Grief Harpist
Hero Skill
Deals 325% ATK DMG to 2 enemy Heroes. Casts Chaotic Elegy on 1 enemy unit (prioritizes Heroes) for 5s. When Chaotic Elegy is in play, its target explodes every 0.5s. Each explosion deals DMG equal to 3% of target's Max HP to, and removes 30 Energy from, the target and enemy units near the target. (Cooldown: 8s. This Hero takes 50% less DMG, and is immune to Silence and conditions from Calamity.)
Best Build
Grief Harpist build analysis
Grief Harpist is an epic offensive hero. Compared with the other 41 epic offensive heroes in the database, Grief Harpist leans offensive, with base ATK near the top of its class while HP sits lower. Among top players, the most settled part of the build is trait (Accuracy, 38.7%) and the least settled is pet (Frozen Axe Hurl, only 3.0%), so the pet slot is where you have the most freedom to adapt.
How settled is each slot?
The pick rate of the most popular option shows how much top players agree. Grief Harpist's top talent, Sacred Light, is picked 17.1% of the time, which is 7.4 points less settled than the typical hero (median 24.5%).
| Slot | Top pick | Runner-up | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talent | Sacred Light (17.1%) | Dragon's Cover (9.7%) | contested |
| Insignia | Empower Insignia (17.0%) | Sacred Light Insignia (9.8%) | contested |
| Square Insignia | Chaos Armor Insignia (18.5%) | Blood Barrier Insignia (8.1%) | contested |
| Equipment | Holy Conviction (9.3%) | Malaise (8.2%) | no consensus |
| Trait | Accuracy (38.7%) | ATK (15.8%) | clear favourite |
| Pet | Frozen Axe Hurl (3.0%) | Euphoric Ritual (3.0%) | no consensus |
Near-universal is 50% or more, clear favourite 30–50%, contested 15–30%, no consensus under 15%. When a slot is contested, the runner-up is usually a reasonable substitute if you don't own the top pick.
Stats compared with other epic offensive heroes
| Stat | Grief Harpist | Peer median | Rank vs peers | Rank overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base ATK | 425 | 415 | 9 / 42 | 17 / 208 |
| Base HP | 11,500 | 12,000 | 27 / 42 | 73 / 208 |
| ATK growth per level | 19 | 20 | 27 / 42 | 50 / 208 |
| HP growth per level | 305 | 300 | 14 / 42 | 49 / 208 |
| Attack interval (lower is faster) | 1,450 ms | 1,400 | 26 / 42 | 152 / 208 |
| Move speed | 330 | 325 | 9 / 42 | 14 / 208 |
Across all 208 heroes of every rarity, base ATK ranks the 17th-highest (top 10%) and base HP ranks 73rd of 208. Its skill has a 8s cooldown.
Heroes with similar builds
21 other heroes share Grief Harpist's core pairing of Sacred Light + Empower Insignia: Ripper, Jewellee, Lightchaser, Soul Seeker, Abyss Apostle, Electroranger, Michael, Phobos, and 13 more. If you're rebuilding one of them, the same talent and insignia usually carry over.
Looking at every slot, not just talent and insignia, these heroes' builds overlap most with Grief Harpist's:
- Cold Conjuress (epic, support): overlap score 204, same top talent (Sacred Light)
- Merksha (epic, offensive): overlap score 197, same top talent (Sacred Light)
- Primeval Golem (epic, multiclass): overlap score 188
- Gravedigger (epic, offensive): overlap score 186
Overlap score adds up the shared pick rate across all six slots. 0 means nothing in common, and 600 would mean identical builds.
Data source: base stats, skill text and pick rates come from IGG's official Castle Clash hero data, which reports what top players equip. The rankings, consensus ratings and similarity scores above are calculated by CastleClash Builds. See the methodology for details.