Best Scorpion Dagger / Crossbow Build (PvE)

This is a guide on the Scorpion Crossbow and Dagger build for PvE in Throne and Liberty (TL). Read on to learn how to use the Scorpion Dagger and Crossbow build effectively to burst down mobs and bosses, including the best gears to equip, skill rotations, runes, traits, and more.

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Scorpion Crossbow / Dagger Build Overview

Build Summary

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Build Summary
Dagger and Crossbow	Focus: Mobbing, DPS, Bosses Stat Priority: Dexterity, Wisdom
Skill Setup
Pros	Cons
Excellent DPS High Mobility Decent AOE Damage	Mana Hungry

With excellent mobility, high attack speed, and plenty of multi-hit attacks, this build is perfect for building up Thundercloud stacks and detonating them with Brutal Incision. Specializations allow this build to deal damage to multiple targets, allowing it to shred mobs and bosses alike with ease.

Stat Allocation

Stat	Total	Points From Lvl.	Points From Gear
Strength	17	0	7
Dexterity	52	11	31
Wisdom	50	22	18
Perception	40	14	16

Note: Base stats are always 10!

Focus on getting Dexterity and Wisdom to 50. This will increase the damage dealt by the skills, while providing much needed Mana and cooldown reduction. The rest of the points are used to increase Perception.

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Skills and Specialization

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Active Skills
Inject Venom ▼ Lightning Infusion		Effect Duration ▲ Cooldown ▼ Resource Cost ▼ Lightning Infusion
Brutal Incision ▼ Thunderclouds Bombing		Cooldown ▼ Thunderclouds Bombing
Mana Exchange		Stamina Recovery
Shadow Strike		Effect Accumulation
Nimble Leap		Immune Consecutive Use
Knife Throwing ▼ Lightning Throw		Additional Hit Cooldown ▼ Lightning Throw
Weak Point Shot		-
Mortal Mark		Stamina Stagnation Chain Effects
Merciless Barrage ▼ Annihilation Barrage Shot		Annihilation Barrage Shot
Recoil Shot		Off-Hand Weapon Attack ▲
Multi-Shot ▼ Rapid Shot		Rapid Shot
Frenzied Sword Dance		-
Passive Skills
Piercing Strike	Wrathful Edge	Destructive Fang	Assassin's Instincts
Corrupt Nail	Murderous Energy	Eagle Vision	Ambidexterity
Defensive Skill
Block Blade

Multi-hit attacks are where this build really shines, so they are prioritised in this build. Skills such as Knife Throwing, Frenzied Sword Dance, and Merciless Barrage allow for multiple hits and are perfect for this build.

When levelling, level up Brutal Incision first, followed by Shadow Strike and Inject Venom. The build will come together as you level, so prioritize the most important DPS skills first as levelling progresses.

Passives are used to supplement the stacking of Thundercloud, along with significant damage boosts.

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Best Weapons

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Primary Weapon
Rex Chimaerus's Crossbows	・Attack Speed +8% ・Critical Hit +80 ・Heavy Attack Chance +80
Weapon Effect
Rex Chimaerus's Hunger	Heals 61 Health whenever making Off-Hand Weapon attacks for 6s after a successful hit with Off-Hand Weapon. Cooldown 30s.

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

Mana Exchange will be used frequently to replenish Mana reserves, so Rex Chimaerus's Crossbows are perfect for restoring lost HP. Since this build relies heavily on off-hand weapon attacks, it's easy to trigger the passive whenever it's off cooldown.

Secondary Weapon
Lequirus's Wicked Thorns	・Attack Speed +8% ・Critical Hit +80 ・Heavy Attack Chance+80
Weapon Effect
Lequirus's Gale Blade	Base Damage 50 ▲ for 3s upon using Dagger Mobility Skills.

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

The damage boost from Lequirus' Wicked Thorns can easily be maintained at all times with careful use of mobility dagger skills. This allows the user to benefit from the weapon's effect without any downtime.

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Best Armors and Accessories

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Note: All of the traits shown here are of max value!

To complement this build, it is recommended to take two pieces of the Death Set for the critical damage increase and two pieces of the Ghost Wolf Set for the bonus damage.

The rest of the gear is tuned to achieve 50 Dexterity and 50 Wisdom, while increasing the duration of buffs and reducing cooldowns. This leaves points to spend on Strength for more survivability, or Perception for more hit and damage.

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Best Weapon Mastery

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Daggers	・Assassination (9 Pts) ・Poison (6 Pts)
Crossbow	・Chain Fire (9 Pts) ・Move (6 Pts)

Assassination provides the most damage increase thanks to its passives, especially Deep Grudge and Madenning Excitement. The rest of the points go to the Poison tree for easy Thunder Cloud stacking, as well as other helpful passives along the way.

Maxing out the Chainfire tree is the best option, as all of it's passives contribute significantly to increasing DPS. The Move tree is also of great benefit, as it increases the chance of a Heavy Attack, so 6 points will be spent here.

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Best Guardian

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Best Guardian
Shade Revenant Stheno	Launches 5 projectiles at random enemies within a 10m range every second. A single enemy may be hit with multiple projectiles at the same time. Each projectile deals 52% of Base Damage.

Shade Revenant Stheno is one of the best options for Guardians when it comes to boosting DPS, as it not only deals significant damage on its own, but also benefits from Mother Nature's Protest.

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Skill Rotations and Playstyle

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

How to Play Dagger / Crossbow Build
Opening Rotation Mob Clearing Skill Rotation

Note: If the skills icons are confusing, some of the skill icons indicated here are using their specialized variants.

Opening Rotation

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Begin the every encounter by using Inject Venom first, then apply the debuffs. Nimble Leap is used to trigger the damage increasing passives. Start stacking Thundercloud stacks via skills, then trigger them with Brutal Incision.

Keep in mind that Weak Point Shot provides a critical damage increase debuff on the target when it is applied when it's trying to do a Fury attack. Applying this consistently can lead to faster clear times!

Mob Clearing Skill Rotation

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No slouch in the mobbing department, this build can deal surprisingly respectable AOE damage in a short amount of time. Wait for the opportune moment when targets are tightly packed before unleashing all of the active skills.

Finish off any surviving targets with Brutal Incision.

Stats

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Offensive Defensive Body Crowd Control Miscellaneous Item Set

Offensive Stats

Stat	Value
Melee Hit	320
Ranged Hit	400
Magic Hit	300
Melee Crit. Hit	420
Ranged Crit. Hit	360
Magic Crit. Hit	360
Ranged Heavy Attack Chance	60
Skill Damage Boost	280
Critical Damage	6%
Buff Duration	46%

Defensive Stats

Stat	Value
Melee Defense	1,492
Ranged Defense	1,678
Magic Defense	1,350
Melee Evasion	274
Ranged Evasion	104
Magic Evasion	274
Skill Damage Reduction	240
Debuff Duration	-12%

Body Stats

Stat	Value
Max Health	7,845
Max Mana	8,925
Mana Cost Efficiency	16.2%
Max Stamina	100
Move Speed	600 | 17.9%
Health Regen	101
Mana Regen	1,038.65
Stamina Regen	6.7
Cooldown Speed	36.8
Attack Speed	25.7

Crowd Control Stats

Stat	Value
Weaken Chance	400
Stun Chance	200
Petrification Chance	200
Sleep Chance	200
Silence Chance	300
Terror Chance	200
Bind Chance	200
Collision Chance	200

Miscellaneous Stats

Stat	Value
Bonus Damage	40
Range ▲	6.2%
Off-Hand Weapon Attack Chance	12%
Hit	80
Critical Hit	529
Heavy Attack Chance	160
Ranged Damage	5

Item Set Stats

Stat	Value
Death Set	Critical Damage +14% (Does not stack with other Critical Damage ▲ effects.)
Ghost Wolf Set	Bonus Damage 18

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