Specter - Alacrity Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on April 27, 2024.

Overview

A boon support healer build for Specter. Provides permanent Alacrity, Fury, Swiftness and 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, but the other two skills can be swapped out:

• Blinding Powder is the easiest way to high 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 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 variant.

Equipment

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 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 or Minstrel stats pieces as necessary.

Condi Variant

You can swap in 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

• If tanking, swap in as many Giver stats or Minstrel stats pieces as necessary.

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 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 with Shadow Sap and 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 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).
• 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.
• 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. 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.