Best Solo Build in Throne and Liberty – Sword And Wand Templar

This comprehensive guide provides all the information you need to create an effective solo Templar build in Throne and Liberty, focusing on combining the sword and shield with the wand for exceptional self-healing, survivability, and solid damage output. Whether you’re grinding for contracts, materials, questing, or exploring dungeons, this build will ensure you have everything you need. Below, you’ll find details on attributes, gear, skills, passives, weapon mastery, skill specialization, and how to play the build.

Attributes

Primary Attribute: Strength

• Goal: Max out Strength (up to 70 points with gear).
• Benefits: Increases max health, damage reduction, heavy attack chance, and general survivability.

Secondary Attribute: Wisdom

• Goal: Up to 30 points.
• Benefits: Increases max mana, improves mana regeneration, and reduces cooldowns.

Dexterity and Perception

• Any remaining points can be invested here to boost crit chance, hit chance, and damage.

Weapons And Armor

Primary Weapon: Sword

• Recommendation: Karnix’s Netherblade
  • Stats: Strength and max health bonuses make this a great main weapon. Look for traits such as heavy attack chance, max health, hit chance, and crit chance.

Secondary Weapon: Wand

• Early Game: Wand of Skyward Blessing (from co-op dungeons and world contracts)
  • Stats: Mana cost efficiency (up to 17% when maxed).
• Endgame: Tome of Approximate Remedy
  • Stats: High strength bonus for added damage and survivability.

Armor Sets

• Armor Of The Resistance Gear: Provides max health and mana and can be easily found through main story or codex missions.
• Gloom Guard: Strength bonuses; optimal pieces are gloves and boots for solo melee play.
• Rutaine’s Mysterious Set: Critical Hit Chance and Critical Damage Boost
• Platinum Skull Band: Max Health, Critical Chance, Skill Damage bonus

Skills

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

Defensive Skills:

• Shield Survival Technique (from the sword skill line) provides a strong burst heal and damage reduction on perfect blocks.

Sword Skills:

• Annihilation Blade (morphed from Shot at Victory): AOE damage and increases sword skill damage by 30%.
• Piercing Strike (morphed from Shield Strike): Conal AOE damage; primary DPS skill.
• Witty Strike: Provides mana and stamina recovery; can be used twice with specialization.
• Annihilating Slash: Strong AOE damage, synergizes with weaken curses.
• Strategic Rush: Stun/interrupt skill, useful against casters.
• Great Fury (morphed from Stewart Bastion): Buffs skill damage for nine seconds.

Wand Skills

• Touch of Despair: Weaken curse that stacks up to three times.
• Time for Punishment: Reduces skill damage resistance of enemies.
• Corrupted Magic Circle: AOE damage over time; cast early to initiate fights.
• Curse Explosion: High damage output; use after stacking Touch of Despair.
• 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.

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 evasion by up to 200 points.
2. Resilient Mind: Restores mana on successful evasions or blocks.
3. Aegis Shield: Enhances shield damage reduction.
4. Impenetrable: Increases defense based on nearby enemies.

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.

Weapon Mastery

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

Sword Mastery

Spread points into multiple trees for passive bonuses. Focus on the Collision tree for minor boosts when playing solo.

Wand Mastery

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

Skill Specialization

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

Sword Specializations

1. Shield Strike → Piercing Strike: Adds AOE effect.
2. Stalwart Bastion → Great Fury: Changes to offensive skill with skill damage boost.
3. Witty Strike: Add stamina recovery and consecutive use specialization.
4. Annihilating Slash: Add consecutive use and increase Max Range.
5. A Shot A Victory -> Annihilation Blade: Get All 3 Upgrades: AOE Potential, Effect Duration and Effect Boost.

Wand Specializations

1. Touch of Despair: Increase effect duration and radius.
2. Curse Explosion: Add damage specialization.
3. Corrupted Magic Circle: Damage boost specialization.
4. Time For Punishment: Increase Duration
5. Fountain of Life: Mana recovery and extended duration.

How to Play (Rotation)

1. Initial Setup:
   • Gather enemies and position them for maximum AOE effectiveness.
2. Curse Application:
   • Start with Touch of Despair and stack up to three times.
   • Apply Corrupted Magic Circle for AOE damage over time.
   • Use Time for Punishment for debuffing tougher enemies.
3. Damage Phase:
   • Trigger Curse Explosion after three stacks of Touch of Despair.
   • Buff with Great Fury.
   • Use Annihilation Blade followed by Piercing Strike and Witty Strike.
   • Finish with Annihilating Slash.
4. Sustain and Defensive Play:
   • Use Witty Strike for mana and stamina recovery.
   • Deploy Fountain of Life for health and mana sustain.
   • Use Strategic Rush to interrupt and reposition.

Playstyle Tips

1. Reapply curses regularly to maintain healing.
2. Block incoming Fury attacks with Shield Survival Technique.
3. Adjust positioning to maximize AOE 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!