Training fixskill help

[Rhangath]

Hey guys,

I am running a mix of healer/hunter and currently fighting down in the bowels having a bit of a mixed time. I have primarily been hunting with shatter/wither and wanted to see what you all think of my current build. I just feel like I could do things a lot better, and improve my ability to dodge special attacks.

Thanks for your help guys.
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Rhangath (at level 86), your base skill bonuses, ranks and goals are:
Skill Name | Actual Actual
| Bonus Ranks Goals In-Game Time to Goal
Armor Use..........................| 40 8 8
Physical Fitness...................| 330 230 230
Arcane Symbols.....................| 184 84 84
Magic Item Use.....................| 184 84 84
Harness Power......................| 260 160 160
Mental Mana Control................| 200 100 100
Spirit Mana Control................| 190 90 90
Spiritual Lore - Blessings.........| 70 15 15
Spiritual Lore - Religion..........| 0 0 0
Spiritual Lore - Summoning.........| 160 60 60
Mental Lore - Transformation.......| 169 69 69
Survival...........................| 180 80 80
Perception.........................| 150 50 50
Climbing...........................| 180 80 80
Swimming...........................| 150 50 50
First Aid..........................| 200 100 100

Spell Lists
Major Spiritual....................| 40 40

Spell Lists
Minor Spiritual....................| 50 50

Spell Lists
Empath.............................| 102 102

[jpatter123]

how much of a diff is that 100 ranks of mental mana control? I have 2 empaths one in the 80's and one about a mill passed cap and neither have much mental mana control and still destroy everything they come up against.

[Jeril]

You may destroy everything you come across but with the MMC you'll get more one shot crits to vital body locations. If you ever had FA for boneshatter, it is about the same affect.

[jpatter123]

(this post is purposely done with homonym errors in salute to the neg rep I received for having one in my previous post)
Thanks Jeril, that makes scents. I was talking to you about it on Lnet the other night. Just trying to figure it all out, always sum cobwebs when I haven't played a char for so many years.

I added 25 ranks and didn't sea any measurable difference. It's a very cheep lore, but trying to decide if I want to add spell aiming, add more spell ranks in the other circles(I kept the 155 empath ranks despite my thought of dropping some), or run lores up higher. To go 2x in spell aiming I'd need around 1500 physical training points (i think), so I'm really torn.

[Jeril]

You'd probably have to have all 100 ranks or so to really notice any difference, and maybe with the warding margins you get you may not even see one if you are already capping out the damage. If you aren't capping out with every cast investing in 1x MMC is pretty cheap. I'd say not to do the bolting, I know there are some people who love it, but at cap, it really doesn't add much to the versatility of an empath. The creatures you can't kill with empath spells, greater constructs, and water elementals, aren't much easier to kill with bolt spells. The splash damage from fire spirit can be nice if you hunt bandits in groups often, letting you get easy credit without actually having to get a cast off against each one. Up to you really but you'd be perfectly fine without spell aiming and can always pick it up post cap.