With the release of the new spear weapon in Throne and Liberty, many players are eager to learn how to effectively harness its power in boss fights, especially with the introduction of Trials of the Dimension. If your goal is to come out on top in content like Infinity Gate, then understanding the correct build, skill rotation, and specialization is essential. In my matches, I was able to consistently get first place with a 20 second lead, so I developed a highly optimized spear build that maximizes burst damage and survivability. Players interested in the new spear build can head over to MMOEXP to purchase Throne and Liberty Lucent to create a different style of build. In this guide, I will walk you through the best skills, specialization, and rotation for the spear build, ensuring you are ready to dominate any boss fight in Throne and Liberty.

Specializations: Tailoring Your Spear Power

Specializations are key to transforming your Spear into a powerhouse of damage, and there are specific ones that you’ll want to focus on to maximize your potential in boss fights:

1. Javelin Surge → Javelin Inferno:

2. The first specialization you'll want to unlock is Javelin Surge, which upgrades to Javelin Inferno. This offers a massive boost to your ranged capabilities and adds AoE potential, making it invaluable in both single-target and multi-target scenarios.

3. Vicious Fury → Explosive Fury:

· For Vicious Fury, make sure to take Explosive Fury. This specialization is essential for stacking burst damage and synergizing with other abilities. It provides powerful burst stacks that will make your attacks much more lethal.

4. Unyielding Sentinel → Sentinel’s Bastion:

· Unyielding Sentinel is great for defense, but switching to Sentinel’s Bastion will give you a huge defensive shield. This is particularly useful if you're running a squishy build, as it provides a significant health boost (roughly 50% more health when you’re at around 9,000 hit points). This shield will help mitigate some of the damage you’d otherwise take in boss fights.

5. Gil Rush → Initiative Blitz:

· Specializing Gil Rush into Initiative Blitz is key for gaining a significant attack speed buff. This is critical in speeding up your rotation and ensuring you output as much damage as possible before the boss can react.

6. Rising Slash → Explosive Damage:

· For Rising Slash, make sure to specialize into Explosive Damage. This increases the damage output, allowing for a more impactful hit when used in conjunction with other abilities.

7. Cyclonic Fury → Critical Aftermath:

· Specializing Cyclonic Fury into Critical Aftermath ensures that you get even more out of your burst damage and will trigger higher crit damage, especially when paired with other specialized skills.

8. Dagger Specializations:

· For your Dagger, focus on Consecutive Use, which boosts attack speed, and Additional Damage on Cleaving Moonlight, which will synergize with your high-speed rotation. Brutal Incision should also be specialized for damage increase, while Umbrell Spirit should be geared for both damage increase and duration to maximize its impact.

9. Fatal Stigma → Damage Increase:

· Specializing Fatal Stigma for increased damage ensures that you get the most out of this skill’s delayed damage effect. It's especially powerful when used after setting up poison stacks on the boss.

Mastering Your Rotation: Step-by-Step for Maximum Damage

Your rotation is the key to unleashing devastating damage in boss fights. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of the optimal Spear build rotation:

1. Inject Venom:

· Start with Inject Venom to apply poison stacks on the boss. This will boost the damage of your following abilities, especially Fatal Stigma.

2. Sentinel’s Bastion:

· Activate Sentinel’s Bastion for the defensive buff. This will not only increase your survivability but also provide a heavy attack boost for both you and your team.

3. Umbrell Spirit:

· Use Umbrell Spirit next to boost your overall damage output on each of your hits.

4. Fatal Stigma:

· Cast Fatal Stigma to deal additional damage over time. The longer you wait to activate this ability after stacking poison, the more damage it deals.

5. Gil Rush:

· Now, use Gil Rush to increase your attack speed and ensure that your next abilities are cast faster. Be sure to target the boss and not other players to maximize the benefit.

6. Cyclonic Fury:

· Activate Cyclonic Fury to trigger your burst stacks. This will increase the damage of your next abilities, including Explosive Fury and Slaughtering Slash.

7. Cleaving Moonlight:

· Use Cleaving Moonlight for the attack speed buff. This will significantly increase your attack speed for the next series of abilities, so use it before you go into your damage-dealing phase.

8. Explosive Fury:

· Cast Explosive Fury five times, one after the other. This ability benefits greatly from your increased attack speed and will deal a significant amount of damage with each hit.

9. Javelin Inferno: 

· Follow up with Javelin Inferno, casting it five times as well. This ability benefits from your Explosive Fury and should be used immediately after for maximum damage output.

10. Knife Throwing:

· Use Knife Throwing for additional damage and to trigger Umbrell Spirit and Inject Venom again.

11. Reapply Inject Venom:

· Recast Inject Venom to ensure the poison stacks are active and increasing your total damage.

12. Cleaving Moonlight (again):

· Recast Cleaving Moonlight to reapply the attack speed buff before moving into your final damage phase.

13. Brutal Incision:

· Brutal Incision should be used to boost critical damage and apply a crit chance buff, especially when the boss is below 50% health.

14. Slaughtering Slash:

· Finish your rotation with Slaughtering Slash. This skill consumes your burst and ignite stacks, dealing massive damage. Make sure you’re at full burst stacks before using this for maximum damage.

Optimizing Gear and Traits for Maximum Damage

While the build’s rotation and specializations are crucial, your gear can also have a significant impact on your damage output. Here are some tips for optimizing your gear:

· Buff Duration: Prioritize gear that increases your buff duration. My current gear gives me around 24% buff duration, but the ideal setup will provide over 47%. This allows your Umbrell Spirit, Attack Speed Buffs, and other enhancements to last significantly longer.

· Rings and Necklaces: Consider switching to rings like the Band of Universal Power and Band of the Silent One to maximize your buff duration. The Band of Universal Power gives you increased damage and more perception, which in turn boosts your buff duration.

· Weapon Choice: The Juno Spear is an excellent choice if you want to stack more ignite effects, boosting your damage potential. While the Resistance Spear is great for PvE content, the Juno Spear offers higher base damage and more ignite stacking synergy. As for your dagger, the Gil Blade is ideal since it boosts your damage every time you use Cleaving Moonlight.

· Food Buffs: The best food to use is one that boosts skill damage (50%) and adds bonus damage (7%), ensuring you're maximizing both your burst and sustained damage.

Conclusion

With the right skills, feats, rotations, and gear, your Spear build can excel in Throne and Liberty, allowing you to quickly and efficiently clear content like the Infinity Gate. Mastering this build takes time and experimentation, but once you get the hang of it, you'll be on the leaderboards and easily pushing your team to victory.

Finally, MMOEXP offers a ton of buying TL Lucent to help players continually refine your Spear build, adapt to new challenges, and most importantly, enjoy the explosive potential of Spear!

MMOexp Throne and Liberty Team