This build is up to date for the September 23, 2025 patch.
Overview
The Staff and Spear PvE build excels in delivering quick bursts of close-range damage, with abilities like 
Abyssal Cleave & 
Tempest Strike serving as excellent setup tools before executing your full DPS rotation on crowd-controlled targets.
This build is also effective at range, capable of dealing significant damage to opponents who don't engage you directly. This versatility allows it to perform exceptionally well in Dominion Events, Small-Scale Guild PvP, and Nighttime PvP, standing strong against other popular builds like Greatsword Dagger.
Attributes
PRIMARY
Dexterity
+
Perception
SECONDARY
Strength
+
Wisdom
With the unique stats and attributes system in Throne and Liberty, it can be difficult to determine exactly where to invest your attribute points at each stage of the game. This is because gear pieces provide attributes just like leveling up does, meaning everyone will have a different number of attribute points depending on what gear they are wearing at the time.
Given this variation, it's best to reset your attributes regularly to adjust to the new gear you acquire. Aim to reach the achievement effects, which provide extra benefits at milestones like 30, 50, and 70 points.
For this Spear Staff build, focus on Perception and Dexterity to maximize your damage output. These are your key stats early on, as they enhance critical hit rate, accuracy, and overall damage. Keep focusing on them as you upgrade your gear to maintain strong performance.
Next, consider Strength and Wisdom as secondary stats. Strength boosts your max HP, which is helpful for tougher PvE encounters, while Wisdom supports mana regeneration. It’s often recommended to allocate 50 points into Strength—not only for survivability but also to increase your heavy attack chance, a valuable and typically expensive stat to acquire.
Skills
With this build utilizing Spear skills for its melee component, prioritize upgrading these first when using skill books. Key CC skills to upgrade early are Abyssal Cleave and Tempest Strike, as their upgraded versions significantly increase CC durations, giving you a strong advantage in controlling fights.
Other essential skills like 
Cyclonic Fury, 
Culling Arc and 
Rising Slash serve as your primary melee DPS abilities. These offer exceptional damage in melee combat, whether you're peeling for yourself or bursting down opponents in close range.
Passives play a crucial role in enhancing your performance. Upgrade 
Retaliatory Strike and 
Death Knell first, as they provide critical damage boosts. 
Mortal Wrath is another must-have, adding bonus damage to low-health targets, helping secure kills efficiently.
For the Staff, prioritize impactful passives. 
Forbidden Sanctuary boosts skill damage, which is otherwise costly to enhance via gear. 
Flame Condensation increases heavy attack rate against burning targets, making your overall damage more potent. 
Echoic Barrier offers invaluable protection against silence effects like 
Shadow Strike, ensuring uninterrupted casting and often preventing critical shutdowns.
Among Staff active skills, 
Judgment Lightning and 
Serial Fire Bombs deliver reliable damage, with Serial Fire Bombs also reducing enemy healing—a valuable utility for PvP. 
Chain Lightning synergizes effectively with burn stacks on enemies, amplifying its damage and making it a strong addition to your rotation.
Equipment
Tier 3 (Work in progress)
Daigon's Charred Emberstaff
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Hit Chance
Primary
Crimson Hellskewer
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Hit Chance
Crowned Skull of Victory
Max Health
Magic Endurance
Mana Cost Efficiency
Resonance Effect: Melee Endurance
Cloak of Victorious Destiny
Max Health
Debuff Duration
Skill Damage Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Transcendent Tempest's Armor
Debuff Duration
Magic Endurance
Ranged Endurance
Resonance Effect: Melee Endurance
Spectral Overseer's Handguards
Hit Chance
Ranged Endurance
Range
Resonance Effect: Melee Endurance
Spectral Overseer's Trousers
Magic Endurance
Ranged Endurance
Max Health
Resonance Effect: Melee Endurance
Transcendent Tempest's Boots
Ranged Endurance
Magic Endurance
Movement Speed
Resonance Effect: Melee Endurance
Earrings of Forlorn Elegance
Front Heavy Attack Chance
Side Heavy Attack Chance
Front Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Death Knell Gorget
Skill Damage Boost
Max Health
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Primal Golden Cuffs
Mana Regen
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Ring of Eternal Flames
Skill Damage Boost
Max Health
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Runed Band of the Black Anvil
Skill Damage Boost
Buff Duration
Max Health
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Hero's Legacy Warbelt
Max Health
Debuff Duration
Skill Damage Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Info
Equipment is being updated, if tier 3 items are in the tier 3 tab, it means the equipment on this build was updated.
Calanthia's Spire of Torment
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Hit Chance
Primary
Deluzhnoa's Serrated Shard
Heavy Attack Chance
Critical Hit Chance
Hit Chance
Resonance Effect: Heavy Attack Chance
Fallen Dynasty Helmet
Max Health
Cooldown Speed
Mana Cost Efficiency
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Calanthia's Confession
Max Mana
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Fallen Dynasty Plate Armor
Max Health
Buff Duration
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Fallen Dynasty Gauntlets
Max Health
Hit Chance
Range
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Blood Hunter Leg Guards
Max Health
Magic Evasion
Ranged Evasion
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Fallen Dynasty Sabatons
Max Stamina
Max Mana
Movement Speed
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Venelux Scholar's Earrings
Back Hit Chance
Back Heavy Attack Chance
Side Heavy Attack Chance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Collar of the New Moon
Skill Damage Boost
Max Mana
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Bracelet of the Evening Tide
Max Health
Skill Damage Resistance
Weaken Resistance
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Band of Brutal Agony
Skill Damage Boost
Max Health
Buff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Eternal Promise
Skill Damage Boost
Buff Duration
Max Health
Sash of Rustling Leaves
Max Mana
Skill Damage Resistance
Debuff Duration
Resonance Effect: Max Health
Weapon Masteries
Spear
Staff
You should be aiming to reach and unlock masteries (the corner nodes) as soon as possible as they usually make the largest impact in the build. While minor nodes shouldn't be forgotten, make sure to unlock masteries as fast as possible before spreading out and spending into less important nodes.
Artifacts
Chaos Harbinger Talistone I
Damage: 9
Heavy Attack Chance
Magic Critical Hit Chance
Magic Heavy Attack Chance
Chaos Harbinger Solarstone
Weaken Chance
Silence Chance
Weaken Chance
CC Chance
Chaos Harbinger Talistone III
Max Health: 1600
Max Mana
Mana Regen
CC Resistance
Chaos Harbinger Talistone II
Defense: 160
Magic Endurance
Endurance
Heavy Attack Evasion
Chaos Harbinger Lunarstone
Weaken Resistance
Collision Resistance
Weaken Resistance
CC Resistances
Chaos Harbinger Talistone IV
Max Health: 1600
Critical Hit Chance
Magic Heavy Attack Chance
Magic Critical Hit Chance
Rotations
- Use this rotation to deal heavy damage and also anti-heal the players you hit with Serial Fire Bombs and also deal very high burst damage capable of blowing up targets with ease.
- Start the rotation with
High Focus & 
Unyielding Sentinel to boost hit rate and heavy attack chance before using Serial Fire Bombs to hit your target at full charge for extra damage before you continue the rotation with Chain Lightning and Judgment Lightning quickly after that to finish off the targeted player.
- This Melee rotation is intended for dealing with single targets you catch or to burst down enemies that are harassing you. Catch an enemy with
Gale Rush and stick to them before you can manage a proper moment to use Abyssal Cleave and make sure to jump so it applies Prone.
- Applying Prone is important as it cannot be cleared it off with the Purification Stone and you can follow up with Cyclonic Fury and Culling Arc to deal damage but also further debuff the target so you can setup Rising Slash to blow them up.
Icebound Tomb: Use this to control enemies and break up enemy rotations by freezing them as they do it. However, keep in mind that you can also use this on yourself to freeze yourself and avoid damage entirely!
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