Welcome to the Wand / Staff PvP Healer guide, the most universal healer build in Throne & Liberty! Wand / Staff is most commonly played as a healer, but can also be built as a Hybrid DPS or Buff CC Bot.
With certain equipment such as the Talus's Resonance Staff and Lequirus's Grip, as well as abilities like Echoic Barrier, Victorious Energy, Frost Smokescreen, and Blessed Barrier, you can survive situations where you're outnumbered or up against a strong opponent.
Wand / Staff has unique abilities such as Icebound Tomb, Ice Spear, and Forbidden Sanctuary, and Salvation Chain that makes you a healer who can reliably protect and peel for teammates.
Wand / Staff End Game PvP Build
With Rune Synergies or Resonance
If you're interested in PvE, check out our Wand / Staff PvE Build Guide!
- Mana Restoration
- High AOE Damage
- Best Silence Counter
- High Cooldown Speed
- High Skill Damage Boost
- Gear Reliant
Skill Builds
Active Skills
Block Skills
- When Perfect Blocking Fury attacks, use Chaotic Shield to gain access to an additional heal that also restores stamina.
Damage Skills
- Use Touch of Despair off cooldown on groups of enemies with two or more people next to each other to apply multiple Curse stacks at once. This helps you maintain full stacks of Full of Corruption. The Max Damage from this passive increases your healing output by a lot.
Healing Skills
- Don't be afraid to use Fountain of Life to keep yourself alive. In many instances, it is the best play to keep yourself alive if you expect you're about to be Proned or Knocked Down.
- Swift Healing is your only single-target healing ability that is used most often since it has the lowest cooldown. This ability can heal players outside of your party.
- Use Clay's Salvation when multiple party members require a heal. The Range ▲ Specialization helps you reach all party members in moments you are spread a part.
- Blessed Barrier is one of your strongest abilities that increases Incoming and Outgoing Healing, while also increasing Defenses, including Endurance during the night. The Effect Duration ▲ gives you about 4 extra seconds on the buff depending on your total Buff Duration.
Utility Skills
- Frost Smokescreen is your only mobility skill. Use this ability to create distance when enemies approach you. If you are ambushed, you can use Precious Purification Stone, then Icebound Tomb, and Frost Smokescreen as a great way to escape a CC combo and reposition to safety.
- Use Victorious Energy to increase your Evasion and Hit by 400 each. This buff becomes necessary at End Game to make it difficult for Ranged and Magic users to land their abilities on you. It also helps you land your CC and Damage abilities against players stacking Magic Evasion.
- Use Inner Peace to strategically counter Greatsword and Dagger users looking to CC engage on you.
- Cast Icebound Tomb off cooldown to create clumps for your allies to destroy while also reducing the Evasion of all enemies caught by 415.
- Always use Cursed Nightmare into Karmic Haze to create slept clumps for your allies to wipe. Be mindful of your positioning as you complete the mass sleep combo.
Passive Skills
- Devotion and Emptiness and Noble Revival increase your healing. Devotion and Emptiness also provides Cooldown Speed for your healing abilities during the day.
- Keep full stacks of Selfless Soul easily with Clay's Salvation and Fountain of Life.
- The Skill Damage Boost from Forbidden Sanctuary also increases your healing.
- Echoic Barrier pairs perfectly with Debuff Duration and if you stack enough you can bring the Silence Debuff down to 1.5 seconds or less.
Alternatives
- Swap Icebound Tomb or Frost Smokescreen for Salvation Chain if you're comfortable using the skill.
- Salvation Chain is a strong utility skill to save allies from certain death. This ability can not be used if someone is Knocked Down or Prone. Pay attention to the state your allies are in before you try to pull them to safety.
- If you're being focused, especially by Greatswords, add Redemptive Barrier to Salvation Chain. Use Redemptive Barrier with Inner Peace to have immunity from Stun, Petrification, Bind, Silence, or Sleep, and survive burst combos and attacks.
Active Skills
Block Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Damage Skills
- Use Serial Fire Bombs to spread Weaken stacks to enemy clumps which helps you maintain full stacks of Full of Corruption.
- Always use Chain Lightning off cooldown and especially after casting Serial Fire Bombs for increased damage.
Healing Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Utility Skills
- Use Enchanting Time on yourself or party members to increase their damage output. Ideally you'd want to use this buff on the strongest AoE DPS player in your group to increase their ability to destroy enemy clumps.
- Victorious Energy, Frost Smokescreen, and Inner Peace are used the same as the previous tab.
Passive Skills
- No changes from the previous tab.
Alternatives
- Replace Frost Smokescreen or Enchanting Time with Salvation Chain if you're comfortable using the skill. This ability can't be used if someone is Knocked Down or Prone. Pay attention to the state your allies are in before you try to pull them to safety.
- Replace Judgment Lightning with Hellfire Rain to nuke enemy clumps and spread additional Weaken stacks while also Decreasing Healing Received by 60% to all enemies hit.
- Use this skill build for PvP Dynamic Events.
Active Skills
Block Skills
- No changes from the previous tabs.
Healing Skills
- No changes from the previous tabs.
Utility Skills
- Use Enchanting Time and Fighting Spirit Barrier on party members to increase their damage output. Ideally, you want to use these buffs on the strongest AoE DPS player in your group to increase their burst combos.
- Cast Icebound Tomb off cooldown to create clumps for your allies to nuke while also reducing the Evasion of all enemies caught by 415.
- Use Ice Spear to root enemies and create clumps.
- Use Salvation Chain to save allies from certain death. This ability can not be used if someone is Knocked Down or Prone. Pay attention to the state your allies are in before you try to pull them to safety.
- Use High Focus with Expand Targets and Expand Targets Specializations to provide Cooldown Speed, Movement Speed, and Max Damage buffs to your entire party. If you're being focused by Ranged and Magic users, run the Victorious Energy Specialization instead and remove the other two.
- Frost Smokescreen and Inner Peace are used the same as the previous tabs.
Passive Skills
- Maintain stacks of Full of Corruption with your AoE Weaken: Slow applied by Ice Spear, Frost Smokescreen, and Icebound Tomb.
- Remaining use of passives do not change from the previous tabs.
Alternatives
- If you are not targeted, replace Frost Smokescreen for Touch of Despair to easily maintain full stacks of Full of Corruption.
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 following skills first from 1 to 3, then repeat from 3 to 5. 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 location 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.
Increased DPS With Burning
- Serial Fire Bombs
- Inferno Wave
- Chain Lightning
- Fireball Barrage
- Judgment Lightning
If you choose to have any of the skills a part of this combo on your bar, make sure to use them in this order to increase DPS. Before starting the combo, make sure to have Time for Punishment applied to the target for more DPS or Enchanting Time on yourself.
AoE Skills
- Inferno Wave
- Chain Lightning
- Judgment Lightning
- Hellfire Rain
- You can follow up Serial Fire Bombs with Inferno Wave.
AoE Heals
- Clay's Salvation
- Fountain of Life
- 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.
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.
- Redemptive Barrier
- Inner Peace
- This combo allows you to tank a Greatsword DPS rotation and majority of burst attacks while being immune to Stun, Petrification, Bind, Silence, or Sleep.
- After the player uses their initial CC and burst damage, follow-up with Icebound Tomb, Cursed Nightmare, or Frost Smokescreen to self-peel and reposition to a safer area.
Tips
- To survive and play well as a Wand / Staff Healer build you must always be mindful of your positioning. Use Victorious Energy as soon as you see DPS moving towards you for an engage. Never be in isolated spaces within your zerg where you're more vulnerable to being ambushed.
- 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.
Stat Priorities
Use the following stat priorities when playing a Wand / Staff build in PVP:
- Primary Stats
- Strength, Perception, and Wisdom
You have 49 Stat Points you can freely allocate to any of the 4 primary Stats. Once you put 20 points into an individual Stat, it takes 2 points to increase the Stat by 1. Do not put more than 20 points into a Stat unless you are trying to reach a certain breakpoint.
You get bonuses for every 10 Stat Points you invest from 30 to 60. You invest our points based on acquiring these bonuses.
Strength adds minimum and maximum Weapon Damage while also increasing your Max Health, Defenses, and Health Regen. Increasing Strength is your best method of increasing your survivability. Wisdom is the next best stat for healers. Each added point into Wisdom increases your maximum Weapon Damage and provides extra Cooldown Speed and Mana Regen.
Early Game Gear
In PvP, Hit is important to land your CC, Curses, and offensive abilities. So, with full green gear, you want 30 Perception for 100 extra Hit. You also want 30 Strength for 750 extra Max Health which improves your survivability, as well as 30 Dexterity for 100 Critical Hit which is about a 10% increased chance to Crit Heal or Damage.
Mid Game Gear
With Blue gear, your goal is to have high Max Health, Critical Chance, and a balance of your Endurances.
End Game Gear
At Purple Gear, you have options to either run a Melee Evasion build or a Ranged/Magic Evasion build. What you choose to run depends largely on your server. If you're on a heavy Melee server, then a Melee Evasion build would feel more beneficial. Servers with a higher amount of Magic users will require strong Magic Defenses and Damage Mitigation.
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: Wand 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.
If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Staff / Wand PvE Build Guide here!
Melee Evasion
Ranged and Magic Eva
Wand / Staff PvP Build Focused Story Gear
Optimal blue gear is hard to trait early in the game launch. Green gear is much easier to trait offering better PvP gear for the early game.
Any Melee user who knows how to gear properly approaches 800 Melee Hit Early Game, especially Greatsword users. To effectively combat this, you need around 1,200 Melee Evasion for a 30% chance of evading their attacks. With Staff, you easily surpass this requirement because of Victorious Energy which provides you 460 to all your Evasions and 460 Hit for 20 seconds with proper Buff Duration.
With Victorious Energy you achieve 1,518 Melee Evasion, 1,182 Ranged Evasion, and 1,032 Magic Hit.
- Elite Resistance Magic Scepter
- Chapter 5 Codex rewards
- Mystical Wands Lithograph Book entry
- Elite Resistance Staff
- Staves from Archwizard Lithograph Book entry
Wand / Staff Mid Game PvP Build
Unless you have this gear set somewhat traited, some of your Green Gear is still better for PvP. Keep that in mind before transferring over.
- Your goal with gearing is to have high Max Health while maintaining the required Melee and Ranged Evasion needed to effectively counter Melee and Ranged Hit.
- With Victorious Energy you achieve 1,980 Melee Evasion, 1,620 Ranged Evasion, and 1,140 Hit.
- Your base Cooldown Speed is 5.5%, which is 15.5% on your Wand healing and support abilities thanks to your Wand Mastery skills.
- With this build, you achieve 30 Strength and 50 Perception.
Gear Sources
- Foresight Wand
- Shadowed Crypt Open World Dungeon from Dark Shaman and Berserk Dark Enforcer
- Temple of Slaughter and Roaring Temple Co-Op Dungeons
- Chernobog, Minezerok, Nirma, and Junobote Field and Guild Bosses
- Destiny Worship Barbaric Staff
- Adentus, Cornelius, Aridus, and Ahzreil Field and Guild Bosses
- Saurodoma Island Open World Dungeon from Reptilian Fighter and Reptilian Butcher
- Butcher's Canyon and Cave of Desperation Co-Op Dungeons
- Elite Resistance Visor
- Chapter 6 Codex rewards
- Overhead Protection Lithograph Book entry
- Use 20 Trait Conversion Stones to roll both pieces for the trait not available for purchase on the Auction House.
- Reflection Alter Ego Secret Art Armor
- Cave of Destruction Co-Op Dungeon
- Elite Assassin's Cloak
- Precious Blessing Pouch
- Mitran and Contaminated Mitran in Purelight Hill
- Blessings of Mother Nature Cloth Gloves
- Cave of Destruction and Temple of Slaughter Co-Op Dungeons
- Indomitable Evasion Chain Gaiters
- Minezerok Field and Guild Boss
- Sanctum of Desire Open World Dungeon from Avolos Guardian
- Reflection Breakthrough Leather Boots
- Cursed Wasteland Co-Op Dungeon
- Rutaine's Mysterious Bracelet
- Temple of Sylaveth Exploration Codex rewards
- Brawler's Ring
- Death's Abyss Co-Op Dungeon
- Elite Retainer's Belt
- Temple of Sylaveth Open Wolrd Dungeon from Shade Wizard
- Grayclaw Sentry and Gray Lycan Sentry in Grayclaw Forest
Alternatives
Some of the gear pieces may be harder to obtain quickly. Unfortunately not all Melee Evasion pieces have an alternative that is easier to access. Below are some options that can be swapped to without reducing your Melee Evasion by too much:
- Impure Witch's Linen Pants
- Ant Nest Open World Dungeon from Acid Ant
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Elite Sharpshooter's Cloak
- Cloaks that Wield Victory Lithograph Book entry
- Shadowed Crypt Open World Dungeon from Dark Assassins
- Passionate Vigor Belt
- Roaring Temple and Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeons
Wand / Staff Melee Eva PvP Build
No Rune Synergies or Resonance
Wand / Staff Melee Eva PvP Build
With Rune Synergies or Resonance
With Victorious Energy you achieve 2,180 Melee Evasion, 1,694 Ranged Evasion, and 1,140 Hit. Use Rare Laslan-Style Braised Meat for extra Evasion and Skill Damage Resistance. A Melee Evasion of 2,180 guarantees over a 40% chance of Evading attacks from the average End Game geared Greatsword player with 1,100 to 1,300 Hit, including those who push past 1,400 Hit.
You have a base Cooldown Speed of 13.4% and 23.4% with any Wand abilities you use thanks to the Cooldown Speed skill in your Wand weapon Mastery.
This build achieves the Stat bonuses 60 Strength and 60 Perception. With Rune Synergies, you reach 30 Dexterity providing additional Critical Hit, Evasion, and Attack Speed.
Gear Sources
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Umbramancer's Staff
- Sanctum of Desire Open World Dungeon from Avolos Geomancer and Avolos Umbramancer
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Grand General's Command Visor
- Malakar Field and Guild Boss
- Special Resistance Tactical Armor
- Chapter 10 Codex rewards
- Armor of Unfaltering Protection Lithograph Book entry
- Use 20 Trait Conversion Stones to roll both pieces for the trait not available for purchase on the Auction House.
- General's Frenzy Gloves
- Saurodoma Island from Reptilian Soldier and Reptilian Butcher
- Black Lion Dash
- Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Slaughterer's Collar
- Marienne's Recommended Necklace Collection Lithograph Book entry
- Kowazan and Lycan Kowazan Field and Guild Bosses.
- Beast King's Gilded Bracers
- Cave of Destruction Co-Op Dungeon
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest recipe
- Transcendent Magic Ring
- Substance Transformation
- Queen Bellandir Archboss
Note: Not all pieces have an alternative that provides Melee Evasion, so you can't replace everything or else your Melee Evasion will be too low to effectively counter the average Hit Melee users have at End Game. Continue using your Blue pieces as you work towards obtaining your End Game gear.
The Substance Transformation system provides all item besides Archboss weapons and it's especially helpful in obtaining Elite Assassin's Cloak and Elite Retainer's Belt.
Alternatives
- Use Toublek's Thunderous Soul before Umbramancer's Staff
- Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Talus's Resonance Staff
- Talus Field and Guild Boss
- When using Talus Staff, change stats to 50 Strength and Perception, as well as 30 Dexterity
- Lequirus's Grip
- When using Lequirus's Grip, you can equip Specter's Frost Bracers for more Ranged Evasion or keep your Beast King's Gilded Bracers for more Max Health and to reach 40 Wisdom. Change stats to 51 Strength, 41 Wisdom, and 60 Perception
- Elite Resistance Visor (can use for more Melee Evasion, but messes up stats)
- Chapter 6 Codex rewards
- Overhead Protection Lithograph Book entry
- Use 20 Trait Conversion Stones to roll both pieces for the trait not available for purchase on the Auction House.
- Unshakeable Gold Ring
- Syleus's Abyss Open World Dungeon from Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
- Grim Judicator's Touch
- Death's Abyss Co-Op Dungeon
Note: This build is for those who prefer to run Magic and Ranged Evasion because their server is less Melee heavy or they encounter less issues with Greatsword players and Melee abilities overall. There is no Early Game or Mid Game Ranged and Magic Evasion build because you can't build enough Magic Evasion to counter 1-1.1k Magic Hit Early Game and 1k-1.2k Magic Hit Mid Game.
Wand / Staff R/M Eva PvP Build
No Rune Synergies or Resonance
Wand / Staff R/M Eva PvP Build
With Rune Synergies or Resonance
With Victorious Energy you achieve 1,654 Ranged Evasion, 2,208 Magic Evasion, and 1,262 Hit. Use Rare Laslan-Style Braised Meat for extra Evasion and Skill Damage Resistance. A Magic Evasion of 2,208 guarantees over a 40% chance of Evading attacks from the average End Game geared Staff and Wand player with 1,100 to 1,400 Hit for Staff and 600-800 Hit for Wand (up to 900 for Wand/Dagger).
You have a base Cooldown Speed of 17.2% and 27.2% with any Wand abilities you use thanks to the Cooldown Speed skill in your Wand weapon Mastery.
This build achieves the Stat bonuses 60 Strength and 60 Perception. With Rune Synergies, you reach 40 Wisdom providing additional Max Mana, Mana Regen, and Cooldown Speed.
Gear Sources
- Excavator's Mysterious Scepter
- Excavator-9 Field and Guild Boss
- Umbramancer's Staff
- Sanctum of Desire Open World Dungeon from Avolos Geomancer and Avolos Umbramancer
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Hermit's Shroud
- Shadowed Crypt Open World Dungeon from Dark Enforcer
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Grim Judicator's Mask
- Cursed Wasteland Co-Op Dungeon
- Ghost Wolf Alter Ego Armor
- Cursed Wasteland Co-Op Dungeon
- Ghost Wolf Alter Ego Pants
- Aridus Field and Guild Boss
- Reaper's Footsteps
- Sanctum of Desire Open World Dungeon from Avolos Tracker and Avolos Umbramancer
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Special Resistance Hawk Gloves
- Blessed Moonlight Touch Lithograph Book entry
- Gallu Archer and Possessed Gallu Archer found in the Open World at Shattered Temple
- Abyss Conqueror's Necklace
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
- Specter's Frost Bracers
- Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Insightful Ring of Dimension
- Craft Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation for the Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest recipe
- Transcendent Magic Ring
- Substance Transformation
- Queen Bellandir Archboss
- Tycan's Bloodlust Belt
- Aridus Field and Guild Boss
Alternatives
- Use Toublek's Thunderous Soul before Umbramancer's Staff
- Tyrant's Isle Co-Op Dungeon
- Talus's Resonance Staff
- Talus Field and Guild Boss
- Lequirus's Grip
- When using Lequirus's Grip, use Grand General's Command Visor to bring your Strength back to 60 and Change stats to 60 Strength, 37 Wisdom, and 60 Perception
- Special Resistance Ancient Dragon Pants (you can also use these instead for more Ranged Evasion if your server is more Ranged DPS heavy)
- Use 20 Trait Conversion Stones to roll for Magic Evasion if you didn't get it. Roll for Ranged Eva if you did
- Moonlight Grace Leather Boots (remove points from Wisdom to get Strength and Perception back to 60. Wear these until you can start farming Sanctum of Desire)
- Cave of Destruction and Specter's Abyss Co-Op Dungeons
- Unshakeable Gold Ring
- Syleus's Abyss Open World Dungeon from Demonhoof Tracker and Demonhoof Head Shaman
- With 40 Abyss Currency, craft Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss
- Butcher's Belt
- Butcher's Canyon Co-Op Dungeon
- Note: This build can run a Reaper's Black Mask
- Adentus Field and Guild Boss
- Change stats to 60 Strength, 30 Wisdom, 60 Perception
- You reach a base Cooldown Speed of 31.7% and 41.7% with any Wand abilities you use thanks to the Cooldown Speed skill in your Wand weapon Mastery
- You will deal a lot more DPS so this build is great for a Hybrid Skill Build
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(**Read the warning!**) T2 Wand / Staff PvP 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.
Summary
- The Wand / Staff Healer in PvP is the most versatile healer build. You can play it as full support, hybrid DPS, and as a buffbot.
- Wand / Staff can achieve the highest Cooldown Speed in the game allowing you to spam heals and abilities more often compared to other healers.
- As a Wand / Staff build, you have Salvation Chain that allows you to pull party members from long ranges to safety, and Freeze enemies to save allies making you a great peeler during fights.
- Talus's Resonance Staff and Lequirus' Grip improves your survivability as a Wand / Staff healer.
Credits
Written by EliEli
Reviewed by Yaen and Tenkiei