Antiquary - Shortbow Artifact Duelist

Skill Variants

Utility

• 紧急翠玉护盾 over 先攻翻滚 -- another viable stunbreak option. has a shorter cooldown.

Elite

• None: 斯克鼠乱斗 provides far too much value and is the backbone of the build.

Variants

• 恶棍之运 over 谨慎托管 is another viable option. Your individual artifacts have less impact, but each one you use gives you a free . Difficult to pilot in comparison.

A rather obnoxious Antiquary build that utilizes the unblockable skill 窒息瓦斯 and Antiquary's high initiative regeneration to control and burn out targets with condition damage. It also uses this high initiative regeneration to move around the map at incredible speed with 渗透暗箭.

It is recommended to use instant ground targeting for this build.

Equipment Variants

Relics

• None, 痛苦古物 is a major damage source.

Runes

Use whichever is the most relevant for your situation.

• 欧尔符文 - use against condition builds.

• 工程师符文 - similar stats to 亡灵符文 but more weighted towards damage.

• 幻术师符文 - increased 晕眩 duration, which can technically be counted as defense. Stacks with 野性法印 for 1.6s 窒息瓦斯 dazes at the cost of condition damage.

• 猞猁符文 - for when 致命快感 isn't enough for movement speed.

Sigils

• 吸收法印 - excellent option against specs that stack a specific boon like 威能. Can replace any non-Savagery sigil.

• 勇气法印 over 撤销法印 - slightly more damage

Basics

• Use 斯克鼠横扫 at the very start of the game to obtain a set of artifacts. Artifacts and information about them can be found below.

• Spear's skills generally cost less initiative and are excellent for applying pressure. Swap between shortbow and spear as needed to deal damage but also disrupt your opponent.

• 窒息瓦斯 is the strongest tool in your kit. It costs 7 initiative, 晕眩s targets in its landing AoE for 1s, and is unblockable; this means projectile hate and blocks don't protect against it. The skill itself deals low damage and is mostly used for the 晕眩, which in turn triggers other aspects of the build.

• Interrupts trigger 痛苦古物 and 超荷打击. Your interrupts are 斯克鼠横扫, 窒息瓦斯, 杂念投掷, and 全息舞者诱饵.

• Interrupt targets trying to cast abilities with 窒息瓦斯 / 杂念投掷 and 斯克鼠横扫. Use 卡纳克硬币投掷 to regain initiative.

• Don't spam interrupts - try to get a feeling for when opponents will be casting skills and focus on timing your own to interrupt them.

• Avoid using 窒息瓦斯 / 杂念投掷 on enemies with large numbers of 稳固. Play evasively or use artifacts / 集束炸弹 while waiting for the 稳固 to drop.

• On shortbow, 技巧射击 is your filler. The arrow bounces between enemies and inflicts 流血 on 中毒ed targets, making it a natural pair with 窒息瓦斯.

• Spear's 5th skill, 暗影帷幕, should be used after using a finisher skill. A finisher skill is the third tier of your second and third skills. Each time you use one of these skills, the next in the chain becomes available. After completing the chain, 暗影帷幕 will provide three blocks and won't need to be channeled.

Elite specialization basics

• Antiquarians gain access to which functions as their and benefits from all traits that would affect it. Using with or without a target will give you a set of artifacts. This build takes which makes your artifact sets consist of 3 artifacts instead of the default 2, and you'll be able to use 3 artifacts from a pilfered set thanks to . Your F2 will always be an offensive artifact, F3 is always a defensive artifact, F4 can be either.

• Using an artifact restores 1 initiative.

• All artifacts have an immediate effect and a lingering bonus effect. The lingering effects are applied when the skill finishes casting. They don't need to hit anything for you to get the lingering effects.

• High value artifacts: -- -- . These are your best available artifacts.

• Medium value artifacts: -- -- . These are situational but still good.

• Low value artifacts: -- -- . Outside of niche situations these should be avoided.

• is your elite. It gives you a fresh set of artifacts every 3 seconds as long as you remain in its radius. Due to the high average power of artifacts & the traits they trigger, you'll want to try and use one from each set you get. Being able to quickly adapt to which artifacts you get from this skill is key to the success of this build.

General

• Use without a target during downtime to fish for good sets of artifacts, or during combat on a target to interrupt a key ability.

Mobility

• Using gives 10s of .

• Use to quickly traverse the map. You can use artifacts to regenerate initiative through & .

Defense

• The third skill of shortbow gives 1/2 evasion and is great against telegraphed attacks or if you're out of dodges.

• heals you thanks to .

• grants ~800 barrier each time you use an artifact. Because of this it's important to fire off as many as you can before acquiring a new set.

• Any will apply 3s of thanks to .

• can be used to escape.

• is your primary source of condition cleansing.

• is a leap finisher, and using a leap finisher through a poison field will inflict 8 seconds of on whatever it hits. Utilizing this when possible is important against any strike damage focused opponent.

Advanced

• Combo fields are a way to get more out of your abilities. Abilities that are finishers will gain additional effects if used through combo fields. Your most relevant ones are listed below:

• Leap finishers: Use into 's poison field for 8s of on what you hit, or into 's light field for 5s of .

• Physical projectile finishers: Use your Shortbow's autoattack , its stealth attack Surprise Shot, and its third ability Disabling Shot into poison or fire fields whenever you can for additional damage. These fields can be created by and , but you can also fields created by allies.