Manasteel is one of the many essential crafting components players need in Throne and Liberty. It's a core material used for making all sorts of equipment, and if you're looking get a decent blue weapon early on, you're going to need a lot of Manasteel to get the items you need.
Farming Manasteel will take some time, but if you know where to look, you can get a lot of these ores fairly quickly. Expect to do a lot of running around, so while you're at it, try to complete some Contracts in Throne and Liberty so you can maximize your gains.
Where To Find Manasteel in Throne And Liberty
You can get this crafting material mainly by mining Moonstones, rock clusters that players can occasionally find jutting out of the ground in the most random of places. Breaking a Moonstone node often yields around six common Manasteel. Busting open Gigantic Moonstones may yield more Manasteel as well as Pure Gold. Moonstone nodes can be found all over the map.
One of the best early places to find Moonstone is around the lighthouse in Windhill Shores. Teleport to that region's waypoint, then run toward the lighthouse while looking for crystal icons on your mini-map. These markers indicate the locations of Moonstone veins. Urstella Fields is also a decent place to get extra Manasteel, as the Fighter and Tradepack Goblins have a chance of dropping them.
There are a few things to know about mining in Throne and Liberty:
- Ore veins are one-time-use only, and they will disappear if other players get to them first.
- Weather effects like rain will cause some ore veins to yield different materials.
- Ore veins are generated procedurally and often don't respawn in the same place. After mining one, move somewhere else, or loop along your route again.
Moonstone veins in higher-level areas, such as the Monolith Wastelands, have a chance to drop higher-quality Manasteel.
What To Do With Manasteel Early
As players should know by now, Manasteel is used to craft weapons and armor through the artisans in major towns. You'll need higher-quality Manasteel to make higher-tier gear. Since you won't always get quality Manasteel from world or monster drops, you'll have to upgrade them at your town's local Weapons Crafter.
One thing players may not know is that you can get blue-tier weapons and armor from the Resistance line of gear through the Lithograph. Open the Lithograph menu, then type in "Resistance" in the search bar to see the list of items you can make. Apart from Manasteel, you'll also need a bunch of other materials, including Magic Powder.
Basically, you'll need to craft the green versions of an item and surrender them to the Lithograph. For example, if you want the Plate Armor of the Resistance, you need to make all four of the craftable, green, metal armor sets.
Throne and Liberty
- Released
- October 1, 2024
- ESRB
- T For Teen // Blood, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- NCSoft
- Publisher(s)
- NCSoft, Amazon Games
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Engine 5
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Number of Players
- 1
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- Genre(s)
- MMORPG
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 40.49 GB
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair