Booster Specter

October 2024

Introduction

This Celestial Booster Specter is a great beginner-friendly offensive support setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post.

Build Fundamentals

Initiative
Initiative is a skill cost mechanic unique to all Thief professions. Instead of having recharge time on your weapon skills, Thief spends Initiative to use weapon skills. You have 12 initiative points that recharge over time: 9 from Specter and 3 extra from . also grants Initative while swapping weapons and when using and . Do not deliberately swap weapons for Initiative, but instead, let be triggered by using naturally.

Wells and Shrouds
Many boons come from . causes Wells to provide . In this build, gives you whenever you cast a Well.

A unique mechanic of the Specter is , which provides an additional health bar and changes your weapon skills. allows you to provide to yourself and your allies with your Shroud skills. The boon is provided by tethering to an ally with , but it is okay to let your tether automatically select a nearby friendly target. This will automatically happen whenever you  with prioritization to your party and squad.

• provides and damages enemies with .
• cleanses conditions and damages enemies with in a targeted area.
• provides and inflicts on enemies.
• provides self-healing and inflicts enemies with , and .
• gives three stacks of and stuns enemies.

You gain Shadow Shroud Force by using wells via , spending initiative, and using F1 on an enemy. You should use not only to gain Shadow Force but also to gain , , , and .

Weapons

Your main weapon set is Scepter/Dagger. Prioritize using as your main source of damage. If you can’t cast it due to lack of Initiative, fill with your scepter Auto-attack chain and off-cooldown. as soon as available or as much as possible and stay in Shroud until you have used  three times. While waiting to cast , use  and off-cooldown and fill with Auto-attack chains.

Your second skill grants , and to allies in the ground-targetted area.

If you need to deal Breakbar damage or interrupt an enemy, switch to Scepter and Pistol and use repeatedly.

also triggers when you enter Shadow Shroud .

Crowd Control

• or if equipped

Alternatives

• if you like having some NPCs follow you.
• is a good Crowd Control skill.
• The trait for additional and .
• or for stun break.