Battleweaver - Crossbow + Staff PvE Build
- High DPS
- Lots of AOE damage
- Fun to Play
- Low Movement
- High APM
- High Skill Floor
Overview
This Crossbow & Staff PvE build that prioritizes high sustained DPS is capable of achieving one of the highest sustained DPS in the game. Although the crossbow is notorious for its high mana consumption because of its low cooldowns, the staff effectively mitigates this issue, enabling you to maintain DPS for prolonged periods during boss fights. With this setup, you'll effortlessly burn down bosses in dungeons, farm mobs in open world or any other PVE encounter!
Attributes
Perception
Dexterity
Strength
WisdomIn order to maximizing your damage potential, invest most points into Dexterity and Perception, aiming to push them first as they offer much needed hit rate and critical hit rate. As both the Crossbows and Longbow are mainly DPS weapons, there is no need for Wisdom, especially not for PVE content but strength can still offer good extra damage increase and a bit of HP that can help with certain encounters.
Skills
While leveling, make sure that you start by upgrading 
Quick Fire and 
Serial Fire Bombs to boost your damage potential and have an easier time leveling as these abilities play a significant role in your damage output from the beginning of your adventure in Throne and Liberty and up to the endgame content. Quick Fire remains your main damaging ability due to it's low cooldown, while Serial Fire Bombs and 
Chain Lightning deal great damage and are an important part of this Battleweaver build. 
Judgment Lightning and 
Merciless Barrage are great for dealing AOE damage with ease, especially when grinding mobs in open world dungeons.
Inner Peace is the main way of regaining mana throughout PVE encounters alongside 
Mana Exchange, helping alleviate any mana issues you might run into during your rotations as long you keep track of your mana.
As far as passives go, 
Piercing Strike, 
Ambidexterity and 
Forbidden Sanctuary provide respectable passive damage bonuses. Meanwhile, upgrading 
Asceticism will not only improve your mana regeneration and helps with the mana hunger but also grants you extra ranged heavy attack chance when you stand still during boss fights. 
Mana Amp offers you extra HP that can often save you from boss mechanics while 
Manaball Eruption adds extra damage to your auto-attacks.
Equipment
These are the first items you should strive for through the leveling period as they are very easy to get and upgrade or trait as needed. However, you shouldn't try to trait these items too much as you won't be spending too much time playing with this setup before you start changing pieces into the Midgame. The green accessories however are very easy to trait as you can craft many of them quickly in order to get the correct traits so you should consider traiting them until you change into purples. The same goes for the blue ring as you keep it for a long time.
This is the gear you should transition to once you're leveled to 50 and start grinding gear. It is comprised of gear you can get either from dungeons or by completing Litographs, they are relatively easy to trait up and you will spend most of the time wearing this set before advancing into the late game so traiting these items is very important and should be your main focus.
This is the current endgame gear you should aim for, and while it isn't easy to acquire, it offers great power without the need of acquiring archboss gear pieces. However, items like 
Tevent's Fangs of Fury or other archboss weapons are superior but difficult to acquire for the majority of players. If you do manage to get the archboss weapons for your build, feel free to use them over the weapons shown here.
Weapon Masteries
| Regen | Health Regen |
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Magic Defense |
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Dynamic Duo |
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Max Health |
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Magic Endurance |
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Ultimate Healing |
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Debuff Duration |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Refined Touch |
| Move | Ranged Hit Chance |
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Mana Regen |
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Calm Aim |
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Weaken Chance |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Cold Vision |
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Magic Defense |
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Ranged Crit Hit Chance |
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Quick Steps |
| Chain Fire | Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Cold Rage |
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Damage |
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Buff Duration |
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Rapid-Fire |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Mana Regen |
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Brutal Wound |
| Mana | Melee Defense |
|
Mana Regen |
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Spell Flexibility |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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All Evasion |
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Mana Blessing |
|
Mana Regen |
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Melee Defense |
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Reverberation Shield |
| Destroy | Damage |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Fatal Incantation |
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Damage |
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Mana Regen |
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Mana Intensification |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Bonus Damage |
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Strange Spacetime |
| Attribute | Mana Regen |
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Weaken Chance |
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Flame Wound |
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Max Mana |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Ignition Booster |
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Weaken Chance |
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Wisdom |
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Brutal Destruction |
Crossbow: Allocate 9 points into Chain Fire to boost your raw damage output and improve your ability to deliver sustained damage. Invest the remaining 6 points into Move to boost heavy attack chance and hit rate.
Staff: To maximize your damage output, allocate 9 points into Attribute to significantly increase your overall damage and burn chance. Then, invest 6 points into Destroy to gain even more extra damage.
Rotations
- Make sure that you have
Mother Nature's Protest active before beginning the rotation by buffing yourself with 
High Focus. Follow up with a fully charged Serial Fire Bombs to start dealing serious damage.
- Continue by using Inner Peace and cancelling it quickly so you still gain the benefit of lower mana usage when using skills. Follow-up with
Selfless Diffusion and then use Quick Fire and Judgment Lightning.
- Use
Fireball Barrage to make use of the burn stacks on your target before using 
Nimble Leap to animation cancel and reset Quick Fire before using Chain Lightning and Quick Fire. Finish the rotation with another Nimble Leap to reset Quick Fire and use it again.
Merciless Barrage: While it doesn't have to be part of a rotation, Merciless Barrage is fantastic for clearing groups of mobs with ease. Make sure to use Nimble Leap if you need that extra range.
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