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Overview
This Crossbow & Staff PvE build that prioritizes high sustained DPS is capable of achieving one of the highest sustained DPS in the game. Although the crossbow is notorious for its high mana consumption because of its low cooldowns, the staff effectively mitigates this issue, enabling you to maintain DPS for prolonged periods during boss fights. With this setup, you'll effortlessly burn down bosses in dungeons, farm mobs in open world or any other PVE encounter!
Attributes
PRIMARY
Dexterity
+
Strength
SECONDARY
Wisdom
+
Perception
With the unique stats and attributes system in Throne and Liberty, it can be difficult to determine exactly where to invest your attribute points at each stage of the game. This is because gear pieces provide attributes just like leveling up does, meaning everyone will have a different number of attribute points depending on what gear they are wearing at the time.
Given this variation, it's best to reset your attributes regularly to adjust to the new gear you acquire. Aim to reach the achievement effects, which provide extra benefits at milestones like 30, 50, and 70 points.
Focus on Strength and Dexterity for this build to maximize damage output. These should be your priorities, especially early game. As you upgrade your gear, keep investing in them to enhance critical hits, heavy attacks, and increase max HP. Target 50 Strength and push Dexterity for optimal crit chances. Perception and Wisdom are less critical but still add damage and mana.
Skills
Depending on which Dungeon/Dimensional Trial you might run, consider using
Rare Roaring Steak,
Rare Thrilling Papillote, and even
Rare Scorpion Tail Fritters to make it easier and also deal a lot more damage.
While leveling, make sure that you start by upgrading 
Quick Fire and 
Serial Fire Bombs to boost your damage potential and have an easier time leveling as these abilities play a significant role in your damage output from the beginning of your adventure in Throne and Liberty and up to the endgame content. Quick Fire remains your main damaging ability due to it's low cooldown, while Serial Fire Bombs and 
Chain Lightning deal great damage and are an important part of this Battleweaver build. 
Judgment Lightning and 
Merciless Barrage are great for dealing AOE damage with ease, especially when grinding mobs in open world dungeons.
Inner Peace is the main way of regaining mana throughout PVE encounters alongside 
Mana Exchange, helping alleviate any mana issues you might run into during your rotations as long you keep track of your mana.
As far as passives go, 
Piercing Strike, 
Ambidexterity and 
Forbidden Sanctuary provide respectable passive damage bonuses. Meanwhile, upgrading 
Asceticism will not only improve your mana regeneration and helps with the mana hunger but also grants you extra ranged heavy attack chance when you stand still during boss fights. 
Mana Amp offers you extra HP that can often save you from boss mechanics while 
Manaball Eruption adds extra damage to your auto-attacks.
Equipment
Tier 3 (Work in progress)
Daigon's Charred Emberstaff
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Hit Chance
Primary
Bercant's Spineflower Crossbows
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Hit Chance
Crowned Skull of Victory
Max Health
Magic Evasion
Mana Cost Efficiency
Resonance Effect: Ranged Evasion
Cloak of Victorious Destiny
Max Health
Debuff Duration
Skill Damage Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Transcendent Tempest's Armor
Debuff Duration
Magic Evasion
Ranged Evasion
Resonance Effect: Ranged Evasion
Spectral Overseer's Handguards
Hit Chance
Ranged Evasion
Range
Resonance Effect: Ranged Evasion
Spectral Overseer's Trousers
Magic Evasion
Ranged Evasion
Max Health
Resonance Effect: Ranged Evasion
Transcendent Tempest's Boots
Ranged Evasion
Magic Evasion
Movement Speed
Resonance Effect: Ranged Evasion
Earrings of Forlorn Elegance
Front Heavy Attack Chance
Side Heavy Attack Chance
Front Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Death Knell Gorget
Skill Damage Boost
Max Health
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Primal Golden Cuffs
Mana Regen
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Ring of Eternal Flames
Skill Damage Boost
Max Health
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Runed Band of the Black Anvil
Skill Damage Boost
Buff Duration
Max Health
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Hero's Legacy Warbelt
Max Health
Debuff Duration
Skill Damage Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Info
Equipment is being updated, if tier 3 items are in the tier 3 tab, it means the equipment on this build was updated.
Calanthia's Repeaters of Ruin
Hit Chance
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Primary
Talus's Incandescent Staff
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Cooldown Speed
Blood Hunter Hood
Magic Evasion
Cooldown Speed
Mana Cost Efficiceny
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Calanthia's Confession
Max Mana
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Blood Hunter Garb
Max Health
Buff Duration
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Blood Hunter Hand Guards
Max Health
Hit Chance
Range
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Blood Hunter Leg Guards
Max Health
Magic Evasion
Ranged Evasion
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Imperial Seeker's Boots
Max Stamina
Magic Evasion
Movement Speed
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Teardrops of Fortunate Omens
Back Hit Chance
Back Heavy Attack Chance
Side Heavy Attack Chance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Collar of the New Moon
Skill Damage Boost
Max Mana
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Bracelet of Infernal Loops
Max Health
Skill Damage Resistance
Weaken Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Coil of Seething Venom
Skill Damage Boost
Heavy Attack Damage Resistance
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Eternal Promise
Skill Damage Boost
Buff Duration
Max Health
Belt of the Dying Spark
Max Mana
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Weapon Masteries
Crossbow
Staff
You should be aiming to reach and unlock masteries (the corner nodes) as soon as possible as they usually make the largest impact in the build. While minor nodes shouldn't be forgotten, make sure to unlock masteries as fast as possible before spreading out and spending into less important nodes.
Artifacts
Chaos Harbinger Talistone I
Damage: 9
Heavy Attack Chance
Magic Critical Hit Chance
Magic Heavy Attack Chance
Chaos Harbinger Solarstone
Weaken Chance
Silence Chance
Weaken Chance
CC Chance
Chaos Harbinger Talistone III
Max Health: 1600
Max Mana
Mana Regen
CC Resistance
Chaos Harbinger Talistone II
Defense: 160
Ranged Endurance
Endurance
Heavy Attack Evasion
Chaos Harbinger Lunarstone
Weaken Resistance
Collision Resistance
Weaken Resistance
CC Resistances
Chaos Harbinger Talistone IV
Max Health: 1600
Critical Hit Chance
Magic Heavy Attack Chance
Magic Critical Hit Chance
Rotations
- Make sure that you have
Mother Nature's Protest active before beginning the rotation by buffing yourself with 
High Focus. Follow up with a fully charged Serial Fire Bombs to start dealing serious damage.
- Continue by using Inner Peace and cancelling it quickly so you still gain the benefit of lower mana usage when using skills. Follow-up with
Selfless Diffusion and then use Quick Fire and Judgment Lightning.
- Use
Fireball Barrage to make use of the burn stacks on your target before using 
Nimble Leap to animation cancel and reset Quick Fire before using Chain Lightning and Quick Fire. Finish the rotation with another Nimble Leap to reset Quick Fire and use it again.
Merciless Barrage: While it doesn't have to be part of a rotation, Merciless Barrage is fantastic for clearing groups of mobs with ease. Make sure to use Nimble Leap if you need that extra range.
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