Condition Antiquary

Skill Reference Guide

Key Concepts

Condition Antiquary focuses on using as much as possible on a node. Artifacts and utility skills bring you extra Initiative to be able to use it a lot.

Learning artifacts effects is key to play this spec correctly.

Damage

Most artifacts have high damage which is great for us. You generate artifacts with or spending 15 Initiative.

We will bring our focus to some artifacts :

• is your best artifact. You use it to go for a kill pairing it with spam to keep your target Dazed. First Daze your target once with or , if you don't won't Daze. You also can use at the start of this combo to keep using .
• can be used up to three times if it hits a target and applies a lot of Burning.
• , and (to use on ) are great to pressure the node and should be your focus after
• is a dash with big numbers and brings Heal when using weapon skills.

You can use weapon skills more than ever as Antiquary with the help of and generating insane amounts of Initiative.

• is the only skill you will use on Short Bow, to cover nodes and deal some damage when waiting to get .

Defense

You have access to the usual Thief defensive and mobility kit.

• Short Bow gives you access to amazing mobility under the form of . You can also use for some extra Evade.
• On Spear you have access to block the next incoming hit with no cooldown but a cast time.
• Your heal, , is also an evade. works exactly the same with some Initiative regeneration on instead.