Crossbow Staff Leveling Build Guide

Introduction

Welcome to our Crossbow Staff Leveling build guide. In this guide, we’ll go over the process of leveling with this weapon combination and the best way to utilize it. This includes quest rewards. Crossbow Staff is an off-meta yet incredibly fun and powerful combination in Throne and Liberty. It has potential in PVP with some practice and knowledge. However, it also boasts a top tier level of DPS in PVE Dungeons and bossing.

Skill Prioritization

Below is our go-to for Skill Prioritization with Crossbow Staff during leveling:

A good amount of your core Skills begin the journey with you at Level 1. This includes:

Serial Fire Bombs
Chain Lightning
Inferno Wave
Quick Fire
Nimble Leap

You can use any filler Skill you wish, however, begin to fit & replace higher level Skills as you continue.

Skill Specialization Priority

At Level 15, you’ll unlock Skill Specialization. This system awards you with 10 starting points to allocate and empower your existing Skills. You’ll earn 2 additional points per level up until level 31, where you then start to earn 3 additional points per level. We recommend the following set-up:

The most important ordering priority in the Skill Specializations is to Boost up Quick Fire, Mother Nature’s Protest, Nimble Leap and Chain Lightning as soon as possible. This is your bread and butter set of Skills that deal a large portion of your leveling damage.

Skill Upgrade Priority

Every Skill in Throne and Liberty starts at “Uncommon Level 1“. By using Active and Passive Skill Growth Books obtained from the MSQ and Side Quests or crafting them with Marind Ores of different rarities – you can level up each Skill until Epic Level 5. Below is our recommended upgrading priority for your Skills while leveling:

Once you have upgraded these Skills to Rare and then Epic, upgrade the rest as you see fit.

Stat Allocation

While leveling 1-50 with the Crossbow Staff leveling build guide, we recommend the following stat allocation:

Dexterity – 20 Points
Wisdom – 9 Points
Perception – 20 Points

Weapon Mastery

Weapon Mastery in Throne and Liberty takes some time to grind up to the maximum level. For the sake of the Crossbow Staff leveling build guide, we’ve set our goal as Level 7 Mastery. For leveling, follow the Mastery lines below:

These are generally the best masteries to push for while leveling to help you get started.

Gearing and MSQ Rewards

Early on in leveling, crafted Uncommon gear is something you’ll only have to worry about upgrading, rather than looking for specific pieces. Around Chapter 4 of the MSQ, you’ll have enough materials and Lithographs to craft a full Uncommon set of gear. We recommend crafting gear with Melee Evasion or Mana Regen if you’re struggling. Melee Evasion gear (especially the Accessories) can be quite powerful early on in PVP too – so consider crafting them for this reason too!

#If you craft the Repeating Crossbows early on, you can use it later in the Lithograph Book for a free Crossbows of the Resistance!

MSQ Reward Selection

While the large majority of gear you’ll receive from the MSQ is Rare, we do not recommend moving straight over to them until you’re at least Level 50. Ultimately, this gear will be replaced with BIS Epic Tier 1 gear, but for now – we recommend the following rewards:

Chapter 1 – Acolyte Staff
Chapter 2 – Quality Marind Ore (only real option)
Chapter 3 – Rare Marind Ore
Chapter 4 – Any of the rings (this is the least important)
Chapter 5 – Staff of the Resistance
Chapter 6 – Visor of the Resistance or Mask of the Resistance
Chapter 7 – Handguards of the Resistance or Glade Stalker Gloves
Chapter 8 – Trousers of the Resistance
Chapter 9 – Glade Stalker Boots OR Sabatons of the Resistance
Chapter 10 – Heroic Tunic of the Resistance

How to Play The Crossbow Staff Leveling Build

The Crossbow Staff build is heavily focused around high consistent damage combos and nimble movement while leveling and in general. The build has a great amount of mobility and some of the largest DPS in the game. As a result, this particular build can level 1-50 pretty fast.

Skill Rotation

A very simple rotation to get you started is the following:

Toggle Mother Nature’s Protest
Inner Peace (to gain mana and Mana Cost Efficiency)
Quick Fire
Serial Fire Bombs
Inferno Wave
Chain Lightning

The key to this build is building maximum burn stacks as fast as possible through Mother Nature’s Protest. Quick Fire in combination with Serial Fire Bombs is more than enough to reach 10 stacks immediately. The ranged combinations of Skills works as a filler until you unlock more Specializations to constantly reset and boost the damage of Quick Fire.

Leveling Tips

Finally, a few additional leveling tips to keep in mind on your 1-50 journey:

Check out our general Leveling guide for more information
Focus on the MSQ as much as you can, however, make sure to do a couple of Side Quests in each area to avoid any leveling walls.
Do not skip on crafting Uncommon gear, it’ll be important to put into your Rare gear or the Lithograph book.
During the Resistance Contracts quest from the MSQ, try to pick out any Accessory or Weapon Lithograph rewards. These can help you massively in getting good early game gear.
Be very mindful of your Mana as Crossbow and Staff. The class is very Mana hungry.
Make sure to repeatedly use Inner Peace to refresh your mana, even tapping Inner Peace and cancelling it to gain Mana Cost Efficiency mid-fight is great too!
Keep an eye on your major Cooldowns! You’ll want them to line up so you can pull off some of the most incredible damage combos in the game.