Darkblighter - Wand + Dagger PvE Build
This build has been archived and should not be used in-game.- Amazing AoE Damage
- Easy to play
- Low mobility
- Low Single Target DPS
Overview
Wand and Dagger PvE build with focuses on high DoT AoE damage, performing well when killing large amounts of mobs for rare drops or doing contracts. It can also excel in open world dungeons grinding high level mobs with a group for drops or contracts. It isn't recommended for dungeons or leveling but it still performs incredibly well at PvE events where killing large amounts of mobs is important.
Attributes
Perception
Dexterity
Strength
WisdomFor this build, prioritize Perception and Dexterity to maximize your damage. These should be your main focus, particularly early on. As you progress and enhance your gear, continue investing into both to improve critical hits, accuracy, and range. Strength and Wisdom are secondary but still important. Strength boosts your health, improving durability, while Wisdom helps with mana regeneration. Although not as crucial, these stats will still contribute to your overall survival as you level up and gaining 30 points into Strength is particularly good for the extra health you receive.
Skills
When prioritizing skill upgrades, start by improving 
Swift Healing as it's your only healing ability. Upgrading it to rare allows you to cast the ability twice, which is incredibly helpful. Upgrade 
Predatory Strike and 
Inject Venom next. follow up by focusing on upgrading 
Touch of Despair to enhance its curse-stacking capability to 3.
Make sure not to forget to upgrade Shadow Strike as the bind and silence are nice to have and the mobility also helps. Then, upgrade 
Curse Explosion for the HP shield, followed by 
Corrupted Magic Circle as they are all part of your main rotation and damage output. 
Knife Throwing is also nice extra damage but shouldn't be a big priority.
You should prioritize 
Devotion and Emptiness as it increases the amount of healing you can provide yourself. 
Assassin's Instincts is fantastic for the flat crit rate increase. 
Vicious Fangs is a great addition as it increases your crit rate a lot on poisoned targets.
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
| Damage | Damage |
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Bonus Damage |
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Witch's Contract |
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Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Regenerative Meditation |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Wisdom |
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Greedy Need |
| Recovery | Melee Defense |
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Added Attack Speed |
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Deep Pain |
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All Evasion |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Redemptive Penance |
|
Buff Duration |
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Mana Regen |
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Merciless Wraith |
| Weaken | Mana Regen |
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Weaken Chance |
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Spiritual Focus |
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Max Mana |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Time of the Curse |
|
Weaken Chance |
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Magic Hit Chance |
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Spell of Retribution |
| Disguise | Ranged Defense |
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Health Regen |
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Debuff Immunity |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Master of Evasion |
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Buff Duration |
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Ranged Defense |
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Strong Will |
| Poison | Melee Hit Chance |
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Off-Hand Weapon Attack Chance |
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Enfeebling Terror |
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Mana Regen |
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Buff Duration |
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Sorrowful Silence |
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Mana Cost Efficiency |
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Melee Hit Chance |
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Shrewd Judgment |
| Assassination | Melee Critical Hit Chance |
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Damage |
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Ambidexterity |
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Melee Critical Hit |
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Cooldown Speed |
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Deep Grudge |
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Damage |
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Skill Damage Boost |
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Maddening Excitement |
Wand: Allocating 9 points into Damage is the only viable choice as it adds a lot of extra damage for the build and matches perfectly with the Dagger, the last 6 points can go into Weaken for extra curse duration.
Dagger: Invest 9 points into Assassination for maximum damage increase while the 6 points can go in Poison to improve your Weaken chance (Poison, Curse).
Rotations
- Use your auto-attack (default key E) in order to pull mobs closer to you while you cast Touch of Despair on a single mob, you want to keep kiting while constantly casting only Touch of Despair until you get 2 curse stacks before using Inject Venom and casting a final Touch of Despair. Once you've managed that and the mobs are together, you cast
Time for Punishment followed by 
Karmic Haze which will spread the curses & poison to the nearby mobs. Follow up with Corrupted Magic Circle and Curse Explosion to deal high burst damage. If the mobs aren't dead yet and you need to clean up, you can line them all up for the 
Ray of Disaster and Knife Throwing follow-up to kill whatever mobs are still alive at the end of the rotation.
- Use this much easier rotation to deal with single targets. Start with Inject Venom followed by
Shadow Strike to close the distance before using Knife Throwing and Predatory Strike to deal quick damage and then finishing off the target using 
Brutal Incision.
Swift Healing: This is your only single target healing ability and you should use it in order to save yourself, use this spell after casting 
Blessed Barrier in order to boost the heal this skill applies
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 yourself and also use your DPS abilities more often.
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