The Cast and the Furious (Beginner)

This is the beginner friendly version of my original build and is achievable without purchasing Founder's items.

This build focuses on both speed and hitting hard with fully charged heavy staff attacks. The speed at which you can build rune charges allows for a rapid fire attack and quick health regen in a pinch!

Combat

• Use Call of Ancients and Fellust to boost damage. With Call of Ancients, weapon damage is multiplied by [1.42 + Spirit x 0.0077]. With a full tilt in Spirit, you won't have many hits for Fellust as it is calculated with Courage.

• Start with heavy flyblade attack for extra damage, stagger and to trigger Smite.

• Use 4 consecutive light attacks while standing still to gain the full Grounded bonus, then alternate between a fully charged heavy and a few light attacks to proc Follow Up. Moving will reset your Grounded buff. It isn't necessary to fully charge the heavy to get the effects of Follow Up, but you will miss out on damage by not doing so.

• With a maxed out Unhindered in the Staff skill tree, your heavy attacks hit 3 enemies at once and will sometimes go through terrain. This is the crowd control aspect of this build and makes light work of sieges with their large number of enemies. Use them often.

• Pull smite when possible to further increase attack speed with the Quick Drey totem.

• With the new updates in P16, rune charges build fast with this set up, so use them to your advantage against Agari and large groups. Stack your rune attacks with Call of Ancients for high damage output.

Additional Information

• Tempers for staff to maximize speed and damage output: Arcane Alacrity x2, Follow Up x2, Conjuration x2, Arcane Barrage and Grounding Spell.

• Grounding Spell can be swapped for a second Arcane Barrage if you are confident in your ability to either stand still for short periods or rebuild Grounded. If you enjoy dodging, keep it.

• You are quite squishy with this build so be aware of that! With the combination of Tethren's ability to heal through the use of Conqueror and either Dabble Dredge or Rivers Revive attached to your weapon, you can easily bring your health back up if you do take a hit. (I have both healing totems to ensure that I have a constant heal.)

• In Cogah it is best to avoid losing health as much as possible, especially if enemies are level 80 and up. This build is a quick burst and burn that will easily drop all Agari in under a minute, but the trade off is that a light wind can take you out.

Variations

• Brazen Lung, Oscelda's Blues and Oscelda's Featherbinds are the starting gear if you chose Oscleda as your first pact. They are available through joining Kith of Kings or Silent Rose. I highly recommend completing the story quests through Orlick to upgrade to the Pensive's Bonnet, Pensive's Cloak and Pensive's Pantaloons as soon as possible.

• Gwylen is interchangeable with all other staves, though your mileage may vary with Gystalt. It does not currently have the capability to build rune charges as fast as the others and so defeats the purpose of this build. It is limited by the overheat aspect and cool down time. The best possible staff for this build as of P16 is Seathorn and can be obtained in fragments through completing Votives.

• The flyblade you use is up to you. Precklies is the easiest to acquire and does not require you to spec into another virtue to wield it.

• The Sproutfolk Seed should be upgraded to Triune Talisman eventually. You can also use Sproutfolk Shoot.

• I prefer Archstorm as the rune for this build for more immediate damage, but The Hollowing is a viable option, though it does add a delay in the the rotation.

Have fun and please feel free to message me in game (UN: Valiriah) if you have any questions or make improvements to this build!