The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on June 27, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Condition Specter Specter bleeds Bleeds, torments Torments, and poisons Poisons its enemies with a continuous flurry of attacks and a very fluid rotation. 
进入暗影帷幕 for extra damage and utility, and enjoy some extra durability from 
派鸣雄心 and innate sustain from 
窃盗折磨. With a different set of gear, condition specter can sacrifice damage and take 
暗影脚步 to provide nearby allies with permanent 
敏捷, but never do this when soloing.
As a downside, condition specter lacks AoE damage and burst damage, and it needs nearby allies for maximum damage by sharing Venom skills such as 
蜘蛛毒液, but nevertheless performs well in solo open world.
Skill Bar
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Spear Spear is your best weapon, usage requires land spear with Janthir Wilds.
- Offhand pistol Offhand pistol replaces spear for players without Janthir Wilds, and scepter+dagger becomes the main weapon set. Offhand pistol should only be used for crowd control.
Skill variants
Utility skills
鳞爪毒液 can be replaced with:
准备千针万箭 - more damage but it has a longer cast time and enemies may get out of the radius before you can detonate the trap.
战斗冲动 - stunbreak and offensive boons.
恩惠法池 - shadowstep and stability.
暗影庇护 - to channel hero points in stealth.
准备暗影传送门 - to teleport to a previous location.
Elite skills
影幕 can be replaced with:
石蜥毒液 - better single target CC, especially when you can share the Venom with nearby allies.
同仇敌忾 - extra damage from allies that may occasionally tank for you. They can also benefit from Venom skills like 蜘蛛毒液
Specializations
Equipment
DPS
This setup uses Viper equipment for high raw DPS.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Shiro" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended as you progress. See also: Guide to Gear a Character.
- For Relic alternatives, you can consider
骑兵古物 with the pulsing damage engage skill from Skyscale, or 
时空术士古物 for personal 
急速. 
超级厄运法印 and 
超级地能法印 trigger when weapon swapping, but also when leaving Shadow Shroud if they are off cooldown. If you want to min-max your damage, weapon swap off cooldown while following your rotation and trigger the sigils twice per weapon swap by leaving Shroud when weapon swap is almost off cooldow. If you only want to use one weapon type, you may equip two spear Spears or two scepter Scepters+dagger Daggers while keeping the sigils shown above.
Alacrity
This setup provides much higher HP and boon duration at a small damage loss. This allows for the ability to keep up 敏捷 via 暗影脚步.
For exotic Ritualist weapons search the trading post for "Luxon Hunter's Weapon Cache" and updrade to ascended as you progress. See also: Guide to Gear a Character.
- Use the trait 暗影脚步 to provide 敏捷 to nearby allies with
暗影抓攫. - Generally speaking, it's not worth playing alacrity specter in solo open world, as you lose valuable damage, especially in short fights which are the majority of fights in open world. Only consider playing alacrity specter when in groups and fighting bosses.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
Usage
Shadow Shroud
进入暗影帷幕 is the profession mechanic of the specter. After building Shadow Force by spending initiative in combat and using 
虹吸, Enter Shadow Shroud to gain access to new skills.
Your damage skills in shroud are 暗影抓攫 and 
永恒夜幕, while 
黎明之息 provides a leap and CC, and 
思维冲击 stuns and gives stability.
Generally speaking, when playing condition specter you want to enter Shadow Shroud, use 暗影抓攫, 永恒夜幕, auto attack until you can use 暗影抓攫 a second time and leave Shroud.
Damage
Sigils
This build defaults to 超级厄运法印 and 超级地能法印, which trigger when weapon swapping, but also when leaving Shadow Shroud if they are off cooldown. If you want to min-max your damage, weapon swap off cooldown while following your rotation and trigger the sigils twice per weapon swap by leaving Shroud when weapon swap is almost off cooldow. If you only want to use one weapon type, you may equip two spear Spears or two scepter Scepters+dagger Daggers while keeping the sigils shown in the gear section.
Spear
On Spear Spear you want to use the following combo: 2-2-3-1-2-2-2-4-2-3-1 (these are the keys you press on your keyboard)
螳螂钉刺 (2)
缠藤毒蛇 (2)
碎裂突袭 gives 
潜行 (3)
苍白突袭 stealth attack (1)- 螳螂钉刺 (2)
- 缠藤毒蛇 (2)
陨落蜘蛛 (2)
杂念投掷 (4)- 缠藤毒蛇 (2)
- 碎裂突袭 gives 潜行 (3)
- 苍白突袭 stealth attack (1)
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进入暗影帷幕
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暗影抓攫
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永恒夜幕
离开暗影帷幕 and repeat from step 1
- This is your full rotation. It's actually very simple and fluid.
- Use 虹吸,
悲伤法池, 鳞爪毒液 and 蜘蛛毒液 off cooldown. - The first 螳螂钉刺 can be replaced with
出奇打击 as Unsuspecting Strike deals more damage to targets above 90% health.
Scepter
Scepter Scepter is your ranged weapon at the expense of slightly lower damage. In this weapon set you just spam 
暮光连技. Don't waste initiative on other skills, except for 
匕首之舞 against groups of enemies.
Defense
- The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks.
- All your well skills also allow you to quickly reposition yourself since they are shadowsteps. This includes your heal skill
阴暗法池. - 进入暗影帷幕 replaces your health, so it is your main source of damage mitigation.
稳固 with 思维冲击.- Condition removal with 暗影抓攫.
- Minor healing from 永恒夜幕 and 窃盗折磨.
