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Gear and Skill Progression Guide

Last Updated:April 17, 2025|Changelog

Gear progression is important; it's an MMO, after all. Like most MMOs, Throne and Liberty features vertical progression and the typical MMO treadmill. So, what should you do to become the destined main character that the story quests say you are?

This guide assumes you are Level 50 and want to learn about the power progression systems Throne and Liberty offers.

Acquiring New Gear

Look at our Build Guides to see what gear we recommend for End Game.

Purple Gear

As you keep playing the game, you want to transition from Blue Gear to Purple Gear. The content below rewards Purple Gear.

Most BiS purple items only drop from Field and Guild Bosses. You can also try using the Auction House.

Post 50 Aridus Loot Table

Upgrading Your Gear

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The first step to gear progression is to upgrade your gear and continually increase its levels. You do this by using Quality Weapon Growthstone, Quality Armor Growthstone, and Quality Accessory Growthstone.

Transfer Break Points

  1. Green (Uncommon) +6 ➔ Blue (Rare) +3
  2. Blue (Rare) +9 ➔ Purple (Epic Tier 1) +6
  3. Purple (Epic Tier 1) +9 ➔ Purple (Epic Tier 2) +6

Acquiring Upgrade Materials

Growthstones

Growthstones can be acquired from various sources.

  • Resistance Goods Merchant
  • Using Rare and Precious Ores to craft Rare and Precious Growthstones
  • Use 1,000 Abyssal Contract Token Points to grind Open World Dungeons (Abyss Dungeons) for materials
    • Do your daily Contracts for materials
    • Daily limited purchases from Contract Coin Merchant
    • Lithograph Book rewards
    • Do your weekly 3 Taedal's Tower Contracts
  • Ornate Shop
    • Uses Ornamental Coin to buy Monthly limited items
    • Get Ornamental Coin from doing Collection Codex

Polished Crystals

Well, to craft Rare and Precious Growthstones, you need Rare and Precious Polished Crystals. They drop from various content.

Magic Powder

In addition to crafting Rare and Precious Growthstones, you need Rare Magic Powder. They come from these sources:

Acquiring Traits

Upgrading your gear's levels isn't the only way to progress.

Another facet of gearing progression is Traits. Traiting your gear is incredibly important to increasing not only your DPS but also your survivability.

Having the BiS gear is one thing, but having fully traited BiS gear is your ultimate goal.

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For more information on how Traits work, visit our Traits Guide.

Upgrading Skills

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Gear and Traits aren't the only things that make you stronger. The higher the rarity and level of your skills, the more damage you do. Upgrade your skills using Precious Skill Growth Book of the correct rarity.

Just look at the skills below and see the difference.

  • High Focus
  • High Focus
  • High Focus
  • Judgment Lightning
  • Judgment Lightning
  • Judgment Lightning

Check out the Skill Prioritization in our Build Guides to see the skills you should prioritize upgrading!

Acquiring Skill Books

There are a couple of ways to acquire Precious Skill Growth Book.

Visit a Skills Researcher NPC in Kastleton, Vienta Village, or Stonegard Castle to craft Precious Skill Growth Book. You need Parchments and Marinds of the same rarity you want to craft.

You can acquire Rare and Precious Marind Ore from:

Summary

  • Upgrade your gear to enhance the stats it provides.
  • Transition to Purple Gear as you play the game.
  • Traits play a crucial role in gear progression.
  • Upgrade your skills so you can do more damage.
  • Look into Rune Synergies and Runes when you're done with everything else.

Credits

Written by Yaen
Reviewed by Nym

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