Best Throne and Liberty: Assassin Build

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

The Dagger is one of the best Short-range weapons you can equip in the game, and it is a solid choice for most players in Throne and Liberty. We’ll discuss everything about Assassin Dagger Build including the pros and cons of Dagger, Best Weapons choice, Best Skills, weapons, Armor, and accessories, Beginner Assassin equipment, and much more. One must know the best off-hand weapon to equip when using a Dagger, so don’t worry we got you covered.

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

Everything About Best Assassin Build in Throne and Liberty

Dagger in Throne and Liberty excels in close-quarter combat, but be mindful of your positioning. A dagger is a single-target weapon that can eliminate enemies below 50% health with a single critical hit. Dagger is a melee weapon that provides Burst damage, Critical hit damage, and Crowd Control. Dagger deals bonus damage to stunned enemies, so using status effects will greatly improve your damage output.

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.

Assassin Build Pros	Assassin Build Cons
Critical Hit Damage	Low Defense
Mobility and Stealth	No AOE Damage
Burst Damage	Lack of Range
Crowd Control & Poison	Positioning

Best Weapons Choice

The best Main Hand Weapon for Assassin Build in Throne and Liberty is Dagger. Dagger in Throne and Liberty 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 Off-hand Weapon for the Assassin Build is the Longbow. Longbow is the best-in-slot support and a great DPS option in Throne and Liberty. The Longbow offers cooldown resets on primary damage-dealing skills. Longbow allows you to utilize your strongest damage skills over and over up to three times. A longbow is a unique weapon that is easy to use, deals massive damage, and provides high versatility. However, this weapon lacks mobility and is not useful at close range. This deadly weapon is the best counter against Stealth in the game since it can reveal and stun enemies. Longow is best to use and deals high damage at range.

The other weapon that works well with the Dagger in Assassin Build is the Crossbow. Crossbow gives 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 produce. Crossbows have weak AOE damage.

Best Skills

Inject Venom and Zephyr’s Nock (Active Skills) are the best skills to use along with the Assassin’s Instinct and Sniper’s Sense (Passive Skills) including Block Blade.

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

Active Skills

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

1. Shadow Strike (Dagger)- Moves behind a target dealing double damage with a chance to Bind and apply Silence: Poison.
2. Inject Venom (Dagger)- Your skill to apply before combat to grant poison attacks passively.
3. Brutal Incision (Dagger)- Deals a massive amount of damage and increases Critical damage by 20%. Critical Hit Chance is increased by 600% on targets at less than 50% health.
4. Umbral Spirit (Dagger)- a basic melee range attack that boosts damage when the target is poisoned.
5. Fatal Stigma (Dagger)- Marks the target, decreasing Incoming Heal by 60% for 3s. Deals 405% of Base Damage + 110.
6. Frenzied Sword Dance (Dagger)- Applies Weaken: Thunderclouds. Thunderclouds remain for six seconds and reducing Ranged, Melee, and Magic Endurance by six per stack.
7. Zephyr’s Nock (Longbow)- An extremely high damage ability that does more damage the further you are from your target.
8. Ensnaring Arrow (Longbow)- A basic attack that Binds or Oppresses a target.
9. Strafing (Longbow)- Fires a quick volley of 4 arrows and applies Bullseye on a hit.
10. Nature’s Blessing (Longbow)- Increases Health Regen and cleanses allies within 16 meters.
11. Deadly Marker (Longbow)- Mark a target to increase your critical hit for you and all party members for 9 seconds.
12. Flash Arrow (Longbow)- An area-of-effect attack that can stunt stealth enemies and end their stealth.

Passive Skills

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

1. Destructive Fang (Dagger)- Lowers defense when attacking a target with poison or thunderclouds.
2. Assassin’s Instincts (Dagger)- Passively increases critical hit chance.
3. Murderous Energy (Dagger)- Increases Poison and Thunderclouds duration and Poison damage.
4. Shadow Walker (Dagger)- Increased Damage Reduction and Magic and Ranged Evasion after casting a Mobility or movement skill.
5. Wrathful Edge (Dagger)- Passively boosts critical damage.
6. Steady Aim (Longbow)- Increases critical hit against bound targets.
7. Roxie’s Arrowhead (Longbow)- Chance to shoot an additional projectile, passively increasing damage.
8. Sniper’s Sense (Longbow)- Increase the critical longer distance you are.

Defense Skills

Block Blade

The best defense skill for the Best Assassin Dagger build is Block Blade because of the 852 Mana regeneration against enemies with Fury Attack. You can make yourself unable to be targeted and Stealth. 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:

• Shadow Strike Uncommon to Rare
• Ensnaring Arrow Uncommon to Rare
• Zephyr’s Nock Uncommon to Rare
• Shadow Strike Rare to Epic
• Block Blade Uncommon to Rare
• Nature’s Blessing Uncommon to Rare
• Nature’s Blessing Rare to Epic
• Brutal Incision Uncommon to Rare
• Ensnaring Arrow Rare to Epic
• Deadly Marker Uncommon to Rare

Passive Skill Upgrades

The best recommended passive skills upgrade in order:

• Assassin’s Instincts Uncommon to Rare
• Sniper’s Sense Uncommon to Rare
• Steady Aim Uncommon to Rare
• Steady Aim Rare to Epic
• Assassin’s Instincts Rare to Epic
• Destructive Fang Uncommon to Rare
• Destructive Fang Rare to Epic
• Wrathful Edge Uncommon to Rare
• Wrathful Edge Rare to Epic
• Sniper’s Sense Rare to Epic

Skill Specialization

Below is the recommended 100-point skill specialization for the Assassin Dagger build upon reaching level 50:

• Shadow Strike
  • Shadow Escape
  • Effect Accumulation
• Brutal Incision
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
• Fatal Stigma
  • Skill Distance Increased
• Zephyr’s Nock
  • Damage Increase
  • Cooldown Decrease
• Strafing
  • Gale
  • Mobility
• Deadly Marker
  • Bullseye
• Inject Venom
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Cooldown Reduction
• Umbral Spirit
  • Thunder Spirit
• Frenzied Sword Dance
  • Mad Sword Dance
  • Effect Accumulation
• Ensnaring Arrow
  • Cooldown Reset
• Flash Arrow
  • Range Widened

Adjust skills and improve your Assassin Build to its Apex capability by utilizing a system in Throne and Liberty known as Skill Specializations. This system in Throne and Liberty not only provides crowd control and debuff but also grants you a buff range and completely modifies the working of skills.

PVE Gameplay and Skill Rotation

Elite Opener

• Thunderclouds Combo
  • Shadow Escape
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Ankle Strike
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Shadow Escape
  • Zephyr’s Nock
  • Lightning Infusion
  • Deadly Marker
  • Strafing x2
  • Zephyr’s Nock
  • Strafing x1
• Oppressed Combo
  • Camouflage Cloak
  • Decisive Sniping
  • Ensnaring Arrow
  • Nature’s Blessing

PVE Mobbing

• Single Target Combo
  • Strafing x1
  • Zephyr’s Nock
  • Strafing x2
  • Zephyr’s Nock
• Melee Combo
  • Cleaving Moonlight
  • Thunderclouds Bombing
  • Shadow Strike
• Self-Sustain
  • Nature’s Blessing
  • Healing Touch
• AOE
  • Decisive Bombardment
  • Flash Wave

Weapon Mastery

The best weapon mastery tree for the Assassin Dagger Build is Poison from Dagger and Check from Longbow.  

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

• Dagger- Use 9 points on Poison and then 3 points on the Assassination.
• Longbow- Allocate 9 points on Check and then move to Sniping for Ranged hit.

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.

Best Stat Points

The most important stats for the Assassin build are Dexterity and Perception.

Below is the best recommended Stat Point:

• 29 Strength: affects defense, maximum health, maximum damage, and minimum damage.
• 50 Dexterity: affects critical attack, evasion, and maximum damage.
• 21 Wisdom: affects maximum mana and mana regeneration, skill cooldown, and maximum damage.
• 48 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

Pale Nemesis Hartach is the best Guardian for the Assassin Dagger build because it acts as a doubled-strong defensive and offensive Guardian if used perfectly, enabling you to morph by marking the Guardian’s power onto your character.

Lady Knight Kamarshea is another Guardian that is best utilized due to 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.

Guardians act as a short-term ultimate or super ability with powerful effects and a long cooldown. Enhance your strength and defend your weakness by choosing the right guardian. Complete Chapter 25 and reach level 25 to acquire Guardians. Increase your Assassin Build potential by learning the way to gain additional guardians. Keep in mind that these skills are used within 10 minutes.

Best Weapons, Armor, and Accessories

Below is the recommended equipment for an Assassin 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 Assassin build will be the most effective way to increase your power. Certain equipment provides specific bosses that can be tackled with a Dagger and Longbow as there are no proficiency requirements.

Beginner: Leveling Equipment

Below are the best Assassin Dagger and Longbow Build beginner Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Utility Dagger	Heavy Attack Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Longbow of the Resistance	Critical Hit Chance
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	Fortune Telling Shoes	Melee Evasion
Necklace	Necklace of Endurance	Skill Damage Boost
Bracelet	Bracelet of Conquest	Weaken Resistance
Ring 1	Ring of precision	Buff Duration
Ring 2	Ring of Robustness	Petrification Chance
Belt	Belt of Vigor	Debuff Duration

End-Game: Best in Slot Equipment

Below are the best Assassin Dagger and Longbow Build end-game Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Lequirus’s Wicked Thorns	Heavy Attack Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Tevent’s Arc of Wailing Death	Mana Regen
Head	Phantom Wolf Mask	Magic Endurance
Cloak	Blessed Templar Cloak	Sleep Resistance
Chest	Phantom Wolf Tunic	Buff Duration
Hands	Phantom Wolf Gloves	Ranged Endurance
Legs	Phantom Wolf Breeches	Debuff Duration
Feet	Phantom Wolf Boots	Movement Speed
Necklace	Collar of Decimation	Skill Damage Boost
Bracelet	Ancient Saurodoma	Bind Resistance
Ring 1	Amber Dimensional Band	Stun Chance
Ring 2	Abyssal Grace Band	Petrification Chance
Belt	Girdle of Spectral Skulls	Stun Resistance

Build Summary – Throne and Liberty: Best Assassin Build

FAQs About Assassin Build in Throne and Liberty

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

You should select the Dagger in Throne and Liberty because it is a melee weapon that provides high burst damage.

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

The Longbow is the best Off-hand weapon to equip when using a Dagger because it is easy to use and deals high damage in long-range combat.  

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