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With nearly 30 different weapon combos available to players inThrone and Liberty, there are plenty of different build options to suit every playstyle. Early in the game, players choose a primary and secondary weapon which determines the skills their character will have access to. While there are several builds that have become quite popular in the game, one of the more unique and exciting builds isthe Dagger & Staff Build, known in-game as the Spellblade.
The strongest versions of this build,like this one from TheGamer, combine the Burning (Staff) and Poison (Dagger) status effects to achieve ahigh damage output for both single-target and AoE attacks. While it will take a lot of time to find the gear you need and max out your levels and skills, it will be well worth it when you are able to challenge even the most difficult dungeons and bosses with this powerful Dagger & Staff Build.
Best Weapons For A Dagger & Staff Build
Unlock Dagger & Staff Weapon Mastery Skills
Before chasing down specific gear, you’ll want to focus on unlocking the Weapon Mastery skills that you’ll need. Allocate Weapon Mastery Points tounlock skill nodes in the middle and bottom branches of the Staff Weapon Mastery Skill Tree. After investing a point in Radiant Composure, unlock the Damage, Magic Hit Chance, Fatal Incantation, Damage, Mana Regen, and Mana Intensification skill nodes from the middle branch, and all the skill nodes in the bottom branch.
For your Daggers, you’ll also focus on skills from the middle and top branches. First, unlock Silent Dash, followed by the following skills from the top skill branch: Ranged Defense, Health Regen, Debuff Immunity, Mana Cost Efficiency, Cooldown Speed, and Master of Evasion. To complete the build, unlock all the skills from the bottom skill branch.
Best Weapon Set & Weapon Traits
For this Dagger & Staff build, there are two specific weapons to hunt down: theStaff of the Umbramancer,andLequirus’s Wicked Thorns. This combo will get you through to the endgame, but you’ll need to level them all the way up and unlock the right weapon traits for each.
Weapon Mastery effects only apply to the active skills of that specific weapon type (Staff specializations apply to staff skills and dagger specializations apply to dagger skills).In PvP modes, always hold the weapon that provides the best defensive buffsfrom its Mastery effects, which is the dagger in this build. Actively switch to your staff when you want to use ranged auto-attack.This doesn’t matter as much in PvE,so go for the convenience of having your staff equipped for the ranged auto-attack.
Once you have your weapons and max out their levels, you’ll next need to focus on Weapon Traits. For both your staff and daggers,unlock the following three traits: Hit Chance, Heavy Hit Chance, and Critical Hit Chance. If you are lucky, one of those traits will be the one unlocked when you first find or craft your weapon.
To unlock a specific trait on any item,you’ll need to find or craft a duplicate of the item that already has that trait unlocked.For example, to unlock three specific traits for Lequirus’s Wicked Thorns, you’ll need to find three different copies of the daggers, each with one of the traits you’d like unlocked. Use the"Equipment Enchanting: Trait"menu to manage and unlock the traits of your items.
Once you have managed to unlock all the correct traits,upgrade the traits to their highest level. Upgrading a trait requires you to find an item of the same type and with the same trait you want to upgrade. Once you have, you can enhance the trait from the"Equipment Enchanting"menu.
Best Gear For A Dagger & Staff Build
Start Grinding For Epic Gear
To max out the Dagger and Staff Build, you’ll need to get gear that boosts your stats and increases your chances of dealing heavy amounts of damage. There are a few methods outlined byDPJon YouTube to obtain all the gear you’ll eventually need. In addition to clearing Lv. 50 dungeons or as random drops from defeating bosses and enemies, you’ll also be able to get epic gear fromPrecious Epic Chests, Precious Blessing Pouches, and the Auction House.
As with your staff and dagger, you’ll also need tounlock and upgrade the best traits for each gear item.You’ll be doing a lot of running around and exploring to find all the gear pieces, sodon’t neglect upgrading your morphsto make exploration easier. Here are all the gear items you’ll need, the corresponding traits to unlock for each piece, and where they can be found:
Staff of the Umbramancer
Hit Chance, Heavy Attack Chance, Critical Hit Chance
Drop (Avolos Geomancer, Frenzied Avolos Geomancer, Avolos Umbramancer), Reward from Precious Equipment Chest: Desire / Precious Blessing Pouch: Desire / Morokai’s Dimensional Circle Special Gold Chest.
Lequirus’s Wicked Thorns
Cave of Destruction, Reward from Lv. 3 Paola’s Dimension Chest / Precious Weapon Selection Chest: 1-Star
Heroic Hood of the Resistance
Max Health, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion
Drop (Black Boar), Reward from Precious Blessing Pouch / Special Resistance Enchanted Headgear Selection Chest.
Plate of the Field General
Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion, Buff Duration
Death’s Abyss, Reward from Kertaki’s Armor Selection Chest / Armor Chest-Imperator / Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Salvation
Shadow Harvester Grips
Mana Regen, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion
Temple of Slaughter, Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Salvation / Shakarux’s Armor Selection Chest / Armor Chest-Death
Shadow Harvester Trousers
Drop (Junobote),Junobote Guild Dungeon Reward,Reward from Kaligras’s Armor Selection Chest / Armor Chest-Death,
Clasp of the Conqueror
Max Health, Skill Damage Boost, Buff Duration
Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss, Epic Armor Chest (Imperator, Chief Commander, Death, Ghost Wolf, Transcended One, Mother Nature)
Bracers of the Primal King
Max Health, Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration
Cave of Destruction, Reward from Lequirus’s Equipment Selection Chest / Precious Accessories and Cloack Selection Chest: 1-Star
Band of Universal Power
Mana Regen, Skill Damage Boost, Buff Duration
Drop (Queen Bellandir), Reward from Epic Armor Chest (Imperator, Chief Commander, Death, Ghost Wolf, Transcended One, Mother Nature)
Sapphire Dimensional Band
Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest / Epic Armor Chest (Ghost Wolf, Transcended One, Mother Nature)
Belt of Bloodlust
Drop (Adrius), Reward from Epic Armor Chest (Imperator, Chief Commander, Death) / Precious Blessing Pouch: Tyrant
Best Active Skills For A Dagger & Staff Build
Poison and Burning: Damage Over Time
The main mechanic for this build revolves around inflicting your enemies with Poison and Burning, which will create a large damage-over-time (DoT) effect that will bring down even the toughest enemies.Select skills and specializations that boost skill damage for opponents affected by Burning or Poison, further increasing your overall DPS output.
For your defensive skill, equip the dagger’s Block Blade,which will change to Poison Dagger when you properly time your blocks against Fury Attacks. You’ll need to level up your active skills to their max if you want to get the highest damage output. For each skill, choose specializations that will further enhance Burning or Poison effects and increase damage against Burning and Poisoned targets. These are the skills and specializations you’ll need for the Staff and Dagger build:
High Focus(Staff)
Buff
Increases Cooldown Speed for all skills and increases movement speed for duration.
Ranged AoE Damage, Burning Effect
Throw Fire Bombs inflicting damage and Burning.
Focused Fire Bombs(7), Mobility (3), Radius Increased (5), Projectile Speed Increased (3).
Inferno Wave(Staff)
Ranged AoE Damage, Burning Effect, Bonus Damage to Burning
Create a fiery explosion, inflicting damage with the chance to inflict Burning, and dealing increased damage to Burning targets.
Judgment Lightning(Staff)
Ranged AoE Damage, Bonus Damage to Burning
Inflict lightning damage on target and up to five other nearby foes. Deals increased damage to Burning targets. Landing Heavy Attacks decreases cooldown.
Chain Lightning(Staff)
Inflict lightning damage on target and up to three other nearby foes. Deals increased damage to Burning targets.
Shadow Strike(Dagger)
Close-Gap, Debuff, Escape
Moves behind target, dealing damage and inflicts Bind, and Silence: Poison.
Cleaving Moonlight(Dagger)
AoE Damage, Bonus Damage to Poison
Deals AoE damage in a 1.5 m radius 3 times, increased damage to Poisoned targets.
Brutal Incision(Dagger)
Damage, Buff, Bonus Damage to Poison
Deals damage to target, increase Critical Hit Chance by 20% (or 600% if target health is below 50%), increased damage to Poisoned targets.
Umbral Spirit(Dagger)
Buff, Bonus Damage to Poison
Increased damage done on critical hits, deals additional damage to Poisoned targets.
Frost Smokescreen(Staff)
AoE Debuff, Burning, Escape
Teleports the user 8m in a chosen direction, leaving behind a 4m wide zone which inflicts Burning and decreased movement speed on affected targets.
Camouflage Cloak(Dagger)
Escape
Enters stealth, releasing user from Bind and decreased Movement Speed effects. The first attack made from stealth will be a critical hit.
Best Passive Skills & Attributes For Dagger & Staff Build
Boosting Your Offense & Defense
Once you have maxed out your Epic gear and allocated all 49 of your attribute points, your total scores should be:Strength 55, Dexterity 30, Wisdom 30, and Perception 64. When allocating points to your base attributes, here’s where you’ll need to put them:
The passive skills that best work with this Dagger and Staff build are those that increase mana, increase damage, enhance Burning/Poison effectiveness, and boost defense.Here are the eight passives that work best with this build:
Increase Poison duration and damage.
Shadow Walker(Dagger)
Increase Damage Reduction and Ranged/Magic Evasion on use of a Mobility/Movement skill.
Destructive Fang(Dagger)
When attacking, it adds the chance to decrease defense of a Poisoned target.
Greatly increase max mana and health.
Flame Condensation(Staff)
Increase Burning damage and heavy attack chance against Burning targets.
The only passive skill that you’ll need to worry about triggering is Shadow Walker.To trigger this skill, use any of your three movement actives: Block Blade, Shadow Strike, and Frost (Burning) Smokescreen. Now that you have all the skills and specializations equipped, it’s time to put them all to use.
Skill Rotations For a Dagger & Staff Build
Start Off Ranged, Then Move In Close
When entering combat, start off at a distance with your staff. Activate High Focus and follow up with a salvo of Focused Fire Bombs and Inferno Wave,adding stacks of Burning to your target and anyone nearby. Finish off your ranged rotation with Judgment Lightning followed by Chain Lightning, deal bonus damage to burning enemies, then get ready to move in close.
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Use Inject Venom, Umbral Spirit, and then teleport in behind your target using Shadow Strike, dealing 200% damage and inflicting Bind and Poison. Now that you’re in range, lay on the damage using Cleaving Moonlight (two times) and with Brutal Incision. End with a Burning Smokescreen to re-ignite your targets and move yourself back to where you started. You can now begin the rotation again from the top. Keep up the rotation, applying Burning and Poison your enemies until there are none left standing.
If you happen to find yourself in over your head andneed to get away fast, you have a few options available to you:
Remember to re-activate High Focus as soon as you can to keep its powerful buffs active. Once you have mastered this build, you’ll be able to take on the hardest challengesThrone and Libertyhas to offer.
