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Staff / Dagger PvP Build Guide

Last Updated:February 7, 2025|Changelog

Welcome to the Spellblade Staff / Dagger 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, as you have fantastic defensive options. Salvation Chain with the Redemptive Barrier specialization provides you a hefty barrier, enough to give your healer time to save you. 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. Played to its fullest potential, you're an incredible asset to your team.

Defensive End Game Staff / Dagger PvP Build

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

Pros
  • High AoE Burst
  • High Survivability
  • Long Range Burst
Cons
  • Weak to Melee
  • Requires Cooldown Speed

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 Staff / Dagger PvE Build Guide here!

Rune Building Philosophy (Click Me!)

Umbramancer, Toublek, or Talus (Click Me!)

Early Mid
Game
End Game
Toublek/Talus
End Game
Melee Eva
End Game
Archboss

Early Game Staff / Dagger PvP Build

Mid Game Staff / Dagger 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 over to a purple piece in the same slot.

Transition Blues

  • You don't see many blue accessories or blue cloak 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.
  • 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.

Stats

  • Your Ranged Evasion and Magic Evasion with Master of Evasion, Shadow Walker and Victorious Energy reach 1800+.

Traits

  • Trait this gear as best as you can. You don't need to go hard until you start acquiring Purple Gear.
  • If transitioning to Purple Gear immediately, fill up a blue item with cheap traits before transferring.

Dungeon Gear Sources

  • Lequirus's Wicked Thorns from Cave of Destruction
  • 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.
  • Shadow Harvester Boots
    • Carmine Rage Island
    • Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire

Open World Dungeon Gear Sources

  • Ant's Nest
    • Elusive Hexweaver Hat from Worker Ant
  • Shadowed Crypt
    • Hermit's Shroud from Dark Enforcer
      • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Shadow
      • Cloak that Protected a Hero
  • Sanctum of Desire
    • Staff of the Umbramancer from Avolos Geomancer
      • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
    • Shadow Harvester Tunic from Avolos Tracker
    • Shadow Harvester Boots from Avolos Tracker
  • Saurodoma Island
    • Duskblood Gloves from Reptilian Lancer
    • Phantom Wolf Breeches from Reptilian Soldier

Budget Option (Click Me!)

70 Dexterity High Evasion (Click Me!)

Full Offensive w/ 40% CDR, Atk Speed, Range
Toublek Staff / Dagger PvP Build

Defensive w/ High Evasion
Talus Staff / Dagger PvP Build
Alt: Toublek's Shattering Quarterstaff

Rune Synergy Options

  • Critical Hit Damage Reduction for more defense.
  • Shield Block Penetration Chance for more damage against Sword and Shield heavy comps.
  • Attack Speed for more overall damage.

Budget Offensive or Defensive Builds

Without saying, your Budget build should be cheaper to trait but lacks Band of Universal Power.

The full offensive build uses a 4-Pc Shadow Harvester setup for max Base Damage, Cooldown Speed, Range, and Heavy Attack Chance.

  • The 40% CDR should help immensely in prolonged engagements. Watch your Mana though.
  • Swirling Essence Robe is just for more damage.
  • You can swap the chest piece with Phantom Wolf Tunic for more base Evasion.
  • Heroic Tunic of the Resistance is also an option if your want more Hit Chance.

The full defensive build offers much higher Evasion, reaching 2600+ Ranged and Magic Evasion with Victorious Energy, Master of Evasion, and Shadow Walker.

  • If you want to have even higher base Evasion, you can go the 70 Evasion build above, hidden in the dropdown.

Defensive and Support Runes

Defensive Runes are interchangeable depending on what you need and what your server meta is like.

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

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 Evasion are your most important traits.
  • If you decide you don't need the Mana Regen trait, use Max Mana instead for Redemptive Barrier for a larger shield.
  • Your accessories have the option of using either Collision Resistance or Debuff Duration. It depends on whether you get hit by Collision skills or more debuffs.
  • 50%+ Buff Duration allows Victorious Energy to last ~6+ seconds longer to around 18 seconds. Shadow Walker also lasts longer.
  • Victorious Energy, Master of Evasion, and Shadow Walker lets your Ranged and Magic Evasion reach over 2000.
    • This lets you evade over 50% of Ranged and Magic skills versus someone with 1000 Hit Chance.
  • Unbuffed, you reach ~1000 Hit Chance with full purple gear.
    • With Victorious Energy you hit 1400+ Hit Chance.

Gear Sources (Click Me!)

Budget Staff / Dagger PvP Build w/ Runes

Expensive Staff / Dagger PvP Build w/ Runes

  • This build is mainly for Arena PvP and Small Scale PvP where Melee users dominate.
  • With Master of Evasion and Victorious Energy, you reach over 2000 Melee Evasion.
  • Victorious Energy, Master of Evasion, and Shadow Walker lets your Ranged Evasion reach over 2000 as well.

Defensive and Support Runes

Most defensive runes here have Melee Evasion slotted. Feel free to use Ranged Evasion Runes if you feel you need more.

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

Gear Sources (Click Me!)

High Evasion Staff / Dagger PvP Build

Offensive Staff / Dagger PvP Build

Bellandir Large Scale Build

Small Scale Staff / Dagger PvP Build w/ Runes

Skill Builds and Rotations

Large Scale PvP
Arena PvP
Dominion

Non-Shield Version

Shield Version

  • The Dagger's weapon mastery, Master of Evasion, gives you an additional 105 Evasion while you have a dagger as your active weapon.
    • To capitalize on this bonus, always set your dagger as your primary weapon when moving around in PvP.
    • You can switch your weapon main-hand back to Staff when attacking.
  • Consider taking off all Specializations from Ice Spear Bombardment and using only Bind to bind groups of targets.
  • Icebound Tomb is a fantastic tool to root massive groups of users in place.
  • Consider replacing Redemptive Barrier or Frost Smokescreen with Ankle Strike for more Melee utility.

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.

Defensive Tools

  • Redemptive Barrier is great for surviving during large scale fights.
    • Use Healthy Milk or Honey Sponge Cake to recover your Mana in a situation where you run out of Mana from using this skill.
  • If you have it, preemptively use Frost Smokescreen, as it does not break you out of Bind. If you get CC'd use it immediately after using Precious Purification Vigor Stone or once the CC is over.
  • 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.
      • If you decide to use that Passive, consider replacing Echoic Barrier for it.

Ranged Playstyle

Melee Build

  • The meta in Arena and Small Scale PvP is currently high Melee Evasion. Because of it, you won't be able to hit geared players with your Melee skills. Thus, you want to use a playstyle that incorporates mostly Staff skills as Magic Evasion is harder to have as much of unless opponents use a Dagger for Shadow Walker.

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.

Mana Burn (Ranged Build)

This is your Mana Burn Combo that you can cut short easily. It's not necessary to use all 3 charges of Serial Fire Bombs.

  1. Serial Fire Bombs
  2. Inferno Wave
  3. Fireball Barrage

Melee Combo (Melee Build)

This combo easily shuts down healers if you land the Silence on them.

  • Shadow Strike
  • Ankle Strike
  • Cleaving Moonlight x2
  • Thunderclouds Bombing

Other Skills

  • Use Knife Throwing 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.
  • Ice Spear Bombardment is your bind skill which you can follow up with Chain Lightning or Judgment Lightning.
  • This build gives you the option of going into Melee and fighting from range. Players will still be somewhat clumped, so you slot AoE Specializations when you can.
  • Being able to use Camouflage Cloak more in these open world fights is essential. Remember that evading attacks in Phantom Smokescreen will activate Assassination Stance.
  • You're an effective single target nuker with Ice Spear Bombardment and Judgment Lightning as well.
  • Icebound Armor is used just for extra survivability against Greatsword users.

Skill Prioritization

Active Priority

Passive Priority

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.
  • The ideal stat breakpoint you should achieve is 60 Perception and 50 Strength.

Credits

Written by Yaen
Reviewed by Tenkiei and Nymphellas

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