Sword & Shield Wand Build - StudioLoot (2024)

Introduction

Welcome to our Sword & Shield Wand Build guide for Throne and Liberty. Learn everything you need to know about the powerful mix between supportive healing and being a frontline tank for your allies.

Skills & Passives

Below are the Active, Passive, and Defensive Skills for the Sword & Shield Wand Build. For insight on which order to level these Skills up, Check our Skill Upgrade Progression Section below. It’s important to note that there is a few good options and paths you can take with the build. As a result, the freedom truly is yours to explore past our own recommendations.

Active Skills

	Immortal Pride		Strategic Rush
	Blessed Barrier		Counter Barrier
	Clay’s Salvation		Chain Hook
	Swift Healing		Stalwart Bastion
	Fountain of Life		Provoking Roar
	Fierce Clash		Strike Shield

Passives

	Skillful Evasion		Devotion and Emptiness
	Gerad’s Patience		Noble Revival
	Impenetrable		Full of Corruption
	Aegis Shield		Saint’s Oath

Defensive Skill

Shield Survival Technique (Sword and Shield Defensive Skill) provides an easy-to-use Defensive skill that restores health, gives a short-ranged counter-attack, and (once fully upgraded) grants you a Barrier equal to 14% of your Max Health for 3 seconds.

Skill Upgrade Progression

Next, Let’s look at the order to prioritize upgrading your skills. We’ve prioritized the most important skills to help guide you through skill progression to help get you started. It’s important to note that you will upgrade all skills to max eventually and that some Skills start atRareorEpicQuality

ACTIVE SKILL UPGRADE ORDER

• S&S- Shield Strike (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Strategic Rush (Uncommon to Rare)
• Shield Survival Technique (Defensive Skill (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Counter Barrier (Uncommon to Epic)
• Wand- Swift Healing (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Shield Strike (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Provoking Roar (Rare to Epic)
• Wand- Swift Healing (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Chain Hook (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Strategic Rush (Rare to Epic)

PASSIVE SKILL UPGRADE ORDER

• Wand- Full of Corruption (Uncommon to Rare)
• Wand- Devotion and Emptiness (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Skillful Evasion (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Aegis Shield (Uncommon to Rare)
• S&S- Aegis Shield (Rare to Epic)
• Wand- Devotion and Emptiness (Rare to Epic)
• S&S- Skillful Evasion (Rare to Epic)
• Wand- Full of Corruption (Rare to Epic)

Attributes, Weapon Mastery, and Guardians

Attributes

In this section, we will go over the Attribute spread, as well as the Weapon Mastery and Guardian choices for the build.

For this build, the main attribute is split between Dexterity and Wisdom, giving us an increase in cooldown reduction, max mana, and mana regen. Dexterity is the 2rd attribute to gain an increase in evasion chance, attack/cast speed as well as critical chance. It is important to note that stats such as Heavy Attack Chance and Critical Chance affect the output of your healing! Finally, spend the rest of your points into Perception to ensure your CC skills from S&S hit more often. The Attribute Spread for the Sword & Shield Wand build is as follows:

NOTE: This Information does not include gear Bonuses

• STRENGTH – 10
• DEXTERITY – 30
• WISDOM – 30
• PERCEPTION – 19

Weapon Mastery

You can level up your Weapon Mastery by simply using the weapon during gameplay. The Weapon Mastery Trees for each weapon are as follows.

NOTE – Your first Weapon Mastery Point will be used to select the first node in each weapon.

S&S

• Provoke & Counter – 5 points
• Collision – 7 points

Collision

• Damage – 5 points
• Recovery 7 points

Guardian – Green Ranger Elowen

Green Ranger Elowen is perfect for any Sword and Shield combination. As a result of being in the frontline and exceptionally tanky, it has never been easier to land AoE on nearby enemies! Activating Green Ranger Elowen has a high chance to root all nearby targets, increasing the chance of landing critical strikes on the rooted targets. Using Green Ranger Elowen on an engage is essential for winning GvG fights.

Gear

NOTE – Most Elite Resistance gear ALSO has a chance to drop from Precious Blessing Pouches that can be purchased daily from your Contract Vendor and the completion of some level 50 Contracts.

Weapons

IMPORTANT – You will want to level upRAREgear to 9+ before transferring progress toEPICquality Gear.

Level 1-50+

End Game (BIS)

NOTE – you can also use Queen Bellandir’s Blade in the S&S slot. The item is difficult to acquire/Trait, but due to the Weapon Skill it is better than Nirma’s Corrupt Sword. This drops from the World Boss Worm – Queen Bellandir

Armor

IMPORTANT – You will want to level upRAREgear to 9+ before transferring progress toEPICquality Gear.

Level 1-50+

End Game (BIS)

Accessories

IMPORTANT – You will want to level upRAREgear to 9+ before transferring progress toEPICquality Gear.

Level 1-50+

End Game (BIS)

How to Play the Sword & Shield Wand Build

This support build is the ultimate hybrid between a tank and a healing support class. The true “Paladin” playstyle. Below we’ll break down the basics of PvE and PvP gameplay approaches of the build.

PVE

In PvE situations such as dungeons, you have two choices to make. You can either assume the role of “main Tank”, or play as a dedicated healer for another tank. If you’re playing as a healer, it can be worthy leveling up a “back-up” weapon such as a Staff.

The Sword & Shield Wand build, however, is fantastic at tanking overall due to the huge amount of sustain you have through healing yourself. Make sure when you’re tanking to keep as much threat as possible through the use of “Provoking Roar” and “Shield Strike”.

PVP

in PvP situations, you’re not just a supportive healer for your allies, you’re also an essentially member of your armies frontline. Being up-front with your Sword and Shield creates space and pressure for your DPS to safely move up and deal damage. Usually, between skills such as “Stalwart Bastion”, “Counter Barrier” and “Immortal Pride” in tandem with your Defensive Skill, you can soak up a ton of damage. However, it doesn’t end there when you have a Wand of your own! Having the Wand as your secondary weapon means you can sustain yourself for incredibly long periods of time, getting cooldowns back from your S&S to carry on tanking and applying pressure.

A couple of key things to look out for as a Sword and Shield Wand player in PvP:

• Hold your “Stalwart Bastion” for the moment your leader calls to move in for an engage – this skill only affects your party members and lasts a limited amount of time! Consider this a major cooldown.
• Pair up “Immortal Pride” with Stalwart Bastion to give yourself a fantastic amount of effective HP.
• Look to place your “Fountain of Life” skill ahead of where your team is currently positioned if you’re moving up across the field. Placing this skill too early could make you leave it behind, not fully utilizing it for when your army and the enemy forces clash.
• Remember that you’re a support and not just a tank – your team and party still need your heals to survive!
• Try to utilize your Chain Hook to catch out escaping or out of position enemy squishy targets. For example, enemy mages or healers.
• Strategic Rush is a fantastic dashing tool to gain ground and force enemies to stack together.
• Combining Strategic Rush with your Guardian “Green Ranger Elowen” is a fantastic way to engage from surprising distances.

Conclusion

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