Overview
Weapon: Cursed Staff
Focus: Range DPS
Mode: Solo Dungeon
Strengths
- High DPS
- Good Healing
Weaknesses
- Low Mobility
Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Equipment
- 3 Usage
- 3.1 Elder's Shadowcaller
- 3.2 Elder's Mercenary Jacket
- 3.3 Elder's Scholar Cowl
- 3.4 Elder's Soldier Boots
- 3.5 Elder's Avalonian Cape
- 4 Rotations
- 5 Consumables
- 6 Comments
Overview
The Elder's Shadowcaller build focuses on solo PvE, performing incredibly well in dungeons and being capable of pulling great fame numbers quite easily while not being too difficult to play even for newer players. The self sustain is coupled well with the high AOE damage of the build and it can even do well in open world grinding mobs solo either in the black zone or anywhere else.
Equipment
Main Hand Weapon
Elder's Shadowcaller
Off Hand Weapon
Elder's Muisak
Alternatives ⇅
Head
Elder's Scholar Cowl
Cape
Elder's Avalonian Cape
Armor
Elder's Mercenary Jacket
Alternatives ⇅
Shoes
Elder's Soldier Boots
Potion
Major Poison Potion
Food
Roast Pork
Keep in mind: Gear shown in this build is meant as a reference. Choosing the correct tier of gear is very tricky as there are many variables. Some of them being your budget, your spec and minimum Item Power requirements of your guild if used for ZvZ.
You should always check prices based on IP of the items. For example, a masterpiece quality 4.3 Elder's Cryptcandle could be cheaper while providing roughly the same IP as an 8.0.
Usage
Elder's Shadowcaller
Cursed Tar — Use this AOE on the ground after you pile up mobs together. As it applies vile curse stacks with each second a mob spends on the tar, you can maximize the stacks you apply quite easily.
Cursed Beam — You want to use this when you've already put a few Vile Curse Charges on your targets as every charge gets consumed and deals extra damage in a 4m radius around the target hit by the beam. Try to always line up mobs so the maximum amount of them are hit at the same time.
Inner Shadow — While wearing leather armor like the
Elder's Mercenary Jacket, you want to cast this on yourself to summon a ghost dealing AOE damage wherever you cast the ability. Stack as many enemies as possible before using this skill as more enemies getting damaged will mean you will heal even more based on the amount of health they've lost.
Bane — Perfect for your constant auto-attacking between using your abilities.
Elder's Mercenary Jacket
Bloodlust — Use this to help with sustaining your HP, pop it before casting your combo and you should regain a good amount of HP quite easily.
Once you are comfortable with healing yourself only using your Inner Shadow coupled with
Roast Pork, you can also try using
Elder's Stalker Jacket in order to deal even more AOE damage and clear dungeons faster.
Balanced Mind — This is your only relevant choice as it increases your flat damage.
Elder's Scholar Cowl
Energy Shield — This shield will not only increase your defense but also restore your mana. Because the build is quite mana intensive, you should use this to regain mana whenever it gets low. Keep in mind that you need to be attacked while the shield is active to regain mana so pop it before a group of mobs attacks you.
Aggression — You want to choose this passive for the raw damage increase.
Elder's Soldier Boots
Wanderlust — While you can use essentially any other boots for PvE, the soldier boots with
Wanderlust offer you a long lasting run though and its a great choice but you can opt for essentially any other boots in the game and you will be fine.
Toughness — This defensive option is preferred over
Authority as the 5% CC duration increase doesn't do anything for this build.
Elder's Avalonian Cape
Force Pulse — This cape offers great AOE damage on a rather short 30s cooldown. Keep in mind that there is a small delay between using your auto-attack to trigger the cape and the explosion.
Rotations
AOE DPS ↴
- You want to start the rotation by pulling mobs either with your auto-attacks (if your cape is on cooldown or else the auto-attack will trigger the cape) or just walking through the room pulling aggro with your presence. Once the mobs are pulled close, use
Cursed Tar followed by
Inner Shadow casted on yourself (use the shortcut alt + E). You should use your auto-attack to trigger
Force Pulse then use
Cursed Beam to blow up the vile curse charges and deal AOE damage to the entire group of mobs.
Consumables
Major Poison Potion — You want to have a few 4.0 poisons as it heavily decreases the resistance of bosses and while some bosses can be tough to kill, using a poison on them helps a lot as it also does extra true damage when used against mobs or bosses.
Roast Pork — While the
Inner Shadow coupled with
Bloodlust offers great healing, the use of
Roast Pork helps you even more with healing while in combat, becoming essentially unkillable while you fight.