Best Throne and Liberty Crossbow Build

Unlock the ultimate power in Throne and Liberty with our guide to crafting the best Crossbow build, explaining gear, stat points, and rotation.

The best mobility weapon and build in Throne and Liberty is the Crossbow. Your defensive skill and others allow you to create distance between your opponent. The Crossbow wants to strafe, constantly rotating side to side using single target burst damage. Moreover, you can escape crowd control effects and possess incredible versatility with the Crossbow. It’s essentially the range jack-of-all-trades in Throne and Liberty, making it effective with any other weapon and build.

This guide has been updated for the official global release on October 1, 2024.

Everything about Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty

The Crossbow build in Throne and Liberty focuses on weakening and poison damage. What makes the Crossbow build unique is the high single-target damage and ability to kill targets below 50% health. Combining Crossbow with Dagger allows you to engage enemies at various ranges and keep the pressure high. Moreover, you’ll have great mobility but lack in area damage. However, if you enjoy melting single-target enemies, this is the build for you!

In Throne and Liberty, skills are abilities you can use and change depending on your equipped weapons.  Unlike other MMORPGs, your weapon choices determine your skills and build.  You can swap weapons and gain a new set of skills that you learn throughout the leveling process.  Moreover, skills come in three forms: active, passive, and defensive.  We will walk you through setting up the best Crossbow build, with alternative weapon choices if you do not enjoy Daggers.

Crossbow Pros	Crossbow Cons
Single Target DPS	Lower Survivability
Mobility	Weak AOE
Damage over Time (DOT)	Lacks Healing

Features and Mechanics for the Best Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty

The following list presents all the essential Crossbow Build Features and Mechanics in Throne and Liberty:

• Main Hand Weapon – Crossbow
• Off-Hand Weapon – Dagger
• Stat Points
  • Strength 10
  • Dexterity 30
  • Wisdom 19
  • Perception 30
• Best Active Skills – Mortal Mark, Inject Venom, Quick Fire, Mother Nature’s Protest
• Best Passive Skills – Vicious Fangs, Eagle Vision, Ambidexterity
• Defensive Skill – Rupturing Parry (Crossbow)
• Guardian – Lady Knight Kamarshea

Weapons Choice

The crossbow is the main hand weapon for this build, which inflicts a weakened status effect and marks targets. Mortal Mark provides these two debuffs and increases your damage substantially. Additionally, Crossbow has some of the best mobility, and you can kite enemies in circles, maintaining damage pressure and moving into melee range to apply dots or a killing blow. However, the Crossbow won’t be able to heal effectively or provide area damage (AOE)

The off-hand (secondary) weapon is a Dagger, which inflicts poison damage and can also kill enemies below 50% health. The crossbow and dagger combo is helpful to keep up DOT pressure and kill lower-health enemies. This can be especially helpful while leveling and completing events in the open world, where skills are critical.

Swap in the Wand and Tome back bar if you struggle with survivability. The wand will give you healing and can carry your survivability while leveling or playing solo. Swap in the Longbow for more ranged damage if you want a pure-range build.

Stat Points

The best stat points for the Crossbow build are 10 Strength, 30 Dexterity, 19 Wisdom, and 30 Perception. Dexterity is your primary stat to increase to 30 and gain bonus damage. Next, max perception is 30 to aid in accuracy and damage. Lastly, put points into Wisdom to increase mana regeneration. If your mana regeneration is low to start, this will be boosted dramatically with the skill Mana Exchange at higher levels.

In Throne and Liberty, stat points are earned while leveling and increasing your effectiveness.  After you increase a specific stat to a level, you may be required to spend more stat points to increase it.  Additionally, you will receive an additional achievement effect when stat points reach a specific value. 

Below is the best recommended Stat Point:

• 10 Strength – increase defense, max health, max damage, and minimum damage.  Spend 30 points to gain damage reduction.
• 30 Dexterity – affects critical attacks, evasion, and maximum damage.  Spend 30 points to gain bonus damage.
• 19 Wisdom – determines maximum mana, mana regeneration, skill cooldown, and maximum damage.  Spend 30 points to gain increased debuff duration.
• 30 Perception – affects accuracy, crowd control effects, time boost ability, maximum damage, and minimum damage.

In Throne and Liberty, stat points are earned while leveling and increasing your effectiveness.  After you increase a specific stat to a level, you may be required to spend more stat points to increase it.  Additionally, you will receive an additional achievement effect when stat points reach a specific value. 

Active Skills

Below is a list of the best active skills for the Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty:

1. Mortal Mark (Crossbow) – acts as a delayed damage tool that soaks up and explodes with a chance to weaken.
2. Quick Fire (Crossbow) – a quick burst damage attack that increases damage if the target is weakened, used after Mortal Mark.
3. Recoil Shot (Crossbow) – filler damage ability that is buffed after mobility tool, your defensive ability (Rupturing Parry).
4. Frenzied Sword Dance (Dagger) – a mobility skill used within 3 meters with seven attacks in quick succession.
5. Inject Venom (Dagger) – adds weakness and poison to all attacks within 9 seconds, perfect to use as an initial skill or after Thorn Gale.
6. Selfless Diffusion (Crossbow) – a mobility tool that breaks you out of snares, and is useful for kiting enemies outside of melee range.
7. Knife Throwing (Dagger) – a snare enemy’s ability, which you can use after a mobility skill to slow their approach and continue to kite.
8. Mana Exchange (Crossbow) – sacrifices health for mana, which allows you to continue to use skills only if health is high and pressure low.
9. Brutal Incision (Dagger) – meant to be used on targets below 50% health because you gain a huge bonus to critical chance and damage but melee range.
10. Shadow Strike (Dagger) – this is your gap closer. You can use up to 12 meters to close the distance, and it pairs well with Brutal Incision on low HP targets.
11. Camouflage Cloak (Dagger) – the stealth ability that guarantees a critical on your first attack from stealth. Consider this a flex skill and useful for survival.
12. Mother Nature’s Protest (Crossbow) – Your best opening damage tool because it passively fires damage over 9 seconds but a massive cooldown.

Passive Skills

Below is a list of the best passive skills for the Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty:

1. Destructive Fang (Dagger) – buffs critical hit chance when attacking poisoned enemies.
2. Assassin’s Instincts (Dagger) – flat increase to critical hit chance.
3. Murderous Energy (Dagger) – boosts poison damage or duration depending on if it’s day or night.
4. Wrathful Edge (Dagger) – flat boost critical hit damage.
5. Assassination Stance (Dagger) – evading an attack lowers Camoflague Cloak cooldown and is helpful for survivability (flex passive if survival is high).
6. Eagle Vision (Crossbow) – Increase ranged hit and weaken chance as you go further away.
7. Ambidexterity (Crossbow) – increases off-hand damage passively.
8. Nature’s Power (Crossbow) – using mobility or movement skill increases bonus damage.

Passive skills are only activated when equipped in the passive quick slot in the skills menu. These are designed to enhance your build with more damage, healing, resource sustain, and survivability. Like active skills, your weapon must be equipped on your main or off-hand for the passives to apply. You will increase your passive skills through the leveling process and be able to equip up to eight from the two weapons you have equipped.

Defense Skills

The best defense skill for the Crossbow build is Rupturing Parry because it is a mobility skill that creates space and buffs your damage via our passive skills. The secondary choice is Block Blade from Dagger which is helpful if you struggle with mana sustain. Defensive skills are skills that allow you to defend against attacks. Enemies will have a “Fury Attack,” a purple circle drawing down to a central point. You can defend against the Fury Attack by using your defensive skill at the precious moment for a perfect defense. Each weapon has its defensive skill, which consumes stamina instead of mana, shown on the left of your User Interface when used. Special effects occur when you successfully defend against a Furty Attack; timing is vital for maximizing your build’s potential.

Below is a list of the best passive skills for the Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty:

1. Rupturing Parry (Crossbow) – the dodge roll skill is best because it grants mobility and health regeneration. Moreover, you can lower the stamina cost of this skill as you level it to rare and use it more frequently. Your mobility skills boost damage via our passives, so using this to escape and increase damage is another plus.
2. Block Blade (Daggers) – this is the optimal defensive choice if you struggle with mana sustain. However, you will need to be stationary and block a fury attack.

Rotation

The rotation for the Crossbow is about maintaining Weakened and Poison status effects with Mortal Mark and Inject Venom skills. Consistently using these skills will increase overall damage due to our passives boosting damage to mark, weakened, and poison targets. You want to open with Mother Nature’s Protest (passive damage), then Inject Venom (debuff), followed by Mortal Mark (debuff delay damage). Playing in melee range from this point can net you increased damage, but it also comes with risk, so avoid it when your health is low.

The next series of attacks depends on the target’s health. If below 50%, close the gap with Shadow Strike into Brutal Incision. If not, play at range using Quick Fire and Recoil Shot to fill in the damage. Knife Throwing is a good attack at range to decrease the enemy’s movement speed. Maintain pressure with Inject Venom and Mortal Mark as they come off cooldown and fill in damage with quick-fire, recoil shot, and Knife Throwing.

For survivability, use Defense skills to create space or Stealth (camouflage cloak) as a last resort.

In Throne and Liberty, your rotation is a series of priority skills to use “off cooldown.” Most of the gameplay revolves around an opening sequence, followed by subsequent priority usage of abilities that produce the most damage, heal, or buff. Your goal is always to stay alive and follow our rotation as the situation permits. If you get off track, continue to do some damage, even if it’s an auto attack, to keep your “time on target” high.

Skill Upgrade Progression 

Below are the most important skills to upgrade in Throne and Liberty using the Crossbow build:

• Mortal Mark uncommon to rare
• Quick Fire uncommon to rare
• Mortal Mark rare to epic
• Quick Fire rare to epic
• Inject Venom uncommon to rare
• Shadow Strike uncommon to rare
• Inject Venom rare to epic
• Selfless Diffusion rare to epic

Upgrading Skills in Throne and Liberty is a long process requiring crafting materials but increases the effectiveness of your skills. Moreover, you can increase your skill after reaching level five to gain a rare or epic bonus. These bonuses significantly impact the effectiveness of your skills, but you’ll only have so many materials, thus requiring a priority in skill progression.

Weapon Mastery

The best weapon master choices for the Crossbow build are chain fire and Assassination. Chain Fire for the crossbow increases attack speed, increasing overall damage and mana regeneration. Assassination for the Dagger increases attack speed and critical hit and damage. Combined, these two will increase single-target damage, the cornerstone of a Crossbow build.

Below are the best weapon mastery selections in Throne and Liberty using the Crossbow build:

• Crossbow – spend 9 points into Chain Fire to obtain Brutal Wound, then switch to Move Tree.
• Dagger – spend 9 points into Assassination to obtain Maddening Excitement, then switch to Poison Tree.

Weapon Mastery is a system that gives you experience for your weapon that is equipped proportional to the experience earned.  Thus, at the start of the game, Weapon Mastery points are limited, but you will start earning more as your experience per kill and quest increase with level and zones.  Your main hand weapon gains increased weapon mastery, while off-hand still gains some, just not as much. 

Guardian

The best Guardian for the Crossbow build is Lady Knight Kamarshea because of the Eternal Barrier skill that creates a 50% max mana shield and speeds up your cooldowns. If you have enough survivability, look to Masked Warlock Dantalux and the skill Abyssal Sanctuary for increased burst damage.

The best Guardian for the Crossbow + Dagger Build is the following:

1. Eternal Barrier (Lady Knight Kamarshea) – a defensive shield that helps survivability.
2. Masked Warlock Dantalux (Abyssal Sanctuary) – an offensive ability that increases bonus damage when consuming mana to use a skill.

Guardians act as a short-term ultimate or super ability with powerful effects and a long cooldown.  Ideally, you want to select a Guardian that either enhances a strength or covers up a weakness.  You obtain Guardians after level 25 and completing Chapter 25. From that point, you can find how to obtain additional Guardians to enhance your Crossbow Build further. Moreover, these skills can only be used infrequently, as in 10 minutes, so save them for critical situations.

Best Weapons, Armor, and Accessories

Equipment such as weapons, armor, and accessories can be found throughout Throne and Liberty questing or combat.  However, crafting specific equipment that grants bonuses to your build will be the most effective way to increase your power.  There are no light, medium, or heavy proficiency requirements, but specific equipment grants unique bonuses suited to a longbow or tome user, not a Greatsword wielder. 

Therefore, it’s important that you craft the correct equipment early in Throne and Liberty.  Then, you can upgrade to higher quality throughout your playthrough and end at the max level of 50 with a properly balanced set of gear specifically designed for your Crossbow build.

Beginner: Leveling Equipment

Below are the best Crossbow beginner Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Birchwood Arbalests	Mana Regen
Off Hand Weapon	Bloodletter Daggers	Max Mana
Head	Fortune Telling Cowl	Mana Regen
Cloak	Mantle of Casting	Mana Regen
Chest	Ironclad Plate Cuirass	Max Health
Hands	Prayer Gloves	Max Mana
Legs	Fortune Telling Pants	Health & Mana Regen
Feet	Augmented Leather Boots	+2 Dexterity
Necklace	Necklace of Clarity	Melee Evasion
Bracelet	Bracelet of Liberation	Max Mana
Ring 1	Ring of Robustness	Max Health & Mana
Ring 2	Ring of Precision	Melee Evasion
Belt	Belt of Vigor	Melee Evasion

End-Game: Best in Slot Equipment

Below are the best Crossbow end-game Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Malakar’s Energizing Crossbow	Movement Speed
Off Hand Weapon	Minezerok’s Dagger	Weaken Chance
Head	Heroic Hat of the Resistance	Max Mana
Cloak	Forsaken Embrace	Damage Reduction
Chest	Heroic Armor of the Resistance	Melee Evasion
Hands	Grip of the Executioner	Attack Speed
Legs	Heroic Breeches of the Resistance	Mana Regen
Feet	Swirling Essence Shoes	Weaken Duration
Necklace	Wrapped Coin Necklace	+2 Wisdom
Bracelet	Eternal Champion Bindings	Debuff Duration
Ring 1	Sapphire Dimensional Band	+2 Wisdom & Perception
Ring 2	Insightful Ring of Dimension	+2 Wisdom & Perception
Belt	Girdle of Spectral Skulls	Dexterity +2

Gameplay, Tips, and Tricks for Throne and Liberty Best Crossbow Build

Below are 10 Gameplay Tips and Tricks for the Crossbow build in Throne and Liberty:

1. Survival – using defensive and mobility skills to play at range and strafe to avoid damage.
2. Movement – use your defensive skill and selfless defuse to increase speed and avoid snares and immobilizations.
3. Damage – Mortal Mark, Quick Fire, Mother Nature’s Protest, and Inject Venom are your top damage abilities.
4. Food – use food that increases critical and boss critical hits when in solo or co-op dungeons.
5. Healing – use recovery crystals with Nature’s Blessing, Swift Healing, and World Tree Leaf.
6. Debuff – use Mortal Mark to weaken targets and Inject Venom for Weakened and Poison.
7. Guardian – save your Guardian for when you have no other options in terms of survival, and pop for a big shield.
8. Rotation – keep Mortal Mark and Inject Venom active and burst lower health targets below 50%.
9. Remedy – use these consumables at the start of the fight once the boss is marked and bound for big burst damage.
10. Weapon Flex – Swap to Tome on the off-hand to gain self and group healing skills and crowd control skills.

Consumables, Stellarite, Remedy, and Food

In Throne and Liberty, consumables play an important part in your build’s overall power. One-time use items like Stellarite and World Tree Leaf add damage or healing to the player. These items should always be stocked up and used throughout leveling and boss fights. Moreover, food and Remedy make a difference in challenging encounters.

The following list represents the best individual use consumable items that will aid in the Best Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty:

• Stellarite – adds 10% of weapon damage consumed on every attack.  Stock up at Sundries Merchant before adventuring, as the passive boost in damage is significant. 
• World Tree Leaf – enables Amitoi to heal the player passively every 6 seconds.  World Tree Leafs are consumed per each heal.  Purchase these at Sundries Merchant and keep 1,000+ on you at all times.
• Recovery Crystal – instantly restoring 750 of your health with a one-minute cooldown.  These come in a variety of forms, with more powerful versions.  You should combine this healing with any skill-based healing and be aware of the long one-minute cooldown.   
• Attack Remedy – increase damage delt by 20% for 15 seconds with a two-minute cooldown.
• Defense Remedy – reduces damage taken by 20% for 15 seconds with a two-minute cooldown. 
• Aroma Pie – increases all hits and all critical hits by 60 for 30 minutes. Useful when leveling and farming enemies without a lot of boss fights.
• Rare Quarba Sandwich – increase boss hit and boss critical hit by 90 for 30 minutes.  Specific to boss encounters in dungeons, towers, and event farming.
• Salted Jerky – increase all defense by 120 for 30 minutes.  Useful when needing extra survivability at the expense of damage.

Build Summary – Throne and Liberty Best Crossbow Build

FAQs About Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty

Q1: Why Should you choose the Crossbow weapon in Throne and Liberty?

Answer: Choose the Crossbow weapon in Throne and Liberty if you are looking to play a high single-target DPS build that has a strong focus on taking down boss monsters in the overworld and in dungeons.

Q2: What is the best off-hand weapon to equip when using a Crossbow?

Answer: Daggers are the best off-hand weapon to equip with a Crossbow main hand in Throne and Liberty. The ability to switch back and forth between Crossbow and Daggers means that you have the versatility to play at range or close-quarters. Moreover, both weapons offer a high level of mobility that will keep you agile and hard to hit.

Q3: What is the best end-game Crossbow for Throne and Liberty?

Answer: The best end-game Crossbow weapon for Throne and Liberty is the Malakar’s Lethal Crossbow. You can get it as a drop from the Level 48 Malakar boss, or the Level 50 Malakar.

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