Want to be able to fight with my empath

[Uryens]

I would like to be able to take my empath out and start killing things instead of sitting around town healing people. If anyone can look into my skills and let me know what to do that will make him a good fighter but also be able to heal himself and others. So look him over and let me know what you think.


CS:150 and BoltAS:107

Skills:
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 40 8
Physical Fitness...................| 126 33
Arcane Symbols.....................| 90 20
Magic Item Use.....................| 90 20
Spell Aiming.......................| 96 22
Harness Power......................| 161 61
Spirit Mana Control................| 120 30
Spiritual Lore - Summoning.........| 62 13
Mental Lore - Manipulation.........| 120 30
Perception.........................| 40 8
Climbing...........................| 40 8
First Aid..........................| 146 46

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

Spell Lists
Minor Spirit.......................| 19

Spell Lists
Empath.............................| 28


Sats:
Strength (STR): 64 (7) ... 64 (7)
Constitution (CON): 76 (13) ... 76 (13)
Dexterity (DEX): 63 (11) ... 63 (11)
Agility (AGI): 69 (24) ... 69 (24)
Discipline (DIS): 69 (-6) ... 69 (-6)
Aura (AUR): 81 (20) ... 81 (20)
Logic (LOG): 74 (12) ... 74 (12)
Intuition (INT): 63 (6) ... 63 (6)
Wisdom (WIS): 99 (24) ... 99 (24)
Influence (INF): 99 (34) ... 99 (34)

[Stanley Burrell]

A: Prep 1106

ii) Channel <target>

3. Win teh GemStonez!

[Snapp]

Your skills don't look too bad for hunting as they are. Only tweaks I'd make is to 2x spell aim if you care about that bolt AS, and knock back harness power a bit. I wouldn't do more than 1.5x HP. It really depends on what kind of "fighting" you want to do.

And what level are you?

[Katt]

My empath is trained to hunt onurb helped me make her badass.

I got armor up to 8 ranks then I single in... shield, brawling, Physical Fitness, Harness power, Mental mana control, Spirit mana control, and perception. I trained Major and Minor spirit to 40 ranks each and am now working on getting atleast 60 ranks above my current level in Empath before I work more on major and minor spirit again.

Other than that I have 20 in climbing and swimming to help with getting to the barrier etc.


Hopefully that will help.

[Gnomad]

I think empaths are the hardest class to screw up, especially at low levels.

Even if you try to only train in healing skills, you have such an abundance of TPs that you can't help but get some stuff that's useful in a fight, and with runestaffs, all those mental skills are suddenly a lot more useful than they used to be.

In short, see Stan's post. Use 1115 when 1106 doesn't work.

[mgoddess]

and with runestaffs

You can get owned much, much, much more easily than training & using a shield.

Runestaves can get disarmed, runestaves give you bullshit DS in offensive (which is where you want to channel from for best affect), and runestaves just... suck.

(Actually, I take that back... runestaves are good for one thing: runestaff charms, those things sold at the past couple of EG's that you put on your runestaff and make it act like a wand or a scroll.)