Fixskill Changes

[Drisco]

Hows this look for a Pure BS Empath. Anything wrong with it?



(at level 77)
Armor Use..........................| 8
Physical Fitness...................| 30
Arcane Symbols.....................| 30
Magic Item Use.....................| 30
Harness Power......................| 119
Elemental Mana Control.............| 20
Mental Mana Control................| 20
Spirit Mana Control................| 30
Mental Lore - Manipulation.........| 1
Mental Lore - Transformation.......| 48
Survival...........................| 78
Perception.........................| 78
Climbing...........................| 40
Swimming...........................| 40
First Aid..........................| 234
Trading............................| 156

Spell Lists
Major Spirit.......................| 25

Spell Lists
Minor Spirit.......................| 41

Spell Lists
Empath.............................| 123

[AestheticDeath]

Depends on what your going for I guess.

If you plan on using Living Spell, you probably need more arcane symbols.

If you plan on getting the very minimum scar RT you need more transformation lore at your level.

Other than that I dont see a problem. Until you get to OTF, and you would want some CM to get the disarm cman, for defensive reasons.

Personally I would go for 24 ranks in the extra shares, rather than 20. you get the 102% rather than 90%. And mental should be more important if they ever swap the circles. Not something Id be worried about right now though.

[Gan]

Eeeesh, where to start.

First off, for a pure (runestaff) your magical ratio is (487/77) 6.3:1. Way low for survivability. You need a ratio of magical skill ranks per level of 9:1 or better.

Increase your AS and MIU to 1x.

Start working your armor training to brig unless the double leather you're trained for is incredibly crit padded and you've got 3 or more 10x DB items on you.

Transformation is fine as a cap goal for no RT to healing.

Manipulation is fine until they tweak that for 1106, then you'll probably want more ranks.

Drop survival, you'll get greater return sinking those points into trading if you want more for your skins. FA will be more than sufficient for an exceptional skinning skill.

Perception is fine for reducing DS pushdown from ambushing scouts from OTF, keep that up at 1x.

You could drop climbing/swimming by 5 ranks minimum, perhaps 10 depending on your STR bonus/race - if you're a weak race then this might need to be up there.

Drop MnS to 40, use the points in Empath circle or in increasing your AS/MIU ranks.

You'll want to consider getting 10 to 15 ranks in CM to help you with the manuevers you'll face from griffins/constructs... focus is on the griffin manuevers.

The only other issue is that you're going to run across targets that are immune to boneshatter. Since you're not training in spell aiming, you're cutting out two very viable offensive spells (111 and 1110).

I'm personally more in favor of the brawl/shield approach after having used both extensively. Runestaves are simply over rated when it comes to needing DS.

[AestheticDeath]

heh didnt even notice his magic ranks werent high enough