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Witch Succession

PvE Combo Guide

DPS Priority List

1) Highest Priority

  1. W + C
    Prime: Voltaic PulseKeep on cooldown basically always; +20% Casting Speed
  2. S + RMB
    Prime: Multiple Magic ArrowsKeep on cooldown basically always
  3. LMB + RMB / S + C
    Prime: Earth Arrow/Prime: Equilibrium BreakEither one used on cooldown to keep up the Magic DP debuff

2) Core DPS

  1. S + Q
    Prime: Frigid Fog: Control
  2. Shift + RMB
    Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Diffuse/Prime: Voltaic Discharge: FocusWhichever one you chose. Current Prime Skill Choice is Focus
  3. Shift + C
    Prime: Lightning Storm: StrikeLightning Storm combo (lightning chain starter)
  4. RMB after a lightning skill
    Prime: Residual Lightning: High Voltage
  5. Shift + LMB
    Prime: Fireball Explosion: Spread
  6. S + LMB + RMB
    Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus
  7. Shift + LMB + RMB
    Prime: Blizzard: Domain
  8. Shift + F
    Prime: Earthquake: Destruction

3) Fillers

  1. F
    Earthen EruptionFor some mana
  2. S + LMB
    Prime: FireballDecent DPS but 0 AoE
  3. S + F
    Prime: LightningDecent DPS but 0 AoE
  4. S + E
    Prime: FreezeDecent DPS but 0 AoE

4) Misc Spells

  1. A / D + LMB
    Prime: Earth's Response: FlowAdditional DP shred
  2. Space after other skills
    Mana AbsorptionMore mana and a Forward Guard
  3. Shift + X
    Sage's ThunderAnother lightning chain starter if you don’t want to start with Shift + C

Movement

Class Mobility

Movement Between Packs

  1. Shift + Space
    Teleport
  2. Shift + Space
    Ultimate: TeleportCast right after Teleport for a longer-range teleport, or separately as a second teleport charge (Teleport, a few skills, Ultimate: Teleport, a few skills, repeat)
  3. Shift + A / D
    Succession: Magical Evasion

Repositioning in Packs

  1. Shift + A / D
    Succession: Magical Evasion
  2. A / D + LMB
    Prime: Earth's Response: Flow

Build Notes

Class Specifics

Skills to Lock

No skills need to be locked.

Skill Enhancements

  1. Sage's Thunder
    Lv. 56
  2. Swift Earthquake
    Lv. 57
  3. Mana Arrows
    Lv. 58

Prime Skill Choices (PvE)

  1. Prime: Fireball Explosion: Spread
    over Areal
  2. Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus
    over Areal
  3. Prime: Frigid Fog: Control
    over Disrupt
  4. Prime: Lightning Storm: Strike
    over High Voltage
  5. Prime: Residual Lightning: High Voltage
    over Combo
  6. Prime: Blizzard: Domain
    over Storm
  7. Prime: Earthquake: Destruction
    over Evade
  8. Prime: Earth's Response: Flow
    over Destruction
  9. Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Focus
    over Diffuse
  10. Prime: Voltaic Pulse
    over Bolide of Destruction
  11. Prime: Equilibrium Break
    over Aqua Jail Explosion

PvE Prime skill choices

  1. Prime: Fireball Explosion: Areal
    Prime: Fireball Explosion: Spread
  2. Prime: Meteor Shower: Areal
    Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus
  3. Prime: Frigid Fog: Disrupt
    Prime: Frigid Fog: Control
  1. Prime: Lightning Storm: High Voltage
    Prime: Lightning Storm: Strike
  2. Prime: Residual Lightning: Combo
    Prime: Residual Lightning: High Voltage
  3. Prime: Blizzard: Domain
    Prime: Blizzard: Storm
  1. Prime: Earthquake: Evade
    Prime: Earthquake: Destruction
  2. Prime: Earth's Response: Flow
    Prime: Earth's Response: Destruction
  3. Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Focus
    Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Diffuse

Skill Add-ons

Class Addons

Multiple Magic Arrows

Preceding Skill: [Magic Arrow V] Shoot multiple magical arrows to deal ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 5 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 5 sec

Earthquake I

Use your magic to summon a massive earthquake to damage foes nearby.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
  • All DP -20 for 10 sec to target

Prime: Voltaic Pulse

Preceding Skill: [Elemental Revelation] Skills you cannot learn after learning this ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • All DP -20 for 10 sec to target
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Frigid Fog I

Spread a frigid fog in your vicinity to attack enemies with the cold.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
  • Movement Speed +10% for 12 sec

Lightning Storm I

Use your magic to deal great electrical damage to enemies within a certain area.

Skill Add-on Effect

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

Prime: Equilibrium Break

Preceding Skill: [Elemental Revelation] Skills you cannot learn after learning this ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • Movement Speed +10% for 12 sec

Video Guide

Witch Succession PvE Guide

Complete PvE guide explaining the DPS Priority List above.

Change Log

October 22, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

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

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

September 10, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Magical Evasion: Fixed wrong defensive effects when used after Speed Spell, Magical Shield or Archwizardry: Mass Teleport.Both specs

April 30, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Archwizardry: Mass Teleport: Defense changed from Invincible to Super Armor → Invincible → Super Armor.Both specs

March 19, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Fixed the skill sometimes dealing no damage or not applying Add-ons when cast with elemental effects near certain terrain or objects.

February 12, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Magic Power Boost: Magic AP Increase: +20 → +24.Both specs

  • All

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

December 4, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Magical Evasion, Earth's Response: Fixed a falling animation playing on low terrain.Both specs

July 24, 2025

4 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

  • All

    Mind Training: Magic AP +12 → +8.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Earth Arrow, Prime: Earth's Response: Flow, Prime: Earth's Response: Destruction, Prime: Equilibrium Break, Prime: Aqua Jail Explosion: Magic DP -15 → -20.

June 12, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Summon: Keeper Gorr, Summon: Keeper Tett: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 30, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Thorns of Denial: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

April 10, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Speed Spell: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

April 3, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Tectonic Block: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 13, 2025

4 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

  • PvE

    Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Focus, Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Diffuse: Damage adjusted.

  • PvE

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Reduced damage when used during cooldown.

December 12, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

November 28, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Voltaic Discharge: Diffuse: Fixed a skill issue.

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

August 1, 2024

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Sage's Thunder, (Not in Use) Black Spirit: Thunder Storm: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

July 25, 2024

5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Thunder Storm, (Not in Use) Black Spirit: Thunder Storm, Black Spirit: Prime: Lightning, Sage's Thunder, Trembling Thunder, Lightning Arrows: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Aqua Jail Explosion, Prime: Lightning Storm: High Voltage, Prime: Lightning Storm: Strike, Prime: Residual Lightning: Combo, Prime: Residual Lightning: High Voltage: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    General class improvements.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

8 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Teleport, Voltaic Pulse, Earthen Eruption, Sage's Light, Sage's Thunder, Tectonic Block: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Voltaic Pulse, Prime: Aqua Jail Explosion: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    Class balance adjusted.

  • All

    Meteor Shower: Corrected the skill description.

  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Lightning: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    (Not in Use) Black Spirit: Thunder Storm, Black Spirit: Equilibrium Break: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Fixed a skill issue.

November 15, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Cooldown 4 → 3 sec.

September 20, 2023

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Earthquake: Destruction: Fixed a skill issue.

  • PvE

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

September 13, 2023

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus: Fixed a skill issue.

September 6, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

August 16, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Spellbound Heart: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

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 22, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning: Fixed a skill issue.

February 8, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Speed Spell: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

November 23, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

November 16, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Earthen Eruption: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

October 26, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Earthen Eruption: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Sage's Thunder, Swift Earthquake, Trembling Thunder: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

October 19, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Earthen Eruption: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

September 7, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Trembling Thunder: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

August 23, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows: Cooldown 5 → 4 sec.

July 27, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Earth Arrow: Fixed a skill issue.

July 20, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Yoke of Ordeal, Flow: Gorr Roll: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

June 15, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Arrows: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Residual Lightning: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

April 20, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 30, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Detonative Flow, (Not in Use) Black Spirit: Thunder Storm: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 16, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fissure Wave: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

  • All

    Flow: Perfect Sign: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 9, 2022

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Magical Evasion: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Flow: Magical Evasion: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Lightning Storm: Damage adjusted.Both specs

January 26, 2022

7 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Fissure Wave, Thunder Storm, Flow: Voltaic Tett, Equilibrium Break: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Fissure Wave, Barrage of Lightning, Equilibrium Break: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Barrage of Lightning: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • PvP

    Equilibrium Break: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Core: Equilibrium Break: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Succession: Magical Evasion, Prime: Elemental Flow: Fixed a skill issue.

  • PvP

    Voltaic Pulse: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

January 19, 2022

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Lightning, Black Spirit: Fissure Wave: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Fireball, Fireball Explosion, Freeze: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Prime: Bolide of Destruction, Prime: Frigid Fog: Disrupt: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus: Smoother combos and controls.

January 12, 2022

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Equilibrium Break: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • PvP

    Earth's Calling: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • All

    Earth's Calling: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

January 5, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Voltaic Pulse: Damage adjusted.Both specs

December 29, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Earth's Calling: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

September 8, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Aad Sphera Training: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

June 16, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

May 26, 2021

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Prime: Voltaic Pulse, Prime: Meteor Shower: Areal: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Prime: Equilibrium Break: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Succession: Magical Evasion: Cooldown 4 → 3 sec.

  • PvE

    Prime: Equilibrium Break: Damage adjusted.

April 28, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Voltaic Pulse: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 14, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Detonative Flow: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 17, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Blast: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

March 10, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Core: Fissure Wave, Equilibrium Break: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

February 25, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

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