Spellblade PvP Build Guide
Last Updated:May 3, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Spellblade PvP Build Guide. Staff users are the kings of AoE. Judgment Lightning and Chain Lightning quickly cause massive AoE damage with the correct Skill Specializations. Dagger's skills complement Staff's kit while providing flat offensive stat boosts like Wrathful Edge.
You aren't just a glass cannon, though; you have fantastic defensive options. Camouflage Cloak provides an incredible escape tool and can be used offensively for the guaranteed Crit. Shadow Walker and High Focus with the Victorious Energy Specialization offers an incredible boost to your Evasion as well.
If you're interested in PvE, check out our Spellblade PvE Build Guide!
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 as well.
If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Spellblade PvE Build Guide here!
- Critical Damage Reduction, Attack Speed or Shield Block Chance Pierce
- Critical Damage Reduction counters the Critical Damage Increase from Death Set and other sources.
- Shield Block Chance Pierce counters Sword and Shield Block Chance.
- Attack Speed is self-explanatory.
Going Shield Block Chance Pierce is best if you want more overall damage to players, including tanks. Use the Attack Speed Rune Synergy if you want more overall damage to everyone who is not a tank. Critical Damage Reduction will reduce the damage taken when an enemy Crits. This is great for defense. You can go for any Rune Synergy that best fits your situation. EVERY SERVER META IS DIFFERENT.
- STR, PER, DEX, or WIS
- + PER should also help you hit 70 Perception if you desire.
- + DEX is purely an offensive Rune Synergy effect.
- + STR is helpful to hit 50 Strength or 60 Strength if needed.
Consider the defensive and offensive breakpoints other classes can reach when building your gear.
- Melee
- Fully built Sword and Shield users reach 3000+ base Ranged and Magic Endurance.
- The amount varies depending on Trait Resonances and Runes.
- If you are targeting Sword and Shields, use the Shield Block Penetration Chance Rune Synergy.
- Fully built Sword and Shield users reach 3000+ base Ranged and Magic Endurance.
- Ranged
- Bow / Daggers and Spellblades can reach 2000+ base Ranged and Magic Evasion pre-buffed without sacrificing damage. The specific numbers depend on the Runes the player slots and the Trait Resonance they use.
- Support
- If Bow / Wands follow the builds on this site, they can reach 2500+ Ranged and Magic Endurance with 500+ Heavy Attack Evasion. As mentioned above, these numbers differ depending on the Runes and Trait Resonance.
Considering the above, it's hard to find a one-size-fits-all solution. How you gear will entirely depend on your server's meta.
- Is your server entirely of high Evasion users? Do you usually target those players? If so, build more Hit Chance.
- You might also need to spec Icebound Tomb for Evasion shred.
- Victorious Energy with Hit Chance focus helps as well.
- Is your server more Endurance-focused? Are you trying to kill those Endurance users? If so, build more Critical Hit Chance.
- Sniper's Sense will help against opponents Endurance as well.
Active Skill Choices
- Greedseeker Solarstone is used to break certain CCs, which is crucial to your survival.
- Use Chaotic Weapon of Murder: Solar Stone instead if you need more Critical Hit Chance.
Passive Skill Choices
- 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.
- Hateful Demonic Beast: Lunar Stone is an alternative.
Artifact Set Choices
- The 2-Piece Wildlands Protector is used for extra Evasion.
- The 2-Piece Greedy Mind's Eye is used only for the extra Endurance.
- The 2-Piece Hateful Demonic Beast offers more Hit Chance. This is mainly used when fighting Evasion users.
- You can use up to 2 or 4 Pieces from the Murderous Chaos set. You can drop Hateful Demonic Beast for the 4-Piece.
- The 2-Piece Ancient King's Armor is an uncommon option if you genuinely need the extra health.
- With the advent of new masteries and T2 gear, Endurance is a viable build allowing you to negate most Ranged and Magic Critical Hits and even Melee Critical Hits if you build for it.
- The Shadow Armor mastery allows Shadow Walker to give you 690 extra Ranged and Magic Endurance instead.
- Evasion remains a tremendous defensive tool, albeit more prone to RNG.
Important
- The ideal build to choose is heavily dependent on your server meta.
- Talandre Gear offers many different gear pieces from which you can choose.
- Use these builds as a base and swap different pieces depending on your need.
- Join the Maxroll Discord and ask in the TL channel for a code to get a complete T2 Rare Gear Set, to hit 3500 gear score immediately!
- Ebon Soulwind Archstaff is a great alternative to use in specific GvG maps (Sandworm Lair) and parts of Castle Siege to mass Bind and lock down small chokes. It's used in conjunction with Apply Designated Ground Targeting Specialization on Frost Smokescreen.
T2 End Game
Triple Evasion
Triple Evasion
T2 End Game
4-Pc Transcendent
4-Pc Transcendent
T2 End Game
2-Pc Spectral
2-Pc Spectral
T2 End Game
Arch + Nebula
Arch + Nebula
Transition Builds
Melee Evasion Focus Spellblade PvP Build
2-Pc Nether Evasion Spellblade PvP Build
Melee Evasion Archboss Spellblade PvP Build
Stats and Gearing Logic
- These builds have a priority focus on countering Melee users.
- With the Forgotten Assassin Setand Victorious Energy, you can reach as high as 4000+ Melee Evasion.
- This is enough to achieve a 50%+ Evasion rate against the average Greatsword.
- These builds give you a decent amount of Ranged and Magic Evasion as well, but only if you have Victorious Energy and Shadow Walker all active.
- With all buffs, including the 2-Piece Forgotten Assassin Set, you reach 2600+ Ranged and Magic Evasion.
- The 2-Pc Spectral Overseer Set build will give you more overall damage at the cost of Melee Evasion. You will still reach decent levels to counter the average Spear player, but not against a geared Greatsword player.
- Accessories have the Max Mana trait to gain more Max Damage from Judge.
- Your Mana Regen is supplemented with Mana Spring.
- Feel free to slot in any Hit Chance or Skill Damage Resistance Runes based on your needs.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Gear Alternatives
The great thing about Tier 2 gear is that you can swap many pieces depending on your wants.
- More DPS
- Elder's Punishment Cloth Gloves
- Bloody Shadow Contract's Gloves
- Ring of Eternal Flames
- Ancient's Blood Ring
- More Ranged and Magic Evasion
- Pitch-black Destruction Necklace
- Forest Ruler's Bracelet
Gear Sources
Co-Op Dungeons
- Bercant's Whispering Daggers (Halls of Tragedy)
- Primal Golden Cuffs (Chapel of Madness) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Crowned Skull of Victory (Rancorwood) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Oblivion's Wrath Leggings (Rancorwood) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Hero's Legacy Warbelt (Twisted Laboratory) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
Open World Dungeons
- Ring of Eternal Flames (Crimson Mansion - Monstrous Wraith + Phantom Killer) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Solitare of Purity (Bercant Manor - Stalker + Blade) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Howling Wind Shroud (Temple of Truth - Etched Golem)
- Forgotten Lotus Garb (Temple of Truth - Mining Stone Golem)
- Forgotten Lotus Boots (Crimson Mansion - Murderous Fiend)
Field Bosses
- Daigon's Charred Emberstaff (Daigon)
- Imperial Seeker's Boots (Manticus)
- Symbol of Nature's Advance (Pakilo Naru) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Runed Band of the Black Anvil (Pakilo Naru) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Noble Birthright Brooch (Giant Cordy)
Evasion Spellblade PvP Build
Endurance Spellblade PvP Build
No Field Boss Spellblade PvP Build
- All items here can be acquired without Field Bosses or Material Transmutation.
Stats and Gearing Logic
- You need to be able to counter high Endurance users with high Critical Hit Chance. With this set, you reach up into the 1900s.
- Bercant's Seductive Blade will also help reduce Endurance.
- You counter the average Longbow / Dagger and Spellblade Hit Chance, reaching as high as 3000+ Ranged Evasion and Magic Evasion with Victorious Energy and Shadow Walker.
- Remember that a difference of 1000 lets you evade 50% of all attacks.
- There is one low point of this build, and it's that the Hit Chance is low.
- Consider replacing the Evasion cloak with Challenging Champion's Cloak.
- You can replace all your Skill Damage Resistance runes on your belt with Hit Chance runes.
- Check the high Hit Chance build for more Hit.
- The Endurance build aims to take advantage of the Shadow Armor mastery, which changes Shadow Walker to give you 690 Endurance instead. This way, you reach 2100+ Ranged and Magic Endurance.
- Feel free to slot in any Hit Chance or Skill Damage Resistance Runes based on your needs.
- Accessories have the Max Mana trait to gain more Max Damage from Judge.
- Your Mana Regen is supplemented with Mana Spring.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Gear Alternatives
- More DPS
- Bloody Shadow Contract's Gloves
- Ring of Eternal Flames
- Ancient's Blood Ring
- Hit Chance
- Big Leaf Tree's Ring
- Pure Light Elemental Spirit Ring
- Challenging Champion's Cloak
- Range
- Spineflower Royal Guards Cloak
- More Ranged and Magic Evasion
- Pitch-black Destruction Necklace
- Forest Ruler's Bracelet
- Archboss Items
- Stone Cold Heart Cloak
- Fell Tree Belt
- Ice Queen's Bracelet
Gear Sources
Co-Op Dungeons
- Bercant's Whispering Daggers (Halls of Tragedy)
- Ebon Soulwind Archstaff (200 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Transcendent Tempest's Cowl (Chapel of Madness) or (160 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Transcendent Tempest's Armor (Twisted Laboratory) or (160 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Transcendent Tempest's Touch (Halls of Tragedy) or (160 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Transcendent Tempest's Pants (Rancorwood) or (160 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Primal Golden Cuffs (Chapel of Madness) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Hero's Legacy Warbelt (Twisted Laboratory) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Death Knell Gorget (Halls of Tragedy) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
Open World Dungeons
- Cloak of Victorious Destiny (Bercant Estate - Hooded Arbalest) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Violent Demonic Beast's Fur Boots (Temple of Truth - Stone Golem Debris) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Steadfast Commander's Cape (Crimson Mansion - Wraith Hound + Mutant Exterminator)
- Ring of Eternal Flames (Crimson Mansion - Monstrous Wraith + Phantom Killer) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Solitare of Purity (Bercant Manor - Stalker + Blade) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
Field Bosses
- Daigon's Charred Emberstaff (Daigon)
- Imperial Seeker's Boots (Manticus)
- Collar of Nature's Wrath (Giant Cordy) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Symbol of Nature's Advance (Pakilo Naru) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Band of Ancestor's Blood (Leviathan) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Runed Band of the Black Anvil (Pakilo Naru) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
Evasion Spellblade PvP Build
Endurance Spellblade PvP Build
Gearing Logic
- These builds have almost the same logic as the 4-Pc Transcendent builds.
- The Evasion build aims to reach 3000+ Ranged Evasion and Magic Evasion with the 2-Pc Forgotten Assassin Set and Shadow Walker. This allows you to still use a 2-Pc Spectral Overseer Set for more Critical Hit Damage.
- The Endurance build aims to reach 2500+ Ranged and Magic Endurance with 2-Pc Vanguard Leader Set and Shadow Walker.
- 2-Pc Vanguard grants you an additional 45 Endurance per 10 Perception.
- Shadow Armor mastery changes Shadow Walker to give you 690 Endurance instead.
- Feel free to slot in any Hit Chance or Skill Damage Resistance Runes based on your needs.
- Accessories have the Max Mana trait to gain more Max Damage from Judge.
- Your Mana Regen is supplemented with Mana Spring.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Transcendent vs Nether
- The 4-Pc Wing Gale Set gives you unconditional 40% Critical Hit Damage at 25-meter range, whereas the 2-Pc Spectral Overseer Set maxes out at 25% Critical Hit Damage. But the Spectral Overseer Set effect is conditional upon no enemies standing within 5 meters of you.
- In Castle Siege, it can be extremely easy to avoid having an enemy within 5 meters. But it takes good positional awareness not to have an enemy within a 5-meter range of yourself in other forms of PvP.
- Many players prefer 2-Pc Spectral Overseer Set when they can play safely from Range and because they can equip other 2-Pc set effects.
Gear Alternatives
- Read the section in the 4-Pc Transcendent tab.
Gear Sources
Co-Op Dungeons
- Bercant's Whispering Daggers (Halls of Tragedy)
- Crowned Skull of Victory (Rancorwood) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Starlight Fur Cloak (Doomrot Grove) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Primal Golden Cuffs (Chapel of Madness) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Hero's Legacy Warbelt (Twisted Laboratory) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Bangle of the Clearest Night (Twisted Laboratory) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
Open World Dungeons
- Auric Vanguard's Gauntlets (Crimson Mansion)
- Auric Vanguards Plate Boots (Temple of Truth - Guardian Golem)
- Ring of Eternal Flames (Crimson Mansion - Monstrous Wraith + Phantom Killer) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Cloak of Victorious Destiny (Bercant Estate - Hooded Arbalest) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Forgotten Lotus Mask (Bercant Estate - Shrouded Knight Master) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
- Forgotten Lotus Pants (Crimson Mansion - Mutant Sharpshooter + Wraith Warlock) or (320 Adventure Coin: Loyalty)
Field Bosses
- Daigon's Charred Emberstaff (Daigon)
- Collar of Nature's Wrath (Giant Cordy) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Band of Ancestor's Blood (Leviathan) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Runed Band of the Black Anvil (Pakilo Naru) or Material Transmutation (Probably April 17th?)
- Spectral Overseer's Tunic (Pakilo Naru)
- Spectral Overseer's Trousers (Daigon)
- Spectral Overseer's Handguards (Leviathan)
- Imperial Seeker's Boots (Manticus)
Bell Spellblade PvP Build
Delulu Spellblade PvP Build
Level 55 Story Spellblade PvP Build
T1 Transition Spellblade PvP Build
- Listen, you won't kill any geared players with your leveling or T1 gear.
- You must try to get to T2 gear as quickly as possible by PvEing.
- Join the Maxroll Discord and request a code in the TL chat for a full T2 Rare gear set.
Skill Builds and Rotations
Masteries
- Click the 200/200 icon for Masteries
- Go to the Mastery Prioritization for the bare minimum 130/200 builds.
Large Scale PvP
Small Scale
Arena PvP
Arena PvP
- The skill builds below can be used with Evasion or Endurance masteries. For example:
- Skill Build 1 with Evasion Masteries
- Skill Build 1 with Endurance Masteries
- Skill Build 2 with Evasion Masteries
- Skill Build 2 with Endurance Masteries
Skill Build 1 with Evasion Masteries
Skill Build 2 with Endurance Masteries
- Always keep up Shadow Walker to either boost your Evasion or Endurance with the Shadow Armor Mastery.
- Lightning Infusion's Endurance shred effect is boosted by Extreme Bloodlust.
- Master of Assassination is a great tool to reset two key skills. Phantom Smokescreen evades procs Assassination Stance, which with the mastery will have the possibility of lowering the cooldown of Phantom Smokescreen.
- Hermit is a standard node to acquire for its defensive utility.
- Burning Smokescreen can be useful without Queen Bellandir's Hivemind Staff due to several reasons.
- Burning Smokescreen will apply both Lightning Infusion and Bercant's Seductive Blade Endurance shred.
- Extreme Bloodlust boosts Lightning Infusion Endurance shred.
- Flame Detonation allows a single kill from teammates to cascade into further kills.
Priority Buff
- Victorious Energy is necessary during engages for the extra Hit Chance and Evasion.
- Always use mobility skills like Block Blade Roll or Frost Smokescreen to proc Shadow Walker.
- You always want to upkeep high Ranged and Magic Evasion to reduce the chances of getting caught.
Melee Combo
This combo easily shuts down healers or staffs if you land the Silence on them.
- Lightning Infusion
- Shadow Strike
- 2nd cast of Lightning Infusion
- Mad Sword Dance x2
- Thunderclouds Bombing
Defensive Tools
- Frost Smokescreen is a good alternative to use to reposition yourself.
- Use Camouflage Cloak at your discretion. Only you can determine when to use it offensively or defensively.
- If you find yourself caught or in a bad position, using Phantom Smokescreen can help give you time to find a way out.
- This can give you time for your teammates to notice or for your Camouflage Cloak to come back up.
- The 1st Specialization, Improved Smokescreen, will allow you to ignore some Melee projectiles like Chain Hook. The tooltip does not reflect this.
- Evading attacks here also procs Assassination Stance.
Evasion Build
Endurance Build
- Frost Master is taken for Master of Thunder to setup Judgment Lightning and Chain Lightning.
- Burning Explosion is taken just to be taken as a Passive. Yes, it can be used as a followup to Focused Fire Bombs, but by no means is it going to be a regular combo you use. Ice Spear Bombardment will still mainly be used as a Bind.
- Time of Doom boosts your already high damage from Thundering Bomb.
Priority Buff
- Victorious Energy is necessary during engages for the extra Hit Chance and Evasion.
- Always use mobility skills like Block Blade Roll or Shadow Strike to proc Shadow Walker.
- You always want to keep high Ranged and Magic Evasion to reduce the chances of getting caught or high Endurance to reduce your chances of exploding.
Melee Combo
This combo easily shuts down healers if you land the Silence on them.
- Lightning Infusion
- Shadow Strike
- 2nd cast of Lightning Infusion
- Mad Sword Dance x2
- Thunderclouds Bombing
Lightning Combo
This combo leads with a Frost skill to activate Master of Thunder.
- Ice Spear Bombardment
- Chain Lightning
- Judgment Lightning
Other Skills
- Use Focused Fire Bombs to reduce Healing on a target.
- Phantom Smokescreen is your get out of jail free card. If you're being focused down by Ranged and Magic users, cast it to gain a brief window of time to recover and analyze your situation.
- Use Icebound Tomb to remove essential targets from the fight.
Mastery Prioritization
Staff Minimum
Dagger Minimum
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 PvE and PvP situations.
- Lady Knight Kamarshea is your best Guardian for PvP due to its defensive shield.
Summary
- Combining Staff skills with Dagger skills like Camouflage Cloak and Wrathful Edge makes you an effective nuker.
- There is an emphasis on a backline playstyle in Large Scale PvP versus an assassin playstyle in Small Scale PvP.
- Constant use of Shadow Walker by using Block Blade roll is crucial to staying alive in any form of PvP.
Credits
Written by Yaen
Reviewed by Tenkiei and Nymphellas