Best Wand / Staff Build (PvP)

This Invocator Wand and Staff PVP build for Throne and Liberty (TL) takes on the role of a Support/DPS hybrid capable of healing and bursting down groups of enemies. Read on to learn how to use the Invocator Staff and Wand build for PVP, including the best gears to equip, skill rotations, traits, and more.

Invocator Wand / Staff Build Overview

Build Summary

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Build Summary
Wand and Staff	Focus: Small/Large Scale PvP, Healing, CC, Hybrid DPS Stat Priority: Strength, Perception
Skill Setup
Pros	Cons
AoE Crowd Control and Damage Access to Anti-Heal Silence Resistance MP Recovery	Strong DPS, but Outshined Difficult to Pilot Reliant on Proper Gearing

The Wand / Staff weapon combination is an essential asset to any Guild worth a lick of salt due to its skill pool providing significant utility and damage. This Support/DPS hybrid iteration of the Wand / Staff allows you to be the crutch of your team, while opponents scramble to focus you due to your sheer value!

However, the build's squishy nature makes it vulnerable to being one-shotted by full DPS builds. That means this build requires the player to adopt a playstyle around proper positioning and situational know-how for skill usage while having full awareness of their surroundings to pilot effectively.

Stat Allocation

Note: Base stats are always 10!

Always prioritize getting 50 Perception to increase the chances of your Cursed Nightmare hitting as all PVP builds will be stacking Evasion while also increasing your range so you can stay in the backline. Your buff duration also extends your Blessed Barrier for more Inbound and Outbound healing.

The second priority would be 50 Strength to increase your chances of survival when an opponent engages on you, as well as providing additional Heavy Attack Chance to synergize with Staff skills!

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Skills and Specialization

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Active Skills
Serial Fire Bombs				Instant Activation Projectile Speed ▲ Range ▲ Able to Move
Frost Smokescreen				-
Chain Lightning				Chain Damage Guaranteed Damage Transfer
Inner Peace				Immune to CC
High Focus ▼ Victorious Energy				Victorious Energy Base Damage Boost
Judgement Lightning				Chain Damage Guaranteed Damage Transfer
Swift Healing ▼ Swift Healing				Range ▲ Consecutive Use Healing Transfer
Cursed Nightmare ▼ Cursed Nightmare				Enhanced Nightmare Deep Sleep
Clay's Salvation				Range ▲
Karmic Haze				Range ▲
Blessed Barrier				Effect Duration ▲
Invincile Wall ▼ Invincile Wall				Range ▲ Expand Targets
Passive Skills
Mana Amp		Flame Condensation		Echoic Barrier		Forbidden Sanctuary
Devotion and Emptiness		Noble Revival		Saint's Oath		Selfless Soul
Defensive Skill
Chaotic Shield

Active Skills

For the active skills, this PVP will utilize a 6/6 split between the Wand and Staff, mainly taking all of the utility from the Wand while focusing all the damage on Staff.

The Wand skills will include the infamous AoE Sleep package between Cursed Nightmare and Karmic Haze, as well as the available healing skills.

• Swift Healing - This will be your main healing spell due to its consistent uptime and range when specialized.
• Clay's Salvation - Your means of healing a group of players that hover between low-mid health, and a party-wide cleanse when there are multiple stacks of Weakens.
• Blessed Barrier - Actively use this spell on teammates that are being mass-targeted to increase their survivability. Furthermore, you can use Blessed Barrier on yourself to amplify your AoE heals while giving yourself more defenses.
• Invincile Wall - Use regularly to mitigate damage, but is best utilized as an answer to massive AoE skills such as Infernal Meteor.

The Staff skills, on the other hand, will take up the brunt of your damage-dealing capabilities with the usual Burning DoTs and Lightning burst potential. Furthermore, High Focus, Frost Smokescreen, and Inner Peace are included to answer situational moments during a battle.

• Serial Fire Bombs - This will be your go-to skill for spreading the Burning weakness DoTs, enhancing your Lightning skills.
• Chain Lightning - Due to its low cooldown and burst potential towards burning targets, always use this off cooldown as the brunt of your damage comes from it.
• Judgement Lightning - Best used after doing a successful Sleep Bomb to melt groups of enemies with two critical casts.
• Frost Smokescreen - Your main self-peel tool when you are getting engaged by enemy opponents by allowing you to create space between you and the opponent as well as slowing them down.
• High Focus - You can use this skill either defensively or offensively. Defensively, it allows you to have increased chances of evading key CCs. Offensively, you can use this to ensure your Sleep Bomb combo.
• Inner Peace - Alongside its mana regeneration properties, the Immune to CC specialization allows it to be an answer to Crowd Control if timed correctly.

After getting all your skills into Rare, the key skills should be your focus in terms of leveling them up. Prioritize leveling your healing and utility skills first, especially Blessed Barrier and High Focus, and then proceed on to your damage skills.

Passive Skills

The two best passives that you should prioritize leveling are Mana Amp and Devotion and Emptiness as they are flat-out bonuses without any downsides.

• Mana Amp - Not only increases your HP and Mana by a decent amount, but it also increases your heals when paired with Noble Revival.
• Devotion and Emptiness - Provides more potency to your offense by lowering cooldowns and increasing your DoTs depending on the time of day.

As a healer, it is imperative to include Noble Revival, Saint's Oath, and Selfless Soul. Including this trifecta of passives will not only allow your heals to be more impactful, but also serve as an additional means of survivability on your part.

Furthermore, PVP is all about the up-time of your skills, so including Echoic Barrier to lessen your chances of being CC'ed or silenced will improve your overall value. Remember, staying alive is the best contribution to battle!

To further amp up the build's damage, Flame Condensation and Forbidden Sanctuary are slotted in. Flame Condensation allows your burning DoTs to deal more damage as well as increase your chances of a Heavy Attack. Forbidden Sanctuary is essentially a net positive slot-in due to this build's already consistent mana economy.

Active and Passive Alternatives

Active Skill			Specialization
Frost Smokescreen	>	Fountain of Life	Range ▲
Frost Smokescreen	>	Salvation Chain	Cooldown ▼
Frost Smokescreen	>	Ice Spear Bombardment	Bind Ice Spear Bombardment
Frost Smokescreen	>	Icebound Tomb	Icy Mire
Judgement Lightning	>	Infernal Meteor	Heal ▼
Passive Skill			Explanation
Flame Condensation	>	Full of Corruption	If you have sufficient DPS and would prefer more consistency with extended group fights.

Depending on the situation, you can change some active skills around to suit your needs:

• Fountain of Life - If you do not need the extra mobility and would prefer having more personal safety.
• Salvation Chain - If the enemy team has minimal gap closers and your team has a lot of melee players that need to be repositioned on crucial moments.
• Ice Spear Bombardment - If you prefer to single out damage to one specific target. Great for 1v1s
• Icebound Tomb - To further reduce the enemy team's evasion. Great for Arenas
• Infernal Meteor - If the opposition has a consistent means of healing, swap into Infernal Meteor to reduce their healing by 60%.

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Best Weapons

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Primary Weapon
Excavator's Mysterious Scepter	・Critical Hit +80 ・Heavy Attack +80 ・Hit +80
Weapon Effect
Excavator's Breath	Additional 380 Health heal per 6s when using Rapid Healing skills on allies with Health less than 15%. Cooldown 30s.

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

The primary weapon for this build will be Excavator's Mysterious Scepter as it provides the build with a massive mana increase and an essential boost to Strength. Furthermore, this wand hones in on making the build's healing capabilities even more solid by adding in clutch potential with Excavator's Breath.

The best traits to give Excavator's Mysterious Scepter would be Hit, Max HP, and Heavy Attack. Prioritize farming for Hit, as again, other players will stack evasion and you need to hit your crucial skills to be useful.

Secondary Weapon
Talus's Crystalline Staff	・Critical Hit +80 ・Heavy Attack +80 ・Hit +80
Weapon Effect
Talus's Cold Stone	When Stunned, trigger Petrification: Freeze for 1s to protect yourself. Cooldown 60s.

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

The secondary weapon for this build will be Talus's Crystalline Staff since it provides us with a whopping +9 to Dexterity, giving us easy access to the additional 100 Critical Hit and 15 Bonus Damage.

Furthermore, Talus's Cold Stone gives us the necessary protection for when an enemy tries to get you out of the picture with CC, especially against builds like the Dagger/Greatsword. Make sure to use Frost Smokescreen afterward to get yourself out of the sticky situation.

The best traits to give Talus's Crystalline Staff would be Hit, Heavy Attack, and Critical Hit to further synergize with our Staff Skills. It is best to still prioritize Hit as it is the golden stat in PVP.

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Best Armors and Accessories

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Armors
Heroic Hood of the Resistance	・Max Health +600 ・Ranged Evasion +160 ・Magic Evasion +160
Ancient Tapestry Mantle	・Max Health +600 ・Skill Damage Resistance +80 ・Debuff Duration -6%
Phantom Wolf Tunic	・Max Health +600 ・Ranged Evasion +160 ・Magic Evasion +160
Shadow Harvester Grips	・Ranged Evasion +160 ・Magic Evasion +160 ・Mana Regen +60
Phantom Wolf Breeches	・Max Health +600 ・Ranged Evasio +160 ・Magic Evasion +160
Shadow Harvester Boots	・Ranged Evasion +160 ・Magic Evasion +160 ・Move Speed +8%
Accessories
Clasp of the Conqueror	・Max Health +600 ・Skill Damage Boost +80 ・Buff Duration +6%
Ancient Saurodoma Bracers	・Skill Damage Resistance +80 ・Debuff Duration -6% ・Mana Regen +60
Etched Alabaster Band	・Max Health +600 ・Skill Damage Boost +80 ・Buff Duration +6%
Sapphire Dimensional Band	・Max Health +600 ・Skill Damage Boost +80 ・Buff Duration +6%
Belt of Endless Slaughter	・Max Health +600 ・Skill Damage Resistance +80 ・Debuff Duration -6%

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

As the Wand and Staff combination is excessively reliant on their build to flourish, the following gear will focus on gathering as much Perception and Strength to reliably hit your core skills. The sub-stats with the armor will be focused on stacking as much Evasion stats as possible while keeping the thresholds of Perception and Strength in mind.

The build also utilizes some 2-part bonuses to increase its lethality. The Death set provides an additional 21% to Critical Damage, which this build reliably does so due to Cursed Nightmare + Karmic Haze. The Ghost Wolf set then slots the build with a flat damage boost due to Bonus Damage, which includes to most damage you apply.

The defensive traits focus more on Evasion rather than Endurance as you should always be in the backlines, meaning you should rarely tank hits and focus on proper positioning to reliably avoid some attacks.

Best Weapon Mastery

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For the Weapon Masteries, allocate your points to mastery trees that get Damage and Cooldown Speed as early as possible.

The Wand's Weaken Tree provides a huge upgrade to your skill damage as well as increases your Curse duration by a second. After the Weaken tree is maxed out, focus the remaining 6 points on the Recovery Tree until you get the additional 8% to our Skill Heals and more Heavy Attack chance!

The Staff's Destroy Tree provides additional Cooldown Speed, Skill Damage, and consistency with Critical Hits! After that, spend the remaining 6 points in the Mana Tree to cover up our Mana consumption problems.

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Best Guardian

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Best Guardian
Lady Knight Kamarshea	Creates a shield for 50% of your Max Mana. Cooldown Speed +40% while the shield is up. Summon ends when the Shield is removed.

Almost in all PVP scenarios, the essential healer of the team will always be the main target of any competent player. Utilize Lady Knight Kamarshea's mana shield as a panic button upon getting engaged since it can be the defining factor of whether or not you get eliminated.

Furthermore, the Wand and Staff combo stack Mana to a high degree, meaning the shield itself is substantial and can be maintained for longer durations. As a bonus, you will gain Cooldown Speed +40%, meaning you can fire back at the opponent that engaged on you!

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Skill Rotations

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How to Play Wand / Staff
AoE Sleep Burning / Lightning Combo

Note: If the skills icons are confusing, some of the skill icons indicated here are using their specialized variants.

AoE Sleep

(optional) ▶ ▶ ▶ 2x (optional)

The main goal of this combo is to inflict the sleep status on a group of people by spreading Cursed Nightmare using Karmic Haze. This allows you or your allies to burst them down with two guaranteed critical skills.

To increase the chances of you hitting your combo, use Victorious Energy for additional accuracy. However, only use this if you know you are safe during its cooldown as this is one of your defensive skills during hard engages.

Furthermore, depending on whether or not you have the higher DPS out of the team or when an opponent will die either way, cast down two Judgement Lightnings with the guaranteed critical from Cursed Nightmare!

Burning / Lightning Combo

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This combo will be your bread-n'-butter skill rotation to fully capitalize on the synergy between the Burning status and Lightning Skills.

Serial Fire Bombs will be responsible for stacking the Burning Stacks so that Chain Lightning will have increased damage, while Judgement Lightning will have increased chances of being reset.

The main key for your combos is to use your Fire skills as a primer for your Lightning skills, so if you choose to slot in other damaging spells, follow this philosophy to maximize your damage.

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