Throne and Liberty: Best Staff and Dagger Build

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

The Staff is one of the best long-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 Staff Build, including the pros and cons of Staff, the Best Weapons choice, the Best Skills, weapons, Armor, and accessories, Beginner leveling equipment, and much more. One must know the best off-hand weapon to equip when using a Staff, so don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

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

Everything About Best Staff and Dagger Build in Throne and Liberty

The Staff is a Magic damage ranged weapon in Throne and Liberty. 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.

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.

Staff Pros	Staff Cons
Long Range	Vulnerable at close range
AoE Damage	Long Cooldowns
Damage Overtime	Low DPS
Weather Buffs	Lacks Single Target
Easy to Play	Low Survivability

Best Weapons Choice

The Main Hand weapon for this build is the Staff. Staff is the best weapon to pick if your playstyle revolves around Damage Over Time (DoT). It has a long range and you can deal massive damage to enemies hovering at long distances in combat. The Staff damage is based on the Weather conditions. The interactive nature allows the Staff to provide a significant damage increase. However, this weapon has a few drawbacks as well, as the Staff spells require time to cast and the cooldown takes much time. The staff has lower DPS for the ranged weapon.

The Off-hand Weapon for the Staff Build is a 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 other weapon that works well with the Staff is Sword and Shield. Sword and Shield provide 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.

Best Skills

Inner Peace and Inject Venom (Active Skills) are the best to utilize along with the Frost Master and Assassination Stance (Passive Skills) along with the Mystic Shield in this Staff Build.

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

Active Skills

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

1. Inferno Wave (Staff)- Another Ranged attack that can apply Weaken: Burning to the target.
2. Frost Smokescreen (Staff)- mobility skill that also debuffs targets by weakening and lowering movement speed in a 4-meter area.
3. Inject Venom (Dagger)- Your skill to apply before combat to grant poison attacks passively. You want to maintain high up time for poison damage and build stacks.
4. Brutal Incision (Dagger)- Your main burst single target damage skill which you want to use sub 50% health on enemies.
5. Inner Peace (Staff)- This mana skill increases regeneration, but you must stay stationary.
6. Umbral Spirit (Dagger)- a basic melee range attack that boosts damage when the target is poisoned.
7. Ice Spear (Staff)- A high-damage ranged attack that can Weaken the target and apply Frost.
8. Chain Lightning (Staff)- lower cooldown AOE skill, which you want to apply frosted/wet/burning first with other elements for more damage.
9. Serial Fire Bombs (Staff)- Ranged area of effect attack that can apply Weaken: Burning.
10. Fatal Stigma (Dagger)- Marks the target, decreasing Incoming Heal by 60% for 3s. Deals 405% of Base Damage + 110.
11. Phantom Smokescreen (Dagger)- Creates a 3m radius zone that lasts for 3s. Party members within the area always evade all Magic and Ranged projectiles.
12. High Focus (Staff)- lowers cooldowns of skills, which should be used for an opening rotation.

Passive Skills

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

1. Asceticism (Staff)- increase mana regeneration and this is aided by staying still.
2. Frost Master (Staff)- Increases the effectiveness of Move Speed Reduction effects.
3. Murderous Energy (Dagger)- Increases Poison and Thunderclouds duration and Poison damage.
4. Assassination Stance (Dagger)- lowers the cooldown on Cloak when you avoid an attack.
5. Flame Condensation (Staff)- increases burning damage.
6. Wrathful Edge (Dagger)- passively boosts critical damage.
7. Echoic Barrier (Staff)- Decreases the duration of the Silence effect, and increases resistance to Silence, Bind, and Sleep after being affected by one of those effects.
8. Assassin’s Step (Dagger)- increase Mana Regen and move speed after killing a target.

Defense Skills

Mystic Shield

Mystic Shield is the best defense skill for the staff build because you can regenerate mana on defense and deal with increased damage against burning, wet, or frosted targets. The secondary Choice for this Build is Block Blade.

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.

Active Skill Upgrade

The best recommended active skills upgrade in order:

• Inferno Wave Uncommon to Rare
• Umbral Spirit Uncommon to Rare
• Chain Lightning Uncommon to Rare
• Chain Lightning Rare to Epic
• Umbral Spirit Rare to Epic
• Frost Smokescreen Uncommon to Rare
• Inject Venom Uncommon to Rare
• Inject Venom Rare to Epic
• Ice Spear Uncommon to Rare
• Mystic Shield Uncommon to Rare

Passive Skill Upgrades

The best recommended passive skills upgrade in order:

• Frost Master Uncommon to Rare
• Murderous Energy Uncommon to Rare
• Frost Master Rare to Epic
• Echoic Barrier Uncommon to Rare
• Asceticism Uncommon to Rare
• Echoic Barrier Rare to Epic
• Asceticism Rare to Epic
• Assassin’s Step Uncommon to Rare
• Wrathful Edge Uncommon to Rare
• Wrathful Edge Rare to Epic

Skill Specialization

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

• Inferno Wave
  • Cooldown Decrease
  • Consecutive Use
• Inject Venom
  • Cooldown Reduction
• Inner Peace
  • Immune to CC
• Ice Spear
  • Ice Spear Bombardment
  • Bind
  • Damage Increase
• Serial Fire Bombs
  • Focused Fire Bombs
  • Mobility
  • Projectile Speed Increased
• Phantom Smokescreen
  • Duration Increased
• Frost Smokescreen
  • Use the Designated Location
  • Additional Damage
• Brutal Incision
  • Damage Increase
  • Cooldown Reduction
• Umbral Spirit
  • Damage Increase
  • Duration Increased
• Chain Lightning
  • Damage Transfer
  • No Damage reduction upon transfer
• Fatal Stigma
  • Cooldown Reset
  • Skill Distance Increased
• High Focus
  • Base Damage Boost

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.

Weapon Mastery

The best weapon mastery tree for the Best Staff and Dagger Build is Mana because it provides Melee Defense, Mana Regen, Spell Flexibility, and much more.

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

• Staff- Use 9 points into Mana to gain Reverberation Shield and then switch to Destroy to gain Strange Spacetime.
• Dagger- Allocate 9 points on Assassination and then 3 points on the Poison.

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 a best Staff and Dagger build is Strength and then Dexterity.

Below is the best recommended Stat Point:

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

Green Ranger Elowen is the best Guardian for the best Staff and Dagger build because it binds targets and increases damage to them. This is helpful to keep enemies at range and burst them down.

An Alternate to Green Ranger Elowen is Lady Knight Kamarshea because of the shield and cooldown reductions she provides. Lady Knight is a defensive shield that helps survivability.

Guardians are 10-minute cooldown “ultimate” abilities that should be used during intense fights, bosses, or near death. She’s a powerful skill and can be unlocked after reaching level 25 and completing chapter 25. Complete Chapter 25 and reach level 25 to acquire Guardians. Increase your Staff 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 a Best Staff and Dagger 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 Solo build will be the most effective way to increase your power. Certain equipment provides specific bosses that can be tackled with a Staff and Dagger as there are no proficiency requirements.

Beginner: Leveling Equipment

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

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Arcane Staff	Attack Speed
Off Hand Weapon	Iron Dirks	Hit Chance
Head	Acolyte Hood	Magic Evasion
Cloak	Cloak of Accuracy	Health Regen
Chest	Prayer Vestments	Magic Endurance
Hands	Prayer Gloves	Ranged Defense
Legs	Fortune Telling Pants	Max Health
Feet	Acolyte Shoes	Melee Defense
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 Staff and Dagger build end-game Weapons, Armor, and Accessories in Throne and Liberty:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Heroic Staff of the Resistance	Heavy Attack Chance
Off Hand Weapon	Kowazan’s Twilight Daggers	Hit Chance
Head	Blessed Templar Helmet	Max Mana
Cloak	Blessed Templar Cloak	Collision Resistance
Chest	Divine Justiciar Attire	Melee Evasion
Hands	Divine Justiciar Gloves	Max Health
Legs	Breeches of the Executioner	Ranged Evasion
Feet	Boots of the Infernal Herald	Ranged Endurance
Necklace	Blessed Templar Choker	Bind Chance
Bracelet	Bracers of the Primal King	Health Regen
Ring 1	Amber Dimensional Band	Buff Duration
Ring 2	Sapphire Dimensional Band	Stun Chance
Belt	Infernal Demonhide Belt	Mana Regen

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

FAQs About Best Staff and Dagger Build in Throne and Liberty

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

You should select the staff in Throne and Liberty because it provides AoE Damage and Damage over time in combat.

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

The Dagger is the best Off-hand weapon to equip when using a Staff because it is a melee weapon that provides high burst damage.

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