Throne And Liberty Review - Amazon’s Redemption

The path to the Second Boss might be a little bit trickier and requires some cooperation. Players need to reach two separate " Lever Rooms " and healer activate said levers to lift two barriers that impede access to the boss's arena. One of the barriers is called the " Poison Barrier ," and the second is the " Fire Barrie


Next week will see NCSoft’s Throne 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

With impressive storytelling, amazing combat and interesting upgrading systems, Throne and Liberty excels where many MMORPGs fail right off the bat. My main concern is that I just don't know if there is something there to keep me coming back and wanting to improve my character. If I don't know how well I'm performing and how much I'm contributing to the group, how will I know I need to improve? Furthermore, if there are further ways to optimize my character, how will I know the changes I make are making a large difference, other than a "gut feel" when attacking enemies.

The same goes with Skill Specialization. These are tweaks you can make to your skill to enhance them or give yourself additional buffs such as +15% Attack Speed as long as you have that skill. Other changes allow you to completely change the way the skill works and even what the skill is called. These specializations can immensely change the way your class is played. The fact that it's completely free to reset and change these at will is a huge plus. On the other hand, Weapon Mastery points are not able to be reset, so you should know what you want to invest into before spending these points, as they take a long time to unlock.


This is a game that’s definitely best enjoyed with friends, and eventually as part of a guild. Late game activities revolve around guild-to-guild combat and PvE co-operative dungeons. You can tackle these as a solo player - while leveling, progression, and so on can all be achieved solo - but you’ll miss out on a lot of what Throne and Liberty has to offer. Of course, this is all based on footage that I’ve seen from South Korean servers, as I wasn’t able to try these during the pre-release review win


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

Most of Throne and Liberty is forgiving if you want to play the game your way and worry about optimization later. When it comes to stat point distribution, it's entirely free to reset your stat points and reallocate them as you wish. You can experiment with stat setups or you can put them where you want until you hit max level and really want to optimize your character for performance.

Creating my own skill rotation as I levelled to try to optimize how I wanted to play, made me feel like my choices mattered. Other mechanics such as using the "Q" bound defense skills to dodge or block mechanics felt satisfying when landing a _perfect block . _ Between the effortless flow of skill use, the skill upgrade, mastery, and specialization systems, I can confidently say that I love the combat in Throne and Liberty .

While you **can __ ** change which weapons you use, it's not advisable unless you are doing it within the first 10 or so character levels. You need a lot of skill books to continue upgrading all your skills to the highest levels, and a huge chunk of these books comes from quests while you are level up to 50. If you are at level 50 and want to change which weapons you use, you will need to gather thousands of these books again to help level up the skills of the new weapon, and they are much harder to come by vs. just completing main story quests.


Players might be tempted by Throne and Liberty 's no-class system, where players decide their path based on the weapons they pick and the skills they develop. But beware: pick no more than two weapons and stick with them, since leveling up all the active skills, passive skills, and weapon skills can be a p


Gear Items like Weapons, Armor, and Accessories all have levels that increase when players spend Growthstones on them. There's a particular mechanic that every player should be aware of before getting rid of their old leveled items - Growth levels can be transferred to new it

My main concern when it comes to Throne and Liberty is my longevity of interest. While I enjoy all of the activities, PvP, dungeons, etc, I don't know how long I will stay completely interested in getting better and obtaining better and better gear. I do like that the gear looks unique, as it means getting gear upgrades could matter from a visual perspective too.