Best Solo Build in Throne and Liberty – Staff And Wand Invocator Mage

This Invocator or Mage style build for Throne And Liberty combines the powerful offensive capabilities of the staff with the Vampire healing curses of the Wand for a truly unique playstyle! Utilizing flame, lightning, and ice-based spells, this build excels in solo content and provides excellent damage output, making it fun and versatile for a wide range of content.

Attributes

Primary Attributes

1. Wisdom: Start by investing in Wisdom to hit the 30-point benchmark, giving a +750 Mana bonus. Wisdom also increases Mana recovery, cooldown reduction, and maximum damage, which is crucial for any magic-based build.
2. Strength: Investing in Strength provides extra Max Health, defense, and health recovery, which boosts survivability in solo play.

Secondary Attributes

Dexterity & Perception: After Wisdom, distribute remaining points into Dexterity and Perception. Dexterity enhances crit chance and damage, while Perception improves accuracy and crowd control effectiveness.

Weapons And Armor

Primary Weapons

1. Heroic Staff of the Resistance: Obtainable from Shadowed Crypt dungeon contracts. It offers critical hit chance, weaken chance, and heavy attack chance traits.
2. Wand of Skyward Blessing: This off-hand wand is also available from Shadowed Crypt contracts and improves Mana cost efficiency and perception, making it essential for sustainable casting.

Armor and Accessories

• Resistance Set: Provides high melee and ranged defense, improving survivability in solo encounters.
• Raine’s Mysterious Set: A three-piece accessory set with bonuses for critical hit chance and critical damage against low-health enemies.

Additional Gear Tips: Focus on gear that enhances Max Health and Max Mana rather than prioritizing quality. Stat-focused pieces, like uncommon rings with health or mana bonuses, can be more useful than high-rarity items.

Skills

This build utilizes a combination of Staff Skills for powerful AOE magic damage and Wand Skills for survival. Here’s how to optimize your skill loadout:

Defensive Skills:

• Chaotic Shield (Wand): Reduces cooldowns on curse abilities when blocking and restores health and stamina with a perfect block, adding survivability through effective parrying.

Staff Skills:

• Serial Firebombs (Focus Morph): High damage with an added cast time that significantly boosts output. This ability applies five stacks of burning to amplify damage over time.
• Inferno Wave: A fire-based AOE skill that adds more burning stacks to enemies. This is best used when enemies are grouped together.
• Ice Spear: A frost-based skill that hurls multiple ice spears at enemies, reducing their movement speed and applying frost debuffs.
• Chain Lightning: Quick cooldown and excellent for burst damage, chainable across multiple targets.
• Judgment Lightning: A powerful AOE lightning skill that deals massive damage and can be cast twice in a row with the right specialization.
• Fireball Barrage: Powerful channeled fire damage, can double amount of fireballs based on Burning stacks applied.
• Infernal Meteor: Unlocked at level 50, this is a high-damage AOE skill with a tight radius. Use it when enemies are tightly grouped for maximum impact.
• Inner Peace: A key recovery skill that rapidly regenerates your mana. It’s a channeled ability, so use it carefully to avoid interruptions.

Wand Skills

• Swift Healing: An emergency heal with up to three casts, useful for self-sustain and group healing.
• Fountain of Life: A healing area placed on the ground, providing rapid regeneration when standing inside.
• Touch of Despair: Damage-over-time curse that is required for “Vampiric Contract” passive.
• Time for Punishment: Reduces enemy skill damage resistance, boosting your overall DPS.

Passives

Passives play a crucial role in enhancing both your survivability and damage output. Here’s what you should equip:

Wand Passives

1. Vampiric Contract: The core passive for vampiric healing, this restores a portion of health based on damage dealt to cursed enemies. With upgrades, it provides about 12% healing of the total damage done, making it essential for survivability.
2. Noble Revival: Increases healing by 2% per 1,000 Mana, granting approximately a 20% healing boost with the build’s current Mana pool.
3. Devotion and Emptiness: This passive adapts based on the time of day. During the day, it increases healing by 20% and reduces cooldowns by 10%. At night, it boosts skill damage and decreases curse cooldowns, enhancing both healing and damage output.
4. Wraith‘s Beckon: Increases curse duration by 2 seconds, simplifying curse management and ensuring prolonged healing benefits.

Staff Passives:

1. Forbidden Sanctuary: Boosts skill damage by 150% while reducing Mana cost efficiency by 15%. With the build’s Mana cost efficiency items and skills, this drawback is easily mitigated.
2. Mana Amp: Increases Max Mana and Max Health, enhancing both damage output and durability.
3. Flame Condensation: Amplifies burning damage and increases heavy attack chance per burning stack, reinforcing the fire-based damage of the build.
4. Ascetism: Boosts Mana regeneration and enhances heavy attack chance while stationary, ideal for maximizing damage while casting.

Weapon Mastery

Weapon Mastery enhances your core attributes and abilities. Focus on the following routes:

Wand Mastery

• Weaken Tree: Grants Mana regeneration, increases weaken chance, improves Mana efficiency, and extends curse duration.

Staff Mastery

Attribute Skill Tree: Focuses on increasing burning damage, weaken chance, and flat magic damage dealt, making it ideal for maximizing AOE impact.Skill Specialization

Skill Specialization

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

Staff Specializations

1. Firebomb: Increase damage multiplier and add mobility and radius, making it a powerful opener against groups.
2. Inferno Wave: Reduce cooldown, add burning stacks, and gain consecutive uses.
3. Chain Lightning: Enable damage transfer and remove damage reduction across multiple targets.
4. Fireball Barrage: Morph to “Fireball Frenzy” to maximize burning stacks, launching up to 20 fireballs for massive burst damage.
5. Judgment Lightning: Apply consecutive use, transferring damage without reduction to multiple targets, making it a strong finisher.
6. Ice Spear Bombardment: Change to Ice Spear, include Bind and Damage Increase.
7. Inner Peace: Increase duration.

Wand Specializations

1. Touch of Despair: Increase the curse radius to target additional enemies, maximizing healing potential.
2. Swift Healing: Gain consecutive casts, allowing up to three heals in quick succession.
3. Time for Punishment: Extend debuff duration for improved damage output.

How to Play (Rotation)

1. Apply Curses: Begin combat by applying Touch of Despair and Time for Punishment for healing and damage boosts.
2. AOE Burn Setup: Use Firebombs and Inferno Wave to apply burning stacks.
3. Damage Chain: Cast Chain Lightning and Ice Spear for additional damage and control.
4. Heavy Hitters: Use Judgment Lightning (cast twice) and Fireball Barrage, then finish with Infernal Meteor if available.
5. Reapply Curses as needed to maintain healing.
6. Mana and Health Sustain: If low on Mana, activate Inner Peace. Use Swift Healing or Fountain of Life for health regeneration as required.

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!