Longbow / Staff PvP Build Guide

This Longbow / Staff PvP build is mainly used for small-scale fights like Dominion Events or Arena, where players aren't grouped together as much.

Active Skills

Damage Skills

• Decisive Sniping is best used after a target is binded.
• Flash Wave is used only when you see a large group of players.

Utility Skills

• You have three Binds, Ensnaring Arrow, Ice Spear Bombardment, and Icebound Tomb. Always lead with one to proc Steady Aim.
• Using Healing Touch and Nature's Blessing is a great healing combo.

Passive Skills

• All Passives are the same, except you replace Rapidfire Stance with Earth's Blessing.

Alternatives

• If you don't find yourself optimally using all 3 Bind skills, switch one out with Frost Smokescreen.

Longbow Single Target

You can always swap Binds used in either combo and any DPS skills in any combo. You don't need to be super strict about it.

Self-Sustain

You PvP with this set for the first weeks of launch. At this point in time, not many players will be especially geared.

Your Goals

• Farm accessible gear by doing Open World Dungeons.
• Trait those accessible gear.
• Extract traits from gear for Lucent.
• Turn Purple Gear into Lithographs and sell them on the Auction House.

Stats

• You reach high Melee Endurance and Magic Endurance with Distorted Sanctuary.

Traits

• Trait this gear as best as you can. You don't need to go hard until you start acquiring Purple Gear.

If you didn't follow our Leveling Guide and didn't choose Heroic Tunic of the Resistance as your final Story reward, don't worry. Use Elite Resistance Plate Armor instead.

Triple Endurance vs Melee Evasion

• With the Melee Evasion build, you reach 2200+ Melee Evasion with Victorious Energy. This is perfect against most Melee players, especially in Arena and Small Scale PvP.
• The Melee Evasion build doesn't provide a good transition for you toward the End Game build, and you end up spending more Lucent on re-traiting items or upgrading items you won't use.
• In Large Scale PvP, you're playing from Range. If you're in a position where a Melee user can jump on you, you're already dead.

Dungeon Farming Priority

1. Death's Abyss
   • Karnix's Hell Bow
     • You can also pity craft Recipe: Karnix's Netherbow using 2 Dimensional Essence: Salvation instead of relying on RNG.
     • You must do each Co-Op Dungeon at least 5 times to acquire enough tokens to craft 2 Dimensional Essence: Salvation.
   • [Optional Boots Replacement) Gloom Guard Sabatons
2. Sapphire Dimensional Band
   • Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest
     • Requires Recipe: Dimensional Essence: Salvation to craft.
     • You must do each Co-Op Dungeon at least 3 times to acquire enough tokens to craft it.
3. Cursed Wasteland
   • Flying Dragon Scale Secret Art Pants
   • Lethal Fortune Ring
   • (Optional Gloves Replacement) Feathered Drakeskin Gloves gives more Range
   • (Optional Boots Replacement) Flying Dragon Claw Leather Boots gives more Ranged Endurance
4. Tyrant's Isle (Melee Evasion Build)
   • Ebon Roar Sabatons

Open World Farming Priority

1. Ant Nest
   • Corrupt Witch's Hat from Worker Ant
   • Elusive Hexweaver Pants from Acid Ant (Melee Evasion Build)
2. Temple of Sylaveth (Melee Evasion Build)
   • Belt of Combat Prowess from Shade Wizard
3. Shadowed Crypt
   • Guard's Endurance Necklace from Dark Shaman
   • Elite Sharpshooter's Cloak from Dark Assassin
4. Sanctum of Desire
   • Alacritous Invoker Gloves from Avolos Hydromancer

Always use Transcendent Magic Ring, Queen Bellandir's Domination Wand, or Tevent's Screaming Bow if you get them.

• Transcendent Magic Ring makes hitting your Stat breakpoints of 50 Strength and 60 Perception much easier.

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.

Stats

• Staff of the Umbramancer allows you to hit 50 Strength and 60 Perception extremely easily.
• 40% Buff Duration allows High Focus to last 5 seconds longer.
• Your high Endurance with Distorted Sanctuary is enough to mitigate most unbuffed Ranged and Magic attacks from being Crits. Be careful about your low Mana Regen, though.
• Unbuffed, you reach ~1100 Hit Chance with full purple gear.
  • If you specced Victorious Energy for Victorious Energy, you will hit 1500+ Hit Chance.
• Your Critical Hit Chance is compensated by Sniper's Sense.
• Your accessories have Collision Resistance traited to help you avoid enemy Tornado. If you find that you don't get hit by that skill, use other traits.
• If you want more Max Health, you can swap your chest piece with Heroic Garb of the Resistance.
  • Your Hit Chance will be lower with this chest.

Gear Sources

1. Special Resistance Hawk Hood
   • Crown Blessed by Moonlight
   • Black Boar in Purelight Hill
   • Precious Blessing Pouch
   • Craft Recipe: Precious Lithograph: Heroic Hood of the Resistance.
2. Reaper's Interring Pants
   • Junobote
3. Shadow Harvester Grips
   • Temple of Slaughter
   • Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Salvation
4. Unshakeable Gold Ring
   • Demonhoof Tracker in Syleus's Abyss 5F-6F
   • Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss

Alternatives

Talus's Crystalline Staff is the main center of this build. Talus's Crystalline Staff is your BiS staff, as it allows you to survive getting jumped on by Greatswords.

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.

Stats

• Stats are basically the same as the Umbramancer End Game build but you will have less Hit Chance.
• You can consider Heroic Tunic of the Resistance for more Hit Chance, but it will give you less Max Health.

Gear Sources

1. Talus's Crystalline Staff from Talus

This is your dream Archboss setup. Not many will achieve it.

In the AGS game files are the following chests, one for each T2 Dungeon.

• Kertaki's Armor Selection Chest
• Shakarux's Armor Selection Chest
• Turka's Armor Selection Chest
• Gaitan's Armor Selection Chest
• Kaligras's Armor Selection Chest

This resembles what the Korean version has. If these chests come in the November update, then many gear pieces that only drop from Archbosses and Field Bosses will be available, making gear accessible for all players.

This build assumes the above to be true, but this is NOT CONFIRMED.