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Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build Guide

Last Updated:March 11, 2025|Changelog

Welcome to the Berserker Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build Guide. The Sword and Shield paired with a Dagger creates a flexible and powerful build in Throne and Liberty, ideal for players who want to combine strong defenses with agile, high-damaging attacks and engages.

With the Sword and Shield, you can group enemies with abilities like Strategic Rush or Chain Hook creating chaos on the battlefield by disrupting enemy raids and forcing them to react to your movements. The Dagger adds an element of surprise with skills like Camouflage Cloak, Shadow Escape, Block Blade, and Assassin's Step, allowing you to make quick, sneaky attacks that can catch enemies off guard.

This combination gives you the versatility to hold the frontline, soak up damage and control engagements with skills like Shadow Walker, Phantom Smokescreen, Stalwart Bastion, Counter Barrier, Skillful Evasion, and Impenetrable. Meanwhile, Immortal Pride, Gerad's Patience, and Aegis Shield increase make you hard to kill. Whether starting a fight from the front or diving into the heart of an enemy raid, this build allows you to switch between defense and offense. This is perfect for outmaneuvering opponents and breaking up enemy formations.

End Game Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build

If you're interested in PvE, check out our Sword and Shield / Dagger PvE Build Guide!

Pros
  • Stealth
  • High Mobility
  • High Survivability
  • High Single-Target Burst
Cons
  • Low AoE CC
  • Low AoE DPS
  • Harder to Learn
  • High Burst Combo Cooldown

PvP Gear Progression

Acquiring Gear pieces and upgrading them is incredibly expensive and time-consuming. If you enjoy both PvE and PvP content, just use these sets for PvE too.

If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Sword and Shield / Dagger PvE Build Guide here!

End Game
T2 End Game
Range/Magic Evasion

Nirma Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build

Karnix Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build

Both builds are viable, making the choice between them a personal preference. Keep in mind that swapping Karnix's Nether Sword to Nirma's Corrupt Sword causes you to lose a large amount of Max Health in favor of higher Shield Block, so weigh your options carefully.

Weapon Options

  • Nirma's Corrupt Sword offers a higher Shield Block Chance.
  • Karnix's Nether Sword offers more Max Health.

Gear Sources

  • Nirma's Corrupt Sword from Nirma
  • Gauntlets of the Field General from Aridus,
  • Tycan's Bloodlust Belt from Aridus
  • Shadow Harvester Boots from Avolos Tracker
  • Icy Necklace of Strength from Arena Sundries Merchant
Important
  • The ideal build to choose is heavily dependent on your server meta.
  • Talandre Gear offers many different gear pieces from which you can choose.
  • Use these builds as a base and swap different pieces depending on your need.

Range/Magic Evasion Sword and Shield / Dagger PvP Build

Stats and Gearing Logic

  • This build is Range and Magic Evasion with high Critical Hit and Heavy Attack Chance.
    • You will have ~3800 Range and Magic Evasion.
  • You aim to have high Critical Hit since our targets will mostly be Endurance players and you want high Heavy Attack Chance which synergizes with Edge of Venom.
    • This build will have ~1800 Critical Hit and ~650 Heavy Attack Chance.
  • This build runs Collision Resistance to avoid getting proned since we don't run Melee Evasion.
  • Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.

Skill Builds and Rotation

Large Scale PvP
Small Scale PvP

Active Skills

Block Skills

  • Use Shield Survival Technique to restore Health while blocking and significantly increase your Damage Reduction while in Block stance. This Block synergizes well with a high Damage Reduction Stat to greatly reduce multi-hit attacks.

Damage Skills

  • Cleaving Moonlight is used as a small AoE ability when engaging.
  • Brutal Incision delivers a powerful blow when enemies are below 50% Max Health. Weave it towards the end of your burst combo.
  • Annihilating Slash is a strong AoE attack that also reduces enemies' Movement Speed by 60%.

Utility Skills

  • Camouflage Cloak allows for sneak engages where enemies don't see you coming, and it helps you back out of a fight if needed.
  • Phantom Smokescreen blocks all Melee, Ranged, and Magic projectiles.
    • Pair it with Assassination Stance to guarantee a Cooldown reset on Camouflage Cloak
  • Counter Barrier is your bread and butter defensive skill, with the ability to reset the Cooldown of Piercing Attack and increase your Shield Block Chance while reflecting damage.
  • Use Shadow Strike to engage clumped enemies or help you escape sticky situations.

Passive Skills

  • Assassin's Instincts boosts Critical Hit Chance permanently.
  • Shadow Walker grants an insane boost to Magic and Ranged Evasion with mobility skills like Shadow Strike or Strategic Rush.
  • Resilient Mind is great to restore Mana and Health.
  • Impenetrable works similarly to Indomitable Armor, however, it scales based on the number of enemy targets around you.
  • Aegis Shield is simply a Stat passive.
    • With Counter Barrier up, you get increased value from this passive.

Stealth Bomb

  1. Camouflage Cloak
  2. Shadow Strike
  3. Counter Barrier
  4. Piercing Attack
  5. Annihilating Slash
  6. Cleaving Moonlight
  7. Spam Piercing Attack as it comes off CD while Counter Barrier is active
  • This combo allows you to deal lots of AoE burst damage to unsuspecting enemies.
  • Use Strategic Rush to create a tighter clump of enemies before starting your DPS rotation. Always push enemies towards your allies so they can assist in bursting them down.
  • Use Phantom Smokescreen if you're getting focused by a lot of ranged DPS players.

AoE Skills

  • Piercing Attack
  • Annihilating Slash
  • Cleaving Moonlight
  • Strategic Rush
  • These skills are all helpful in delivering AoE burst damage or improving your ability to destroy enemies.

Tips

  • Strategic Rush can be used to Stun enemies when pushing them against a solid object.
  • Use Brutal Incision to deliver a powerful blow to enemies with low health.
  • If you are using Assassination Stance, use Phantom Smokescreen to quickly reset the cooldown of Camouflage Cloak.

Use this version of the Small Scale and Arena PvP build if you are not fighting a lot of Longbow users using the Devoted Shield passive since Thunderclouds Bombing will continuously procc it.

Active Skills

Block Skills

  • Does not change from the previous tab.

Damage Skills

  • Use Cleaving Moonlight for solid AOE damage and to proc the Shadow Walker passive.
    • This skill also applies Weaken: Thunderclouds to lower the target's Defense and increase the damage of Thunderclouds Bombing.
  • Piercing Attack is a strong single target skill that sends a cone of damage behind your target. The Cooldown is lowered by Counter Barrier
  • Lightning Infusion allows all skills to apply Weaken: Thunderclouds for a set amount of time.

Utility Skills

  • Ankle Strike prones your target, allowing you to set up your other combos.
    • This skill also goes through Block, making it a good counter for Sword and Shield players.
  • Strategic Rush is used to reposition yourself and to push enemies around. If you push an enemy into a wall they become stunned for a set time.
  • Chain Hook is used to pull high value targets to you, applying a Bind.
  • Camouflage Cloak is a great way to engage enemies unseen and can also be used to break Bind.
  • Counter Barrier gives you increased Shield Block Chance and does Reflect damage within a certain range.
  • Stalwart Bastion provides massive Damage Reduction, which has good synergy with high defense builds as well as Counter Barrier.
  • Shadow Strike is a great engage tool used to lock down high priority targets. It also applies Silence and Bind.
  • Take Provoking Roar to Taunt targets, making it so they can only target you. This also prevents them from using skills like Swift Healing as well.

Passive Skills

  • Use Wrathful Edge to increase your Critical Damage.
  • The remaining skills do not change from the previous tab.

Skill Prioritization

  • Use Quality Marind Ore to craft Quality Active Skill Growth Book and Quality Passive Skill Growth Book.
  • Use Rare Marind Ore to craft Rare Active Skill Growth Book and Rare Passive Skill Growth Book.
  • Prioritize getting all these skills to blue first before getting them to purple. These are universal skills you always use.
  • Upgrade the rest of your skills as you play the game.

Guardians

Guardians are special transformations that add offensive or defensive buffs or attacks to your character for 30 seconds. These are the recommended Guardians for this class for PvP.

  • Green Ranger Elowen is your main Guardian that can be used to accomplish great AoE CC plays by using Shadow Escape into the middle of enemies clumped together and following up with Green Ranger Elowen to instantly Bind them all.
    • You can also use Camouflage Cloak to sneak into the middle of an enemy clump before activating this Guardian.
  • Lady Knight Kamarshea helps as an emergency button to survive situations where you are overwhelmed by several players or caught in a CC chain.

Summary

  • This build focuses on combining strong defenses with agile, high-damage attacks using Sword and Shield for strong CC and Dagger for stealth and survivability.
  • Combining defensive skills like Counter Barrier, Stalwart Bastion, and Immortal Pride, with Dagger skills such as Phantom Smokescreen and Shadow Walker, ensure that you are one of the most difficult builds to defeat.
  • Ideal for frontline tanking, holding enemies, and achieving strong sneak engages.

Credits

Written by Tweekz, Yaen, and Eli
Reviewed by Tenkiei and Bloo

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