Outrider - Greatsword + Crossbow PvE Build
- High Sustained DPS
- High Burst Damage
- Squishy
- No utility
- Off-meta
Overview
This Greatsword and Crossbow build for PvE focuses on a mix of AOE and incredible single target burst damage and the ability to kill targets very quickly. It performs well in short dungeon encounters and is fantastic for open world PvE content such as field bosses, contracts or PvE Events and open world dungeon mob grinding. The build isn't particularly difficult to play and can be used successfully even by less experienced players.
Attributes
Dexterity
Perception
Strength
WisdomFor this build, focus on increasing Perception and Dexterity to maximize your damage. These should be your primary stats, especially in the early stages. As you level up and upgrade your gear, keep investing in them to boost your critical hit rate, accuracy, and range. Strength and Wisdom should be secondary priorities. Strength will help increase your health and make you more durable so reaching 30 points is great to do, while Wisdom will aid in mana regenerationis but is the least important. Although these stats are less important, they still play a role in improving your overall survivability as you advance while also making use of 
Vital Force.
Skills
Focus on upgrading 
Quick Fire and 
Mortal Mark as soon as possible as they are your main damaging abilities from the crossbow side and you are using very often throughout the game. They both work well when paired alongside 
Merciless Barrage too. The Mortal Mark can mark a target and deal a percentage of the damage you've done to that target once the mark ends. This makes Mortal Mark pair perfectly with any rotation but particularly good when coupled with Merciless Barrage. Additionally, continue by upgrading 
Selfless Diffusion as it lowers your cooldowns and lets you use abilities much more often.
Upgrade 
Valiant Brawl and 
Stunning Blow to improve your rotation as they are used together most of the time. Another combo that should be used together is the interaction between 
Ascending Slash and 
Guillotine Blade or 
Death Blow as their damage is increased by hitting Prone targets.
As far as passives go, prioritize 
Ambidexterity for the added extra off-hand-weapon damage. You will mostly be using the Greatsword as your primary weapon and Ambidexterity pairs perfectly with the high chance of activating off-hand weapon the Crossbow offers. Upgrade Vital Force to enhance your skill damage based on the amount of health you get from 
Robust Constitution. Additionally, invest into 
Cold Warrior, as it increases your critical hit chance and heavy attack chance.
Victor's Morale offers a lot of mana regeneration, making it difficult to run out of mana with this Outrider build.
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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Crossbow: Invest 9 points into Chain Fire to boost damage output and increase your DPS. Invest the remaining 6 points into Move for heavy attack and better hit rate.
Greatsword: Invest 9 points into Face Off to improve your overall DPS and some added heavy attack chance, the remaining 6 points should be allocated into Incapacitate for some extra stun chance.
Rotations
- Start off the rotation by pre-buffing with
DaVinci's Courage before closing the distance and using Valiant Brawl to get some quick damage in. Continue with another self-buff, using Selfless Diffusion before setting up your follow-up damage with Stunning Blow followed by a fast Quick Fire!
- Continue the rotation using Ascending Slash to debuff the mob and increase your follow-up damage. Continue the rotation with Guillotine Blade, Valiant Brawl and Death Blow. You should then end the rotation with Mortal Mark and Merciless Barrage!
Weak Point Shot: Use this skill whenever the boss/mob uses a fury attack as it deals good damage and also increases the critical damage of your entire party against the same target.
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