Wand + Dagger Support PvP Build: Difference between revisions

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Overview

Weapons: Wand and Dagger

Designed for: PvP (large-scale)

Focused on: DPS

Difficulty:

Normal

Strengths

Great CC
Amazing AOE DPS
Great Utility

Weaknesses

Low Mobility
Squishy if CC'd
Low Mana

Overview

This Wand and Dagger PvP build stands out as a great AOE DPS build for large-scale PvP scenarios. Its strength lies in still being able to shield your team during extensive combat while dishing out AOE sleeps on enemy groups and maintaining the offense with your high AOE DPS.

Attributes

Strength

30

Dexterity

70

Wisdom

10

Perception

70

Your primary focus with this build should be the combination of Dexterity and Perception as you are looking to deal high damage while healing remains secondary in PVP fights. Additionally, spending some points into strength to at least reach 30 points remains valuable as it offers extra staying power with the extra max HP.

Skills

Touch of Despair

Corrupted Magic Circle

Swift Healing

Phantom Smokescreen

Invincile Wall

Cursed Nightmare

Shadow Strike

Karmic Haze

Fountain of Life

Time for Punishment

Camouflage Cloak

Curse Explosion

Passives

Defense

This Wand & Dagger build focuses on helping your team with both offense and defense but its main purpose remains dealing damage which requires investing skill books into the skills that form your main damage combo. Touch of Despair, Karmic Haze, Cursed Nightmare and Corrupted Magic Circle should take priority when you are upgrading skills.

However, you shouldn't forget your support skills as they can help turn the tides of a fight. Blessed Barrier and Invincile Wall are fantastic skills to support your party during pushes or to save those that overextend. Use Fountain of Life as you see fit to help your group or to keep yourself alive while using Swift Healing to heal friendly targets (and also heal yourself thanks to the 50% healing received).

As far as passives go, your priority should remain Assassin's Instincts, Wrathful Edge and Shadow Walker as they provide a fantastic damage boost to all your abilities while also improving your defenses with the use of Shadow Walker which can be triggered by simply using Block Blade to boost your evasion rate.

Equipment

Lequirus's Thorny Edge

Heavy Attack Chance

Critical Hit

Hit

Lequirus's Grip

Heavy Attack Chance

Critical Hit

Hit

Dawn Mist's Killing 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

Dawn Mist's Mourning 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

Wand

Dagger

Damage

Base Damage

Damage Bonus

Witch's Contract

Base Damage

Range Up

Regenerative Meditation

Cooldown Speed

Wisdom

Deep Pain

Recovery

Melee Defense

Attack Speed

Redemptive Penance

All Evasion

Range Up

Merciless Wraith

Buff Duration

Mana Regen

Spiritual Locus

Weaken

Mana Regen

Enfeeble Chance

Time of the Curse

Max Mana

Cooldown Speed

Spell of Retribution

Enfeeble Chance

Magic Hit

Spell of Retribution

Disguise

Ranged Defense

Health Regen

Debuff Immunity

Mana Cost Efficiency

Cooldown Speed

Master of Evasion

Buff Duration

Ranged Defense

Strong Will

Poison

Melee Hit

Off-Hand Weapon
Attack Chance

Enfeebling Terror

Mana Regen

Buff Duration

Sorrowful Silence

Mana Cost Efficiency

Melee Hit

Shrewd Judgment

Assassination

Melee Critical Hit

Base Damage

Ambidexterity

Melee Critical Hit

Cooldown Speed

Deep Grudge

Base Damage

Skill Damage Boost

Maddening Excitement

Wand: Allocating 9 points into Weaken is the best strategy as it amplifies your overall damage. The remaining 6 points should be distributed equally between Recovery and Damage.

Dagger: Investing 9 points into Disguise is ideal as it provides passive defensives that will help you stay alive even when under pressure as it boosts your evasion rate to almost ridiculous numbers, being able to shrug off damage entirely. The rest of 6 points should be invested into Assassination for extra crit damage.

Rotations

AOE DPS ↴

This rotation allows you to sleep a group of enemies while also deal good damage to them. Start by using Camouflage Cloak to position yourself (optional). Start your rotation with Cursed Nightmare, Time for Punishment, Corrupted Magic Circle and Touch of Despair to put them asleep and apply dots before you spread them by using Karmic Haze. Finish up your damage with Curse Explosion

Invincile Wall: Use this skill to shield yourself and your party members whenever required, either during defensive positioning or while your group is pushing into the enemy zerg.

Clay's Salvation: This is your AoE healing ability. Try to use it whenever your group mates are close together so the AoE heal can reach all of them.

Fountain of Life: Use this during pushes, placing it on the frontline as they engage into a fight or placing it within your own group or on top of yourself.

Swift Healing: This is your only single target healing ability and you should use it in order to save overextending party members that took too much damage while also healing yourself with the 50% healing you receive when using this skill.

Camouflage Cloak: Camouflage Cloak offers you stealth and a way to disengage whenever you are being focused, taking the heat off yourself.

Phantom Smokescreen: Use this to defend yourself against all attacks for a short while, particularly useful against Greatsword players. However, keep in mind that it doesn't defend you against Gaia Crash and you will have to use your Block Blade.

Useful Information

Choose Lady Knight Kamarshea as your guardian; it offers vital 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, allowing you to heal more frequently.

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 {{Build
-| weapon 1 = Wand & Tome
+| weapon 1 = Wand
 | weapon 2 = Dagger
-| mode = PvP
+| mode = PvP (large-scale)
-| focus = Support
+| focus = DPS
-| strengths = Great Healing, Great Debuffs, Great Utility
+| strengths = Great CC, Amazing AOE DPS, Great Utility
-| weaknesses = Low Damage, Low mobility
+| weaknesses = Low Mobility, Squishy if CC'd, Low Mana
+| difficulty = 2
 }}
 ==Overview==
-This Wand & Tome and Dagger PvP build stands out as one of the top support builds for large-scale PvP scenarios. Its strength lies in shielding your team during extensive combat by thwarting enemy advances while bolstering your group's offensive with strong healing capabilities.
+This Wand and Dagger PvP build stands out as a great AOE DPS build for large-scale PvP scenarios. Its strength lies in still being able to shield your team during extensive combat while dishing out AOE sleeps on enemy groups and maintaining the offense with your high AOE DPS.
 ==Attributes==
 {{Attributes
-| strength = 19
+| strength = 30
-| dexterity = 0
+| dexterity = 70
-| wisdom = 30
+| wisdom = 10
-| perception = 30
+| perception = 70
 }}
-Your primary focus with this build should be Wisdom, as it enhances your maximum mana, crucial for sustaining prolonged engagements. Additionally, Wisdom boosts mana regeneration and cooldown speed, essential for maintaining your abilities. After reaching 30 Wisdom, allocate 30 points into Perception to amplify your damage output, thereby increasing the effectiveness of your healing abilities. The remaining 9 points can be invested in Strength to bolster your base HP, enhancing your survivability in PvP encounters and maximizing your maximum HP.
+Your primary focus with this build should be the combination of Dexterity and Perception as you are looking to deal high damage while healing remains secondary in PVP fights. Additionally, spending some points into strength to at least reach 30 points remains valuable as it offers extra staying power with the extra max HP.
 ==Skills==
 {{Skill bar
-| defense = Chaotic Shield
+| defense = Block Blade
 | active 1 = Touch of Despair
+| active 1 traits = 1
 | active 2 = Corrupted Magic Circle
+| active 2 traits = 1
 | active 3 = Swift Healing
-| active 4 = Inject Venom
+| active 3 traits = 1, 2, 3
-| active 5 = Clay's Salvation
+| active 4 = Phantom Smokescreen
+| active 4 traits = 1, 2
+| active 5 = Invincile Wall
+| active 5 traits = 1, 2
 | active 6 = Cursed Nightmare
+| active 6 traits = 1, 2
 | active 7 = Shadow Strike
 | active 8 = Karmic Haze
+| active 8 traits = 2, 3
 | active 9 = Fountain of Life
+| active 9 traits = 2
 | active 10 = Time for Punishment
+| active 10 traits = 2
 | active 11 = Camouflage Cloak
 | active 12 = Curse Explosion
+| active 12 traits = 2
 | passive 1 = Assassin's Instincts
 | passive 2 = Shadow Walker
 | passive 3 = Wraith's Beckon
-| passive 4 = Noble Revival
+| passive 4 = Full of Corruption
 | passive 5 = Devotion and Emptiness
-| passive 6 = Vampiric Contract
+| passive 6 = Selfless Soul
 | passive 7 = Wrathful Edge
 | passive 8 = Assassin's Step
 }}
+This Wand & Dagger build focuses on helping your team with both offense and defense but its main purpose remains dealing damage which requires investing skill books into the skills that form your main damage combo. {{Skill|Touch of Despair|active}}, {{Skill|Karmic Haze|active}}, {{Skill|Cursed Nightmare|active}} and {{Skill|Corrupted Magic Circle|active}} should take priority when you are upgrading skills.
-==Skill Priority==
+However, you shouldn't forget your support skills as they can help turn the tides of a fight. {{Skill|Blessed Barrier|active}} and {{Skill|Invincile Wall|active}} are fantastic skills to support your party during pushes or to save those that overextend. Use {{Skill|Fountain of Life|active}} as you see fit to help your group or to keep yourself alive while using {{Skill|Swift Healing|active}} to heal friendly targets (and also heal yourself thanks to the 50% healing received).
-{{Priority|
-{{Priority active|Swift Healing|Rare}},
-{{Priority active|Inject Venom|Rare}},
-{{Priority active|Touch of Despair|Rare}},
-{{Priority active|Shadow Strike|Rare}},
-{{Priority active|Curse Explosion|Rare}},
-{{Priority active|Corrupted Magic Circle|Epic}},
-{{Priority active|Swift Healing|Epic}},
-{{Priority active|Inject Venom|Epic}},
-{{Priority active|Curse Explosion|Epic}},
-{{Priority active|Touch of Despair|Epic}},
-}}
-When prioritizing skill upgrades, focus on getting {{Skill|Swift Healing|active}} up along with {{Skill|Inject Venom|active}} as they make the biggest impact, allowing you to stack poison up to 20 on your targets while rare level of {{Skill|Swift Healing|active}} allows you to cast the ability twice. Rare level of {{Skill|Touch of Despair|active}} also increases the number of curse stacks you can place on a target. Afterwards you should turn your focus on {{Skill|Shadow Strike|active}} so you can lower it's cooldown and also bind targets whenever you teleport behind them.
+As far as passives go, your priority should remain {{Skill|Assassin's Instincts|passive}}, {{Skill|Wrathful Edge|passive}} and {{Skill|Shadow Walker|passive}} as they provide a fantastic damage boost to all your abilities while also improving your defenses with the use of {{Skill|Shadow Walker|passive}} which can be triggered by simply using {{Skill|Block Blade|defense}} to boost your evasion rate.
-==Passives Priority==
+==Equipment==
-{{Priority|
+{{Gear
-{{Priority passive|Devotion and Emptiness|Rare}},
+| weapon 1 = Lequirus's Thorny Edge
-{{Priority passive|Wraith's Beckon|Rare}},
+| weapon 1 traits = Heavy Attack Chance, Critical Hit, Hit
-{{Priority passive|Assassin's Instincts|Rare}},
+| weapon 2 = Lequirus's Grip
-{{Priority passive|Assassin's Step|Rare}},
+| weapon 2 traits = Heavy Attack Chance, Critical Hit, Hit
-{{Priority passive|Shadow Walker|Epic}},
+| head = Dawn Mist's Killing Hood
-{{Priority passive|Vampiric Contract|Epic}},
+| head traits = Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion, Cooldown Speed
-{{Priority passive|Devotion and Emptiness|Epic}},
+| cloak = Hermit's Shroud
-{{Priority passive|Assassin's Instincts|Epic}},
+| cloak traits = Max Health, Silence Resistance, Skill Damage Resistance
-{{Priority passive|Assassin's Step|Epic}},
+| chest = Winged Wind Storm Armor
-{{Priority passive|Wraith's Beckon|Epic}}
+| chest traits = Magic Evasion, Magic Endurance, Ranged Evasion
+| gloves = World Tree's Origin Gloves
+| gloves traits = Melee Evasion, Range, Magic Evasion
+| legs = Dawn Mist's Mourning Pants
+| legs traits = Max Health, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion
+| feet = Winged Wind Gale Boots
+| feet traits = Max Health, Magic Evasion, Move Speed
+| necklace = Thunder Cleaver Necklace
+| necklace traits = Skill Damage Boost, Max Health, Silence Chance
+| bracelet = Beast King's Gilded Bracers
+| bracelet traits = Max Health, Skill Damage Resistance, Silence Resistance
+| ring 1 = Insightful Ring of Dimension
+| ring 1 traits = Skill Damage Boost, Max Health, Buff Duration
+| ring 2 = Transcendent Magic Ring
+| ring 2 traits = Skill Damage Boost, Max Health, Buff Duration
+| belt = Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
+| belt traits = Max Health, Silence Resistance, Skill Damage Resistance
 }}
-You should prioritize {{Skill|Devotion and Emptiness|passive}} as it increases the amount of healing you provide through all your healing abilities and it couples well with {{Skill|Noble Revival|passive}}. Meanwhile, {{Skill|Wraith's Beckon|passive}} extends the duration of your curses, providing extra healing thanks to {{Skill|Vampiric Contract|passive}}, allowing the use of your curses to heal the frontline of your group without your active healing attention. {{Skill|Assassin's Instincts|passive}}, is a good offensive passive that grants you extra critical hit while {{Skill|Shadow Walker|passive}} is our only defensive option.
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 | weapon 1 = Wand
 | weapon 2 = Dagger
-| mastery 1 = {{ Mastery | weapon = wand | row 1 = 0 | row 2 = 9 | row 3 = 3 }}
+| mastery 1 = {{ Mastery | weapon = wand | row 1 = 3 | row 2 = 3 | row 3 = 9 }}
-| mastery 2 = {{ Mastery | weapon = dagger | row 1 = 9 | row 2 = 3 | row 3 = 0 }}
+| mastery 2 = {{ Mastery | weapon = dagger | row 1 = 9 | row 2 = 6 | row 3 = 0 }}
 }}
 '''Wand:'''
-Allocating 9 points into Recovery is the best strategy as it amplifies your healing capacity while also boosting mana regeneration. The remaining 3 points can be distributed to Weaken, primarily to extend the duration of damage you do with your curses.
+Allocating 9 points into Weaken is the best strategy as it amplifies your overall damage. The remaining 6 points should be distributed equally between Recovery and Damage.
 '''Dagger:'''
-Investing 9 points into Disguise is ideal as it provides passive defensives that will help you stay alive even when under pressure, being able to shrug off chip damage easier while the rest of 3 points can go Poison for a bit of extra damage and weaken chance.
+Investing 9 points into Disguise is ideal as it provides passive defensives that will help you stay alive even when under pressure as it boosts your evasion rate to almost ridiculous numbers, being able to shrug off damage entirely. The rest of 6 points should be invested into Assassination for extra crit damage.
 ==Rotations==
-{{Rotation|AOE Pressure|Inject Venom, Touch of Despair, Time for Punishment, Karmic Haze, Corrupted Magic Circle, Curse Explosion }}
+{{Rotation|AOE DPS|Camouflage Cloak, Cursed Nightmare, Time for Punishment, Corrupted Magic Circle, Touch of Despair, Karmic Haze, Curse Explosion}}
-*With this rotation you want to find a target that is close enough and you can keep following. You want to start by popping up your {{Skill|Inject Venom|active}} so all the following spells you use will spread your poison to everyone that gets hit. Once that's active, you cast {{Skill|Touch of Despair|active}} to get a stack of curses on your main target, then follow up by debuffing them with {{Skill|Time for Punishment|active}} that will decrease their resistances. Follow up with {{Skill|Karmic Haze|active}} in order to spread all curses and poison to other targets before casting {{Skill|Corrupted Magic Circle|active}} on top of your main target and the group of players around them in order to spread your curses further. Finally use {{Skill|Curse Explosion|active}} to deliver high damage to all targets previously infected by the mix of curses and poison.
+* This rotation allows you to sleep a group of enemies while also deal good damage to them. Start by using {{Skill|Camouflage Cloak|active}} to position yourself (optional). Start your rotation with {{Skill|Cursed Nightmare|active}}, {{Skill|Time for Punishment|active}}, {{Skill|Corrupted Magic Circle|active}} and {{Skill|Touch of Despair|active}} to put them asleep and apply dots before you spread them by using {{Skill|Karmic Haze|active}}. Finish up your damage with {{Skill|Curse Explosion|active}}
-{{Skill|Cursed Nightmare|Active}}: This is the ability you use in order to disable incoming enemy engagers or targets that are trying to run away from you. Keep in mind that it takes 3 seconds for the spell to take effect.
+{{Skill|Invincile Wall|Active}}: Use this skill to shield yourself and your party members whenever required, either during defensive positioning or while your group is pushing into the enemy zerg.
 {{Skill|Clay's Salvation|Active}}: This is your AoE healing ability. Try to use it whenever your group mates are close together so the AoE heal can reach all of them.
-{{Skill|Fountain of Life|active}}: Use this during pushes, placing it on the frontline as they engage into a fight or placing it within your zerg while you are fighting over a position will provide much needed healing.
+{{Skill|Fountain of Life|active}}: Use this during pushes, placing it on the frontline as they engage into a fight or placing it within your own group or on top of yourself.
-{{Skill|Swift Healing|active}}: This is your only single target healing ability and you should use it in order to save overextending party members that took too much damage or on yourself.
+{{Skill|Swift Healing|active}}: This is your only single target healing ability and you should use it in order to save overextending party members that took too much damage while also healing yourself with the 50% healing you receive when using this skill.
-{{Skill|Shadow Strike|active}}: You can use this ability either to reposition or to lock down a target that pushed into your zerg, binding and silencing them for your team to kill.
 {{Skill|Camouflage Cloak|active}}: Camouflage Cloak offers you stealth and a way to disengage whenever you are being focused, taking the heat off yourself.
-==Gear==
+{{Skill|Phantom Smokescreen|active}}: Use this to defend yourself against all attacks for a short while, particularly useful against Greatsword players. However, keep in mind that it doesn't defend you against {{Skill|Gaia Crash|active}} and you will have to use your {{Skill|Block Blade|defense}}.
-* Weapons: {{Weapon|Lequirus's Thorny Edge}} + {{Weapon|Lequirus's Grip}}
-* Traits 1: Health Regen > Weapon Damage > Hit
-* Traits 2: Heavy Attack Chance > Max Health > Weapon Damage
-* Helmet: {{Equipment|Reaper's Black Mask}} - Traits: Magic Evasion > Ranged Evasion > Magic Endurance
-* Cloak: {{Equipment|Archpriest's Devotion}} - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Skill Damage Resistance
-* Chest: {{Equipment|Miracle of Mother Nature Clothing}} - Traits: Magic Evasion > Magic Endurance > Melee Evasion
-* Gloves: {{Equipment|Reaper's Hand of Death}} - Traits: Max Mana > Magic Evasion > Ranged Evasion
-* Pants: {{Equipment|Special Resistance Hawk Pants}} - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Magic Evasion
-* Boots: {{Equipment|Resonance of Mother Nature Boots}} - Traits: Max Mana > Mana Regen > Magic Evasion
-* Necklace: {{Equipment|Holy Warrior's Choker}} - Traits: Skill Damage Boost > Max Health > Buff Duration
-* Rings: {{Equipment|Insightful Ring of Dimension}} + {{Equipment|Eternal Ring of Dimension}}
-* Traits 1: Max Health > Health Regen > Skill Damage Boost
-* Traits 2: Max Health > Health Rege > Skill Damage Boost
-* Belt: {{Equipment|Duke Magna's Belt}} - Traits: Max Health > Health Regen > Skill Damage Resistance
-* Bracelet: {{Equipment|Beast King's Gilded Bracers}} - Traits: Max Health > Skill Damage Resistance > Health Regen
 ==Useful Information==
 * Choose Lady Knight Kamarshea as your guardian; it offers vital 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, allowing you to heal more frequently.
 ==Comments==
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