Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build Guide
Last Updated:March 11, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Steelheart Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build Guide. This is the big brawler Tank in Throne and Liberty, leveraging the strengths of both weapons for a ton of Attack Speed and Heavy Attack Chance.
Sword and Shield / Spear has some of the best melee AoE potential in the game due to skills like Javelin Inferno and Phoenix Barrage. Spear also offers the only fear in the game with Death From Above.
In exchange for the AoE potential, you are less durable than other Sword and Shield builds. Your multi-use abilities require you to use your spear in your main hand, denying you the defenses from your Sword and Shield passives.
End Game
Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build
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 as well.
If you're interested in PvE Gear Progression, check out our Sword and Shield / Spear PvE Build Guide here!
4-Pc Vanguard
Budget
Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build
Expensive Nirma / Bel Spear
Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build
As you approach End Game, you complete the build with the Shock Commander Set and the Imperator Set.
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
- Shock Commander Greaves
- Lycan Kowazan
- Torture Chamber of Secrets
- Belt of Bloodlust
- Aridus
- Nirma's Corrupt Sword
- Nirma
- Queen Bellandir's Serrated Spike
- Queen Bellandir
- Flamewrought Bindings
- Avolos Guardian
- Precious Epic Equipment Chest: Desire
- Blessed Templar Cloak
- Ahzreil
- 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.
Triple Endurance Sword and Shield / Spear PvP Build
Stats and Gearing Logic
- This is a triple Endurance Build. In T2 Sword and Shield / Spear plays mostly as a disruptor using skills as Death From Above, Tempest Strike, Chain Hook and Strategic Rush.
- With 70 Fortitude you reach ~2400 Melee, Magic Endurance, and ~2900 Range Endurance.
- No one will be able to Crit against you without first buffing themselves or debuffing you.
- This is a high Collision Resistance and Collision Chance build.
- You will have ~1600 Collision Resist and ~1400 Collision Chance.
- Swap pieces in and out to match the server meta you are playing against.
Skill Builds and Rotation
PvP Build
General PvP Build
- This is a general PvP build. It has good damage, CC and several defensive skills.
- Spear is a Mana hungry weapon, when you run out of Mana blocking incoming damage helps regain mana back. You might find yourself getting out of combat to drink milk and get full mana.
Global Cooldown Priority
- Unyielding Sentinel
- This is an excellent defensive skill that provides a 4,000 barrier.
- Gale Rush
- This is your gap closer ability which you can also use on an ally to knock enemies off them.
- Tempest Strike
- This skill is your CC ability. It pushes everyone around you away and stuns them. If they are feared or branded by your spear, it knocks them prone instead.
- Javelin Inferno
- This is your strongest damage dealing ability when people are clumped together. It bounces off of 4 targets and deal massive damage. This also CCs enemies, applying a slow which reduces their movement speed by 50%.
- Explosive Fury
- This skill provides the Embers you use to throw javelins. It does good damage and if players are lined up or close enough that you hit multiple targets.
- Death From Above
- This is your initiating skill. You choose a target and dive into them fearing enemies around that target.
Initiate Rotation
- Unyielding Sentinel
- Death From Above
- Tempest Strike
- This trips the feared targets
- Explosive Fury
- Additional damage
- You finish with Javelin Inferno.
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.
- Green Ranger Elowen is your go-to. Keeping targets in place for the rest of your guild or group is incredibly valuable. Additionally, when the Guardian is active you gain 500 additional Critical Hit against any target you hit that is rooted by Green Ranger Elowen.
- Another option is Vampire Slayer Ezekiel. He increases your Magic/Ranged/Melee Defense by 400 and deals damage equal to 0.6% of your Max Health to enemies within 2.5m of you. You are healed by 20% of the damage dealt. This is definitely more situational and usually is not run with SnS / GS, however it is a second Guardian you can look at if you don't need the root from Green Ranger Elowen.
Summary
- Sword and Shield / Spear is a fast paced multi-ability use tank with great initiation, CC and damage.
- Sword and Shield / Spear not being the tankiest class, you would be a mid to front tank as a lot of your skills have a decent range.
- Death From Above is the only longest range engage skill in the game, fears enemy players and creates opportunities for your team to capitalize on.
Credits
Written by Tweekz
Reviewed by Nymphellas