Best Longbow / Staff Build (PvE)

The Longbow and Staff build is an excellent setup for dealing significant damage at a safe distance in Throne and Liberty. Learn more about how to use the Longbow and Staff build, including the best gear to equip, the best armor and accessories, and more.

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Longbow / Staff Build Overview

Build Summary

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Build Summary
Longbow and Staff	Focus: DPS, Boss Clearing, PVE Stat Priority: Dexterity, Strength
Skill Setup
Pros	Cons
Great Single Target DPS Decent AOE Decent Self-Sustain Able to inflict damage from a safe distance	Mana-Intensive Maximizing DPS can be challenging Stationary

With excellent single-target capabilities, this build focuses on maximizing damage from Serial Fire Bombs, Decisive Sniping, and Infernal Meteor. High Focus and Deadly Marker allow the skills to be used on a lower cooldown, providing excellent DPS while providing team utility.

All skills can be used at a safe distance, so as long as players position themselves well, they can take full advantage of Rapidfire Stance, Sniper Sense, and Asceticism without deviating from the optimal skill rotation.

Due to the nature of skill channeling and the varying nature of each encounter, players will need to reposition and may need to cancel skill channeling to use defensive skills. Adjustments must be made on the fly, and this may take some getting used to for the inexperienced.

For stat priority, getting to 50 Strength provides 100 Heavy Attack chance, while attaining 40 Perception provides 5% Buff Duration. Focus on reaching these two stat breakpoints first, then put the rest of the stat points into Dexterity for more damage.

Skills and Specialization

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Active Skills
Infernal Meteor				Cooldown ▼ Hellfire Rain
Serial Fire Bombs				Projectile Speed ▲ Able to Move Focused Fire Bombs
Decisive Sniping				Able to Move Collection Time ▼ Damage ▲ Collection Time ▲
Ice Spear				Damage ▲ Ice Spear Bombardment
Zephyr's Nock				Cooldown ▼ Damage ▲
Strafing				Consecutive Use Gale
Judgement Lightning				-
Deadly Marker				Target
High Focus				Base Damage Boost
Inner Peace				-
Passive Skills
Rapidfire Stance		Steady Aim		Sniper's Sense		Roxie's Arrowhead
Asceticism		Mana Amp		Flame Condensation		Forbidden Sanctuary
Defensive Skill
Overtaker

Active Skills

Focus on levelling Serial Fire Bombs and Decisive Sniping with the skill books first, as they will provide a decent chunk of DPS and make progression much smoother.

Spend the remaining points on Strafing and Zephyr's Nock next, as they provide decent damage as Fillers while waiting for the highest DPS skills to come off cooldown.

Use Nature's Blessing and Inner Peace to restore mana, and cancel Inner Peace's channeling with Overtaker if necessary.

As Infernal Meteor is the most damaging skill against bosses in this kit, spend all available Omnipotence skill books on it.

Passive Skills

For passives skills, Rapidfire Stance and Asceticism are great passives to prioritize because they are triggered by the same condition.

The rest of the passives can be leveled later, especially Sniper Sense, unless the player is consistently in a group and someone else can take the front line.

Best Weapons

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Primary Weapon
Toublek's Shattering Quarterstaff	・Critical Hit ・Hit ・Heavy Attack Chance ・Heavy Attack Chance
Weapon Effect
Toublek's Boost	Magic, Melee, and Ranged Critical Hiy 30 ▲ per 1m of distance between you and the target

With its emphasis on range, Toublek's Shattering Quarterstaff complements this play style well, as it provides a significant damage boost the further the player is from the target.

Secondary Weapon
Karnix's Netherbow	・Critical Hit ・Heavy Attack Chance ・Hit ・Heavy Attack Chance
Weapon Effect
Karnix's Eye	Range 9% ▲ for you and party members within 16m

Thanks to Karnix's Eye, this will provide even more range, and even more damage. Since this is also a party buff, other teammates may benefit from the weapon effect as well.

Best Armors and Accessories

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This item build uses the 2-piece Ghost Wolf set for increased critical damage and the 2-piece Transcendent One set bonus for increased cooldown.

The choice of armour and accessories has been made to provide a smoother rotation with faster cooldowns, longer buff durations for more High Focus uptime, and longer debuff durations to make it easier to manage burn stacks from Infernal Meteor and Serial Firebombs.

Once each piece of equipment is fully upgraded, the player will be able to reach the important breakpoints of 50 Strength, and 40 Perception with several points to spare. Dexterity would be the best stat to go for more damage, or Wisdom for more cooldown reduction.

Best Weapon Mastery

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Longbow	・Check (6 Pts) ・Sniping (9 Pts)
Staff	・Attribute (6 Pts) ・Destroy (9 Pts)

Prioritize 6 points in the check tree for the longbow, as Gale Arrowhead's reduced cooldown for all skills will increase overall dps. Reaching Critical Nock for the sniping tree will provide a decent amount of skill damage boost.

Getting the Destroy tree all the way to the end will also provide that all-important Cooldown Speed ▲, allowing skills to come off cooldown faster. The rest of the points go into the Attribute tree to increase DPS from burning skills.

Best Guardian

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Currently under construction, so please stay tuned!

Skill Rotations and Playstyle

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How to Play Longbow / Staff Build
Single Target Rotation Party Burst Rotation Filler Rotation Mobbing Rotation

Single Target Rotation

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The rotation starts with High Focus, followed by Infernal Meteor. It works best against large bosses, as their large hitboxes ensure that all the meteors hit. Infernal Meteor can be skipped for small targets.

Follow this up with Ensnaring Arrow and Decisive Sniping. Ensnaring Arrow is used to take advantage of the passive Steady Aim, as well as the Damage ▲ skill specialization of Decisive Sniping.

Deadly Marker is used next, to increase overall dps for the entire party.

Finish the rotation off with Serial Fire bombs, Ice Spear and Judgement Lightning. Do note that proccing a heavy attack with Judgement Lightning will allow it to be cast instantly again in a short window, so pay close attention!

Party Burst Rotation

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This rotation prioritizes getting the Deadly Marker on the enemy as quickly as possible to maximize the DPS of the entire party. The rotation would remain largely the same, but the player's personal DPS would suffer a bit because not all skills fit into the duration of the High Focus buff.

Filler Rotation

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This rotation is used when all of the hardest hitting skills are on cooldown. Use Strafing twice to collect Gale Stacks and use Zephyr's Nock to spend them. Use Strafing for the last time, and use Zephyr's Nock again when it comes off cooldown.

The cooldown ▼ specialization on Zephyr's Nock, along with the consumption of target stacks from Deadly Marker: Target Specialization would make Zephyr's Nock available after the third Strafing cast.

Ideally, this rotation should be done when Deadly Marker is applied to the target, but may not be readily available due to cooldown restrictions.

Mobbing Rotation

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If the player chooses to run a mob-focused rotation, they could run an AOE-focused skill build with specializations to accommodate it.

Take advantage of specializations such as Range▲ on Serial Fire Bombs for AOE damage, Consecutive Use for Inferno Wave, and all specializations of Chain Thunder.

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