Best Throne and Liberty: Raider Build

Unlock the ultimate power in Throne and Liberty with our guide to crafting the best Raider 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. Raider is a DPS + Tank Character Build in Throne and Liberty that uses a Crossbow and Sword & Shield as a weapon. This Build can deal massive damage to all targets with AOE and to a single target as well. Damage output is the main focus of this Build rather than the survivability. We will discuss everything about Raider Build including the pros and cons of Crossbow, the Best Weapons choice, the Best Skills, weapons, Armor, and accessories, Beginner Raider 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 Raider 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 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 and has weak AOE damage.

The Sword and Shield is one of the best weapons you can equip when having a Crossbow as a main hand weapon for Raider Build. It provides you with excellent survivability and a very balanced playstyle in most scenarios. You can pair it with almost every other weapon available in Throne and Liberty to create unique Builds that suit your playstyle. Sword and Shield combination can also be effective at crowd control and can create opportunities for setting up the field and dealing massive damage.

The other weapon that works well with the Crossbow in Raider Build is the Longbow. Longbow allows you to stay stationary at the maximum range for optimal damage due to passives in Throne and Liberty. It stands out due to its dynamic range combat. A longbow is a kind of 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 weapon is specially built for long-range combat.

Best Skills

Quick Fire and Shield Strike (Active Skills) are the best skills to use along with the Detection and Aegis Shield (Passive Skills) including Shield Survival Technique.

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

Active Skills

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

1. Mother Nature’s Protest (Crossbow)- Your best opening damage tool because it passively fires damage over 9 seconds but a massive cooldown.
2. Annihilation Barrage Shot (Crossbow)- Up to a 6-meter radius area, shoot arrows 16 times each.
3. Selfless Diffusion (Crossbow)- A mobility tool that breaks you out of snares, and is useful for kiting enemies outside of melee range.
4. Mortal Mark (Crossbow)- Acts as a delayed damage tool that soaks up and explodes with a chance to weaken.
5. Quick Fire (Crossbow)- A quick burst damage attack that increases damage if the target is weakened, used after Mortal Mark.
6. Weak Point Shot (Crossbow)- A growth skill that deals with a huge amount of single-target damage and can increase your party’s critical damage to the target.
7. Annihilating Slash (Sword and Shield)- Area of Effect attack that hits all enemies within range. Deals bonus damage to Weakened targets.
8. Annihilation Blade (Sword and Shield)- Enhance Max Health and current Health by 30% for 6s.
9. Shield Strike (Sword and Shield)- High damage skill that Weakens the target and increases its aggression.
10. Witty Strike (Sword and Shield)- Small area of effect cone attack that restores mana for each target hit.
11. Provoking Roar (Sword and Shield)- Has a chance to apply Weaken: Provoke against 6 enemies within 3 meters.
12. Counter barrier (Sword and Shield)- Increases the chance of Shield Block and will have you counterattack if you block.

Passive Skills

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

1. Detection (Crossbow)- Has a chance to increase Move Speed and Evasion when you are attacked.
2. Ambidexterity (Crossbow)- Increases off-hand damage passively.
3. Resilient Mind (Sword and Shield)- Evading and successful Shield Blocks restore Mana and Health.
4. Piercing Strike (Sword and Shield)- Increases Bonus Damage and Stamina Regen. Second sentence: how it’s used.
5. Impenetrable (Sword and Shield)- Increases Defense for each target within a certain range.
6. Bloodlust (Crossbow)- Skill damage enhanced to 5 by 3s on attack skill hit.
7. Spectrum of Agony (Sword and Shield)- Increases damage and the duration of provoke on provoked targets that you hit.
8. Aegis Shield (Sword and Shield)- Increases Defense for each 1% of Shield Block Chance.

Defense Skills

Shield Survival Technique

The Sword and Shield defense skill is the Shield Survival Technique. Defends against attacks. On defending against a Fury Attack while stationary, 690 Health regenerates, creates a shield equal to 14% of Max Health for 3 seconds, and Shield Survival Technique modifies into Retaliatory Strike for 1.5 seconds.

Defensive skills in Throne and Liberty allow you to defend against attacks. Enemies will have a “Fury Attack” a purple circle drawing down to a central point. Use the defensive skill perfectly to defend against the Fury Attack. Each Defensive skill in Throne and Liberty uses Stamina that is visible on the left side of your UI when utilized. When you perfectly defend against a fury attack in a combat then a unique effect happens. To increase your Build’s potential, timing is the only key. 

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 enhancing the effectiveness of your skills. Moreover, you can increase your skill after reaching level five to acquire 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:

• Shield Survival Technique Uncommon to Rare
• Annihilating Slash Uncommon to Rare
• Merciless Barrage Uncommon to Rare
• Merciless Barrage Rare to Epic
• Shield Strike Uncommon to Rare
• Mother Nature’s Protest Uncommon to Rare
• Shield Strike Rare to Epic
• Mother Nature’s Protest Rare to Epic
• Mortal Mark Uncommon to Rare
• Counter Barrier Uncommon to Rare

Passive Skill Upgrades

The best recommended passive skills upgrade in order:

• Detection Uncommon to Rare
• Spectrum of Agony Uncommon to Rare
• Spectrum of Agony Rare to Epic
• Ambidexterity Uncommon to Rare
• Resilient Mind Uncommon to Rare
• Ambidexterity Rare to Epic
• Piercing Strike Uncommon to Rare
• Resilient Mind Rare to Epic
• Bloodlust Uncommon to Rare
• Impenetrable Uncommon to Rare

Skill Specialization

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

• Mother Nature’s Protest
  • Lightning Arrow
• Quick Fire
  • Gale
  • Damage Increased
  • Cooldown Decrease
• Annihilating Slash
  • Consecutive Use
  • Radius Increased
• Shield Strike
  • Piercing Strike
• Provoking Roar
  • Effect Duration
  • Cooldown Reduced
• Merciless Barrage
  • Annihilation Barrage Shot
• Mortal Mark
  • Detonation Mark
• Weak Point Shot
  • Cooldown Decrease
• A Shot at Victory
  • Annihilation Blade
  • Skill Effect Enhanced
• Witty Strike
  • Consecutive Use
• Counter Barrier
  • Cooldown Decrease

Adjust skills and improve your 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.

Weapon Mastery

The best weapon mastery tree for the Raider Build is Chain Fire from Crossbow and Provoke & Counter from Sword and Shield.

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

• Crossbow- Consume 9 points into Chain Fire and 6 points in Regen for Ultimate Healing.
• Sword and Shield- Allocate 9 points into Provoke & Counter and 6 points in Boss for Desperate Evasion.

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 stat for the Best Raider Build is Dexterity and Strength.

Below is the best recommended Stat Point:

• 40 Strength: affects defense, maximum health, maximum damage, and minimum damage.
• 60 Dexterity: affects critical attack, evasion, and maximum damage.
• 20 Wisdom: affects maximum mana and mana regeneration, skill cooldown, and maximum damage.
• 34 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

Shade Revenant Stheno is the best Guardian for a Raider Build because it boosts DPS. Five different projectiles are launched at the enemies that are available within a 10m radius. Multiple projectiles can hit a single target at once.

An Alternate to Shade Revenant Stheno is Green Ranger Elowen. It binds targets and increases damage to them. This is helpful to keep enemies at range and burst them down.

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 Raider 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 Raider 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 + Sword and Shield as there are no proficiency requirements.

Beginner: Leveling Equipment

Below are the Best Raider 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	Manasteel Sword	Hit Chance
Head	Acolyte Hood	Max Health
Cloak	Shroud of Striking	Collision Resistance
Chest	Attendant Rod	Melee Evasion
Hands	Incantation Gloves	Melee 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 Raider Build end-game Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Stormbringer Crossbows	Heavy Attack Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Karnix’s Netherblade	Critical Hit Chance
Head	Shadow Harvester Mask	Ranged Evasion
Cloak	Supreme Devotion	Mana Regen
Chest	Phantom Wolf Tunic	Magic Endurance
Hands	Phantom Wolf Gloves	Added Attack Speed
Legs	Heroic Trousers of the Resistance	Magic Evasion
Feet	Shadow Harvester Boots	Ranged Endurance
Necklace	Clasp of the Overload	Silence Chance
Bracelet	Ancient Saurodoma Bracers	Bind Resistance
Ring 1	Band of Universal Power	Weaken Chance
Ring 2	Amber Dimensional Band	Collision Chance
Belt	Belt of Bloodlust	Skill Damage Resistance

Build Summary – Throne and Liberty: Best Raider Build

FAQs About Raider Build in Throne and Liberty

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

You should select the Crossbow 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?

The Sword and Shield is the best Off-hand weapon to equip for Raider Build when using a Crossbow because it can taunt, and take pressure from bosses and allies.

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