Best Staff and Dagger Build for Throne and Liberty

Welcome to our Staff & Dagger DPS Build for Throne and Liberty. With this DPS PVE Build, we will be using the combination of the Staff and Dagger weapons to achieve a powerful damage output in combat, with a focus on high levels of critical damage.

Note: This build is a work in progress until the launch of the NA/EU servers. The Korean devs are still changing a lot of balancing aspects on the Korean Servers at the moment with every patch.

Table of Contents:

• Build Setup
  • Weapons Main/Off-Hand
  • Stats
  • Skills
  • Passives
  • Upgrade Priority
  • Equipment
• How to Play
  • Combos & Rotation
  • Tips & Tricks
• Update Log

Staff Dagger Build Setup for Throne and Liberty

In this section, we will explain the important components of the build, such as stats, passives, skills, and equipment.

Weapons Main vs Off-hand

• Main-hand: Staff
• Off-hand: Daggers

Our main weapon slot is the Staff and our off-hand weapon slot is the Daggers. These two synergize extremely well and complement each other. Passives from your secondary weapon are still active when you are holding your primary weapon, and vice versa. This makes it possible to apply the Dagger’s passives when you are using the Staff for example.

Stats

The following stats are required for the Staff & Daggers build:

• Wisdom – Increases your Max Mana and Mana Regen. When leveling up your build, increase this until you feel like you do not have Mana problems (i.e. running out to often) anymore. Then move onto the next stat.
• Perception – Increases your chance to hit enemies with your attacks. We recommend increasing this to 19, then move onto the next stat.
• Dexterity – Once you have increased your Wisdom and Perception to a satisfactory level, it is time to increase your Dexterity, which will be the focus for all remaining stat points. Dexterity increases your Critical Hit chance, which is greatly important for a crit-focused build like this one.

By endgame, you should aim to have a stat distribution that looks similar to the following:

• 10 Strength
• 30 Dexterity
• 30 Wisdom
• 19 Perception

If you think don’t have enough health on your build, you can place some points in Strength to increase your Health value. This also prevents you from getting one shot by bosses in tougher dungeons in Throne and Liberty.

Defense Skill

Each build in Throne and Liberty can slot one defense skill. Because we are using a Staff and Daggers we have a choice between two defensive skills:

• Staff: Mystic Shield
• Dagger: Ambush Stance

For our Staff & Dagger Build we are going with Ambush Stance from the Dagger skill tree. This allows you to become Hidden when successfully defending against a Fury Attack, gaining extra Mana Regen and a guaranteed Critical Hit on your next attack.

Active Skills

Below are explanations of the skills we are using for the Staff Dagger Build.

Staff Skills

• Serial Fire Bombs – A Fire skill that deals damage and has a high chance to inflict 2 stacks of Weaken: Burning (3 stacks for Critical Hits). Burning lasts for 12s and deals damage each second. Stacks up to 10 times. It can be used up to 3 times in a row. The casting time decreases and Mana cost increases as the skill is used consecutively. All Fire skills‘ Weaken: Burning damage is equal to Serial Flame Bombs’.
• Inferno Wave – A Fire skill that deals damage within 3m of the Target. Each stack will decrease all skills’ Cooldown, and deal bonus damage to all enemies within 3m, with a high chance to inflict Weaken: Burning, if used on the target you’ve already inflicted Burning.
• Frost Smokescreen – Creates a 4m radius that lasts for 5s where you are standing and teleport backwards for 8m. Decreases enemies’ Move Speed within the area. Can be used up to 2 times.
• Chain Lightning – A Lightning skill that deals heavy damage. Deals additional damage against a target who is Burning – more Burning stacks yields more bonus damage. Damage transfers to other enemies within a 5m radius from the target up to 3 times if the target is wet. Damage decreases every time it transfers, and it will not transfer to a target already affected. Cooldown decreases if you’re Wet.
• Icebound Tomb – Deals damage with a high chance to inflict Petrification: Freeze on the target. Has a high chance to inflict Weaken, decreasing Move Speed for enemies within 3m of the target.
• Inner Peace – Greatly increases Mana Regen for 9s. The skill becomes disabled if you move. The increase is doubled if you’re wet; Mana Cost Efficiency greatly increases for 9s after the skill is over if you’re not wet.

Dagger Skills

• Inject Venom – Adds Weaken: Poison effect to all attacks for 9s. The poison lasts 6s and deals damage each second while stopping Health Regen. Stacks up to 20 times.
• Predatory Strike – Deals heavy damage. The damage is increased by for targets under the effect of your Burning, Curse, or Poison Damage over Time.
• Shadow Strike – Moves behind a target, and deal damage. Has a high chance to inflict Bind for 2s and Silence: Poison for 6s.
• Knife Throwing – Throws 5 daggers to the designated direction up to 6 times the Attack Range. Each dagger deals damage, with a high chance of decreasing the target’s Move Speed by and Incoming Healing for 6s.
• Brutal Incision – Deals very heavy damage. Increases Critical Hit when the target’s remaining Health is 50% or less. Critical Damage increases significantly.
• Ankle Strike – Deals heavy damage, and has a very high chance to inflict Collision: Prone against Bound, Sleeping, or Stunned targets. Cannot be used while moving.

Passive Skills

Below are explanations of the passives, including how they can synergize with other passives and skills.

Staff Passives

• Manaball Eruption – Small chance to trigger an additional projectile that deals damage and inflicts Weaken: Burning (chance increased based on Mana Regen), when using Staff or Wand to do a Basic Attack.
• Asceticism – Mana Regen increases. If you are motionless for 2s, Mana Regen increases by a larger amount.
• Flame Condensation – Increases Burning damage and Duration.
• Mana Amp – Increases Max Mana and Max Health.

Dagger Passives

• Assassin’s Instincts – Increases Melee, Ranged, and Magic Critical Hit.
• Profuse Poison – Increases Poison Duration and Poison Damage during the day. Increases Poison Damage by a greater amount at night.
• Vicious Fangs – Attacking targets afflicted by your Poison, increases Melee, Ranged, Magic Critical Hit.
• Wrathful Edge – Significantly increases Critical Damage.

Skills and Passives Upgrade Priority

Upgrading Skills and Passives in the right order will make combat a lot easier in Throne and Liberty. However, it also takes quite a long because you need so-called “Growth Stones” to upgrade and the higher quality ones are difficult to get. Therefore it is important to plan ahead which skills you want to upgrade first.

Note: You unlock higher level skills already in a higher quality such as Rare or Epic. So you won’t have to upgrade all of the Skills.

Staff & Dagger Build Weapon Mastery

While you are playing with a weapon type you also gain points in Weapon Mastery for our build. This allows you to get additional perks that increase your character’s power in Throne and Liberty. This automatically progresses slowly while you are playing with your weapons equipped.

For our Throne and Liberty Staff Dagger Build we are going to focus on the Destroy section of the Staff Weapon Mastery Tree.

• Base Damage
• Magic Hit
• Fatal Incantation
• Base Damage
• Mana Regen
• Mana Intensification
• Cooldown Speed
• Damage Bonus
• Strange Spacetime

For the Dagger Weapon Mastery tree we are going to use the Assassination section.

Equipment Armour and Jewelry

When you are leveling up this build don’t worry too much about gear. The gear itself only becomes important after level 50. Therefore make sure to simply equip whatever you find and focus on leveling up your skills. Make sure to read our Throne and Liberty Equipment Guide to understand the basics of how gear works. Additionally, we also recommend reading the Throne and Liberty Gear Enchanting Guide to get an understanding of how you can improve your gear and why it is important.

Important: Getting the correct traits for each item piece is very time-consuming, even if you don’t have the perfect traits the build will still perfectly work.

The Toublek’s Thunderous Soul and Lequirus’ Thorny Edge both drop from Paola’s Dimension Chest. You get that chest from the Group Dungeons that can be accessed here on the Throne and Liberty Map.

With our setup we are going to use two different sets. We are using two pieces of the Transcendent One Set and two pieces of the Death Set. That way we can use the most beneficial stat increases for our melee build.

• Transcendent One Set
  • 2 Items: Skill Cooldown Speed +7.5%
• Death Set
  • 2 Items: Critical Damage +21%

If you like, you can click on the equipment in the tables above to learn more about them, including how you can obtain each item.

How to Play the Staff Dagger Build in TL

Now that we have explained how to create the Staff Dagger build, we will cover the best ways to play the build to get the best out of it, including combos and general tips.

Staff & Dagger Build Combos & Rotation

While you can play the Staff Dagger build on a casual level by just using random skills or spamming the same skill over and over again, the more skilled player will make the most of their skills and passives, many of which can be used in a certain order to buff the final damage output of each skill – these are known as combos.

Below are the most important combos for this build, along with a summary of how/why they work.

• Inject Venom -> Serial Fire Bombs -> Inferno Wave -> Chain Lightning
  • Poisoning the target with Inject Venom gives you bonuses when attacking them thanks to your Dagger passives, such as increased Critical Hit chance. Serial Fire Bombs and Inferno Wave inflict stacks of Burning onto the target, and each stack of Burning converts into a 9% damage bonus on your Chain Lightning.

Archer Tips & Tricks

• Don’t focus too much on gear early on. Gear farming only becomes important after you hit max level.
• Get equipment that gives you extra Max Health or stat buffs at the beginning.
• Always keep track of your cooldowns, especially on the high cooldown Skills.

Update Log

08.01.2024 Added Staff & Dagger Build for Throne and Liberty.
22.02.2024 Updated the Staff Dagger Build

Related Guides:

• Throne and Liberty Builds List
• Staff Builds for Throne and Liberty
• Dagger Builds for Throne and Liberty