With nearly 30 different weapon combinations available to players in Throne and FreedomThere are many different build options to suit every play style. At the start of the game, players choose a primary and secondary weapon which determines the abilities their character will have access to. While there are several builds that have become quite popular in the game, one of the most unique and exciting builds is the Dagger & Staff Build, known in-game as the Spellblade.
The strongest versions of this compilation, like this one from TheGamercombine the Burned (Staff) and Poison (Dagger) status effects to get a high damage output for single target and AoE attacks. Although it takes a lot of time to find the equipment you need and maximize your levels and skills, it will be worth it when you are able to challenge even the hardest dungeons and bosses with this powerful Dagger & Staff Build.
Best Weapons for Dagger and Staff Build
Unlock weapon mastery skills with daggers and staves
Before pursuing specific equipment, you should focus on unlocking the necessary weapon mastery skills. Allocate Weapon Mastery Points to unlock skill nodes in the middle and lower branches of the Staff Weapon Mastery Skill Tree. After investing a point in Radiant Composure, unlock the Damage, Spell Hit Chance, Fatal Enchantment, Damage, Mana Regeneration, and Mana Boost skill nodes of the middle branch and all skill nodes in the lower branch.
For your Daggers, you will also focus on skills from the intermediate and higher branches. First, unlock Silent Dash, followed by the following skills from the higher skill branch: Ranged Defense, Health Regeneration, Debuff Immunity, Mana Cost Efficiency, Reload Speed, and Master of Evasion. To complete the build, unlock all skills from the lower skill branch.
Best set of weapons and weapon characteristics
For this Dagger and Staff build, there are two specific weapons for hunting: the Umbramancer’s Staff, and The wicked thorns of Lequirus. This combo will get you to the end of the game, but you’ll need to fully power them up and unlock the right weapon traits for each one.
Weapon Mastery effects only apply to active skills of that specific weapon type (staff specializations apply to staff skills and dagger specializations apply to dagger skills). In PvP modes, always hold the weapon that provides the best defensive buffs from its Mastery effects, which is the dagger in this build. Actively switch to your team when you want to use ranged auto-attack. This doesn’t matter as much in PvE, So opt for the convenience of having your team equipped for ranged auto-attack.
Once you have your weapons and have maxed out their levels, you will need to focus on the weapons’ characteristics. For both your staff and your daggers, unlock the following three traits: Hit Chance, Heavy Hit Chance, and Critical Hit Chance. If you’re lucky, one of these traits will unlock when you first find or craft your weapon.
Once you manage to unlock all the correct features, upgrade characteristics to the highest level. Upgrading a trait requires you to find an item of the same type and with the same trait that you want to upgrade. After doing this, you can improve the feature of the “Enchanting Equipment” menu.
Best Dagger and Staff Crafting Gear
Start working towards epic gear
To maximize your dagger and staff build, you will need to obtain equipment that increases your stats and increases your chances of dealing large amounts of damage. There are some methods described by DPJ on YouTube to get all the gear you’ll eventually need. In addition to clearing Lv. 50 dungeons or as random items by defeating bosses and enemies, you will also be able to obtain epic equipment from Epic Precious Chests, Bags of Precious Blessings, and the Auction House.
As with your staff and dagger, you will also need Unlock and upgrade the best features of each gear item. You’ll be running around and exploring a lot to find all the pieces of gear, so don’t neglect upgrading your transformations to make exploration easier. Here are all the gear items you need, the corresponding traits to unlock for each piece, and where they can be found:
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Spellblade Gear Set |
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Slot |
Item name |
Features to unlock |
Where to find |
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Primary Weapon |
Umbramancer’s Staff |
Hit Chance, Heavy Attack Chance, Critical Hit Chance |
Drop (Avolos Geomancer, Avolos Frenzied Geomancer, Avolos Umbramancer), Precious Equipment Chest Reward: Wish / Bag of Precious Blessing: Wish / Morokai Dimensional Circle Special Gold Chest. |
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Secondary Weapon |
The wicked thorns of Lequirus |
Hit Chance, Heavy Attack Chance, Critical Hit Chance |
Cave of Destruction, Lv. 3 Paola’s Dimensional Chest / Precious Weapon Selection Chest: 1 Star |
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Helmet |
Heroic Resistance Hood |
Maximum Health, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion |
Drop (Black Boar), Precious Blessing Bag Reward / Special Resistance Enchanted Helmet Selection Chest. |
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Cover |
Supreme Devotion |
Mana Regeneration, Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration |
Cave of Destruction, Lequirus gear selection chest reward |
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Main |
General Field Plaque |
Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion, Buff Duration |
Abyss of Death, Kertaki Armor Selection Chest Reward / Emperor Armor Chest / Precious Epic Gear Selection Chest: Salvation |
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Gloves |
Shadow Harvester Fists |
Mana Regeneration, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion |
Temple of Slaughter, Precious Epic Equipment Selection Chest: Salvation / Shakarux’s Armor Selection Chest / Death Armor Chest |
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Legs |
Shadow Harvester Pants |
Mana Regeneration, Magic Evasion, Ranged Evasion |
Drop (Junobote), Junobote Guild Dungeon Reward, Kaligras Armor Selection Chest/Death Armor Chest Reward, |
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Shoe |
Field General’s Sabatons |
Melee Evasion, Ranged Evasion, Movement Speed |
Dark Crypt, Drop (Dark Wizard, Berserk Dark Enforcer) |
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To paste |
Conqueror’s Clasp |
Max Health, Skill Damage Increase, Buff Duration |
Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Abyss, Epic Armor Chest (Emperor, Chief Commander, Death, Ghost Wolf, Transcended, Mother Nature) |
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Bracelet |
Bracers of the Prime King |
Max Health, Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration |
Cave of Destruction, Lequirus Gear Selection Chest/Precious Accessories and Cloak Selection Chest reward: 1 star |
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Ring I |
Universal Power Band |
Mana Regeneration, Skill Damage Increase, Buff Duration |
Drop (Queen Bellandir), Epic Armor Chest Reward (Emperor, Chief Commander, Death, Ghost Wolf, Transcended, Mother Nature) |
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Ring II |
Sapphire Dimensional Band |
Max Health, Skill Damage Increase, Buff Duration |
Precious Epic Accessory Selection Chest / Epic Armor Chest (Ghost Wolf, Transcended, Mother Nature) |
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Belt |
Belt of Bloodlust |
Max Health, Skill Damage Resistance, Debuff Duration |
Drop (Adrius), Epic Armor Chest Reward (Emperor, Chief Commander, Death) / Bag of Precious Blessing: Tyrant |
Best active skills for dagger and staff construction
Poison and burn: damage over time
The main mechanics of this build revolve around inflicting Poison and Burn on your enemies, which will create a large damage over time (DoT) effect that will take down even the toughest enemies. Select skills and specializations that increase skill damage for opponents affected by Burn or Poisonfurther increasing your overall DPS output.
For your defensive ability, equip the dagger’s Block Blade, which will change to Poison Dagger when you correctly time your blocks against Fury Attacks. You will need to level up your active skills to the maximum if you want to get the most damage possible. For each skill, choose specializations that further enhance Burn or Poison effects and increase damage against Burning and Poisoned targets. These are the skills and specializations you will need for Staff and Dagger crafting:
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Ability |
Paper |
Description and Specializations |
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Inject poison (Dagger) |
Poison Effect, Debuff |
Inflicts Poison, stacks up to 20 times. |
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Increased effect duration (5) |
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High focus (Employees) |
Buff |
Increases cooldown speed for all skills and increases movement speed for the duration. |
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Increased Base Damage (5), Victorious Energy (5) |
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Series fire pumps (Employees) |
Long-range AoE damage, burning effect |
Throw fire bombs causing damage and burning. |
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Focused Fire Bombs (7), Mobility (3), Increased Radius (5), Increased Projectile Speed ​​(3). |
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Infernal Wave (Employees) |
Long-range AoE damage, burn effect, bonus burn damage |
Creates an explosion of fire, dealing damage with a chance to inflict Burn and dealing increased damage to Burning targets. |
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Consecutive Use (5), Burn (3) |
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Lightning Judgment (Employees) |
Long-range AoE damage, bonus burn damage |
Inflict electrical damage to the target and up to five other nearby enemies. Deals increased damage to burning targets. Landing heavy attacks decreases cooldown. |
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Damage Transfer (5), Damage Transfer (3) |
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Chain of Lightning (Employees) |
Long-range AoE damage, bonus burn damage |
Inflict electrical damage to the target and up to three other nearby enemies. Deals increased damage to burning targets. |
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Damage Transfer (5), Damage Transfer (3) |
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Dark Strike (Dagger) |
Close-Gap, Debuff, Escape |
Moves behind the target, dealing damage and inflicting Bind and Silence: Poison. |
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Escape from Shadows (10) |
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Cleaving the Moonlight (Dagger) |
AoE Damage, Bonus Damage for Poison |
Deals AoE damage in a 1.5m radius 3 times, increasing damage to poisoned targets. |
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Consecutive Use (10), Bonus Damage (5) |
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brutal incision (Dagger) |
Damage, Buff, Bonus Damage to Poison |
Deals damage to the target, increases critical strike chance by 20% (or 600% if the target’s health is below 50%), increases damage to poisoned targets. |
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Damage increase (5) |
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Umbral Spirit (Dagger) |
Buff, Bonus Damage to Poison |
Increased damage dealt on critical hits, deals additional damage to poisoned targets. |
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Damage increase (5) |
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Cold smoke screen (Employees) |
AoE Debuff, Burn, Escape |
Teleports the user 8m in a chosen direction, leaving behind a 4m wide zone that inflicts Burn and slows movement on affected targets. |
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Burning Smoke Screen (5) |
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Camouflage cover (Dagger) |
Escape |
Enters stealth mode, freeing the user from the Bind and decreasing Movement Speed ​​effects. The first attack made from stealth will be a critical hit. |
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Cooldown Reduction (3) |
Best skills and passive attributes for crafting daggers and staffs
Boosting your attack and defense
After maxing out your epic gear and allocating all 49 attribute points, your total score should be: Strength 55, Dexterity 30, Wisdom 30 and Perception 64. When allocating points to your base attributes, this is where you will need to place them:
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Strength: 13 points
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Dexterity: 12 points
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Wisdom: 5 points
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Perception: 19 points
The passive abilities that work best with this Dagger and Staff build are those that increase mana, increase damage, improve Burn/Poison effectiveness, and increase defense. Here are the eight passives that work best with this build:
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Passive Skill |
Description |
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Killer Instincts (Dagger) |
Increases critical strike chance. |
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Choleric Limit (Dagger) |
Increase critical damage. |
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Killer Energy (Dagger) |
Increases poison duration and damage. |
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Shadow Walker (Dagger) |
Increases damage reduction and magic/ranged evasion when using a mobility/movement skill. |
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Destructive Fang (Dagger) |
When attacking, adds a chance to lower a poisoned target’s defense. |
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Manaball Eruption (Employees) |
Chance to fire an additional projectile/bomb when using a Staff. |
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Mana Amplifier (Employees) |
Greatly increases maximum mana and health. |
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Flame Condensation (Employees) |
Increases burning damage and heavy attack chance against burning targets. |
The only passive ability you need to worry about activating is Shadow Walker. To activate this ability, use any of its three move assets: Block Blade, Shadow Strike, and Frost (Burning) Smokescreen. Now that you have all the skills and specializations equipped, it’s time to put them to use.
Skill rotations for dagger and staff construction
Start at a distance and then get closer
When entering combat, start from a distance with your staff. Activate High Focus and follow up with a volley of Focused Fire Bombs and Inferno Wave, adding stacks of Burning to your target and anyone nearby. Finish your ranged rotation with Judgment Lightning followed by Chain Lightning, deal bonus damage to burning enemies, and get ready to get in close.
Use Inject Venom, Umbral Spirit and then teleport behind your target using Shadow Strikedealing 200% damage and inflicting Bind and Poison. Now that you are in range, apply damage using Cleaving Moonlight (twice) and with Brutal Incision. Finish with a Burning Smokescreen to reignite your targets and return to your starting point. Now you can start the rotation again from the top. Continue the rotation, applying Burning and Poison to your enemies until there are none left standing.
If you happen to find yourself lost and I need to escape quicklyyou have a few options available:
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Use Burning Smokescreen to move out of range in any direction while leaving your enemies with a large decrease in movement speed.
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Reactivate Shadow Strike (within 6 seconds of using it for the first time) to return to its original position when you first cast it.
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Use Camouflage to break any bind/movement debuffs and turn invisible for 10 seconds so you can run away. The next sneak attack you make will automatically be a critical hit.
Remember to reactivate High Focus as soon as you can to keep its powerful buffs active. Once you master this build you will be able to face the toughest challenges Throne and Freedom has to offer.
Source: The playerVideo credit: DPJ/YouTube
- Released
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October 1, 2024
- Developer(s)
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NCSoft
- CERS
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T For Teen // Blood, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence