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Longbow / Staff PvP Build Guide

Last Updated:February 7, 2025|Changelog

Welcome to the Liberator Longbow / Staff PvP Build Guide! In PvP, your role is to deal huge AoE damage at long range. Typically, in MMOs, this type of playstyle resembles a "Glass Cannon," where you're extremely squishy, and any mistake in positioning can lead to your doom. In Throne and Liberty, bad positioning definitely gets you killed, but Longbow / Staff users stack a good amount of survivability with Endurance and Distorted Sanctuary. This makes you much more sturdy, even if you do get caught.

Longbow / Staff players build for as much Range as possible to maximize their Passive Buff from Sniper's Sense. With Shadow Harvester Grips, Karnix's Hell Bow, Insightful Ring of Dimension, and 50 Perception, you reach 29% extra Range on your abilities.

In addition to all the AoE abilities you get from Staff, Longbow users have access to Flash Wave and Limit Break, allowing you to do even more AoE damage. This makes Longbow / Staff particularly strong in Castle Sieges.

Offensive End Game Longbow / Staff PvP Build

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

Pros
  • Self-Sustain
  • High AoE Burst
  • Long Range DPS
  • High Single Target DPS
Cons
  • Mana Hungry
  • Weak to Melee
  • Limited Escapes

PvP Gear Progression

Acquiring Gear pieces and upgrading them is incredibly expensive and time-consuming. If you enjoy both PvE and PvP content, use these sets for PvE.

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

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Umbramancer, Toublek, or Talus (Click Me!)

Early Mid
Game
End Game
Toublek/Talus
End Game
RM Evasion
End Game
Arena PvP
End Game
Archboss

Early Game Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Mid Game Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Trying to PvP with blues at this stage of the game is asking to get farmed. You want to transition as fast as possible to your Mid Game build. This will let you stand somewhat of a chance against other players until you reach End Game gear.

Fully trait your blue gear before transferring over to purple gear. A fully traited blue piece will give you 960 Blessings for you to use. You can use a trash blue gear piece and fill it up with cheap traits before transferring it to a purple piece in the same slot.

Transition Blues

  • You don't see many blue accessories here in these builds. That's because most of them are not worth using. Before transferring to a Purple piece, you can fully upgrade and trait out any trash blue accessory.
  • If you want to skip directly to purple armor pieces and weapons, fully upgrade and trait out the cheapest blue you can find.

Your Goals

  • You should do contracts immediately to acquire Contract Coins so you can buy Quality Lithograph: Weapons, Quality Lithograph: Armor, and Quality Lithograph: Accessories to craft Green Gear to complete Lithograph Book entries for Blue Gear.
    • Longbow of the Resistance from Long Ranged Nuisance
    • Staff of the Resistance from Archwizard's Lost Staves
    • Elite Sharpshooter's Cloak from Cloaks that Wield Victory
    • Lethal Fortune Ring from Rustic Mother Nature Rings
  • Craft Recipe: Common Trait Unlockstone Bundle to unlock Traits for your gear.
  • Farm accessible gear by doing Open World Dungeons.
  • Trait those accessible gear.
  • Extract traits from gear to sell in the Auction House for Lucent.
  • Turn valuable gear into Lithographs and sell them in the Auction House.
  • Buy gear and traits with the Lucent you earned.

Traits

  • If transitioning to Purple Gear immediately, fill up a blue item with cheap traits before transferring.

Co-Op Dungeon Sources

  1. Death's Abyss
    • Karnix's Hell Bow
      • You can also pity craft Recipe: Karnix's Netherbow using 2 Dimensional Essence: Salvation instead of relying on RNG.
      • You must do each Co-Op Dungeon at least 5 times to acquire enough tokens to craft 2 Dimensional Essence: Salvation.
  2. Sapphire Dimensional Band
    • Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest
      • Requires Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation to craft.
      • You must do each Co-Op Dungeon at least 3 times to acquire enough tokens to craft it.
  3. Cursed Wasteland
    • Lethal Fortune Ring
    • Feathered Drakeskin Gloves
  4. Cave of Destruction
    • Bracers of the Primal King

Open World Sources

  1. Corrupt Witch's Hat from Worker Ant in Ant Nest
  2. Duskblood Trousers from Dark Wizard in Shadowed Crypt
  3. Guardian Torque from Dark Shaman in Shadowed Crypt
  4. Staff of the Umbramancer from Avolos Geomancer in Sanctum of Desire
  5. Shadow Harvester Tunic from Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire
  6. Shadow Harvester Boots from Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire
  7. Necklace of Cold Strength from Kastleton Arena Merchant for 9 Arena Coin

Budget Option (Click Me!)

Offensive Max Damage Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Defensive High Hit Longbow / Staff PvP Build

  • Toublek's Shattering Quarterstaff and Talus's Crystalline Staff are interchangeable.
  • Toublek's Shattering Quarterstaff will give you more CDR, whereas Talus's Crystalline Staff is a great defensive option.
  • You should run the high Hit Chance build on servers with extremely high Evasion.
  • The offensive build is for long-range casting with high CDR for uptime.

Defensive and Support Runes

You will see that Max Health is taken for most Defensive Runes slotted in these builds. This is interchangeable depending on what you need and your server meta.

  • Use Ranged Endurance Runes if your server is heavy on Longbow users.
  • Use Magic Endurance Runes if your server is heavy on Staff users.
  • Melee Endurance is not as helpful since you don't have a high base already with traits. If you find that there are a lot of greatsword users, use Max Health.

When you get a Rare Chaos Rune: Ring with a good stat, replace the Support Rune in your Rings.

PvP Stats and Traits

  • Hit Chance, Critical Hit Chance, Heavy Attack Chance, Skill Damage Resistance, Skill Damage Boost, and Endurance are your most important traits.
  • Buff Duration will extend the duration of buffs, the most important of which is High Focus and Victorious Energy.
  • You have two options for the 3rd trait of your accessories: Collision Resistance and Debuff Duration.
    • Collision Resistance helps against enemy Collision skills.
    • Use Debuff Duration helps against debuffs.
  • 50%+ Buff Duration allows High Focus to last 6+ seconds longer.
  • Your high Endurance with Distorted Sanctuary is enough to mitigate most unbuffed Ranged and Magic attacks from being Crits.
  • Be careful about your low Mana Regen.
  • Unbuffed, you reach ~1000 Hit Chance with full purple gear.
    • If you specced Victorious Energy for Victorious Energy, you will hit 1400+ Hit Chance.
  • Your Critical Hit Chance is compensated by Sniper's Sense.

Gear Alternatives (Click Me!)

Armor Sources (Click Me!)

4-Pc Offensive Longbow / Staff PvP Build

2-Pc Heavy Attack Longbow / Staff PvP Build

  • This build focuses on reaching 70 Dexterity for the extra Evasion with Aelon's Rejuvenating Longbow.

Defensive and Support Runes

  • Use Ranged Evasion Runes if your server is heavy on Longbow users.
  • Use Magic Evasion Runes if your server is heavy on Staff users.

When you get a Rare Chaos Rune: Ring with a good stat, replace the Support Rune in your Rings.

PvP Stats and Traits

  • With the 4-Pc build, you see that you reach 1600+ Ranged and Magic Evasion. With Victorious Energy, you will reach 2000+, which is a great breakpoint to reach.
    • You can discard the 4-Pc bonus for Phantom Wolf Gloves which will give you even more Ranged Evasion.
  • The 2-PC build offers more Heavy Attack Chance but lower Range and max Base Damage.

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Umbra Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Talus Longbow / Staff PvP Build

  • It is incredibly tough to play Longbow/Staff in high MMR arena. You are the first target people focus and if you don't have enough Melee Evasion, you are essentially griefing your other 2 teammates.
  • You reach 2000+ Melee Evasion with Victorious Energy.
  • Then field general pieces are solely for stats and not the set bonus.

Double Archboss Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Bellandir Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Bellandir Burning Build

Tevent Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Evasion Longbow / Staff PvP Build

Skill Builds and Rotation

Large Scale PvP
Dominion
Arena PvP

Lv. 5 Limit Break Freeze

Lv. 5 Limit Break Nado

  • At Level 5 with the Cooldown â–¼ Specialization, Limit Break's Cooldown becomes 45 seconds. This matches Flash Wave's Cooldown.
    • If your Limit Break is not Level 5, just put points elsewhere instead of using it on Cooldown â–¼.
  • Use these two builds if you expect massive clumps of targets.
  • Tornado and Icebound Tomb are interchangeable.
  • Icebound Tomb without its Specializations, can be used as a hard Freeze on key targets to interrupt cappers or remove healers from the fight.

Castle Siege Variant

Evasion w/ Victorious Energy

Instant Cast AoE Skills

Sometimes, getting instant damage out as fast as possible is better than casting Flash Wave.

  1. Icebound Tomb
  2. Chain Lightning
  3. Judgment Lightning

Flash Wave Combo

This is your bread-and-butter combo.

  1. High Focus
  2. Flash Wave
  3. Limit Break
  4. Flash Wave

Utility Skills

  • Tornado
    • Tornado can be used to peel off Melee or as an engage tool.
  • Icebound Tomb can be used to mass root enemy players.
  • Victorious Energy or High Focus
    • If using Victorious Energy, always pre-buff before an engagement.
    • Consider using Blitz for this skill if you expect a prolonged fight.
    • With High Focus, make sure you use your longer Cooldown skills before the buff is over.

Alternatives

  • Icebound Armor if you're a priority target. This can easily cause enemy players to waste skills on you during an initial engage.
  • Consider using Icebound Tomb as a hard Freeze to remove key players from the fight.

Tips

  • Always have your Longbow as your main hand weapon so that Anti-magic Arts is active.
  • Stay at maximum Range of targets. You have no easy escapes, so your positioning on the battlefield is paramount to your survival.
  • Pre-buff with Victorious Energy for the extra Hit if you specced High Focus for it.
  • Use the Large Scale PvP builds for Dominion if there are massive amounts of players.
  • This build focuses on your ability to skirmish with single-target skills while using excellent AoE tools.
  • You also want Icebound Tomb for a bit more CC for the unexpected as you can't rely on your teammates.
  • If Limit Break is Level 5, use your discretion to make changes to the build as referenced in the Large Scale tab.
  • Spec Victorious Energy for High Focus if you built Evasion.

Longbow Single Target Combo

  1. Ensnaring Arrow
  2. Strafing 3x
  3. Zephyr's Nock
  • Always use Ensnaring Arrow with Strafing because they have similar Cooldowns.

Self-Sustain

  1. Healing Touch
  • This skill alone gives you great sustain in the absence of a Healer.

Tips

  • Always have your Longbow as your main hand weapon so that Anti-magic Arts is active.
  • Stay at maximum Range of targets. You have no easy escapes, so your positioning on the battlefield is paramount to your survival.
  • Pre-buff with Victorious Energy for the extra Hit if you specced High Focus for it.
  • This build focuses entirely on Arena PvP.
  • Icebound Tomb is a fantastic skill to take one person out of the fight. It can be a game changer.
  • Flash Wave is a great tool to damage enemies and heal your teammates.

Mana Burn Combo

This is a fantastic tool to exhaust the Mana of tanks or healers due to Fireball Barrage's Specialization.

  1. Serial Fire Bombs
  2. Fireball Barrage

Instant Burst Bind Combo

You can always swap Binds used and any DPS skills in any combo. You don't need to be super strict about it.

  1. Ice Spear Bombardment
  2. Judgment Lightning
  3. Zephyr's Nock (Optional)

Longbow Single Target Combo

Always use Ensnaring Arrow with Strafing because they have similar Cooldowns.

  1. Ensnaring Arrow
  2. Strafing 2x
  3. Zephyr's Nock
  4. Strafing

Self-Sustain Combo

The Vitality Specialization makes this combo a potent healing tool.

  1. Healing Touch
  2. Nature's Blessing

Tips

  • Always have your Longbow as your main hand weapon so that Anti-magic Arts is active.
  • Stay at maximum Range of targets. You have no easy escapes, so your positioning on the battlefield is paramount to your survival.
  • Pre-buff with Victorious Energy for the extra Hit if you specced High Focus for it.

Skill Prioritization

  • Use Quality Marind Ore to craft Quality Active Skill Growth Book and Quality Passive Skill Growth Book.
  • Use Rare Marind Ore to craft Rare Active Skill Growth Book and Rare Passive Skill Growth Book.
  • Prioritize getting all these skills to blue first before getting them to purple.

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 in both PvE and PvP situations.

  • Lady Knight Kamarshea is a useful Guardian for defense.

Summary

  • If you prefer a long-range playstyle that bombards enemies with skills, Longbow / Staff is the weapon combination for you.
  • Depending on the situation, you have multiple options to customize your skill build.
  • With skills like Judgment Lightning and Flash Wave, Longbow / Staff is the king of AoE.
  • At End Game, you can reach 50 Strength, 60 Perception, and close to 1000 Hit.

Credits

Written by Yaen
Reviewed by Tenkiei and Nymphellas

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