Introduction

Learn everything you need to know about Throne and Liberty’s evasion-based tank in our Sword & Shield Dagger Tank Build

Skills and Passives

Below are the Active, Passive, and Defensive Skills for the Sword & Shield Dagger Tank Build. For insight on which order to level these Skills up, Check our Skill Upgrade Progression Section below

Active Skills

	Predatory Strike		Strategic Rush
	Shadow Strike		Counter Barrier
	Brutal Incision		Chain Hook
	Knife Throwing		Stalwart Bastion
	Camouflage		Provoking Roar
	Shield Strike		A Shot at Victory

Passives

	Skillful Evasion		Wrathful Edge
	Gerad’s Patience		Shadow Walker
	Impenetrable		Assassin’s Step
	Aegis Shield		Assassin’s Instincts

Defensive Skill

Shield Survival Technique (Sword and Shield Defensive SKill) provides an easy-to-use Defensive skill that restores health, gives a short-ranged counter-attack, and (once fully upgraded) grants you a Barrier equal to 14% of your Max Health for 3 seconds.

Skill Upgrade Progression

Next, Let’s look at the order to prioritize upgrading your skills. We’ve prioritized the most important skills to help guide you through skill progression to help get you started. It’s important to note that you will upgrade all skills to max eventually and that some Skills start at Rare or Epic Quality

ACTIVE SKILL UPGRADE ORDER

• Dagger- Predatory Strike (Uncommon to Rare)
• Dagger- Shadow Strike (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Shield Strike (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Strategic Rush (Uncommon to Rare)
• Shield Survival Technique (Defensive Skill (Uncommon to Epic)
• S&S- Counter Barrier (Uncommon to Epic)
• Dagger- Brutal Incision (Rare to Epic)
• Dagger- Shadow Strike (Rare to Epic)
• Dagger- Predatory Strike (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Shield Strike (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Provoking Roar (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Chain Hook (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Strategic Rush (Rare to Epic)
• Dagger- Knife Throwing (Rare to Epic)

PASSIVE SKILL UPGRADE ORDER

• Dagger – Assassin’s Step (Uncommon to Rare)
• Dagger – Skillful Evasion (Uncommon to Rare)
• Dagger – Assassin’s Instinct (Uncommon to Epic)
• Dagger – Shadow Walker (Rare to Epic)
• S&S – Aegis Shield (Rare to Epic)
• Dagger – Skillful Evasion (Rare to Epic)
• Dagger – Assassin’s Step (Rare to Epic)

Attributes, Weapon Mastery, and Guardians

Attributes

In this section, we will go over the Attribute spread, as well as the Weapon Mastery and Guardian choices for the build.

For this build, the main attribute is Wisdom, giving us an increase in cooldown reduction, max mana, and mana regen. Next, we’ll focus on getting our Perception up to 30. This is crucial to ensuring our CC and other attacks HIT our target. Dexterity is the 3rd attribute to gain an increase in evasion chance, attack/cast speed as well as critical chance. The Attribute Spread for the Wand Longbow Healer is as follows:

NOTE: This Information does not include gear Bonuses

• STRENGTH – 10
• DEXTERITY – 19
• WISDOM – 30
• PERCEPTION – 30

Weapon Mastery

You can level up your Weapon Mastery by simply using the weapon during gameplay. The Weapon Mastery Trees for each weapon are as follows.

NOTE – Your first Weapon Mastery Point will be used to select the first node in each weapon.

S&S

• Provoke & Counter – 5 points
• Collision – 7 points

DAGGER

• Disguise – 7 points
• Assassination – 5 points

Guardian – Green Ranger Elowen

Green Ranger Elowen has an amazing “on-cast” ability that roots everyone in a 4m radius for 5 seconds. Couple that with the 500^ bonus to Crit chance against Rooted and reduced Movement speed targets and you have a powerful combination of CC and Damage Burst.

Make sure to use Knife Throw, Shadow Strike, and Chain Hook to keep enemies under the effect of these debuffs to maximize DPS while your Guardian is up.

Gear

NOTE – Most Elite Resistance gear ALSO has a chance to drop from Precious Blessing Pouches that can be purchased daily from your Contract Vendor and the completion of some level 50 Contracts.

Weapons

IMPORTANT – You will want to level up RARE gear to 9+ before transferring progress to EPIC quality Gear.

Level 1-50+

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Main Hand	Elite Resistance Sword	Melee Heavy Attack Chance	Melee Hit	Melee Critical Hit	Crafted – Lithograph from Various Sources
Off-Hand	Elite Resistance Knife	Melee Heavy Attack Chance	Melee Hit	Melee Critical HIt	Crafted – Lithograph from Various Sources

End Game (BIS)

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Main Hand	Nirma’s Corrupt Sword	Melee Heavy AAttack Chance	Melee Hit	Mana Cost Efficiency	Raid Boss – Nirma
Off-Hand	Lequirus’s Thorny Edge	Melee Heavy Attack Chance	Melee Hit	Melee Critical Hit	Paola’s Dimension Chest (Drops in all 50+ Dungeon or can be purchased with Dimensional Crystals

NOTE – you can also use Queen Bellandir’s Blade in the S&S slot. The item is difficult to acquire/Trait, but due to the Weapon Skill it is better than Nirma’s Corrupt Sword. This drops from the World Boss Worm – Queen Bellandir

Armor

IMPORTANT – You will want to level up RARE gear to 9+ before transferring progress to EPIC quality Gear.

Level 1-50+

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Helm	Elite Resistance Visor	Max Health	Ranged Evasion	Melee Evasion	Crafter – Lithograph drops from Various location
Cloak	Elite Assassin’s Cloak	Max Health	Skill Damage Resistance	Bind Resistance	Crafter – Lithograph drops from Orc Spearmaster and Executioners (Akidu Valley)
Chest	Elite Resistance Plate Armor	Max Health	Melee Evasion	Ranged Evasion	Crafted – Lithographs Drop from Ruins of Turayne Zone from Gallu Mobs
Gloves	Blessings of Mother Nature Cloth	Max Health	Melee Evasion	Magic Evasion	Crafted – Lithograph Drops from Cave of Destruction
Pants	Elite Resistance Leather Pants	Max Health	Ranged Evasion	Magic Evasion	Crafted – Lithograph drops from Mitran or Pirate King’s Chest Crab
Boots	Elite Resistance Plate Boots	Ranged Evasion	Melee Evasion	Move Speed	Crafted – Lithograph drops from Grayclaw Butcher

End Game (BIS)

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Helm	General’s Fury Headgear	Max Health	Melee Evasion	Cooldown Speed	Dungeon – Cave of Destruction
Cloak	Hermit’s Shroud	Max Health	Skill Damage Resistance	Enfeeble Resistance	Drops from Abyssal Specter
Chest	Special Resistance Tactical Armor	Max Health	Melee Evasion	Ranged Evasion	Crafted – Drops from Specral Wizard and Watchers
Gloves	Wind Soul Thunder Gloves	Magic Evasion	Ranged Evasion	Magic Endurance	Dungeon – Temple of Slaughter
Pants	Special Resistance Ancient Dragon Pants	Max Health	Ranged Evasion	Magic Evasion	Crafted – Lithograph Drops from Orc Brawlers and Fire Orc Brawlers
Boots	General’s Charge Boots	Ranged Evasion	Melee Evasion	Move Speed	Dungeon – Cave of Destruction

Accessories

IMPORTANT – You will want to level up RARE gear to 9+ before transferring progress to EPIC quality Gear.

Level 1-50+

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Necklace	Shock Trooper’s Resistance Necklace	Max Health	Skill Damage Boost	Buff Duration	Drops From Skeleton Lancer (Ruins of Turayne Zone)
Bracelet	Wild Resistance Bracelet	Max Health	Skill Damage Reduction	Stun Resistance	Dungeons – Roaring Temple and Cursed Wasteland
Ring	Brawler’s Ring	Max Health	Skill Damage Boost	Buff Duration	Crafted – Lithograph drops from Death’s Abyss (Dungeon
Ring	Crude Wind Band	Max Health	Skill Damage Boost	N/A	Uncommon Accessory Chest
Belt	Crude Vigor Belt	Bind Resistance	Skill Damage Resistance	N/A	Uncommon Accessory Chest

End Game (BIS)

	Name	Trait 1	Trait 2	Trait 3	How to Acquire
Necklace	Slaughterer’s Collar	Max Health	Skill Damage Boost	Buff Duration	Raid Boss – Cornelius
Bracelet	Wild Resistance Bracelet	Max Health	Skill Damage Reduction	Stun Resistance	Dungeons – Roaring Temple and Cursed Wasteland
Ring	Insightful Ring of Dimension	Max Health	Skill Damage Boost	Buff Duration	Crafted with Dimensional Crystals x 20
Ring	Transcendent Magic Ring	Bind Chance	Skill Damage Boost	Buff Duration	Crafted – Lithograph from Morokai (Raid Boss)
Belt	Duke Magna’s Belt	Max health	Max Health	Blind Chance	Dungeon – Butcher’s Canyon or Drops from Duke Magna

How to Play the Sword & Shield Dagger Tank Build

This Tank build has Top Tier Survivability and CC making it good in both PVE and PVP. Below, we’ll break down the basics for both scenarios.

PVE

This build is centered around CC, Disruption, and Taunting. In group PVE, you will hold aggro with Provking Roar and Shield Strike. More important, is making sure you save your hard CC for crucial points in the fight that require you to interrupt high-priority attacks from enemies. Strategic Rush and Chain Hook can be used for their Collisuion text to interrupt the enemy and prevent them from Wiping the group.

For Survivability, you have Counter Barrier Active during periods of burst damage and Stalwart Bastion to give the group barriers. Finally, you have your high Evasion stats to help lower damage from all sources.

PVP

For PVP, this build is used to engage and disrupt. You have an arsenal of ways to pen up combat. You can Shadow Strike and Open with you Guardian (Green Ranger Elowen) or one of your collision abilities such as Chain Hook or Strategic Rush. After engaging, make sure to utilize Provoking Roar to taunt an enemy, preventing them from attacking your support/DPS.

Suprisingly, this build also puts out a decent amount of damage as well. Brutal Incision, Predatory Strike, and A Shot at Victory can be used to help apply presure to your groups target, or burst down a weakened enemy.

The most potent part about the Sword and Shield Dagger Combination is the amount of Evasion you have. On top of all the evasion, you also have two of the most powerful defesnive cooldowns in the game in Counter Barrier and Camoflage. Use Counter Barrier on cooldown while in combat. Use Camoflage to disengage or move into the backline to engage healers and squishy ranged DPS.

Finally, don’t forget about your allies! Make sure to use Stalwart Bastion to help ensure your DPS and Healer get the edge defensively over your opponents.

Conclusion

That Concludes our Sword & Shield Dagger Tank Build! For more Throne and Liberty content, be sure to check out our Throne and Liberty Home Page