Specter - Alacrity Support Healer

Weapon Variants

• Offhand Dagger can be used in the Scepter set for the hybrid damage build.

Skill Variants

恩惠法池 is necessary as your primary source of 再生, but the other two skills can be swapped out:

• 暗影庇护 is the most potent utility skill for healing, damage reduction, and res power. Care must be taken though, as the stealth can cancel autoattacks, and interfere with other thieves.
• 沉默法池 heals thanks to its shadowstep and offers CC.

Other alternatives include:

• 致盲药粉 - triggers your relic and multiple traits, but has the same caveats as Shadow Refuge due to it stealthing allies.
• 敏捷纹章 for more condi cleanse.
• 障眼烟幕 or 准备禁锢区域 for projectile defence.
• 准备暗影传送门 - Portals are very potent, though it is only one-way.
• 准备陷阱 or 毒蝎钩索 for CC.
• For more frequent breakbars, you may find 石蜥毒液 valuable.

• 快速切换 is a good option for more initiative.
• 吞噬暗影 offers superior healing, but on encounters where incoming damage is high, your lower Shadow Force can be a problem. This is also unsuitable on encounters with phases where you cannot hit enemies, as you want to be able to keep going into Shadow Shroud to maintain 敏捷.

Players wishing for more information can find an exceedingly detailed guide here. Note that there are some small differences in build recommendations.

Alacrity

Thanks to the 暗影脚步 trait, every shroud skill you use provides AoE 敏捷 - to you, your tethered target, and the three closest allies. The tether is randomly applied to an ally within range whenever you 进入暗影帷幕, and will remain on that ally until you are 1200 units away from each other. A new target for the tether can be manually selected by targeting an ally and using 虹吸 on them. This is very useful to do before the fight starts, as you ideally want to use 虹吸 on enemies for the Shadow Force generation during combat.

Other Boons

Fury, Might and Vigor

100% uptime of these boons are provided by 恩惠法池 and 虹吸 (with the 致命快感 and 慷慨无私 traits).

Protection

保护 is easily maintained by spamming 暗影削弱 on the group. Additional uptime is provided by the combination of 虹吸 and 暗影庇护.

Regeneration

Your main source of 再生 is 恩惠法池, and topped up with ally-targeted 无尽黑夜 or 暗影急风.

Stability

恩惠法池 and 思维冲击 (with 暗影脚步) provide AoE 稳固. These are both used in your normal rotation, so encounter knowledge is key for ensuring you can provide it when needed.

Healing

Practically everything you do provides some measure of 屏障 or healing:

• 薄暮穿越 heals on every shadowstep, which applies to all your wells, 慎重射击 (Sceptre/Pistol) and 渗透暗袭 ⇒ 暗影回归 (Sword).
• 怜悯伏击 and 派鸣雄心 heals and provides 屏障 to allies that you 潜行.
• Thanks to 暗影脚步, all your Shadow Shroud skills heal allies near your tethered target.
• If using 吞噬暗影, your remaining Shadow Force is converted into healing (and overhealing into ) when you .
• has inherent healing, plus the shadowstep healing, plus some for good measure via .
• and (Scepter/Pistol) provide healing and barrier, respectively, to allies they target. (Sceptre) provides AoE without the need for allied targetting, which makes it much more convenient than other Scepter skills, albeit it is less efficient than ⇒ . (Sceptre/Dagger) provides a small amount of barrier and healing, but is less efficient than . Your Sceptre autoattack also provide a small amount of when targetting allies.
• heals with every successful blast finisher.

Weapons

The two weapons have different playstyles:

Scepter

Via its allied-targeted abilities, Scepter fills in the gaps in uptime of your key boons, namely with and with ⇒ . During downtime you can also autoattack an ally to provide AoE .

If using scepter, it is strongly recommended to have some method for quickly targetting allies: Set/Take Personal Target, Nearest/Next/Previous Ally, or Ally Targeting Mode in the options will all allow this. Go for whichever you find most convenient.

Sword

Sword can be swapped too as needed for burst healing. On this set you provide heals by spamming and to repeatedly trigger .

Scepter/Pistol

Before the encounter starts, it can be very helpful to select and ally and them. This will mark them as the target of your tether and all the boons provided by will hit that player as long as they remain within range (or until you target another player manually with ). This allows you to maintain boons on one player even if they are off-stack. If you do not target a specific player, a random one will be picked when you .

Opener

This opener is just one possibility. can usually be delayed at the start of an encounter, allowing you to spend initiative to provide other boons first.

1. - Opens with a burst of boons, and drops a combo field for triggering
2. (if using)
4. - Cast first so that the blast hits within the duration of the combo field. This step can be skipped or moved if the CC or will be needed shortly, and it won't be off cooldown every loop.
8. until Grasping Shadows is off cooldown
10. - we stay in shroud just long enough to gain five stacks of
11. Target an ally
12. ⇒
13. Spam all your remaining initiative on

• Use off cooldown (you can delay slightly if needed for ).
• Other wells can be used situationally, but it is handy to use one just before entering shroud.
• Use off cooldown, but make sure you have a dark field down. Outside of the opener, follow it up with to maintain .
• is good for burst healing, to pre-empt incoming damage, or to res downed allies.
• Use off cooldown to provide AoE boons and maintain Shadow Force. If necessary, use the ally-targeted version to change your tether target.
• Make sure to use at least five skills (including autoattacks) each time you enter shroud. There's no set rotation, but ideally you should exit before your initiative fills up.
• Spend all your initative on scepter skills when outside of shroud. In general, this will be on as you'll need to use to maintain . ⇒ can be used to provide direct healing to allies that need it.
• You have CC all over the place, but you can save some if there is an upcoming defiance bar you wish to delete.

Sword/Pistol

Sword/Pistol doesn't have a fixed rotation. As you don't need to be concerned with management, you can just use , wells, and as they come off cooldown while spending your initative on spamming and and .

CC

The majority of your CC is from and , making a especially effective (it affects daze as well).

• is a 1s when targeting enemies.
• is a 2s .
• pulls three times, for a total of 450 Defiance Break (contrary to the tooltip).
• can provide 150 Defiance Break per target you hit, for a maximum potential of 750 on a shorter cooldown, though the CC can be wasted by allies hitting the wrong target.
• inflicts 1s of .
• is a 1.5s .
• is a 2s , and can be spammed as long as you have initiative.

Food

• 碗装薄荷配菜水果沙拉 or ascended versions

Utility

• 富饶保养油

Harrier stats gear is used for maximum healing power and boon duration. On encounters with high incoming damage, then you may require the extra Shadow Force that comes from higher vitality, making the Plaguedoctor stats variant below stronger.

• The 超级转移法印 can be replaced with a 超级瘫痪法印 if you want to provide more CC.
• If tanking, swap in as many Giver stats or Minstrel stats pieces as necessary.

Condi Variant

You can swap in Plaguedoctor stats for a massive damage boost and almost no loss of healing, but the boon duration is significantly lower - you want to make sure it's at least 60% or you might as well be running the healing variant of the DPS alacrity build.

纳莱诗面罩

PlaguedoctorHead

纳莱诗肩铠

PlaguedoctorShoulders

PlaguedoctorChest

PlaguedoctorHands

PlaguedoctorLegs

PlaguedoctorFeet

PlaguedoctorBackpiece

PlaguedoctorAccessory

PlaguedoctorAccessory

PlaguedoctorAmulet

PlaguedoctorRing

PlaguedoctorRing

PlaguedoctorScepter

PlaguedoctorDagger

Sigil

Sigil

PlaguedoctorPistol

• The on Pistol can be replaced with a if you want to provide more CC.
• If tanking, swap in as many Giver stats or Minstrel stats pieces as necessary.