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Crownfall

Skillset guide

ArcheAge Witchcraft skills & passives

Disruption through fear and sleep.

Witchcraft emblem

Fear, sleep, and other disabling effects disrupt enemies and create time to act. Control and interference are central to this skillset.

Witchcraft active skills

Each skill costs one of your 20 points. Some open only after you have spent points elsewhere in Witchcraft.

  • Earth's Grasp

    Root an enemy with a hand rising from the ground. Taking damage breaks the root.

  • Mental Break

    Damage an enemy's mind, drain mana over time, and hinder the healing and beneficial performances they receive.

  • Bubble Trap

    Lift an enemy into a bubble that prevents attacks and movement. Taking damage breaks the effect.

  • Mirror Shift

    Blink sideways and briefly break an enemy's view of you.

  • Purification

    Cleanse a harmful effect from an ally or remove a beneficial effect from an enemy.

  • Drowsiness

    Gradually slow an enemy's movement and attacks, then put them to sleep.

  • Dahuta's Breath

    Unleash a wave that damages enemies and drives them backward.

  • Internal Shock

    Put an enemy to sleep with a mental shock; when the effect expires it can remove a beneficial effect and deal damage.

  • Cry of Fear

    Terrify nearby enemies, preventing them from controlling movement or using skills.

  • Whisper of Fear

    Requires 3 other points in this skillset

    Inflict fear, preventing an enemy from controlling movement or using skills.

  • Silence

    Requires 4 other points in this skillset

    Silence enemies in the affected area and interrupt musical effects.

  • Summon Fiend

    Requires 6 other points in this skillset

    Summon a fiend that attacks enemies and drains their mana.

Witchcraft passives

Passives unlock automatically as you invest in a skillset.

  • Fold Time

    Unlocks at 3 points

    Reduces cast time and increases attack speed.

  • Arcane Insight

    Unlocks at 4 points

    Improves the hit reliability of selected Witchcraft fear, sleep and confinement effects.

  • Illusion's Blessing

    Unlocks at 5 points

    Shortens the cast time of selected Witchcraft control and summon skills.

  • Mana Return

    Unlocks at 6 points

    Landing fear empowers selected attacks to drain mana instead of health and restore the caster's mana.

  • Enhanced Witchcraft

    Unlocks at 7 points

    Extends selected Witchcraft control effects.

  • Woven Veil

    Unlocks at 8 points

    Reduces Witchcraft skill cooldowns.

Classes with Witchcraft

The 78 classes made of Witchcraft and two other skillsets. Select a class to open it in the calculator.

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