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Longbow / Staff PvE Build Guide

Last Updated: September 17, 2024

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Welcome to the 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.

End Game Longbow / Staff PvE Build

If you're interested in PvP, check out our Longbow/Staff PvP Build Guide!

Pros
  • Self-Sustain
  • Ranged DPS
  • High AoE Damage
  • High Single Target DPS
Cons
  • Mana Hungry

Skill Builds

Bossing
PvE Mobbing

Active Skills

Damage Skills

  • Focused Fire Bombs and Decisive Sniping are your biggest DPS skills due those two dealing extra damage to Bosses.
  • Judgment Lightning and Ice Spear Bombardment are your other staff skills for DPS.
  • Upkeeping Burn stacks is difficult without high Cooldown Speed. Constantly use Focused Fire Bombs off CD and juggle in Hellfire Rain whenever it's up.
  • All Hellfire Rain meteors hit bosses that have large hit-boxes, applying high Burn stacks throughout a fight.
  • Follow Strafing with Zephyr's Nock for the extra damage proc.
  • Ensnaring Arrow is used before charging Decisive Sniping because of its Damage ▲ Specialization.

Utility Skills

  • Use Nature's Blessing with Inner Peace to get your Mana back. Inner Peace multiplies the Mana Regen that is added with Nature's Blessing, so you gain a large amount of Mana back.
  • Deadly Marker is a great skill for the entire team, reducing Cooldowns for everyone.
  • Use High Focus before your important DPS skills for both the Cooldown Speed and increased Damage.

Passive Skills

  • Steady Aim is just there to increase your damage for Decisive Sniping.
  • Flame Condensation, Forbidden Sanctuary, and Sniper's Sense are 3 Passive skills that increase total damage without relying on special conditions to take effect.
  • Rapidfire Stance and Asceticism requires you to stand in place for a time before gaining increased Attack Speed and Heavy Attack Chance, respectively.
  • Mana Amp is great for the extra Health.
  • There are no remaining Passives that you need to take, so you just slot in Roxie's Arrowhead.

Active Skills

Damage Skills

  • Chain Lightning and Judgment Lightning are your main AoE DPS skills.
  • Combine Focused Fire Bombs with Inferno Wave to AoE even more mobs down.
  • Use Flash Wave when enemies are more spread out.
  • Use Decisive Bombardment when you can line up your targets.
  • Strafing and Zephyr's Nock cleans up any leftover mobs.

Utility Skills

  • Use Healing Touch followed by Nature's Blessing to heal yourself a decent amount. This can be further increased by walking into the wave from Flash Wave.

Passive Skills

  • Use Earth's Blessing and Distorted Sanctuary just for the Health Regen.

Alternatives

If you're in a party with a healer and don't need to heal yourself, drop Healing Touch or Nature's Blessing.
You can replace them with Deadly Marker or Ice Spear Bombardment.

Skill Prioritization

  • Use Quality Marind Ore to craft Quality Passive Skill Growth Book and Quality Active Skill Growth Book
  • Use Rare Marind Ore to craft Rare Passive Skill Growth Book and Rare Active Skill Growth Book.
  • 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.

PvE Gameplay and Skill Rotation

Bossing
PvE Mobbing

Opening Rotation

  1. Inner Peace (Optional)
  2. Cancel with Overtaker (Optional)
  3. High Focus
  4. Hellfire Rain
  5. Nature's Blessing
  6. Ensnaring Arrow
  7. Decisive Sniping
  8. Deadly Marker
  9. Focused Fire Bombs
  10. Ice Spear Bombardment
  11. Judgment Lightning
  • You can start off with Inner Peace and immediately cancel it by using your block. You do this for the Mana Efficiency buff. This step is optional unless you're trying to min-max your opening rotation.
  • Hellfire Rain starts you off with multiple Burn stacks to boost your Heavy Attack Chance with Flame Condensation.
  • High Focus and Deadly Marker should bring your skills back relatively soon. With 50% Buff Duration, High Focus lasts 18 seconds.

Oppressed Combo

  1. Nature's Blessing (Optional)
  2. Ensnaring Arrow
  3. Decisive Sniping
  • Ensnaring Arrow should always be used before Decisive Sniping's because of the Damage ▲ Skill Specialization.
  • Nature's Blessing gives you a Whirlpool buff to speed up your cast of Decisive Sniping.

Gale Combo

  1. Deadly Marker (Optional)
  2. Strafing 2x
  3. Zephyr's Nock
  4. Strafing 1x
  5. Zephyr's Nock
  • With Deadly Marker on the target, each hit of Strafing applies 8 Target stacks and 4 Gale stacks.
  • 2 hits get you to 10 Target stacks (10 is the cap) and 8 Gale stacks on the boss. Consume these stacks with Zephyr's Nock for extra damage and cooldown reduction.
  • Depending on your Cooldown Speed, Zephyr's Nock comes up just in time after using your 3rd Strafing.

Mana Sustain

  1. Nature's Blessing
  2. Inner Peace
  • 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, usually giving you full Mana by the end of the cast.

Tips

  • Try not to move around too much so that Rapidfire Stance and Asceticism proc.
  • Make sure to cast Focused Fire Bombs and Hellfire Rain as much as possible to upkeep Burn stacks.
  • Always have Deadly Marker on the boss.
  • Use your Gale combo when nothing else is up. All your other skills do more DPS.

Basic Fire Combo

  1. Focused Fire Bombs
  2. Inferno Wave
  • Combo for mobs clumped within 3 meters of the target.

Lightning Combo

  1. Chain Thunder
  2. Judgment Lightning
  • Alternative combo with your other combo is down.

Gale Combo

  1. Strafing 2x
  2. Zephyr's Nock
  • Use it for leftover mobs.

AoE Bow Skills

  1. Decisive Bombardment
  2. Flash Wave
  • When you cast Flash Wave, you will also receive the Healing effect from it.

Self-Sustain

  1. Healing Touch
  2. Nature's Blessing
  • With the Vitality Specialization, Nature's Blessing amplifies Healing Touch's healing. No need for a pocket Wand; you're your own Healer!

Stat Priorities

Use the following stat priorities when playing a Longbow / Staff build in PvE:

  • Primary Stat
    • Dexterity and Strength
  • Secondary Stat
    • Wisdom and Perception

You have 49 Stat Points you can freely allocate to any of the 4 primary Stats. Once you put 20 points into an individual Stat, it takes 2 points to increase the Stat by 1. Do not put more than 20 points into a Stat unless you are trying to reach a certain breakpoint.

You get bonuses for every 10 Stat Points you invest from 30 to 60. You invest your points based on acquiring these bonuses.

Dexterity not only adds maximum Weapon Damage but also increases your Crit Chance, Evasion, and Attack Speed. Increasing Dexterity is your best method of increasing your damage output. Wisdom is the next best stat for improving your Weapon Damage. Each added point into Wisdom also provides extra Cooldown Speed and Mana Regen.

Mid Game

  • You want to try and reach 50 Strength for the extra 100 Heavy Attack Chance as soon as possible.
  • 40 Perception will give you 5% extra Buff Duration, which is important for extending High Focus.
  • You put the rest of the points into Dexterity.

End Game

  • You keep the same stats as you did prior, but you want to just keep stacking Dexterity for more damage.

PvE Gear Progression

If you're interested in PvP Gear Progression, check out our Longbow / Staff PvP Build Guide here!

Story
Gear
Early - Mid
Transition
Mid - End
Transition
End Game
Reapers
End Game
Solo Self Found

Story Gear Longbow / Staff PvE Build

Do not upgrade Special Resistance Tactical Armor. You should leave it at 0.

If you didn't read the Leveling Guide and have completely different gear, that's fine; your Story Gear doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that matters here is that you upgraded your gear.

So let's go into what you can get easily as upgrades right as you hit Level 50.

Lithograph Book Entries

  • Elite Resistance Staff
    • Staves from Archwizard
  • Elite Resistance Longbow
    • Marksman's Arsenal
    • Use Furious Sniper's Longbow instead if you have it.
  • Lethal Fortune Ring
    • Rustic Mother Nature Rings
  • Elite Sharpshooter's Cloak
    • Cloaks that Wield Victory
  • Elite Tracker's Belt
    • Sources of Abdominal Strength!

Longbow / Staff PvE Build

If you're following this guide from when the game launches, you won't be able to acquire some Purple pieces due to Open World Dungeons being gated by Milestones.

Thus you want to prioritize the Purple gear that is obtainable from Co-Op Dungeons. Whatever blue armor pieces you wear don't matter for PvE, as they are placeholders until your End Game gear. If you're curious, check it out in the End Game tab.

You don't have to worry about Traits too much. If you are looking to do more damage, fill out your weapon Traits and Skill Damage Boost traits for your accessories. If you see yourself lacking Mana even with your Mana Sustain combo, get some Mana Regen Traits.

Dungeon Farming Priority

  1. Death's Abyss
    • Karnix's Hell Bow
    • Dark Destruction Iron Gloves (Drops from Cave of Desperation too)
  2. Cave of Destruction
    • Miracle of Mother Nature Clothing
    • Archpriest's Devotion
  3. Tyrant's Isle
    • Toublek's Thunderous Soul
    • Specter's Frost Bracers
    • Deadly Barrier Chain Gaiters
  4. Insightful Ring of Dimension
    • Comes from Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
    • Requires Dimensional Essence: Salvation to craft. You need 10 Tokens from each Co-Op Dungeon to craft.
  5. Cursed Wasteland
    • Flying Dragon Breath Mask (Drops from Roaring Temple too)
    • Reflection Breakthrough Leather Boots
    • Lethal Fortune Ring
  6. Butcher's Canyon (for Dimensional Essence: Salvation)
    • If you happen to get Scales of Time Necklace to drop, wear it, use it for Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection Lithograph, or sell it.

Alternatives

  • If you're looking for a Max Range build, consider Flying Dragon Scale Gloves (Cursed Wasteland) and Furious Sniper's Longbow (Cave of Destruction) to hit 50 Perception.
    • Boss arenas are rarely large enough for you to take full advantage of Range. You also find yourself repositioning or moving for certain Boss mechanics. It takes a very disciplined player to stay at max Range.

Longbow / Staff PvE Build

As the certain progresses, more Milestones will unlock. This means you are able to acquire more Purple gear.

This build uses Transcendent Magic Ring and Tycan's Bloodlust Belt. These are acquired from sources that unlock from Milestones, but it is possible to acquire them earlier by using Substance Transformation. Accessories are the easiest ones to acquire from Substance Transformation.

You still want to prioritize Traits that do more damage, like Skill Damage Boost traits for your accessories and any of your weapon Traits. If you see yourself lacking Mana even with your Mana Sustain combo, get some Mana Regen Traits.

Armor Options

  • Reaper's Concealing Shroud
    • Decreases Heavy Attack Chance from 25% to 20% in exchange for extra Critical Damage.

Gear Sources

  1. General's Frenzy Gloves
    • Reptilian Soldier and Reptilian Butcher in Saurodoma Island
    • Craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Tyrant.
  2. Reaper's Footsteps
    • Avolos Tracker and Avolos Umbramancer in Sanctum of Desire
  3. Abyss Conqueror's Necklace
    • Substance Transformation
    • Craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss.
  4. Transcendent Magic Ring
    • Queen Bellandir, Substance Transformation
  5. Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
    • Aridus, Substance Transformation

Alternatives

  • Slaughterer's Collar
    • Using this allows you to invest more Stat points elsewhere, but it will be more expensive to Trait.
    • It can be acquired by completing the Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection entry in your Lithograph Book.

Reaper's Mask Longbow / Staff PvE Build
With Trait Resonance

Reaper's Pants Longbow / Staff PvE Build
With Trait Resonance

You transition to using Reaper's Black Mask or Reaper's Interring Pants to complete your Death Set 2-piece bonus. You hit at least 40% Buff Duration at full Traits.

  • Tycan's Bloodlust Belt (Aridus) (Substance Transformation)
  • Transcendent Magic Ring (Queen Bellandir) (Substance Transformation)

Mask Build Sources

  • Reaper's Black Mask
    • Adentus
  • Grim Judicator's Pants Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Shadow
    • Abyssal Specter
    • Craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Shadow,

Pants Build Sources

  • Reaper's Interring Pants
    • Junobote
  • Heavenly Arbiter Mask
    • Butcher's Canyon
    • Can use Ghost Wolf Alter Ego Mask instead.

Traits

  • You focus on DPS Traits like Skill Damage Boost and Heavy Attack Chance.
  • You focus on Max Health and Skill Damage Resistance for defensive Traits.
  • Mana Regen is also an excellent trait to prioritize if you find yourself lacking Mana. Inner Peace usually takes care of your mana issues.
  • Evasion traits are nice if you intend to solo farm Open World Dungeons or Events.

Alternatives

  • If you have Mana Regen problems, switch some Dexterity into Wisdom.
  • Slaughterer's Collar. Read the Mid Game Alternatives section for more info.

SSF End Game Longbow / Staff PvE Build

  • This setup allows you to acquire all the pieces yourself through grinding. You do not need to use the Auction House or Substance Transformation.

Gear Sources

  1. Grim Judicator's Pants
    • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Shadow
    • Abyssal Specter
  2. General's Frenzy Gloves
    • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Tyrant
    • Reptilian Soldier in Saurodoma Island
    • Reptilian Butcher in Saurodoma Island
  3. Heavenly Arbiter Mask (Butcher's Canyon)
  4. Unshakeable Gold Ring
    • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
    • Demonhoof Tracker in Syleus's Abyss 5F-6F
    • Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss 5F-6F

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 along with 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

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