Longbow / Crossbow PvE Build Guide
Last Updated:March 8, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Longbow / Crossbow PvE Build Guide. This weapon combination dishes out a constant barrage of damage! Eagle Vision grants high amounts of Hit ensuring your attacks don't miss! Meanwhile Sniper's Sense grants high amounts of Critical Hit and Crit Damage allowing you to maintain high DPS at all times!
A combination of Selfless Diffusion and Deadly Marker ensures low Cooldowns not just for you, but your entire party! With so many "Attack" skills, Crossbow's passive skill Bloodlust Stack helps to increase your DPS even further making it a great option for high Single Target DPS.
Crossbow adds an incredible AoE option by using Annihilation Barrage Shot. Pairing this AoE skill with Mother Nature's Protest and Flash Wave allows for high AoE damage potential.
End Game Longbow / Crossbow PvE Build
If you're interested in the Leveling Guide, check out our Longbow/Crossbow Leveling Build Guide!
Gear Progression
During T2 Gear progression, Queen Bellandir's Toxic Spine Throwers becomes the highest PvE Damaging Crossbow due to the added poison.
- There is no "Best Build", Talandre Gear allows for a wide variety of builds leading to different metas depending on your Server.
- Use the builds as a base, and swap different pieces around to fit the stats needed to combat your Server's meta.
- AGS is limiting gear availability for the launch of Talandre so Loot Tables may not be fully correct at during the first month of Talandre in Global Servers.
Chaos Harbinger Set
- 4 Piece Chaos Harbinger Set gives 100 Critical Hit + 9% Crit Damage.
- Use Monster Bird of the Plains: Solar Stone and Monster Bird of the Plains: Lunar Stone to further increase Weapon Damage by up to 30!
T2 Early Transitional
- This build is used just as a transitional phase to get started with T2/Talandre.
- 2 Pieces of Death Set and Abyss Slayer Set ensure high damage output.
- Abyss Slayer Set items are from 2 Star Dungeons so no milestones needed to unlock.
T2 End Game Build
- This build reaches high levels of Critical Hit so Abyss Slayer Set helps to further the Maximum Weapon Damage being used on those Crits!
- The Spectral Overseer Set allows the user to gain even higher Critical Damage!
No Archboss
Archboss Version
No Archboss
Archboss Version
Gear Sources
- Valley of Slaughter Co-Op Dungeon
- Phantom Wolf Mask
- Torture Chamber of Screams Co-Op Dungeon (Releases Dec 5, 2025)
- Phantom Wolf Breeches
- Also dropped in Saurodoma Island
- Phantom Wolf Breeches
- Voidwastes Co-Op Dungeon
- Phantom Wolf Gloves
- Shock Commander Gauntlets
- Also drops in Cave of Destruction Co-Op Dungeon
- Island of Terror Co-Op Dungeon // Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Phantom Wolf Tunic
- Carmine Rage Island Co-Op Dungeon
- Shadow Harvester Boots
- Phantom Wolf Boots
- Also drops from Minezerok Field Boss
- Torture Chamber of Screams Co-Op Dungeon (Releases Dec 5, 2024)
- Shadow Harvester Trousers
- Also drops from Junobote Field Boss
- Band of the Silent One
- Shadow Harvester Trousers
- Unshakeable Gold Ring
- Demonhoof Trackers in Syleus's Abyss 5th and 6th Floor.
- Clasp of the Conqueror
- Craft Recipe: Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
- Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
- Aridus Field Boss
Skill Builds, Rotations, and Mastery
PvE is all about marking the target and then rotating your DPS skills as frequently as possible. All the while using Deadly Marker to constantly lower you and your party's Cooldowns!
Skill Rotation
- Deadly Marker
- Blitz
- Deadly Marker
- Selfless Diffusion
- Mortal Mark
- Nature's Blessing
- Quick Fire
- Nimble Leap
- Quick Fire
- Strafing
- Use all hits.
- Zephyr's Nock
- Recoil Shot
- Quick Fire
- Sometimes this is back up, sometimes it's not depending on Critical Hits.
- Nimble Leap
- Quick Fire
Tips
- Why not Detonation Mark?
- The target is marked almost indefinitely, so with how many hits this rotation does, there's more damage gained on the normal version's additional damage per hit effect.
- Rotate between Quick Fire and Strafing to apply Gale Stacks.
- Use Zephyr's Nock in-between if it's off Cooldown to consistently make use of the Skill Specialization for Zephyr's Nock.
- Skills are up almost 24/7 so use Mana Exchange whenever possible to maintain Mana.
- Use Nature's Blessing to speed up the cast time of Decisive Sniping.
- Having high attack speed also increases the animations/cast time of your skills too.
- Deadly Marker can be stacked which is why using Blitz to apply it twice is recommended.
When farming Open World Dungeons with a party, the goal is to get all your AoE skills off first and then clean up any mobs left over with Single Target skills while your AoE options are on cooldown.
AoE Rotation
- Selfless Diffusion
- Mortal Mark
- Nature's Blessing
- Brutal Arrow
- Annihilation Barrage Shot
- Blitz
- Nimble Leap
- Annihilation Barrage Shot
- Decisive Bombardment
- Flash Wave
Tips
- Use Mana Exchange whenever possible to maintain your Mana.
- Use the Morph, Orc Brawler to regain 4% of your Max Health and counteract the HP Costs.
- Use Quick Fire whenever it's off cooldown, even during the AoE Rotation.
- If it comes off cooldown while using Strafing, use it and then go back to using the rest of your Strafing stacks.
- Use Decisive Bombardment and Flash Wave just to cleanup any extras after spinning.
Skill Prioritization
- This is a general list of skills used across all forms of content that's recommended to upgrade.
- Should there be a skill here that you don't ever plan to use in your build, skip it.
- Use Quality Skill Growth Books to upgrade your skills from Green to Blue in the order shown below. Once all skills below are Green, use the rest on other skills used in the builds above.
- Use Rare Skill Growth Books to upgrade your skills from Blue to Purple in the order shown below. Once all skills below are Blue, use the rest on other skills used in the builds above.
- Prioritize getting all these skills to blue first before getting them to purple. These are universal skills you always use.
- Upgrade the rest of your skills as you play the game.
Active Skill Priority
Passive Skill Priority
Guardians
Guardians are special transformations that add offensive or defensive buffs or attacks to your character for 30 seconds. For damage purposes, Shade Revenant Stheno is the best option for Longbow / Crossbow.
- Shade Revenant Stheno is a Guardian that shoots projectiles against all enemies around you for 30 seconds.
- The reason this Guardian synergizes so well with Crossbow is because the projectiles that hit enemies proc Mother Nature's Protest.
Summary
- Longbow / Crossbow specializes in dealing a constant stream of damage.
- With so many "Attack" skills, Crossbow's passive skill Bloodlust Stack helps to increase your DPS even further!
- Stacking Bonus Damage increases your overall DPS output due to how many hits are thrown out with Longbow / Crossbow.
- Deadly Marker ensures low cooldowns not just for you, but your entire party!
- Eagle Vision grants high amounts of Hit ensuring your attacks don't miss!
- Sniper's Sense grants high amounts of Critical Hit and additional Crit Damage allowing you to maintain high DPS at all times!
Credits
Written by Bloo
Reviewed by Yaen and Tenkiei