Best Raider Sword and Shield (SnS) / Crossbow Build (PvE)

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

Raider Sword / Wand Build Overview

Build Summary

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Build Summary
Sword and Crossbow	Focus: DPS, PvE Stat Priority: Strength, Dexterity
Skill Setup
Pros	Cons
High DPS High evasion	Gear dependent No healing Lacks AOE

This build makes use of Sword and Crossbow weapons to create a high-DPS build. It's effective in taking out single targets but lacks any area damage for faster farming.

Stat Allocation

Stat	Total	Points From Lvl.	Points From Gear
Strength	40	3	27
Dexterity	60	23	27
Wisdom	20	4	6
Perception	34	16	8

Note: Base stats are always 10!

Prioritize improving Dexterity first, then Strength. Dexterity provides damage and critical hits, which are important for the build, while Strength provides durability.

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Skills and Specialization

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Active Skills
Shield Strike ▼ Piercing Attack				Piercing Attack
Counter Barrier				Cooldown ▼
Provoking Roar				Cooldown ▼ Effect Duration ▲
Shield Throw				-
Annihilating Slash				Range ▲ Consecutive Use
A Shot at Victory ▼ Annihilation Blade				Boost Effects Annihilation Blade
Quick Fire				Cooldown ▼ Damage ▲ Min Chain Fire ▲
Mortal Mark				Detonation Mark
Selfless Diffusion				-
Mother Nature's Protest ▼ Lightning Arrow				Lightning Arrow
Merciless Barrage ▼ Annihilation Barrage Shot				Annihilation Barrage Shot
Weak Point Shot				Cooldown ▼
Passive Skills
Skillful Evasion		Resilient Mind		Aegis Shield		Spectrum of Agony
Impenetrable		Ambidexterity		Piercing Strike		Detection
Defensive Skill
Shield Survival Technique

Active Skills Explantion

All the Sword skills are the build's mobbing skills since they deal area damage with Counter Barrier acting as the build's only defensive skill.

All the Crossbow skills serve as the primary DPS source since they deal a ton of damage. However, they're effective only on single targets and solo boss fights.

Focus on leveling up Quick Fire and Mother Nature's Protest first since they're the build's primary sources of damage, then go for Shield Strike. The rest can be prioritized based on preference.

Passive Skills Explanation

Skillful Evasion, Resilient Mind, Aegis Shield, Detection, and Impenetrable all work together in providing durability and survivability, especially when mobbing.

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

Ambidexterity and Piercing Strike gives a decent amount of damage.

Focus on leveling up Spectrum of Agony, Ambidexterity, and Piercing Strike first to maximize the build's damage output. The rest can be prioritized based on preference.

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Best Weapons

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Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Primary Weapon
Karnix's Netherblade	・Hit +80 ・Critical Hit +80 ・Max Health +600

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

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

Traits and resonance all focus on improving damage with a bit of HP for durability.

Secondary Weapon
Stormbringer Crossbows	・Hit +80 ・Critical Hit +80 ・Weaken Chance +100

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

Stormbringer Crossbows provide Dexterity, Critical Hit, and Weaken Chance, which perfectly suits the build's needs.

Traits and resonance all focus on improving damage.

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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!

Shadow Harvester Mask and Shadow Harvester Boots together boosts all primary stats. But the major reason for having them together is their set's Critical Damage effect.

Phantom Wolf Tunic and Phantom Wolf Gloves together provide Strength, Dexterity, Weaken Chance, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion, and Attack Speed, which are all important for the build. Having two (2) Phantom Wolf set items also give Bonus Damage.

Supreme Devotion, Heroic Trousers of the Resistance, and all the accessories give nice improvements to other stats to balance things out.

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Best Weapon Mastery

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Summary	Skills	Weapons	Equipment
Mastery	Guardian	Rotations	Stats

Sword	・Provoke and Counter (9 Pts) ・Boss (6 Pts)
Crossbow	・Chain Fire (9 Pts) ・Move (6 Pts)

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

For Crossbow, putting 9 points to Chain Fire improves damage. Meanwhile, having 6 points to Move gives a variety of small improvements.

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Best Guardian

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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's ability launches projectiles every second, which synergizes well with the build.

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Skill Rotations

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How to Play Sword and Shield / Crossbow Build
Mob Clearing Skill Rotation Ranged DPS Skill Rotation

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

Mob Clearing Skill Rotation

▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ 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.

A Shot at Victory's Annihilation Blade skill specialization will deal another burst damage and increase the damage of all Sword skills. Shield Throw, Shield Strike (Piercing Attack), and Annihilating Slash will deal increased damage thanks to A Shot at Victory's effect.

Merciless Barrage's Annnihilation Barrage Shot skill specialization allows the skill to hit enemies in a circle rather than in a line, making it a great mobbing tool. Make sure that Mother Nature's Protest is activated when using Merciless Barrage

Ranged DPS Skill Rotation

(Active)▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶

This serves as the build's main DPS skill rotation that can be used for farming and solo boss fights. Before doing the skill rotation, always make sure that Mother Nature's Protest is activate as it will add a ton of damage. Also make sure to use Selfless Diffusion before using the damage skills to allow for faster cooldowns whenever Weaken is inflicted on an enemy.

Mortal Mark deals the first burst damage and also Weaken the target. Following it up with Quick Fire and Weak Point Shot deals another burst damage. Merciless Barrage (Annihilation Barrage Shot) will finish off the target.

Stats

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Offensive Defensive Body Crowd Control Miscellaneous Item Set

Offensive Stats

Stat	Value
Melee Hit	290
Ranged Hit	370
Magic Hit	270
Melee Crit. Hit	520
Ranged Crit. Hit	520
Magic Crit. Hit	520

Defensive Stats

Stat	Value
Melee Defense	1,647
Ranged Defense	1,623
Magic Defense	1,350
Melee Evasion	120
Ranged Evasion	1,398
Magic Evasion	1,090
Skill Damage Reduction	240
Damage Reduction	33
Debuff Duration	-18%

Body Stats

Stat	Value
Max Health	16,625
Max Mana	6,600
Mana Cost Efficiency	4%
Max Stamina	100
Move Speed	600 | 18.2%
Health Regen	201
Mana Regen	609.15
Cooldown Speed	22.8%
Attack Speed	17.9%

Crowd Control Stats

Stat	Value
Weaken Chance	749
Stun Chance	170
Petrification Chance	170
Sleep Chance	170
Silence Chance	170
Terror Chance	170
Bind Chance	247
Collision Chance	170
Stun Resistance	173

Miscellaneous Stats

Stat	Value
All Evasion	40
Shield Block Chance	35%
Reduce Damage: Shield	40%
Hit	160
Critical Hit	485
Boss Endurance	120
Ranged Damage	5

Item Set Stats

Stat	Value
Death Set	Critical Damage increases by 14%, but it cannot be applied while other set critical damage effect is being applied.
Ghost Wolf Set	Bonus Damage 18

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