Specter - Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
Normal

Overview

A boon support healer build for Specter. Provides permanent Alacrity Alacrity, Fury Fury, Swiftness Swiftness and Vigor Vigor. This build has a lot of overlap with the healing variant of the Condi Boon Support, so you can mix and match options between these to suit your group.


Skill Bar

Scepter/Pistol
Sword/Pistol
Utility

Weapon Variants

  • Offhand Dagger can be used in the Scepter set for the hybrid damage build.


Skill Variants

Well of Bounty is necessary as your primary source of Regeneration Regeneration, but the other two skills can be swapped out:

  • Blinding Powder is the easiest way to high Protection Protection uptime, but using it stealths allies. This will mess with deadeyes in your group and so should be avoided if they are present.
  • Well of Silence heals thanks to its shadowstep, offers CC and is a rare source of condi cleanse.


Other alternatives include:

  • Shadow Refuge - The most potent utility skill for healing. Comes with the same caveats as Blinding Powder, and offers worse Protection Protection uptime, but could replace Well of Silence on encounters without condi cleanse.
  • For more frequent breakbars, you may find Basilisk Venom valuable.


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Specializations

  • Quick Pockets is a good option for more initiative.
  • Second Opinion on encounters where high incoming damage makes Shadow Force harder to maintain, so Consume Shadows will be much weaker. In such cases, you should also use the Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats variant.


Equipment

Harrier stats Harrier stats gear is used for maximum healing power and boon duration. On encounters with high incoming damage, then you may require the extra Shadow Force that comes from higher vitality, making the Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats variant below stronger.

Head
Harrier
Shoulders
Harrier
Chest
Harrier
Hands
Harrier
Legs
Harrier
Feet
Harrier
Backpiece
Harrier
Accessory
Harrier
Accessory
Harrier
Amulet
Harrier
Ring
Harrier
Ring
Harrier
Scepter
Harrier
Pistol
Harrier
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Harrier
Pistol
Harrier
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
  • The Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration can be replaced with a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Paralyzation if you want to provide more CC.
  • If tanking, swap in as many Giver stats Giver stats or Minstrel stats Minstrel stats pieces as necessary.


Condi Variant

You can swap in Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats for a massive damage boost and almost no loss of healing, but the boon duration is significantly lower - you want to make sure it's at least 60% or you might as well be running the healing variant of the DPS alacrity build.

Head
Plaguedoctor
Shoulders
Plaguedoctor
Chest
Plaguedoctor
Hands
Plaguedoctor
Legs
Plaguedoctor
Feet
Plaguedoctor
Backpiece
Plaguedoctor
Accessory
Plaguedoctor
Accessory
Plaguedoctor
Amulet
Plaguedoctor
Ring
Plaguedoctor
Ring
Plaguedoctor
Scepter
Plaguedoctor
Dagger
Plaguedoctor
Sigil
Sigil
Pistol
Plaguedoctor
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic


Consumables

Food

  • or ascended versions


Utility


Usage

Alacrity

Thanks to the Shadestep trait, every shroud skill you use provides AoE around your tethered target. This means that Specter is capable of providing Alacrity Alacrity at 1200 range, making it very effective at handling mechanics. The tether is randomly applied to an ally within range whenever you Enter Shadow Shroud, and will remain on that ally until you are 1200 units away from each other. A new target for the tether can be manually selected by targeting an ally and using Siphon on them. This is very useful to do before the fight starts, as you ideally want to use Siphon on enemies for the Shadow Force generation during combat.


Weapons

The two weapons have different playstyles:


Scepter

Via its allied-targeted abilities, Scepter fills in the gaps in uptime of your key boons, namely Protection Protection with Shadow Sap and Regeneration Regeneration with Measured Shot ⇒ Endless Night. During downtime you can also autoattack an ally to provide AoE barrier.

If using scepter, it is strongly recommended to have some method for quickly targetting allies: Set/Take Personal Target, Nearest/Next/Previous Ally, or Ally Targeting Mode in the options will all allow this. Go for whichever you find most convenient.


Sword

Sword can be swapped too as needed for burst healing. On this set you provide heals by spamming Infiltrator's Strike and Infiltrator's Return to repeatedly trigger Shadow Savior and Traversing Dusk.


Scepter/Pistol

Before the encounter starts, it can be very helpful to select and ally and Siphon them. This will mark them as the target of your tether and all the boons provided by Shadestep will pulse around that player as long as they remain within range (or until you target another player manually with Siphon). Ideally this will be a player that can be relied upon to be on the stack. If you do not target a specific player, a random one will be picked when you Enter Shadow Shroud.


Opener

  1. Well of Bounty - Opens with a burst of boons, and drops a combo field for triggering Relic of Karakosa
  2. Blinding Powder
  3. Enter Shadow Shroud
  4. Mind Shock - Cast first so that the blast hits within the duration of the combo field. This step can be skipped or moved if the CC or Stability Stability will be needed shortly, and it won't be off cooldown every loop.
  5. Grasping Shadows
  6. Eternal Night
  7. Dawn's Repose
  8. Haunt Shot until Grasping Shadows is off cooldown
  9. Grasping Shadows
  10. Exit Shadow Shroud - we stay in shroud just long enough to gain five stacks of Consume Shadows
  11. Target an ally
  12. Measured Shot ⇒ Endless Night
  13. Spam all your remaining initiative on allied-targeted Shadow Sap


  • Use Well of Bounty off cooldown (you can delay slightly if needed for Stability Stability).
  • Other wells can be used situationally, but it is handy to use one just before entering shroud.
  • Use Blinding Powder off cooldown. Outside of the opener, follow it up with an ally-targeted Shadowsquall to maintain Regeneration Regeneration.
  • Use Siphon off cooldown to provide AoE boons and maintain Shadow Force. If necessary, use the ally-targeted version to change your tether target.
  • Make sure to use at least five skills (including autoattacks) each time you enter shroud. There's no set rotation, but ideally you should exit before your initiative fills up.
  • Spend all your initative on scepter skills when outside of shroud. In general, this will be on Shadow Sap as you'll need to use this on allies to maintain Protection Protection. Measured Shot ⇒ Endless Night can be used to provide direct healing to allies that need it.
  • You have CC all over the place, but you can save some if there is an upcoming defiance bar you wish to delete.


Sword/Pistol

Sword/Pistol doesn't have a fixed rotation. As you don't need to be concerned with barrier management, you can just use Siphon, wells, and Enter Shadow Shroud as they come off cooldown while spending your initative on spamming and Infiltrator's Strike and Infiltrator's Return.

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Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 12 votes.
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1 star
Lucinellia gave this build 1 star • October 2023
There is now a proper Heal Specter build that works better for boons and alacrity output. This build is outdated and, while it performed poorly in the past, now no longer works due to changes to the trait Shadestep. Don't play this and look elsewhere for a useful Heal Specter build.
1 star
Tug mug moons of plun dar gave this build 1 star • July 2023
This is not recommended for a few reasons. First and foremost, healing coefficients do not scale well with thief. (Recommended gear for this build variation would be minstrel givers or plague doctor) Because consuming shadows is a vital instrument to this build, it's recommended to bring as much vitality as possible. If given the options of tanking, you can bring durability, ruins and minstrel gear or givers to provide a additional toughness while in shroud to mitigate damage. Harold runes is another good option for protection up time/on demand. Even before the June 27th 2023 patch, the build prescribed above is not sustainable for most content because of its lack of mitigation of its own received damage (vitality and or toughness) while in shroud or provide enough barrier uptime for sustainability. Dagger as a offhand weapon to scepter is also not a viable option since June of 2022. The shadow steps sword ( sword skill2) option is still viable to bring additional shadow force as of the 2023 June patch update. But speaking to last year when this build was made and established, offhand pistol was a viable second hand option because of the ability to provide additional CC or even direct healing to an ally with scepter skill 3 (June 27th update dramatically improved group healing with the skill) I hope this inside helps while reviewing heel alacrity Specter as viable build for PVE content
3 stars
BossPanda gave this build 3 stars • June 2022
Definitely can get the job done and keep your party standing while providing alac, fury, vigor, regen, and protection and respectable amounts of CC. Great burst healing through Consume Shadows and resurrections potential with Shadestep. However, it lacks consistent stability along and the five second delay in your biggest burst heal, quickly reacting to panic situation is a bit sketchy in high pressure situations. Along with the fact that Heal Alac Mechanist and now Heal Alac Druid can perform better in most, if not all situations, and that some of the biggest strengths of this build can also be achieved with a DPS Alac Specter build, I find it hard to recommend this build for optimized groups. That being said, it's perfectly passable as a healer, and its a very fun, fast paced playstyle that's easy to pick up. If optimization is not your goal and you'd like to try something completely different from your normal heal builds, this may just be the build for you.
5 stars
Venom425 gave this build 5 stars • April 2022
Please don't listen to the guy that gave this build 2 stars.... He must be trolling. This build is perfect for healing and supplies Alac for the group.
5 stars
Healsupply gave this build 5 stars • April 2022
Good support healer when paired with a Hb or Druid. Brings Ala to the table.
5 stars
Ryphose gave this build 5 stars • April 2022
So far from testing , this works. Did good with Eod strikes, but have not tried raids yet.
5 stars
Rainydayz gave this build 5 stars • April 2022
Very fun elite spec to play, and i would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to try out healing/support. Most people that say this spec is not good are just toxic players that never pull away from the meta. People seems to forget that the point of the game is to have fun, and this spec has a ton of it. Make sure your squad/party stands in boons , and dont be shy to use them. I was able to complete all raids,strikes, and all t3 fractals with no problem.
5 stars
Powered gave this build 5 stars • March 2022
You can Zap People back to life in down state. Very fun spec for Eod Strikes, and would say100% viable.
5 stars
Synconi12 gave this build 5 stars • March 2022
Really good Build for strikes and t3+ fractals. Loving the single target heal and Insta res it has. Overall this build is fine for raids ands strikes bringing Alac to the table.
5 stars
Spike914 gave this build 5 stars • March 2022
Had a lot of fun with this build paired with druid as the other healer. Easily made quick work of of the new Eod Strikes. I would recommend giving this build a try for healing/ alac.
3 stars
Neage gave this build 3 stars • March 2022
Can work in a pinch but doesn't do anything that another class just does way better. Better off going condi boon support to still decent DPS and provide alacrity
5 stars
Mystrael gave this build 5 stars • March 2022
i really like this build for fractal and strike , it just work, kinda hard to get ppl to stay in well for boons but i guess people will get used to it it heals more then youd think my favorit by far from this extention

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