Specter - Condition Scepter
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Mobility, Condition damage and Utility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
This build was last updated on January 19, 2023 and is up to date for the November 29, 2022 game patch.
Overview
A highly versatile Carrion Specter condition build for PvP.
Skill Bar
Scepter/Pistol
Sword/Dagger
Utility
Skill Variants
Weapons
- Scepter/Dagger over Scepter/Pistol - swapping the offhand weapons around for a different Scepter dual skill is also viable. Don't forget to swap Sword/Dagger to Sword/Pistol.
Heal
- - bit more mobility,
Alacrity and group utility in general.
Utility
Viable choices for the optional slot:
- - great AoE condition burst (and a chance to contribute to fights you're not even present in, due to its range).
- - passive mobility with an active that could be used defensively because of the
Blind and
Weakness or offensively for the cover conditions and damage boost.
- - great area denial tool for securing kills and isolating enemy team members.
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Scepter
Pistol
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Dagger
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Equipment Variants
Runes
- - a viable source of
Quickness from Well skills.
- - better mobility when not running .
Sigils
- over - if you can afford to give up some cleansing more endurance.
Usage
Elite specialization basics
- Specters gain access to their own version of called . Mechanically they are the same, replacing your skill bar while active. Damage taken while in Shroud drains Shadow Force instead of HP.
- Using (Specter's version of ) and spending Initiative builds Shadow Force.
General
- Most of your Specters skills double as support skills. While your role is to kill targets, a good Specter also keeps an eye on allies and helps them in critical moments by granting them Barrier.
- Because of Shroud you can be a bit more reckless with spending Initiative as Shroud skills are free and by the time you've rotated through Shroud CDs your Initiative should be back to full.
- removes boons when used on enemies and
Dazes them right after, allowing it to interrupt targets even through
Stability.
- Most of the weapon damage comes from spamming skill #3 on Scepter: + .
- Scepter is the main weapon set of the build, the other one fills more of a utility/situational purpose. Sword/Dagger has good defensive skills, chase potential and damage.
- Every Well skills grants
Alacrity. Wells are also great mobility tools both in and out of combat, and simply using them to get around the map faster has the added benefit of speeding up your skill recharge from the Alacrity.
- The main sources of condition cleansing are , , your on-swap Sword sigils and (Sword #2's chain skill).
- Offhand pistol's main purpose is to combo stealth with and to provide a quick interrupt via .
- Stealth stacking rotation:
- Grasping Shadows (Shroud 2)
- Dawn's Repose (Shroud 3)
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Ratings

Definitely took a blow to its duel potential, still a decent support/roamer hybrid. Can no longer soak damage with shroud so shroud is effectively used to gain stealth and cleanse condis. In higher ratings you WILL be destroyed by d/p dd since it's just the superior roamer and you're like a softshelled turtle. Hopefully next patch its initiative will be unnerfed so it can use shortbow effectively to make it an on par roamer with other thief builds.

Seems to be the #1 thief build after the last balance patch. Great damage, mobility and group utility.

this is the real "necro" with high speed good support help team . only specter can win blade 1v1

My favorite build atm - highly mobile, good damage, and strong utility. Really starts to shine once you get the hang of which shadowstep to use in a given situation and when to target allies with 3. I currently prefer Panic Strike since a surprise immobilize is nice for securing kills, and there might be an argument for pistol offhand with scepter (though the 3 is somewhat harder to use).
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