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Antiquary - Celestial Sharetiquary

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Under construction.webp This is a placeholder build that was useful in the past. Click here to view current builds.

Focused on: Support and Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Visions of Eternity builds

Difficulty: Easy

Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.

Overview

Celestial Sharetiquary is an Antiquary build focused on sharing various effects such as boons and venoms with nearby allies to maximize their effectiveness. The build is quite easy to pilot, featuring a simple gameplan and high survivability. It's also easy to gear for, requiring a simple set of Celestial Gear which can be obtained from the trading post or a level boost.

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Skill Bar

斯克鼠横扫Stolen skill

Skill Variants

Heal skill

The default heal is 恶意纹章 图标恶意纹章 which provides a heal each time a skill deals damage, and this is usually enough to keep you alive even against Champion-strength mobs. If you want a more standard heal though, you can run 镰爪毒液 图标镰爪毒液. Alternatively, 紧急撤离 图标紧急撤离 provides another dodge and 遁入暗影 图标遁入暗影 can be good for temporarily dropping aggro and cleansing conditions.

Utility skills

In the empty slot, any of the following can be taken:

  • 卡纳克硬币投掷 图标卡纳克硬币投掷 - This is a great general skill to have for offense and defense. Use it when you're suffering from conditions or need more initiative.
  • 千针万箭 图标千针万箭 - A very nice AoE damage option that also roots enemies in place. Take this if you want more damage.
  • 撒播蒺藜 图标撒播蒺藜 - If you're playing with 超级蛇妖符文 图标超级蛇妖符文 this will be your best damage option on longer fights.
  • 先攻翻滚 图标先攻翻滚 - A defensive skill that breaks stuns and refunds 6 initiative.
  • 紧急翠玉护盾 图标紧急翠玉护盾 - A good stunbreak against enemies who frequently stun. Can be reactivated early with a chance of exploding.
  • 暗影纹章 图标暗影纹章 - Provides a passive movement speed boost and can be activated to apply 10 易伤 图标易伤 to targets in an area, which translates to +10% damage. Good if you don't like relying on 致命快感 图标致命快感 for 迅捷 图标迅捷.
  • 暗影疾步 图标暗影疾步 - Teleports you to a location as far as 1200 units away and also breaks stuns. Can be used to skip past enemies, up terrain, etc..
  • 暗影庇护 图标暗影庇护 - This is a good skill to temporarily slot while doing events that require long channel times that would otherwise be interrupted by mobs attacking you.

Elite skill

For solo play, the best elite skill is 同仇敌忾 图标同仇敌忾, as the thieves summoned both deal good damage and fully benefit from your Venoms/boons. However, for group play, you can switch to 石蜥毒液 图标石蜥毒液 for high defiance-bar damage, or 斯克鼠乱斗 图标斯克鼠乱斗 if you're able to keep up with it.

Specializations

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear.

Every piece of gear you want for this build is purchasable from the trading post. Alternatively, if you boosted your Thief, you'll be given a full set of Celestial gear and can skip to purchasing your runes/relic/sigils.

  • Search the trading post for "Celestial" armor and purchase a set. This is the most expensive part.
  • Your weapons will be far cheaper: Purchase 2x Jade Serpent Dagger and a shortbow. The shortbow's stats don't matter as much since it's used for utility, so get whatever's cheapest.
  • For accessories, rings, and your amulet, purchase Charged Quartz Orichalcum jewelry. You'll need two rings, two earrings, and one amulet.
  • If you're on a tight budget, you can alternatively purchase Black Diamond Orichalcum jewelry for these slots.
  • For the back item, purchase a Lucky Great Horse Lantern, or whichever similar exotic lantern is cheapest. After purchasing, right click > customize and choose Celestial.

Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. You'll need a Jade Bot from End of Dragons to do this. If you don't have that expansion, don't worry about this.

Relic variants

  • You can use 魔像师古物 图标魔像师古物 to trade some damage for crowd control while still retaining a pet.
  • 幻象术士古物 图标幻象术士古物 is good if you're the frequent target of attacks and you'd rather not worry about a pet.

Rune variants

  • 超级风裔符文 图标超级风裔符文 is another budget option. It gives a bit of everything including boon duration so it can be good if you're struggling to keep the boons you want up. Can be purchased from the auction house.
  • 超级蛇妖符文 图标超级蛇妖符文 is a very strong option vs. enemies that take a while to kill, such as Champions. Can be purchased from the auction house.
  • 超级陷阱师符文 图标超级陷阱师符文 is harder to obtain but is your best option for damage. You'll have to level Armorsmithing, Leatherworking, or Tailoring to 400 to craft it.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Defense

Farming

Usage

This build boils down to using your abilities with shared buffs, those being your Venoms and artifacts from 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫, then using 死亡绽放 图标死亡绽放 and autoattack chains until your venoms and swipe are off cooldown again. Your survivability is exceptional and mostly automatic: 死亡绽放 图标死亡绽放 causes you to evade while defensive artifacts give you 保护 图标保护. Simply keep attacking and you'll stay alive.

Damage

  • If 同仇敌忾 图标同仇敌忾 is up, use it at the start of combat, then use 蜘蛛毒液 图标蜘蛛毒液 and 鳞爪毒液 图标鳞爪毒液 next to them and your Jagged Horror. After that, use 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫 and spam all the artifacts you get. It doesn't matter what order, just use them to buff yourself and your summons. Using artifacts grants you and nearby allies the 威能 图标威能, 敏捷 图标敏捷, and 保护 图标保护 boons.
  • If you have nothing else to do, use 死亡绽放 图标死亡绽放 or your autoattack chains until your venoms and 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫 are off cooldown.
  • Use your venoms, 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫, and the artifacts it gives you each time they're off cooldown.
  • Always try and use your venoms before 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫 so they benefit from 灵感一现 图标灵感一现's cooldown reduction.
  • Be sure to stand near your thieves from 同仇敌忾 图标同仇敌忾 or other players before using your artifacts and venoms.

Defense

  • Much of your tankiness is supplied by artifacts and evasion from 死亡绽放 图标死亡绽放. Simply do what you'd do to deal damage and it'll double as defense.
  • 恶意纹章 图标恶意纹章 heals you for each instance of striking damage your abilities do. Conditions don't trigger it, but many of the skills you'll be using hit multiple times, and thus will heal you multiple times.
  • Every time you use an artifact you'll gain a barrier of ~1000. While you have barrier you take 10% less damage from all sources.
  • Once you get more comfortable with the concept of the build, you can save the artifacts 尊者巨锤 图标尊者巨锤 and 风裔日相水晶 图标风裔日相水晶 for defense, as they have strong defensive components.
  • 查克虫护盾 图标查克虫护盾 is an artifact that creates a projectile-destroying shield.
  • If your enemy gives itself boons, you can use 斯克鼠横扫 图标斯克鼠横扫 to steal three of them for yourself.
  • You can hide behind your summoned Jagged Horror (from 巫妖古物 图标巫妖古物) and have it tank for you momentarily. It has fairly low health health, but you can heal it and give it barrier by using artifacts while close to it.
  • If you need to quickly escape a fight, you can swap to your Shortbow Shortbow and use 渗透暗箭 图标渗透暗箭 to teleport away.

Crowd control

Unfortunately this build has little crowd control outside of random artifacts. However, this can be remedied by playing with an off-hand Pistol Pistol instead of the normal Shortbow Shortbow and spamming 爆头射击 图标爆头射击.