What to do with fixskills

[Vagabondbard]

Crosspost from officials since I think more people read these boards.

I am considering switching from a THW cleric to a bolter/caster cleric? At 54 trainings...he hunts just fine but I think I see the writing on the wall coming up in his 60s. Its taken me a year to get from 42 to 54 as this is not my man character, anyway this is what I think I might end up with.

I have 140 cause I figure I will need it for bandits. I have 30 extra ranks of Harness Power cause I figure I will need the mana. Can I drop Arcan Symbols and Magic Item Use any? Am I missing something drastic? Is this feasible? This leaves me 31 PTP's and I am 75k from 55 trainings.

01) 8 (56) Armor Use
14) 40 (56) Physical Training
16) 30 (56) Climbing
17) 20 (56) Swimming
21) 40 (112) Perception
26) 30 (112) Arcane Symbols
27) 50 (112) Magic Item Use
28) 84 (168) Harness Power
29) 112 (112) Spell Aiming
31) 50 (168) Mana Control: Spiritual
33) 25 Major Spiritual
34) 40 Minor Spiritual
35) 54 Cleric Base
40) 40 Blessings
41) 30 Religion
42) 30 Summoning

Galenblackbard's cleric

[Kitsun]

Clerics really suck with bolting. If you want to just cast, I'd stick with CS spells.

[Vagabondbard]

Clerics really suck with bolting. If you want to just cast, I'd stick with CS spells.

So they can be one trick ponies?

[phantasm]

No, they can also swing THW.

[Kitsun]

It is a plenty effective one trick. You feel free to try it out, I'm just giving my opinion.

[Vagabondbard]

It is a plenty effective one trick. You feel free to try it out, I'm just giving my opinion.

Even if he is aligned with Koar and not a Lornon god or Charl?

I am inclined to believe you Kitsun. Gemstone does reward specialists. Is bolting bad because of the lack of AS? Thats what I am running into on THW. I figured doubling SA would make up for that loss.

I could do something like this I guess

01) 8 (56) Armor Use
14) 40 (56) Physical Training
16) 30 (56) Climbing
17) 20 (56) Swimming
21) 40 (112) Perception
26) 30 (112) Arcane Symbols
27) 50 (112) Magic Item Use
28) 85 (168) Harness Power
31) 50 (168) Mana Control: Spiritual
33) 25 Major Spiritual
36) 37 Minor Spiritual
35) 75 Cleric Base
40) 40 Blessings
41) 30 Religion
42) 30 Summoning

[Sean]

When I played a cleric I found SA to be a huge waste of time and TPs.

[Kitsun]

My cleric bolts at 460AS. That is Elf dex, CoL, hooked up with Bardsongs, etc. In comparison my mage bolts at 526 and empath at 525. I can hit things, but I wouldn't use it as a primary attack form.

Even with goodie two shoe alignment, you can use 317 to blast and hope 302 dinking is enough to finish stuff.