Antiquary - Lucky Shot Roamer

• Antiquary - Lucky Shot Duelist - PvP version.

• Antiquary - Shortbow Artifact Duelist - another PvP build which is similar but focuses on artifact value.

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Offhand Pistol is the backbone of the build and therefore cannot be swapped out. The mainhand weapon can be swapped to Sword or Pistol, but Scepter is generally preferred as it gives you access to 保护 and a spammable blast finisher for group stealth inside 火药喷射. Also, it is good for kiting and can damage enemies through projectile block/reflect effects.
• Shortbow is strongly recommended as the second weapon set, as it offers great mobility and better teamfight potential.

Healing

• 镰爪毒液 - more healing, can be better for grindier matchups or when enemy is kiting.
• 遁入暗影 - good for escaping or sneaking past enemies.

Utility

• 先攻翻滚 - powerful stun break with a higher cooldown that evades backwards and refunds some initiative. Great for getting out of big AoE bursts.

Elite

• 斯克鼠乱斗 - if you find you are running out of gas or need better artifact selection during teamfights.
• 石蜥毒液 - when roaming with allies, this can be a massive swing as it can proc your interrupt effects multiple times.

General

• The basis for this build is to spam 爆头射击 at enemies to interrupt anything they try to cast and proc the following effects:

  • 超荷打击 - high condition damage.
  • 痛苦古物 - damage over time (stacking).
  • 超级虹吸法印 - damage (instant) and self healing.
  • 超级无情法印 / 超级吸收法印 - 威能 stacking / boon stealing.

• While the damage from 超荷打击 can be cleansed, 痛苦古物 and 超级虹吸法印 cannot. All 3 bypass armor/incoming strike damage reduction and the latter 2 also bypass incoming condition duration/damage modifiers. However, only the 折磨 from 超荷打击 is increased by modifiers such as 易伤.

• What differentiates this from other similar builds is that it uses 恶棍之运 to allow you to cast 卡纳克硬币投掷 repeatedly, maintaining extremely high initiative regeneration and cleansing conditions (or converting them into boons). Also, you gain an additional 2 initiative when using an artifact thanks to 进取贵族.

• You want to aim to begin a fight by using 爆头射击 once or twice, then 斯克鼠横扫 to replenish initiative and gain artifacts. After another 爆头射击, use 卡纳克硬币投掷 to replenish initiative and cleanse/convert conditions. Then, you want to cast an artifact, wait for the 恶棍之运 buff to appear, and immediatley use 卡纳克硬币投掷 again. Rinse and repeat by always using 卡纳克硬币投掷 right after your artifact finishes and filling the space between your artifacts by spamming 爆头射击 until your enemy is dead.

• Every 4 casts of 爆头射击, give or take, you will get new artifacts for free due to 彻底翻找. 刺客奖赏 adds some incredible self-healing which tops off the defensive capabilities of the build.

• 丰产掠夺 allows you to use multiple artifacts from each pilfer and gives you 1 extra choice of an artifact to use.

• Make sure to use 斯克鼠横扫 off cooldown to keep your boons up, refresh your artifacts, regain some initiative, and get a free 晕眩.

• If your enemy begins blocking/reflecting projectiles, pause casting 爆头射击 and instead opt for 慎重射击/无尽黑夜 as is not a projectile and deals significant condition damage.

• Several of your artifacts can trigger .

• In a pinch, you can use for some barrier and before incoming burst.

• If using Shortbow as your second weapon set, you can spam instead of for a similar effect, but it is also unblockable and inflicts at the cost of being slower and requiring more initiative.

A condition-based Antiquary build for WvW roaming which uses 恶棍之运 and 卡纳克硬币投掷 to constantly regenerate initiative in order to repeatedly interrupt opponents with 爆头射击 and deal damage over time.

Variants

• 守财藏家 can be taken for more boons and sustain at the cost of some artifact refreshes, which could potentially causing you to run out of gas during a fight. is recommended if taking this trait.

Equipment Variants

Runes

• - higher damage option, better against strike damage builds.

Sigils

• - can replace some boon steal, but the 10s cooldown is significant.

Stats

• Trailblazer can be used instead, but it is not optimal against enemies that have a good amount of condition cleansing.

Consumables

Food

• Prioritize or similar.
• or are good budget alternatives. Any food that offers Condition Damage and defensive bonuses will do.

Utility

• - generally the optimal choice.
• - budget option, worth considering if using Trailblazer gear.