Antiquary - Celestial Sharetiquary

Ascended gear is not required.

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

• For your runes, purchase 6x 超级阴鬼符文.
• For your relic, purchase a 巫妖古物.
• For your daggers, purchase a 超级大地法印 and a 超级渴求法印.
• The shortbow is primarily for mobility, so you don't have to buy the recommended sigils right away. Just use whatever you have.

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 to trade some damage for crowd control while still retaining a pet.
• 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

• 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.
• is a very strong option vs. enemies that take a while to kill, such as Champions. Can be purchased from the auction house.
• 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.

Heal skill

The default heal is 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. Alternatively, 紧急撤离 provides another dodge and 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 - 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 - A very nice AoE damage option that also roots enemies in place. Take this if you want more damage.
• 撒播蒺藜 - If you're playing with 超级蛇妖符文 this will be your best damage option on longer fights.
• 先攻翻滚 - A defensive skill that breaks stuns and refunds 6 initiative.
• 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 - Provides a passive movement speed boost and can be activated to apply 10 易伤 to targets in an area, which translates to +10% damage. Good if you don't like relying on 致命快感 for 迅捷.
• 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 - 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, 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 for high defiance-bar damage, or 斯克鼠乱斗 if you're able to keep up with it.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• 盘装牛肉仁当
• 大师调谐水晶 / 协调冰柱
• Budget food: 锦鲤蛋糕
• Budget utility: 全息超级苹果

Defense

• 空槽 (Bowl of Spiced Red Lentil Stew)
• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 糖果仙人掌玉米面包
• 辣酱扇贝
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

Farming

• 生日爆破枪 / 令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐
• 巧克力怪异莓奶油
• 薄荷怪异莓棒
• 锐磨颅骨 (and variants)

This build boils down to using your abilities with shared buffs, those being your Venoms and artifacts from 斯克鼠横扫, then using 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 causes you to evade while defensive artifacts give you 保护. Simply keep attacking and you'll stay alive.

Damage

• If 同仇敌忾 is up, use it at the start of combat, then use 蜘蛛毒液 and 鳞爪毒液 next to them and your Jagged Horror. After that, use 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, 敏捷, and 保护 boons.
• If you have nothing else to do, use 死亡绽放 or your autoattack chains until your venoms and 斯克鼠横扫 are off cooldown.
• Use your venoms, 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 so they benefit from 灵感一现's cooldown reduction.
• Be sure to stand near your thieves from 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. Simply do what you'd do to deal damage and it'll double as defense.
• 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 and 风裔日相水晶 for defense, as they have strong defensive components.
• 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 to steal three of them for yourself.
• You can hide behind your summoned Jagged Horror (from 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 and use 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 instead of the normal Shortbow and spamming .

• If taken,
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