Finisher / Musket PvP Build
Season 9
Powerful burst without giving up all your defense. This is a well rounded and powerful build with excellent movement, damage and survivability! One of my favorite builds to play with a very high skill ceiling for both weapons.
Check out a video guide with gameplay for this build!
Equipment / Attributes
350 DEX and 150 INT is about as low damage as you can go with the musket while keeping the damage at a healthy point for PvP. 150 CON and 50 FOC also give this build a huge amount of survivability that glass cannon musket cannot offer. Personally I think this is an extremely balanced stat spread for this build! If you can’t hit these jump points due to having lower level gear I would suggest taking points out of DEX (329 DEX, 150 INT, 50 FOC, 150 CON) or even focus (350 DEX 150 INT 5 FOC 150+ CON).
The Finisher needs to have Keenly Jagged on it since this build runs a grace kit that cannot apply a bleed without it.
The Musket is perfect, Attunement, Traps and Keenly Jagged. If you can’t get a 725 version of this the Syncretic Musket is a great option!
My gear is simple, Refreshing + Shirking Heals. For the third perk I have Vital Synergy, Hasted Vigor, and Shirking energy. Leeching Flurry is the final perk needed and it is a MUST HAVE for this rapier kits play style!
Ideally this build would be all Nature damage on the Runeglass / Ring, but I have all my gear with Arcane gems on it at the moment so I stuck with Arcane (much more expensive than nature).
The jewelry is perfect, with the secret healing tech from Endless Thirst being fantastic for keeping this build topped up on health as long as your switching between two different healing potions.
Use the best food you can find, Desert Sunrise, and Honing Stones. The two potions of choice for this build are the Regeneration and Burst Regeneration potions since they give the most healing value.
Active Skills
Musket Skills
Power Shot is simple, big shot damage. This is your single hardest hitting skill on the build so make sure not to miss!
Powder Burn is the next high damage shot, but the burn this applies allows your next shots hit to do more damage thanks to the Lethal Combo passive. Always try to land this BEFORE your power shot!
Traps are amazing. You get a huge haste bonus from Accelerating traps, they apply a bleed for that finisher bonus damage, and of course they immobilize anyone who steps in them while healing you any damage you do to a trapped target. You can use traps to ‘zone’ out opponents and give yourself some breathing room vs melee fighters!
Rapier Skills
With Leaching Flurry this skill does a ton of damage while healing you and giving a moment of invulnerability. Perfect for attacking or defending!
Evade is the bread and butter of Rapier, you can use it to move around, attack, dodge and so much more. You can also cancel any skill with evade making it a very high skill ceiling ability!
Fleche is the second gap closer of the build and it also can be used to pass through opponents! The combo damage from the backstab can put really fast burst into opponents as well.