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Won the MasterClass Tournament 2025 on Wukong; streams high GS Wukong/Sage (~930-938 GS) grinding/mining content

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Sage Succession

PvE Combo Guide

Standard Loopable Combo

PvE Rotation

  1. S + F
    Spatial Collapse
  2. LMB
    Flow: Finishing Touch
  3. Shift + F
    Illusion Expansion
  4. Hold F
    Flow: Illusion Detonation
  5. Shift + RMB
    Void Gateways
  6. Shift + WASD
    Rift ChainPocket Void Gateways
  7. LMB
    Rift ChainCancel Rift Chain instantly
  8. S + E
    Ator's Mark
  9. S + C
    Rift Storm
  10. W + RMB
    Form Shift
  11. F
    Ator's Fist
  12. Shift + X
    Ator's Palm
  13. LMB
    Void Blast
  14. Shift + LMB
    Spatial Fissure

PvE Combo Guide

Pack to Pack

Basic Sage skill chains. For movement between packs, see Class Mobility.

Chain 1

  1. Shift + RMB
    Void Gateways
  2. Shift + WASD
    Rift Chain
  3. Release
    Void Gateways
  4. S + E
    Ator's Mark
  5. Shift + Q
    Dimensional Compression

Chain 2

  1. Shift + WASD
    Rift Chain
  2. Shift + F
    Illusion Expansion
  3. Hold F
    Flow: Illusion Detonation
  4. F
    Ator's Fist
  5. Shift + X
    Ator's Palm
  6. S + C
    Rift Storm

Chain 3

  1. S + F
    Spatial Collapse
  2. Shift + WASD
    Rift Chain
  3. Release
    Spatial Collapse
  4. LMB
    Flow: Finishing Touch
  5. S + E
    Ator's Mark
  6. Shift + Q
    Dimensional Compression

Chain 4

  1. Shift + WASD
    Rift Chain
  2. W + RMB
    Form Shift
  3. F
    Ator's Fist
  4. S + C
    Rift Storm
  5. Shift + LMB
    Spatial Fissure

Movement

Class Mobility

Rift Chain

  1. Shift + WASD
    Rift ChainExiting Rift Chain gives you 2 sec of Super Armor against anything when it was used off cooldown. You can also use it while it is on cooldown for a very short moment, then cancel and go back into the invincible version.

End of Combo

  1. W + RMB
    Form ShiftEnd your combo with Form Shift
  2. Shift + WASD
    Rift ChainRight after Form Shift

When You Are in Trouble

  1. W + C
    Spear BoltAim it at the biggest threat. Right after the throw, turn around and dash or teleport away.

Build Notes

Class Specifics

Skills to Lock

  1. Ator's Thorn
  2. Realm of Anguish

Skill Enhancements

  1. Ator's Palm
    Lv. 56
  2. Piercing ThornPreferred. Energized Thorn is a fine alternative.
    Lv. 57
  3. Void Blast
    Lv. 58

Further Reading

Advanced Information

Skill Add-ons

Class Addons

Illusion Expansion I

Unleash a large amount of dimensional energies to the sides.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Void Gateways I

Shoot fierce beams of light from the empty void.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • All DP -20 for 10 sec to target

Spatial Collapse I

Open up the heavens with spatial energies to rain destruction on everything below.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • All DP -20 for 10 sec to target

Ator's Mark I

Uphold the punishment of Ator. Behold the merciless power of Ator.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • All DP +20 for 15 sec
  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec

Form Shift I

Gather power in both hands, then push enemies in front away as you pass them by.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
  • Instantly recover 35 HP per target

Dimensional Compression

Prerequisite: Use the [Secret Book] Abyssal Legacy ([The Magnus] Abyssal Revelation quest reward)

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Movement Speed +10% for 20 sec
  • Instantly recover 35 HP per target

Change Log

October 22, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    PvP minimum damage when the target's defense exceeds your attack raised from 5% to 7%.All classes

  • All

    Prime: Rift Storm: Smoother combos and controls.

October 8, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Unified the level-based base stats (Max HP, HP Recovery, All AP, All Damage Reduction and All Evasion) for every class. Class-specific stat differences now come from a new passive skill learned automatically at Lv. 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.All classes

  • All

    Added the common skill Godslayer: Force Palm (Lv. 60+). Its Secret Book is obtained at A Freesword's Hearth in Voidekaia after finishing the Inner Edania main quests.All classes

August 13, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Mark: Fixed attacks sometimes not triggering.

June 18, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    PvE damage raised: Prime: Ator's Fist +10%, Prime: Spatial Fissure +12%, Prime: Ator's Mark +10%, Prime: Form Shift +8%, Prime: Ator's Energy +8%, Prime: Spatial Collapse +15%, Prime: Void Gateways +14%, Prime: Illusion Expansion +8%, Prime: Rift Storm +6%. PvP ratios lowered so PvP damage stays the same.

  • PvE

    Dimensional Compression: PvE damage +7%. PvP ratio lowered so PvP damage stays the same.Both specs

March 12, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Defense Super Armor → Forward Guard.Both specs

February 12, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Illusion Expansion, Prime: Spatial Fissure: All AP buff +20 → +15; main-weapon and Succession skill damage raised about 2% so overall damage stays the same.Both specs

  • All

    Removed "Extra Damage to Guard Gauge" (including Extra Fixed Damage to Guard Gauge) from all skills.All classes

September 25, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Finishing Touch: Easier to use with W+F; Prime: Ator's Fist no longer activates on W+F.Both specs

August 21, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Core: Spear Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

July 24, 2025

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Combat system overhaul: Resistance and Ignore Resistance reworked, AP, DP reduction and Special Attack damage gaps between classes narrowed, and Special Attack damage effects of the same type no longer stack.All classes

  • All

    Infinite Mastery now grants Accuracy +18 and All Accuracy +18 per skill level.All classes

May 29, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Core: Divine Executioner: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 10, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Judgment: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 13, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Illusion Barrier: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 13, 2025

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Emergency Escape: Invincibility now also applies when you reappear; movement speed and Stamina recovery during the skill reduced; SPACE now jumps to higher terrain.All classes

  • PvE

    Combat Assistance can now only be used while total Family Level is 200 or lower; some skills deal less damage or lose effects when spammed during cooldown, while main PvE skills deal more damage.All classes

  • All

    Prime: Ancients' Wisdom: Fixed a skill issue.

December 12, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

November 21, 2024

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Realm of Anguish, Prime: Spatial Fissure: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Spatial Fissure: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain, Prime: Atomagia: Damage adjusted.

  • PvP

    Realm of Anguish, Prime: Ator's Mark, Prime: Ator's Energy, Prime: Spatial Collapse, Prime: Atomagia, Dimensional Compression: Damage adjusted.

November 14, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

October 17, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

September 5, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Ator's Fist, Prime: Ator's Fist, Flow: Illusion Detonation: Skill behavior improved.

August 29, 2024

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Energy: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Divine Executioner: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

August 1, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 25, 2024

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Bolt, Impaling Flash, Black Spirit: Impaling Flash: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 18, 2024

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 10, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

June 19, 2024

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Illusion Barrier, Bolt, Ator's Mark, Ator's Spear: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Spatial Fissure, Prime: Ator's Mark: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Radiant Annihilation: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock, Core: Lightning Prison: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

January 17, 2024

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Form Shift, Prime: Overdrive, Ator's Energy, Prime: Spear Bolt: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain: Cooldown 4 → 7 sec.

  • PvP

    Prime: Ator's Fist: Cooldown 4 → 7 sec.

  • PvP

    Prime: Spatial Fissure, Prime: Ator's Mark, Prime: Form Shift, Prime: Ator's Energy, Prime: Rift Storm, Dimensional Compression: Damage adjusted.

November 15, 2023

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Spear Bolt, Gravity Rift, Realm of Anguish: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Ator's Palm: Damage adjusted.

  • PvP

    Prime: Spatial Fissure, Prime: Ator's Mark, Prime: Ator's Energy, Prime: Spatial Collapse, Prime: Void Gateways: Damage adjusted.

September 20, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

September 13, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

September 6, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

August 9, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 19, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 5, 2023

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

April 6, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    General class improvements.All classes

February 8, 2023

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Class balance adjusted.

  • PvP

    Ator's Illusion: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Piercing Thorn: Damage adjusted.

January 18, 2023

 8 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Rift Storm: Cooldown 13 → 10 sec.

  • PvP

    Prime: Spear Bolt: Cooldown 15 → 7 sec.

  • PvE

    Atomagia, Prime: Atomagia: Cooldown 40 → 20 sec.

  • All

    Void Gateways, Prime: Void Gateways: Added Forward Guard.

  • All

    Gravity Rift: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Realm of Anguish, Prime: Rift Chain, Form Shift, Flow: Form Recall, Ator's Energy, Prime: Ator's Energy: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    Prime: Illusion Expansion, Prime: Ator's Mark, Prime: Ator's Fist, Prime: Ator's Energy: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Flow: Illusion Detonation, Prime: Spatial Collapse, Flow: Finishing Touch: Smoother combos and controls.

November 23, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

October 26, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

October 19, 2022

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

October 12, 2022

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Ator's Illusion, Piercing Thorn, Energized Thorn: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Prime: Overdrive: Cooldown 5 → 3 sec.

  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain, Illusion Expansion, Illusion Barrier, Flow: Finishing Touch: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Ator's Mark: Smoother combos and controls.

September 7, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Prison: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

August 23, 2022

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Ator's Fist, Prime: Spear Bolt: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    Prime: Rift Storm, Prime: Spatial Collapse, Prime: Illusion Expansion: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Prime: Spatial Fissure, Energized Thorn: Added Forward Guard.

  • All

    Gravity Rift: Damage adjusted.

July 20, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

July 13, 2022

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Form Shift: Fixed a skill issue.

  • All

    Void Gateways, Prime: Void Gateways, Rift Chain: Smoother combos and controls.

  • PvP

    Prime: Ator's Mark, Prime: Spatial Collapse, Prime: Ator's Energy: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain: Skill behavior improved.

June 15, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Piercing Thorn: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Void Blast: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • PvP

    Void Eruption: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

May 31, 2022

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Void Gateways: Fixed a skill issue.

May 25, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Bolt, Divine Executioner: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

January 26, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Radiant Annihilation, Enlightening Bolt, Flow: Aftershock: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

January 19, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Mark: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Rift Storm: Damage adjusted.Both specs

January 5, 2022

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Divine Executioner: Damage adjusted.Both specs

September 8, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Realm of Anguish: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

August 25, 2021

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Form Shift, Bolt: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • PvE

    Lightning Prison: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Lightning Prison, Flow: Interrogate, Black Spirit: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Flow: Interrogate: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

August 11, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.

July 7, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

June 16, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Void Eruption, Void Blast: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

June 8, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

May 26, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

May 12, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

  • All

    Rift Chain: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

May 4, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Flow: Interrogate, Ator's Spear: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

April 28, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Spear Bolt: Corrected the skill description.

  • All

    Prime: Rift Storm, Prime: Spear Bolt, Prime: Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.

April 21, 2021

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

  • All

    Ator's Palm, Ator's Illusion, Energized Thorn, Piercing Thorn: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Energized Thorn, Piercing Thorn, Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 14, 2021

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Rift Chain, Flow: Finishing Touch, Flow: Illusion Detonation, Ator's Thorn, Ator's Energy: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Form Shift, Ator's Energy, Spatial Collapse, Realm of Anguish, Void Gateways: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Illusion Expansion: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Realm of Anguish, Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: Damage adjusted.Both specs

April 7, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Kyve Mastery: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Ator's Mark: Fixed a skill issue.

March 31, 2021

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy, Kyve Mastery, Flow: Form Recall, Spatial Collapse, Ator's Mark, Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Gravity Rift, Illusion Compression, Spatial Collapse, Ator's Fist, Ator's Mark, Void Gateways, Illusion Expansion, Flow: Finishing Touch: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Void Gateways, Prime: Ator's Energy: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Prime: Optimization, Reset: Fixed a skill issue.

  • All

    Illusion Compression: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

March 24, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Spatial Fissure: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Ator's Energy, Illusion Barrier: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

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