Best Throne and Liberty: Crossbow and Dagger Build

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

The Crossbow is one of the best long-range weapons that you can equip in the game, and it is a solid choice for most players in Throne and Liberty. We’ll discuss everything about Crossbow Build including the pros and cons of Crossbow, the Best Weapons choice, the Best Skills, weapons, Armor, and accessories, Beginner leveling equipment, and much more. Every Throne and Liberty player must understand what works perfectly when using a Crossbow.

This guide has been created for the current launch of Throne and Liberty in the Western Hemisphere.

Everything About Best Crossbow and Dagger Build in Throne and Liberty

A crossbow is a type of weapon that allows you to fight in style with fast movement and unrelenting attack speed. You can leave marks and unleash merciless barrage on the weak enemies. The crossbow is known for its high single-target damage and debuff potential, making it a popular choice among players who prefer a weapon with a more precise and tactical approach. This weapon is handy when fighting bosses or other precious targets that require focused single-target DPS. 

Skills in Throne and Liberty are the abilities you can modify and are based on the weapons you’re currently equipping. Your Build and Skills are decisive in your weapons selection. Weapons can be swapped and you can acquire new skills that you learn during a leveling process in the game. Active, Passive, and Defensive are the three different types of skills in Throne and Liberty.

Crossbow & Dagger Pros	Crossbow & Dagger Cons
Crossbow Pros	Crossbow Cons
Long Range	Weak AOE
Versatile	No Healing
Single target DPS	Only Single target

Best Weapons Choice

The Main hand weapon for this Build is the Crossbow. Crossbow give you access to Mobility mostly in the form of movement speed including a bind and movement speed reduction cleanse. This weapon also has built-in cooldown reduction mechanics further enhancing the overall speed and damage it can output. Crossbows are fast and deal a lot of damage but you’re squishy and you need to do it up close. Despite being considered a ranged weapon, Crossbow plays much more like a melee class than a ranged one. Crossbows have weak AOE damage.

The Off-hand Weapon for the Best Crossbow build is the Dagger. Dagger is a melee weapon that provides high burst damage, making it the perfect choice for players looking to create an assassin type of character in the game. The Dagger Playstyle revolves around increasing critical chance. Positioning the weapon to the side or rear of the target for additional damage and delivering multiple hits in rapid succession. Daggers can be great for quickly deadly strikes in close combat. Being a melee weapon, Dagger offers close-range burst potential and mobility.

The other weapon that works well with the Crossbow is the Staff. The staff offers crowd control skills in PVE that are best for stunning enemies and removing a threat. Staff in Throne and Liberty depend on Mana and heavy attacks. This weapon can cause massive damage by effective rotation of your abilities. Along with the AoE damage, Staff also provide single-target damage based on your chosen skills. Staff create huge explosions and it is the best bet for you to level up and clear the objectives in the game.

Best Skills

Explosive Trap and Ankle Strike (Active Skills) are the best skills in this Build including Corrupt Nail and Assassin’s Step (Passive Skills), along with a defensive Skill, Block Blade.

Below are the best skills for the Best Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty:

Active Skills

Below are examples of active skills and how to use them:

1. Nimble Leap (Crossbow)- Move 5 meters toward the target direction, increasing Attack Speed, Range, and Critical Damage.
2. Explosive Trap (Crossbow)- Sets a trap that deals major damage and can Weaken the target.
3. Inject Venom (Dagger)- Your skill to apply before combat to grant poison attacks passively.
4. Cleaving Moonlight (Dagger)- this is your low-cost, low cooldown, main filler damage ability for the Dagger. Use this mostly off-cooldown when needing damage.
5. Multi-Shot (Crossbow)- A cone area of effect attack that has a chance to Weaken the target and applies Collision: Push.
6. Ankle Strike (Dagger)- A hard-hitting attack that can make Bound, Sleeping, or Stunned Targets get knocked Prone.
7. Mana Exchange (Crossbow)- sacrifices health for mana, which allows you to continue to use skills only if health is high and pressure low.
8. Mortal Mark (Crossbow)- Fires a single high-damage-dealing arrow that always Weakens the target.
9. Phantom Smokescreen (Dagger)- Creates a 3m radius zone that lasts for 3s. Party members within the area always evade all Magic and Ranged projectiles.
10. Mother Nature’s Protest (Crossbow)- Your best opening damage tool because it passively fires damage over 9 seconds but a massive cooldown.
11. Knife Throwing (Dagger)- Throws five daggers in a direction. These daggers can lower the target’s movement speed and Incoming Healing effects.
12. Recoil Shot (Crossbow)- filler damage ability that is buffed after mobility tool, your defensive ability (Rupturing Parry).

Passive Skills

Below is a list of the best passive skills for Best Crossbow Build in Throne and Liberty and how to use them:

1. Eagle Vision (Crossbow)- Increases Hit rate every time you hit a target.
2. Corrupt Nail (Crossbow)- Increases Weaken Chance.
3. Nature’s Power (Crossbow)- using mobility or movement skill increases bonus damage.
4. Murderous Energy (Dagger)- Increases Poison and Thunderclouds duration and Poison damage.
5. Assassin’s Instincts (Dagger)- passively increases critical hit chance.
6. Detection (Crossbow)- Has a chance to increase Move Speed and Evasion when you are attacked.
7. Assassin’s Step (Dagger)- increase Mana Regen and move speed after killing a target.
8. Destructive Fang (Dagger)- lowers defense when attacking a target with poison or thunderclouds.

Defense Skills

Block Blade

Block Blade is the best defense skill for the Best Crossbow build because of the 852 Mana regeneration against enemies with Fury Attack. You can make yourself unable to be targeted and Stealth. It becomes Stealthed for 3s to make yourself unable to be targeted and enhance Mana Regen by 2130 after defending against Fury or Wrath Attack. Block Blade changes to Poison Dagger.

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 Fury Attack; timing is vital for maximizing your build’s potential.

Skill Upgrade Progression 

Below are the recommended active and passive skill upgrade progression:

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. Below are the recommended active and passive skill upgrade progression.

Active Skill Upgrade

The best recommended active skills upgrade in order:

• Nimble Leap Uncommon to Rare
• Ankle Strike Uncommon to Rare
• Mana Exchange Uncommon to Rare
• Explosive Trap Uncommon to Rare
• Nimble Leap Rare to Epic
• Mana Exchange Rare to Epic
• Explosive Trap Rare to Epic
• Block Blade Uncommon to Rare
• Multi-Shot Uncommon to Rare
• Cleaving Moonlight Uncommon to Rare

Passive Skill Upgrades

The best recommended passive skills upgrade in order:

• Corrupt Nail Uncommon to Rare
• Assassin’s Step Uncommon to Rare
• Nature’s Power Uncommon to Rare
• Nature’s Power Rare to Epic
• Corrupt Nail Rare to Epic
• Assassin’s Instincts Uncommon to Rare
• Detection Uncommon to Rare
• Detection Rare to Epic
• Assassin’s Instincts Rare to Epic
• Murderous Energy Uncommon to Rare

Skill Specialization

Below is the recommended 100-point skill specialization for the best Crossbow Build upon reaching level 50:

• Nimble Leap
  • Consecutive Use
  • Cooldown Reset
• Inject Venom
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Cooldown Reduction
• Multi-Shot
  • Rapid Shot
• Mana Exchange
  • Skill Effect Enhanced
  • Stamina Recovery
• Phantom Smokescreen
  • Area’s Duration Increase
• Knife Throwing
  • Lightning Throw
  • Cooldown Reduction
• Explosive Trap
  • Set Up Range
• Cleaving Moonlight
  • Effect Accumulation
• Ankle Strike
  • Expand Conditions
  • Off-Hand Weapon Activation
• Mortal Mark
  • Detonation Mark
• Mother Nature’s Protest
  • Flame Arrow
• Recoil Shot
  • Wave Shot

The Skill Specializations is a system in Throne and Liberty that allows you to adjust skills and how they function to optimize your build to its highest potential. These Skill Specializations can buff range, damage, crowd control, add debuff, or even change how a skill works entirely.

PvE Gameplay and Skill Rotation

Use the Thundercloud Bombing after the 20 stacks of Thunderclouds to deal a huge amount of damage. Below are some other Active and Passive Skills included along with the best Skill for this Build for different content in the game.

Fatal Stigma Version

• Skill Rotation
  • Quick Fire
  • Selfless Diffusion
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Knife Throwing
  • Cleaving Moonlight
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Mother Nature’s Protest
  • Fatal Stigma
  • Mortal Mark
  • Cleaving Moonlight

Spin to Win Version

• Skill Rotation
  • Cleaving Moonlight
  • Nimble Leap
  • Quick Fire
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Knife Throwing
  • Annihilation Barrage Shot
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Mother Nature’s Protest
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Selfless Diffusion
  • Detonation Mark
  • Quick Fire

Weapon Mastery

The best weapon mastery tree for the Crossbow Build is Move from Crossbow and Poison from Dagger.

Below are the best weapon mastery selections in Throne and Liberty using the Crossbow Build.

• Crossbow- Consume 9 points into Move and then swap to Chain Fire to obtain Brutal Wound.
• Dagger- Use 9 points on the Poison and then switch to Assassination

Weapon Mastery is a system that gives you experience for your weapon that is equipped proportional to the experience earned. Weapon Mastery points are limited at the beginning of the game but you gain more mastery points as you progress in the game. While your off-hand weapon gains less weapon mastery, your main-hand weapon gets all the mastery points.

Best Stat Points

The most important stat for the best Crossbow Build is Strength and then Wisdom

Below is the best recommended Stat Point:

• 45 Strength: affects defense, maximum health, maximum damage, and minimum damage.
• 14 Dexterity: affects critical attack, evasion, and maximum damage.
• 35 Wisdom: affects maximum mana and mana regeneration, skill cooldown, and maximum damage.
• 32 Perception: effect accuracy of attacks, Crowd Control effects, enhancing time boost ability, maximum damage, and minimum damage.

In Throne and Liberty, stat points are earned while leveling and increasing your effectiveness.  When you spend a stat point, you increase the effectiveness of that related attribute. However, after a certain number of points, you reach diminishing returns, and two points are required to increase a stat rather than one. Moreover, once stats reach a certain level spent (30 or greater), you gain unique bonuses.

Guardian

The best Guardian for the Best Crossbow Build is Lady Knight Kamarshea because of her cooldown reduction and mana shield. 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 Build is the following:

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

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

Below is the recommended equipment for a Crossbow build including 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. Certain equipment provides specific bosses that can be tackled with a Crossbow and Dagger as there are no proficiency requirements.

Beginner: Leveling Equipment

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

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Repeating Crossbows	Heavy Attack Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Utility Daggers	Wilding Bonus Damage
Head	Mask of the Resistance	Ranged Evasion
Cloak	Deadeye’s Cloak	Max Mana
Chest	Heroic Garb of the Resistance	Max Health
Hands	Glade Stalker Gloves	Magic Evasion
Legs	Attendant Pants	Max Health
Feet	Heroic Boots of the Resistance	Magic Evasion
Necklace	Blessed Templar Choker	Weaken Chance
Bracelet	Bracelet of Conquest	Sleep Resistance
Ring 1	Ring of Willpower	Max Mana
Ring 2	Ring of Robustness	Stun Chance
Belt	Belt of Vigor	Bind Resistance

End-Game: Best in Slot Equipment

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

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Crossbows of Infinite Steel	Critical Hit Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Heroic Daggers of the Resistance	Barbarian Bonus Damage
Head	Blessed Templar Helmet	Ranged Evasion
Cloak	Bile Drenched Veil	Weaken Resistance
Chest	Arcane Shadow Robes	Magic Evasion
Hands	Gauntlets of the Field General	Added Attack Speed
Legs	Heroic Breeches of the Resistance	Magic Evasion
Feet	Phantom Wolf Boots	Movement Speed
Necklace	Blessed Templar Choker	Bind Chance
Bracelet	Ascended Guardian Bracelet	Mana Regen
Ring 1	Band of Universal Power	Skill Damage Boost
Ring 2	Sapphire Dimensional Band	Stun Chance
Belt	Forbidden Arcane Chain	Silence Resistance

Build Summary – Throne and Liberty: Best Crossbow and Dagger Build

FAQs About Crossbow and DaggerBuild in Throne and Liberty

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

You should prioritize Crossbow in Throne and Liberty because it allows you to fight in style with fast movement and unrelenting attack speed.

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

A dagger is the best Off-hand weapon to equip when using a Crossbow because it is a melee weapon that provides high burst damage.

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