Disciple - Staff + Sword Small Scale PvP Build
- Good Mobility
- Tanky
- Versatile
- Low damage compared to other DPS builds
- Off-meta
Overview
This Disciple Staff and Sword build combination for Small Scale PVP is perfect for newer players that want an alternative off-meta choice over other builds like Staff + Longbow or Staff + Dagger. This build is considerably more tanky than other alternatives and offers great sustain for all PVP content, exceling in defending through 
Counter Barrier and passives like 
Impenetrable and 
Aegis Shield.
Attributes
Strength
Dexterity
Perception
WisdomWith this build, your primary attribute focus should be strength and dexterity, especially as Strength provides high max HP and boost your defensive stats, improving your resistance to ranged, magic, and melee attacks, along with enhancing health regeneration allowing you to remain very tanky while going into PVP fights, capable of drawing a lot of attention to yourself while your team kills your opponents. Your secondary focus should be perception for extra damage while wisdom increases your cooldown speed but shouldn't be a priority as it doesn't provide all that much to the build.
Skills
The most important skill remains 
Serial Fire Bombs as the specialization turns it into a large fireball capable of dealing high burst damage to a target and in an area around it. The staff also provides a great mobility skill to pair with 
Strategic Rush, and while it doesn't lower your cooldowns, 
Frost Smokescreen is great for moving around the battlefield. 
Fireball Barrage is a fantastic skill for burning down enemies when your main cooldowns are already used.
The 
Judgment Lightning and 
Chain Lightning skills further add high burst damage while also spreading to multiple nearby enemies. This build also offers good CC with 
Ice Spear being able to catch an enemy with considerable damage, allowing you to take quick kills by only pressing a single button if they are already low.
The main defensive skill from the Staff side of the build is 
High Focus, greatly increasing your evasion rate, making it difficult for enemies to land hits on you during the duration of this skill while also boosting your offense.
The Counter Barrier Sword & Shield skill remains a core 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, 
Stalwart Bastion extends protection not only to yourself but also your party members.
This build enhances your survivability with Sword passives that bolster your defenses in PVP fights. The key focus is remains upgrading Aegis Shield, which scales your defense based on your shield block chance, making it essential to use swords with a high shield block rate. Furthermore, 
Skillful Evasion and Impenetrable significantly increase your defenses when surrounded by enemies. These passives work exceptionally well when combined with High Focus, allowing you to stay alive much more during fights.
The Staff comes into play with some defensive passives too while also helping you sustain mana as 
Mana Amp increases both max HP and mana. The main damage improvement comes from 
Forbidden Sanctuary and 
Flame Condensation though as it increases all your fire damage potential.
Equipment
Weapon Masteries
Artifacts
Rotations
- Start by binding your target with
Icebound Tomb before channeling Judgment Lightning followed by a re-bind using Ice Spear and a fully charged Serial Fire Bombs then finish them off with Chain Lightning and 
Inferno Wave
Fireball Barrage: This skill can be used after every Serial Fire Bombs when other skills are on cooldown, it is the perfect follow-up for when your main burst rotation is on cooldown.
Icebound Tomb: This ability is fantastic for resetting engagements or immobilizing a target to help with your escape. This skill allows you to fully cast skills like Judgment Lightning or Serial Fire Bombs while also improving the damage you do to the target by lowering their resistances.
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.
PvP
PvE
