Antiquary - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 05, 2026.

Overview

A condition Alacrity DPS build for Antiquary.

As a Thief, it has excellent out-of-combat utility for speeding up fractals and raids.

Note that its Alacrity uptime is dependent on Skritt Scuffle so you cannot run other elites.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Dagger

Utility

Weapon Variants

The nature of initiative means that you rarely use more than one weapon, so there are a number of options:

• For players that only own Visions of Eternity, Dagger/Dagger is the best option.
• If you own Janthir Wilds, Spear is the strongest weapon, though it is needs to be in melee range, and is significantly more complicated to use. It is worth keeping Scepter/Dagger in the second set to give you a strong ranged option when necessary.
• You can bring an offhand Pistol to have CC available on swap.

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Scepter
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Consumables

Food

• , or ascended alternatives

Utility

Usage

Key to Antiquary is the random artifacts that it steals with Skritt Swipe. Thanks to Prolific Plunderer, each time there are three artifacts to choose from and you can use two of them. The first slot is an offensive artifact, the second is defensive, and the third is random.

When using Skritt Scuffle, every three seconds a new set of artifacts will appear, and you can only use one artifact from each set. Additionally, there is a chance that one artifact will be replaced by an Unstable Skritt Bomb, which deals significant damage to you if used.

This means that Antiquary's effectiveness has a high degree of randomness, and learning to recognise the different artifacts is necessary for optimal play. As your primary boons are tied to artifact use, you always want to use them when available. It should come as no surprise that in general the offensive artifacts are more worthwhile than the defensive ones, but it is a bit more complication than that. Consider the following guidance:

Offensive Artifacts

• Forged Surfer Dash - In addition to the initial damage, this gives you a buff that continues to drop bombs at your location for some time. One of the strongest artifacts if you don't have the buff, but the duration doesn't stack so the effectiveness is reduced if the buff is still active.
• Mistburn Mortar - Good damage, and the buff stacks so this is always a high priority.
• Summon Kryptis Turret - Good damage, and provides a buff to strike damage for a duration. The duration doesn't stack, but as a condi build it's not that significant and the skill is high priority regardless.
• Metal Legion Guitar - Not amazing damage, and the cast time is long. Lower priority than all the other offensive artifacts, as well as some of the defensive ones.

Defensive Artifacts

• Holo-Dancer Decoy - The damage is irrelevant, but it causes the next utility skill's cooldown to be reduced by 80%. Ideally this is used on Spider Venom, but it's good for any utility. The interaction with the backfire mechanic on Stone Summit Cannon is awkward as it is wasted if not triggered on the use that backfires, so it's best to avoid using on this skill.
• Chak Shield - The damage is ok, but the real value is in the initiative refund that allows you to spam more Twilight Combo.
• Zephyrite Sun Crystal - Does enough damage to be a DPS increase, but is lower priority than all the artifacts listed above.
• Exalted Hammer - A DPS loss to cast, so there shouldn't be any reason to use this.

Boons

You grant AoE Alacrity and Barrier each time you use an artifact, as well as either Might or Protection depending on whether the artifact is offensive or defensive. Unstable Skritt Bomb will not provide any boons if used.

Utility

CC

• Headshot, if bringing offhand pistol

Support

All your Scepter skills can be used with an allied target to provide AoE barrier and boons. This is a DPS loss, but can be used to save people if a healer isn't going to (particularly helpful on the tank).