Scepter

This article is about the class of weapon. For the specific weapon sold by NPC weaponsmiths, see Scepter (weapon).

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Scepter

Type

Main-hand weapon

Used by

Guardian
Elementalist
Mesmer
Necromancer

Crafted by

Artificer

Gallery
Scepter concept art.

The scepter is a mid-ranged main-hand weapon that excels in damage and control.

Skills by profession

#	Skill			Description
Guardian
1	Orb of Wrath	0.5½		Fire a slow-moving orb at your foe.
2	Symbol of Punishment	0.25¼	6	Symbol. Create a symbol on the ground that strikes foes and grants might to nearby allies.
3	Chains of Light	0.5½	20	Immobilize and make your foe vulnerable with ethereal chains.
Elementalist
Fire Attunement
1	Flamestrike	1		Strike your foe with flame, and create an area that delivers a lesser attack a short time later.
2	Dragon's Tooth	0.75¾	6	Drop an explosive dragon's tooth on your foe.
3	Phoenix	0.25¼	20	Release a fiery phoenix that attacks foes in a line before exploding and returning to you, curing a condition and granting you vigor.
Water Attunement
1	Ice Shards	0.75¾		Fire three ice shards at your foe.
2	Shatterstone	0.5½	3	Cast a shatterstone that will explode at the target area.
3	Water Trident	0.5½	20	Cast a water trident that damages foes and heals allies.
Air Attunement
1	Arc Lightning	30.5½		Cast an arc of electricity at your foe.
2	Lightning Strike		5	Strike your foe with lightning.
3	Blinding Flash		10	Blind your foe with a flash of light.
Earth Attunement
1	Stone Shards	10.5½		Fling stone daggers at your foe to bleed them.
2	Rock Barrier	1	15	Envelop yourself in a stony barrier that improves toughness.
2	Hurl			Hurl the rocks from your barrier at your foe.
3	Dust Devil		15	Blind your foes with a blast of sand.
Weaver
Fire + Water
3	Fiery Frost	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Launch a fire and ice bolt while evading.
Fire + Air
3	Plasma Beam	10.25¼	18	Dual Attack. Fire a superheated jet of plasma at your foe.
Fire + Earth
3	Fracturing Strike	1	12	Dual Attack. Call a meteor from the sky that crashes to the ground, creating an eruption of magma.
Water + Air
3	Glacial Drift	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Whirl air and ice together, sending out a supercooled projectile that chills enemies it strikes.
Water + Earth
3	Stone Tide	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Bleed your foe with ice and sharpened stones.
Air + Earth
3	Earthen Synergy	0.75¾	20	Dual Attack. Smite your enemies with the earth and sky, dealing damage from below and then stunning from above.
Mesmer
1	Ether Bolt	0.5½		Chain. Shoot a bolt of energy at your target.
1	Ether Blast	0.5½		Chain. Shoot a second bolt of energy at your target.
1	Ether Clone	0.75¾		Clone. Deliver a damaging attack directly to your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt. Inflict torment instead if you have the maximum number of illusions.
2	Illusionary Counter	2	8	Clone. Block the next attack, and counter by inflicting torment and creating clones that cast Ether Bolt.
2	Counterspell	0.5½		Shoot out a bolt that blinds enemies in a line and summons a clone to attack the first foe it strikes.
3	Confusing Images	20.25¼	12	Channel a beam of energy that damages and confuses your foe.
Mirage
1	Ether Barrage	10.5½	1	Ambush. Launch a barrage of chaos orbs at your foe, inflicting either confusion or torment each hit. Condition duration halved for clones.
Necromancer
1	Blood Curse	0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Rending Curse	0.5½		Chain. Bleed your foe.
1	Putrid Curse	0.5½		Chain. Poison and bleed your foe.
2	Grasping Dead	0.75¾	10	Summon skeletal hands to cripple foes in the target area.
3	Feast of Corruption	0.75¾	10	Strike your target, gain life force, and corrupt boons on your foe. For each condition on your target up to the condition threshold, gain additional life force and inflict torment.
With    Lingering Curse
3	Devouring Darkness	0.75¾	10	Corrupt boons from enemies around your target. Inflict torment and gain life force for each condition on your initial target up to the threshold. Gain extra life force for each extra foe struck.

Related traits

•  Zealous Scepter — Gain might when your justice passive effect triggers; gain more might while wielding a scepter.
•  Right-Hand Strength — Your precision is increased. Gain increased power while wielding a one-handed weapon. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.
•  Malicious Sorcery — Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills.
•  Lingering Curse — While wielding a scepter, your condition damage is increased. Conditions inflicted by scepter skills have increased durations, and Feast of Corruption becomes Devouring Darkness.

Weapon strength

See also: Weapon strength

Scepter weapon strength by level and rarity
Level	Basic		Fine		Masterwork		Rare		Exotic		Ascended
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
Level 1	-	-	137	155	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 4	115	130	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 5	-	-	146	165	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 6	-	-	149	168	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 7	-	-	152	172	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 8	124	140	156	176	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 9	-	-	160	180	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 10	130	147	164	185	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 11	-	-	167	189	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 12	136	153	171	193	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 13	-	-	175	197	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 14	-	-	179	201	194	219	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 15	145	164	182	206	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 16	148	167	186	210	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 17	-	-	191	215	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 18	-	-	195	220	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 19	-	-	200	225	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 20	162	183	-	-	222	250	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 21	-	-	209	235	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 22	-	-	213	240	231	261	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 23	-	-	218	246	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 24	177	200	222	251	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 25	181	204	227	256	246	277	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 26	-	-	231	261	252	284	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 27	-	-	237	268	259	292	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 28	193	218	243	274	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 29	-	-	249	281	271	306	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 30	203	229	255	288	278	313	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 31	-	-	261	295	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 32	213	240	267	302	291	328	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 33	-	-	273	308	297	335	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 34	-	-	279	315	303	342	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 35	227	256	286	322	310	349	336	378	-	-	-	-
Level 36	232	262	292	329	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 37	-	-	298	336	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 38	-	-	305	344	331	374	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 39	-	-	312	352	338	382	366	413	-	-	-	-
Level 40	253	286	319	359	346	390	374	421	-	-	-	-
Level 41	-	-	325	367	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 42	-	-	332	374	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 43	-	-	339	382	367	414	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 44	275	311	346	390	374	422	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 45	281	317	352	397	382	430	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 46	-	-	359	405	390	440	423	477	-	-	-	-
Level 47	-	-	367	414	399	450	432	487	-	-	-	-
Level 48	299	337	376	424	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 49	-	-	384	433	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 50	312	352	392	442	426	480	460	519	-	-	-	-
Level 51	-	-	401	452	434	490	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 52	326	367	409	461	443	500	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 53	-	-	417	470	452	510	488	550	-	-	-	-
Level 54	-	-	425	480	461	519	497	560	-	-	-	-
Level 55	346	390	434	489	-	-	507	572	-	-	-	-
Level 56	352	397	442	498	479	540	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 57	-	-	451	508	489	551	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 58	-	-	460	519	498	562	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 59	-	-	469	529	508	573	-	-	-	-	-	-
Level 60	381	430	478	539	517	583	558	629	-	-	-	-
Level 61	-	-	487	549	-	-	568	641	-	-	-	-
Level 62	-	-	496	559	537	605	578	652	654	737	-	-
Level 63	-	-	505	570	546	616	-	-	665	750	-	-
Level 64	410	463	514	580	556	627	-	-	678	765	-	-
Level 65	418	471	523	590	565	638	610	688	691	780	-	-
Level 66	-	-	532	600	577	650	-	-	705	794	-	-
Level 67	-	-	543	612	-	-	634	715	-	-	-	-
Level 68	441	497	553	624	599	675	646	728	-	-	-	-
Level 69	-	-	564	636	610	688	658	742	-	-	-	-
Level 70	458	517	574	648	621	701	670	755	757	854	-	-
Level 71	-	-	585	659	633	713	682	768	770	869	-	-
Level 72	475	536	595	671	644	726	693	782	784	883	-	-
Level 73	-	-	606	683	655	738	-	-	797	898	-	-
Level 74	-	-	616	695	666	751	717	809	811	914	-	-
Level 75	501	565	627	707	677	764	730	823	825	930	-	-
Level 76	509	574	637	719	689	777	742	837	839	946	-	-
Level 77	-	-	649	731	701	791	755	851	-	-	-	-
Level 78	-	-	660	744	713	804	768	866	867	978	-	-
Level 79	-	-	671	757	-	-	781	880	881	994	-	-
Level 80	546	615	683	770	737	831	793	894	895	1,010	940	1,060

Trivia

• The scepter is the only one-handed weapon that cannot be used in the off-hand by any profession.

See also

• Gallery of scepters

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Weapons

One-handed

Axe • Dagger • Mace • Pistol • Sword

Main-hand only

Scepter

Off-hand only

Focus • Shield • Torch • Warhorn

Two-handed

Greatsword • Hammer • Longbow • Rifle • Short bow • Staff

Aquatic

Harpoon gun • Spear • Trident

Other

Bundles