Darkblighter PvP Build Guide
Last Updated:May 24, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Darkblighter PvP build guide! The Darkblighter 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 close watch on both allies and enemies alike to make the best use of your Swift Healing, Cursed Nightmare, Shadow Escape, Fountain of Life and Blessed Barrier abilities. Knowing when and where to use these skills for maximum value makes the difference between a good Darkblighter and a great one.
Darkblighter PvP Build
If you're interested in PvE, check out our Darkblighter 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, just use these sets for PvE as well.
If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Darkblighter PvE Build Guide!
- 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.
Usually, players take runes depending on the stat they need to hit the necessary breakpoints.
Consider the defensive and offensive breakpoints other classes can reach when building your gear.
- Melee
- Fully built Sword and Shield users reach 2000+ base Ranged and Magic Endurance.
- The amount varies depending on Trait Resonances and Runes.
- With the Palace Guard's Plate Armor item set, they will take even less damage.
- Fully built Sword and Shield users reach 2000+ base Ranged and Magic Endurance.
- Ranged
- Bow / Daggers and Staff / Daggers 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 2000+ 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 the meta of your server.
- Is your server full of high Evasion users? Do you usually target those players? If so, build more Hit Chance.
Active Skill Choices
- Wildlands Protector Solarstone is used when building for the Six-Piece bonus. It also has one of the best Active Effects, making it an ideal choice.
Passive Skill Choices
- Wildlands Protector Lunarstone helps to bolster your defenses even further.
Artifact Set Choices
- The 6-Piece Wildlands Protector offers All Heavy Attack Evasion, helping to stack Melee Heavy Attack Evasion.
- For a more DPS-oriented setup, run 4-Piece Wildlands Protector instead and pick up 2-Piece Abyssal Beast to increase your Hit chance.
- 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 server's meta.
- 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!
DPS Builds
Healer Builds
Budget Builds
Darkblighter PvP Build
No Archboss or Nebula
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Archboss and Nebula
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No Archboss or Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
No Archboss or Nebula
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Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
Archboss and Nebula
- Expect to die a lot playing this build.
- You sacrifice all notion of having defenses to stack Weaken Chance and Magic Heavy Attack Chance as high as possible.
- Only recommended as a second or third gearset.
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Stats and Gearing Logic
- The goal of any good DPS Darkblighter is to stack as much Weaken Chance and Magic Heavy Attack Chance as possible.
- All gear choices are built around trying to keep these stats as high as possbile while taking defensive stats into consideration.
- The Weaken Chance and Heavy Attack Chance numbers should just be used as a base line. There are several ways to increase these numbers, but they come at the cost of defensive stats. See below for some options.
- 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 Weaken Chance
- Rex Chimaerus's Fangs (only as last resort. Results in bad stat spread)
- Eldritch Ice Band (same as above, but fits easily in more builds.)
- Bile Drenched Veil is a solid tradeoff of Evasions for Weaken Chance.
More Heavy Attack Chance
- Running 3x Precious Attack Rune: Weapon in both weapons (will ruin several Stat breakpoints. Only do as last resort.)
- Primal Golden Cuffs is easy to acquire, gives decent stats, and provides more Heavy Attack Chance.
- For alternative Nebula accessories, take Belt of Claimed Trophies for more Heavy Attack Chance at the cost of Evasions.
Darkblighter PvP Build
No Archboss or Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
No Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
No Archboss and Nebula
Darkblighter PvP Build
Archboss and Nebula
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Stats and Gearing Logic
- The idea for Healer Darkblighter is focusing more on Dagger utility while still maintaining the possibility of killing people in 1 combo.
- Deluzhnoa's Permafrost Razors is fantastic for this setup as both a Defensive and Offensive tool and is a worthy consideration over other Dagger choices.
- As a Healer, your most difficult matchup will be any Dive characters. Phantom Smokescreen can protect you from most while your group turns to help, but you stack Melee Heavy Attack Evasion to counter those Smoke doesn't cover.
- For Endurance builds, the same principle is true for stacking Melee Endurance while using Smoke to cover for other Dive.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Darkblighter PvP Build
DPS
Darkblighter PvP Build
Healer
Darkblighter PvP Build
DPS
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Healer
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DPS
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Healer
Stats and Gearing Logic
- The goal for each Darkblighter budget build is to provide viable setups that don't require any Archboss, Fieldboss, or Nebula items.
- While they suffer a bit Stat wise, the identity of each build remains unchanged.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Level 55 Story Darkblighter 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 Rotation
- Click the 200/200 icon for Masteries
- Go to the Mastery Prioritization for the bare minimum 130/200 builds.
Bomber
Healer
Bomber Setup Without Disciple's Rage
Bomber / Caster DPS Build using Disciple's Rage
Hybrid Healer / DPS Setup
Recommended to have Tevent's Grasp of Withering
- What skill build you use for Large Scale PvP is mostly up to preference.
- Only choose Hybrid Healer / DPS if your party already has a dedicated Healer. This setup is meant to be a mix between Buffs, Healing and Burst DPS.
- Keep in mind that when speccing Disciple's Rage, you lose access to all Healing skills. Don't do this if you're the parties only Healer.
- Quite a few of your skill slots are flexible for the moment.
- Blessed Barrier is interchangeable with Valorous Barrier. Decide whether your party needs the extra burst or if more defenses are needed instead.
- Fatal Stigma with Cooldown Reset is a fantastic tool for providing Healing reduction to key enemy targets. Make sure to coordinate your burst with the rest of your team to get best use of the skill.
- In GvG and Wargame fights, consider dropping Cursed Nightmare for other party utility. Due to the chaotic nature of these fights, the value of Sleep is quite diminished.
- Shadowy Escape is a great option for more mobility and the ability to engage from further away. It can also help your party lock down high priority targets thanks to the Silence and Bind effects.
GVG Skill Setup
- The idea behind this setup is using Karmic Haze after stacking 3x Touch of Despair to spread curses to several targets.
- After this, coordinate damage with your team to make use of Fatal Stigma, Curse Explosion and Buffs such as Valorous Barrier and Enchanting Time to take out high priority targets.
Maximize Damage
- The meta Dagger for T2 is Peerless Obsidian Razors. The free range on Fatal Stigma helps to free up Skill Points, and the Stats on the weapon are easy to build around. If you have Deckman's Balefire Scepter, an argument can be made for Bercant's Whispering Daggers. Like Lequirus's Wicked Thorns, these Daggers have a passive effect boosting Base Damage and reducing target Endurance on skill hit. When utilizing the extra skill hits thanks to Deckman's Rampage, casting Ray of Disaster stacks Norn's Temptation very quickly.
- Until you get access to Master of Assassination, Assassination Stance can be considered an option passive. Good replacements are Selfless Soul, Saint's Oath and Wrathful Edge.
- Keep in mind Curse Explosion has a delay before the damage goes off. Utilize other skills such as Shadow Strike into Ankle Strike or first using Cursed Nightmare before the explosion to secure the damage.
Sleep Combo
This combo can be used to engage groups of enemies or disengage for your own team.
- Cursed Nightmare
- Karmic Haze
Bomber Combo
Best used while safe. All animations get faster with more Attack Speed, so the more geared you are the faster the combo becomes.
- Touch of Despair
- Cursed Nightmare
- Karmic Haze
- Corrupted Magic Circle
- Curse Explosion
Something to keep in mind is Karmic Haze can only transfer 3 Curses to a target. Tevent's Grasp of Withering counts for one of those curses. If you want to maximize damage, using Decaying Touch before Touch of Despair and Cursed Nightmare already account for all 3 curses. It may be worth considering the removal of Cursed Nightmare to improve damage further for bombing.
Heal Cut Skills
- Fatal Stigma
- Knife Throwing
- Use the Large Scale PvP builds for Dominion if there are massive amounts of players.
- This build focuses on being able to pick out and assassinate key targets with heafty Curse Explosion casts.
- Keep in mind that if you take Disciple's Rage you'll gain access to more Magic Damage sources but lose your ability to self sustain, changing your playstyle slightly. Be sure to plan ahead.
- This build focuses on being able to pick out and assassinate key targets with primarily Dagger skills.
- Keep in mind that if you take Disciple's Rage you'll gain access to more Magic Damage sources but lose your ability to self sustain, changing your playstyle slightly. Be sure to plan ahead.
- Run this option if you're facing too many people using Magic Evasion. Your kill potential will be more consistent with a Dagger setup.
Single Target Curse Bomb
- Touch of Despair (as many stacks as you have time for)
- Decaying Touch
- Witching Hour
- Curse Explosion
- Simple bread and butter single target combo.
- For maximum effect, buff yourself with Valorous Barrier and Enchanting Time before casting curses.
- If you know the target doesn't have CC break, consider using Cursed Nightmare to ensure more curse stacks can be placed on the target.
Single Target Dagger Combo
- Inject Venom
- Valorous Barrier
- Umbral Spirit
- Shadow Strike
- Ankle Strike
- Fatal Stigma
- Mad Sword Dance
- Brutal Incision
- Mad Sword Dance
- Assuming the target has no defensive skills, this combo has the potentila to 100-0 a target before they can react.
- Consider fitting in Touch of Despair to add a Curse Explosion to the end of the combo, further securing the kill.
- This build focuses entirely on Arena PvP.
- Be mindful of taking Disciple's Rage in arena. You are unable to Heal with this specced, and as there can only be 1 Wand on each team you will be down a Healer for the match.
- Your primary job is playing Buffer, Debuffer, and Healer for your party.
Heal Cut Skills
- Fatal Stigma
- Knife Throwing
Sustain Options
- Blessed Barrier is best saved for when you expect yourself or an ally to take massive damage.
- Invincible Wall can be a great tool for pre-engage defenses.
- Judgment Lightning
- Fountain of Life is a fantastic option if you need to heal mutiple allies at once, and is great to drop down in addition to other healing options.
- Clay's Salvation and Swift Healing are great for burst healing in a pinch.
Tips
- Always try to save your Cursed Nightmare for enemy Healers. With proper coordination with your team, this will buy you enough time to take out another person while the Healer is Asleep.
- Coordinate with your team when using Fatal Stigma to ensure the target you debuff dies, giving you a cooldown reset.
Healer Skill Setup
Hybrid Healer / DPS Setup
Recommended to have Tevent's Grasp of Withering
- What skill build you use for Large Scale PvP is mostly up to preference.
- Only choose Hybrid Healer / DPS if your party already has a dedicated Healer. This setup is meant to be a mix between Buffs, Healing and Burst DPS.
- Keep in mind that when speccing Disciple's Rage, you lose access to all Healing skills. Don't do this if you're the parties only Healer.
- Quite a few of your skill slots are flexible for the moment.
- Fatal Stigma with Cooldown Reset is a fantastic tool for providing Healing reduction to key enemy targets. Make sure to coordinate your burst with the rest of your team to get best use of the skill.
- In GvG and Wargame fights, consider dropping Cursed Nightmare for other party utility. Due to the chaotic nature of these fights, the value of Sleep is quite diminished.
- Shadowy Escape is a great option for more mobility and the ability to engage from further away. It can also help your party lock down high priority targets thanks to the Silence and Bind effects.
Maximize Healing
- A niche bit of tech involves using Camouflage Cloak before casting Healing skills such as Swift Healing or Fountain of Life to guarantee they Critically Strike. This guaranteed Crit lasts as long as you don't attack a target after leaving Stealth.
- Try to space out usage of Swift Healing to both not waste Healing and Conserve mana.
- Fountain of Life is best used on multiple party members or when you expect to be CC'd.
- Until you get access to Master of Assassination, Assassination Stance can be considered an option passive. Good replacements are Selfless Soul, Saint's Oath and Wrathful Edge.
Sleep Combo
This combo can be used to engage groups of enemies or disengage for your own team.
- Cursed Nightmare
- Karmic Haze
Heal Cut Skills
- Fatal Stigma
- Knife Throwing
Mastery Prioritization
- Your priority is to get 130 Mastery for each.
- Most of the usefullness from DPS Wand masteries come from minor nodes, rather than the major nodes.
- Take everything mentioning Weaken Chance, Curse Damage, Curse Duration, and Magic Heavy Attack Chance. These stats are vital to you dealing damage in PVP.
- Your 2nd priority is Abyssal Burst.
- This Mastery has a low chance to proc, but provides substantial damage to your burst when it does go off.
- The rest is just taking more damage.
- Your priority unlock is Dexterous Power.
- This is key to hit required minimum Evasion numbers.
- Your 2nd priority is grabbing utility nodes for more Evasions, Weaken Chance, and Stamina.
- Lastly, grab Ethereal Evasion for a bit of extra survivability while pathing for Phantom Timer and Fluid Block.
- For Endurence Darkblighter, replace Piercing Bite with Umbral Toughness, and sub out the Evasion nodes in favor of more Defense and Max Health.
- Your priority unlock is Blessed Haste.
- This reduces the Cooldown of ALL Healing skills, making it the best node in the mastery tree. A key thing to note is this node gives raw CDR, unaffected by normal diminishing returns.
- Your 2nd priority is Divine Choice.
- The rest is just taking more survivability and utility.
- Your priority unlock is Dexterous Power.
- This is key to hit required minimum Evasion numbers.
- Your 2nd priority is grabbing utility nodes for more Evasions, Weaken Chance, and Stamina.
- For Endurence Darkblighter, replace Piercing Bite with Umbral Toughness, and sub out the Evasion nodes in favor of more Defense and Max Health.
- Also sub out Deadly Survival Instinct in favor of Indomitable Stance.
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 Darkblighter PvP Build.
- For PvP, 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.
- A great option for healing is using Soundless Mage Taliesia for the AOE CC cleanse and increased Healing.
- An alternative Guardian you can use is Pale Nemesis Hartach. The idea behind this choice is to use Guardian when you stealth into their backline using Camouflage Cloak, get a quick kill, and use the Guardian's ability to re-stealth. Then, you can either look for another kill or leave back to the safety of your group.
Summary
- The Darkblighter PvP Build 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.
- Position yourself safely and make use of ranged AoE such as Corrupted Magic Circle and Karmic Haze combined with Touch of Despair.
- 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