Panacea Fan & Stormbreaker Spear PvE Build
- High Fortitude (CC Immunity)
- Good Self-healing
- Tanky
- Easy to Play
- Boring to play
- Slow Attacks
Overview
Using
Stormbreaker Spear with
Panacea Fan creates one of the tankiest builds in Where Winds Meet. It gives you a huge amount of Fortitude, which means you’re basically CC-immune through your whole combo. Even if the attacks are slow, the build remains more than capable when it comes to tanking bosses in group PVE content or just general solo PVE content.
The build isn't lacking in healing either as the
Panacea Fan is more than competent for self-healing while also letting you heal all allies as needed. And of course, the most important part is the access to
Resurrection which lets you revive players dying in PVE.
Martial Arts
Gear
Stats Priority
While the Gear part of the build is still under development and more information will come soon, you should use the Rainwhisper + Moonflare set combo and make sure to keep the buff active by weaving in Heavy and Light attacks as needed. This part of the build is still under construction as far as specific stats go.
Inner Way
Trapped Beast is a strong safety option, giving you a shield whenever your HP drops low. This extra layer of protection helps you survive sudden burst hits and stay alive long enough to heal or counterattack.
Adaptive Steel also fits this build very well, since it boosts the damage of your Charged Skills, especially useful because
Fury Spear is used so often and already comes with built-in Fortitude.
Meanwhile,
Morale Chant stays one of the most reliable Inner Ways in the entire game. It boosts both your damage and your healing, and keeping the stacks active is very easy during long fights. And finally,
Rock Solid is a top pick for PVE, giving you steady damage reduction through the whole boss fight while barely lowering your output.
Mystic Skills
Leaping Toad is one of the strongest PVE skills because it deals good upfront damage, applies poison, and also spreads that poison to nearby enemies after some upgrades. Each poison spread triggers multiple explosions, giving you very strong AoE potential. You generally want this running at the same time as
Dragon's Breath for steady damage if you aren't spamming
Drunken Poet.
For breaking Qi bars,
Talon Strike remains a good choice, especially vs random mobs in the open world. It knocks enemies down and hits hard enough to be useful, even if it doesn’t hit as hard as
Soaring Spin.
Dragon's Breath adds damage over time and gives you time to recover stamina by spamming
Drunken Poet. Every hit from
Drunken Poet makes the burn explode again, giving you both extra DPS and a way to keep attacking without draining endurance.
When you need wide-area crowd control,
Ghost Bind shines. It pulls groups of enemies together, letting you or your allies melt them with AoE skills. It’s one of the best setup tools you can bring to group PVE or just to keep mobs CC'd.
Rotations
- Begin with
Storm Roar to deal some damage and also increase the damage you do to the enemy while decreasing the damage you receive and also taunting the mobs/boss, forcing them to attack you.
- Follow-up with a quick
Thunder Shock into a
Fury Spear and then of course another
Thunder Shock and another
Fury Spear. Of course, depending on the situation, you can use
Light Dust After Morning Rain and
Emerald Dewtouch keep yourself alive as long the aggro is still held and the boss is still attacking you.
Of course,
Cloudburst Healing is a very strong AOE heal which you can drop down on top of the boss to heal yourself and allies nearby, you can even begin with
Cloudburst Healing before swapping to the
Stormbreaker Spear.