health, 2 all skill, elemental resstance)But an 2 all skill and bonus health can be found in a shop (rare but I found one)

Star of Ishtar, my divine artifact: really Hard to find all the relic, charm and Fomulas but when you found all of that Star of Ishtar is really nice (20% str and 20%dex plus a bonus of elemental resistance and dmg resistance . Alos a great summon ativate on low heath, he deal nice dmg.

So with this stuff you will have near 9k health, alot of strenght(around 800 and decent dex (400). You'll have 45% dmg resistance , 80% elemental resitance, around 90% stun resitance.




In overall This build own, I do some secret passage run in under 2min, I beat Toxeus The murderer easily. You'll enjoy mass of ennemis literaly exploding in front of you and aloso killing boss easily.

Future Needs: In fact this build is not perfect, I need some stuff to leash life, I'm thinking about to change my second weapon to Scepter of Thanatos that give my around 11% damageconverted to health
I need also more perce resistance and posion resistance, and maybe some bleeding and energy resistance. But where to find them?

[Ignignokt]

This is odd, because my Harbinger is my only character I've made that struggled in normal mode. Yes, I kill most monsters in 1-2 hits, but if I don't I'm dead. Even my thane did a better job, and he was previously my worst character.

I think I should have invested in warhorn or distortion wave, or even the sleep skill. Did you find yourself needing crowd control abilities quite frequently?

[Madrush]

Well I'm only used distortion wave only when there is really big mass of monster, otherwise I don't really need it.

I must admit in the beginning I died often, but when I found some nice stuff that gimme health and resistance I was pretty stroung enough to beat everyting without dieing.

I found also a lot of power in those hale ring.

[Whisk33]

The begining is hard with dualwield characters usually becuase to are reliant on a fast paced killing king of thing... thats difficult to do in normal without very good hand-me-downs.

@Mad...
I'm not getting the "Hadbinger" "Harbinger" thing that you seem to be doing on purpose...
This is a very nice guild you have made. Try cleaning the grammar up though. Lots of people on this forum do not have english as their native language so simple things like "The" spelled "thw" or "defence" and "defance" can really mess up the train of thought. If you need help just ask.
You should try and get this added to the Character Build Compendium made by Cassidy in the Skills section..

[blazze]

Originally Posted by Whisk33

This is a very nice guild you have made.

Course this could confuse people too :P Sorry had to do it.

[outtasync]

I have gone the Harbringer route, but I am still around level 20 and figuring out what works where. In the lower levels I have found without the high damage resists, Dual Wield just doesnt work well, so I dumped it and went back to a sword and shield, but I plan on giving DW a shot again down the line.

So you opted to not have the nightmare as a pet at all huh? ive found he is a pretty hardy fighter, but I have been mulling over if I will keep him later in the game when I get damage resists higher.

Anyway, thanks for hte build, looks interesting.

[FTrunks21]

I have to agree with Madrush. I can't say anything about past normal but ive been playing a harbinger and I've dual wielded the entire time. I haven't died yet and im in normal orient now. No hand me downs either. Just using what I find. I haven't had any trouble with any boss or mob.

[Kardiophylax]

My harbinger is in limbo in act 4 normal after suffering 1 death to some of the monsters using stun wave attacks there. In contrast, my sage made it to Epic Act 3 (survived all of Act 4 Normal) before dieing for the first time (to the stun/rocks of the Neanderthal boss). I'd say the harbinger would be a tough character to hardcore with, but if you don't mind a few deaths here and there, it should be a strong class (my damage output was good).

[Ignignokt]

Just thought I'd post an update. After changing up a couple skill points, getting past the tiger people and improving my gear, my character has drastically improved. Enemies die very fast now, and I'm cruising through act 4 so far.

I tossed 1 point into distortion wave to slow everything down as an opener, then when they gather around, I either do distort reality + war wind, or I do phantom strike, depends on cooldowns. I am on the fence about keeping battle standard, because it is so inconvenient, I only use it for bosses. Also, the bosses usually do some AoE that oneshots my battle standard. It's on a 1 minute cooldown with a small radius and can't move with you.

Are any harbingers out there convinced that having battle standard is/isn't a good idea?

[Monarch]

I'm making a harbinger, whats you latest titan calc please?