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Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: Visions of Eternity builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on May 17, 2026.
Overview
A condition DPS build for Antiquary.
As a Thief, it has excellent out-of-combat utility for speeding up fractals and raids.
Skill Bar
斯克鼠横扫Stolen skill
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.
Utility Variants
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Equipment
超级渴求法印 may be more effective then 
超级厄运法印 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 超级厄运法印. If you are not using this sigil, you can put both weapons in the same set.
Consumables
Food
盘装牛肉仁当, or ascended alternatives
Utility
Usage
Key to Antiquary is the random artifacts that it steals with 斯克鼠横扫. Thanks to 
丰产掠夺, 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 
斯克鼠乱斗, 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 
斯克鼠易爆弹, 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. 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
塑形者冲刺弹 - 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.
召唤氪族炮台 - 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.
雾灼迫击炮 - Ok damage, and the buff stacks so it's always fine to use.
金属军团吉他 - 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
查克虫护盾 - The damage is ok, but the real value is in the initiative refund that allows you to spam more 
暮光连技.- - The damage is irrelevant, but it causes the next utility skill's cooldown to be reduced by 80%. Ideally this is used on
蜘蛛毒液, but it's good for any utility. The interaction with the backfire mechanic on 
石峰会加农炮 is awkward as it is wasted if not triggered on the use that backfires, so it's best to avoid using on this skill. 
风裔日相水晶 - Does enough damage to be a DPS increase, but is lower priority than all the artifacts listed above.
尊者巨锤 - A DPS loss to cast, so there shouldn't be any reason to use this.
Rotation
All Double Edge skills except for 斯克鼠乱斗 can be reactivated while cooldown down, but they have a chance to backfire when doing so, with the chance increasing the more cooldown is remaining.
In the case of 石峰会加农炮, the backfire damage is higher than the regular skill damage, so you want to use it rapidly to trigger the backfire. By immediately using it again you are almost guaranteed to get the backfire on the second use, but if you are slow there's a small chance you will get an extra use so just keep using until it backfires. There is a small delay on being able to activate the skill again, so intersperse each use of 石峰会加农炮 with another skill. The damage on the backfire is quite significant so you may wish to move out of the AoE, but make sure to keep attacking to not lose DPS.
Once the backfire is triggered, you must wait for the full cooldown before using again.
Opener
Begin with 
准备千针万箭 precast if possible - the cooldown starts when you place the trap. You can also use 斯克鼠横扫 without a target, allowing you to start with artifacts ready.
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石峰会加农炮
- 斯克鼠横扫, or an Artifact if you have some prepared
- 石峰会加农炮, plus any instant-activation skills like 蜘蛛毒液 or
千针万箭 if you precast it - 准备千针万箭 (if available)
- 石峰会加农炮 if it still hasn't backfired
- Artifact ⇒ 斯克鼠横扫 if you prepared them
- Any remaining Artifacts
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斯克鼠乱斗
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暮光连技
- Continue using Artifacts and spamming 暮光连技 as much as you can. Remember that you must remain within the AoE of Skritt Scuffle to keep receiving artifacts.
- Once you've used your last artifact from Skritt Scuffle, you can immediately use 斯克鼠横扫 again.
Rest of the Rotation
- Keep spamming 暮光连技 as much as you can, while using utility skills off cooldown.
- Remember to reactivate 石峰会加农炮 with a skill in-between until it backfires.
- Try to follow the artifact guidance above to pick the best options.
- Outside of the opener, 斯克鼠横扫 and 斯克鼠乱斗 don't line up as nicely - try to use the artifact from 斯克鼠乱斗 as soon as they refresh, then immediately 斯克鼠横扫 and use the two artifacts. Hopefully you can do this before 斯克鼠乱斗 refreshes again.
- During this section you particularly want to avoid 金属军团吉他 due to its excessive cast time.
- During this section you particularly want to avoid
Utility
CC
石蜥毒液 - up to 750 defiance break if all five uses hit- 金属军团吉他 - 300 defiance break
昏迷 - -
嘲讽 
爆头射击, if bringing offhand pistol - 200 defiance break 
晕眩
Support
All your Scepter skills can be used with an allied target to provide AoE barrier and boons. 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
- Maximising damage on this build involves knowing the priority list of artifacts and how the list changes based on different conditions, as well as quickly recognising the icons.
- When starting out it may be easier to learn which skills to avoid rather than the whole priority list: