Gear and Skill Progression Guide

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?

Acquiring New Gear

Look at our Build Guides to see what gear we recommend for Early, Mid, and End Game.

Blue Gear

Fresh from Level 50, you're looking to upgrade your Gear to the next tier of rarity. Blue Gear is your first step. You can acquire Blue Gear from several sources.

• Co-Op Dungeons
• Open World Dungeons (Abyss Dungeons)
• Lithograph Book Rewards

Purple Gear

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

• Co-Op Dungeons
• Open World Dungeons (Abyss Dungeons)
• Lithograph Book Rewards
• Field and Guild Bosses

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

Upgrading Your Gear

The first step to gear progression is always upgrading your gear and increasing its levels. You do this by using Quality Weapon Growthstone, Quality Armor Growthstone, and Quality Accessory Growthstone.

For Blue Gear, you would use Rare Growthstones. When you acquire a gear of higher rarity, transfer the piece over to your Equipment Enchanting window. You save some resources this way.

Transfer Break Points

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

Acquiring Upgrade Materials

Growthstones

Growthstones can be acquired from various sources.

• Exploration Codex Rewards
• 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.

• Exploration Codex Rewards
• Daily Contracts
• Co-Op Dungeons
• Open World Dungeons (Abyss Dungeons) monsters
• Field Bosses
• Daily limited purchases from Guild Merchant

Magic Powder

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

• Daily Contracts
• Dismantling equipment
• Dynamic Events

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.

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 Skill Growth Books of the correct rarity.

Just look at the skills below and see the difference.

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 Skill Growth Books.

• Exploration Codex rewards
• Lithograph Book rewards
• Craft using Marinds and Marind Ore
• Gigantrite
• Gate of Infinity
• Ornate Shop

Visit a Skills Researcher NPC in Kastleton, Vienta Village, or Stonegard Castle to craft 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:

• Daily Contracts (Parchments too)
• Co-Op Dungeons (Parchments too)
• Open World Dungeons (Abyss Dungeons) monsters (Parchments too)
• Gigantrite (Rare Marind Ore Only
• Marind Ore Gathering Nodes

I highly recommend going to Gigantrite and mining these Ores.

Summary

• Upgrade your gear to increase the stats provided by the gear.
• Transition to Purple Gear as you play the game.
• Traits are an important part of 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