Longbow / Staff PvE Build Guide
Last Updated:March 11, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Liberator Longbow / Staff PvE Build Guide! This weapon combination plays almost like a Glass Cannon in other MMOs, leveraging most of your abilities to deal a tremendous amount of damage at long range.
Longbow / Staff players build for max Range to maximize their Passives from Sniper's Sense and Toublek's Thunderous Soul. With the Heavy Attack Chance bonuses from Asceticism and Flame Condensation, your sustained damage output becomes incredibly high.
You need to manage your Cooldowns effectively to do as much damage as possible. Deadly Marker and High Focus helps you in that regard. If you enjoy a strictly Ranged DPS playstyle, these are the weapons for you.
T2 End Game Longbow / Staff PvE Build
If you're interested in PvP, check out our Longbow/Staff PvP Build Guide!
PvE Gear Progression
If you plan on PvPing in the future, just use the PvP gear shown in our Longbow / Staff PvP Build Guide for PvE. For higher tiers of Challenge Dungeons, you want a full PvE set.
Chaos Harbinger Set
- The 6-Pc Murderous Chaos set is chosen for the extra Critical Hit Chance at 2-Pc and Critical Hit Damage increase at 4-Pc.
- Alternatively, you can settle for 4-Pc Chaos Harbinger and go for the 2-Pc set below:
- 2-Pc Ancient King's Armor with the Ancient King's Armor: Solar Stone for the Active Skill.
- All pre-Talandre builds will be revamped once it releases.
- They will use T2 Blue gear instead.
- AGS GLOBAL LOOT TABLES HAVE CHANGED. BUILDS ARE PENDING TO BE CHANGED.
4-Pc Transcendent
2-Pc Spectral
Nebula Build (planned)
Archboss Build (planned)
Archived Builds
No Field Boss Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Field Boss Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Stats and Gearing Logic
- Both weapons are chosen for the Species Damage Boost stat for maximum PvE damage.
- This build tries to take maximum advantage of the 4-Pc Wing Gale Set set effect, being able to shoot from 25m away for the 40% Critical Hit Damage boost.
- Both builds feature incredibly high Attack Speed.
- With 528 Boss Heavy Attack from runes, you reach 1000+ Heavy Attack Chance for 50%+ proc rate.
- Accessories have the Max Mana trait to gain more Max Damage from Judge.
- Your Mana Regen is supplemented with Mana Spring.
Gear Alternatives
- Stone Cold Heart Cloak is also slotted if you ever are lucky enough or rich enough to acquire it.
Gear Sources
- Coming soon. Mouse over the items to see the item drop location.
No Field Boss Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Field Boss Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Stats and Gearing Logic
- Both weapons are chosen for the Species Damage Boost stat for maximum PvE damage.
- Instead of focusing on 4-Piece Wing Gale Set this build uses 2-Piece Nether.
- You will not always be at Max Range in a boss fight due to completing mechs or the arena not being wide enough for you.
- Going 2-Pc Spectral Overseer Set for a set allows you to go for the 2-Pc Abyss Slayer Set for higher Max Damage.
- Both builds feature incredibly high Attack Speed.
- With 528 Boss Heavy Attack from runes, you reach 1000+ Heavy Attack Chance for 50%+ proc rate.
- Accessories have the Max Mana trait to gain more Max Damage from Judge.
- Your Mana Regen is supplemented with Mana Spring.
Gear Alternatives
- Stone Cold Heart Cloak is also slotted if you ever are lucky enough or rich enough to acquire it.
Gear Sources
- Coming soon. Mouse over the items to see the item drop location.
Toublek Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Aridus Longbow / Staff PvE Build
Skill Builds and Rotations
High CDR
Mobbing
- Use this if your party has at least 4 Deadly Marker and many Critical Hits.
- Deadly Marker reduces the cooldowns of all your skills.
- Multiple Deadly Marker can stack on a target.
- This build has high Mana Regen requirements. Ensure you upkeep your Mana with the Mana Sustain Combo.
- Replace Chaining Bolt or Blitz with Inferno Wave if you have problems upkeeping the Burn debuff.
- Always ensure you have max stacks up for Flame Condensation.
Global Cooldown Priority
With multiple Deadly Marker, your cooldowns comes back up extremely quickly. The below skills are what you should prioritize using. The rest are filler skills.
- Deadly Marker
- High Focus
- You can upkeep this buff 24/7 with enough Deadly Marker.
- Always make sure to use this to give yourself the damage buff.
- Hellfire Rain
- Lead with this skill in all fights to apply 10 Burn stacks on a boss with a large hitbox.
- Focused Fire Bombs
- Judgment Lightning
- Gale Combo (See description below)
- Nature's Blessing
- Strafing 3x
- Zephyr's Nock
- Use any projectile skills afterward to trigger Manaball Eruption for maximum damage output.
Blitz Combo
- Deadly Marker can stack multiple times on a boss. Using Blitz on it allows you to apply two yourself.
- You can also use it on Hellfire Rain.
Gale Combo
Nature's Blessing procs Whirlpool which causes you to apply double the amount of Gale stacks. Using 3x Strafing applies 24 Gale stacks. Consume the stacks with Zephyr's Nock for insane damage.
- Nature's Blessing
- Strafing 3x
- Zephyr's Nock
Mana Sustain Combo
Nature's Blessing gives you a flat bonus to Mana Regen. Inner Peace multiples your Mana Regen by a percentage. Because of how these two skills work, using Inner Peace right after significantly boosts your Mana Regen significantly, usually giving you full Mana by the end of the cast.
- Nature's Blessing
- Inner Peace
- This is your general-purpose AoE PvE clearing build. You have the best AoE abilities from some of the best weapons here.
Flash Arrow Reset
This is your bread-and-butter AoE clearing ability.
- Flash Wave
- Limit Break
- Flash Wave
Self Sustain
- No need for a pocket Wand; you're your own Healer with Healing Touch.
- Not just health, your Mana problems are nonexistent with Inner Peace
Skill Prioritization
Active Skill Prioritization
Passive Skill Prioritization
Guardians
Guardians are special transformations that add offensive or defensive buffs or attacks to your character for 30 seconds. These are the recommended Guardians for this class.
- Shade Revenant Stheno is THE DPS Guardian in PvE. Unfortunately, this means you need to get up close to the boss as the projectiles have a max range.
- Lady Knight Kamarshea is a great Guardian to use if you consistently find yourself running out of Mana as the boss is nearing its death. Just pop it so you don't need to use your Mana sustain combo.
Summary
- Longbow / Staff offers incredible single-target damage and high AoE damage, making Dungeons and Dynamic Events a piece of cake.
- You focus on playing from Range and unleashing high-damage DPS skills.
- You have easy access to extra Critical Hit Damage and Heavy Attack Chance.
- Reaper's Black Mask is the ideal Reaper piece to pair with Reaper's Footsteps for your End Game gear.
Credits
Written by Yaen
Reviewed by Tenkiei and Nymphellas