Antiquary - Power Antiquary open world

Power antiquary build for open world. Assisted by their helpful skritt helpers, antiquaries 斯克鼠横扫 to gain lots of new skills to turn the fight in their favor, should luck be on their side. They also provide themselves and nearby allies with permanent 敏捷.

We do not recommed this build if you hate RNG, as it is present on the artefacts that you plunder, the artefacts you get from 斯克鼠乱斗, and the chance to backfire on your utility skills. Additionally, this build isn't easy to play. On top of the normal Spear minigame with its unique skill chains, you also need to juggle your artefacts and must learn what each one does.

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats. This set uses gear similar to Daredevil - Power DPS, making it excellent for general PVE.

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Nika" armor. Then search for the weapons you want to use: "Exterminator" rifle, "Usoku's Needle" dagger, "Shattered Short Bow" shortbow. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide

• For Relic alternatives at the expense of quickness generation, you can consider 潜行者古物 which is easier to activate, or 萨奇洛斯古物 to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.

Variants

• 重生精准 - sacrifices a small amount of damage for sustain. Great option for solo open world.

Weapon Variants

• Spear requires Janthir Wilds. If you don't have access to spear, replace it with dagger+dagger.
• Rifle requires Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure. If you don't have access to rifle or you'd rather use another option, replace it with pistol+pistol.

Skill variants

Backfire

Antiquary healing and utility skills can be used again while they are on cooldown, but doing so may trigger a backfire and block skill usage until it cools down. Generally speaking, backfires are bad.

Heal Skill

恶意纹章 provides good passive healing.

• 抗毒药酒 - weak healing but removes conditions. Heals for more, and removes more conditions, when it backfires.

Utility skills

石峰会加农炮 is great for damage, never replace it. If it backfires, get away from the explosion, it deals significant damage and can get you killed. 战斗冲动 is an offensive stun break with great boons and low cooldown. Can be replaced if needed. 卡纳克硬币投掷 gives initiative and removes conditions. If used while on cooldown and it backfires, you may instead not regain initiative and have your boons converted to conditions. Other options you can consider are:

• 暗影疾步 - amazing mobility plus stunbreak and condi cleanse.
• 暗影庇护 - long duration of stealth for channelling Hero Challenges.
• 敏捷纹章 - if conditions are a problem, though its passive precision is not needed due to 敏锐观察.
• 毒蝎钩索 - very situational. Extremely good for pulling the bomb in Battle in Tarir south lane meta event.

Elite Skill

斯克鼠乱斗 is a great source of damage through artefacts. Although the skill cannot backfire, you have to be careful since the skritt have a chance to prank you and give you a deadly 斯克鼠易爆弹. Do not use this artefact. Other options can be considered.

• - a 4 second evade.
• - strong crowd control if there are allies nearby.
• - good damage skill

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• 盘装辛辣陆行鸟翅膀 / 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤
• 超级磨刀石 / 罐装水果蛋糕

Defense

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 煎扇贝三明治
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• 生日爆破枪 / 令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐
• 薄荷怪异莓棒
• 锐磨颅骨 (and variants)

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You can weave your and arterfacts inbetween these skills. Doing so gives you initiative thanks to .

Rifle

Rifle should only be used when ranged damage is needed. It has decent burst with . You can replenish initiative with . If you get the guitar artefact, you can also use the stealth skill for good damage. If using Action Camera, they keybind "Look Behind" can be used while casting to quickly and seamlessly jump forward. If you don't use action camera, you will have to stop running, turn your character, cast the skill, turn the character again, and resume running. The keybind "About Face" can help with that.Use to destroy dangerous projectile attacks like the volley of arrows from the Tengu Hero Point in Auric Basin. deals damage before teleporting, if you are in , it will reveal you. Most of your rifle bullets pierce their targets. When fighting groups of enemies, try to line them up to strike them all.

Artefacts

Aside from their on-cast effects, using an artefact provides a lingering buff for a few seconds, improved by . While artefacts can be ranked by the amount of damage they do, in open world one must also consider their deffensive utility or the buffs they provide. As such, you should adapt to the situation at hand to decide which artefact to use. If damage is the only concern and utility is not needed, artefacts rank as follows:

2. (stay near the enemy to drop the bombs from the lingering buff on them)
3. (use it again if you hit an enemy)

Remember to adapt to your current fight. For example, if you are fighting an enemy that shoots dangerous projectiles, Chak Shield becomes a lot better; if your enemy inflicts many conditions, the condition cleanse from Zephyrite Sun Crystal makes it a better choice, etc. Using artefacts also gives you and nearby allies boons thanks to , most notably . is required, and can help if needed.

Artefacts

The antiquary's profession mechanic are artefacts, which occupy the F2, F3, and F4 slots (you gain a third artefact due to ). If needed, rebind these keys to something you can press with ease. You gain artefacts by using or . The F2 artefact will always be an offensive one, the F3 artefact will always be a defensive one, and the F4 is fully random. Note that might backfire and give you a instead, which deals huge damage to yourself.

Damage

Spear

Spear works with a combo mechanic of lead attack + follow up + finisher. Engage enemies with a 2,3,2 combo: + + . Now that you have finished a combo, you can start the next one with for a damage buff. Continue as normal with + . You can repeat this 4,3,2 combo once before your initiative runs low, unless you regain some with or . Note that Distracting Throw has to be used within a 2~ second window of your previous combo for it to count as a combo starter lead attack and give its damage bonus. This means you can use an artifact in between your combos, but don't take too long or the combo chain will reset.

When low on initiative, you need to use the stealth attack to recover some. This can be done by using the guitar artefact, or by ending the spear combo with skill 3 to enter stealth, for example + + . After the stealth attack, continue with .

Due to , inflicting crowd control generates personal . You can maintain quickness with crowd control from your artefacts and , though note this skill only inflicts crowd control if the enemy is already movement impaired. If you'd like to start fights with quickness, the best way to do so is to use End of Dragons' mastery for Jade Tech Offensive Protocol.