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 July 18, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A condition boon support build for Specter. Provides permanent , , and , and up to ~15 stacks of . Specter can also provide some healing and barrier from scepter skills, 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.
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超级厄运法印.
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.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.
超荷打击 is a little more DPS in cases where boonrip or 
活力 aren't useful.
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 weapons other than Scepter/Dagger build where 折磨 is less prevalent. 薄暮穿越 synergises particularly well with Scepter/Pistol thanks to .
虹吸 to have permanent uptime.
超级大地法印 on one set, and 
超级折磨法印 on the other (separating the existing sigils). Weapon swapping immediately after exiting Shadow Shroud will allow you to benefit from both on-swap sigils fully, as well as the on-crit sigils.吞噬暗影.
超级地能法印. If you weapon swap after each Shroud section, you can double-dip on the on-swap sigils.Due to the flexibility of Shadow Shroud, you can run a wide range of boon duration. Ritualist stats gear is a small DPS loss compared to 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 to provide permanent , and 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.
In general is the best relic for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure, and can even be better than 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, will work everywhere, but you'll need to vary the timing of in order to maintain the effect.
Your boon provision is slightly unconventional as those that come from 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 them to create the tether. If you don't do this, it will randomly select a player when you use .
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).
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
Normal Shroud Loop
Most of the time when you enter shroud, you want to do the following loop:
Use if it comes off cooldown between steps 1 and 4.
If you want to pad your uptime, you can stay in to get an extra . 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:
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:
Scepter/Pistol follows the same logic as the Scepter/Dagger rotation above, but you replace with ⇒ . The chain has a much longer cast time than so you will only be able to use it once or twice between each Shroud section.
This build is a relatively minor DPS loss, and allows you access to as well as the more supportive dual skills, making it ideal as a hybrid DPS-healer. is particularly recommended in this case.
CC
Support
All your Scepter skills and can be used with an allied target to provide them barrier and . 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 :
