Welcome to our Holy Paladin Build for Throne and Liberty. With this Tank Build, we will be using the combination of the Sword & Shield and Wand & Tome weapons to protect, support and heal allies in TL. Please keep in mind that there isn’t a specific Paladin class in Throne and Liberty. However, with the right weapons and skills, we can get very close to an actual Paladin Build.
Mainhand: Sword and Shield
Offhand: Wand & Tome
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:
Holy Paladin 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 of the Paladin Tank Build for Throne and Liberty.
Weapons Main vs Off-hand
- Main-hand: Sword & Shield
- Off-hand: Wand & Tome
Our main hand weapon is the Sword & Shield, and our off-hand weapon is the Wand & Tome. Make sure to remember that your off-hand passives stay active even if you are using your Sword & Shield skills.
Stats
The most important stats for the Holy Paladin Build are Strength, used to improve your melee damage, HP and Damage Resistance, along with Wisdom, which increases your Maximum Mana, Mana Recovery and Cooldown Reduction.
- 34 Strength
- 20 Dexterity
- 21 Wisdom
- 10 Perception
Defense Skill
Each build in Throne and Liberty can slot one defense skill. Because we are using a Sword & Shield and a Wand & Tome we can decide between two skills:
- Sword & Shield: Shield Survival Technique
- Wand & Tome: Chaos Shield
For our Paladin Tank Build we want to select the Shield Survival Technique to increase our defensive capabilities. This allows us to restore Health and increase damage mitigation. Additionally, it also provides us with a Shield that absorbs damage for us for a short time.
Skills
Below are explanations of the skills we are using for this Throne and Liberty Paladin Build. We are using a good mix of Sword & Shield and Wand & Tome Skills to both stand our ground easily against tough enemies and also be able to heal ourselves and our allies when needed.
| Skills | Skills |
|---|---|
| 1: Strike Shield | 7: Fierce Clash |
| 2: Strategic Rush | 8: Swift Healing |
| 3: Counter Barrier | 9: Cursed Nightmare |
| 4: Chain Hook | 10: Clay’s Salvation |
| 5: Provoking Roar | 11: Blessed Barrier |
| 6: Fortress | 12: Karmic Haze |
Sword & Shield Skills
- Strike Shield – Deals high damage and inflicts Weaken with a high chance for a few seconds. Also increases Heavy Attack Chance when Shield Block Chance increases.
- Strategic Rush – Charge forward and deal damage to up to 5 targets, with a high chance to inflict Push.
- Counter Barrier – For 9 seconds, increase Shield Block Chance by a lot. Successfully evading a melee attack or performing a shield block causes you to make a counterattack.
- Chain Hook – High chance to pull a target to you and reduce its Movement Speed. Using it on a monster will pull you to the monster instead.
- Provoking Roar – High chance of taunting all enemies within a small radius, forcing them to direct all of their Attacks against you.
- Fortress – Grants damage reduction to you and your party members within 10 metres, stays on even if you move out of the circle for a while.
- Fierce Clash – Deal damage to the target, with a high chance to push them. Can also push enemies who collide with the target.
Wand & Tome Skills
- Swift Healing – Restore a friendly target’s health.
- Cursed Nightmare – High chance to reduce the target’s Movement and Attack Speed, and inflict Curse: Sleep on them for a few seconds. If the Sleeping target is hit, the attack becomes a Critical Hit and Sleeping is removed.
- Clay’s Salvation – Restores the Health of all party members within range. Long cooldown.
- Blessed Barrier – Increases Melee, Ranged and Magic Defense by a lot. Incoming healing is also hugely increased. Endurance as well at night.
- Karmic Haze – Spreads the active curse from the target to up to three additional targets within a 5-metre range, with a high chance.
Passives
Below are explanations of the passives, including how they can synergize with other passives and skills. The order of how you slot the passives for your Throne and Liberty Tank build doesn’t matter.
| Passives | Passives |
|---|---|
| 1: Experienced Evasion | 5: Gerad’s Patience |
| 2: Resilient Mind | 6: Impenetrable |
| 3: Aegis Shield | 7: Morale Boost |
| 4: Spectrum of Agony | 8: Selfless Soul |
Sword & Shield Passives
- Experienced Evasion – Your Ranged and Magic Evasion are increased the closer you are to your attacker.
- Resilient Mind – Evading an attack restores Mana. Blocking an attack restores Mana equal to 18.2% of the damage blocked.
- Aegis Shield – Increases Defence for every 1% of Shield Block Chance.
- Spectrum of Agony – Whenever you successfully damage a Provoked target, you increase the Provoke duration by 0.4 seconds and deal damage to other Provoked targets.
- Gerad’s Patience – Each successful dodge or shield block increases all CC Resistance by 12.75 for 3 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times.
- Impenetrable – Increases Melee, Ranged, and Magic Defense based on the number of enemies within a 9m radius. Increases Melee, Ranged, and Magic Defense by 299 if there are 2 or fewer enemies within range, by 400 if there are 3 to 6 enemies, and by 820 if there are 7 or more enemies.
- Morale Boost – Colliding the target with another decreases the remaining cooldown of all skills by 20%. Each subsequent collision in the chain reduces remaining cooldown of skills by an additional 4.5%.
Wand & Tome Passives
- Selfless Soul – Increases Mana Regen by 23.4 and Skill Heal by 5.1% per stack for 3s when you cast a Buff with Used Skills to an allied target. Stacks up to 10 times.
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 time 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.
We are going to focus on skills first that increase our defensive capabilities for the Throne and Liberty Tank Build. Follow this as closely as possible. However, you can make detours and it won’t affect the build much. In the end, you will max out all Skills anyway.
| Skill | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Shield Survival Technique | Uncommon | Rare |
| Strike Shield | Uncommon | Rare |
| Strike Shield | Rare | Epic |
| Strategic Rush | Uncommon | Rare |
| Strategic Rush | Rare | Epic |
| Counter Barrier | Uncommon | Rare |
| Resilient Mind | Uncommon | Rare |
| Resilient Mind | Rare | Epic |
| Swift Healing | Uncommon | Rare |
| Swift Healing | Rare | Epic |
| Cursed Nightmare | Rare | Epic |
| Counter Barrier | Rare | Epic |
| Skillful Evasion | Uncommon | Rare |
| Skillful Evasion | Rare | Epic |
| Shield Survival Technique | Rare | Epic |
| Spectrum of Agony | Rare | Epic |
| Aegis Shield | Rare | Epic |
| Provoking Roar | Rare | Epic |
| Chain Hook | Rare | Epic |
Weapon Mastery for the Paladin Tank Build
While you are playing with a weapon type you also gain points in Weapon Mastery. This allows you to get additional perks that increase your characters power in Throne and Liberty. This automatically progresses slowly while you are playing with the Sword and Shield.
For our Paladin Build in Throne and Liberty, we are going to focus on the top Provoke and Counter line. Keep adding points there until you reach the end.
- Melee Defense
- Health Regen
- Decayed Sword God (Weaken Chance increased)
- Max Health
- All Evasion
- Impregnable Stance (Shield Block Chance increased)
- Buff Duration
- Damage Reduction
- Indomitable Spirit (Stun Resistance increased)
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.
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.
| Type | Item | Needed Traits |
|---|---|---|
| Main-hand Wand & Tome | Chernobog’s Beheading Sword | Max Health, Health Regen, Melee Heavy Attack Chance |
| Off-hand Greatsword | Archpriest’s Meditation | Max Mana, Mana Regen, Magic Heavy Attack Chance |
We are using the Chief Commander Set, if you wear 4 pieces (Available in: Chest, Gloves, Pants, Boots, Helmet) of this set you get the following bonuses that are very strong for our Paladin Tank Build:
- 2 Items: Damage Reduction 22
- 4 Items: Shield Block Chance +10%
| Type | Item | Needed Traits |
|---|---|---|
| Head | Grand General’s Command Visor | Max Mana, Mana Regen, Melee Evasion |
| Cloak | Holy Warrior’s Resolve | Max Health, Health Regen, Debuff Duration |
| Chest | Grand General’s Unbeaten Armor | Max Health, Health Regen, Melee Evasion |
| Gloves | Grand General’s Strike Gloves | Health Regen, Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion |
| Pants | Grand General’s Invincibility Gaites | Max Health, Health Regen, Melee Evasion |
| Boots | Grand General’s Vanguard Boots | Max Health, Health Regen, Melee Evasion |
| Necklace | Holy Warrior’s Choker | Max Health, Health Regen, Buff Duration |
| Bracelet | Beast King’s Gilded Bracers | Max Health, Health Regen, Debuff Duration |
| Ring | Unshakeable Gold Ring | Max Health, Health Regen, Buff Duration |
| Ring | Eternal Ring of Dimension | Max Health, Health Regen, Buff Duration |
| Belt | Duke Magna’s Belt | Max Health, Health Regen, Weaken Resistance |
How to Play the Holy Paladin Build in TL
Now that we have explained how to create the Holy Paladin Tank build, we will cover the best ways to play the build to get the best out of it, including combos and general tips.
Holy Paladin Build Defense and Healing
With our Paladin Build we want to take aggro of enemies but we also want to be able to provide heals from time to time. It is key to learn how to correctly use your Shield Survival Technique to block attacks, and if you block a Fury attack you even get a shield to bolster incoming damage.
Our Counter Barrier increases Shield Block Chance a lot and once upgraded the cooldown is also shortened. Fortress is another great skill that applies Damage Reduction for yourself and your allies. However, it has a long cooldown. Only use this when you need it.
You also might have noticed that most of our passives are from the Sword & Shield skill line, this is because we want to be as tanky as possible. We can still easily heal with our active Skills such as Clay’s Salvation or Swift Healing.
Holy Paladin Build Rotation
Tank builds don’t have a real rotation, you need to react to whatever comes at you accordingly. The main important takeaway is that you use the defense Skill Shield Survival Technique when an enemy hits you with a Fury attack to restore health and gain a Magic Shield to absorb Health. Also don’t immediately trigger all your Skills, make sure to have the high cooldown Skills available when you are in a tricky situation.
Holy Paladin 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, Endurance or Evasion.
- Always keep track of your cooldowns, especially on the high cooldown Skills.
Update Log
21.12.2023 Added Holy Paladin Tank Build for Throne and Liberty.
26.01.2024 Updated the Paladin Tank Build
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