Wand / Staff PvP Build Guide

You can go for any Rune Synergy that best fits your situation. EVERY SERVER META IS DIFFERENT.

When it comes to stats obtained from runes, players commonly choose what is necessary to hit their own stat bonuses (or other personal goals).

Attack Runes

• Heavy Attack Chance in both weapons and your bracelet to increase the Heavy Chance of your Wand and Longbow heals, as well as Invincible Wall.
• Hit Chance in your necklace as there aren't any good options in these slots.
• Critical Hit Chance in your rings to slightly increase the Critical Hit Chance of your Wand heals or Invincible Wall. Your Longbow heals can't Crit.

Defensive and Support Runes

Defensive Runes are interchangeable depending on the build you're using and what your server meta is like.

For Melee Evasion builds:

• Use Melee Evasion Runes as needed.
• Use Max Health, Magic Endurance, or Ranged Endurance Runes if the Melee Evasion you can naturally build through gear is high enough to be effective in PvP.

For Endurance builds:

• Use more Melee Endurance Runes if there are more Spear users on your server.
• Use more Ranged Endurance Runes if there are more Longbow and especially Xbow users on your server.

For all builds:

• Use Skill Damage Resistance Runes on both your weapons, belt, and bracelet.
• The Rune Synergies you can achieve on your belt are lackluster. Thus, going triple Skill Damage Resistance Runes or Resistance Runes would make you more tanky in PvP. Doing the same on your bracelet is recommended.

Replace Runes using Chaos Runes in this order:

1. Attack Rune in Necklace (Hit doesn't benefit you as a Seeker in PvP, especially not at the low amounts they provide.)
2. Attack Runes in Rings (Critical Hit Chance increases your Critical Healing by an extremely low amount. For example 750 Swift Heals with 669 Magic Crit results in only 9.5% of the heals landing as Crits.)
3. Attack Rune in your Belt if you're not doing x3 SDR.

Consider the defensive and offensive breakpoints other classes can reach when building your gear.

• Melee
  • From early to endgame T2, Sword and Shield users average around 1,000 Collision Chance. This number can increase easily with Traits, Skills, and Runes.
    • Since they can build high Collision Chance with the ability to add more to land their important Collision CC, I recommend building other Resistances that will be just as effective in ensuring your survival during PvP. For instance, you can build Bind or Stun Resistances which are required for several Collision combos performed by Sword and Shield and Greatsword users.
    • Melee can build additional CC Hit Chance from:
      • Deadly Penetration that increases Spear CC Chance by 15%.
      • Unyielding Sentinel that provides up to 450 CC Chance.
      • Hand-to-Hand Combat which increases Stun and Collision Hit Chance when Perception is 70 or more.
      • Gerad's Valor that increases all CC Chance by up to 110.
      • Ruthlessness which increases Stun, Collision, and Fear Chance by 22 per every 10 Fortitude.
  • Building Melee Evasion is interesting in T2. The average Melee Hit I've observed from over 110 competitive Melee builds based in the NA and EU regions, as well as build websites, suggest that the average Melee Hit from early to endgame T2 will be around 2,200 to as high as 2,800 (endgame non-nebula). This does not factor in Hit buffs like:
    • Unyielding Sentinel that provide Spear users an additional 410 Hit.
    • All-out Assault that increase Spear Melee Hit by 336
  • All this in mind, Spear players can certainly stack enough Hit (with buffs) to reliably land hits against Melee Evasion builds which comfortably reach 3,000 Melee Evasion and up to 3,500 if sacrificing some critical stats. It's likely you will have enough Melee Evasion to counter Greatsword and Sword and Shield players, but if necessary, they could push their Melee Hit higher to ensure they reliably land their CCs on you.

• Ranged
  • Bow / Staff users are reaching an average of up to 1,800 Critical Hit Chance before conditional buffs are added like Sniper's Sense and Decisive Bombardment.
  • Staff / Daggers users are reaching an average of up to 2,000 Magic Critical Hit Chance.
  • Longbow / Daggers users reach up to an average of 1,800 Critical Hit Chance before conditional buffs like Unlucky Target and Killer's Sense.

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. There is additional information that you should know when gearing that applies to all enemies, included below:

• Enemies on your server may stack a lot of Weaken Resistance to counter your Bind and Slow CC, as well as your Weaken Debuffs. Don't worry as you can build a lot of Weaken Chance to counter majority of Weaken Resistance builds. Additionally, with the new gear swap system, you can easily switch to build variations that trade Weaken Chance for mother stats you may prefer if you don't need it for a fight.

• Evasion Build Considerations:
  • The Abyssal Beast Solarstone reduces Evasion up to 300.
  • The Flamespell Weaver Lunarstone increases Hit by 80 with a 5% chance to procc whenever the enemy lands an attack. Lunarstones have no cooldowns.
  • The Flamespell Weaver Solarstone increases Hit by 200 for 10 seconds.

• Endurance Build Considerations:
  • The Chaos Harbinger Solarstone increases Critical Hit Chance up to 1,000 for 10 seconds.

Active Skill Choices

1. Use Ancient King's Armor: Solar Stone if you don't require the extra CC Resistances. This stone increases your Health by 5,000 and acts as a heal that isn't affected by Healing Debuffs.

Passive Skill Choices

1. Greedy Mind's Eye: Lunar Stone is in my opinion the best Artifact Passive. Increasing your Skill Damage Resistance by up to 210 when you're CC'd is invaluable.

Artifact Set Choices

1. The 2-Piece Greedy Mind's Eye is used to obtain 100 extra Endurance.
2. The 2-Piece Ancient King's Armor provides 1,500 additional Max Health.
3. The 2-Piece Forsaken Zealot provides 150 extra Defenses.