Longbow + Staff PVE Build

Overview

Weapons: Longbow and Staff

Designed for: PvE

Focused on: DPS and Ranged

Difficulty:

Normal

Strengths

• High Sustained DPS
• Good Group Utility
• Versatile

Weaknesses

• Stationary gameplay
• No defensives

Overview

This Staff & Longbow build focuses on dealing high damage in all PVE content while being a challenge as it requires a relatively high APM compared to other builds. The build can be played well by both new and experienced players, offering a challenge while being enjoyed by all types of players that enjoy the full ranged DPS playstyle.

Attributes

Strength

10

Dexterity

60

Wisdom

30

Perception

60

With this build, focus on Dexterity and Perception. Aim to reach level 30 in each stat to maximize your damage early on while you're leveling. As progress your gear and it improves over time, aim for the 60 points threshold in Dexterity to boost your critical hit rate and 60 points in Perception to improve your hit and range. Strength is relatively irrelevant for the build but you can dump the rest of your stat points into Wisdom to increase cooldown speed and mana.

Skills

Strafing

Zephyr's Nock

Decisive Sniping

Fireball Barrage

Chain Lightning

Serial Fire Bombs

Blitz

Deadly Marker

Brutal Arrow

Judgment Lightning

High Focus

Nature's Blessing

Passives

Defense

With your main DPS rotation being around the gale combo provided by Strafing, Zephyr's Nock and Brutal Arrow, these are the first skills you should level. However, don't forget that Decisive Sniping deals high burst damage. Judgment Lightning and Serial Fire Bombs also provide great AOE and single target DPS alongside Chain Lightning.

Deadly Marker is offers great utility to your party by improving crit rate while Nature's Blessing offers good health and mana regeneration. High Focus is another utility skill for your whole party, increasing cooldown speed for everyone in your party.

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 Mana to help a bit with your mana sustain and also gain extra melee defense.

Longbow: Spend 9 points into Sniping to greatly increase your raw damage and critical hit damage while 5 points should be invested into Support to improve your health regen by a little alongside extra movement speed and buff duration. The last point goes into Check for a bit of extra damage.

Rotations

High DPS Rotation ↴

• Start the rotation by casting Deadly Marker on your target before following up by buffing your party with High Focus and a quick Brutal Arrow onto the target to start stacking up Gale debuffs. Continue with Strafing (as many times as you can depending on procs) to force Gale stack explosions.

Continue by using Zephyr's Nock to trigger the target debuff applied by your Strafing and deal higher damage then use Chain Lightning and Serial Fire Bombs to put fire stacks and increase the amount of fireballs your Fireball Barrage will do next. Finish the rotation with a full channel of Decisive Sniping and 2 casts of Judgment Lightning.

AOE DPS rotation ↴

• Start your rotation with Brutal Arrow, applying Gale to all mobs before using Chain Lightning to deal damage to all mobs and continue with Serial Fire Bombs to damage all mobs. Finish the rotation with 2 Judgment Lightning casts that spreads to all mobs.

Blitz: As this ability resets your last used ability, you want to make use of this to reset your most important skills like Decisive Sniping or Deadly Marker during rotations.

Nature's Blessing: Make sure to let your staff players in the group know when you use this skill as they can use Inner Peace to quickly regain mana. You can also change Chain Lightning for Inner Peace if you have trouble with mana regeneration.

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.