Best Spear Greatsword Build for Throne and Liberty

by · November 27, 2024

Welcome to our Throne and Liberty Spear and Greatsword Build.

This is a DPS build that excels at dealing massive blows to enemies both for single target (ST) and area of effect (AoE). Spear and Greatsword synergize perfectly with each other because both are melee range and have some passives that work together. Additionally, you also have some range if needed because of Spears throwing mechanics that also stun enemies.

For a full overview of all builds please visit the Throne and Liberty Builds Database.

Since creating and fully optimising a Throne & Liberty build is a long and complex process, this guide will not only explain how to create the build and how it works, but also has early and midgame setups and suggestions about which aspects of the build to prioritize farming, crafting or upgrading.

Type: DPS
Mainhand: Spear
Offhand: Greatsword

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Table of Contents:

How to Build your Spear and Greatsword DPS Character in Throne and Liberty

Playing Throne and Liberty can be overwhelming at first. In this section, I want to explain quickly how your character build progression works in this game. Leveling up to max level is easy and won’t take long, just follow the main story purple quests and you will hit max level at the end of the story. During this period the game teaches you how to craft gear, this will allow you to get full green gear fairly fast while also working on some basic blue items.

Now you are at max level, you can get some easy wins with the Lithograph Book (Check Menu in-game). This allows you to sacrifice certain items and in return you get better items. So you can get slightly better blue gear.

Important: Now, this is where most players make a big mistake. They want to start going from blue to purple gear. But this is too early! The main strength of gear comes from attribute stats (buffs to Strength, Dexterity, etc) and traits. Fully traiting a purple item is impossible as a new player unless you swipe your credit card. Therefore, you want to first get good blue gear with good attribute stats and good traits before you even consider going after purple gear.

It is best to either bank purple items you drop or sell them at the Auction House if they are worth a lot. You don’t sell items in this game, you sell the extract of it with the trait. Traits are the most important aspect of this game and is where most of your time commitment will be.

Throne and Liberty Spear Build

You always want to level up your blue gear too. You won’t lose any materials on this, because you can transfer the level and trait power of a blue item into a Purple item. So a level 9 blue item transferred into a purple will result in a level 6 purple item. The blue traits will disappear but the purple item gets “trait blessing”. This makes it cheaper to get your purple item traited.

Once you have good blue gear, then you can think about starting to equip purple items! Finding a purple item isn’t necessarily difficult, but fully traiting and maxing it out definitely is!

Leveling up is easy, follow purple main story quest to hit max level.
While leveling, you get green items and a few blue items.
After max level, focus on getting good blue gear.
Don’t focus on purple items yet! (Rookie Mistake)
Focus on getting good blue items to max level and fully traiting them
After that, you can think about starting to equip purple items.
Max level blue gear with full traits is better than non-maxed purple gear with no traits.
Do your dailies, co-op dungeons, and public dungeons to get pouches and other loot.

This is more or less it about progressing your character. Even getting blue gear fully trained will already be a challenge. Getting purple items to max level is even more difficult and time consuming.

Once Again: A max-level blue weapon with full traits will do more damage than a max-level purple weapon without full traits in Throne and Liberty!

Leveling your Spear and Greatsword Build in Throne and Liberty

The leveling progression in Throne and Liberty is easy. Follow the main story quest (Purple Markers) and you will hit max level at the end of the story. If your level is too low at any point, complete the Exploration quests (blue markers) in the areas you just completed. During this phase, the game will also teach you how to craft gear to get all green gear with some blues at the end of the story.

During this process, you also want to get used to your skills. Make sure to read all the skills so you know what they do! Also, test the skills out on monsters or the target dummies you can find, for example, in Vienta Village.

Once you are max level you should focus on getting good blues before you go for purple gear. I explained this above in the How to build your Character section. Maxed out blue gear with full traits is stronger than max level purple gear without maxed out traits. Blue gear is also a lot easier to get, see the Gear Progressions section of our Throne and Liberty Spear and Greatsword DPS Build.

Leveling Skills and Gear in Throne and Liberty

Throne and Liberty Gear Progression

While leveling up, you will get plenty of upgrade materials, but eventually, you will have a shortage of these. So here are a few important tricks to keep progressing as fast as possible with your character build in Throne and Liberty.

Skills Progression:

Upgrade all skills from green to blue first
Upgrade all skills from blue to purple next
Dissolve purple growth materials to get 10x the amount of the lower quality. That means 1 purple growth material will get you 10 blue growth materials.
Doing Exploration quests will give you plenty of upgrade materials.
Purchasing the Leveling Pass and Battle Pass will also give you plenty of growth materials. You can sell items in the Auction House to get Lucent without spending real money.
Inside the store there is a section with Ornate coins where you can also purchase growth materials. Purchase the purple materials and dissolve them instead of buying blue materials directly (which is a lot more expensive).
Ornate Coins are often received for maintenance downtime and other things like events.

Gear Progression:

Green to Blue: A max level 6 green item infused into a blue item will become a level 3 blue.
Blue to Purple: A max level 9 blue item infused into a purple item will become a level 6 purple.
Fully gear yourself with blue items and trait them before you consider going purple. (Takes weeks or months).
Look out for good blue items that give attribute stat points that you need for your build.
A max-level blue weapon with full traits will do more damage than a max-level purple weapon without full traits.
Dissolve purple growth materials to get 10x the amount of the lower quality. That means 1 purple growth material will get you 10 blue growth materials.
Doing Exploration quests will give you plenty of upgrade materials.
Purchasing the Leveling Pass and Battle Pass will also give you plenty of growth materials. You can sell items in Auction House to get Lucent without spending real money.
Inside the store there is a section with Ornate coins where you can also purchase growth materials. Purchase and dissolve the purple materials instead of buying blue materials directly (which is a lot more expensive).
Ornate Coins are often received for maintenance downtime and other things like events.