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Shadowcaller PvE Build

Overview

Weapon: Cursed Staff
Focus: Range DPS

Strengths

  • High DPS
  • Good Healing

Weaknesses

  • Low Mobility
This build is up to date for the November 6, 2024 Horizons Patch #1.

Overview

The Elder's ShadowcallerElder's Shadowcaller build focuses on solo PvE, performing incredibly well in dungeons and being capable of pulling great fame numbers quite easily while not being too difficult to play even for newer players. The self sustain is coupled well with the high AOE damage of the build and it can even do well in open world grinding mobs solo either in the black zone or anywhere else.


Equipment

Elder's Shadowcaller
Main Hand Weapon
Elder's Shadowcaller
Cursed Tar
Cursed Beam
Inner Shadow
Bane
Elder's Muisak
Off Hand Weapon
Elder's Muisak
Alternatives ⇅
Elder's Cryptcandle
Elder's Scholar Cowl
Head
Elder's Scholar Cowl
Energy Shield
Aggression
Elder's Avalonian Cape
Cape
Elder's Avalonian Cape
Force Pulse
Elder's Mercenary Jacket
Armor
Elder's Mercenary Jacket
Bloodlust
Balanced Mind
Alternatives ⇅
Elder's Stalker Jacket
Elder's Soldier Boots
Shoes
Elder's Soldier Boots
Wanderlust
Toughness
Major Poison Potion
Potion
Major Poison Potion
Roast Pork
Food
Roast Pork
Keep in mind: Gear shown in this build is meant as a reference. Choosing the correct tier of gear is very tricky as there are many variables. Some of them being your budget, your spec and minimum Item Power requirements of your guild if used for ZvZ.


You should always check prices based on IP of the items. For example, a masterpiece quality 4.3 Elder's CryptcandleElder's Cryptcandle could be cheaper while providing roughly the same IP as an 8.0.


Usage

Elder's ShadowcallerElder's Shadowcaller

Cursed TarCursed Tar — Use this AOE on the ground after you pile up mobs together. As it applies vile curse stacks with each second a mob spends on the tar, you can maximize the stacks you apply quite easily.

Cursed BeamCursed Beam — You want to use this when you've already put a few Vile Curse Charges on your targets as every charge gets consumed and deals extra damage in a 4m radius around the target hit by the beam. Try to always line up mobs so the maximum amount of them are hit at the same time.

Inner ShadowInner Shadow — While wearing leather armor like the Elder's Mercenary JacketElder's Mercenary Jacket, you want to cast this on yourself to summon a ghost dealing AOE damage wherever you cast the ability. Stack as many enemies as possible before using this skill as more enemies getting damaged will mean you will heal even more based on the amount of health they've lost.

BaneBane — Perfect for your constant auto-attacking between using your abilities.


Elder's Mercenary JacketElder's Mercenary Jacket

BloodlustBloodlust — Use this to help with sustaining your HP, pop it before casting your combo and you should regain a good amount of HP quite easily.

Once you are comfortable with healing yourself only using your Inner ShadowInner Shadow coupled with Roast PorkRoast Pork, you can also try using Elder's Stalker JacketElder's Stalker Jacket in order to deal even more AOE damage and clear dungeons faster.

Balanced MindBalanced Mind — This is your only relevant choice as it increases your flat damage.


Elder's Scholar CowlElder's Scholar Cowl

Energy ShieldEnergy Shield — This shield will not only increase your defense but also restore your mana. Because the build is quite mana intensive, you should use this to regain mana whenever it gets low. Keep in mind that you need to be attacked while the shield is active to regain mana so pop it before a group of mobs attacks you.

AggressionAggression — You want to choose this passive for the raw damage increase.


Elder's Soldier BootsElder's Soldier Boots

WanderlustWanderlust — While you can use essentially any other boots for PvE, the soldier boots with WanderlustWanderlust offer you a long lasting run though and its a great choice but you can opt for essentially any other boots in the game and you will be fine.

ToughnessToughness — This defensive option is preferred over AuthorityAuthority as the 5% CC duration increase doesn't do anything for this build.


Elder's Avalonian CapeElder's Avalonian Cape

Force PulseForce Pulse — This cape offers great AOE damage on a rather short 30s cooldown. Keep in mind that there is a small delay between using your auto-attack to trigger the cape and the explosion.


Rotations

AOE DPS ↴
Cursed Tar
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Inner Shadow
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Force Pulse
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Cursed Beam
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Cursed Tar
  • You want to start the rotation by pulling mobs either with your auto-attacks (if your cape is on cooldown or else the auto-attack will trigger the cape) or just walking through the room pulling aggro with your presence. Once the mobs are pulled close, use Cursed TarCursed Tar followed by Inner ShadowInner Shadow casted on yourself (use the shortcut alt + E). You should use your auto-attack to trigger Force PulseForce Pulse then use Cursed BeamCursed Beam to blow up the vile curse charges and deal AOE damage to the entire group of mobs.


Consumables

Major Poison PotionMajor Poison Potion — You want to have a few 4.0 poisons as it heavily decreases the resistance of bosses and while some bosses can be tough to kill, using a poison on them helps a lot as it also does extra true damage when used against mobs or bosses.

Roast PorkRoast Pork — While the Inner ShadowInner Shadow coupled with BloodlustBloodlust offers great healing, the use of Roast PorkRoast Pork helps you even more with healing while in combat, becoming essentially unkillable while you fight.


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