Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow build guide (PvP Support): Skill rotations, specs, and itemization

The Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow build is one of the best healer/support builds for PvP available in the game. With this build, you can support your team in some of the roughest situations. Nevertheless, this build not only has great healing and supporting potential but can also deal decent damage to enemies when needed. However, this build isn't very suited for high mobility. If you're looking for a quick-moving, high-damage build, the Crossbow Dagger build is a better choice.

This article shares everything you will need to know about the Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow build to start using it on your own.

Best Skills and Specializations for Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow build

Skills you need for this build (Image via NCSOFT || YouTube/Gaming Prodigy)

The Wand/Longbow healer combines unparalleled healing potential with key defensive abilities. Below is a list of the essential active and passive skills that make this build so powerful in PvP:

Active Healing Skills

Healing Touch: Core HoT ability that should be used on your allies.
Flash Wave: Doubles as an offensive skill, applying a -300 Hit debuff to enemies, making them miss more often.
Nature’s Blessing: A full heal if used on targets already buffed with Healing Touch.
Fountain of Life: Excellent self-sustain when you're knocked down or prone.

Defensive/Utility Skills

Purifying Touch: A cleansing ability to remove stuns and binds from your allies.
Blessed Barrier: Provides AoE protection, reducing damage to you and your allies.
Invincible Wall: A life-saving AoE damage mitigation ability for surviving heavy bursts of damage.

Skills to Upgrade First

Prioritize upgrading the following skills:

Healing Touch: Your most frequently used HoT is crucial for keeping your team alive. Upgrade this skill to reduce cooldown and increase healing potency.
Nature’s Blessing: Maximizing this skill will allow you to fully heal allies, especially with the Vitality Specialization.
Purifying Touch: Upgrade this for more efficient cleansing of debuffs like stuns and binds.
Blessed Barrier and Invincible Wall: Important for team-wide damage mitigation, especially during AoE-heavy encounters.

It's recommended to craft Quality Skill Growth Books using Quality Marind Ore to upgrade your most essential skills first, followed by Rare Active and Passive Skill Growth Books to improve them.

Wand Longbow build Skill Rotation Explained

Healing Rotation

Skill rotation for the build (Image via NCSOFT)

In a PvP setting, you’ll want to cycle through your healing skills efficiently while keeping an eye on your positioning. Here’s a general healing rotation for optimal support:

Healing Touch: Keep this HoT active on multiple allies. If two allies are in critical condition, split your HoT between them.
Swift Healing: Use this as your primary single-target heal. It has a low cooldown and can be cast up to three times.
Flash Wave: Line it up to hit both allies and enemies, applying a healing buff to allies and a debuff to enemies.
Nature’s Blessing: Cast after applying Healing Touch or during a critical moment to provide a full heal.
Fountain of Life: Use this when you’re in danger to ensure your survival, especially when knocked down.

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Defensive/Utility Rotation

Your utility skills are just as important as your healing:

Blessed Barrier: Use when your group is about to take massive damage from AoE attacks.
Invincible Wall: Time this skill when you expect heavy burst damage or when your party is being focused.
Cursed Nightmare + Karmic Haze: A powerful crowd-control combo for mass sleep. Be mindful of your positioning before engaging.
Blitz: Use Blitz to reset your essential abilities like Fountain of Life or Clay’s Salvation for additional healing opportunities.

Best Itemization Options for Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow build

For gear, focus on maximizing your tankiness while boosting your healing output. The following items work best for this build:

Scepter of the Resistance: Obtainable through Chapter 5 Codex rewards and Mystical Wands Lithograph entry, enhancing your wand’s healing power.
Longbow of the Resistance: Offers additional support stats from the Long Ranged Nuisance Lithograph Book entry.
Deadeye’s Cloak: A crucial item from the Beginner Cloaks of Victory Lithograph Book entry that adds to your survivability.
Sophia’s Ring of Strength & Sophia’s Necklace of Strength: Strength-focused jewelry pieces that increase your defenses and healing potency.
Belt of the Midnight Hunt: Grants additional defensive stats from the Belts of Inner Strength Lithograph entry.

Make sure to prioritize Endurance stats on your gear to maximize your tankiness and ability to withstand focus fire in PvP.

Best Stats to Take for Throne and Liberty Wand Longbow Healer Build

Stats that you need to prioritize (Image via NCSOFT || YouTube/Gaming Prodigy)

When allocating your stat points, focus on the following key areas:

Primary Stats

Strength: Provides the most benefit for survivability by increasing your max health, defense, and health regen. It also boosts your overall weapon damage, which is useful for hybrid healing builds.
Perception: Increases your healing effectiveness by improving critical healing chances and enhancing your healing abilities’ range.
Wisdom: Adds cooldown speed and mana regeneration, which are crucial for maintaining consistent healing.

Defense

Defense should be your highest priority for defensive stats, especially when combined with Distorted Sanctuary from the Longbow. This combination gives you the highest possible Endurance in the game, making you a difficult healer to kill.

Cooldown Speed and Mana Regeneration

Cooldown Speed and Mana Regen, provided by Wisdom and specialized gear, are critical for casting your spells frequently without running out of mana.

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Edited by Angad Sharma