Warden - Longbow + Sword PvE Build
- Easy to Play
- Tanky
- Great Healing
- Group Reliant
- Low Movement
- Off-meta
Overview
Longbow and Sword build for PVE which is perfect for newer players that want an alternative from Sword + Wand or 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 heal itself well without the need for too much attention from a healer as 
Nature's Blessing and 
Healing Touch remain very potent healing abilities.
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, while also improving your ability to heal both yourself and your party members.
Skills
Rare Roaring Steak, 
Rare Thrilling Papillote, and even 
Rare Scorpion Tail Fritters to make it easier and also deal a lot more damage.As far as Longbow offensive skills go, you only have 
Zephyr's Nock & 
Strafing and you should try to level them up as early as possible to help you progress easier when solo farming mobs while 
Deadly Marker is a great debuff that enhances your overall damage (and your party's!).
The Longbow also acts as your healing weapon with a combination between Nature's Blessing and Healing Touch allowing you to heal yourself throughout fights and making it very difficult for mobs to kill you. Keep in mind however that you can also use these two skills to heal your teammates while in a pinch. Also make sure to also upgrade the 
Earth's Blessing to boost your overall healing!
Counter Barrier stands out as your most crucial defensive ability. Upgrading it first is strongly advised, as it enables you to counter both ranged and magic attacks effectively. Additionally, 
Shield Strike is fantastic for keeping aggro on the mobs you pull, pairing perfectly with 
Provoking Roar if you need to hold aggro of multiple mobs.
Annihilating Slash is your bread and butter for keeping AOE mob aggro as it can be used two times and hits all mobs around you so make sure to upgrade it too.
Regarding passives, this build incorporates mostly defensive passives which makes it almost ridiculously easy for you to stay alive. The primary aim is to enhance this passive defense with passives such as 
Distorted Sanctuary, 
Skillful Evasion and 
Devoted Shield providing great defense.
Resilient Mind comes into play as your main passive helping your mana sustain while 
Impenetrable increases your defense based on the amount of mobs stacked around you, pairing perfectly with 
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.
Equipment
Weapon Masteries
Artifacts
Rotations
- Start by debuffing the boss with Deadly Marker before moving into range with 2x Strafing followed by Zephyr's Nock and
A Shot at Victory to boost your Shield Strike damage.
- Thanks to Strafing, Zephyr's Nock cooldown should be ready by the time you move into boss range so use it again next. Follow with Healing Touch on yourself to keep your health up (and keep casting this skill throughout the fight to maintain 3 stacks).
- Finally, use Annihilating Slash twice to finish up the rotation.
- 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 before continuing with A Shot at Victory to boost your sword skill damage. Use Shield Strike to maintain aggro before following up with Annihilating Slash in the middle of the pack to keep the aggro.
- This rotation focuses on boosting the healing received by targets affected by your Healing Touch (or yourself). Once you've placed a Healing Touch buff on a target (preferably 3 times to have 3 stacks), continue by using Nature's Blessing to boost their regeneration.
Counter Barrier: Activate this skill when you expect heavy damage, but it can also be used during the beginning of a boss fight.
Stalwart Bastion: Use this in the same manner as 
Immortal Pride to boost your whole party's resistances and make it easier for your team to tank boss mechanics or stay alive if pulling too many mobs.
Immortal Pride: This is a great buff for yourself and your party members, temporarily increasing max HP and allowing you to survive mechanics that would otherwise wipe the party. Make sure that you use this when you notice one of your party members getting a bit too low on HP or as a pre-buff against AOE attacks that deal high damage.
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