Ultimate Throne and Liberty Dagger Build Guide: Skills, Stats, Gear, and More

In Throne of Liberty, players have the opportunity to create various unique Dagger builds, but determining the best one can be challenging. The effectiveness of your build relies heavily not only on the skills and gear you select but also on the choice of your secondary weapon.

Among all the weapons available in Throne of Liberty, the Dagger is particularly notable for its versatility, especially when used as an off-hand weapon.

This article will delve into the optimal skills, attributes, weapons, and armor needed to maximize your damage per second (DPS) with the ultimate Dagger build in this MMORPG.

Best Dagger Weapon Combo Build in Throne of Liberty

Throne and Liberty landscape — Source: Dexerto

To excel in a DPS role, solely relying on the Dagger won’t suffice. The best Dagger build features a powerful combination of the Longbow and Dagger. The Longbow currently reigns as the top choice for DPS roles within the game meta, and when paired with the Dagger, this combination becomes truly formidable.

Recommended Stat Priorities

Dexterity
Wisdom
Perception
Strength

In Throne of Liberty, players utilizing a Longbow and Dagger build should prioritize the Dexterity stat, as it enhances attack speed, critical strike chance, and evasion, as well as contributes to the maximum damage for both weapons.

Your next priorities should be Wisdom, followed by Perception, with Strength being the least important. Wisdom aids in maximizing mana, mana regeneration, and cooldown reduction, while Perception directly impacts hit chance and buff duration.

Best Active, Passive, and Defense Skills

When selecting the ideal Active, Passive, and Defense skills for this Longbow and Dagger build, the primary focus should be increasing your critical hit chance and critical damage. Additionally, skills for crowd control to immobilize enemies will be crucial, as will abilities that provide bonuses when attacking bound foes.

Defensive skills that allow for self-healing and healing allies are essential for survivability, along with maintaining mana regeneration to fuel your abilities.

Active Skills

Ensnaring Arrow (Longbow): Damages and binds the target. Against bosses immune to bind, it shackles them instead.
Zephyr’s Nock (Longbow): High damage output with minimal mana cost and cooldown, dealing more damage the farther from the target.
Deadly Marker (Longbow): High chance to mark the target, increasing critical strike chances of you and your allies while reducing cooldowns on critical hits.
Inject Venom (Dagger): Applies poison for damage over time, adding duration with each stack.
Brutal Incision (Dagger): Strikes for increased critical damage (20%), particularly effective against monsters with low health.
Nature’s Blessing (Longbow): Provides health and mana regeneration to the party while countering weakness effects.
Decisive Bombardment (Longbow): Deals significant damage, enhanced based on charge time, and inflicts extra damage against monsters.
Camouflage Cloak (Dagger): Activates stealth and negates bind effects and speed debuffs; guarantees a critical hit on the first attack while stealthed.
Strafing (Longbow): Fires four arrows, enhancing damage against monsters, and can be reused quickly at reduced mana cost.
Vampiric Strike (Dagger): Damages but also restores a portion of your health.
Brutal Arrow (Longbow): A single arrow drops to deal damage within a three-meter radius, enhancing damage on nearby targets.
Shadow Strike (Dagger): Attacks an enemy from behind while binding and silencing them, also inflicting poison damage.

Passive Skills

Rapidfire Stance (Longbow): Increases attack speed and hit chance while standing still.
Destructive Fang (Dagger): When hitting poisoned targets, it has a chance to reduce their defenses.
Steady Aim (Longbow): Boosts critical hit chances against bound or shackled enemies.
Assassin’s Instincts (Dagger): Increases critical hit chances.
Wrathful Edge (Dagger): Enhances critical hit damage.
Earth’s Blessing (Longbow): Improves health regeneration over time.
Sniper’s Sense (Longbow): Raises critical hit chances and damage at greater distances.
Assassin’s Step (Dagger): Killing an enemy boosts mana regeneration and movement speed temporarily, making the first skill used free of mana cost during this time.

Defense Skill

Block Blade (Dagger): Provides defense against enemy attacks, regenerating mana when standing still and becoming stealthy, with your first attack while stealthed being a critical hit.

Skill Upgrade Progression

Throne and Liberty best dagger build combat — Source: NCSOFT

To enhance your skills, you can use Skill Growth Books to upgrade both Active and Passive skills from uncommon to rare and then to epic quality. Prioritize upgrading the following skills:

Active Skill Upgrades

Zephyr’s Nock
Decisive Sniping
Inject Venom
Shadow Strike
Ensnaring Arrow
Nature’s Blessing

Passive Skill Upgrades

Assassin’s Instincts
Assassin’s Step
Steady Aim
Sniper’s Sense
Earth’s Blessing
Rapidfire Stance

Best Skill Specialization

At level 15, players begin earning Skill Specialization points, which can be used to further enhance certain skills. Focus on specializing the following abilities:

Strafing
- Gale: Applies Gale to targets, exploding on the 10th stack for area damage.
- Consecutive Use: Allows a second use.
Zephyr’s Nock
- Damage Increase: Consuming Gale stacks deals additional damage.
- Cooldown: Consuming Target stacks reduces cooldowns.
Shadow Strike
- Range: Extends the attack range.
- Effect Accumulation: Applies Thunderclouds on hit.
Ensnaring Arrow
- Cooldown Reset: Has a chance to reset cooldown on kills from a distance.
Nature’s Blessing
- Vitality: Boosts health and health regeneration effects on targets.
- Whirlpool Attribute: Creates a movement-boosting whirlpool area.
Inject Venom
- Duration: Extends poison or Thunderclouds duration.
- Cooldown: Reduces cooldown.
Brutal Arrow
- Radius Increased: Expands attack range.
- Gale Area: Creates an area of damage on drop locations that explodes on the 10th stack.
Camouflage Cloak
- Immune to CC: Grants immunity to crowd control while active.
- Cooldown: Reduces the skill’s cooldown.

Best Weapons and Gear

Throne and Liberty character — Source: Dexerto

As you embark on your adventure in Throne of Liberty, acquiring and upgrading gear is crucial to achieving optimal protection. Below are the recommended leveling weapons and gear for the early stages of your journey, all of which should be at least uncommon (green) level.

Slot	Best Item	Stats	Attributes	Source
Head	Augmented Leather Headgear	Melee Defense: 40 Ranged Defense: 40	Dexterity: +1 Ranged Endurance: +50	– Enemies: Hermit Crab – Container: Uncommon Headgear Chest – Craftable
Chest Armor	Reinforced Buckskin Jerkin	Melee Defense: 52 Ranged Defense: 48	Hit Chance: +25 Strength: +1	– Enemies: Imp Lancer, Enchanted Imp Lancer – Container: Lv.6 Uncommon Top Selection Chest – Craftable
Pants	Ironclad Plate Greaves	Melee Defense: 42 Ranged Defense: 46	Collision Chance: +18 Critical Hit Chance: +20	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Marsharks, Relic Robber Goblins, Fanged Boars – Craftable
Cloak	Cloak of Battle	Melee Defense: 16 Ranged Defense: 14	Critical Hit Chance: +35 Health Regen: +7.5	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Infiltration Unit Foot Soldiers, Marsharks, Worker Spiders – Container: Lv.6 Uncommon Cloak Selection Chest – Craftable
Gloves	Armored Suede Bracers	Melee Defense: 30 Ranged Defense: 30	Bind Chance: +50 Hit Chance: +5	– Enemies: Infiltration Unit Archers, Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Relic Robber Goblins, Marsharks, Acid Ants, Starlight Fireflies – Container: Uncommon Gloves Chest – Craftable
Boots	Augmented Leather Boots	Melee Defense: 30 Ranged Defense: 30	Dexterity: +2 Max Health: +35	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Plateau Goats, Relic Robber Goblins, Marsharks, Desert Flowers, Temitran – Container: Uncommon Shoes Chest – Craftable
Necklace	Necklace of Foresight	Magic Defense: 60	Mana Regen: +18.75 Ranged Evasion: +40	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Dry Branch Soldiers, Relic Robber Goblins, Marsharks, Benny, Orc Fighters – Containers: Uncommon Accessory Chest, Lv.6 Uncommon Accessories Chest, Growth Support Chest Lv.10 – Craftable
Bracelet	Bracelet of Buffering	Magic Defense: 60	Ranged Evasion: +60 Weaken Resistance: +18	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Marsharks, Relic Robber Goblins, Deadly Mandrakes – Container: Uncommon Accessory Chest – Craftable
Ring 1	Ring of Impact	Magic Defense: 60	Critical Hit Chance: +25 Health Regen: +15	– Enemies: Grayclaw Sentries, Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Excavating Golems, Marsharks, Gray Lycans, Gray Wolves – Container: Uncommon Accessory Chest – Craftable
Ring 2	Ring of Precision	Magic Defense: 60	Hit Chance: +20 Melee Evasion: +50	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Combat Golems, Relic Robber Goblins, Marsharks, Iron Chestaceans – Container: Uncommon Accessory Chest – Craftable
Belt	Belt of Deftness	Magic Defense: 60	Health Regen: +11.25 Ranged Evasion: +60	– Enemies: Enraged Guardian Spirits of Intelligence, Marsharks, Relic Robber Goblins, Benny, Orc Fighters – Container: Uncommon Accessory Chest – Craftable
Main Weapon	Hunter Longbow	19-74	Bind Chance: 87 Critical Hit Chance: 20	– Enemies: Skeleton Archers, Giant/Decaying Ravenous Zombies – Craftable – Received after completing Chapter 1 Story Codex
Off-hand Weapon	Parrying Stilettos	14-39	Hit Chance: 50 Mana Regen: 30	Enemies: Giant/Ancient Crystal Scorpions, Expert Graverobber – Craftable