Warning: This guide assumes you know how to farm Harbinger and Eldritch Altars read our linked guides to learn.
This guide will be updated to include scarabs once we have been able to test the new Harbinger Scarab of Obelisks.
The Harbinger Strategy combines high profit quick to farm mechanics and Niko's Sulphite Buffs for blazingly fast maps with consistent drops. Harbinger drops almost entirely pure currency which is easy to sell fast and in bulk, it's also great for XP which is a nice bonus.
- Harbinger Content Drops valuable currency shards like Fracturing Shards, Exalted Shards, Ancient Shards and Annulment Shards.
- Scarabs Amplified Artefacts, combined with the huge number of Rare monsters spawned by king Harbingers produces a very large number of Scarabs which can be easily sold using the Currency Exchange Market.
Requirements
- Harbinger do not require anything specific from your build outside of reasonable defense, recovery and single target damage. High mobility and movement speed is a bonus.
| Voidstones: 2+ |
| Favourites: 6+ |
| Atlas Points: 125 |
Set-Up
PRO TIP: When setting up to run this strategy it is recommended you purchase enough materials to complete a sizeable set of maps. Failing to do so makes selling drops more difficult and you'll constantly be trading to purchase additional materials instead of mapping.
Map Choice & Favorites
- Tier 16 City Square Map - is the best Harbinger map, it is incredibly fast to clear and easily explorable so you can quickly defeat all the harbingers.
- Favourites - Allocate 1 of your favourites to a map adjacent to City Square on the atlas you plan to run or can sell. Use the rest of your favourite map slots on City Square e.g. (11 City Square, 1 Adjacent Map).
Map Device
- Eldritch Influence: Searing Exarch
- Kirac: Harbinger (4 Chaos Orbs) - Adds 2 additional Harbinger's
Fragments
Use the following fragments for this strateg;
- Harbinger Scarab
- Harbinger Scarab
- Harbinger Scarab
- Harbinger Scarab of Regency
- Harbinger Scarab of Obelisks*
- Harbinger Scarab of Warhoards - Replace a Harbinger Scarab if you can afford to run this scarab.
Atlas Passive Tree
Warning: Before you unlock at least 10 favorite slots to apply to 9 maps of your ideal layout and 1 adjacent map DO NOT allocate Singular Focus.
Passive Overview
If you do not have the exact amount of points required to complete the full atlas passive tree you can forego allocating some small passive points in Harbinger and Essence as they are not mandatory in order for the strategy to function.
Harbinger spawns many monsters that drop normal loot but also valuable Harbinger exclusive currency shards.
Eldritch Altars provide a constant flow of currency items.
Delve passives improve the clear speed of your character while enabling the purchase of resonators with gained Azurite.
NOTE: The scarab blocking nodes should be adjusted based on which scarabs have high value.
Gameplay
Rolling Maps
1. Clean Your Maps - Ensure all of your maps are identified and then use an Orb of Scouring to make them all normal rarity, since achieving 20% quality on white maps requires significantly less Cartographer's Chisels.
2. Chiseling - Use Cartographer's Chisels on all of your maps until each one is 20% quality.
3. Alchemy Orbs - Use Orbs of Alchemy on every map you have at 20% quality. Re-roll maps your character cannot run using Orb of Scouring and Orb of Alchemy.
Running Maps
Follow these steps to complete the maps efficiently.
Step 1 - Ensure your Tier 16 City Square map is correctly rolled, your chosen fragment set-up is in the device and your compasses are applied.
Step 2 - Enter the City Square map and immediately rush to the center of the map to defeat the boss. Doing so eliminates any boss related Eldritch Alters from spawning in your map.
Step 3 - Click any Delve Sulphite veins or chests as well as smuggler's caches you come across
Step 4 - Completely clear the perimeter of the map ensuring you loot on the way and defeat all the Harbingers.
Loot Breakdown
Here are the drops you should sell, do so by referring to our TFT Buying and Selling guide or Trade Site Bulk selling guide as directed below.
Generic Loot
Eldritch Influence Loot
Resonators
Harbinger
Credits
Written by Milkybk_
Reviewed by Facefoot
