The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds
Difficulty: Easy
This build was last updated on September 27, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A condition boon support build for Specter. Provides permanent 
敏捷, 
激怒, 
迅捷 and 
活力, and up to ~15 stacks of 
威能. Specter can also provide some healing when it exits shroud and with each well, making it an effective choice for groups that want more support without committing to a full healer.
The healing variant of this build has a lot of overlap with the Support Healer, so you can mix and match options between these to suit your group.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
You can bring an offhand Pistol in addition to the dagger to have more CC available on swap. As entering and exiting Shadow Shroud counts as a weapon swap, you will still gain the benefits of 
超级厄运法印.
Dagger/Dagger is a higher DPS variant, but has forced movement and is melee-focussed rather than the fully ranged playstyle that Scepter allows. It additionally removes the option to use Scepter skills for their supportive effects during downtime/emergencies.
- This build prioritises
流血 over 
折磨, so it is better to run a 
超级痛苦法印 instead of a 
超级恶魔法印, 
盘装泡菜煎饼 instead of 
芦笋肉串, and you should replace 
鳞爪毒液 with one of the other skill options below.
Skill Variants
鳞爪毒液 deals the least damage of the default utility skills, and has slightly less potential than 
准备千针万箭. The boonstrip present at the start of many encounters removes venom stacks, but they can be precast during split phases as long as your allies don't waste them attacking an invulnerable boss. The instant cast time of 鳞爪毒液 and fact that it has the same cooldown as 
蜘蛛毒液 makes it much less disruptive to your rotation than other options. This is especially valuable for a boon build that relies on regularly entering Shadow Shroud.
Ultimately it comes down to personal preference and could be replaced with:
- 准备千针万箭 - The cooldown starts as soon as the trap is placed, allowing it to be precast before the fight or new phase, though the arming time makes it vulnerable to your target moving away from it.
噬蝎毒液 - on very mobile bosses, the 折磨 from 鳞爪毒液 will be less effective, and 准备千针万箭 will be unreliable, making this the best option.
恩惠法池 should always be considered as an alternative to provide extra 威能 or 
稳固.
撒播蒺藜 (Dagger build only) - Has high theoretical DPS, but requires the target to remain inside the AoE for 10 seconds, and ramps slowly. It also becomes less efficient in phased encounters, unlike some other options.
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超荷打击 is a little more DPS in cases where boonrip or 活力 aren't useful.- For a ~4% DPS loss, you can take
吞噬暗影 to offer some extra healing/barrier to your subgroup. 
薄暮穿越 or 
虹吸增强 provide additional support for a minor DPS loss, particularly on the Dagger/Dagger build where 折磨 is less prevalent.
Equipment
- This setup provides ~34% boon duration.
- As the build already provides some inherent healing, you can bring Celestial stats Celestial stats or Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats to perform a hybrid heal role.
- Celestial stats Celestial stats offer more DPS and healing power, but if the extra toughness could interfere with tanking, swap in Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats instead. Full Plaguedoctor stats Plaguedoctor stats gear is a ~12% DPS loss compared to Celestial stats Celestial stats.
- It is strongly recommended to use the mint versions of ascended food for the +10% healing modifier as it will affect the healing from 吞噬暗影.
- You could push for more damage by bringing a second offhand dagger with a
超级地能法印. If you weapon swap after each Shroud section, you can double-dip on the on-swap sigils.
Boon Duration
Due to the flexibility of Shadow Shroud, you can run a wide range of boon duration. Ritualist stats Ritualist stats gear is a small DPS loss compared to Viper stats Viper stats, minimising the downsides of bringing extra boon duration. You can maintain permanent alacrity without compromising DPS with as little as 6% boon duration, but it is strongly recommended to bring more.
It is quite nice to bring enough boon duration to allow your 
虹吸 to provide permanent 激怒, 迅捷 and 活力 as the latter two are not the most common boons but are very nice to have. The minimum required boon duration for this is ~27%, and ~34% makes this pretty reliable.
Non-SotO Relics
In general 
荆棘古物 is the best relic for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, and can even be better than 
碎层古物 on encounters that allow you maintain high stacks. Unfortunately, it does require regularly taking damage from the boss (ticking aura hits count) and this is not guaranteed in all cases.
As an alternative, 
望族古物 will work everywhere, but you'll need to vary the timing of 
永恒夜幕 in order to maintain the effect.
Consumables
Food
Utility
大师调谐水晶 or alternatives
Usage
Your boon provision is slightly unconventional as those that come from 
暗影脚步 target yourself, the three closest players to you (prioritising subgroup), and your tethered target. This means that you can provide boons to one player at long range, but if they are not in your subgroup then your group's boons will suffer as a result. If you wish to utilise this behaviour, it is best for the ranged player to be in the same subgroup as you.
Before the fight starts, you can select an allied player and 虹吸 them to create the tether. If you don't do this, it will randomly select a player when you use 虹吸.
As long as you don't siphon another player, this will remain your target throughout the fight. You may also lose target if the ally moves too far away (or dies).
Rotation
If you're using a pistol offhand, ignore any weapon swaps below. It is also optimal to skip the Post-Shroud section in this case.
Opener
- If possible, precast 准备千针万箭 (if using) such that you can immediately trigger it and place it a second time.
-
悲伤法池
-
暮光连技
- 蜘蛛毒液, 鳞爪毒液 and
千针万箭. These are all instant cast, so can be used during the cast time of step 2. Make sure you're within range of allies for the venoms! - 准备千针万箭 if it's available.
进入暗影帷幕 to start applying 敏捷 nice and early
Normal Shroud Loop
Most of the time when you enter shroud, you want to do the following loop:
Use 虹吸 if it comes off cooldown between steps 1 and 4.
If you want to pad your 敏捷 uptime, you can stay in to get an extra 
暗影抓攫. Ideally you don't do this if it would delay your damage cooldowns outside of shroud though.
Rest of the Rotation
The rest of the rotation has no strict skill order:
- You should 进入暗影帷幕 as soon as it becomes available, and use the shroud loop.
- Use 虹吸, 蜘蛛毒液, 鳞爪毒液, 悲伤法池 and
同仇敌忾 off cooldown.
- Spam 暮光连技 to use up all your initiative.
- Try to finish autoattack chains if possible. Unusually, you have a lot of grace time between the chain skills to use other skills without cancelling the chain.
- Weapon Swap Weapon Swap, 进入暗影帷幕 and
离开暗影帷幕 will all trigger 超级厄运法印 (and optionally 超级地能法印. These have a 9-second internal cooldown, so you can squeeze extra damage out of the rotation by Weapon Swap Weapon Swapping immediately after you 离开暗影帷幕.
Short Shroud Loop
Sometimes you will end up going into shroud just before your utility skills come off cooldown. In this case, do a much shorter loop:
- Make sure you have enough 敏捷 before exiting - maintaining boons is more important than your damage.
Dagger/Dagger Rotation
Utility
CC
-
石蜥毒液
影幕 can provide more reliable CC on encounters with extra targets (equivalent to 3 basilisk venom hits), or you want to pull targets together-
思维冲击
爆头射击, if bringing offhand pistol
Support
All your Scepter skills and 虹吸 can be used with an allied target to provide them barrier and 
黑暗哨卫. This is a DPS loss, but can be used to save people if a healer isn't going to (particularly helpful on the tank).
All of your Shadow Shroud skills have supportive effects too, which are added to with 暗影脚步:
鬼影射击 provides a heal and 威能, with 暗影脚步 adding an additional heal- 暗影抓攫 cleanses conditions, with 暗影脚步 providing 敏捷
黎明之息 applies AoE barrier, with 暗影脚步 providing 
保护- 永恒夜幕 also heals, with 暗影脚步 enhancing the heal further
- 思维冲击 provides 稳固, with 暗影脚步 adding
圣盾
General Tips
- Almost all your damage can be done at range, but Eternal Night Eternal Night and Mind Shock Mind Shock are both melee range. If you are not in range to use them, either delay or skip them during the shroud loop.
- While in Shadow Shroud, incoming damage is absorbed by your Shadow Force rather than your health. If you believe an incoming attack will kick you out before finishing the full Shroud loop, it may be worth doing a shorter one instead.
- Avoid staying for too long in Shadow Shroud as the DPS from Haunt Shot Haunt Shot is worse than that of Scepter, and you need to spend initiative to maintain stacks of
主导攻击. - If there is nothing to attack, you can target allies with Scepter skills to buff them with barrier, and apply stacks of venom via 黑暗哨卫 just before a new phase starts.
- You can mitigate certain mechanics through the 稳固 from 恩惠法池 or 思维冲击.
- If using 吞噬暗影:
- If you have more than 2 stacks of 吞噬暗影 when you exit, the group healing you provide will exceed the personal damage mitigation you would have had. You're helping!
- Alternatively, if there are no allies within range, you can use Shadow Shroud defensively to absorb incoming damage, as you lose your Shadow Force on Shroud exit regardless.
- If you have more than 2 stacks of