2 hander, healing, casting empath training

[lexbubba]

At Level 15, he is how I am hoping to train my Elf Empath:

Armor..................8
2-Handers...........17
Cmans.................6
PF........................17
First Aid...............34
Harness Power...17
Spell Aim..............34
S Mana Control....17
Manip Lore...........5
Transform Lore....17
Spells Minor.........8?
Spells Major.........7?
Spells Empath......15


Any opinions about this training? Which direction should i head with my Minor Spirit and Major Spirit Spell Training? Thanks

[Edited on 11-3-2005 by lexbubba]

[Drew2]

Major will give you more AS. Minor will give you more DS, and a more useful spells.

Your choice.

[Kembal]

I'd go Minor to 103, then Major to 215, and then switch back to Minor to 120, then finish out Major.

211 and 215 are pretty much essential for a swinging empath. (hell, they're essential for casting empaths when they have to resort to fire spirit and emp. assault)

Since you're doubling spell aim, I'd drop 5 ranks of transformation lore and put it into telepathy lore. Makes Empathic assault all the more useful.

[Flurbins]

Drop Harness Power to exactly your level.
Get spell 215 ASAP.
Get rid of your Manipulation Lore.
Drop First Aid to 1x.
Try to up your armor to 1x.

[Gan]

If you're not going to use boneshatter/empathic assualt, or fire spirit at all then drop all first aid, spell aiming, and keep manipulation lore to a minimum if at all and use the points to add more spells, CM, and armor for a heavier class of armament. Your swinging attack strength will be in empath circles for the AS bonus from 1130, 1119, 1109 and in MjS with 211, 215.

Your biggest delimma will be choosing how you want your character to gain experience. Is it through swinging/fighting, magic/fighting, or healing? A hybrid of these attack forms in any combination involving swinging/fighting will result in diminished returns in both... so I think you're going to have to focus on one or the other. The last thing you want to be is mediocre. Or I hope thats the last thing you want to be.

[Kembal]

One correction to Ganalon's post: There's no AS bonus from 1119.

[Drew2]

Originally posted by Flurbins
Drop Harness Power to exactly your level.
Get spell 215 ASAP.
Get rid of your Manipulation Lore.
Drop First Aid to 1x.
Try to up your armor to 1x.

He did say he would be a casting empath. That's probably the worst advice you could give a casting empath.

Also, at 15/0 per armor rank, I'm pretty sure 1xing it will be a little impossible.