The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds
Difficulty: Easy
This build was last updated on July 21, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
盗贼 (Thief)
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A condition DPS build for Specter. Gaining a defensive shroud similar to Necromancer as well as a powerful ranged weapon in Scepter, Specter can feel much safer to play than other Thief specialisations. It deals great damage, which can be enhanced even further if it is able to pre-cast its venoms (particularly relevant in fractals). At the same time, it provides some incidental group boons whenever it 
虹吸s and it always has access to powerful single-target barrier, enabling it to act as a support in emergencies.
As a torment-focused class, it prefers stationary targets, but the simple rotation and ability to deal almost all its damage from range means that it is able to maintain damage very easily even on mobile encounters.
As a Thief, it has excellent out-of-combat utility for speeding up fractals and raids.
The nature of initiative means that you rarely use more than one weapon, so there are a number of options for the second set:
超级厄运法印.There are three strong contenders for the third utility slot:
撒播蒺藜 - Has the highest theoretical DPS, but requires the target to remain inside the AoE for 10 seconds, and ramps up slower. It also becomes less efficient in phased encounters, unlike the other two options.
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.
鳞爪毒液 - The lowest damage option, but also doesn't require your target to stand inside an AoE for 5/10 seconds. The boonstrip present at the start of many encounters also removes venom stacks, but it can be precast during split phases as long as your allies don't waste it attacking an invulnerable boss. The instant cast time and fact that it has the same cooldown as 
蜘蛛毒液 also makes it much less disruptive to your rotation than other options.Food
Utility
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.
As the third skill is variable, just ignore any skill casts that you don't have.
Opener
Rest of the Rotation
The rest of the rotation has no strict skill order:
遁入暗影 to gain access to 
暗影急风. The cast time is very long though, so be sure you won't have to delay other skills in order to finish it.
进入暗影帷幕 and 
离开暗影帷幕 will all trigger 超级厄运法印 and 
快速切换. These have a 9- and an 8-second internal cooldown respectively, so if you are able to track these cooldowns you can squeeze extra damage out of the rotation.
快速切换 in case it triggers.Normal Shroud Loop
Most of the time when you enter shroud, you want to do the following loop:
离开暗影帷幕
Use 虹吸 if it comes off cooldown between steps 1 and 4.
Short Shroud Loop
Sometimes you may end up going into shroud just before your utility skills come off cooldown. In this case, do a much shorter loop:
Spear is more complicated than other thief weapons as it employed a combo system where skills 2 and 3 each have three sub-skills that are classified as Lead Attacks, Follow Ups or Finishers. These flow together in order, with the active skills changing depending on where you are in the chain, and you can switch between 2 and 3 for different effects.
Additional complexity is added by your stealth attack, and skills 4 and 5, all gaining bonuses if they are used after a Finisher:
If this isn't enough, 
杂念投掷 will also count as a Lead Attack in this case, which means the next combo will skip the normal Lead Attack.
Rotation Explanation
The buff from 杂念投掷 is strong enough that we want to get it as soon as possible, but as it needs to follow a finisher (and cannot follow a stealth attack), we first do a basic combo of 
螳螂钉刺 ⇒ 
缠藤毒蛇 ⇒ 
陨落蜘蛛.
Your strongest weapon skill is 
苍白突袭 as not only does it do great damage, it regenerates enough initiative to maintain a rotation without ever having to rely on autoattacks. Specter lacks a convenient way to access 
潜行 though, so must rely on 
碎裂突袭 (the Finisher' on skill 3). Hence your highest damage combo looks like 螳螂钉刺 ⇒ 缠藤毒蛇 ⇒ 碎裂突袭 ⇒ 苍白突袭 (though the first time round we replace 螳螂钉刺 with 杂念投掷). This combo is slightly shorter than the duration of 
现身, so the rotation has to be padded.
The best way of doing this is to use shroud skills. 
暗影抓攫 ⇒ 
永恒夜幕 is all that's needed to make the loop long enough to 潜行 again. The cooldown of 永恒夜幕 is too long to use every loop, so a non-stealth combo is used every other time instead.
To maximise the use of 超级厄运法印 and/or 
超级地能法印, you can adjust the position of the Shadow Shroud section so that you enter it every ~10s rather than in a fixed position in the loop. This won't break your combo chains, but it does make it harder to track where you are in the loop. This is a moderate DPS gain over the looping rotation below.
Opener
同仇敌忾
悲伤法池
千针万箭 (if you precast it), and 蜘蛛毒液
出奇打击
准备千针万箭
进入暗影帷幕
暗影抓攫
永恒夜幕
离开暗影帷幕
缠藤毒蛇
虹吸
陨落蜘蛛
杂念投掷 ⇒ 缠藤毒蛇 ⇒ 陨落蜘蛛出奇打击 ⇒ 缠藤毒蛇 ⇒ 陨落蜘蛛杂念投掷 ⇒ 缠藤毒蛇 ⇒ 碎裂突袭 ⇒ 苍白突袭Loop
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
爆头射击, if bringing offhand pistolSupport
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).
主导攻击.黑暗哨卫 just before a new phase starts.超级地能法印 and a 
超级大地法印. By aligning your shroud and weapon swaps, this allows you to benefit fully from both on-swap sigils.
望族古物 is the best relic for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure or Janthir Wilds, which necessitates switching some gear to Sinister stats:
