DPS Starter Builds

AoE Axe Duo Build Stats and Purpose

Minimum Skill Point Requirement

Minimum Skill Points
Great Axe	8
Hatchet	6

AoE Great Axe / Hatchet Duo Weapon Type and Skills

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Great Axe	Hatchet
Active Skills
Reap Maelstrom Whirlwind	Berserk Rending Throw
Passive Skills
Storm’s Reach Gusting Winds Unending Winds Surrounded Center Of Attention	Aimed Throw On The Hunt Berserking Refresh Against All Odds

Your main luring tool and single target DPS tool will be the Hatchet. When on the map, use your throw attacks to hit targets from afar. Doing so will make it easy to make all your targets converge in one area (you) then unleash your War Axe’s spin to demolish them all. Rending Throw and Berserk are your anti-boss tool, reduce their Armor and increase your Damage and go wild and spam your attacks until they die.

Best Armor Type for Double Axe DPS Build

Weight Type: Heavy
	Heavy Barbarian (Strength and Constitution)
	Heavy Barbarian (Strength and Constitution)
	Heavy Barbarian (Strength and Constitution)
	Heavy Barbarian (Strength and Constitution)
	Heavy Barbarian (Strength and Constitution)

Build Playstyle

A semi tank DPS build that allows you to stay on the frontline while dealing massive amounts of damage. It is not great for PvP but its reliability when dealing with hordes of enemies makes it a good starting set to use while grinding your way to the later stages of the game. The Hatchet is great both for boss battles and luring by using its throws while the Great Axe’s AoE damage is useful for clearing the Lured mobs. Its a PvE focused build and should be easy to use for power leveling and clearing quests early on.

Musket Rapier Build Stats and Purpose

Skill Allocation

Minimum Skill Points
Musket	8
Rapier	9

Musket / Rapier Build Weapon Type and Skills

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Musket	Rapier
Active Skills
Powder Burn Shooter’s Stance Sticky Bomb	Flurry Riposte Fleche
Passive Skills
Back it Up Backdraft Weakened Defense Critical Reload Empowering Headshot	Controlled Breathing Quick Lunge Overwhelm Fleeting Strikes To The Bone Finalize

A Musket setup that aims to maximize your damage while in Shooter’s Stance. Powder Burn is a better DPS skill compared to Power Shot and it provides some nice bonus to our damage while in Rapid Fire while enemies are burning via Backdraft.

Back it Up is a useful kiting skill and Weakened Defense is great for enemies that are turtling in their Shield. Use Sticky Bomb as an engage tool to disable enemies then apply DPS via Rapid Fire or as a finisher by following it up Fleche execute.

While the Bleed extension is wasted on the Rapier setup, we are still able to get a steady counter attack combo via Flurry and Riposte. The Finalize stagger also makes finishing the fight with Fleche much easier.

Best Armor Type for the Musket / Rapier Build

Weight Type: Light
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)

While we recommend some slots are fine to be middle weight armor, we’d want our overall weight to be on the light category to maximize our damage. We also want to stay light to maximize our mobility so we can easily get some space between us and our enemies if they’re not yet on critical HP for a Fleche execute.

Build Playstyle

A full DPS setup which is effective for damage and disables. Both weapons rely on Dexterity as a primary stat and Intelligence as secondary so stat allocation is easier as well. For the Rapier, we focus on utilizing Fleche’s cooldown resets since we initially deal damage from afar and we let enemies approach us for the execute once they’re in melee combat. Lure with high burst from the Musket then kill!

Bleed DoT Rapier Gauntlet Build

Build Stats and Purpose

Skill Allocation

Minimum Skill Points
Rapier	6
Ice Gauntlet	6

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Rapier	Ice Gauntlet
Active Skills
Tondo Evade Riposte	Ice Pylon Ice Storm Entombed
Passive Skills
Unerring Thirst For Blood Heavy Puncture	Critical Rejuvenation Greater Pylon Weakening Gust

Tondo is our main DoT skill in our Bleed build. Unerring for extra Bleed DPS, Thirst for Blood for more Tondo and to gain access to the 4th row skill Heavy Puncture that extends existing bleed effects. Heavy Puncture grants us more value the more bleed stacks we get from Tondo as well so it is suggested to always have Rapier as your active weapon unless you’re attacking from a distance/setting up Pylons and Ice Storms.

The Ice Gauntlet setup allows us to use Ice Pylon and Ice Storm which are two DoTs to help us in providing more damage to our enemy. Critical Rejuvenation is taken for a rank 1 skill to learn Ice Storm. Greater Pylon and Weakening Gust for bonus damage so just cast these two skills and protect yourself via Entombed or Riposte.

Best Armor Type for Rapier / Ice Gauntlet Build

Weight Type: Light / Medium
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)
	Light/Mid Trickster or Occultist (Dex/Int or Int/Constitution)

Light Armor or Medium weight Armor both works with the build. Light Armor improves our mobility which is great for playing the Rapier and Medium Weight is great to increase our ability to take damage from enemies. No matter what armor weight type you choose, make sure that your Armor’s statline is focusing on either Dex or Intelligence (or both) to maximize your DPS.

Build Playstyle

This is a build that focuses on applying DoT instead of huge single damage. We make use of the Gauntlet’s DoT skills like Ice Pylon and Ice Storm. This is a build that is focused on single target damage so it is effective against bosses and 1 on 1 PvP battles. Aside from DoTs, you also have Entombed from the Ice Gauntlet and Evade   Riposte from the Rapier to make yourself hard to kill.