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==={{Item|Elder's Shoes of Tenacity|45}}===
==={{Item|Elder's Shoes of Tenacity|45}}===
{{Skill|Blind Spot}} — This ability will turn you invisible every time you cast it but also deal extra damage the first time you do damage after activating it. It's a good choice for some extra damage and can be used every pull.
{{Skill|Blind Spot}} — This ability deals extra damage the first time you do damage after activating it. It's a good choice for some extra damage and can be used every pull.


{{Skill|Balanced Mind}} — This increases your damage even further, can't go wrong with it.
{{Skill|Balanced Mind}} — This increases your damage even further, can't go wrong with it.

Latest revision as of 17:43, 27 August 2024

Overview

Weapon: Bow
Focus: Range DPS

Strengths

  • Great Burst Damage
  • Easy to Play
  • Good Utility

Weaknesses

  • Low Mobility
This build is up to date for the September 18, 2024, Paths to Glory Patch #4 .

Overview

This Elder's LongbowElder's Longbow build focuses on dealing high burst damage on pulls while also offering great support by decreasing the cooldowns of your entire group between the pulls. The build remains very easy to play which is great for new players that are looking to deal good damage but also be useful to their team.


Equipment

Elder's Longbow
Main Hand Weapon
Elder's Longbow
Deadly Shot
Explosive Arrows
Rain of Arrows
Piercing Arrows
Elder's Specter Hood
Head
Elder's Specter Hood
Flash of Insight
Balanced Mind
Elder's Thetford Cape
Cape
Elder's Thetford Cape
Chain Lightning
Elder's Royal Jacket
Armor
Elder's Royal Jacket
Royal Banner
Balanced Mind
Elder's Shoes of Tenacity
Shoes
Elder's Shoes of Tenacity
Blind Spot
Balanced Mind
Major Poison Potion
Potion
Major Poison Potion
Pork Omelette
Food
Pork Omelette
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 LongbowElder's Longbow

Deadly ShotDeadly Shot — You should always align this shot so it hits as many enemies as possible during pulls because each hit decreases mob defenses and helps with killing them efficiently.

Explosive ArrowsExplosive Arrows — Use this on cooldown as it adds an explosive AOE effect to your next 10 arrows, helping a lot with improving your DPS.

Rain of ArrowsRain of Arrows — This is your main damage ability and it offers great burst potential. However, keep in mind that it fires 3 volleys and you have to remain stationary when casting it. Wait for your tank to pull and silence a clump of mobs before using this.

Piercing ArrowsPiercing Arrows — This passive will help a bit by decreasing the defenses of all mobs you hit with your auto-attacks.


Elder's Royal JacketElder's Royal Jacket

Royal BannerRoyal Banner — This is your main support ability and a great choice for just about any group. You should pop this cooldown after your group killed a clump of mobs in order to grant everyone that stacks on top of you the cooldown reduction, helping refresh their cooldowns before the next pull.

Balanced MindBalanced Mind — This is one of the passives that increases your damage and an obvious choice.


Elder's Specter HoodElder's Specter Hood

Flash of InsightFlash of Insight — You should use this after you've used your Royal BannerRoyal Banner in order to reset its cooldown and use that ability again. This will essentially let you cast the Royal BannerRoyal Banner twice every minute or so as both Royal BannerRoyal Banner and Flash of InsightFlash of Insight have a very similar cooldown.

Balanced MindBalanced Mind — This passive increases your damage which is perfect as it matches your goal to deal as much damage as possible.


Elder's Shoes of TenacityElder's Shoes of Tenacity

Blind SpotBlind Spot — This ability deals extra damage the first time you do damage after activating it. It's a good choice for some extra damage and can be used every pull.

Balanced MindBalanced Mind — This increases your damage even further, can't go wrong with it.


Elder's Thetford CapeElder's Thetford Cape

Chain LightningChain Lightning — Be careful when using this passive and wait for your tank to properly pull a group of mobs before you use your auto-attacks as they might trigger the Chain LightningChain Lightning and the skill can spread out to mobs that aren't pulled.


Rotations

Damage Rotation ↴
Blind Spot
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Rain of Arrows
Arrow right.webp
Deadly Shot
Arrow right.webp
Explosive Arrows
Arrow right.webp
Chain Lightning
Arrow right.webp
Deadly Shot
  • Wait for your tank to pull mobs first before using Blind SpotBlind Spot and following up with Rain of ArrowsRain of Arrows for quick burst AOE damage. Continue with a cast of Deadly ShotDeadly Shot to both damage and weaken mobs before using Explosive ArrowsExplosive Arrows to enhance your auto-attacks and deliver AOE damage each time. Your first auto-attack will also trigger the AOE Chain LightningChain Lightning. Keep auto-attacking and casting Deadly ShotDeadly Shot on cooldown until the group of mobs is dead.

Use Royal BannerRoyal Banner to refresh everyone's cooldowns and then use Flash of InsightFlash of Insight to reset your Royal BannerRoyal Banner cooldown entirely.


Consumables

Major Poison PotionMajor Poison Potion — The poison has many uses but most important use would be onto bosses in order to both do damage and also decrease their defenses. Make sure you coordinate with your party before using the poison as they do not stack and you want to cycle everyone's use of poison so a poison is always active on the boss.

Pork OmelettePork Omelette — Use this to decrease your cooldowns and make it so you get to use your abilities even more often! Use a 7.1 version if you can afford it.


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