The Frozen Divide: Nix pushed Throne and Liberty's level cap from 55 to 60 and rewrote how gear, Weapon Mastery, and catch-up progression work at the same time. For anyone starting fresh or coming back after a break, that means the old mental map of the game is partly outdated. This guide walks through the full climb from level 1 to 60 using only what Amazon Games and NCSOFT have confirmed through official patch notes, so there is a single sequence to follow without digging through the entire 4.0.0 changelog first.
The Fastest Route From Level 1 to 60: Adventure Codex, Contracts and the Character Boost Shortcut
Throne and Liberty's leveling has always run on the Adventure Codex, the game's main story questline, with Exploration Codex quests and Contracts filling the gaps whenever the story quest for your level isn't available yet. Main story quests carry a purple marker and hand out the largest experience rewards by far, so they stay the priority at every stage between level 1 and the current level 60 ceiling. When the next chapter is out of reach, Exploration Codex quests in your current zone and Contracts from a town's Contract Manager keep the pace going without wasting time on content that gives poor experience per hour. This structure hasn't changed with Update 4.0.0; what changed is how far it now goes, since Adventure Codex Part 3: The Frozen Wasteland adds six new acts plus appendix quests once Interlude Chapter 2 is complete, carrying the story from the old endpoint into Nix itself.
For players who would rather skip the early grind entirely, Amazon Games sells a Character Boost that creates a new character already at level 55 with 0% experience toward 56. According to the official breakdown, a boosted character starts at roughly 7,200 Combat Power with a full weapon, armor, and accessory set matched to the weapon combination chosen at creation, Weapon Mastery already at level 160, selected weapon skills at Epic Tier 5, and Attack, Defense, and Support Runes at level 80. World access unlocks every region up to Talandre, and Path of Ascension progress is set to Beginner Stage 5 complete plus Intermediate Stage 1 complete. That's a meaningful head start, but it still leaves a boosted character exactly at the same starting line as everyone else for the final stretch to level 60: the rest of Path of Ascension's Intermediate missions and the Nix leveling content itself still have to be played out by hand.
Path of Ascension: The Official Catch-Up Track Through Every Patch
Path of Ascension is Amazon Games' answer to the exact problem this guide is solving: a structured set of missions, found in the Esc menu, that brings any character up to a reasonable standard regardless of how long they've been away or how new they are. Before Update 4.0.0, it consisted of five Beginner stages covering things like joining a guild, running Amitoi Expeditions, and other core systems a new account needs to touch at least once. Update 4.0.0 added a second tier on top of that, Intermediate Missions, spread across two new stages with 34 missions in total, and both tiers can be worked simultaneously with regular leveling rather than requiring the Beginner stages to be finished first.
The official patch notes are direct about what this section is for: completing just the Adventure Codex missions inside the new Path of Ascension section already provides enough gear, Weapon Mastery, and Runes to handle the Nix region acceptably. In practice, that makes Path of Ascension the actual shortcut this guide is built around, since it's the one system Amazon Games designed specifically to stay current across every future patch, rather than a community route that goes stale the moment balance numbers shift.
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Level 60 Systems: Stat Caps, Weapon Mastery and Armor Runes
Reaching level 60 unlocks a wider stat ceiling and two extra pools of Skill Specialization Points, five at level 56 and five more at level 60, on top of the usual per-level stat point gains. The maximum value for each of the five core stats, Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, Perception, and Fortitude, rose from 99 to 130, and Dexterity's attack speed bonus was converted from a flat time reduction into a percentage scaling with each point. New milestone bonuses also unlock at 100 and 120 points in each stat, rewarding whoever pushes a stat all the way rather than spreading points evenly.
Weapon Mastery scaled up alongside the level cap: the shared Overall Masteries cap rose from 1800 to 2200, and the per-weapon Mastery ceiling went from 200 to 220. Two new Overall Masteries skills, Bloodlust and Piercing Spear, unlock at Overall Mastery level 1560 and add extra scaling for anyone already deep into their weapon progression. Separately, Armor Runes are a completely new equipment layer added in this update, slotted through the Rune Book in Attack, Defense, or Support flavors, capping at rune level 60, and stacking with the existing weapon and accessory rune slots rather than replacing them. All of this sits on top of the wider Item Level overhaul, which replaced the old Enhancement, Transfer, and Sync systems with a single Item Level number and an Inheritance mechanic for moving that level between gear pieces, so anyone returning after a long break should expect the entire upgrade screen to look different from what they remember.
| Stat | Level 100 Bonus | Level 120 Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Strength | Max Health +600, Damage Reduction +18 | Max Health +600, Heavy Attack Damage +5% |
| Dexterity | Critical Hit Chance +60, Attack Speed +4% | Critical Hit Chance +60, Critical Damage +4% |
| Wisdom | Max Mana +600, Mana Cost Efficiency +3% | Max Mana +600, Max Damage +10 |
| Perception | Hit Chance +60, Range +5% | Hit Chance +60, CC Chance +100 |
| Fortitude | Endurance +60, Critical Damage Resistance +4% | Endurance +60, Heavy Attack Damage Resistance +5% |
Combat Power Targets for Nix Endgame Content
Combat Power gates decide what a freshly leveled 60 can actually queue into. The two new Epic-tier co-op dungeons added with Nix, Frostbreath Cave and Stone Grave Cradle, both require a minimum of 7,000 Combat Power. Battlegrounds now sit at a 7,500 minimum, and Hall of Illusion splits into three difficulty bands at 5,000 for Normal, 6,500 for Expert, and 8,000 for Extreme, with its monsters also raised to level 60 alongside Gate of Infinity. A Character Boost lands a new character close enough to the entry-level dungeon requirement on day one, though Path of Ascension and normal Nix questing close the rest of that gap for anyone leveling up manually.
Those numbers weren't the final word, either. In a Resistance Report published after launch, the development team acknowledged that new and returning players were running into a rougher-than-intended wall, and rolled out fixes on a set schedule: Elite-Tier Dungeon difficulty and minimum Combat Power requirements were lowered starting July 9, and a Companion Growth Reward System launching July 16 hands out bonus growth materials specifically to parties that include a new or returning player, alongside a Tumgir Hollow rework the same day that lets players finally spend down their Abyssal Contract Token surplus. Anyone judging their readiness against the numbers from launch week should treat those as outdated; the actual bar to clear content has already come down since.
| Content | Minimum Combat Power |
|---|---|
| Frostbreath Cave / Stone Grave Cradle (Epic Co-Op Dungeons) | 7,000 |
| Battlegrounds | 7,500 |
| Hall of Illusion - Normal | 5,000 |
| Hall of Illusion - Expert | 6,500 |
| Hall of Illusion - Extreme | 8,000 |
What to Avoid While Catching Up to Level 60
A few habits carried over from before Update 4.0.0 will actively waste time under the new systems. Don't hoard old upgrade materials expecting an Enhancement or Sync screen to come back; both were removed outright, and any leftover Sync or Heroic Enhancement materials were already converted into Solisium's Blessing, Ornate Coins, or Chaos Prisms and mailed out automatically, so the move is to spend those through Mafrion's Recombinator rather than sit on them. Don't let a full bag of Redfrost items go unpurified before logging off, either: those items disappear entirely on death in Nix, on leaving the region, or on logout, and even the bag's one designated safe slot only protects against death, not against leaving Nix or logging out, so a Shemir's Armillary Sphere visit belongs at the end of every Nix session, not whenever the bag happens to fill up.
Don't overspend Flames of Purification through hunting and gathering past the 8,000 weekly cap on that specific income source; Nix Contracts and other item-based sources aren't capped the same way, so routing extra purification income through contracts avoids hitting a wall mid-week. Don't write off a build as underpowered based on how Elite-Tier Dungeons felt during Nix's first two weeks, since the developers already lowered both the difficulty and the Combat Power floor on July 9. And don't default to solo grinding once July 16 arrives: the Companion Growth Reward System pays out extra materials specifically to parties running with a new or returning member, which makes grouping up the more efficient option rather than just the friendlier one.
Final Thoughts
Level 60 in Throne and Liberty isn't a single wall to clear, it's a sequence: Adventure Codex and Contracts to move through the levels, Path of Ascension running in parallel to keep gear, Weapon Mastery, and Runes from falling behind regardless of when a character started, and a known set of Combat Power checkpoints once Nix opens up. A Character Boost can skip the first half of that sequence for a price, but nothing skips Path of Ascension's Intermediate stages or the post-launch adjustments the studio is still rolling out through July. Following that order, and avoiding the handful of habits that no longer apply after the Item Level overhaul, gets a new or returning character into Nix-ready shape without needing to have read a single line of the 4.0.0 patch notes.
