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

If you’re looking for a straightforward tank build in Throne and Liberty, this guide covers everything you need to know about building the Templar, combining the sword and shield with the wand for outstanding self-healing, survivability, and effective group support. Ideal for co-op dungeons and group content, this build emphasizes ease of use and high defensive capabilities.

Attributes

Primary Attribute: Strength

• Recommendation: Max out Strength (up to 30 points from raw stats, with more from gear).
• Benefits: Increases max health, health regeneration, melee and range defense, and overall damage reduction.
• Milestones:
  • Up to 70 Strength grants additional defensive bonuses, making it the main stat for any tank setup.

Secondary Attribute: Wisdom

• Target: Around 30 points.
• Benefits: Enhances mana pool, mana regeneration, and slightly reduces cooldowns, allowing for more frequent ability use.

Additional Points

• Dexterity/Perception: Any leftover points can be allocated here for minor increases in hit chance and other secondary effects.

Weapons And Armor

Primary Weapon: Sword

• Recommendation: Karnix’s Netherblade
  • Stats: High max health and strength bonuses. Obtainable from the level 50 Death’s Abyss dungeon.
  • Traits: Look for 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

• Recommended Set: Armor of the Resistance (obtainable from the main story).
  • Stats: Provides max health, melee defense, and range defense.
• Alternative: Gloom Guard Set (also from Death’s Abyss dungeon).
  • Stats: Strength-focused pieces (boots and gloves) to help max out Strength early.
• Notable Armor Pieces:
  • Ancient Tapestry Mantle: Adds evasion and max health.
• Accessories
  • Guardian Torque: Boosts defensive stats.
  • Kunzanite Bangle and Platinum Skull Band: Provide additional max health.
  • Belt of Vigor: A strong choice for defensive benefits, even at lower rarities.

Skills

This build utilizes a combination of Sword Skills for taunting enemies and maintaining aggro plus 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:

• Provoking Roar: A 3m AOE taunt with a provoke debuff.
• Shield Throw: Functions as a ranged taunt with increased aggro specialization.
• Strategic Rush: A gap closer and stun ability, effective against casters and in tight spaces.
• Chain Hook: Works as a taunt and emergency aggro tool; pulls the user toward the boss if the target is immune.
• Piercing Strike (morphed from Shield Strike): AOE taunt with a 60° cone range.
• Witty Strike: Provides mana and stamina recovery.
• Annihilating Slash: AOE damage with a movement speed debuff.
• Great Fury (morphed from Stalwart Bastion): Buffs party skill damage for a short duration.

Wand Skills

• Time for Punishment: Debuffs enemy skill damage resistance, maintaining high uptime for damage mitigation.
• Swift Healing: A quick emergency heal with a low cooldown.
• Fountain of Life: AOE heal over time, excellent for group support.
• Clay’s Salvation: Emergency group heal with a casting time.

Passives

Passives play a crucial role in enhancing your survivability as a tank in Throne and Liberty. Here’s what you should equip:

Sword Passives

1. Skillful Evasion: Increases evasion, especially against provoked targets.
2. Resilient Mind: Provides mana sustain when evading or blocking.
3. Impenetrable: Boosts defense based on nearby targets, up to 700 points.
4. Aegis Shield: Enhances shield damage reduction.

Wand Passives

1. Vampiric Contract: Restores health based on damage dealt to cursed enemies.
2. Wraith’s Beckon: Extends curse duration for debuff consistency.
3. Devotion and Emptiness: Improves healing and reduces cooldowns during the day.
4. Noble Revival: Increases healing effectiveness based on max mana.

Weapon Mastery

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

Sword Mastery

Recommended Path: Focus on the Boss Skill Tree for defensive benefits, including:

• Boss endurance, max health, stun resistance, and boss damage reduction.

Additional Tips: Pick up any useful passives in other trees once core skills are acquired.

Wand Mastery

Path: Recovery Tree for improved defensive stats and healing bonuses, such as:

• Increased evasion, cooldown speed, healing boost, and buff duration enhancements.

Skill Specialization

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

Sword Specializations

1. Piercing Strike: Morph from Shield Strike and increase AOE range with specialization.
2. Chain Hook: Get Extended Range.
3. Provoking Roar: Effect Duration and Reduced Cooldown.
4. Shield Throw: Increased Aggro.
5. Great Fury: Transform into Stalwart Bastion to focus on skill damage boosts.
6. Annihilating Slash: Apply movement speed debuff and increase radius.
7. Witty Strike: Add stamina recovery and consecutive use for mana and stamina boosts.

Wand Specializations

1. Swift Healing: Maximize with healing transfers, consecutive use, and optional mana recovery.
2. Clay’s Salvation: Increase AOE radius for group healing.
3. Time for Punishment: Extend effect duration for debuff consistency.
4. Fountain of Life: Enhance with mana recovery, radius, and effect duration specializations.

How to Play (Rotation)

1. Initiation:
   • Gather enemies and position them for maximum AOE effectiveness.
2. Taunt and Control:
   • Rotate between taunts and utility skills like Chain Hook and Strategic Rush.
   • Use Piercing Strike frequently for aggro and damage.
3. Damage Phase:
   • Activate Great Fury before boss DPS phases.
   • Use Witty Strike and Annihilating Slash for additional damage and sustain.
4. *Defensive and Healing:
   • Block Fury attacks with Shield Survival for health recovery.
   • Use Swift Healing for emergencies and Fountain of Life for group healing.
5. Interrupts and Stuns:
   • Save Strategic Rush for interrupting boss mechanics or high-damage abilities.
6. Emergency Healing:
   • Use Clay’s Salvation during group-wide damage spikes for quick recovery.

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!