Ultimate Harper Build for Solo Leveling: Essential Stats, Skills, Weapons, and Artifacts

Harper has emerged as the top Break unit in Solo Leveling: Arise since her September 12 release, but it’s crucial to build her correctly.

All of Harper’s abilities can deal significant Break Damage to her foes. Each attack scales off her Health, making her a resilient Tank unit, and she has the capability to deliver high Critical Hit Damage, positioning her as a strong DPS unit.

This guide outlines the ultimate Harper build in Arise, detailing her best stats, skills, weapons, and Artifacts.

Best Harper Build in Solo Leveling: Arise

Below are the recommended stats, skills, weapons, and Artifacts for Harper. Detailed reasoning for these selections can be found in the build guide.

Stats	Skills	Weapon	Artifacts
Health, Critical Hit Rate, Critical Hit Damage	Hammer Dash, The Tenderizer, Harper’s Thunder, Hammer Rush, Harper’s Mjolnir	Mischievous	Burning Greed

Alternative options are also provided, enabling you to create an effective build even without acquiring exclusive items like the Mischievous weapon.

Best Harper Stats

Health, Critical Hit Rate, and Critical Hit Damage should be your top priorities when crafting the perfect build for Harper in Arise.

Harper best stats in Solo Leveling: Arise. — Netmarble / dexerto

Like Han Se-Mi and Meilin Fisher, Harper’s attacks scale with her Health, making it the most vital stat. Maximizing her Max Health and maintaining high levels during battles will enhance her performance.

This build is quite similar to Go Gunhee, another DPS breaker in Arise. However, Gunhee relies on Defense for scaling, whereas Harper’s Break capabilities are significantly stronger. Despite differing main stats, both characters benefit greatly from focusing on Critical Hit Rate and Critical Hit Damage.

It’s essential to equip and continuously upgrade all items that enhance Health while providing Critical Hit benefits.

Best Harper Skills

The Tenderizer stands out as Harper’s best skill, delivering Almighty Break Damage upon hitting targets. Its effectiveness is enhanced by being a Basic Skill, allowing repeated high-damage strikes with minimal mana cost and a short cooldown.

No other character in Arise can inflict such powerful Break Damage with a Basic Skill, making it one of the best skills available.

Harper Solo Leveling: Arise Skills. — Netmarble / dexerto

While Harper possesses a variety of strong skills for high DPS and Break Damage, they do have vulnerabilities. Her Hammer Rush skill features a slow animation, requiring caution and the use of Basic and Core Attacks prior to unleashing it for optimal safety.

Additionally, none of Harper’s skills confer Super Armor, meaning interruptions are possible during casting.

Here’s a comprehensive overview of Harper’s top skills and their advantages:

Skill	Skill Type	Benefits
Hammer Dash	Basic Attack	Deals 522% of Max Health as Dark Elemental Damage. Provides Medium Break Damage. Inflicts Paralyze and Airborne effects on hit.
The Tenderizer	Basic Skill	Inflicts 1249% of Max Health as Dark Element Damage. Delivers Almighty Break Damage. Applies the Porkchopped effect, increasing Ultimate Skill damage taken from Dark hunters by 1%, stackable up to 12 times for 20 seconds.
Harper’s Thunder	Support Skill	Deals 300% of Max Health as Dark Element Damage. Provides Medium Break Damage. Inflicts Paralyze and Airborne effects on hit.
Hammer Rush	QTE Skill	Inflicts 405% of Max Health as Dark Element Damage. Provides Medium Break Damage. Inflicts Paralyze and Airborne effects on hit.
Harper’s Mjolnir	Ultimate Skill	Inflicts 1603% of Max Health as Dark Element Damage. Applies the Airborne effect on hit and Knock Down effect on the final hit.

Best Harper Weapons

Mischievous is Harper’s optimal weapon in Solo Leveling: Arise, as it is exclusive to her. When equipped, it provides unique benefits that enhance both Harper’s capabilities and those of her team.

Mischevious hunter-exclusive weapon for Harper in Solo Leveling: Arise. — Netmarble / dexerto

Harper’s Mischievous weapon is the best choice for her in Arise.

You may also consider the Sturdy Shark Water Gun for its Defense and QTE skill boosts, or the Steel Bow for its exceptional Critical Hit advantages as non-exclusive alternatives.

Weapon	Skills & Abilities
Mischievous	Harper exclusive weapon: Increases Health by 4%. Ultimate Skill usage boosts Dark Damage by 4% for the whole team for 30 seconds.
Steel Bow	Delivers high damage and Critical Hit Damage on ranged attacks. Best SR hunter weapon, maxing out at a 24% Critical Hit Damage increase when fully leveled.
Sturdy Shark Water Gun	Boosts QTE and Basic Skill damage by 2.5%. Total Power of 566, Defense of 400.

Best Harper Artifacts

Burning Greed is the top Artifact set, and to maximize its effectiveness, equip the complete eight-piece set, consisting of four pieces of Armor and four pieces of Jewelry.

Harper best Artifacts in Solo Leveling Arise. — Netmarble / MaTelRiA

The full eight-piece Burning Greed set provides significant advantages for Harper.

Good substitutes include the Hot Summer and Toughness Armor sets, which offer considerable boosts in Critical Hit Rate and Damage. If you lack all pieces of Burning Greed for the full set benefits, consider the Expert Jewelry set for substantial Critical Hit enhancements.

If you’re facing a tough Gate boss and want to boost your Break and Damage stats, combining a four-piece Burning Curse set with a four-piece Burning Greed set is recommended.

Here’s a summary of the best Armor Artifact sets for Harper and their benefits based on the number of equipped pieces:

Armor Artifact sets	Two-piece benefits	Four-piece benefits	Eight-piece benefits
Burning Greed	Increases Critical Hit Rate by 1% when dealing Break damage.	Enhances Critical Hit Rate by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for the user and team.	Against enemies with elemental weaknesses, Break Effect increases by 30%. Increases Critical Hit Rate by 15% and Critical Hit Damage by 30% for user and team members.
Burning Curse	Increases damage taken by 20%, damage dealt by 10%, and damage dealt increases by 0.1% per second.	Heals 25% of Health if the user is at 25% Health or lower. Activates once per dungeon.	Enhances two-piece effects. Takes 20% more damage and deals 30% extra damage, increasing damage dealt by 0.2% per second.
Hot Summer	Increases Critical Hit Rate by 8%.	Increases Critical Hit Damage by 32%.	N/A
Toughness (Hard Leather)	Critical Hit Rate increases by 8%.	Critical Hit Damage increases by 32%.	N/A

Additionally, here are the best Jewelry Artifact sets for Harper with their benefits:

Armor Artifact sets	Two-piece benefits	Four-piece benefits	Eight-piece benefits
Burning Greed	Increases Critical Hit Rate by 1% when dealing Break damage.	Boosts Critical Hit Rate by 10% and Critical Hit Damage by 15% for the user and team.	Break effect increases by 30% against elemental weakness targets. Boosts Critical Hit Rate by 15% and Critical Hit Damage by 30% for all members.
Burning Curse	Enhances damage taken by 20%, damage dealt by 10%, with damage dealt increasing by 0.1% every second.	Heals 25% of Health if the user drops to 25% Health. Activates once per dungeon.	Enhances the two-piece effect by increasing damage taken by 20% and damage dealt by 30%, with the latter increasing by 0.2% every second.
Expert (Beast)	Critical Hit has a 25% chance to increase attack by 0.8%.	Critical Hit has a 50% chance to increase attack by 1.6%.	N/A