The Dagger specializes in bleed status effects by delivering rapid consecutive strikes in close-quarters combat while allowing you to close the gap between you and the enemy. If you wield this weapon, you can execute quick, lethal attacks on enemies before they get a chance to re
I think in part I’m hopeful because of NCSoft’s heritage of MMOs, including Lineage 2, a game that I devoted many hours to when I was first discovering PC games. Throne And Liberty feels like a natural successor to those classic MMOs of old - with some modern trappi
At the end of the day, Throne and Liberty ** is a pretty new game** . It has its flaws, sure, but there's still plenty of time for it to resolve its issues with progression with more mechanically complex classes, to add new morphs that actually make a difference in gameplay, or to renew its focus on the thrilling
Both NCSoft and Amazon have already proven that they’re willing to put in the work to make this game better. Combat overhauls, skill system overhauls, performance overhauls: Throne and Liberty has really gone through the works over the past year. If the western launch of the game is successful - which I have a feeling it will be, people are always desperate for a new MMO to play - we should see ongoing support for T&L well into the fut
These will naturally be a pressing question for anyone who might want to try out Throne and Liberty. ‘Pay-to-win’ is a term often thrown about by players, and it’s probably a term used frequently in Amazon’s head offices, too. Pay-to-win is a spectrum . You could place Diablo Immortal very high on the pay-to-win scale, whereas a game like League of Legends has plenty of microtransactions but no pay-to-win elements at all. Throne and Liberty definitely falls on the much lighter side of things. Most purchasable items are cosme
However, this is still an MMO through and through - so the quests are repetitive. The zones you travel through are fairly interesting though, and mob variety is fine. There are rolling fields, beaches, gnarled watchtowers on top of hills guarded by goblins. Nothing here really screams originality.. But there remains a soothing familiarity to the wayThrone and Liberty begins: when there are hundreds of players grinding scarecrows in a random field somewhere, you know this is a serious
One of my main concerns with Throne and Liberty was its combat. It’s still not as flashy as I’d like, and sometimes you get locked into animations that feel clunky. Compared to the version I played earlier this year, however, you can tell how much work has gone into making the combat more action-packed and giving the player more agency over their abilities. We won’t know for sure about this until players start to reach the endgame and begin taking part in some of the large-scale PvE and PvP events, particularly the Castle Sieges - an element of the game I can’t wait to try for mys
In our preview, there were eight of us in a dungeon taking on a handful of enemies at once, culminating in a final battle against one giant boss. But this is not the typical throne and liberty Guide & Liberty experience, and even the example tossed out of 200 versus 200 is, I'm told, more on the "low side". So what is the standard Throne & Liberty experie
The Dagger is also an effective solo-target DPS weapon due to the focus it has on Crit Hit chance stats. Since many of the weapon's skills focus on stealth and movement, it is very suitable for mobile classes . Its weapon mastery tree is divided into Disguise, Poison, and Assassinat
"There's definitely a quality bar that we strive for in the titles that we're bringing to market," Lafuente tells me. "And it just so happens that we have MMOs right now, but our portfolio intends to be broad over the next couple of years. Maybe you've heard the news about the Tomb Raider game. It's not just MMOs that we're bringing to market. It does happen to be the focus of the moment, but we have broad ambitio
The Wand and Tome excels as a support tool and is capable of dealing damage through DoTs and curses. Its true strength lies in its ability to heal allies, and conversely debuff enemies. This is the quintessential weapon that you need in Throne and Liberty to adopt a supportive or controller role in the g
Depending on the rarity level of your item, it will require different rarities of Growthstones. Here are all the Growthstones and which corresponding rarities they are used for. We have included the "Weapon" style growthstones, but the same goes for each item t
"I have a long history with Korean MMOs," Lee Kwai tells me. "There are certain expectations around classes based on that legacy. It's important to strike a delicate balance. But when you're fighting one v one, or one v six, or 50 versus 50, or 200 versus 200, the abilities are used in many different ways and the strategies of combat change drastically. And one thing that mage classes are known for is area attacks, so during combat like sieges or massive battles there's usually strategies that arise based on how to coordinate magic attacks, and that's where they really get a lot of that reputati
