Liberator - Longbow + Staff PvE Build
- High Sustained DPS
- Good Group Utility
- Versatile
- 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
Dexterity
Perception
Strength
WisdomFor this build, focus on increasing Perception and Dexterity to maximize your damage output. These stats should be your main priority early on, as they boost your critical hit rate and improve both hit and overall damage. As you progress and upgrade your gear, continue investing in them for better performance. Strength and Wisdom are secondary priorities. Strength boosts your max HP which can help a great deal with certain PVE challenges, while Wisdom helps with mana regeneration. While not as critical, these stats will still support your survivability as you progress in Throne and Liberty.
Skills
With your main DPS rotation being around the gale combo provided by 
Strafing, 
Zephyr's Nock and 
Ice Spear, these are the first skills you should level. However, don't forget that 
Inferno Wave deals high burst damage and also applies burn stacks if you already applied burn stacks before using it through 
Serial Fire Bombs. 
Judgment Lightning and Serial Fire Bombs also provide great AOE and single target DPS alongside 
Chain Lightning. 
Infernal Meteor should be the main ability you invest omnipotence books into as upgrading it will increase damage by a great deal.
Deadly Marker is offers great utility to your party by improving crit rate and lowers cooldowns for the party members hitting the same target (it also stacks with other Deadly Marker). Meanwhile, 
Nature's Blessing offers good health and mana regeneration. 
High Focus is another utility skill for yourself to further lower cooldowns.
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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Melee Evasion |
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Melee Defense |
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Damage |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Magic Critical Hit Chance |
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Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Bonus Damage |
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Weaken Chance |
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Burning Damage |
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Max Mana |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Burning Chance |
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Weaken Chance |
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Wisdom |
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Magic Defense |
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Skill Damage Resist |
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Magic Evasion |
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Perception |
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Ranged Hit Chance |
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Movement Speed |
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Bind Chance |
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Max Mana |
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Movement Speed |
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Bind Duration |
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Ranged Crit Hit Chance |
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Bonus Damage |
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Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Added Attack Speed |
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Ranged Crit Hit Chance |
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Critical Damage |
Staff: Invest 9 points into Destroy to lower cooldowns and enhance damage output, an essential upgrade for this build. Then, allocate points into Attribute to boost burn damage and increase burn chances while also improving cooldowns. Place the remaining 1 point into Mana for a slight defensive boost.
Longbow: Place 9 points in Sniping for a significant increase in damage and critical damage. Dedicate 9 points in Support to raise your resistance and add extra Perception, improving skill damage resistance and helping with PVE bosses. Use the final point in Check for additional ranged hit chance.
Rotations
- Start the rotation by casting Deadly Marker on your target before using High Focus to reduce cooldowns and increase damage. Then, begin the damaging part of the rotation with Infernal Meteor to deal high damage and also apply Burn stacks.
- Continue the rotation with Ice Spear and 2x Strafing before using Zephyr's Nock and using Strafing again alongside Chain Lightning.
- Once Zephyr's Nock is off cooldown, use it along with Inferno Wave then use Judgment Lightning and Serial Fire Bombs.
- This is your bread and butter AOE DPS rotation on a low cooldown. Start with Serial Fire Bombs and Inferno Wave to stack up burn stacks on enemies before using Chain Lightning and Judgment Lightning to finish off the mobs.
Fireball Barrage: This spell can be swapped instead of Infernal Meteor if you want quicker single target DPS.
Blitz: You can get this instead of Inferno Wave if you lack Deadly Markers in your party, allowing you to reset your deadly marker and so improving overall uptime.
