Best Throne and Liberty Tank Build Sword/Shield and Greatsword

Welcome to our Throne and Liberty Tank Build. With this Tank build, we will be using the combination of the Sword/Shield and Greatsword weapons to protect allies and support the group with both a bossing and mobbing setup.

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Our Brawler style Tank Build with SS/GS setup takes advantage of the strengths of both weapons to aim for high health and heavy attack chance. Additionally, we can provide great support to the group.

Table of Contents:

How to build your Character [Important]
Leveling Character
Leveling Skills and Gear
Skill Setups

Bossing
Mobbing
Upgrade Priority
Weapon Mastery

Attribute Stat Priority
Gear Progression

Early Game
Mid Game
End Game

Guardians
Buff Food & Potions

How to Build your 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 and you want to get some easy wins with the Lithograph Book (Check Menu ingame). 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 and traits. Fully traiting a purple item is impossible as a new player unless you slide 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.

You always want to level up your blue gear too. You won’t lose any “mats” 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. And the blue traits will disappear but the purple item gets “trait blessing”. This basically 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 go 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 Tank 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. During this phase, the game will also teach you how to craft gear so you can 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 skills so you know what they do! Also, make sure to test the skills out on monsters or the target dummies you can find, for example, in Vienna Village.

Once you are max level you want to focus on getting good blues before you go 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 obviously, see the Gear Progressions section of our Throne and Liberty Tank Build.

Leveling Skills and Gear in Throne and Liberty

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 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.
This was implemented so your materials aren’t “wasted.”
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.

Skill Setups for our Tank Build in Throne and Liberty

Now, let’s look at the skill setups for our Throne and Liberty Tank Build. The game allows you to save several setups, make sure you have one for Bossing/Dungeons and one for Mobbing (Overland and Public Dungeons).

Bossing: More focused on defense
Mobbing: More focused on pulling everything and dealing some damage

For both setups on our Throne and Liberty 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. It also provides us with a Shield that absorbs damage for us for a short time.

Bossing

The Bossing setup for our Throne and Liberty Tank build is focused on being able to tank all bosses and also provide some support to the group. Our main focus is keeping the aggro of big monsters and bosses with Piercing Strike (Base Skill: Shield Strike) and Provoking Roar as well as pulling monsters inside the group for more damage with Chain Hook. Additionally, we also run Gaia Crash that increases the attack speed of the whole group!

Skill Changes via Skill Specialization:

Shield Strike > Piercing Strike
Valiant Brawl > Cruel Smite
Blood Devotion > Devoted Sanctuary

For the rotation, do the following:

DaVinci’s Courage
Piercing Strike
Devoted Sanctuary
Provoking Roar
Willbreaker
Gaia Crash
Guillotine Blade
Piercing Strike
Cruel Smite

ATK Speed Buff: DaVinci’s Courage is your best support skill because it buffs your groups attack speed by a lot for a short duration.

Aggro: Maintain aggro with Piercing Strike and Cruel Smite.

Bossing Passives

Mobbing

The Mobbing setup for our Tank build is focused on positioning enemies in a tight spot for maximum AoE damage while also being able to debuff them and soak up all incoming damage.

Skill Changes via Skill Specialization:

Gaia Crash > Frost Cleaving
Shield Strike > Piercing Strike
Valiant Brawl > Cruel Smite
Devastating Tornado > Ice Tornado

Mobbing Passives

The mobbing passives are essentially the same as Bossing, except the last passive has changed. Now, we use Morale Boost, which lowers the cooldown of our skills when we collide with enemies.

Skill Upgrade Priority

Progressing your skills in Throne and Liberty takes time. Therefore it is important to first get all your used skills from green quality to blue quality. Green to blue is achieved fairly easily. After that, start going from blue to purple.

Tip: At the beginning, it makes sense to dissolve purple upgrade materials. Because 1 purple material will give you 10 blue materials. This way you can progress the blue quality faster. You could dissolve this even further, so technically, 1 purple upgrade material results in 100 green upgrade materials. Of course you can also craft some books, but dissolving is far more efficient than anything else.

Dissolve Upgrade Mats: 1 Purple > 10 Blue > 100 Green

IMPORTANT: Don’t dissolve OMNIPOTENT books (Purple growth books, says in the text on the book). These are special and can only be used for your special level 50 skills.

So that leaves us with a priority list for our Throne and Liberty Tank Build related to how to progress skills.

Priority 1: Get all used skills from green to blue (if necessary, dissolve purple growth materials into blue and then into green like explained above.
Priority 2: Get all skills from blue level 1 to purple level 1. This takes a bit more time. (Once again, dissolve purple growth materials into blue to get plenty of blue books.
Priority 3: Purple skill progression to level 5: Shield Survival Technique > Robust Constitution (Passive) > Resilient Mind (Passive) > Aegis Shield (Passive).

The reason we want to push as many skills to purple as possible, is because they often gain a new effect when going to a higher quality. Therefore, we want to achieve this as fast as possible with as many skills. Afterwards from purple level 1 to max purple there are only small differences.

Time estimate: Going from green to blue can be achieved after the end of the story + a few exploration quests. Going from blue to purple is a lot more tricky and might take 1-2 months. Going from purple level 1 to max purple will take months but isn’t that important since you only gain small extra stat boosts.

Weapon Mastery

The Weapon Mastery stays the same for all our Throne and Liberty Tank Setups. With our Sword and Shield Mastery we focus on damage mitigation, higher health and buff and debuff chance. For our Greatsword Mastery, we focus on damage.

Leveling up the Weapon Mastery to max 16 points takes a long time. You should be able to get to 8/9/10 fairly fast, but afterward, it starts dragging.

 

Attribute Stat Priority for our Tank Build

Our tanks main attribute is Strength. This stat will increase your health. Secondary stats that you need to focus on are Dexterity, Wisdom and Perception.

While changing gear, always make sure to get to either 30/40/50/60 or 70 points, because you gain special bonuses for hitting these numbers.

Now you might wonder how the heck do I get to 70? A lot of mid game and endgame gear gives stat bonuses. For example, the Karnix’s Netherblade at max level gives you an extra 10 Strength. By combining the right gear and using your stat points to juggle around the rest to meet the threshold levels, you can easily go 70 Strength and 50 Dexterity, for example.

The image blow shows you the bonuses you get from 30/40/50/60/70.

Gear Progression for our Throne and Liberty Tank Build

The most difficult part of any build is the gear progression. This is where you will spend most of your time. With this Throne and Liberty Tank Build we will have three different setups, Early Game, Mid Game and Endgame. It is important to understand that any gear is placeholder gear until the endgame setup. However, getting the End Game setup is no easy task because the items all drop in different parts of the game.

Important: Fully leveled blue gear with max traits is stronger than fully leveled purple gear with no traits. I mentioned this above in the Leveling Skills and Gear section.

That means it is best to focus on getting good blue items that give you extra stats (mid-game). After you have all that, you want to start farming for the end-game gear. Getting purple items is often not even the problem, but traiting them is insanely expensive, especially for meta gear.

You will find three different setups below:

Early Game Setup: Easy to get gear from your Lithograph Book
Mid Game Setup: Co-Op Dungeon and Public Dungeon Gear
End Game Setup: Co-Op Dungeon and World Boss Gear

Early Game Setup

The Early Game setup for the Throne and Liberty Tank Build can be obtained very faster after you start doing your dailies. It is important to understand that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have all the pieces. Generally, aim to get as many blue items as possible here fast. I call this “quick wins” because it is easy to get these blue items since most come from the Lithograph Book in Throne and Liberty.

IMPORTANT: By doing your dailies you get Contract Coins (Always do them in high level areas for max gains). With the Contract Coins, you can buy Quality Lithographs: Weapons, Accessories, and Armor. These can be used to craft green items you put into your Lithograph Book to get blue items. This is how you get your first blue items easily!

LB = Lithograph Book

Every time you have enough materials to craft an item, immediately go for it.

Mid Game Setup

The Mid Game setup for our Throne and Liberty Tank Build is where you will spend most of your time because it is incredibly hard to get End Game equipment.

Don’t grind just one dungeon for loot! This is the number one mistake of getting gear from Co-Op Dungeons. There is a mathematically faster way to get gear from dungeons.

In Stonegard there are purple item crafters (Map).
Check all of them and read carefully what you need to craft items (Also check the Treasure Chests!)
To craft purple dungeon weapons you need 2 Dimensional Essence: Salvation
For each Dungeon completion, you get 4 Dimensional Soul Shards when you open a chest at the end.
That means, if you run each dungeon 5 times you can craft the weapon of your choice.
Purple Jewelry can be obtained via Chests from the Accessories Crafter in Stonegard too (Map).

It is mathematically faster to rotate dungeons and then simply craft the purple item of your choice rather than getting a lucky drop at 2-5% drop chance.  

Auction House: Check the Auction house for blue item lithographs. Sometimes they can be cheap so you can buy it and craft the item directly.

That means getting the items below is mostly farming Co-Op Dungeons and doing Public Dungeons to get enough currency to craft the purple items. Blue item drop chances are mostly fine in dungeons so you should be able to get them eventually. But focus on the purple items!

Best in slot traits:

Karnix’s Netherblade: Max Health, Heavy Attack Chance, Hit Chance
Duke Magna’s Provoking Warblade: Max Health, Heavy Attack Chance, Hit Chance
Supreme Devotion: Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration, Mana Regen
Shock Commander Plate Armor: Max Health, Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion
Clasp of the Conqueror: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost
Ancient Saurodoma Bracers: Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration
Etched Alabaster Band: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost
Amber Dimensional Band: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost

For the blue gear it doesn’t matter that much because it will be replaced, but if you can go with Max Health traits.

End Game Setup

The End Game Setup for the Throne and Liberty Tank Build is the best in slot setup that you want to aim for. This will take a long time to achieve. You might be able to get the items needed in a decent time, but traiting them is incredibly time consuming.

Getting World Boss loot is very difficult unless you have a good guild that splits up the loot. If you aren’t in a guild it is very unlikely that you will manage to get any endgame gear unless you buy most of it via the Auction House.

Our goal is to get 2 items of the Field General to get the Imperator Set 2 piece bonus. We also want to get 2 pieces of Shock Commander.

Field General Imperator Set:

2 Piece Bonus: 150 Melee Heavy Attack Chance

Shock Commander Set:

2 Piece Bonus: 18 Damage Reduction

Best in slot traits:

Karnix’s Netherblade: Max Health, Heavy Attack Chance, Hit Chance
Duke Magna’s Provoking Warblade: Max Health, Heavy Attack Chance, Hit Chance
Helm of the Field General: Max Health, Cooldown Speed, Melee Evasion
Forsaken Embrace: Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration, Mana Regen
Shock Commander Plate Armor: Max Health, Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion
Gauntlets of the Field General: Max Health, Attack Speed, Melee Evasion
Ebon Roar Greaves: Max Mana, Debuff Duration, Melee Evasion
Shock Commander Sabatons: Max Health, Ranged Evasion, Melee Evasion
Clasp of the Conqueror: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost
Ancient Saurodoma Bracers: Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration
Etched Alabaster Band: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost
Amber Dimensional Band: Max Health, Buff Duration, Skill Damage Boost
Belt of Bloodlust: Max Health, Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration

Guardians for your Tank Build in Throne and Liberty

Guardians are special transformations that have a 10 minute cooldown. They have various effects; for our tank build, the only viable Guardian is Lady Knight Kamarshea. Creates a shield for 50% of the user’s Max Mana. Cooldown Speed increases by 40% while the Shield is up. The summon ends when the Shield is removed.

Lady Knight Kamarshea is acquired in the Manawastes from the Demon’s Test in Throne and Liberty.

All Guardians: Throne and Liberty Guardians List

Buff Food & Potions

Buff Food and Potions are an important part of any Throne and Liberty Build. It is recommended to level up cooking because some of the later buff foods are very strong. However, for most content right now Vegetable Stir-fry will do. It increases your Max Health and Health Regen for 15-30 minutes.

Related Guides:

Throne and Liberty Builds List
Paladin Tank Build for Throne and Liberty

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