Best Sword and Shield / Wand Build (PvE)

This is a guide on the Sword and Wand build for PvE in Throne and Liberty (TL). Read on to learn how to use the Sword and Wand build, including the best gears to equip, skill rotations, runes, traits, and more.

Attention!	This build is based on the Korean version of the game with some adjustments to match the features available in Global. We’re working on updating our builds to be fully accurate for the Global release. Thank you for your patience!

Sword / Wand Build Overview

Build Summary

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Equipment			Mastery			Guardian			Rotations

Build Summary
Sword and Wand	Focus: Mobbing, DPS, Tank, PvE Stat Priority: Strength, Wisdom
Skill Setup
Pros	Cons
Lots of CC Lots of healing High durability and survivability	Low damage Mana heavy

This build makes use of Sword and Wand weapons to create a well-balanced Melee and Magic build. It's effective against groups of enemies, allowing for faster farming and leveling.

Prioritize improving Strength first to maximize durability, then Wisdom for mana.

Skills and Specialization

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Summary				Skills				Weapons
Equipment			Mastery			Guardian			Rotations

Active Skills
Shield Strike				Piercing Attack
Counter Barrier				Cooldown ▼
Provoking Roar				Cooldown ▼ Effect Duration ▲
Stalwart Bastion				-
Annihilating Slash				Range ▲ Consecutive Use Movespeed Reduction
A Shot at Victory				Boost Effects Annihilation Blade
Touch of Despair				Curse Effect Duration ▲ Range ▲
Curse Explosion				Additional Damage Boost
Swift Healing				Consecutive Use Healing Transfer
Corrupted Magic Circle				Bonus Damage Decaying Touch
Blessed Barrier				-
Invincile Wall				-
Passive Skills
Resilient Mind		Aegis Shield		Spectrum of Agony		Impenetrable
Devotion and Emptiness		Wraith's Beckon		Noble Revival		Selfless Soul
Defensive Skill
Shield Survival Technique

Active Skills Explantion

Shield Strike (Piercing Attack), Provoking Roar (with the help from Spectrum of Agony), Annihilating Slash, A Shot at Victory (Annihilation Blade), Curse Explosion, and Corrupted Magic Circle (Decaying Touch) all deal area damage that's useful for clearing waves and are the build's primary damage skills.

Touch of Despair's Range ▲ skill specialization allows the skill to affect two (2) more targets around the initial target. It also amplifies Curse Explosion's damage.

Counter Barrier, Stalwart Bastion, Swift Healing, Blessed Barrier, and Invincile Wall all provide durability and survivability while clearing waves or fighting bosses.

Focus on leveling up Shield Strike, Touch of Despair, and Swift Healing first since other skills will revolve around them, then the rest can be prioritized based on preference.

Passive Skills Explanation

Resilient Mind, Aegis Shield, and Impenetrable provide durability and survivability, especially when clearing waves.

Spectrum of Agony indirectly turns Provoking Roar into a damage skill since it deals damage to enemies inflicted with Provoke.

Devotion and Emptiness, Wraith's Beckon, Noble Revival, and Selfless Soul all improve healing, and curse-inflicting skills.

Focus on leveling up Resilient Mind, Spectrum of Agony, Impenetrable, Devotion and Emptiness first since most skills can benefit from them.

Best Weapons

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Summary				Skills				Weapons
Equipment			Mastery			Guardian			Rotations

Primary Weapon
Karnix's Netherblade	・Max Health ・Health Regen ・Hit Max Health

Karnix's Netherblade also provides Strength and Max Health with bonus damage against Humanoid enemies.

Traits and resonance all focus on improving durability via HP.

Secondary Weapon
Tevent's Grasp of Withering	・Hit ・Mana Regen ・Cooldown Speed Max Health

Tevent's Grasp of Withering provides Wisdom for more mana, Cooldown Speed for faster cooldowns, and a bit of Critical Hit for damage.

Traits focus mainly on allowing more frequent skill use while the resonance lean more towards durability.

Best Armors and Accessories

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The armors and accessories selected and their traits and resonance provide a good balance of HP and mana for durability and skill usage. In particular, having Shock Commander Plate Armor and Shock Commander Greaves gives extra durability due to their set effect.

Best Weapon Mastery

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Summary				Skills				Weapons
Equipment			Mastery			Guardian			Rotations

Sword	・Provoke and Counter (9 Pts) ・Collision (6 Pts)
Wand	・Damage (9 Pts) ・Recovery (3 Pts) ・Weaken (3 Pts)

For Sword, putting 9 points to Provoke & Counter provides more durability and survivability with a little buff duration. Meanwhile, having 6 points to Collision gives a decent mix of offense and defense.

For Wand, putting 9 points to Damage improves damage, mana, and skill usage. Meanwhile, having 3 points to Recovery and Weaken gives a variety of small improvements.

Best Guardian

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Currently under construction, so please stay tuned!

Skill Rotations and Playstyle

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How to Play Sword and Shield / Wand Build
Mob Clearing Skill Rotation Single Target Burst/Boss Fight Skill Rotation Survivability Skill Rotation

Mob Clearing Skill Rotation

▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ (Annihilation Blade) ▶ x2

This acts as the build's main mob clearing or farming combo. Counter Barrier will give a bit of durability via Aegis Shield and perform counterattacks when evading attacks, using Shield Block, or blocking with a Defensive skill against attackers. Provoking Roar will deal the initial burst damage via Spectrum of Agony.

Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle will inflict enemies with Weaken: Curse. Curse Explosion will deal another burst damage and improve the effects of Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle.

A Shot at Victory's Annihilation Blade skill specialization will deal one more burst damage and increase the damage of all Sword skills. Annihilating Slash will finish off targets.

Single Target Burst/Boss Fight Skill Rotation

▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ (Piercing Attack) ▶ x2

This is very simillar to the Mob Clearing Skill Rotation but has a few tweaks in skills and skill specialization. Counter Barrier will give a bit of durability via Aegis Shield and perform counterattacks when evading attacks, using Shield Block, or blocking with a Defensive skill against attackers.

Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle will inflict enemies with Weaken: Curse. Curse Explosion will deal the initial burst damage and improve the effects of Touch of Despair and Corrupted Magic Circle.

A Shot at Victory will deal another burst damage and increase the damage of all Sword skills. Shield Strike (Piercing Attack) and Annihilating Slash will deal the final damage. The specialization points spent on A Shot of Victory's Annihilation Blade can be transferred to other skills instead.

Survivability Skill Rotation

▶ ▶ ▶

This is the build's skill rotation for surviving battles. Counter Barrier and Blessed Barrier provides durability via increased Defenses while Invincile Wall grants a shield. Spamming Swift Healing after using Blessed Barrier increases the skill's healing.

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