Antiquary - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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. Bear in mind that while swapped, you lose access to 暮光连技 so you don't really want to be stuck on this set if you could be doing damage.

Utility Variants

• If needed, you could swap 准备千针万箭 for more CC/Utility, though it is a moderate DPS loss.

Key to Antiquary is the random artifacts that it steals with . Thanks to , 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 , 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 , which deals significant damage to you if used. You have to remain in the radius of this skill to continue receiving the artifacts.

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 complicated than that. Consider the following guidance:

Offensive Artifacts

• - 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.
• - 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.
• - Ok damage, and the buff stacks so it's always fine to use.
• - 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

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

• Antiquary can maintain without the need for any boon duration, but you can swap in as much Ritualist stats gear as desired to comfortably maintain uptime. Swapping to full Ritualist stats is a moderate DPS loss.
• may be more effective then in practise, as you otherwise have no need to weapon swap, and Scepter skills are easy to interrupt.
• Having one weapon in each set is necessary to allow weapon swapping and trigger . If you are not using this sigil, you can put both weapons in the same set.

Food

• , or ascended alternatives

Utility

A condition DPS build for Antiquary. Generates ~20 and ~50% , and . Can also provide a small amount of depending on the artifacts used.

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

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