Best Beginner Build in Throne and Liberty – Longbow Greatsword Ranger

This guide is for a beginner-friendly Throne and Liberty build that combines the Longbow and Greatsword to create a versatile and powerful Ranger setup. With strong mobility, self-healing, and high damage output, this build excels at questing, open-world exploration, solo dungeons, and even group content. Let’s dive into the details of this build.

Attributes

To start, here’s how you should allocate your attribute points for the Ranger build:

Wisdom (Gear Dependent): Wisdom improves your Mana pool, Mana regeneration, and cooldown reduction. Gear bonuses from the Longbow of the World Tree add Wisdom naturally, so you can focus on Dexterity and Strength early on.

Dexterity (30 points): This is your primary stat, boosting critical hit chance, max damage, and evasion. Critical hits are key for the Longbow, as several skills benefit from them.

Strength (30 points): Focus on Strength after Dexterity. This increases both your damage and survivability by improving max health and health regeneration.

Perception (9 points): This stat enhances your crowd control (CC) abilities and debuffs. It also increases both maximum and minimum damage, making it a solid choice for leftover points.

Weapons And Armor

The Ranger build uses a combination of ranged attacks from the Longbow and close-quarters combat with the Greatsword. Here’s what you should aim for in terms of gear:

Weapons:

• Main Weapon – Longbow of the World Tree: This Longbow is ideal for this build, providing extra Wisdom. You can obtain it from the Shadowed Crypt World Dungeon via contracts. Early in the game, use crafted Green Quality bows and upgrade to Blue Quality bows from the main story.
• Secondary Weapon – Broadsword of Resistance (Greatsword): This can be obtained through the Lithograph System, which lets you craft blue-quality gear by collecting four green-quality versions.

Armor:

• Armor of the Resistance: This set, earned through the main story, provides excellent survivability with bonuses to Health Recovery, Melee Evasion, Max Health, and Ranged Endurance. Equip the full set for maximum benefits.

Accessories:

• Routan’s Mysterious Set: This accessory set boosts critical damage against enemies with less than 50% health. It’s obtained from the Silas’s Abyss World Dungeon and the Adventure Codex.
• Ring of Robustness: Obtained through the main story, this ring boosts survivability.
• Belt of Vigor: A random enemy drop that complements the build.

Skills

This build utilizes a mix of Longbow and Greatsword skills, providing both mobility and damage across various ranges.

Defensive Skill

• Overtaker (Longbow): This defensive ability allows you to return damage to your attacker.

Longbow Skills

• Ensnaring Arrow: This roots enemies in place for 3 seconds, allowing you to control their movements and set up other attacks.
• Zephyr’s Knock: A low-cost skill that increases damage the further you are from the target.Strafing: A mobility skill that allows you to attack while moving, making it ideal for kiting enemies. With specializations, you can use it up to four times in quick succession.
• Decisive Sniping: Your primary burst damage skill, dealing nearly 1000% base damage. Use it for high-impact DPS during fights.
• Deadly Marker: Marks a target, increasing your critical hit chance against them. This works for both you and your group, making it great for both solo and group play.
• Strafing: This skill allows you to get off 3-4 quick shots while moving.
• Nature’s Blessing: Heals and regenerates your Mana, while also increasing movement speed in an area when specialized.
• Healing Touch: A short cooldown heal-over-time ability that can be used frequently to top off health.

Greatsword Skills

• Valiant Brawl: A low-cost, high-damage skill with a short cooldown. Use this whenever it’s available for consistent DPS.
• Precision Dash: Useful gap closer ability.
• Stunning Blow: This is your primary stun on the build you unlock early.
• Death Blow: Big Burst damage skill available early.
• Da Vinci’s Courage: Buffs your Max Health, Health Recovery, and Attack Speed by 15%. This pairs well with your healing abilities to boost survivability.

Passives

For this build, use four passives from the Longbow skill line and four from the Great Sword skill line to maximize damage and survivability.

Longbow Passives:

1. Steady Aim: Increases your critical hit chance when attacking rooted enemies, synergizing with Ensnaring Arrow.
2. Sniper’s Sense: Increases critical hit chance and critical damage based on distance from the target.
3. Devoted Shield: Provides a damage shield when affected by the weaken debuff, useful in PvP situations.
4. Earth’s Blessing: Increases Health Regeneration and boosts the effectiveness of healing skills.

Greatsword Passives:

1. Robust Constitution: Increases Max Health and Health Recovery, improving survivability.
2. Victor’s Force: Increases ranged hit chance, skill damage, and stun chance based on Max Health.
3. Victor’s Morale: Provides passive health and Mana regeneration when dealing damage.
4. Indomitable Armor: Boosts your defenses when you take damage, which is helpful for surviving tough encounters.

Weapon Mastery

Mastering both the Longbow and the Great Sword enhances your damage and utility.

Longbow Mastery:

• Sniping Route: Focus on the Sniping route to increase damage, critical hit chances, and critical damage. This is the most damage-focused tree for Longbow users.

Greatsword Mastery:

Incapacitate Route: This route boosts stun duration and effectiveness, making your Stunning Blow and Death Blow combo even stronger.

Skill Specialization

Skill specializations make this build truly powerful. Here are the most important ones to focus on:

Longbow Specializations:

• Decisive Sniping: Increase charge time for 33% more damage. Add the ability to move while channeling the skill for improved mobility, plus bonus damage to bound targets.
• Ensnaring Arrow: Increase hit chance and bind duration to root enemies more effectively.
• Strafing: Enable consecutive uses to get up to four rapid attacks while moving.
• Nature’s Blessing: Increase healing and add a movement speed buff.
• Healing Touch: Duration Increase and Health Recovery.
• Deadly Marker: Increased Hit Chance for you and party members.

Greatsword Specializations:

• Valiant Brawl: Use Cruel Smite to reduce cooldown and allow bonus damage to nearby enemies.
• Stunning Blow: Reduce cooldown, increase the damage of the next skill, increase hit chance, and extend stun duration.
• Death Blow: Double the damage when fully charged, plus cooldown reduction.
• DaVinci’s Courage: Increase Duration.

How to Play (Rotation)

Here’s a basic rotation to follow for maximum damage and survivability:

Heal and Reset: If needed, use Da Vinci’s Courage or Nature’s Blessing to heal, then reset your bow abilities and repeat the rotation.

Debuff the Enemy: Start with Deadly Marker to mark the enemy and boost your critical hit chance.

Root and Attack: Use Ensnaring Arrow to root the target, then follow with Decisive Sniping for high damage.

Kite and Attack: Use Strafing to kite enemies while continuing to deal damage with Zephyr’s Knock.

Close the Gap: Use Precision Dash to engage in melee combat.

Melee Combo: Use Valiant Brawl followed by Stunning Blow to stun the enemy, then finish with Death Blow for massive damage.

The Final Word

Throne and Liberty offers an incredible variety of builds, each catering to different playstyles. Whether you prefer ranged DPS, melee combat, or support roles, there’s something here for everyone. Dive into the game, experiment with these builds, and find the one that best suits your style! Check out our video below for even more Throne And Liberty builds!