Sword and Shield / Wand PvP Build Guide

Skill Builds

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. These are universal skills you always use.
• Upgrade the rest of your skills as you play the game.

PvP Gameplay and Skill Rotation

Your main goal in PvP is to stall as long as possible. The game plan is to rotate your Cooldowns to keep yourself alive while being as annoying as possible. On top of this, you are constantly looking to heal allies and control the enemy with Karmic Haze and Cursed Nightmare.

• Try not to dive too deep. You are durable, but without a proper healer or a VERY large gear difference, you die after all of your Cooldowns are gone.
• Save Blessed Barrier for when you get low HP to help you survive and massively heal yourself in combination with Swift Healing. It's important to rotate your Cooldowns for maximum effectiveness.
• Use Strategic Rush on as many targets as possible to get the best use out of the Morale Boost passive.

Sleep Spread

1. Cursed Nightmare
2. Karmic Haze

This is a very simple combo. Make sure your location is safe before you cast and you know where to safely reposition afterward.

Always target a Wand / Longbow or SnS user with Cursed Nightmare, because they don't usually stack Evasions, so it's more likely your Sleep and Karmic Haze would not miss on them.

After you cast Cursed Nightmare on a target, you must use Karmic Haze on that same target to spread Sleep.

• Note: The tooltip for Karmic Haze is incorrect and you can spread any DoT or Sleep to as many targets within skill's AoE radius.

Curse Bombing

1. Touch of Despair
2. Corrupted Magic Circle
3. Curse Explosion

This is a follow-up combo to the Sleep Spread if you play a Frontline Curse Bomber. The combo goes as follows: You want to do a Touch of Despair followed by Corrupted Magic Circle and ending with Curse Explosion.

CDR Reduction

Defensive Options

Healing

Stat Priorities

• Primary Stat
  • Strength, 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 absolutely necessary.

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

The goal for the Stat spread in this Sword and Shield / Wand PvP Build is to have as much Wisdom and Perception as possible to ensure you have high Cooldown Speed and high Hit Chance. The secondary points in Dexterity are mostly for defensive reasons but do also provide a bit of damage as well. The most important breakpoints to hit are 40 Strength for the extra Health and Damage Reduction and 60 Perception for the extra Hit Chance.

Mid Game Gear

Once you start slotting blue gear pieces into your build, your Stat Points spread is going to look quite even compared to most builds. Aim to get 30 in all Stats, with priority towards Wisdom for the CDR and Mana Regen, and Perception to greatly increase your Hit Chance as well as giving you a small boost to your Buff Duration. Next in the priority is Strength for the extra 750 HP and then Dexterity for the Evasion and extra Critical Hit.

End Game Gear

With optimized end game gear, you can hit very powerful Stat Point thresholds. Aim for 70 Strength for the extra HP, Damage Reduction, Defense, and Heavy Attack Chance, and the 40 Perception breakpoint for added Buff Duration.

Gear Progression

These are the recommended gear sets for the Sword and Shield / Wand PvP Build as you continually progress through the game.

• With 2-Star Dungeons being introduced, there are new BiS builds because of more accessible armor pieces and accessory pieces.
• The main difference is the slightly higher Base Damage and much higher Attack Speed.
• The next time these builds will be revamped entirely will be when T2 Epic gear comes out. This could possibly happen in January. No more changes will be made to this gear until T2 gear comes in January or earlier.
• IF YOU ALREADY HAVE MOST OF THE ARCHIVED GEAR, STICK WITH IT UNTIL T2.
  • Rune Synergies will still work with any gear.

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 for PvP situations.

• Use Green Ranger Elowen as your guardian of choice. The mass AOE Bind is a great crowd control tool for group fights, and the extra 500 Crit Hit it provides to Bound targets is an added bonus.

• For a backline healer playstyle, use Lady Knight Kamarshea as your primary Guardian of choice. Not only does it provide a massive HP shield based on your max mana, it also gives you CDR for all of your abilities as long as the shield lasts. This is invaluable when you need to keep yourself alive as long as possible for big pushes in large scale fights.

Summary

• Sword and Shield / Wand is an Endurance tank that focuses on staying alive as long as possible.
• Don't move too far away from your healers to stay alive longer in fights.
• Focus on CC'ing multiple enemies, and locking down high priority targets such as DPS and Healers.
• Try to focus on durability, Strength, Perception, and Wisdom for your gear, with a focus on traits that increase Health, Endurance, Damage, Buff Duration, and Skill Resistance.
• Performance directly scales with gear level, and the difference between a geared tank and a non geared tank is night and day.

Congratulations on reaching the end of the Sword and Shield / Wand PvP Build, continue the journey with our PvE or Leveling guides!

Credits

Written by Nymphellas and Tweekz
Reviewed by Yaen and Tenkiei