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Beginner Condition Specter

Guild Wars 2 Beginner Condition Specter - Scepter & Dagger / Scepter & Dagger Meta build for raids: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

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Build Template

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Condition Specter is a strong Condition Damage build that ramps up its damage very quickly. It has many defensive and supportive tools at its disposal, making it very friendly to beginners.

Overview

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Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Plenty of CC
  • Short ramp-up
  • Access to healing & support
  • Easy to learn
  • Fast paced rotation
  • Easy to cancel skills
  • Relies on resource management
  • Loses damage on moving targets
Power
2173
Toughness
1000
Vitality
1297
Precision
1633
Critical Chance
35.14%
Ferocity
0
Critical Damage
150%
Condition Damage
2107
Healing Power
140
Expertise
944
Condition Duration
77.93%
Concentration
0
Boon Duration
0%

Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

Rotation & Extras

Step One: Initiative skills and Siphon

Specter’s gameplay loop revolves around spending its Initiative, then using its Shadow Shroud skills as strong filler while their Initiative recharges.

  • On this build, your main Initiative skill will be 暮光连技 图标暮光连技. Spend all your Initiative only on this skill while attacking.
  • Cast 虹吸 图标虹吸 to inflict Bleeding and Poison and replenish two Initiative.

When you don’t have enough Initiative, fill time with Auto Attacks. Keep casting 虹吸 图标虹吸 off-Cooldown whenever its available.

Step Two: Shadow Shroud

When your Initiative is depleted, you will spend some time in Shadow Shroud while you wait for it to recharge. Your Shroud loop is as follows:

  1. 进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕
  2. 鬼影射击 图标鬼影射击
  3. 暗影抓攫 图标暗影抓攫永恒夜幕 图标永恒夜幕
  4. 鬼影射击 图标鬼影射击 x 3
  5. 暗影抓攫 图标暗影抓攫
  6. 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕

虹吸 图标虹吸, 进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕 and 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕 can interrupt your skill casts. Make sure to let your previous action finish!

Step Three: Utility Skills

Your Condition Damage utility skills are very powerful. Prioritize casting them whenever they are available.

  • 蜘蛛毒液 图标蜘蛛毒液 is instant-cast: as long as you have allies nearby, you can click and forget it.
  • 千针万箭 图标千针万箭 will need to be detonated afterwards. This detonation is also instant-cast, so you can easily do this while performing other actions.
  • 悲伤法池 图标悲伤法池 will teleport you to the target location, then spawn an AoE that pulses a lot of damaging conditions. This is the strongest of your utility skills!

If any of these are available before you 进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕, cast them first before executing your Shroud Loop.

Transitioning to the full build:

If you’ve followed this guide so far, your gameplay loop should be averaging around 10 seconds in length.

The final step for this build involves using Weapon Swap to trigger 超级厄运法印 图标超级厄运法印 and 超级地能法印 图标超级地能法印, which will allow you to trigger them twice when properly combined with 进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕.

The correct way to this is to Weapon Swap immediately after you 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕

  1. As you 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕 during your loop, this will trigger the sigil on your equipped weapon set.
  2. Weapon Swapping immediately afterwards will trigger the sigil on your next weapon set.

Since these sigils have a 9-second Cooldown, the current sigil will be ready again as soon as it’s time to 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕 again after your Shroud loop, repeating the cycle. You'll know you've done this properly if your Weapon Swap becomes available again shortly before you 离开暗影帷幕 图标离开暗影帷幕.

For information about openers, optional skill casts, and gear swaps, check out the main build page.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance BreakSource
黎明之息 图标黎明之息170进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕
思维冲击 图标思维冲击150进入暗影帷幕 图标进入暗影帷幕
石蜥毒液 图标石蜥毒液750Alternate Elite Skill