Best Solo Build in Throne and Liberty – Sword And Staff Disciple

This Disciple or Battlemage style build for Throne And Liberty combines the defensive strength of the sword and shield with the powerful offensive capabilities of magic through the staff. 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

To maximize your effectiveness as a Battlemage, focus on the following attribute distribution:

Strength (30 points): Start by investing in Strength. This stat increases both your damage and max health, making it essential for survivability, especially in solo play. At 30 points, you’ll gain an additional 750 health, along with bonus health regeneration.

Wisdom (30 points): Once Strength is maxed out, invest in Wisdom. This increases your mana pool, mana regeneration, and reduces cooldowns, all of which are crucial for a magic-heavy build.

Dexterity and Perception: Any remaining points can be split between Dexterity and Perception. Dexterity can boost evasion, while Perception enhances your damage and crowd control (CC) capabilities.

Weapons And Armor

For this build, you’ll want a balance of gear that enhances both your melee survivability and your magic damage output. Here’s what to prioritize:

Armor:

• Armor of the Resistance: Obtainable from the main story quests, this set provides strong defensive stats such as Melee and Ranged Defense, along with Health Recovery. It’s ideal for solo play and offers solid overall protection.

Accessories:

• Rutaine Wonder Set (3-piece): This set increases your critical chance and critical damage when enemies are below 50% health. It’s easily obtainable from the exploration codex and main story quests.
• Ring of Robustness: This ring boosts your overall survivability by increasing max health and health recovery.

Weapons:

• Sword and Shield – Blade of the Resistance: This weapon can be obtained through lithograph crafting or from the open-world dungeon contracts.
• Staff – Staff of the Resistance: Similar to the sword, this staff is available from contracts or lithograph crafting, providing excellent magic stats.

Skills

This build utilizes a combination of sword skills for survivability and staff skills for powerful AOE magic damage. Here’s how to optimize your skill loadout:

Defensive Skills:

• Shield Survival (Sword and Shield): This is your primary defensive skill, granting health regeneration when blocking attacks. It also boosts your damage reduction, making it crucial for solo survival.

Staff Skills:

• Serial Firebombs: Your main damage-dealing ability. It applies a burning debuff that can stack up to 10 times, dealing increasing damage over time. With upgrades, you can cast this skill while moving.
• Inferno Wave: A fire-based AOE skill that adds more burning stacks to enemies. This is best used when enemies are grouped together.
• Judgment Lightning: A powerful AOE lightning skill that deals massive damage and can be cast twice in a row if enemies are burning.
• Ice Spear: A frost-based skill that hurls multiple ice spears at enemies, reducing their movement speed and applying frost debuffs.
• 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.

Sword Skills

• Strategic Rush: A gap-closer that stuns enemies when they are pushed against a wall. It’s great for engaging or repositioning in combat.
• Piercing Strike: A strong frontal cone attack that reduces enemy hit chance. This skill has a fast cooldown and should be used frequently.
• Annihilating Slash: A wide AOE slash that deals additional damage to weakened enemies.
• Annihilation Blade: A powerful sword skill unlocked at level 50. It increases the damage of your other sword skills by 20%, making it a key part of your sword rotation.
• Stalwart Bastion: Reduces incoming damage, great for use when surrounded by multiple enemies.
• Immortal Pride: Increases your max health and heals you for 20% of your current health. This is your go-to healing skill.

Passives

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

Sword Passives:

1. Skillful Evasion: Increases your magic and ranged evasion, helping you avoid damage from spells and ranged attacks.
2. Resilient Mind: Restores mana when evading attacks.
3. Impenetrable: Boosts your defense based on the number of nearby enemies.
4. Morale Boost: Reduces the cooldown of your skills when you collide with enemies using Strategic Rush.

Staff Passives:

1. Asceticism: Increases mana regeneration and grants bonuses when stationary, making it ideal for setting up during long encounters.
2. Mana Amp: Increases both your max health and mana, greatly improving your sustain.
3. Flame Condensation: Enhances the burning effect from Serial Firebombs, increasing damage by 50%.
4. Forbidden Sanctuary: Increases skill damage by 150% at the cost of slightly reduced mana efficiency.

Weapon Mastery

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

Sword Mastery:

Provoke Encounter Tree: Eventually, this route will offer additional utility for solo play, but early on, focus on passives like max health, melee defense, and base damage.

Staff Mastery:

Attribute Focus: Choose this route to boost your mana regeneration, burning damage, and weaken chance. This path synergizes perfectly with your fire-based abilities.

Skill Specialization

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

Sword Specializations:

• Piercing Strike: Upgrade to a frontal cone AOE attack, allowing you to hit multiple enemies at once. This boosts your overall damage output in groups.
• Annihilating Slash: Increase the skill’s consecutive uses and enlarge its radius for better AOE coverage.
• Immortal Pride: Invest heavily in this skill to improve health regeneration and defense, making it your main self-healing ability.
• Annihilation Blade: Morph this skill into an AOE ability, affecting all enemies in front of you and increasing damage significantly.

Staff Specializations:

• Serial Firebombs: Increase mobility by casting while moving and upgrade the cast speed to deal quick burning damage.
• Inferno Wave: Increase burning stacks and reduce the cooldown to spam this skill more often.
• Ice Spear: Maximize the number of spears thrown and increase the chance to bind enemies, slowing them down even further.
• Judgment Lightning: Remove any debuff requirements for this skill, allowing you to deal massive AOE damage consistently.

How to Play (Rotation)

Here’s a basic rotation for maximizing damage and survivability with the Battle Mage build:

1. Start with Staff Skills: Begin by casting Serial Firebombs and Inferno Wave to apply burning debuffs to enemies.
2. Follow with Ice Spear and Judgment Lightning: Use Ice Spear to slow enemies and Judgment Lightning for massive AOE damage, taking advantage of any bonus activations for double casting.
3. Switch to Sword for Melee Combat: Once enemies are close, switch to your sword and use Annihilation Blade to boost your sword skills, then follow up with Piercing Strike and Annihilating Slash for additional damage.
4. Heal and Defend: Use Immortal Pride to heal and Stalwart Bastion to reduce incoming damage when necessary.
5. Use Infernal Meteor: If you’ve reached level 50, cast Infernal Meteor on grouped enemies for incredible burst damage.
6. Regenerate Mana: Once your mana is low, channel Inner Peace to restore it, then repeat the cycle.

For AOE farming, simply group up enemies, cast your AOE staff spells, and follow with sword attacks for any survivors. Keep the rotation fluid, switching between magic and melee as needed.

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!