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Wand / Dagger PvE Build Guide

Last Updated:March 6, 2025|Changelog

Welcome to the Darkblighter Wand / Dagger PvE Build Guide! The Wand / Dagger weapon combination is primarily a support build that revolves around mixing ranged and melee playstyles to ensure you can be anywhere on the battlefield.

Unlike a more traditional Support or DPS build, you need to keep a close watch on both allies and enemies alike to make the best use of your Curse Explosion, Cursed Nightmare, Blessed Barrier, and Swift Healing abilities. Knowing when and where to use these skills for maximum value makes all the difference between a good support and a great one.

Wand / Dagger DPS PvE Build

If you're interested in PvP, check out our Wand / Dagger PvP Build Guide!

Pros
  • Hybrid DPS
  • High AoE DPS
  • High Crit Healing
Cons
  • Low Mobility
  • High Mana Cost

PvE Gear Progression

If you plan on PvPing in the future, just use the PvP gear shown in our Wand / Dagger PvP Build Guide for PvE. Unless you're going for record clears, you can use the PvP gear to clear all content.

For New Players
  • All pre-Talandre builds will be revamped once it releases.
  • They will use T2 Blue gear instead.
End Game
End Game
Archboss
T2 End Game
2-Pc Elder 2-Pc Seeker
T2 End Game
4-Pc Elder

Wand / Dagger PvE Build

DPS Build

This end game set is primarily designed around being Melee DPS, stacking Crit Hit, Crit Damage, Heavy Attack, and Attack Speed. Getting all of this gear is going to take a long time so don't be afraid to get other suitable pieces in the meantime to hold you over. It is worth noting that the large Strength investment is not worth it UNTIL you can get to 50 Strength for the Heavy Attack bonus. Until then, your Stat Points are better focused into Wisdom for more overall damage.

  • The bonus damage from Lequirus's Thorny Edge is strong enough that you don't worry about traits before putting it on. Use it as soon as possible.
  • When making decisions on Stat points, the 40 Dexterity breakpoint isn't that important. When gearing, feel free to drop this to 30 so you can fit points elsewhere.

You can also fit Excavator's Mysterious Scepter into this build without sacrificing any Stat breakpoints. It offers more Base Damage and a solid bonus to Swift Healing via its passive.

Weapon Sources

  • Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
    • Excavator-9

Armor Sources

  • Reaper's Black Mask
    • Adentus
    • Valley of Slaughter
  • Archpriest's Devotion
    • Cave of Destruction
  • Shadow Harvester Grips
    • Temple of Slaughter
  • Swirling Essence Robe
    • Island of Terror
  • Shadow Harvester Boots
    • Carmine Rage Island
    • Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire

Accessory Sources

  • Slaughterer's Collar
    • Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection Lithograph Book entry.
    • Kowazan
  • Specter's Frost Bracers
    • Tyrant's Isle
  • Unshakeable Gold Ring
    • Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss F5-F6
  • Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
    • Aridus

Wand / Dagger PvE Build

Support Build

This gear setup is primarily focused on stacking Mana Regen, Cooldown Speed, and Crit Hit. This is so you can heal as often as possible with the largest heals you can get. Some of these pieces are difficult to both acquire and trait, so use gear from the Mid Game Gear section to hold you over in the meantime.It is worth noting that the large Strength investment is not worth it UNTIL you can get to 50 Strength for the Heavy Attack bonus. Until then, your Stat Points are better focused into Wisdom for more overall damage.

You can also fit Excavator's Mysterious Scepter into this build without sacrificing too much. It offers more Base Damage and a solid bonus to Swift Healing via its passive.

Gear Sources

  • Shadow Harvester Mask
    • Adentus
  • Transcendental Saint Raiment
    • Aridus
  • Transcendental Mystery Gloves
    • Butcher's Canyon
  • Ascended Guardian Shoes
    • Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss F5-F6

Wand / Dagger PvE Build
Archboss

DPS Build

This build is designed entirely around doing as much damage as humanly possible with no other considerations. You stack Crit Damage, Heavy Attack Chance, Attack Speed, Cool Down Speed, and Mana Regen to their limits so you can hit as hard as possible without stopping.

  • The bonus damage from Lequirus's Thorny Edge is strong enough that you don't worry about traits before putting it on. Use it as soon as possible.
  • When making decisions on Stat points, the 40 Dexterity breakpoint isn't that important. When gearing, feel free to drop this to 30 so you can fit points elsewhere.

Weapon Sources

  • Tevent's Grasp of Withering
    • Tevent

Armor Sources

  • Reaper's Black Mask
    • Adentus
    • Valley of Slaughter
  • Archpriest's Devotion
    • Cave of Destruction
  • Shadow Harvester Grips
    • Temple of Slaughter
  • Swirling Essence Robe
    • Island of Terror
  • Shadow Harvester Boots
    • Carmine Rage Island
    • Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire

Accessory Sources

  • Slaughterer's Collar
    • Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection Lithograph Book entry.
    • Kowazan
  • Specter's Frost Bracers
    • Tyrant's Isle
  • Unshakeable Gold Ring
    • Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss F5-F6
  • Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
    • Aridus
Important
  • Certain conditional mastery passives have not been implemented yet.

DPS Dagger / Wand PvE Build

Stats and Gearing Logic

  • The idea behind the gear is taking advantage of massive curse damage thanks to the new Wand Masteries in combination with the 2Pc-Elder Set.
  • The other set, 2-Pc - Imperial Tracker Set, is used in tandem to scale your damage even further.
    • Keep in mind your Curse Damage will increase directly proportional to your Crit Damage assuming you land a crit.
  • This build also features over 1k Heavy Attack Chance, high Attack Speed, Critical Hit, and Critical Damage, and still enough Defenses to survive tough mechanics.

Gear Alternatives

  • Stone Cold Heart Cloak is also slotted if you ever are lucky enough or rich enough to acquire it.

Gear Sources

  • Coming soon. Mouse over the items to see the item drop location.
Important
  • Certain conditional mastery passives have not been implemented yet.

Healer Dagger / Wand PvE Build

Stats and Gearing Logic

  • The idea behind the gear is taking advantage of massive curse damage thanks to the new Wand Masteries in combination with the 2Pc-Elder Set.
  • This build also features over 1k Heavy Attack Chance, high Attack Speed, Critical Hit, and Critical Damage, and still enough Defenses to survive tough mechanics. On top of this, you have access to 130% Skill Heal to keep your party alive.

Gear Alternatives

  • Stone Cold Heart Cloak is also slotted if you ever are lucky enough or rich enough to acquire it.
  • King Khanzaizin's Valor Song is a viable alternative wand for Healing.

Gear Sources

  • Coming soon. Mouse over the items to see the item drop location.

Skill Builds and Rotation

PvE Bossing
AoE Combo
Poison DPS

Dagger / Wand AOE / Caster Setup (requires Disciple's Rage)

Dagger / Wand Healer Setup

Opening Rotation

  1. Inject Venom
  2. Enchanting Time
  3. Valorous Barrier
  4. Umbral Spirit
  5. Touch of Despair
  6. Cleaving Moonlight
  7. Fountain of Life
  8. Swift Healing x3
  9. Touch of Despair
  10. Decaying Touch
  11. Witching Hour
  12. Curse Explosion
  13. Brutal Incision
  • This is your opener in boss fights. Focus on using Touch of Despair off CD as much as possible.
  • If you need to conserve mana, you can cycle between Cleaving Moonlight, Touch of Despair, and Brutal Incision to deal steady damage.

Healing

  • Blessed Barrier
  • Fountain of Life
  • Clay's Salvation
  • Swift Healing
  • Chaotic Shield
  • Vampiric Contract
  • You may not have all these skills equipped depending on your party role. However, use the order of skills to help you determine how much healing you can provide. This ensures you use the right ability for the right situation to manage resources.
  • When someone is at death's door, use this skillset from top to bottom (except for Vampiric Contract as it's a passive) to fully heal anyone in the game. Lastly, with tools like Fountain of Life and Clay's Salvation you are also more than capable of healing your entire party as well.

Dagger / Wand AOE / Caster Setup (requires Disciple's Rage)

Dagger / Wand Dagger Focused Setup

Dagger / Wand AOE / Caster Rotation

  1. Inject Venom
  2. Enchanting Time
  3. Valorous Barrier
  4. Cleaving Moonlight
  5. Touch of Despair
  6. Clay's Salvation
  7. Fountain of Life
  8. Swift Healing x3
  9. Touch of Despair
  10. Corrupted Magic Circle
  11. Curse Explosion
  • The main goal of this DPS rotation is to spread as many of your Curses over as many targets as possible. During downtime, spam Cleaving Moonlight and Touch of Despair to upkeep steady damage while waiting for Curse Explosion.

Dagger / Wand Dagger Focused Rotation

  1. Lightning Infusion
  2. Enchanting Time
  3. Valorous Barrier
  4. Thunder Spirit
  5. Touch of Despair
  6. Cleaving Moonlight
  7. Mad Sword Dance
  8. Lightning Throw
  9. Mad Sword Dance
  10. Touch of Despair
  11. Corrupted Magic Circle
  12. Curse Explosion
  • The main goal of this DPS rotation is to spread as many of your Curses over as many targets as possible. Keeping enemies as close together as possible helps to ensure maximum DPS from your Dagger Thunderclouds damage.
  1. Enchanting Time
  2. Inject Venom
  3. Fighting Spirit Barrier
  4. Umbral Spirit
  5. Touch of Despair
  6. Cleaving Moonlight x1
  7. Fatal Stigma
  8. Brutal Incision
  9. Decaying Touch
  10. Touch of Despair
  11. Unlucky Clock
  12. Curse Explosion
  • This is your opener in boss fights. Focus on using Touch of Despair off CD as much as possible.
  • In order to use this rotation effectively you need a LOT of mana regen. When low on mana, cycle between Touch of Despair, Cleaving Moonlight, Brutal Incision, and Curse Explosion while you regen.
  • Enchanting Time you can keep up almost 100% of the time thanks to your Buff Duration. Be sure this and Fighting Spirit Barrier are up before you cast your final set of Touch of Despair into Decaying Touch into Curse Explosion. Keep in mind your Curse damage is snapshot at the time of cast. Using either Enchanting Time or Fighting Spirit Barrier after casting Curses does almost nothing for your damage.

Skill Prioritization

  1. Use Quality Marind Ore to craft Quality Active Skill Growth Book and Quality Passive Skill Growth Book.
  2. Use Rare Marind Ore to craft Rare Active Skill Growth Book and Rare Passive Skill Growth Book.
  3. 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.

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 the Wand / Dagger PvE Build.

You can choose between Lady Knight Kamarshea, Shade Revenant Sthenoor Masked Warlock Dantalux.

  • Lady Knight Kamarshea gives you a shield based on your mana and lowers your cooldowns. This increases your DPS as a mage and allows you to heal more often, making it a solid choice.
  • If you find you and your party members are having Mana issues, take Masked Warlock Dantalux instead for the Mana sustain.
  • If you want to squeeze out as much DPS as possible use Shade Revenant Stheno.

Summary

  • Wand / Dagger is a Support build that mixes melee and ranged play-styles.
  • Combine a mixture of survivability and damage with skills such as Thunderclouds Bombing and Swift Healing to both deal damage and keep people alive.
  • Play next to your tank so it's easier to keep him alive/keep his stamina bar full.
  • Focus on durability, Dexterity, and Strength for your gear with traits that increase Health, Evasion, Damage, Buff Duration, and Mana Regen.
  • This build needs Mana Regen to perform well, and best-in-slot gear is gated behind Arch Bosses so it can take a long time to acquire.

Credits

Written by Nymphellas
Reviewed by Yaen and Dredscythe

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