Harbinger (ascendancy class)

Become a Harbinger, manipulating the bounds of reality itself. The Harbinger specializes in Time Magic as well as summoning Harbinger allies from their homeworld to assist you in combat. As a bonus you also get to fly and be blue.

The Harbinger is a Legacy of Phrecia ascendancy class for the Witch. It is exclusive to the Legacy of Phrecia event, replacing one of the original ascendancy classes.

The flavour text for this ascendancy is partially derived from The Tempest's BindingThe Tempest's Binding
Callous MaskEvasion: (222-287)
Energy Shield: (65-88)Requires Level 60, 51 Dex, 51 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 18 Ice Bite
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 18 Innervate
Grants Summon Harbinger of Storms Skill
+(100-150) to Evasion Rating
+(40-60) to maximum Energy Shield
+(60-80) to maximum Life
+(10-15)% to all Elemental Resistances

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Overview

The Harbinger is an ascendancy class that specializes in the manipulation of time, providing benefits such as cooldown recovery rate, buff/debuff duration, or applying Temporal ChainsTemporal ChainsSpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Hex
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (16-33) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curses all enemies in an area, lowering their action speed and making other effects on them expire more slowly.Base duration is (5.00-8.80) seconds
+(0-1) metre to radius
50% less Effect of Curse against Players
Cursed Normal and Magic Enemies have (15-29)% less Action Speed
Other effects on Cursed enemies expire 25% slower
Cursed Rare and Unique Enemies have (9-18)% less Action Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% increased Curse DurationPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. They also gain the ability to have a Visiting Harbinger assist them in combat by providing various buffs.

Additionally, after allocating at least 1 Ascendancy passive skill, the player's 3D model textures (including microtransactions) will be overridden by a blue Harbinger texture, adds a blue character effect, and causes the player to float (similarly to the Voidborn Body ArmourVoidborn Body ArmourArmour SkinChanges the appearance of any equipped body armour to the Voidborn Body Armour. Your character floats through the air, even in combat areas.'s effect). It does not disable on-step mechanics such as Abberath's HoovesAbberath's Hooves
Goathide BootsEvasion: (42-54)Requires Level 12, 26 DexTriggers Level 7 Abberath's Fury when Equipped
+(20-30) to Strength
15% increased Movement Speed
(6-10)% chance to Ignite
When you Kill an Ignited Enemy, inflict an equivalent Ignite on each nearby Enemy
1% increased Fire Damage per 20 Strength
Burning HoofprintsThe goat king knew not of war,
of the lands and laws he trampled.
The goat king knew only joy
at turning life into ash.. These effects are disabled in towns.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Skill	Stats
Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge	10% incrased Energy Shield Recharge Rate 10% increased Mana Regeneration Rate

Notable skills

This class has the following notable passive skills:

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Temporal Empowerment	40% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate		Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Visiting Harbinger of Time	Grants Summon Visiting Harbinger of Time Skill	Temporal Empowerment	Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Weakness Quelled, Spirit Awoken	Buffs on you expire 30% slower Debuffs on you expire 30% faster		Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Visiting Harbinger of Focus	Grants Summon Visiting Harbinger of Focus Skill	Weakness Quelled, Spirit Awoken	Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Arcane Soul	30% of Non-Chaos Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield Gain 20% of Maximum Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield Gain 10% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield		Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Era of Blasphemy	100% increased Area of Effect of Hex Skills Temporal ChainsTemporal ChainsSpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Hex Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curses all enemies in an area, lowering their action speed and making other effects on them expire more slowly.Base duration is (5.00-8.80) seconds +(0-1) metre to radius 50% less Effect of Curse against Players Cursed Normal and Magic Enemies have (15-29)% less Action Speed Other effects on Cursed enemies expire 25% slower Cursed Rare and Unique Enemies have (9-18)% less Action Speed Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Curse DurationPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. has no Reservation if Cast as an Aura		Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Arcane Recovery	30% increased Energy Shield Recovery rate 30% increased Mana Recovery rate		Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge
Visiting Harbinger of the Arcane	Grants Summon Visiting Harbinger of the Arcane Skill	Arcane Recovery	Mana Regeneration and Energy Shield Recharge

Note: the English names of these notable passives are unofficial names based on literal interpretations of the Harbinger glyphs.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.3e	All of the Harbinger's notable passive glyphs have been renamed to be more descriptive instead of using existing Harbinger enemy names.[Undocumented]
3.25.3d	Introduced to the game.