Need help with harbringer

[zog]

I'm at lvl 30 no deaths and I have max duel wield. My dps is about 470 and I have 195% attack speed. I can kill a swarm of tiger men in about 1.5 secs and about 2-3 when a black tiger is present. However, I'm taking a lot of damage from the archers and I don't have any good options to up my pierce or armor. What skills should I try to boost to survive? I'm using psonic touch instead of Onslaught. I'm thinking my best bet is to try and max Premonition for the DA. my health is 2500. Any advice would be great.

[Balshar]

Use Onslaught...Then you will get some pierce resist (from Ignore Pain)
And do tonnes of damage. You most likely be able to hold out against melee reasonably well, so your aim is to take out the archers first, and that's what Phantom Strike is for. If you could post using this: TitanCalc by stonedonkey - A Titan Quest Calculator - Harbinger....It would be great

[zog]

heh I took your advice and went onslaught and got a few lvls. I now do about 800 dps with two epic greens and have 80% pierce and still no deaths at lvl 34. (legit ) What are two good weapons that aren't to hard to get if you dual wield. I'm thinking about doing dual silences but I don't think I will beable to use all the attack speed since the cap is low. how do you do the titan quest skill chart?

[Balshar]

You just click on whatever skill you want (remember you have to put points in the mastery to get them!!!) and then copy+paste the "Return Link" down the bottom of the screen into this screen! And bob's your uncle.
Good weapons would have a lot of damage, and be fast enough to get close to/max out attack speed. I have 2 x slow maces, with enough attack speed on them to get maxed attack speed. "Veteran's ....." weapons are good, because they come with an attack speed bonus, then putting in a Valour of Archiles will make it even faster.

[zog]

here's my current build if I remember correctly. I can't check at the moment.
TitanCalc by stonedonkey - A Titan Quest Calculator - Harbinger

[Balshar]

Hrmm, you should really get at least 1 point in a trance, any trance, just for that little bit of help. But what you're really wanting is ToW. It's the be all, and end all, of a Harbinger (from my exp.).
Premonition, Dream Stealer, Hew...Take a couple of points out of these WHEN YOU HAVE ENOUGH POINTS to get you higher in the Dream Mastery. No need to do it now... You could get up to 10 points out of them, without limiting your ability too much, and put them in the Dream Mastery, already. So...Theoretically, in 2 levels, you could get a point into Temporal Flux. Then it's only 3 more levels after that and you have ToW!
I admit though...Normal Difficulty - Monsters don't have enough resistances to make ToW GREAT...BUT...if you get ToW up in levels then the Elec. burn damage IS pretty good. In Epic and Leg. it's awesome. Truley awesome.

1 Point in BattleRage + synergies never hurts, at least not for you it doesn't! :P

[zog]

Well I got to lvl 36 and swapped some better weopons (epic saber and axe) I do about 1000 dps now. However, I got lazy and wasn't watching health since I was owning so much and got my first death. I'm still taking alot of damage from the archers and I have about 750 armor and 80% pierce. What damage are you they doing to me? I have about 2400 health. I forgot to put a point in the first trance in titancalc.

[Balshar]

Hrmm...They do a lot of piercing damage. If your pierce resist is high, other then Damage Absorbsion...(that word looks weird to me....)
Deaths happen, nothing to write home about when ya die.

[zog]

heh transfered some more gear and put on some better armor. 1000 armor now. I'm a god or should I say titan again for the moment.