Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build Guide
Last Updated:March 11, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Steelheart Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build Guide. This is the big brawler Tank in Throne and Liberty. The build leverages the strengths of both weapons for a ton of Attack Speed and Heavy Attack Chance.
Sword and Shield / Spear has some of the best AoE farming potential in the game due to passives like Spectrum of Agony and active skills that can cleave off each other such as Phoenix Barrage and Javelin Inferno.
For bossing, Spear provides a very strong offensive buff Sentinel's Bastion which provides tons of Heavy Attack to your party.
End Game
T2 End Game Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build
If you're interested in PvP, check out our Sword and Shield Spear PvP Build Guide!
PvE Gear Progression
If you plan on PvPing in the future, just use the PvP gear shown in our Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Guide for PvE. For higher tiers of Challenge Dungeons, you want a full PvE set.
Range/Magic Evasion
Budget
Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build
Expensive Nirma
Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build
Fully trait your blue gear before transferring over to purple gear. A fully traited blue piece will give you 960 Blessings for you to use.
As you approach End Game, you complete the build with Death Set and the Imperator Set.
- You're already tanky as it is with all your passives and armor. Considering that, you use Death Set for more damage to help speed up the run of your Dungeons.
- Greaves of the Field General completes your Imperator Set for the extra 150 Heavy Attack Chance.
Gear Sources
- Gauntlets of the Field General
- Aridus
- Reptilian Soldier in Saurodoma Island
- Voidwastes
- Shadow Harvester Boots
- Carmine Rage Island
- Avolos Tracker in Sanctum of Desire
- Band of the Chosen One
- Island of Terror
- Bracers of Unrelenting
- Valley of Slaughter
- Greaves of the Field General
- Lycan Kowazan
- Torture Chamber of Secrets
- Belt of Bloodlust
- Aridus
- Nirma's Corrupt Sword
- Nirma
- Heroic Polearm of the Resistance
- Lithograph Book
- Gallu Knight
- Shadow Harvester Mask
- Adentus
- Valley of Slaughter
- Forsaken Embrace
- Junobote
- 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.
T2 End Game Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build
Stats and Gearing Logic
- This build is has high Attack Speed, Base Damage and Heavy Attack.
- This build is running ~70% Attack Speed which will help sustain aggro and provide great sustain damage.
- You reach 1200+ Heavy Attack Chance for 50%+ proc rate.
- You will have ~1400 Critical Hit which synergizes with the T2 weapon Crimson Hellskewer.
- With the 4-Piece Vanguard item set effect, you reach 600+ Max Damage on Greatsword before Quality Stellarite.
Skill Builds and Rotation
General
Mobbing
Dungeon PvE Build
- This is a general bossing build. It has very fast attacks and tons of multi hitting abilities.
- This is a Mana intensive build when you are fighting against mobs. Once you encounter bosses you will not have any mana issues if you're blocking attacks.
Global Cooldown Priority
- Sentinel's Bastion
- Gale Rush
- Make sure to use this on cooldown on boss encounters as it gives max attack speed stacks with Intiative Blitz.
- Abyssal Cleave
- Always make sure to use this to give yourself the crit buff.
- Provoking Roar
- This will give you additional damage and hold aggro, you most likely will not need to re apply unless the boss does a mechanic. Make sure this is on the boss always.
- Phoenix Barrage
- Slaughtering Slash
Damage Rotation
- Sentinel's Bastion
- Gale Rush
- Provoking Roar
- Piercing Strike
- Abyssal Cleave
- Phoenix Barrage
- Slaughtering Slash
- Explosive Fury x5
- Flaming Arc x2.
- This is your general-purpose AoE PvE clearing for the SNS Spear PvE build. Spear has one of the best AOE clearing abilities in the game: Javelin Inferno. With proper grouping and the right buffs, you single-handedly delete entire groups of mobs.
Best AOE Combo
This is your bread-and-butter AoE clearing rotation.
- Great Fury
- Provoking Roar
- Sentinel's Bastion
- Explosive Fury x5
- Javelin Inferno x5
If anything is left alive after this combo, finish up with Flaming Arc x2 into Slaughtering Slash.
Skill Prioritization
- Use Quality Marind Ore to craft Quality Passive Skill Growth Book and Quality Active Skill Growth Book
- Use Rare Marind Ore to craft Rare Passive Skill Growth Book and Rare Active Skill Growth Book.
- Prioritize getting all these skills to blue first before getting them to purple.
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.
- Shade Revenant Stheno is THE DPS Guardian in PvE. No other explanation is required.
- Lady Knight Kamarshea is a useful Guardian while you learn new dungeons. It helps in dangerous situations as an emergency button to survive mechanics that deal a significant amount of damage. Not many other situations arise where this is necessary.
Summary
- Both Sword and Shield and Spear have passives that complement each other perfectly making for a highly effective PvE tank build.
- The bossing build revolves around buffing your team with Sentinel's Bastion provide high amounts of Heavy Attack while also dealing punishing single target damage with your multi hit skills.
- The AoE farming capabilities of this combo are extremely high. With a very high attack speed and a great ability kit, open-world farming will be a breeze.
Credits
Written by Tweekz
Reviewed by Nymphellas