Paladin - Greatsword + Wand Small Scale PvP Build
- Good Support Skills
- Good DPS
- Easy to Play
- Long Cooldowns
- Low Mobility
- Off-meta
Overview
Another off-meta build, this Greatsword and Wand Small Scale PvP build is perfect for both new and veteran players looking for a challenge or looking for a different approach to Throne and Liberty as this build offers great sustain for a Greatsword build while remaining rather easy to play. The Wand side of the build offers good healing between fights and to keep yourself healthy while also helping your group.
Attributes
Strength
Dexterity
Perception
WisdomFor this build, prioritize Strength and Dexterity as your main attributes. Strength boosts your damage, increases heavy attack chances (and enhances healing), and provides more HP, which is critical for PvP survival. Additionally, 
Vital Force improves both skill damage and healing based on your Strength. Aim for 60 points in Strength to gain extra health and further enhance your heavy attack chances and survivability. Dexterity is crucial for increasing your critical hit rate, improving your overall damage output. Finally, invest remaining points into Perception to boost your hit rate, while Wisdom isn't as valuable for this build.
Skills
The main focus when upgrading skills are the following: 
Valiant Brawl, 
Death Blow and 
Guillotine Blade. They are your bread and butter skills and pair perfectly with 
Stunning Blow and 
Ascending Slash in various combos. Meanwhile, 
Devastating Smash remains the main AOE CC to lock down groups of enemies when playing with a party.
Don't neglect the support side of the build though! 
Fountain of Life is a great AOE heal and can top up your entire group with ease between engages or simply used to heal yourself between fights in Dominion events. 
Swift Healing is a great heal to use during the fight, popping it on yourself to keep your health up while 
Clay's Salvation is another AOE healing option for use with party.
As far as passives go, you should focus on upgrading 
Robust Constitution for additional health and health regen. Vital Force matches well with Robust Constitution and considerably increases your damage & healing. 
Noble Revival is a direct passive increase to your healing while 
Saint's Oath increases your healing whenever you take damage, even boosting amitoi healing!
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
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Bonus Damage |
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Curse Damage |
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Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Mana Regen |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Wisdom |
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Skill Heal |
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Melee Defense |
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Added Attack Speed |
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Magic Critical Hit Chance |
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Melee Evasion |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Skill Heal |
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Buff Duration |
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Mana Regen |
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Heavy Attack Chance |
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Weaken Chance |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Max Mana |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Curse Duration |
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Weaken Chance |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Melee Evasion |
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Magic Defense |
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Max Health |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Bind Resistance |
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Buff Duration |
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Skill Damage Resistance |
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Movement Speed | ||
Health Regen |
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Mana Regen |
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Melee Hit Chance |
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Stun Chance |
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Damage |
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Mana Regen |
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Stun Duration |
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Melee Hit Chance |
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Stun Chance |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Damage |
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Bonus Damage |
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Melee Critical Hit Chance |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Added Attack Speed |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Melee Hit Chance |
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Melee Heavy Attack Chance |
Wand: Invest 9 points into Weaken to boost skill effectiveness and improve mana efficiency. Then, allocate the remaining 9 points into Recovery for increased heavy attack chance and more healing. The last point should go into Damage for a small boost in base damage, though it’s not a top priority.
Greatsword: Focus on improving your Greatsword combos by putting 9 points into Face Off to enhance your damage and heavy attack chances. Use the remaining 9 points on Incapacitate to increase your stun chance and reduce cooldowns for better crowd control. The final point should go into Charge for a bit of extra ranged defense.
Rotations
- Begin the rotation with
Precision Dash used two times to bind your target. If your bind succeeds, use Ascending Slash to trip (Prone) your target before using Death Blow for some extra damage. Follow up with Stunning Blow and Guillotine Blade to finish off your target.
Invincible Wall: This is a great skill to use when you expect an enemy to try and burst you down. This shield can tank a lot of enemy's damage rotation and allows you to live through it.
Devastating Smash: Use this skill on its own to lock down enemies when you catch a group stacked together. You can also follow up by using the Green Ranger Elowen guardian to maintain the enemies caught in place by rooting.
Cursed Nightmare: You can use this skill to CC someone and get away from a fight while you are vulnerable without cooldowns or simply to get away from a matchup you cannot win.
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