Wand / Longbow PvP Build Guide
Last Updated:December 11, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Wand / Longbow PvP healer build guide! This weapon combination has the most healing abilities in Throne and Liberty with access to powerful Healing over Time (HoT) skills such as Healing Touch, Flash Wave, Purifying Touch, and Nature's Blessing.
With Swift Healing, Fountain of Life, and Clay's Salvation on Wand, this build takes on Priest or Cleric-like support roles that allows you to constantly heals unlike any other healer weapon combination in the game.
As exciting as it sounds to play this Wand / Longbow PvP build, players must keep in mind that you struggle with a lack of mobility which you notice more during small scale fights. This weapon combination has an easier time during mass PvP because you can position yourself safely within your zerg to greatly reduce the chances of being ambushed by a melee player. Despite this weapon combination's lack of mobility, you are still pretty tanky thanks to your passives, Distorted Sanctuary and Devoted Shield (no cooldown) that pair perfectly with active abilities like Invincible Wall and Blessed Barrier.
Besides smart ability usage and rotation, you need good positioning and field awareness to be an effective Wand / Longbow healer. Make sure to always pan your camera so you know what is going on around you and who may be potentially coming at you. With practice, you will become a difficult healer to kill vs most DPS players other than Greatsword / Dagger users who tend to be a challenge to fight against.
Triple Endurances and Collision Resistance
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
If you're interested in PvE, check out our Wand / Longbow PvE Build Guide!
- CC Cleanse
- Anti-Stealth
- Most Healing Abilities
- Ability Cooldown Reset
- Party Mana Regeneration
- No Mobility
- Gear Reliant
- Low Damage
- Hard to Learn
Skill Builds
Swift Healing vs Healing Touch: These two abilities share a cooldown so it's recommended to prioritize the use of Swift Healing to ensure it's off cooldown when you need it. Swift Healing can be used to restore the health of targets much quicker than Healing Touch, and the remaining two casts of the ability can be used to heal outside of group or other party members, which you can't do in the same way with Healing Touch. Use the Healing Touch Specialization in Purifying Touch to enable the Nature's Blessing Healing Overtime combo that can restore over 18,000 to 20,000 health.
You still run Healing Touch for when you want to perform a double Nature's Blessing burst heal combo. This is performed by:
Target 1
- Purifying Touch
- Nature's Blessing
- Blitz
Target 2
- Healing Touch
- Nature's Blessing
Active Skills
Block Skills
- Both the Longbow and Wand blocks are beneficial for a Wand / Longbow healer.
- Use Chaotic Shield to gain access to an additional heal that also restores stamina to the target when Perfect Blocking Fury abilities.
- Both the standing and directional Perfect Blocks with Overtaker provide you with a mobility skill.
- The standing block also grants you a 410 Critical Hit buff for 5 seconds. The directional block guarantees your next skill Crits which works on your first cast of Swift Healing and Clay's Salvation.
Healing Skills
- Healing Touch and Swift Healing share a cooldown. However, Healing Touch is used for when you reset Nature's Blessing for a back-to-back Healing Touch + Nature's Blessing burst heal combo.
- Don't be afraid to use Fountain of Life to keep yourself alive. In many instances it is vital to survive when Knocked Down, or Prone.
- When using Nature's Blessing with the Vitality Specialization on targets with the buff from Healing Touch, Healing Touch on Purifying Touch, or Nature's Blessing, this skill fully heals most targets.
- Flash Wave is a very strong HoT, but also a strong offensive skill. Line up Flash Wave on your allies and enemies.
- Clay's Salvation removes a full stack of Debuffs from any party members hit.
Utility Skills
- Use Blitz to reset Flash Wave or Blessed Barrier.
- Use the single version of Invincible Wall because when it lands as a Critical Hit and/or Heavy Attack, it will provide a health shield with over 5 or 6k on average, which is more reliable to save someone's life. Abilities such as Fighting Spirit Barrier and Enchanting Time increase the amount of the shield.
- Use Purifying Touch to cleanse Stuns and Binds. It doesn't work against Collision and Prone CC. Debuffs cleansed by this ability will grant a stack of Healing Touch.
- Tornado doesn't require much Hit to land on majority of players it hits due to it being a multi-hit ability. Use it to disrupt Crossbow users diving your backline and to support your ranged players in killing enemy players.
- Use Enchanting Time to buff a strong DPS allied player. Ensure you use this ability on allies who won't exceed 500 Skill Damage Boost as there are hard diminishing returns.
Passive Skills
- Devotion and Emptiness, Earth's Blessing, Saint's Oath, and Noble Revival increase your healing. Devotion and Emptiness also provides Cooldown Speed for your healing abilities during the day.
- Selfless Soul pairs really well with Fountain of Life, Clay's Salvation, Flash Wave, and Nature's Blessing to reach 5 stacks almost instantly.
- Wand/Longbow healers can achieve the highest possible Endurance in the game because of Distorted Sanctuary.
- Don't undervalue Devoted Shield. It provides a large health shield once you reach 30%. Invincible Wall overrides the shield so do not stack them.
- Sniper's Sense is used to increase your Critical Heal Chance. This passive synergizes well with the Range increase Specializations on your healing abilities.
Alternatives
- To use the AoE Sleep Spread Combo, take Radius Increased off of Clay's Salvation, and replace Enchanting Time with Karmic Haze, and remove Enhanced Mire to add Deep Sleep and Enhanced Nightmare.
Active Skills
Block Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Healing Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Utility Skills
- Use Cursed Nightmare on Staff players running Mana draining abilities.
Passive Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Active Skills
Block Skills
- Use Chaotic Shield to spread Curse stacks to unlimited targets within a short radius around the target you Perfect Blocked.
Damage Skills
- Group a bunch of mobs and build three stacks of Touch of Despair before casting Corrupted Magic Circle into Curse Explosion.
Healing Skills
- Flash Wave is a very strong HoT, but also a strong offensive skill.
Utility Skills
- Cursed Nightmare is used to Sleep an enemy target who is trying to ambush you while farming or a teammate. Prioritize on ranged DPS and healers during fights. Use this ability to also spread Sleep to mobs and guarantee your Curse Explosion to land as a Critical Hit.
- Use Ensnaring Arrow against melee players and targets your group has decided to burst together.
Passive Skills
- Full of Corruption increases your healing and explosion combo damage.
- Wraith's Beckon increases your Curse Explosion combo damage.
- This build is to be mainly used for fun during Dynamic PvP Events you join alone where you want to hunt players and DPS instead of Supporting and Healing allies.
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
Mass Sleep
- Cursed Nightmare
- Karmic Haze
- This is a very simple combo. Make sure your positioning 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.
AoE Heals
- Clay's Salvation
- Fountain of Life
- Nature's Blessing
- These are your AoE healing abilities commonly used in PvP. Use your AoE heals after multiple party members receive damage that requires your support. Use Swift Healing as your main heal until this happens.
- Fountain of Life is commonly used to support yourself to survive CC combos.
Single-Target Heal
- Swift Healing
- This is your main heal that has a low cooldown and can be cast up to three times with Consecutive Use.
HoT Heals
- Healing Touch
- Nature's Blessing
- Flash Wave
- Purifying Touch
- These are your healing over time (HoT) skills used in PvP which are enhanced by your Earth's Blessing passive.
- Purifying Touch only becomes a HoT if you take the Healing Touch Specialization.
- Healing Touch is what you spam the most to keep 3 stacks on your target. You can also split the HoT on two targets and maintain 3 stacks on both. However, this drains your mana quicker and should only be attempted during an intense fight where you need to heal yourself and an ally or two allies simultaneously.
- The full healing potential of Nature's Blessing is only activated on targets who already buffed by Healing Touch or a party member's Nature's Blessing.
Damage Mitigation
- Blessed Barrier
- Invincible Wall
- These skills help your party tank strong hitting abilities. Blessed Barrier and Invincible Wall can be changed into AoE abilities with Expand Targets and Expand Targets.
Nature's Blessing Full Heal
Target 1
- Purifying Touch
- Nature's Blessing
- Blitz
Target 2
- Healing Touch
- Nature's Blessing
- The Vitality Specialization amplifies the potency of your Nature's Blessing on targets who have the Healing Touch, Healing Touch from the Purifying Touch, or and ally's Nature's Blessing HoT. You can take advantage of this in one of two ways. First, by casting Healing Touch or Purifying Touch, then following it up with Nature's Blessing to fully heal your target. Second, by coordinating with another Longbow user having them cast either Healing Touch or Nature's Blessing which is then followed by your Nature's Blessing.
- For Nature's Blessing, the other Longbow user must be in your party so your party mates receive the HoT.
- Note: It is strongly recommended that you get in voice comms to coordinate with other healers and keep your party alive.
Double Barrier Protection
- Blessed Barrier (target 1)
- Blitz
- Blessed Barrier (target 2)
- Swift Healing (split between both targets)
and/or - Clay's Salvation
- If there are two party members being focused that need help sustaining damage, you can reset Blessed Barrier with Blitz to apply it twice increasing their healing received and Defenses.
Tips
- To survive and play well as a Wand / Longbow Healer you must always be mindful of your positioning. Never be in isolated spaces within your zerg and always remain within 15 meters of your party members to ensure you are making full use of your Distorted Sanctuary.
- Do not use standing block against Greatswords. Always use rolling block in fights against them because they have two Fury abilities that can quickly Prone you if you're using your stationary block.
- Don't be afraid to use Blessed Barrier on yourself if you are being focused. The increased healing and Defenses from this ability increases your odds of surviving.
- Use Precious Purification Stone to get out of Sleep and follow-up with Purifying Touch and Blessed Barrier to reduce the damage of a Curse Explosion combo from Wand players.
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.
Note: Longbow should always be kept out in your main-hand, because the masteries for weapons ONLY WORK FOR THAT WEAPON. They never ever apply to the other weapon. Because of this, you should run whichever weapon gives you the best defensive stats while out to help mitigate damage thrown at you throughout fights.
- 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 higher Max Health and much higher Cooldown Speed for most builds.
- There are new Collision Resistance builds with the new dungeons as well.
- The next time these builds will be revamped entirely will be when T2 Epic gear comes out. This could possibly happen in January.
- 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.
If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Wand / Longbow PvE Build Guide here!
Early to Mid Game Builds
End Game Gear Builds
Take Critical Hit Chance on your weapons because Wand Longbow mainly uses the Full Support Build which does not include any Offensive Abilities requiring high Hit. Tornado is a multi-hit ability allowing you to always land it on majority of players in Large Scale combat. Builds using more offensive builds should run Hit on weapons.
Evasion
Evasion
Endurance
Lv. 20 Runes - Start here!
Melee Evasion and Ranged Endurance
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 60 Runes - End here.
Melee Evasion and Ranged Endurance
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
- If you have Daybreak Shore Feast, use it.
- This build is stronger in small scale fights where it is easier for melee to focus you such as Arena, Dominion Events, and war zones with difficult choke points.
- Although this build is stronger in small scale fights, it is still viable in large scale fights as long you have proper positioning to avoid getting singled out by melee players.
- The amount of Melee Evasion you want to aim for is 1,800, which allows you to counter the average amount of 900-1,300 Hit Greatsword users achieve in T1 gear. Equip Ebon Roar Sabatons if you require higher Melee Evasion.
- If you have a traited Belt of Bloodlust, keep it and put Ebon Roar Sabatons back on.
Co-Op Dungeon Sources
- Death's Abyss Co-Op Dungeon
- Craft two Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Recipe: Karnix's Hell Bow recipe
- Cave of Destruction
- Bracers of the Primal King
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
- Temple of Slaughter Co-Op Dungeon
- Ebon Roar Greaves
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
- Valley of Slaughter
- Grand General's Command Visor
- Carmine Rage Island
- Shock Commander Sabatons
- Forbidden Sacred Chain
- Torture Chamber of Screams (Dec. 5)
- Immortal Reckoning
Open World Dungeons
- Sanctum of Desire
- Gauntlets of the Infernal Herald from Avolos Pyromancer
Field Bosses
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Malakar Field and Guild Boss
- Grand General's Command Visor
- Kowazan and Lycan Kowazan Field and Guild Bosses.
- Slaughterer's Collar
- Shock Commander Sabatons
Other Sources
- Heroic Armor of the Resistance
- Chapter 10 Codex rewards
- Unfaltering Protection Lithograph Book entry
- Craft Recipe: Precious Lithograph: Heroic Armor of the Resistance
- Slaughterer's Collar
- Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection Lithograph Book entry
Alternatives
- Ebon Roar Sabatons
- Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Etched Alabaster Band
- Syleus's Abyss from Demonhoof Tracker
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss.
Lv. 20 Runes - Start here!
Magic Evasion and Ranged Endurance
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 60 Runes - End here.
Magic Evasion and Ranged Endurance
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
- If you have Daybreak Shore Feast, use it.
- This build is strong in large scale fights such as Wars, Siege, Tax Cart, and Battlegrounds where it's easier to position yourself away from melee players and rely more on your raid for protection.
- In large scale fights, majority of your damage is primarily received from Longbow and Staff players casting long-ranged abilities, with crossbow divers secondary. Since these damage types are Magic and Range, a Magic and Ranged defensive build is stronger in large scale combat.
- The amount of Magic Evasion you want to aim for is 1,700, which allows you to counter the average amount of 900 to 1,200 Hit DPS Staff players achieve in T1 gear, especially against those not running Victorious Energy.
- Properly built ranged players will have 900 to 1,000 Hit making it difficult to run a proper Magic and Ranged Evasion build without Shadow Walker from Daggers.
Co-Op Dungeon Sources
- Death's Abyss
- Craft two Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Recipe: Karnix's Hell Bow recipe
- Tyrant's Isle
- Phantom Wolf Tunic
- Cursed Wasteland
- Visage of the Executioner
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
- Island of Terror
- Phantom Wolf Tunic
- Valley of Slaughter
- Slayer's Quicksilver Pendant
- Bracers of Unrelenting
- Carmine Rage Island
- Shadow Harvester Boots
- Torture Chamber of Screams (Dec. 5)
- Immortal Reckoning
- Phantom Wolf Breeches
Open World Dungeons
- Saurodoma Island
- Phantom Wolf Breeches from Reptilian Soldier and Reptilian Butcher
- Craft Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Abyss
- Phantom Wolf Breeches from Reptilian Soldier and Reptilian Butcher
Field Bosses
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Junobote
- Forsaken Embrace
- Aridus
- Belt of Bloodlust
Other Sources
- Heroic Grips of the Resistance
- Craft Recipe: Precious Lithograph: Heroic Grips of the Resistance
- Blessed Moonlight Touch
- Gallu Archer
- Possessed Gallu Archer
- Invincible Gallu Archer
Alternatives
Use gear here before obtaining the ones that drop from Bosses.
- Etched Alabaster Band
- Syleus's Abyss from Demonhoof Tracker
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss.
Lv. 20 Runes - Start here!
Triple Endurances and Collision Resistance
Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 60 Runes - End here.
Triple Endurances and Collision Resistance
Wand / Longbow PvP Build
- This build is viable in both small scale and large scale fights because it mitigates damage from all DPS types.
- Choose this build if you want to play something more well-rounded and appropriate for any scale of PvP.
- Build Collision Resistance in this build to help with Knockdowns, Knockups, Knockbacks, and Pull abilities. Change Debuff Duration to Collision Resistance on your cape and bracelet. Take Song of Grace and remove Movement Speed.
- With Distorted Sanctuary, you achieve 1,430 Melee Endurance, 1,266 Ranged Endurance, and 1,196 Magic Endurance in a full party playing within range of your passive.
Co-Op Dungeon Sources
- Death's Abyss Co-Op Dungeon
- Craft two Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Recipe: Karnix's Hell Bow recipe
- Grip of the Executioner
- Sapphire Dimensional Band
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
- Valley of Slaughter
- Ascended Guardian Hood
- Voidwastes
- Ascended Guardian Gloves
- Torture Chamber of Screams (Dec. 5)
- Thunderstorm Necklace
Open World Dungeons
- Syleus's Abyss floor 6
- Shock Commander Plate Armor from Demonhoof Head Shaman
- Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Abyss
- Shock Commander Plate Armor from Demonhoof Head Shaman
Field Bosses
- Grand Aelon
- Ascended Guardian Raiment
- Junobote
- Forsaken Embrace
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Ahzreil Field and Guild Boss
- Blessed Templar Cloak
- Nirma
- Ascended Guardian Pants
- Aridus
- Belt of Bloodlust
Alternatives
Use gear here before obtaining the ones that drop from Bosses.
- Etched Alabaster Band
- Syleus's Abyss from Demonhoof Tracker
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss.
- Sanctum of Desire
- Tukun's Cast Iron Belt
- Avolos Guardian
- Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Tukun's Cast Iron Belt
Triple Endurance Archive
Lv. 20 Runes - Start here!
Higher Skill Heal and Cooldown Speed
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 60 Runes - End here.
Higher Skill Heal and Cooldown Speed
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 20 Runes - Start here!
Melee Evasion
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
Lv. 60 Runes - End here.
Melee Evasion
End Game Wand / Longbow PvP Build
- The glass Wand Longbow builds are very strong but squishier to Ranged and Melee players due to a lack of Ranged Endurance or Evasion, and lower Defenses. Knowing how to position well is required for these builds to avoid becoming an easy target.
- This build primarily works for Longbow healers because they have the most healing abilities that benefit greatly from higher Base Damage and Skill Heal. The only caveat is that you become more vulnerable to getting one combo'd by a Greatsword user that catches you, or unlucky Heavy Attacks from more than one Ranged player at the same time that will deal a significant amounts of damage.
- Use these builds based on your own comfortably.
Co-Op Dungeon Sources
- Death's Abyss Co-Op Dungeon
- Craft two Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Recipe: Karnix's Hell Bow recipe
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest.
- Butcher's Canyon
- Ascended Guardian Gloves
- Cave of Destruction
- Supreme Devotion
- Lequirus's Coveted Tome
- Bracers of the Primal King
- Island of Terror
- Ascended Guardian Raiment
- Ascended Guardian Bracelet
- Valley of Slaughter
- Ascended Guardian Hood
- Voidwastes
- Ascended Guardian Gloves
- Carmine Rage Island
- Ascended Guardian Shoes
- Torture Chamber of Screams (Dec. 5)
- Ascended Guardian Pants
- Immortal Reckoning
Field Bosses
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Grand Aelon
- Ascended Guardian Raiment
- Junobote
- Forsaken Embrace
- Aridus
- Belt of Bloodlust
- Nirma
- Ascended Guardian Pants
- Divine Justiciar Shoes
- Minezerok
- Blessed Templar Choker
Alternatives
Use gear here before obtaining the ones that drop from Bosses.
- Etched Alabaster Band
- Syleus's Abyss from Demonhoof Tracker
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss.
Archived Builds
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 both PvE and PvP situations.
- Lady Knight Kamarshea is the common healer Guardian. It helps as an emergency button to survive situations where you are overwhelmed by several players or caught in a CC chain.
Purification Stone
Use the Precious Purification Vigor Stone.
- In addition to cleansing CC (other than collision, petrification, and weaken similar to the others), it provides a powerful heal that is increased by your healing passives and buffs, including Blessed Barrier.
- The heal from the stone can Critical Heal.
- The heal from the stone is increased by the Extreme Ascension set bonus.
Summary
- The Wand / Longbow Healer in PvP is an overall fun mix of both healing and support skills.
- Wand / Longbow relies on having a good party and peels to ensure your survival against a coordinated multi-target ambush.
- This build has a unique mix of healing abilities and buffs and support abilities from Longbow that greatly improve your allies' combat effectiveness.
- The best Wand / Longbow players have great positioning in PvP, skill management, and incredible skill usage to save your party and counter ambush attacks to destroy enemies.
- Max Traits and proper gear improve your survivability as a Wand / Longbow healer.
Credits
Written by EliEli
Reviewed by Yaen and Tenkiei
Special thank you to my friend, Rylock, for helping to review some of the gear builds.