Throne And Liberty Review: Still A Long Way To Go

Next week will see NCSoft’s Throne and Liberty character customization and Liberty finally get its Western release after a rocky start in Korea last year. But the live service game has seemingly matured over the past few months. The developer is clearly listening to its community - player numbers have almost doubled in South Korea since the game’s lukewarm reception way back in December 2023. Almost a year later and it’s seen many new additions that will arrive in the form of a launch update, including a streamlined leveling process, new lifestyle paths (fishing and cooking, yes please), as well as a new 3v3 Arena among other chan


This means each time you spend Growthstones and Sollant to upgrade an item, your item will get closer to the next level, but not necessarily achieve a full level . If you're lucky, there is a ten percent chance to grow a full 80 percent of the item's upgrade


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


Throne and Liberty is an online role-playing game set in the vast open world of Solisium. The game features a dynamic world system where you can play solo online or team up with your friends in a guild setting . You engage in real-time battles against players and monstrous creatures. The game’s combat system presents you with a variety of weapons and unique classes that you can customize to your lik


This weapon also has decent mobility options, and can apply debuffs on enemies, increasing the damage output. Your defensive skill while using the Crossbow is a dodge roll, allowing you to take opponents down as you evade their attacks. You can pair this weapon with a Dagger to get a mobility advantage and effectively eliminate single targ



Already out in South Korea, **Throne and Liberty was released in the US, Europe, and Japan on October 1 ** . However, I was able to check out the single-player campaign a little early, and play through the early access period prior to lau


The game features an impressive attention to detail , even in its weapons. You can equip two weapons at once, with one as your primary weapon and the other as your secondary, providing passive bonuses or additional abilities. Each weapon comes with one defensive ability and eight slots of passives to choose from. Here are the best weapons you can use to conquer your journey in the g


Its Mastery Tree is divided into Mana, Destroy, and Attribute. One major drawdown to this weapon is its longer cast times and reduced damage output, which makes it less effective in combat situations that require high intensity. You can pair the Staff with a Wand and Tome for a full mage build focused on AoE damage, crowd control, and utility, or a Dagger for strong AoE abilit


Throne and Liberty ** ’s gameplay is pretty typical of the genre.** There are seven character classes, each of which is based around a particular weapon type: greatsword, sword and shield, daggers, crossbows, longbow, wand, and staff. Each is also associated with an auto-attack and a defensive skill, as well as a glut of active and passive abilities that make up the bulk of combat. These may be AoEs, push attacks, damage mitigation, or anything else. You can have two different weapons equipped at any given time - generally one melee and one ranged - and swap between them with the press of a but


"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


"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


I told the duo that I had requested Wand and Staff for my own playthrough at the behest of one of TheGamer's resident MMO expert, and they laughed - clearly, the team behind Throne & Liberty is aware of the importance of the mage class to MMO history, and the natural curiosity players will have for it here when magic usage is far more flexi


At Summer Game Fest earlier this month I played two of Amazon's MMOs, New World: Aeternum and Throne and Liberty builds & Liberty , having previously dabbled in their other MMO Lost Ark , while the company has also announced, cancelled, and re-announced anew a Lord of the Rings MMO. This isn't all Amazon publishes ( Blue Protocol is on the way, Crucible was scrapped, it picked up Tomb Raider recently too), but it’s definitely a trend. So when I sat down with Daniel Lafuente and Merv Lee Kwai from Amazon to discuss Throne & Liberty, this trend was on my mind. Though, apparently, not on the