Specter - Alacrity Support Condi DPS
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Overview
A condition boon support build for Specter. Provides permanent Alacrity,
Fury,
Swiftness and
Vigor, and up to ~15 stacks of
Might. Specter also provide some healing when it exits shroud and with each well, making it an effective choice for groups that want more support without committing to a full healer. In an emergency, specter is also able to tether to a single target to provide barrier.
The healing variant of this build has a lot of overlap with the Support Healer, so you can mix and match options between these to suit your group.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
You can bring an offhand Pistol in addition to the dagger to have more CC available on swap. As entering and exiting Shadow Shroud counts as a weapon swap, you will still gain the benefits of
and .
Skill Variants
Template Code
Specializations
Vigor aren't useful.
is a little more DPS in cases where boonrip or - For a ~4% DPS loss, you can take to offer some extra healing/barrier to your subgroup.
Resistance and some additional healing.
provides access to
Equipment
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
Ritualist
x6
x18
- This setup provides ~42% boon duration.
Bleeding.
- Alternatively, you could take .
should be higher single-target damage, but you will have to hit off cooldown, as it is your only source of
Non-SotO Relics
is the best relic for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
- Replace the with a in this case.
Healing Variant
For an ~8% DPS loss, you can increase the healing done by your wells.
Celestial
Plaguedoctor
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
x6
x18
- If the extra +617 toughness from the celestial gear is interfering with tanking, you can lower it by swapping in
plaguedoctor stats instead. Full
plaguedoctor stats gear is a ~12% DPS loss from the optimal healing variant.
- It is strongly recommended to use the mint versions of ascended food for the +10% healing modifier as it will affect the healing from .
Consumables
In fractals, you can run DPS food/utility if you have extra concentration from the Mist Mobility Potion.
Food
Utility
- if you have any doubts about your boon uptimes
Usage
Before the fight starts, select an allied player and Alacrity will be applied around this player, so make sure it is someone you trust to be on stack (the tank is often a good choice). As long as you don't siphon from another player, this will remain your target throughout the fight. You may also lose target if the ally moves too far away (or dies).
Rotation
If you're using a pistol offhand, ignore any weapon swaps below. It is also optimal to skip the Post-Shroud section in this case.
Opener
- If possible, precast such that you can immediately trigger it and place it a second time.
- , and . These are all instant cast, so can be used during the cast time of step 2. Make sure you're within range of allies for the venoms!
- if it's available.
- to start applying Alacrity nice and early
Normal Shroud Loop
Most of the time when you enter shroud, you want to do the following loop:
Grasping Shadows
Eternal Night
Haunt Shot until
Grasping Shadows is off cooldown
Grasping Shadows
Use Mind Shock if it comes off cooldown between steps 1 and 4. The same applies to .
Rest of the Rotation
The rest of the rotation has no strict skill order:
- You should enter Shadow Shroud as soon as it becomes available, and use the shroud loop.
- Use
- Triggering can be delayed if necessary, as the cooldown is only gated by preparing it.
- As lasts for 24 seconds, it may be worth saving until the next phase of a boss if the current phase is about to end.
, , , and off cooldown.
- Spam to use up all your initiative.
- Try to finish autoattack chains if possible. Unusually, you have a lot of grace time between the chain skills to use other skills without cancelling the chain.
Weapon Swap, and will all trigger and . These have a 9- and an 8-second internal cooldown respectively, so if you are able to track these cooldowns you can squeeze extra damage out of the rotation.
- Otherwise just
Weapon Swap off cooldown and hope for the best, being sure that you have less than 9 initiative to prevent wasting the effect of in case it triggers.
- Otherwise just
Short Shroud Loop
Sometimes you will end up going into shroud just before your utility skills come off cooldown. In this case, do a much shorter loop:
Grasping Shadows
Mind Shock, if available
Eternal Night
- Make sure you have enough
Alacrity before exiting - maintaining boons is more important than your damage.
Utility
CC
- can provide more reliable CC on encounters with extra targets (equivalent to 3 basilisk venom hits), or you want to pull targets together
Mind Shock
- , if bringing offhand pistol
Support
All your Scepter skills and
can be used with an allied target to provide them barrier and . This is a DPS loss, but can be used to save people if a healer isn't going to (particularly helpful on the tank).
General Tips
- Almost all your damage can be done at range, but
Eternal Night and
Mind Shock are both melee range. If you are not in range to use them, either delay or skip them during the shroud loop.
- While in Shadow Shroud, incoming damage is absorbed by your Shadow Force rather than your health. If you believe an incoming attack will kick you out before finishing the full Shroud loop, it may be worth doing a shorter one instead.
- If you have more than 2 stacks of when you exit, the group healing you provide will exceed the personal damage mitigation you would have had. You're helping!
- Alternatively, if there are no allies within range, you can use Shadow Shroud defensively to absorb incoming damage, as you lose your Shadow Force on Shroud exit regardless.
- Avoid staying for too long in Shadow Shroud as the DPS from
Haunt Shot is worse than that of Scepter, and you need to spend initiative to maintain stacks of .
- If there is nothing to attack, you can target allies with Scepter skills to buff them with barrier, and apply stacks of venom via just before a new phase starts.
- You can mitigate certain mechanics through the
Stability from , but you may wish to bring more boon duration if you need to delay it, to make up for the lower
Alacrity provision.
Ratings
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