Wand / Longbow PvP Build Guide

You can go for any Rune Synergy that best fits your situation. EVERY SERVER META IS DIFFERENT.

When it comes to stats obtained from runes, players commonly choose what is necessary to hit their own stat bonuses (or other personal goals).

Attack Runes

• Heavy Attack Chance in both weapons and your bracelet to increase the Heavy Chance of your Wand and Longbow heals, as well as Invincible Wall.
• Hit Chance in your necklace as there aren't any good options in these slots.
• Critical Hit Chance in your rings to slightly increase the Critical Hit Chance of your Wand heals or Invincible Wall. Your Longbow heals can't Crit.

Defensive and Support Runes

Defensive Runes are interchangeable depending on the build you're using and what your server meta is like.

For Melee Evasion builds:

• Use Melee Evasion Runes as needed.
• Use Max Health, Magic Endurance, or Ranged Endurance Runes if the Melee Evasion you can naturally build through gear is high enough to be effective in PvP.

For Endurance builds:

• Use Melee Endurance Runes if there are more Spear users on your server.
• Use Ranged Endurance Runes if there are more Longbow and Xbow users on your server.
• Use Max Health Runes if the natural Endurances you can build through gear feels sufficient to make you hard to kill in PvP.

For all builds:

• Use Skill Damage Resistance Runes on both your weapons, belt, and bracelet.
• The Rune Synergies you can achieve on your belt are lackluster. Thus, going triple Skill Damage Resistance Runes or Resistance Runes would make you more tanky in PvP. Doing the same on your bracelet is recommended.

Replace Runes using Chaos Runes in this order:

1. Attack Rune in Necklace (Hit doesn't benefit you as a Seeker in PvP, especially not at the low amounts they provide.)
2. Attack Runes in Rings (Critical Hit Chance increases your Critical Healing by an extremely low amount. For example 750 Swift Heals with 669 Magic Crit results in only 9.5% of the heals landing as Crits.)
3. Attack Rune in your Belt if you're not doing x3 SDR.

Consider the defensive and offensive breakpoints other classes can reach when building your gear.

• Melee
  • From early to endgame T2, Sword and Shield users average around 1,000 Collision Chance. This number can increase easily with Traits, Skills, and Runes.
    • Since they can build high Collision Chance with the ability to add more to land their important Collision CC, I recommend building other Resistances that will be just as effective in ensuring your survival during PvP. For instance, you can build Bind or Stun Resistances which are required for several Collision combos performed by Sword and Shield and Greatsword users.
    • Melee can build additional CC Hit Chance from:
      • Deadly Penetration that increases Spear CC Chance by 15%.
      • Unyielding Sentinel that provides up to 450 CC Chance.
      • Hand-to-Hand Combat which increases Stun and Collision Hit Chance when Perception is 70 or more.
      • Gerad's Valor that increases all CC Chance by up to 110.
      • Ruthlessness which increases Stun, Collision, and Fear Chance by 22 per every 10 Fortitude.
  • Building Melee Evasion is interesting in T2. The average Melee Hit I've observed from over 110 competitive Melee builds based in the NA and EU regions, as well as build websites, suggest that the average Melee Hit from early to endgame T2 will be around 2,200 to as high as 2,800 (endgame non-nebula). This does not factor in Hit buffs like:
    • Unyielding Sentinel that provide Spear users an additional 410 Hit.
    • All-out Assault that increase Spear Melee Hit by 336
  • All this in mind, Spear players can certainly stack enough Hit (with buffs) to reliably land hits against Melee Evasion builds which comfortably reach 3,000 Melee Evasion and up to 3,500 if sacrificing some critical stats. It's likely you will have enough Melee Evasion to counter Greatsword and Sword and Shield players, but if necessary, they could push their Melee Hit higher to ensure they reliably land their CCs on you.

• Ranged
  • Bow / Staff users are reaching an average of up to 1,800 Critical Hit Chance before conditional buffs are added like Sniper's Sense and Decisive Bombardment.
  • Staff / Daggers users are reaching an average of up to 2,000 Magic Critical Hit Chance.
  • Longbow / Daggers users reach up to an average of 1,800 Critical Hit Chance before conditional buffs like Unlucky Target and Killer's Sense.

Considering the above, it's hard to find a one-size-fits-all solution. How you gear will entirely depend on the meta of your server. There is additional information that you should know when gearing that applies to all enemies, included below:

• I highly recommend building Weaken Resistance to counter debuffs that reduce Endurance, Defenses, and your Healing. It also helps to resist most Damage Overtime abilities (DoTs).
  • Why is this important? Several weapons, such as Crossbows, Staves, and Spears, deal additional damage based on the amount of Weakens stacks on you. By resisting most of these Weakens, you significantly reduce the damage they can inflict. Additionally, you heal for fuller amounts if you're not Healing Debuffed.
• Don't worry about enemies stacking Weaken Chance. With the new gear swap system, you can easily switch to build variations that trade Weaken Resistance for more Endurances, Heavy Attack Evasion, or a different type of Resistance. This new added flexibility makes it much harder for enemies to predict your setup and effectively counter you.

• Evasion Build Considerations:
  • The Abyssal Beast Solarstone reduces Evasion up to 300.
  • The Flamespell Weaver Lunarstone increases Hit by 80 with a 5% chance to procc whenever the enemy lands an attack. Lunarstones have no cooldowns.
  • The Flamespell Weaver Solarstone increases Hit by 200 for 10 seconds.

• Endurance Build Considerations:
  • The Chaos Harbinger Solarstone increases Critical Hit Chance up to 1,000 for 10 seconds.

Active Skill Choices

1. Ruling Demon: Solar Stone is used for countering high CC Chance users and ensuring a low chance of getting CC'd upon an engage.
2. Use Ancient King's Armor: Solar Stone if you don't require the extra CC Resistances. This stone increases your Health by 5,000 and acts as a heal that isn't affected by healing debuffs.

Passive Skill Choices

1. Greedy Mind's Eye: Lunar Stone is in my opinion the best Artifact Passive. Increasing your Skill Damage Resistance by up to 210 when you're CC'd is invaluable.

Artifact Set Choices

1. The 4-Piece Greedy Mind's Eye is used to obtain 100 extra Endurance and 75 Resistances.
   • Use 2-Piece for the T2 Melee Evasion, Ranged and Magic Endurance build.
2. The 2-Piece Ancient King's Armor provides 1,500 additional Max Health.
3. The 2-Piece Wildlands Protector provides 100 extra Evasion for the Evasion build.

• The updated King Khanzaizin's Valor Song is the new best-in-slot T2 wand for healers. It provides much better stats compared to Overture of Eternal Salvation and the weapon's skill also persists when Invincible Wall is depleted (see image below). The buff applies to yourself and anyone in your party and the duration is increased by Buff Duration.

• King Khanzaizin's Valor Song has better stat distribution, higher Base Damage (which scales healing across the board), a significant Mana Cost reduction (allowing you to run lower Mana Regen and more Max Mana for even more healing), and a built-in 10% healing increase skill.
• If you are playing correctly (stacking Healing Touches on multiple allies like you should) you will always maintain 5 stacks of Selfless Soul and don't need Overture of Eternal Salvation to achieve this.
• The 5% damage reduction Khan gives is massively underrated. Think about it:
  • If a hit would normally do 6,000 damage, it now does 5,700 (300 damage reduced).
  • If it would do 2,000, it now does 1,900 (100 damage reduced).
  • If it would do 1,000, it now does 950 (50 damage reduced).
• While 5% sounds small, it applies to every hit the party takes. Over an entire fight, that adds up to thousands of damage prevented.

Weaken Resistance traits are taken to counter skills and equipment that apply Weaken Debuffs that often lead to the death of a healer such as:

• Certain abilities that apply a Weaken Slow Debuff.
• Spear
  • Culling Arc applies a Weaken that decreases CC Resistances and increases damage of the skill by 20%.
  • Gale Rush can be used twice if affected by Weaken or other specific CC.
  • Cataclysm applies a Weaken that disables your Block ability.
  • Weaken: Ignite increases the damage of several Spear abilities, such as, Javelin Inferno, and Phoenix Barrage
  • Weaken: Burst increases the damage or consecutive use of several Spear abilities, such as, Explosive Fury/Brutal Fury, Cyclonic Fury, Violent Blast, Great Burst, and Tempest Strike.
• Dagger
  • Bercant's Seductive Blade applies a Weaken Debuff that decreases Endurance by up to 120.
  • Weaken: Thunderclouds increases the damage dealt by Thundering Bomb and Fatal Stigma, while also decreasing your Endurance by up to 400. It is applied by skills such as, Cleaving Moonlight, Shadow Strike, Lightning Infusion, and Frenzied Sword Dance.
  • Inject Venom applies Weaken: Poison that deals Base Damage per second and increases the damage dealt by Fatal Stigma, Umbral Spirit, and Brutal Incision. It also synergizes with new Mastery skills like Edge of Venom, Extreme Bloodlust, and Time of Doom.
  • Lightning Throw applies a Weaken that reduces Movement Speed by 68.5% and Healing by 82.5%. It can also be specc'd to decrease Endurance by 150.
• Greatsword
  • Willbreaker applies Weaken that decrease Magic, Melee and Ranged Defenses by 720. It can also be specc'd to decrease all Evasions by 300.
  • Guillotine Blade applies a Weaken that decreases Healing by 80%.
  • Precision Dash can be specc'd to apply a 30% Shield Block Debuff in case you plan to play Templar as a secondary.
• Sword and Shield
  • Piercing Strike applies a Weaken that decreases Hit and Critical Hit Chance.
  • Cleaving Roar applies a Weaken that prevents you from using single-target abilities on yourself or others. It can be specc'd to also decrease all Endurances by 340.
  • Shock Trooper Captain applies a Weaken that decreases all Defenses by 200.
• Longbow
  • Deadly Marker applies a Weaken that increases enemies Critical Hit and Hit Chances on you.
  • Flash Arrow can be specc'd to apply a 300 Hit Chance Debuff on you.
• Crossbow
  • Queen Bellandir's Toxic Spine Throwers applies a Weaken: Poison that deals Base Damage overtime.
  • Mortal Mark applies a Weaken that decreases Healing received by 80%.
  • Weak Point Shot applies a Weaken that increases Critical Damage you receive by 21%.
  • Wind Snatcher Binds you and applies a Weaken that decreases your Attack Speed by 15% if you are Slowed (Weaken Resistance resists Slows).
  • If a target is Weakened, Quick Fire deals additional damage.
• Staff
  • Queen Bellandir's Hivemind Staff applies a high damage dealing AoE skill if the you have Weaken: Burning.
  • Weaken: Burning deals Base Damage overtime and increases the damage and consecutive use of some abilities, such as Chain Lightning and Judgment Lightning.
  • Focused Fire Bombs applies a Weaken that decreases Healing received by 80%.
  • Icebound Tomb applies a Weaken that decreases your Evasions by 460.
  • Judgment Lightning can be specc'd to apply a Weaken that decreases Shield Block Chance by 30% in case you plan to play Templar as a secondary.
  • Infernal Meteor can be specc'd to apply a Weaken that decrease Healing received by 80%.
• Wand
  • Tevent's Grasp of Withering applies a Weaken: Curse that deals Base Damage overtime.
  • Time for Punishment applies a Weaken that decreases Skill Damage Resistance by 220. It can be specc'd to instead apply a Weaken that decreases Mana per hit.
  • Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle apply a Weaken that applies Base Damage overtime.
  • Curse Explosion deals more damage the more Weakens stacked on you.