This is legitimately my favorite video for staff/wand users. But will this build still be relevant after tier 2? Maybe I'll wait for tier 2 gear and just save my materials.
> "This is legitimately my favorite video for staff/wand users" Thanks so much for saying so! I honestly wasn't sure whether people would find the solo 1vX fights useful, especially because my build doesn't have massive damage. But I'm very tough to kill and can meaningfully pressure targets / secure kills. > "But will this build still be relevant after tier 2?" There's a lot of gear in Tier 2 with either Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion, or both: maxroll.gg/throne-and-liberty/news/tier-2-gear-preview-and-sources So just from looking at the gear, I believe Evasion will be viable. Staff has Victorious Energy, which synergizes well with Evasion builds. Stacking Evasion does mean you give up some damage; I won't know how the trade-off feels til I get Tier 2 gear. Also, a top KR player posted on Reddit saying that Evasion definitely works in Tier 2: www.reddit.com/r/throneandliberty/comments/1hqk5vc/why_are_so_many_people_are_spreading_bs_about_t2/ Another player posted this on Evasion vs Endurance, and I agree with the conclusions: www.reddit.com/r/throneandliberty/comments/1hss9bh/endurance_vs_evasion_my_input_on_defensive_stats/ I think a lot of people vastly underestimate the value of Evasion. Even +500 Evasion over your attacker's Hit provides massive value, as demonstrated in this video. I'm not saying Endurance isn't good - it limits incoming burst - but many people don't stack enough Evasion before coming to conclusions. A former guildee said to me that Melee Evasion doesn't work, I asked how much he had, he said 850. You simply *can't* make meaningful conclusions without committing to enough Evasion.
Thank you for this video! I have been so ready to just bail on my invocator build because I just get smashed in pvp. All the pvpers on my server are stealth-stunlock-smash and it instakills me everytime. Making these changes looks like it will help a lot! Outstanding work, friend!
My melee evasion build will for sure make a world of difference against melee stunlock. I remember reading so many threads on Reddit in October-December about melee being unfair. It hasn't been an issue for me 😄. I'd argue that melee evasion is even more valuable now given how strong Spear/Dagger is.
PVP fights (1vX, 1v3, 1v2, and 1v1) with my Staff/Wand build in Shadowed Crypt in Throne and Liberty. I've updated my build so that I'm still strong vs melee but am now much tankier vs ranged. The footage shows how capable the build is at fighting multiple enemies (all solid-to-very geared), staying alive under focus fire, and packing enough firepower to secure kills. My masteries are 16, most of my skills aren't purple 5 yet, and I haven't gotten field or archboss staff or wand weapons yet, so there's still room to grow. CHAPTERS 0:00 Build: gear, skills, specialization, masteries 1:04 1v3s, 1v2s, and 1v1s 15:19 Dominion enemy on my mana burn LOL TAUGRIM'S SKILL BUILD questlog.gg/throne-and-liberty/en-nc/skill-builder/z5ATb8spRj2Z?build-id=39508 KEY STATS (F2P) Combat Power: 4136 Melee Evasion: 1588 Ranged Endurance: 1000 Ranged Defense: 2402
Perfect, I am very proud, that I used almost the same build ^^. Just upping my gear, as I started 3 weeks ago. I love the healer, a fantastic character. Amazing that you used the curse explosion. That I will try as well. Thanks for the videos!
You're welcome, and welcome to Throne & Liberty! Staff/Wand is a very flexible weapon combo. I started Greatsword/Sword but enjoy Staff/Wand (and Sword/Wand) much more. It's fun to play a ranged DPS who can also heal.
Rune synergies and swapping out 2 pieces of gear to ones that have Strength (i.e. Shock Commander's chest and legs) are what made it possible for me to hit both 70 Strength and 60 Perception.
This is what I needed! I dropped my STR to 60 for a bit and just threw my hands in the air in arena. Going to go back to my 70 Str 60 Per again and play around with curse explosion this evening.
Glad this was helpful. The only way to feel comfortable something works is either to try it yourself, or have someone show (like in this video) that it works.
Thanks for the update, going to mess around with this tonight. My struggle is the defensive stats. Because I’m still transitioning from my bow/dagger build, gear is a little all over the play. This will be a nice framework to mess around with
Yea it takes time to try out a new build, but right now is a good time for it since AH prices are low / reasonable. When you get geared up, LMK what you think of the build. Very different playstyle than what you're used to. I run Sword/Wand for PVE tanking, and I re-use a lot of the same gear as my Staff/Wand PVP build. Works fine for tanking 2-stars and lower-level Dimensional trials.
@@taugrim I have a good chunk of the gear you have, so it will mostly be retraiting stuff and the cloak. My issue is due to my weapons, I'm only able to hit 60/13/33/60. My staff and wand are heavy wisdom
I'd imagine even with 60 Str / 60 Perc that Staff/Wand is going to feel a lot more tanky compared to Bow/Dagger. Staff of the Umbramancer is a great stat stick and is super easy to acquire. Ditto with Lequirus. If you're fortunate to have Tevent's wand, a field boss staff, etc, you can probably still hit 70 Str with runes. I don't have Excavator's wand yet but that provides 8 Strength at level 9 which would also help.
@@taugrim I have a tevent and excavator wand, plus I have aridus and Bellandir staff. The two arch boss weapons are very wisdom heavy. The only change to my skills is I do run curse explosion because of the added curse from tevent.
With this build, it's left-to-right on the left-hand skillbar: 1. Touch of Despair 2. Focused Fire Bomb 3. Inferno Wave 4. Touch of Despair 5. Fireball Barrage 6. Curse Explosion Use Ice Spear Bombardment whenever you need to bind (root) your target.
This makes me want to go back to staff wand, great video! But regarding invincible wall, it can crit and it can definitely heavy, but very very rarely, overall though, as a dps, a damage skill is way better to slot in as you’ve done!
Thanks so much for providing that correction. Even if Invincible Wall can crit or heavy attack, the ability doesn't provide enough value for a hybrid DPS/Heal build like mine. I can't think of any of the skills I've slotted that I'd replace with IW.
Why do you decide on 3 pieces of Shock commander over 2? I went with the helmet and chest, but I'm torn on going the pants as well. I rather have ebon roar pants. But the shock commander pants does have very high def stats. I might go shock commander helm and pants, then heroic chest again XD
You could stop with 2. I use Shock Commander's Visor because it provides a lot of Strength, and I like Cooldown Speed reduction. Shock Commander's legs are vastly superior to Ebon Roar legs in my build, so long as you can get to ~1600 melee evasion. The extra 140 Ranged Defense makes a massive difference, and I need the Strength on Shock Commander's to get to 70, which provides another 200 Ranged Defense. Are you able to reach 70 Strength with Heroic Armor of the Resistance? I couldn't.
Hey, I’m a new viewer who started watching your Unicum guides! I was wondering if you had quit WOT or if you intended to release new guides in the future?
I grew increasingly frustrated with Wargaming's game design decisions, which are overly influenced by driving pay-for-advantage. It's just hard for me to enjoy a game like that. Just by contrast, Throne and Liberty has pay-for-advantage mechanics or pay-to-get-geared-faster, in terms of being able to whale. But a F2P player (and I've been 100% F2P on the character in the video) can catch up with a whale, it just takes time. With WoT, by design, some tanks are simply vastly superior to others, and there's no closing that gap.
What sets or pieces would you recommend for a sentinel, I know this build is talked down on allot and isn't considered something viable in pvp but can you consider looking into this class and try to come up with something
I don't know enough about Sentinel (Greatsword / Staff) to feel confident making recommendations. I've tried whacky combos, e.g. Sword / Staff (Disciple), but have zero experience with Sentinel.
Make sure you don't have an ally targeted when you mean to cast them on yourself. Some people keybind a modifier, e.g. or when pressing a skill to have it cast on themselves, but I don't like pressing 2 keys for an ability - it's inefficient - so what I did is keybind a mouse side button to drop my friendly target. Then I cast the skill, so by default it casts on me.
Not yet, and I'm debating posting the gear I'm targeting. I love sharing info, but generally speaking I err on the side of actual experience vs theorycrafting - i.e. I'm more comfortable talking from experience than a build which may not pan out in reality. If I post a theorycrafted build and it doesn't work, I'll have wasted a lot of viewers' time. Granted, my prediction on mechanics tends to be pretty good. I've already looked through the T2 gear list on Maxroll and am planning on a Melee Evasion + Ranged Evasion build. The main thing I need to see is how viable the damage is, because I won't be getting the 2-pc Crit bonuses. I've also played around with the masteries calculator on gameslantern.com. I hope / think it may end up playing out like it did in T1: I do less damage (burst and sustained) than non-evasion builds, but my survivability is (much) better.
Both are viable options and provide excellent burst. Here's the tradeoff: • Cursed Explosion with the single-target specialization has a cooldown for me of ~12 secs, whereas Judgement Lightning has a cooldown for me of ~24 secs • Judgment Lightning has RNG for the second use • Judgment Lightning with specialization deals AOE I find Cursed Explosion to be more reliable and usable much more frequently, so that's why I prefer it.
Not in Tier 1, sadly. There are only a handful of items with Ranged Evasion, and none that are heavy armor: tldb.info/db/items/page/1?filter_stats=range_evasion In Tier 2, there are items with both Melee Evasion and Ranged Evasion.
Thanks for your post the other day on the earlier video - it got me working on this video. I've been meaning to make this video for a couple weeks, ever since I made the switch just before New Year's. I was fortunate yesterday to record some great 1vX footage showing me under meaningful pressure.
I heal people, I just prefer not to play a healbot. I was reading a post from a player in a top GvG guild and they run 2 healers per party (1 tank, 3 DPS, 2 healer), and I think my build would make for a solid 2nd healer.
Yes, @Keruberoxu posted that correction earlier. Regardless, Invincible Wall is not worth slotting over the other skills in the build. As you can see from the fights, even against geared players I have no issue surviving for long stretches without IW.
Inferno Wave adds 4 stacks of Burning, which adds 4 projectiles to Fireball Barrage and -400 to the target's mana. It's a tradeoff. I did slot both Lightning abilities on my AOE build, which was the PVP #3 video.
You can see the rune synergies when I moused over them in the 1st minute of the video. As far as the runes themselves, here's what I prioritize: - Attack runes: (Magic) Crit Chance, (Magic) Heavy Attack Chance, (Magic) Hit, Skill Damage Boost - Defense runes: Melee Evasion, Mana Regen, Max Health - Support runes: Skill Heal, Skill Damage Resistance, Mana Cost Efficiency, Incoming Heal I haven't tried it yet, but I think that the Ranged Defense and Magic Defense runes may also be worth slotting.
Hello. may i ask for a favolr. can you share your gear in quest log pls.. fortunately, i have a queen staff.. i am now leveling up my wand since im staff/dag. i am tired of these spear players one shotting me. you build is exactly what the doctor ordered! thank you so much
@@taugrim i have blue wand for now just so i can lvl up skills and mastery. but i can get whatever wand i need. i am main staff/dag with almost 4400 gear score.
Depends on your guild. A lot of guilds are short on healers. In a group of 6 where you can fight and off-heal, it works. Although I would shift to an AOE build. The build in this video is single-target.
With an Sword/Wand build you'd want to invest heavily into DoTs (e.g. Unlucky Clock) to maximize Curse Explosion burst. You'd also want to consider slotting some Sword abilities that provide CC, e.g. the Strategic Rush and Chain Hook. So it plays pretty differently. FWIW, my PVE group build is Sword/Wand tank, because I re-use all the same armor and accessories and swap out the Staff for a Sword.
@@taugrim i see.cuz im using thesame build as yours before in my staff wand build and it was good until i switched to templar.wondering if it is still okay to use the same equips.
@@SooMuchSmokee Which server are you on? I actually rolled on NA East (Kastleton) to start, but the times for the evening events didn't work for my schedule.
Soulfire? It's 4th highest in population in NA West region, it's pretty much tied with the 3rd place server, and the top 3 servers are all Early Access: tldb.info/server-status There are still plenty of (good) players on Soulfire. Although some of the PVP guilds transferred to Crimson. The servers are getting merged anyway so we'll all end up in the same place eventually.
Ever since the patch last week to add chests to Shadowed Crypt, there have been way more people going to Shadowed Crypt at night. It's been fun / crazy.
It's not a full support build, but you can off-heal with it. I tend to find in skirmishing that I can keep people up long enough for us to kill enemies.
This is legitimately my favorite video for staff/wand users. But will this build still be relevant after tier 2? Maybe I'll wait for tier 2 gear and just save my materials.
> "This is legitimately my favorite video for staff/wand users"
Thanks so much for saying so!
I honestly wasn't sure whether people would find the solo 1vX fights useful, especially because my build doesn't have massive damage. But I'm very tough to kill and can meaningfully pressure targets / secure kills.
> "But will this build still be relevant after tier 2?"
There's a lot of gear in Tier 2 with either Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion, or both:
maxroll.gg/throne-and-liberty/news/tier-2-gear-preview-and-sources
So just from looking at the gear, I believe Evasion will be viable. Staff has Victorious Energy, which synergizes well with Evasion builds.
Stacking Evasion does mean you give up some damage; I won't know how the trade-off feels til I get Tier 2 gear.
Also, a top KR player posted on Reddit saying that Evasion definitely works in Tier 2:
www.reddit.com/r/throneandliberty/comments/1hqk5vc/why_are_so_many_people_are_spreading_bs_about_t2/
Another player posted this on Evasion vs Endurance, and I agree with the conclusions:
www.reddit.com/r/throneandliberty/comments/1hss9bh/endurance_vs_evasion_my_input_on_defensive_stats/
I think a lot of people vastly underestimate the value of Evasion. Even +500 Evasion over your attacker's Hit provides massive value, as demonstrated in this video.
I'm not saying Endurance isn't good - it limits incoming burst - but many people don't stack enough Evasion before coming to conclusions. A former guildee said to me that Melee Evasion doesn't work, I asked how much he had, he said 850. You simply *can't* make meaningful conclusions without committing to enough Evasion.
@@taugrim tier 2 staff/wand is better evasion or endurance?
@@webfabio6259 I'm planning double evasion in tier 2 - see the links in my comment above
Thank you for this video! I have been so ready to just bail on my invocator build because I just get smashed in pvp. All the pvpers on my server are stealth-stunlock-smash and it instakills me everytime. Making these changes looks like it will help a lot! Outstanding work, friend!
My melee evasion build will for sure make a world of difference against melee stunlock.
I remember reading so many threads on Reddit in October-December about melee being unfair. It hasn't been an issue for me 😄. I'd argue that melee evasion is even more valuable now given how strong Spear/Dagger is.
PVP fights (1vX, 1v3, 1v2, and 1v1) with my Staff/Wand build in Shadowed Crypt in Throne and Liberty. I've updated my build so that I'm still strong vs melee but am now much tankier vs ranged.
The footage shows how capable the build is at fighting multiple enemies (all solid-to-very geared), staying alive under focus fire, and packing enough firepower to secure kills.
My masteries are 16, most of my skills aren't purple 5 yet, and I haven't gotten field or archboss staff or wand weapons yet, so there's still room to grow.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Build: gear, skills, specialization, masteries
1:04 1v3s, 1v2s, and 1v1s
15:19 Dominion enemy on my mana burn LOL
TAUGRIM'S SKILL BUILD
questlog.gg/throne-and-liberty/en-nc/skill-builder/z5ATb8spRj2Z?build-id=39508
KEY STATS (F2P)
Combat Power: 4136
Melee Evasion: 1588
Ranged Endurance: 1000
Ranged Defense: 2402
Perfect, I am very proud, that I used almost the same build ^^. Just upping my gear, as I started 3 weeks ago. I love the healer, a fantastic character. Amazing that you used the curse explosion. That I will try as well. Thanks for the videos!
You're welcome, and welcome to Throne & Liberty!
Staff/Wand is a very flexible weapon combo. I started Greatsword/Sword but enjoy Staff/Wand (and Sword/Wand) much more. It's fun to play a ranged DPS who can also heal.
@@taugrim Thanks! What do you like about curse explosion?
Curse Explosion is good burst. I use it as an execute.
@@taugrim Thanks will try. How did you get the high stat-points?
Rune synergies and swapping out 2 pieces of gear to ones that have Strength (i.e. Shock Commander's chest and legs) are what made it possible for me to hit both 70 Strength and 60 Perception.
This is what I needed! I dropped my STR to 60 for a bit and just threw my hands in the air in arena. Going to go back to my 70 Str 60 Per again and play around with curse explosion this evening.
Don't forget to get Shock Commander Greaves. That extra 150 Ranged Defense is gold.
I was gonna rebuild exactly what you did with melee evasion, but id have to change too much so I'll do it in T2 gear perhaps. Nice stuff!!
Glad this was helpful. The only way to feel comfortable something works is either to try it yourself, or have someone show (like in this video) that it works.
Thanks for the update, going to mess around with this tonight. My struggle is the defensive stats. Because I’m still transitioning from my bow/dagger build, gear is a little all over the play. This will be a nice framework to mess around with
Yea it takes time to try out a new build, but right now is a good time for it since AH prices are low / reasonable.
When you get geared up, LMK what you think of the build. Very different playstyle than what you're used to.
I run Sword/Wand for PVE tanking, and I re-use a lot of the same gear as my Staff/Wand PVP build. Works fine for tanking 2-stars and lower-level Dimensional trials.
@@taugrim I have a good chunk of the gear you have, so it will mostly be retraiting stuff and the cloak. My issue is due to my weapons, I'm only able to hit 60/13/33/60. My staff and wand are heavy wisdom
@@taugrim but I’ll mess around with some gear combos to see where i end up. Appreciate the knowledge!! Happy Crypt Hunting :)
I'd imagine even with 60 Str / 60 Perc that Staff/Wand is going to feel a lot more tanky compared to Bow/Dagger.
Staff of the Umbramancer is a great stat stick and is super easy to acquire. Ditto with Lequirus. If you're fortunate to have Tevent's wand, a field boss staff, etc, you can probably still hit 70 Str with runes. I don't have Excavator's wand yet but that provides 8 Strength at level 9 which would also help.
@@taugrim I have a tevent and excavator wand, plus I have aridus and Bellandir staff. The two arch boss weapons are very wisdom heavy. The only change to my skills is I do run curse explosion because of the added curse from tevent.
Whats you rotations for this build for skills i love your vids keep up the good work
With this build, it's left-to-right on the left-hand skillbar:
1. Touch of Despair
2. Focused Fire Bomb
3. Inferno Wave
4. Touch of Despair
5. Fireball Barrage
6. Curse Explosion
Use Ice Spear Bombardment whenever you need to bind (root) your target.
Thanks im a console player so skill bar is diffrent i try to put the rotations close together
This makes me want to go back to staff wand, great video!
But regarding invincible wall, it can crit and it can definitely heavy, but very very rarely, overall though, as a dps, a damage skill is way better to slot in as you’ve done!
Thanks so much for providing that correction.
Even if Invincible Wall can crit or heavy attack, the ability doesn't provide enough value for a hybrid DPS/Heal build like mine. I can't think of any of the skills I've slotted that I'd replace with IW.
Why is the build on questlog with ranged evasion?
Oops, fixed that. Thanks for letting me know.
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😬 I'm glad I'm at a point where I can share insights on builds and mechanics for Staff/Wand. It's a blast to play.
I have the same build and now is see my mistake . Thx very helpful
What was your mistake? Glad it was helpful!
@taugrim can you tell me which traits are good ?
@@taugrim I level.up the wrong traits and some other
@@kostaspoulios88See you traits here:
questlog.gg/throne-and-liberty/en-nc/character-builder/ProtectionInfernalStarlightJump
@@taugrim thx brotha.
I was struggling for a long time ..i found your video perfect. Now I just need to change some stuff and level it up. Thank you
Why do you decide on 3 pieces of Shock commander over 2? I went with the helmet and chest, but I'm torn on going the pants as well. I rather have ebon roar pants. But the shock commander pants does have very high def stats. I might go shock commander helm and pants, then heroic chest again XD
You could stop with 2.
I use Shock Commander's Visor because it provides a lot of Strength, and I like Cooldown Speed reduction.
Shock Commander's legs are vastly superior to Ebon Roar legs in my build, so long as you can get to ~1600 melee evasion. The extra 140 Ranged Defense makes a massive difference, and I need the Strength on Shock Commander's to get to 70, which provides another 200 Ranged Defense.
Are you able to reach 70 Strength with Heroic Armor of the Resistance? I couldn't.
Hey, I’m a new viewer who started watching your Unicum guides! I was wondering if you had quit WOT or if you intended to release new guides in the future?
I grew increasingly frustrated with Wargaming's game design decisions, which are overly influenced by driving pay-for-advantage. It's just hard for me to enjoy a game like that.
Just by contrast, Throne and Liberty has pay-for-advantage mechanics or pay-to-get-geared-faster, in terms of being able to whale. But a F2P player (and I've been 100% F2P on the character in the video) can catch up with a whale, it just takes time.
With WoT, by design, some tanks are simply vastly superior to others, and there's no closing that gap.
Professor Tau
🧐 😁
What sets or pieces would you recommend for a sentinel, I know this build is talked down on allot and isn't considered something viable in pvp but can you consider looking into this class and try to come up with something
I don't know enough about Sentinel (Greatsword / Staff) to feel confident making recommendations.
I've tried whacky combos, e.g. Sword / Staff (Disciple), but have zero experience with Sentinel.
How u can use Valorous Barrier and swift healing i cant use it to my self it says only for ally
Make sure you don't have an ally targeted when you mean to cast them on yourself.
Some people keybind a modifier, e.g. or when pressing a skill to have it cast on themselves, but I don't like pressing 2 keys for an ability - it's inefficient - so what I did is keybind a mouse side button to drop my friendly target.
Then I cast the skill, so by default it casts on me.
@@taugrim i dk if this is bug, but when i try what u said it says select target or invalid target :/
@@taugrim Found it its under attack option i need to tick it on ;)
Nice, glad you figured it out 😄
starting to sell me on T&L my dude!
The PVP is a lot of fun.
Lots of different PVP contexts too: open world dungeons at night, PVP events in zones, world boss fights, and arena.
Do you happen to have a questlogg build for t2?
Not yet, and I'm debating posting the gear I'm targeting.
I love sharing info, but generally speaking I err on the side of actual experience vs theorycrafting - i.e. I'm more comfortable talking from experience than a build which may not pan out in reality. If I post a theorycrafted build and it doesn't work, I'll have wasted a lot of viewers' time. Granted, my prediction on mechanics tends to be pretty good.
I've already looked through the T2 gear list on Maxroll and am planning on a Melee Evasion + Ranged Evasion build. The main thing I need to see is how viable the damage is, because I won't be getting the 2-pc Crit bonuses. I've also played around with the masteries calculator on gameslantern.com.
I hope / think it may end up playing out like it did in T1: I do less damage (burst and sustained) than non-evasion builds, but my survivability is (much) better.
BOss. Do you have t2 build plans now on questlog? Can you share please?
I do have plans, but I'm not sharing it because I haven't tested it, lest I waste people's time.
am Yuha just adding am 4.4k cp lol so great build, totally melee counter, GG
Hey Yuha! GG. You're really well geared.
How did you find the video? What a small world.
@@taugrim some1 in my guild saw me and sent it lol
Is cursed explosion doing more damage than judgement lightning would?
Both are viable options and provide excellent burst.
Here's the tradeoff:
• Cursed Explosion with the single-target specialization has a cooldown for me of ~12 secs, whereas Judgement Lightning has a cooldown for me of ~24 secs
• Judgment Lightning has RNG for the second use
• Judgment Lightning with specialization deals AOE
I find Cursed Explosion to be more reliable and usable much more frequently, so that's why I prefer it.
any way a tevent wand coiuld work i wanna swap but idk
Absolutely. Tevent Wand is great for Curse Explosion. You may need to change some gear from what I have to get to 70 Str.
I have a question, why are you not stacking melee evasion AND ranged evasion? Shouldnt it be possible to get both up to 1500?
Not in Tier 1, sadly. There are only a handful of items with Ranged Evasion, and none that are heavy armor:
tldb.info/db/items/page/1?filter_stats=range_evasion
In Tier 2, there are items with both Melee Evasion and Ranged Evasion.
Good Argument. Thx for your answer
Update!!!!
Thanks for your post the other day on the earlier video - it got me working on this video.
I've been meaning to make this video for a couple weeks, ever since I made the switch just before New Year's. I was fortunate yesterday to record some great 1vX footage showing me under meaningful pressure.
I love this build but I hate how everyone expects you to run healer
I heal people, I just prefer not to play a healbot.
I was reading a post from a player in a top GvG guild and they run 2 healers per party (1 tank, 3 DPS, 2 healer), and I think my build would make for a solid 2nd healer.
03:41 This is incorrect... the Invincible Wall ability CAN definitely crit and heavy attack.
Yes, @Keruberoxu posted that correction earlier.
Regardless, Invincible Wall is not worth slotting over the other skills in the build. As you can see from the fights, even against geared players I have no issue surviving for long stretches without IW.
Replace inferno wave with judgment lightning. Squeeze chain lightning on there and you'll have more kill pressure and damage.
Inferno Wave adds 4 stacks of Burning, which adds 4 projectiles to Fireball Barrage and -400 to the target's mana. It's a tradeoff.
I did slot both Lightning abilities on my AOE build, which was the PVP #3 video.
Can you teach the runes?
You can see the rune synergies when I moused over them in the 1st minute of the video.
As far as the runes themselves, here's what I prioritize:
- Attack runes: (Magic) Crit Chance, (Magic) Heavy Attack Chance, (Magic) Hit, Skill Damage Boost
- Defense runes: Melee Evasion, Mana Regen, Max Health
- Support runes: Skill Heal, Skill Damage Resistance, Mana Cost Efficiency, Incoming Heal
I haven't tried it yet, but I think that the Ranged Defense and Magic Defense runes may also be worth slotting.
Hello. may i ask for a favolr. can you share your gear in quest log pls.. fortunately, i have a queen staff.. i am now leveling up my wand since im staff/dag. i am tired of these spear players one shotting me. you build is exactly what the doctor ordered! thank you so much
For gear:
questlog.gg/throne-and-liberty/en-nc/character-builder/ProtectionInfernalStarlightJump
For skills:
Use the link in the video description.
@@taugrim thank you sooo much.. working this build now.. thank you again
@@taugrim i just gotta figure out how to incorporate queen staff to this build.. any suggestion?
@@Al0f1 How much Str do you have? If you're short of 70, do you have Excavator's Wand?
@@taugrim i have blue wand for now just so i can lvl up skills and mastery. but i can get whatever wand i need. i am main staff/dag with almost 4400 gear score.
Does this build works in gvg?
Depends on your guild.
A lot of guilds are short on healers.
In a group of 6 where you can fight and off-heal, it works. Although I would shift to an AOE build. The build in this video is single-target.
I've been playing around with AOE builds and will be posting a new video soon.
AOE builds are probably superior for GvG.
@@taugrim looking for that build
is this good build in sns wand also?
With an Sword/Wand build you'd want to invest heavily into DoTs (e.g. Unlucky Clock) to maximize Curse Explosion burst. You'd also want to consider slotting some Sword abilities that provide CC, e.g. the Strategic Rush and Chain Hook.
So it plays pretty differently.
FWIW, my PVE group build is Sword/Wand tank, because I re-use all the same armor and accessories and swap out the Staff for a Sword.
@@taugrim i see.cuz im using thesame build as yours before in my staff wand build and it was good until i switched to templar.wondering if it is still okay to use the same equips.
What server are you on?
Soulfire, NA West region
@taugrim ahh okay, im on NA east and am looking at servers to transfer to so was just wondering. Thanks!
@@SooMuchSmokee Which server are you on?
I actually rolled on NA East (Kastleton) to start, but the times for the evening events didn't work for my schedule.
@taugrim I'm was on morokai originally but it died and now bercant but it died, so now me and my friends are looking at Oath, Xeroth or Karnix
I hope y'all find a good server. Will be interesting to see with the server mergers how things play out.
that server is dead
Soulfire?
It's 4th highest in population in NA West region, it's pretty much tied with the 3rd place server, and the top 3 servers are all Early Access:
tldb.info/server-status
There are still plenty of (good) players on Soulfire. Although some of the PVP guilds transferred to Crimson.
The servers are getting merged anyway so we'll all end up in the same place eventually.
@ it is? With crypt not being a cluster of chaos? Thats wild
Ever since the patch last week to add chests to Shadowed Crypt, there have been way more people going to Shadowed Crypt at night. It's been fun / crazy.
Is this considered a build heal? (to play in a group) or not at all?
It's not a full support build, but you can off-heal with it.
I tend to find in skirmishing that I can keep people up long enough for us to kill enemies.