lvl 70 training advice

[Larch]

Okay, my LM-focused rogue needs more rep-worthy boxes. This is the baseline skills I'm working with:

(at level 70), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 120 30
Shield Use.........................| 172 72
Combat Maneuvers...................| 172 72
Edged Weapons......................| 244 144
Ambush.............................| 244 144
Physical Fitness...................| 172 72
Dodging............................| 244 144
Arcane Symbols.....................| 25 5
Harness Power......................| 54 11
Disarming Traps....................| 244 144
Picking Locks......................| 150 50
Stalking and Hiding................| 244 144
Perception.........................| 172 72
Climbing...........................| 150 50
Swimming...........................| 150 50

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 4

With a shit ton of tps left over, around 870ptp/800mtp. Belongs to CoL. Mastered in sweep, subdue, and cheapshots.

I would guess the actual best way to get lots of boxes is to be able to get capped boxes. If I triple picking, I could get -1060 locks. 2x disarm looks like a -345 trap, 3x disarm gets -425 traps. Dunno if that's enough for most capped stuff or not. If it isn't, I'm guessing it's best to just stick with 2x pick/disarm plus lore? 3x pick/disarm leaves enough tps for the equivalent of 32 ranks of CM.

Or I could 3x hide/2x CM. Or 2x CM/2.6x dodge. Or 3x dodge/1.7x CM. Or get into plate with 1.5x CM. Or 2x CM/and 50-ish ranks in AS and hunt "self-spelled". Going to 2x PF looks like it gives me ~2% additional redux. Meh. But would it be worth it for maneuvers/stamina?

In other words, I don't have a clue. Halp plz.

[SonoftheNorth]

Personally I'd armor up

[Velfi]

Okay, my LM-focused rogue needs more rep-worthy boxes. This is the baseline skills I'm working with:

(at level 70), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 120 30
Shield Use.........................| 172 72
Combat Maneuvers...................| 172 72
Edged Weapons......................| 244 144
Ambush.............................| 244 144
Physical Fitness...................| 172 72
Dodging............................| 244 144
Arcane Symbols.....................| 25 5
Harness Power......................| 54 11
Disarming Traps....................| 244 144
Picking Locks......................| 150 50
Stalking and Hiding................| 244 144
Perception.........................| 172 72
Climbing...........................| 150 50
Swimming...........................| 150 50

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 4

With a shit ton of tps left over, around 870ptp/800mtp. Belongs to CoL. Mastered in sweep, subdue, and cheapshots.

I would guess the actual best way to get lots of boxes is to be able to get capped boxes. If I triple picking, I could get -1060 locks. 2x disarm looks like a -345 trap, 3x disarm gets -425 traps. Dunno if that's enough for most capped stuff or not. If it isn't, I'm guessing it's best to just stick with 2x pick/disarm plus lore? 3x pick/disarm leaves enough tps for the equivalent of 32 ranks of CM.

Or I could 3x hide/2x CM. Or 2x CM/2.6x dodge. Or 3x dodge/1.7x CM. Or get into plate with 1.5x CM. Or 2x CM/and 50-ish ranks in AS and hunt "self-spelled". Going to 2x PF looks like it gives me ~2% additional redux. Meh. But would it be worth it for maneuvers/stamina?

In other words, I don't have a clue. Halp plz.

Some of your options depend on whether you want to be better at hunting or picking. You could go full 3x/3x and be able to open most stuff, although there would be some Nelemar/Rift/etc type boxes that would still be beyond you. I think you can get by on 1x CM but 2x is obviously nicer for hunting. To me, the rest of your skills look pretty okay except the 50 ranks of picking (bleaourgh). LM and its difficulty is based on the idea of the locksmith having 2x picking ranks. Having 50 ranks at level 70 is just stupendous.

One other thing, I would personally recommend more AU but I prefer to try for heavier armors myself. If you're happy in brig then disregard. Also 2x PF is pretty rad.

other edit: If you really want to be able to open all the boxes/traps, you should start putting together an enhancive set with disarm and picking bonuses. Getting a max set of both can really improve your range, and also look for a super disarm lore vial when you come up against a really nasty scale trap or something to that effect. Very useful.

edit: My 88 locksmith rogue for comparison:


Velfi's Rogue (at level 88), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Two Weapon Combat..................| 5 1
Armor Use..........................| 190 90
Combat Maneuvers...................| 190 90
Brawling...........................| 280 180
Ambush.............................| 280 180
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 50 10
Physical Fitness...................| 238 138
Dodging............................| 280 180
Arcane Symbols.....................| 66 14
Harness Power......................| 78 17
Elemental Mana Control.............| 102 24
Disarming Traps....................| 370 270
Picking Locks......................| 370 270
Stalking and Hiding................| 280 180
Perception.........................| 280 180
Climbing...........................| 160 60
Swimming...........................| 160 60

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 4

[Larch]

I went down to the stronghold in the landing to work off some rust. Left training as is. It wasn't awe inspiring, I'll tell you that. In case anyone was wondering, 5 ranks of AS isn't enough to guarantee *scritch, scritch* on lvl 60-ish scarabs.

I'm leaning towards going all in on picking skills and making do with so-so hunting so if you've got lvl 70+ boxes you want picked for free, let me know.

[Larch]

Btw, I'm surprised by the amount of RNG a GS4 rogue has to deal with. RNG to see if you're blocked/evaded/parried, RNG to see if you hit what you aim at, RNG on the d100 roll, RNG on the weighting added by ambush from hiding, RNG on the crit rank. The first three, fine. The last two, given just how much variance there is, to quote Velfi: bleaourgh. I miss the old ambush.