Disciple - Staff + Sword PvE Tank Build
- Easy to Play
- Tanky
- Group Reliant
- Low Movement
- Off-meta
Overview
This Disciple Staff and Sword build combination for PVE is perfect for newer players that want an alternative from Sword + Greatsword while remaining a good choice for tanking in dungeons or any other PVE content in Throne and Liberty. This build has the potential to also deal good damage and play at range. This build brings a lot of damage potential even outside dungeons, allowing you to clear open world mobs and contracts much easier even though its considered an off-meta choice by most players.
Attributes
Strength
Dexterity
Wisdom
PerceptionWith this build, your primary attribute focus should be strength and dexterity, as they provide high max HP and boost your defensive stats, improving your resistance to ranged, magic, and melee attacks, along with enhancing health regeneration. Your secondary focus should be on wisdom and perception, which increase your cooldown speed and damage output.
Skills
Rare Roaring Steak, 
Rare Thrilling Papillote, and even 
Rare Scorpion Tail Fritters to make it easier and also deal a lot more damage.For Staff offensive skills, you have 
Frost Smokescreen for high AOE DPS while 
Judgment Lightning is a fantastic skill to deal high damage while also spreading to multiple nearby enemies in a similar way to 
Chain Lightning, making the build more than capable of dealing with multiple enemies at the same time.
The Staff also provides some defensive skills that shouldn't be ignored like 
High Focus greatly increasing your evasion while 
Salvation Chain is the perfect panic button to use if you see your HP slipping or need an extra cooldown to use in a pinch.
The 
Counter Barrier Sword & Shield ability is your most essential defensive tool, making it a priority to upgrade first. It allows you to effectively counter both ranged and magical attacks, significantly boosting your survivability. In addition, 
Shield Strike is invaluable for maintaining aggro on the enemies you pull, and it works seamlessly with 
Provoking Roar when you need to control multiple mobs at once, ensuring they stay focused on you.
Shield Throw is your bread and butter to help with keeping AOE mob aggro as it can be used two times and hits multiple enemies based on how you position it.
Regarding passives, this build incorporates great sword defensive passives which makes it much easier you to stay alive. The primary aim is to enhance this passive defense with passives such as 
Aegis Shield which increases your defenses based on your shield block chance and is the reason why you should always aim to acquire swords with high shield block chance. 
Skillful Evasion and 
Impenetrable increases your defense based on the amount of mobs stacked around you.
The Staff comes into play with some defensive skills too while also helping you sustain mana as 
Mana Amp and 
Asceticism coupled with 
Resilient Mind makes it very difficult for you to run out of mana while using this build. The main damage improvement comes from 
Forbidden Sanctuary and 
Flame Condensation though!
Equipment
Weapon Masteries
Artifacts
Rotations
- Start by buffing yourself and your party with
Stalwart Bastion before continuing with 
A Shot at Victory to boost your Shield Strike damage.
- Follow up with your Staff rotation: Chain Lightning, Judgment Lightning two times and Frost Smokescreen two times as well until your Chain Lightning cooldown is up and you can use it again. Use Provoking Roar in the end to finish off the rotation and make sure you maintain aggro.
- This rotation is intended for use in open world dungeons or when AOE grinding mobs. Begin by pulling the mobs close, rounding them up before using Provoking Roar to force aggro onto yourself and continuing with Frost Smokescreen to deal AOE burn damage, coupling up with Chain Lightning before using Frost Smokescreen and transitioning to Judgment Lightning before finishing up the mobs with Shield Throw.
Counter Barrier: Use this skill when you expect heavy damage, but it can also be used during the beginning of a boss fight.
High Focus: Use this in the same manner as Counter Barrier as it increases your evasion and makes it so you can evade mob hits.
Immortal Pride: This ability is a powerful buff for both you and your party, temporarily boosting max HP and offering survivability during difficult boss fights. It’s especially useful for enduring mechanics that could otherwise wipe the group. Make sure to activate it when you notice a party member's health dropping dangerously low or preemptively before large AoE attacks that deal high damage, ensuring your team has the extra durability needed to survive.
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