Longbow + Staff Large Scale PvP Build

Overview

Weapons: Longbow and Staff

Designed for: PvP (large-scale)

Focused on: DPS and Ranged

Difficulty:

Hard

Strengths

• High burst AOE Burst
• Long range
• Good mana sustain

Weaknesses

• Stationary gameplay
• Long cooldowns
• Very weak 1vs1

Overview

This Bow & Staff build focuses on large scale PVP. It is one of the top choices for Guilds vs Guild PVP, world bosses and archboss fights, performing well as a mostly stationary DPS making use of the high AOE damage offered by Flash Arrow coupled with the utility of Arrow Vortex, allowing you to stop entire enemy pushes with one well placed ability.

Attributes

Strength

30

Dexterity

60

Wisdom

10

Perception

60

With this build, focus on increasing both Dexterity and Perception. Aim to reach level 30 in each stat to maximize your damage early on. As you level up and your gear improves, aim for 60 points in Dexterity to boost your critical hit rate and 60 points in Perception to improve your hit and range. Strength is also important because it increases your max HP, making you more durable in PvP. It's recommended to get 30 points in Strength, as it's easy to achieve and helps your survivability from early to late game even though it shouldn't be your first priority.

Skills

Strafing

Zephyr's Nock

Decisive Sniping

Arrow Vortex

Chain Lightning

Frost Smokescreen

Blitz

Flash Arrow

Brutal Arrow

Judgment Lightning

High Focus

Ensnaring Arrow

Passives

Defense

Your main AOE DPS will come from the Flash Arrow, dealing high AOE damage directly in front of your character with Arrow Vortex used for setting up the damage. Decisive Sniping is also a strong damaging skill and should also be upgraded as soon as possible. Judgment Lightning and Brutal Arrow also provide good AOE damage without a channel time, being worth upgrading as they both deal high damage while remaining on the move.

Ensnaring Arrow is a great CC for single targets that try to engage on you, allowing the follow-up with Strafing, Zephyr's Nock and Chain Lightning as quick single target burst so you can force enemies off yourself and remain safe.

Equipment

Toublek's Thunderous Soul

Heavy Attack Chance

Critical Hit

Hit

Moonlight Bowstring

Heavy Attack Chance

Critical Hit

Hit

Winged Wind Storm Hood

Magic Evasion

Ranged Evasion

Cooldown Speed

Hermit's Shroud

Max Health

Silence Resistance

Skill Damage Resistance

Winged Wind Storm Armor

Magic Evasion

Magic Endurance

Ranged Evasion

World Tree's Origin Gloves

Melee Evasion

Range

Magic Evasion

Winged Wind Tsunami Pants

Max Health

Magic Evasion

Ranged Evasion

Winged Wind Gale Boots

Max Health

Magic Evasion

Move Speed

Thunder Cleaver Necklace

Skill Damage Boost

Max Health

Silence Chance

Beast King's Gilded Bracers

Max Health

Skill Damage Resistance

Silence Resistance

Insightful Ring of Dimension

Skill Damage Boost

Max Health

Buff Duration

Transcendent Magic Ring

Skill Damage Boost

Max Health

Buff Duration

Tycan's Bloodlust Belt

Max Health

Silence Resistance

Skill Damage Resistance

Weapon Masteries

Staff

Longbow

Mana

Melee Defense

Mana Regen

Spell Flexibility

Magic Hit

All Evasion

Mana Blessing

Mana Regen

Melee Defense

Reverberation Shield

Destroy

Base Damage

Magic Hit

Fatal Incantation

Base Damage

Mana Regen

Mana Intensification

Cooldown Speed

Damage Bonus

Strange Spacetime

Attribute

Mana Regen

Enfeeble Chance

Flame Wound

Max Mana

Magic Hit

Ignition Booster

Enfeeble Chance

Wisdom

Vast Destruction

Support

Max Health

Magic Defense

Vitality of Dew

Move Speed

Buff Duration

Anti-magic Arts

Magic Evasion

Perception

Grace Song

Check

Ranged Hit

Move Speed

Wedge of Oppression

Max Mana

Mana Regen

Gale Arrowhead

Range ↑

Mana Cost Efficiency

Phantom Snare

Sniping

Ranged Hit +20

Ranged Crit Hit

Pointy Throns

Damage Bonus

Base Damage

Critical Nock

Attack Speed

Ranged Crit Hit

Brutal Shooter

Staff: To maximize your damage output, allocate 9 points into Destroy to significantly increase skill damage through Weapon Masteries. Then, invest 6 points into Attribute to increase Burning Damage by 10% and Burning Chance by 5%.

Longbow: Spend 9 points into Sniping to greatly increase your raw damage and critical hit damage while 6 points should be invested into Check to improve your bind chance for your Ensnaring Arrow but also increase your cooldown speed by 4%.

Rotations

AOE CC + AOE Burst Damage ↴

• This rotation is used to both CC and deal high AOE damage in quick succession while the enemy zerg is caught by your Arrow Vortex. Buff yourself up with High Locus, improving your hit rate and your evasion chance. Continue through with your frontline then use Arrow Vortex to throw enemies into the air before you channel Flash Arrow to deliver high AOE damage to those you caught. Follow up with quick casts of Judgment Lightning and Chain Lightning.

If you manage to push through the enemy zerg with this and they are backing off, make sure to use Decisive Sniping, aiming to hit as many stacked enemies as possible.

Single Target DPS ↴

• Use this rotation to eliminate single targets caught out of position. Start by using Ensnaring Arrow to bind them in place before following up with Strafing that deals high damage and also applies the Target debuff that increases your Zephyr's Nock damage. Continu with both Judgment Lightning and Chain Lightning to finish off the target.

Blitz: As this ability resets your last used ability, you want to make use of this to reset your most important skills like Arrow Vortex or Flash Arrow.

Frost Smokescreen: This is your only mobility skill, allowing you to escape fights and slow down enemies left behind. Use it with a directional key to teleport in that direction and leave behind a slowing smoke at the starting location.

Useful Information

• Select Lady Knight Kamarshea as your guardian; it provides essential protection with its shield, capable of absorbing damage equal to 50% of your mana. This not only aids in mitigating damage but also increases your cooldown speed in order to let you heal more often.