Throne And Liberty: Best Dagger And Staff Builds

The Dagger and Staff weapon combination, known as the Spellblade, is one of the most potent Damage Dealer weapon combinations in Throne and Liberty. It has multiple different ways it can be played, with many different gear sets that accentuate its strengths.

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There are two primary mechanics to tinker with when it comes to these weapons, and they both require some specific Skill Specialization in order to make them work. That's not to say a build can't stray off the beaten path, it certainly can, but the builds here are going to serve as a good baseline from which to start.

The Poison, Burning, And Damage-Over-Time Build

This first build is primarily going to be concerned with single-target damage. That's not to say it can't be used against groups of enemies, it can, and some abilities will hit them all at the same time. But in general, you're going to be melting one enemy at a time; you're just going to be doing it very, very quickly.

The Mechanics

This build revolves around using your Daggers to inflict your target with Poison, and using your Staff to inflict your target with Burning. Both of these are going to cause a damage-over-time (DoT) effect that's going to passively deal damage while you attack.

This DoT is going to be solid, but it's not all that this build is about. That's going to be complimentary to the other effects of your skills, almost all of which are going to be enhanced in one way or another but targeting an enemy already affected by these DoT effects. Played correctly, these abilities are going to be extremely strong. If played incorrectly, these abilities are going to be weaker than usual.

The Skills And Specializations

Here are the active skills for this build:

Skill

Description/Specialization

Inject Venom

Inflicts Poison for the duration, stacking up to 20 times.

Cooldown Reduction (Inject Venom), Effect Duration Increase (Inject Venom) Increase.

Umbral Spirit

Deals extra damage on a Critical Hit, and deals additional damage to Poisoned enemies.

Duration Increased (Umbral Spirit), Damage Increase (Umbral Spirit) on Poisoned targets.

Cleaving Moonlight

Deals damage in a radius in front of you.

Consecutive Use (Cleaving Moonlight), Attack Speed Increase (Cleaving Moonlight), Additional Damage (Cleaving Moonlight) on Poisoned targets.

Brutal Incision

Deals heavy damage, and increases Critical Hit Chance on enemies below 50% health.

Damage Increase (Brutal Incision) on Poisoned targets.

Vampiric Strike

Deal damage, and recover a portion of the damage dealt.

Additional Hit (Vampiric Strike), Skill Effect Enhanced (Vampiric Strike).

Fatal Stigma

Deal damage after a short period to a target, increasing the damage for each stack of Poison.

Damage Increase (Fatal Stigma).

Shadow Strike

Move behind your target, deal damage, and gain a chance to Bind them.

N/A

High Focus

Skill swapped to increase Max Damage, increasing your damage ceiling with every attack.

Base Damage Boost (High Focus).

Serial Fire Bombs

Hurl fire bombs at an enemy that deal damage and have a chance to apply Burning.

Instant Casting (Serial Fire Bombs).

Inferno Wave

Create a fiery explosion around you in a radius, dealing damage and increasing damage to Burning enemies.

Consecutive Use (Inferno Wave), Burning (Inferno Wave).

Fireball Barrage

Throw fire bombs at your target.

Fireball Frenzy (Fireball Barrage).

Hellfire Rain (Infernal Meteor)

Create meteors that fall out of the sky onto a radius, dealing damage and Burning enemies.

Hellfire Rain (Infernal Meteor), Cooldown ▼ (Infernal Meteor).

And here are the passive skills for this build:

Skill

Description

Assassin's Instincts

Increases your Critical Hit Chances significantly.

Murderous Energy

Increases Poison duration and damage over time, allowing you to get more stacks of Poison at the same time.

Destructive Fang

Decreases enemy Defense when attacking a Poisoned enemy.

Wrathful Edge

Increases your Critical Damage significantly.

Flame Condensation

Increases the Burning DoT and the Heavy Attack Chance for each stack of Burning. (This is going to significantly improve the odds of Inferno Wave applying Burning.)

Mana Amp

Increases Max Mana and Max Health.

Shadow Walker

Increases your Evasion after using a Mobility or Movement Skill ( Shadow Strike).

Manaball Eruption

Grants the chance to fire additional fire bombs when already firing fire bombs.

The Rotation

The only skills in this build that don't either interact with Poison or Burning are Vampiric Strike, which is there for a little bit of extra survivability, Shadow Strike, which interacts with a passiveskill included with this build and will increase your Evasion, and High Focus, which will increase your damage across the board.

Apart from that, keep your Poison and your Burning effects up, and everything you do is going to deal significantly more damage. Once you've got these effects rolling, this build is going to keep a consistent damage burn on enemies, and is particularly potent when taking down enemies with a higher amount of health, allowing you to continuously roll through your rotation instead of having to reset for new enemies.

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The Thunderclouds, Frost, And Area-Of-Effect Build

The second build here focuses entirely on different mechanics with the Daggers and the Staff: Thunderclouds and Frost. This build is going to be significantly worse for single-target damage, and overall, is going to be alittle bit less versatile than the Poison and Burning build.

That said, in the right situation, where there is acluster of enemies all grouped together, this build cankick out someserious damage, bursting from enemy to enemy and taking all of their health bars down at the same time.

The Mechanics

Instead of the Daggers inflicting Poison with this build, more or less every applicable skill is Specialized into Thunderclouds, instead. Thunderclouds decrease enemy Endurance for a certain amount each stack, and stacks up to 20 times.

The Thunderclouds effect can spread to other enemies in the vicinity with certain skills, lowering all of their Endurance at the same time.

Other Dagger skills are going to make use of those Thunderclouds for extra effects, dealing incredible damage in a wide radius.

For the Staff's part, the Frost combined with the other skill effects are going to Weaken other aspects of the enemy's defenses, keeping them from being at the top of their game. Inflicting Frost and using other abilities is going to enable those abilities to deal damage to every enemy in the vicinity, further enabling this build to be an area-of-effect (AoE) nightmare for the enemy.

The Skills And Specializations

These are the active skills to use for this build:

Skill

Description/Specialization

Lightning Infusion (Inject Venom)

Swapped skill, applies Thunderclouds to all enemies hit, and reusing spreads Thunderclouds to enemies nearby.

Lightning Infusion (Inject Venom), Cooldown Reduction (Inject Venom).

Thunder Spirit (Umbral Spirit)

Swapped Skill, deals extra damage on a Critical Hit, and deals extra damage in a radius if the target is affected by Thunderclouds.

Thunder Spirit (Umbral Spirit), Duration Increased (Umbral Spirit).

Cleaving Moonlight

Deals damage in a radius.

Consecutive Use (Cleaving Moonlight), Effect Accumulation (Cleaving Moonlight) to apply Thunderclouds to enemies.

Shadow Strike

Teleport behind your target, deal damage, and possibly Bind them.

Effect Accumulation (Shadow Strike) to apply Thunderclouds.

Lightning Throw (Knife Throwing)

Swapped Skill, throws knives in an arc in front of you, dealing damage, reducing enemy Endurance, and dealing extra damage to a nearby enemy if affected by Thunderclouds.

Lightning Throw (Knife Throwing).

Frenzied Sword Dance

Deals damage and teleport to eight nearby enemies within six meters.

Cooldown Reduction (Brutal Incision), Effect Accumulation (Frenzied Sword Dance) to apply Thunderclouds.

Thunderclouds Bombing (Brutal Incision)

Swapped Skill, deals damage and removes Thunderclouds, dealing significantly extra damage for each stack of Thunderclouds and increasing Critical Chance if the enemy is below 50% health.

Thunderclouds Bombing (Brutal Incision).

Frost Smokescreen

Teleport forward and leave an ice field in your wake, applying Frost to enemies.

Additional Damage (Frost Smokescreen).

Ice Spear

Throw an ice spear at enemies that passes through them and deals damage, inflicting Frost.

Damage Increase (Ice Spear).

Icebound Tomb

Entrap an enemy in ice and deal damage, with a chance to inflict Frost to all targets nearby.

Icy Mire (Icebound Tomb)reduces enemy Evasion.

Chain Thunder (Chain Lightning)

Swapped skill, deals damage to an enemy, creates a damaging field that constantly damages enemies, and damaging enemies affected by Frosttransfers damage to nearby enemies.

Chain Thunder (Chain Lightning), Damage Transfer 2 (Chain Lightning).

Judgment Lightning

Deals extreme damage to your target, and that damage is also inflicted to nearby enemies if your target is affected by Frost.

Damage Transfer 2 (Judgment Lightning).

And these are the passive skills this build utilizes:

Skill

Description

Assassin's Step

Increases your Mana Regen and movement speed after defeating an enemy.

Assassin's Instincts

Increases Critical Hit Chance considerably.

Destructive Fang

Decreases enemy Defense when attacking a target affected by Thunderclouds.

Wrathful Edge

Increases Critical Damage considerably.

Shadow Walker

Increases your Evasion after using a Movement Skill ( Shadow Strike and Frost Smokescreen).

Murderous Energy

Increases Thunderclouds Duration.

Mana Amp

Significantly increases Max Health and Max Mana.

Asceticism

Increases Mana Regen considerably.

The Rotation

The rotation for this build is a little less strict than the last one, simply because there is a wider variety of skills that inflict either Thunderclouds or Frost.

For the most part, it's also good to have Lightning Infusion up when you can, and always have Thunder Spirit up for that extra damage. Otherwise, ensure you've gotmultiple stacks of Thunderclouds on a target before you use Thundercloud Bombing, and refresh Thunderclouds immediately after.

For the Staff, keep your Frost-inflicting abilities in rotation so you can continuously get the most out of your Lightning abilities. The Frost abilities on their own aren't so impressive, but the Chain Thunder and especially Judgment Lightning are.

The Damage Transfer Skill Specialization applied to both of those ensures that the full damage is spread among enemies inflicted with Frost instead of that damage being reduced, and it's going to take enemy health down in big chunks.

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