Harbinger

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.

Set-Up

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

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.

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

Sell all generic currency and loot you drop using bulk selling methods on the trade website. Some examples of items to sell are:

• Orb of Annulment
• Orb of Alchemy
• Orb of Alteration
• Orb of Fusing
• Orb of Horizons
• Orb of Regret
• Orb of Scouring
• Orb of Unmaking
• Regal Orb
• Vaal Orb
• Stacked Deck

It is essential you sell the majority of your drops to make a good profit!

Eldritch Influence Loot

Sell the following eldritch crafting currencies. Selling these is easiest by listing them on the trade site in large quantities using bulk selling methods.

• Lesser Eldritch Ember
• Greater Eldritch Ember
• Grand Eldritch Ember

Sell rarer eldritch crafting orbs at the end of farming sessions even in individual stack sizes on the trade site.

• Eldritch Chaos Orb
• Eldritch Exalted Orb
• Eldritch Orb of Annulment

Sell eldritch invitations at the end of farming sessions using the trade site, use tabs listed with a bulk price if you have multiple.

• Incandescent Invitation
• Polaric Invitation

Resonators

With your Azurite acquired from clicking on Sulphite nodes in your maps purchase resonators to sell in bulk using the trade website. Do this at the end of each farming session and sell the following focusing on which resonator is most expensive:

• Primitive Chaotic Resonator (Normally Best To Sell)
• Potent Chaotic Resonator (Sometimes Best To Sell)
• Powerful Chaotic Resonator (Rarely Best To Sell)

Harbinger

Slaying Harbinger's drops a large amount of high value currency shards some of which are exclusive to the mechanic. Ensure you sell the following Harbinger currencies as soon as you acquire a reasonable amount:

• Ancient Orb
• Fracturing Orb
• Harbinger's Orb

Alternatively you can use the Harbinger's orbs you accumulate on tier 15 or lower maps and sell the resulting The Beachhead unique maps you create.

Credits

Written by Milkybk_
Reviewed by Facefoot