GW2. Best Open World Build. Celestial Spear Harbinger Open World. Vampire Harbinger. Necromancer PvE.
Boon for group events: Quickness
The Celestial Spear Harbinger build for Open World gains massive healing bonuses that can provide more sustain while still keeping the pressure from the shroud skills. With the Spear, most of its damage comes from life stealing which gives more synergy with Blood Magic and the Atrocity relic which increases healing and life steal damage. Life steal and condition damage both can deal decent damage without investing many stats into them. This type of damage also ignores enemies’ armor so it can’t be mitigated.
The Sword/Dagger set is mainly used for mobility and utility. Use the Sword 3 for repositioning, healing, and boon corruption. The Dagger 4 is good for condition transfer after using Blood is Power. Otherwise, you will mostly camp the Spear for damage. Spear’s main mechanic is gaining Soul Shards which can be expended using the Spear 2 for high burst damage. The Spear 4 is a projectile that allows you to port to the target it lands on, and taking this port will recharge the Spear 2 and give you Soul Shards, allowing more burst combos. On top of this, entering Shroud will recharge Spear 4, therefore allowing it to recharge Spear 2 again, and as a result, giving you plenty of damage just from the Spear and Shroud set.
This build focuses on barrier generation to make up for the lack of a health bar during Shroud, because the Blood Bank trait converts some of the healing you receive as a barrier, including life steal and passive regeneration. Corrosive Poison Cloud can be used to defend yourself from projectiles or to apply more poison damage to your enemies.
Basic Combo:
- Blood is Power > Dagger 4 >
- Dagger 5 > Sword 2 > Sword 3 > 3 > Swap
- Spear 4 > 3 + 4 > 2 > Enter Shroud
- Shroud Rotation > Exit Shroud
- Spear 4 > 4 > 2
Shroud Rotation:
- Shroud 2 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 111 > 2
Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
---|---|---|
Helm Celestial | ||
Shoulders Celestial | ||
Coat Celestial | ||
Gloves Celestial | ||
Leggings Celestial | ||
Boots Celestial |
Spear Celestial |
|
Sword Celestial | ||
Dagger Celestial |
Item | Stat |
---|---|
Amulet Celestial | |
Ring Celestial | |
Ring Celestial | |
Accessory Celestial | |
Accessory Celestial | |
Backpiece Celestial |
Optional x18 |
Alternatives
- Jade Bot Core: for extra vitality
- Rune: for more damage instead of movement
Spear | Heal / Utility / Elite |
Sword / Dagger | Harbinger Shroud |
Alternatives
- Utility: instead of Corrosive Poison Cloud for extra stun breaker
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