Six Mistakes New Players Should Avoid in Throne & Liberty

Throne & Liberty is the next big MMO on the scene, offering players stunning visuals and a mixture of PvE and competetive PvP. 

While many new players are excited to start the game, there are a few hidden traps that you can fall into that might set you back and lead you to feel like you made a mistake and wasted your time when you first leveled up your character. 

In this guide, we will do our best to warn you of these potential mistakes so you can avoid this disappointment and focus on enjoying the best of what Throne & Liberty has to offer. 

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Below are the six most important mistakes you should avoid in your first few hours of Throne & Liberty. 

While on the surface Throne & Liberty presents itself as having an easy and forgiving progression thanks to its classless weapon system, the reality doesn't quite line up with this. 

Throne & Liberty includes multiple progression systems that require you to spend lots of Growth Materials upgrading various things that are tied to your weapons - most notably your Skills, Passives and Equipment. These upgrades seem deceptively easy early on, because you get lots of these Growth Materials for free by completing quests and other activities. But later on, these materials will start to dry up and become more grind-intensive to obtain. 

There is also the Weapon Mastery system - a slow trickle of your earned XP transfers into Weapon Mastery, allowing you to gradually unlock perks that buff your chosen weapons. 

If you spend a couple of weeks playing with a weapon combination and then decide that you don't like it, you will be at a disadvantage - fully rerolling your character will not be an easy process. It will take a lot of time and effort to get back to where you were. 

It's true that you can use Skill Conversion Books to overcome some of these problems, but these also become harder to obtain once your initial supply dries up. 

So we recommend doing research into builds early on, deciding which Weapon Types you want to use and what role you want to play (DPS, Tank, or Healer). If you want to try using each weapon to see how it feels, do it as early as possible, and don't spend any resources upgrading Skills or Equipment until you've decided what you want to focus on.

This doesn't mean that you cannot eventually have multiple builds on your character, but making your second build will take considerably more grinding than your first one, so it's much better to focus on finishing the first one first. 

This is closely related to the first mistake. 

Some players instinctively want to reroll their character after hitting max level to try their hand with another build or weapon combination. If you do this, you might find that switching back is prohibitively expensive, and you are now stuck with your new build, whether you like it or not - at least until you've done quite a bit of grinding. 

As mentioned earlier, it's better to completely avoid this situation by researching and planning ahead. 

Early in the main quest, the game will point you to the Contracts system as an invaluable source of extra XP, money and other rewards. 

The issue here is that high-level Contracts give you much better rewards. Each day, you accumulate a set amount of Contract Rights, allowing you to spend them on accepting Contract quests. You can save up a lot of these, so it makes sense to save them until you are Level 50, then begin spending them. 

The exception to this is the four Contracts that the main quest requires you to do - this will give you extra rewards as part of the main quest, so on this one occasion, it is worth doing the Contracts before Level 50. 

Once you've reached Level 50 and you start doing Contracts, we strongly recommend making proper use of the Refresh button. 

You should always look for Contracts that give you an Epic (purple) reward. These will not always appear in the list of Contracts. If you don't see any purple rewards, take one Contract from the list, which will then unlock the Refresh button. 

Clicking Refresh will generate a new list of Contracts. Using this method gives you a much larger pool of Contracts to choose from, significantly increasing your chance of getting rarer rewards. 

While your Control Settings come down to player preference, there are a few settings that are disabled by default but are beneficial for pretty much everyone to turn on. 

Enable the following settings to make your controls feel more responsive and less clunky:

You might also want to take a look at how to improve your framerate in Throne & Liberty. 

When levelling up, it can be tempting to sell or Dissolve your old gear to get more money or materials. While you can do this for Common (grey) equipment, we recommend holding onto higher rarity (green or above) equipment for now. 

A part of Throne & Liberty's Gear Progression is the Trait system. You don't need to immediately worry about this when leveling up your character. But once you have a set of equipment that you want to keep and upgrade, one of the things you will need to upgrade is the Trait system. 

Upgrading Traits is done by consuming other equipment items, so you should save your older equipment for this purpose, making this process quicker and easier when you get to it. 

We hope you liked this guide about common beginner mistakes in Throne & Liberty, and how to avoid them.