Skills
Tier1: total 32 points
Phoenix Arrow3/6
Finesse 1/6(can be maxed)
Fox Shadow 7/7
Vigor 1/6(can be maxed)
Wind Walker 3/3
Elastic Dash 3/3
Dark Wolf 9/9
Fast as Wind 5/5

Tier2: total 34 points
Blood Arrow 9/9
Nothingness Walk 3/3
Crystal Heart 3/3
Night Wanderer 5/9
Swamp Bull 9/9
Ether Bind 5/5
Tranquility(can be considered)

Tier3: total 24 points
Moonlight Strike 1/9
Spirit Sediment 3/3
Gilded Iron 3/3
Dreaming Phoenix 3/9
Mountain Bear 9/9
Fire Aggression 5/5

Tier4: total 43 points
Flame Stream 9/9
Ardent Array 2/5
Dragon Stun 5/8
Wood Spirit 3/3
Drunk Lotusen 9/9
Solaris Fall 1/9
Creek Turtle 9/9
Lost Soul 5/5
Mountain Dweller (can be considered)

Tier5: total 17 points
All maxed, self-explanatory

Skill explanation
Tier1: The reason why I forfeit the hp and sp boost passive skill is because the bonus of these two skills really isn’t that great, especially after ascending and refining hats and boots can make up for the loss, besides there isn’t any points left. But if you really want it, go for it in exchange of night wanderer and ether bind. Maxing out all the running skills because they’re essential to outrun modos and lupins and take them from afar. With all of them stacked, and yes they can be stacked, you will have a massive 6.4yards/second boost, plus the low cd of wind walker, it’s just great. Just remember that you can’t attack while in fox form. The purpose of maxing dark wolf is purely for the tier 5 skill Whisker Tiger, although it may come useful in low level pking. One extra thing, with tome and level 150 ascended you can have 10.4yards/sec speed boost all stacked, thanks to Melody for that info.(note: you need 32 points in tier 1 to advance for both new factions since there’s no initiate tier)

Tier2: Some of you may think: maxing blood arrows??? wdf? Take a good look, when it’s maxed, 60% slow and when fully charged it has a whooping 95% base AP added. Believe or not, blood arrow and flame stream are absolutely essential for ardens if you want a high damage output build. Night wanderer and ether bind are recommended because of their high potential but you can sub it for either Finesse and Vigor/Tranquility and mountain dweller. Especially if you have money to burn to buy a reset stone then go for tranquility and mountain dweller since they help you level. Max bear cus of tiger again.

Tier3: Gilded iron and spirit sendiment are self explanatory.Dreaming phoenix is just for having 24 points in the tier. Maxing bear is for tiger again, and fire aggression is easy to understand as well.

Tier4: Maxing flame stream is the same reason for maxing blood arrow. Although ardent array has a very nice bonus when maxed, but the spirit cost is waaaaay too high, besides we don’t have any more points to spare. Lost soul and drunk lotusen’s silence effect is very nice. Perfect for stopping those annoying lupins in the tracks and make them run for their lives (no offence, I love lupins as well) and combined with ether bind you can pull off quite some damage. You can max Dragon stun if you can spare the points and 1 point into our only AOE skill, solaris fall is sufficient. Again, turtle maxed for tiger.

Tier5: People will ruuun from you cus of our very OPed blessing Eloquence lord. Adding 50% skill power and 50 skill accuracy and 20% crit rate is not funny at all. You won’t be disappointed of your whisker tiger you spent sooo much skill points to improve. And the other 2 attacking skills are just purely awesome when charge to max. Paralyse then bless then whack with skills, what more can I say?

Thank you for reading this build and I hope you enjoy the build if you want to stick to it. Any suggestions are totally welcome.

Will be adding tome once they fix the clicking tome causing game crash bug.

If you have been waiting for tomes then here it is:
Tomes:
Flora: 10 points
Free wanderer 2
Cloud ride 2
Mystic forecast 2
Champion star 2
Honored light 2

This route is mainly for getting honored light which reduces eloquence lord’s cooldown by 40 seconds, Free wanderer nice as well as it reduces the CD of wind runner by 20 seconds.

Bow: 16 points
Wind Runner 3
Floating wave 2
Contra Direction 3
Evening sky 3
Fire spirit 3
Dragon King 2

This route is to increase the effects of all the bow skills that needs to be used as the main attacking skills in this build. The bonus of all of them is very nice. My personal favourite is the increase in bloodarrow’s slowing effect by 3 seconds.

Beast: 10
Max everything from Furious Wolf to Fury beast. No need to explain this one.

There are 12 points left in tome which can be added into anything you like. But these are probably all you need for pking. Recommend adding it into Beam end as it gives extra %age to repel buff which can be very useful

Credits go to XxForcexX.

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