Wand / Longbow PvP Build Guide

Without Heavy Attack Evasion (Click Me!)

• Use this version of the build if you prefer to not run Heavy Attack Evasion. It has a slightly different Mastery tree setup (included above) for both weapons that removes Heavy Evasion nodes.

Stats and Gearing Logic

• The updated King Khanzaizin's Valor Song is the new best-in-slot T2 wand for healers. It provides much better stats compared to Overture of Eternal Salvation and the weapon's skill also persists when Invincible Wall is depleted (see image below). The buff applies to yourself and anyone in your party and the duration is increased by Buff Duration.

• Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
• The list of stats in the image above may be inaccurate. Please find a more accurate list of important stats this build achieves below:
  • Base Damage: Longbow 304-620, Wand 262-438
  • Melee Defense: 3,047
  • Ranged Defense: 2,811
  • Magic Defense: 2,442
  • Heavy Evasion: Melee 512, Ranged 602, Magic 820
  • Max Health: 28,146
  • Max Mana: 11,507
  • Mana Regen: 942
  • Mana Cost Efficiency: 26%
  • Skill Heal: 127% (includes Holy, Light of Devotion, and Blessing of Wisdom)
  • Attack Speed: 22.4%
  • Attack Range: 25m
  • Cooldown Speed: 67% with Light of Devotion and Eye of Emptiness combo (81% on all heals with Blessed Haste and 91% with Blessing of Wisdom)
  • Buff Duration: 62%
  • Debuff Duration: -25%
  • Weaken Resistance: 1,130 (See Alternatives section below to learn how to increase this Stat).
  • Silence Resistance: 813
  • Bind Resistance: 763
• With Distorted Sanctuary, you achieve:
  • Melee Endurance: 2,185
  • Ranged Endurance: 2,237
  • Magic Endurance: 2,023
• Triple Endurance builds provide you strong protection against all three damage types. Since Endurance works by always subtracting your Endurance against an enemy's Critical Hit Chance, it's very reliable in PvP. Additionally, if you have higher Endurance than your enemy's Crit, you can procc Glancing which forces a minimum Base Damage attack.
• With the 4-Piece Vanguard item set effect and Omniscience, you reach over 620+ Max Damage on Longbow before Quality Stellarite and Full of Corruption.
  • Healing from your powerful HoTs such as, Healing Touch, Flash Wave, Nature's Blessing, and Purifying Touch all benefit significantly from having higher Base Damage.
• You also reach over 400 Max Damage on Wand, which will greatly benefit abilities such as Invincible Wall and Guardian's Spell.

The Importance of Weaken Resistance (Click Me!)

Weaken Resistance traits are taken to counter skills and equipment that apply Weaken Debuffs that often lead to the death of a healer such as:

• Certain abilities that apply a Weaken Slow Debuff.
• Spear
  • Culling Arc applies a Weaken that decreases CC Resistances and increases damage of the skill by 20%.
  • Gale Rush can be used twice if affected by Weaken or other specific CC.
  • Cataclysm applies a Weaken that disables your Block ability.
  • Weaken: Ignite increases the damage of several Spear abilities, such as, Javelin Inferno, and Phoenix Barrage
  • Weaken: Burst increases the damage or consecutive use of several Spear abilities, such as, Explosive Fury/Brutal Fury, Cyclonic Fury, Violent Blast, Great Burst, and Tempest Strike.
• Dagger
  • Bercant's Seductive Blade applies a Weaken Debuff that decreases Endurance by up to 120.
  • Weaken: Thunderclouds increases the damage dealt by Thundering Bomb and Fatal Stigma, while also decreasing your Endurance by up to 400. It is applied by skills such as, Cleaving Moonlight, Shadow Strike, Lightning Infusion, and Frenzied Sword Dance.
  • Inject Venom applies Weaken: Poison that deals Base Damage per second and increases the damage dealt by Fatal Stigma, Umbral Spirit, and Brutal Incision. It also synergizes with new Mastery skills like Edge of Venom, Extreme Bloodlust, and Time of Doom.
  • Lightning Throw applies a Weaken that reduces Movement Speed by 68.5% and Healing by 82.5%. It can also be specc'd to decrease Endurance by 150.
• Greatsword
  • Willbreaker applies Weaken that decrease Magic, Melee and Ranged Defenses by 720. It can also be specc'd to decrease all Evasions by 300.
  • Guillotine Blade applies a Weaken that decreases Healing by 80%.
  • Precision Dash can be specc'd to apply a 30% Shield Block Debuff in case you plan to play Templar as a secondary.
• Sword and Shield
  • Piercing Strike applies a Weaken that decreases Hit and Critical Hit Chance.
  • Cleaving Roar applies a Weaken that prevents you from using single-target abilities on yourself or others. It can be specc'd to also decrease all Endurances by 340.
  • Shock Trooper Captain applies a Weaken that decreases all Defenses by 200.
• Longbow
  • Deadly Marker applies a Weaken that increases enemies Critical Hit and Hit Chances on you.
  • Flash Arrow can be specc'd to apply a 300 Hit Chance Debuff on you.
• Crossbow
  • Queen Bellandir's Toxic Spine Throwers applies a Weaken: Poison that deals Base Damage overtime.
  • Mortal Mark applies a Weaken that decreases Healing received by 80%.
  • Weak Point Shot applies a Weaken that increases Critical Damage you receive by 21%.
  • Wind Snatcher Binds you and applies a Weaken that decreases your Attack Speed by 15% if you are Slowed (Weaken Resistance resists Slows).
  • If a target is Weakened, Quick Fire deals additional damage.
• Staff
  • Queen Bellandir's Hivemind Staff applies a high damage dealing AoE skill if the you have Weaken: Burning.
  • Weaken: Burning deals Base Damage overtime and increases the damage and consecutive use of some abilities, such as Chain Lightning and Judgment Lightning.
  • Focused Fire Bombs applies a Weaken that decreases Healing received by 80%.
  • Icebound Tomb applies a Weaken that decreases your Evasions by 460.
  • Judgment Lightning can be specc'd to apply a Weaken that decreases Shield Block Chance by 30% in case you plan to play Templar as a secondary.
  • Infernal Meteor can be specc'd to apply a Weaken that decrease Healing received by 80%.
• Wand
  • Tevent's Grasp of Withering applies a Weaken: Curse that deals Base Damage overtime.
  • Time for Punishment applies a Weaken that decreases Skill Damage Resistance by 220. It can be specc'd to instead apply a Weaken that decreases Mana per hit.
  • Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle apply a Weaken that applies Base Damage overtime.
  • Curse Explosion deals more damage the more Weakens stacked on you.

Alternatives

• For more Weaken Resistance, swap Florification Curse Uniform and Vanguard's Annihilation Gloves for Vanguard's Gold Armor and Skilled Veteran's Fated Gloves. You can also add in additional Weaken Resistance Runes and Resonance based on your preference.
• Use either Precious Purification Spirit Stone or Precious Purification Vigor Stone based on your preference. Many players find the CC immunity helps to get off important skills to ensure their and/or the party's survival, whereas with the healing stone they are re-CC'd and quickly bursted down again.

Trying to PvP with blues at this stage of the game is asking to get farmed, so the gear you use at this stage is flexible. You want to transition as fast as possible to your Mid Game build. This will let you stand somewhat of a chance against other players until you reach End Game gear.

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. You can use a trash blue gear piece and fill it up with cheap traits before transferring it over to a purple piece in the same slot.

Transition Blues

• You don't see many blue accessories or a blue cloak here in these builds. That's because most of them are not worth using. Before transferring to a Purple piece, you can fully upgrade and trait out any trash blue accessory.
• If you want to skip directly to purple armor pieces and weapons, fully upgrade and trait out the cheapest blue you can find.

Your Goals

• You should do contracts immediately to acquire Contract Coins so you can buy Quality Lithograph: Weapons, Quality Lithograph: Armor, and Quality Lithograph: Accessories to craft Green Gear to complete Lithograph Book entries for Blue Gear.
• Farm accessible gear by doing Open World Dungeons.
• Trait those accessible gear.
• Extract traits from gear to sell in the Auction House for Lucent.
• Turn valuable gear into Lithographs and sell them in the Auction House.

Traits

• Trait this gear as best as you can. You don't need to go hard until you start acquiring Purple Gear.
• If transitioning to Purple Gear immediately, fill up a blue item with cheap traits before transferring.

You can also play as a HoT healer in a Damage Dealer Group.

Mastery Prioritization (Click Me!!)

Level 80

Wand Spectral Defense (max Endurance Intensity)

Wand Celestial Boost

Longbow

• What to replace Celestial Boost for is largely based on your preference. You can replace it with Full of Corruption, Saint's Oath, or Devoted Shield. Alternatively, you can not run it.
• Maintain 3 stacks of Healing Touch on two people at all times. With proper cooldown management, you can extend this to three targets. By doing this you also always maintain 5 stacks of Selfless Soul.
• Use Corrupted Magic Circle to easily build and maintain stacks of Full of Corruption, which increases your healing by an insane amount and provides additional Mana Regen.
  • Target the skill on large clumps or where you group is planning a coordinated attacked. The Cooldown of Corrupted Magic Circle is about 15 seconds and lasts 5 seconds. The buff of Full of Corruption is 14 seconds, so you're waiting 2 seconds to use Corrupted Magic Circle again to build more stacks.
• Use the AoE version of Invincible Wall which can also Critical Hit and/or Heavy Attack to provide a stronger shield. Abilities and weapons such as Fighting Spirit Barrier, Enchanting Time, Giant Cordy's Spore Hand, and Holy Ghost's Touch 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.
• 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.
• Selfless Soul pairs really well with Healing Touch, 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.
• The following skills activate Omniscience (Base Damage increases the amount you heal): Nature's Blessing and Healing Touch (permanently keeps the buff up).
• When Light of Devotion and Eye of Emptiness are both equipped, they provide the following permanent buff to your character:

Group Synergy

1. Assign Healing Priorities:
   • Coordinate with the other healer to determine if they prefer to use more Burst (Swift Healing) heals. You both can HoT heal if that works for your group.
   • Assign targets to prioritize within your party between both healers (i.e. Healer 1 prioritizes Tank 1 and DPS 2, and Healer 2 prioritizes Tank 2 and Tank 3/DPS 2).
2. HoT Priority Healer Responsibilities:
   • Maintain 3 stacks of Healing Touch on two people at all times. By doing this you also always maintain 5 stacks of Selfless Soul. With proper Cooldown Speed, you can eventually maintain Healing Touch on three targets.
   • Your primary burst heal is Nature's Blessing.
   • When using Limit Break, always use Purifying Touch to fully cleanse Debuffs from an ally, or Flash Wave if they no longer need it.
   • A Healing Touch boosted by Limit Break provides an initial burst heal that can Critical and Heavy Hit (e.g., hitting 3k x2).
   • Positioning Tip: Don't hesitate to stay close to the tanks when casting Blessed Barrier, so you can also benefit from its effect.
3. Use health pots whenever you can to avoid wasting heals on yourself.

Alternatives

• Swap Duration Increased for Whirlpool to make use of Force of the Wind.
  • It will need to be confirmed if Force of the Wind works by standing on party members' Whirlpools.
• To equip Tornado, remove Corrupted Magic Circle and Duration Increased.