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You have insane amounts of burst damage, at your disposal.
Good at handling multiple players at the same time
You annihilate other caster builds, and squishies
Fast paced combat movement to avoid or initiate
Can AoE nuke from stealth vs Zergs / Multiple players
The ability to keep safe distance from melee and lock them down from afar
Tons of Crowd Control at your disposal (more so than most builds) - stun, sleep, fear, slow, knockdown, silence, root and disarm

Can take a while to get used to the many CC combos the build has
Takes practise to learn when to use certain spells in certain situations
Fairly long cast times
Can be very squishy at times if in the wrong position
Can be Mana intensive at times

How2Play

Spells

is one of the main, powerful combos of witchcraft. Combined with earthern grip we can have an instant cast damage due to
passive, root and self heal. Great for using as a bait before we combo a bubble trap vs most classes or use during a

x4-6 to really gain a lot of distance and give you time to cast your next combo. Saving and casting it in PvE or Heavy damage fight's can give us the much needed heal and upper hand (Scales with better gear). Can also be used in castle siege to stop mid air flyers from gaining access to your guilds Castle. At level 55 most of the daggerspell builds will incorporate
now we have the extra points so it will allow for quicker constant healing. Will be nerfed in patch 1.7 to 200% magic attack (patch comes after lvl 55) so have fun with it while it lasts.

Other than the powerful combo above you can use it when people try to get away/flee since its instant it will finish them off. Great for using when you have cast
or if you have talented
it will never break the fear's and will give you a extra +55% damage combo. Make sure you cast it before
if you are wanting to combo cast
after. Also will be nerfed in patch 1.7 just like Earthen Grip (Enervate damage modifier reduced to 200% from 300% of magic attack and Enervate cooldown increased to 24 seconds from 18) so again enjoy the overpowered state it is in now.

Always try to combo Bubble trap after
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so that targets are thrown higher. Using such spells as
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before is great because it can silence them as well as purge any important buff. You will use bubble trap a lot in combo's if your target is sleep/fear immune buffed by
Make sure if vs shadowblade's (or any battlerage builds) to bait them to use Bondbreaker with something like
so that after you can go right into bubble trap safely without them breaking it. Best used in one of the most overpowered max burst sequence combo's

Swap to Honor's Frenzied Nodaci/use/swap back to normal weapon


The chain lightning travels towards the target hitting before the bubble trap animation seeks the target out so you get the %damage and no burst bubble till
hit's so its a triple shock benefiting combonodachi weapon on use proc +25% skill damage. Want to power level or grind faster? Use

waiting till the bubble is at the highest point then

so they take 60% fall damage. Combo execution shown in the video below

Basic fear skill with fairly long cast time Not a lot of daggerspell builds actually use it but it can be very nice in Arena by using it to bait people who have fear immunity so that you can use
Really long cooldown it isn't really advisable in world pvp unless you can safely get it on a healer then the group/zerg can crumble if enough healers are locked down.
Can be
's best friend since if you get lucky and remove fear immunity its GG lockdown time.





Buff
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Physical Defence, Mdef + fear/sleep immune
Engaging [1v3+]-->
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One of the most powerful engages vs groups and zergs
Engaging [1v1] -->
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Re-Stealth to get opponent to waste valuable cooldowns
Engaging [1v1/2/3]-->
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Stun one and initiate with knockdown.
Next
Great for damage + root
Use
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For the instant fireball cast + avoid <3
Opener [1v3+]-->
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AoE extended fear great vs grouped up opponents
Opener [1v1/2+]-->
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Extended solo fear
Opener [vs ALL]-->
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then cast
Great combo vs all (dmg+bubble then slow cast lightning)
Finisher
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Extra 30% damage combo great for finishing off



Next its basically just continuing stealth combos and keeping
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up on the targets so you can take advantage of the dot damage if they are still alive. The above rotation is just a basic structure, you can do whatever combos you feel is needed in the situation.


Other spells and their general use

- Great vs more than 1 opponent or to knockback that melee that just won't stop stabbing your ass ^_^

- Use vs Groups or when people try to get away/flee since its instant it will finish them off

- Shadowstep use as a gap closer combined with plunge to put pressure on any enemy or use as an escape skill.

- A spell you might use a lot if all cc abilities are on cd - Stun + Dmg if broken

Cleanse enemy's defensive/shield buff or a harmful spell, it's a must have for pvp since you can combo silence after shadowsmite

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- Long sleep combo great for using vs healers or avoiding counter spell attacks

Leveling

LEVEL 55

1v1

5v5

PvE LVL 55

So your level 55 and your wondering why you need all that extra CC from conjury/witchcraft in your build for PvE? No need to worry or change to a different tree and have to re-level it. You can use the below build for PvE Dungeons and Raid instances (Serpentis, Sea of Drowned Love, Red Dragon) and still be competitive on the dps with incredible mana efficiency. With

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you can go full out on dps (depending on threat) and still maintain impressive mana pool. (therefore more uptime and damage done).

Depending on the PvE Encounter you will be probably swapping in wings for damage reduction so will no doubt playing Arcanist for that. But I find on most encounters where a lot of movement is needed

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to be invaluable for moving around and maintaining dps uptime on the boss. Swap in

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if a boss requires more single target dps needed (no adds)

Basic PvE rotation would be

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HOLD down for 2 hits >

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HOLD down for x5

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then repeat

Raid LVL 55

Very important you remember its an assassin mage build so you have to keep

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stealth resetting just to confuse, avoid, surprise attack your target and keep from being stun locked by melee. In group fights your main target is to stealth nuke squishy classes, switching, cc'ing and attacking support and healers. So that you and your party can demolish the zerg / group extremely easy.

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Only if safe to cast) >

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x5 >

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Above AoE bombing rotation is more or less a guaranteed kill in group pvp with the below build vs zergs (Less single target cc and slows for increase in cast time, aoe, spell power and suppression compared to main roaming solo build)

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