Wand / Dagger PvP Build Guide

• The goal for this build is to be a utility machine, providing Healing, Shields, Increased Defenses, and the ability to stop enemy engagements. Best played in ZvZ combat with a full party.

Utility Skills

• Karmic Haze and Cursed Nightmare are your primary tool to either engage an enemy group or help your group to disengage.
• Camouflage Cloak and Phantom Smokescreen are used to get you out of tough situations. Camouflage Cloak should also be used when engaging fights with your AOE sleep combo.
• Shadow Strike is a valuable mobility skill that Roots and Silences a target. Use it to peel for your party or to get a quick engagement with the enemy and return with Shadow Escape. It also procs Shadow Walker, giving you even more defenses.

Support Skills

• Swift Healing, Clay's Salvation, and Fountain of Life are your primary sources of Healing, and also stack the passive Selfless Soul.
• Invincile Wall and Blessed Barrier are fantastic damage mitigation tools and should be used before you engage when possible. Also, consider saving Blessed Barrier for when one of your party members gets in a sticky situation.

Passive Skills

• Selfless Soul, Full of Corruption, Devotion and Emptiness and Assassin's Instincts are all skills used to increase the power of your Healing and Shields.
• Shadow Walker and Assassination Stance are key survival tools for this build.
• Assassin's Step keeps you mobile throughout the fight.
• Wraith's Beckon increases the duration of all your Curses, but we mostly take it to extend the duration of Cursed Nightmare.

Alternatives

• The goal for this build is to play as a hybrid support/DPS with the ability to engage, Heal, Shield, or assassinate targets. You MUST play around your team as getting caught usually means death.

Utility Skills

• We take Touch of Despair mostly to apply the 10% increased Base Damage taken, although it also applies a small DOT.
• Lightning Infusion is used to massively increase the damage of Thunderclouds Bombing and also apply Endurance Reduction to the enemy.
• Camouflage Cloak allows us to stealth engage fights and escape sticky situations.
• Cursed Nightmare is a great tool for completely shutting down a member of the enemy team, and should be used to stop someone engaging your backline so you can kill the other two members of his team.
• We take Shadow Strike to help reposition in fights while applying Silence and Root to enemy players. It also serves to proc our Shadow Walker passive.

Support Skills

• Invincile Wall and Blessed Barrier are and excellent way to mitigate damage, and should be used to protect allies that are dove on.
• Fountain of Life and Swift Healing are the healing skills utilized to keep ourselves and our allies topped up.

Passive Skills

• Shadow Walker is invaluable to increase survivability and should be kept active at all times.
• Assassin's Instincts, Noble Revival, Saint's Oath, Selfless Soul and Devotion and Emptiness are all used to increase our Healing capabilities as we fill the support role in arena.
• Wraith's Beckon is mostly taken to extend the duration of our Cursed Nightmare.
• We take Wrathful Edge to increase our burst potential when you need to dive onto targets.

Engage/Dive

For mid-game, you are slowly phasing out your green gear for blues, even replacing some of the story blues with better options. Keep in mind that an item with traits is better than an untraited item in most cases. Don't be afraid to hold on to your greens if you can't afford traiting your blues.

The difference between these two builds largely comes down to your server meta and preferred playstyle. If you find an abundance of melee players in your fights then the Melee Evasion build just makes sense. Regardless of build you need to maintain good positioning to stay alive in most content. When using the Ranged/Magic Evasion build be more mindful of melee players as they will kill you in one combo. Keep in mind that Blue Gear is the last time you can stack enough Melee Evasion for it to actually make a difference in your survivability. The amount of Hit that Greatsword can get after this point greatly reduces the effectiveness of any evasion you can build in the end game.

Accessory Sources

1. Insightful Ring of Dimension
   • Craft Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest using Dimensional Essence: Salvation.
   • You need 10 Tokens from each Co-Op Dungeon to craft.
2. Beast King's Gilded Bracers
   • Cave of Destruction
3. Ancient Saurodoma Bracers
   • Tyrant's Isle
4. Abyss Conqueror's Necklace
   • Craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
5. Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
   • Aridus
6. Unshakeable Gold Ring
   • Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss F5-F6

Alternatives

Both of the above builds are viable placeholders while you work towards the harder-to-aqcuire items from the end game build. The main difference between the two is about +2k Health, -250 Hit, -12% Buff Duration, and +100 Heavy Attack Chance for the Darkslayer Daggers. The choice is entirely preference, so weigh the options carefully and pick what works best for your server.

High Hit Variants

These builds are crafted in preperation for an update the Korean version of the game recieved. Karmic Haze is no longer guarenteed to spread to all targets. Instead, it rolls an accuracy check for each target inside of the AOE. This increases the importance of having high Hit for the playstyle and these new builds reflect that. The build on the left is an ideal end-game setup for high Hit with BIS pieces for support Wand / Dagger. The build on the right is more budget oriented, but still achieves high Hit alongside good Max Health and Evasion stats.

Accessory Sources

1. Insightful Ring of Dimension
   • Craft Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest using Dimensional Essence: Salvation.
   • You need 10 Tokens from each Co-Op Dungeon to craft.
2. Beast King's Gilded Bracers
   • Cave of Destruction
3. Collar of Decimation
   • Marienne's Necklace Collection Lithograph Book entry.
   • Kowazan
4. Unshakeable Gold Ring
   • Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman in Syleus's Abyss F5-F6
5. Belt of Combat Prowess
   • Grayclaw Sentry and Gray Lycan Sentry in Grayclaw Forest.
   • Shade Wizard in Shadowed Crypt.

Alternatives

The Solo Self Found build aims to ease the pain of acquiring gear locked behind world boss drops while still maintaining it's identity. The main loss is the need to drop two set Field General's Pride. Another consideration to be made is going for Clasp of the Conqueror over Collar of Decimation as it requires no RNG to obtain and meets the same Stat breakpoints required.

The Lequirus's Thorny Edge variant of the build offers the same Stat breakpoints but sacrifices Max Health in favor of more Base Damage and higher Crit Rate. You also get access to more Wisdom to improve your Cooldown Speed and Mana Regen. Both the Lequirus's Thorny Edge variant and the Darkslayer Daggers variant are viable as a main build. The choice comes down to your preference.

Gear Sources

1. Lequirus's Thorny Edge
   • Cave of Destruction
2. Visor of the Resistance
   • Overhead Protection
   • Orc Brawler
3. Ascended Guardian Gloves
   • Butcher's Canyon
4. Clasp of the Conqueror
   • Craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss

Gear Sources

• Tevent's Grasp of Withering, Shadow Harvester Boots
  • Tevent
• Shadow Harvester Trousers
  • Junobote in Sanctum of Desire or Guild Raids
• Heroic Tunic of the Resistance
  • Mysterious Shadows in the Fog Lithograph Book entry.
  • Precious Blessing Pouch
  • Crafted using 40 Special Resistance Medal.
• Bracers of the Primal King
  • Cave of Destruction
• Necklace of Cold Strength
  • Can be purchased from the Arena vendor for Arena Coin x9

Alternatives

The Lequirus's Wicked Thorns is a perfectly viable alternative for the bomber setup, providing more damage to the build from its passive increasing Base Damage as well as the extra Critical Hit Chance from the item itself. The main sacrifice here is losing a considerable amount of Max Health so it is up to you whether this tradeoff is worth it.

The Budget Tevent setup is strictly inferior to the other two builds listed here. The main goal of this setup is in the instance you managed to get a Tevent's Grasp of Withering, either from your guild or as a REALLY lucky drop, and can't afford to get the other BIS pieces. You still achieve the 2 set Death Set and maintain a good amount of Max Health and Evasion, but your Hit is lower than ideal for a bomber-focused setup. The only new addition to this build over previous ones is Shadow Harvester Grips which you can find in Temple of Slaughter.

Compared to previous best-in-slot builds, not a whole lot changes about the gear for these builds. The main difference is the ease of acces to Shadow Harvester Boots which now drops from the upcomming T2 dungeons. In addition, you have the option of slotting in new accesory options such as Slayer's Quicksilver Pendant and Band of the Chosen One. Due to the the necklace Necklace of Cold Strength being introduced, it is considered to be the new best-in-slot option but going for Slayer's Quicksilver Pendant is a valid option if you want to min-max your Magic Evasion.