Any wizards out there with redux?

[drumpel]

Moving on up again! Level 67 now.

>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

Maximum Health Points: 175
Remaining Health Points: 175

Maximum Spirit Points: 10
Remaining Spirit Points: 10

Maximum Stamina Points: 119
Remaining Stamina Points: 119

Physical Damage Reduction: 15.79%

[drumpel]

Finally took some time to play him more and hit level 68. Slow going with 60% exp going to ascension, but I'm getting there.

Here is his current redux.

>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

Base Enhanced
Maximum Health Points: 176 176
Remaining Health Points: 175
Health Recovery: 6 6
You are feeling pretty good.

Maximum Spirit Points: 10 10
Remaining Spirit Points: 10

Maximum Stamina Points: 117 121
Remaining Stamina Points: 120
Stamina Recovery: 34 36

Physical Damage Reduction: 16.16%

[drumpel]

Level 69!

Dumped a couple more points into FP via ascension. Here's his redux without any enhancives:

>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       176
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         7

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       122
  Remaining Stamina Points:   122
          Stamina Recovery:    34        36

 Physical Damage Reduction: 17.04%

Here's his redux all decked out in his enhancive gear.

You are now in a defensive stance.
>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       202
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         8
  You are feeling pretty good.

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       132
  Remaining Stamina Points:   122
          Stamina Recovery:    37        39

 Physical Damage Reduction: 19.98%

Oh....man, just .02% from 20%.

[drumpel]

Put my most recent ascension point (to get me to 2 points to use) into Physical Fitness and leveled to 70.

Here's his current skills and redux without any enhancives equipped (except his armor, he leaves that on all the time and it provides 10 bonus to Edged Weapons:

(at level 70), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
  Skill Name                         | Current Current
                                     |   Bonus   Ranks
  Armor Use..........................|     182      82
  Shield Use.........................|     171      71
  Combat Maneuvers...................|     173      73
  Edged Weapons......................|     187      87
  Brawling...........................|      30       6
  Physical Fitness...................|     182      82
  Magic Item Use.....................|      99      23
  Harness Power......................|     154      54
  Elemental Lore - Air...............|     138      39
  Elemental Lore - Earth.............|     136      38
  Perception.........................|     173      73
  Climbing...........................|     148      48
  Swimming...........................|     143      43

Spell Lists
  Major Elemental....................|              20

Spell Lists
  Wizard.............................|              13


your Ascension Abilities are as follows:

  Skill                Mnemonic        Ranks Type           Category        Subcategory
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Armor Use            armoruse        10/50 Passive        Common          Skill           
  Edged Weapons        edgedweapons    5/50  Passive        Common          Skill           
  Physical Fitness     physicalfitness 10/50 Passive        Common          Skill  


>heal
You have some minor cuts and bruises on your left arm.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       176
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         7

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       122
  Remaining Stamina Points:   122
          Stamina Recovery:    34        36

 Physical Damage Reduction: 17.42%

His current stats, if anyone is curious:

Dwarf  Profession: Wizard
Gender: Male    Age: 45    Expr: 4,416,368    Level:  70
                Ascended (Bonus)  ...  Enhanced (Bonus)
    Strength (STR):    95 (32)    ...   95 (32)
Constitution (CON):    92 (36)    ...   92 (36)
   Dexterity (DEX):    92 (21)    ...   94 (22)
     Agility (AGI):    96 (18)    ...   96 (18)
  Discipline (DIS):    86 (28)    ...   86 (28)
        Aura (AUR):    97 (13)    ...   97 (13)
       Logic (LOG):    90 (25)    ...   90 (25)
   Intuition (INT):    88 (19)    ...   96 (23)
      Wisdom (WIS):    86 (18)    ...   86 (18)
   Influence (INF):    68 (-1)    ...   68 (-1)
Mana:  208   Silver: 0

Here is his redux when he's decked out with his enhancive gear:

>heal
You have some minor cuts and bruises on your left arm.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       202
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         8
  You are feeling pretty good.

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       133
  Remaining Stamina Points:   122
          Stamina Recovery:    37        39

 Physical Damage Reduction: 20.28%

Anyone questioning about the few ranks in Brawling - figure I'd like for him to have some parry DS if he has to put his weapon away or if he gets disarmed. Also, it helps aid in building up redux. 6 ranks of Brawling equates to 132 MTP used. I could certainly, instead, work on training up Dodge to help boost redux and eventually DS, but 132 MTP only gets me 2 ranks of Dodge.

Dodge ranks provide 20 redux points each rank; 2 ranks of Dodge gives me 40 Redux points
Brawling ranks provide 15 redux points each rank; 6 ranks of Brawling gives me 90 Redux points.

As you can see, if I moved to 2 ranks of Dodge I'd lose out on 50 Redux points. My goal is to build up as high of a redux as I can and with Dodge costing so much it's just a skill I'm deciding to leave for post-cap while I slowly sink points into Brawling to give me more of a beneficial return on my training points; empty handed parry DS and redux points.

In other words; I'd have to put 10 ranks into Dodge (500 Redux points) to equal 34 ranks of Brawling (510 Redux points), I'd much rather have 34 ranks in Brawling over 10 ranks of Dodge by the time I cap.

[caelric]

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 20

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 13



that's certainly a choice. i assume you rely heavily on spellups from other people, and/or spell up bottles?

Also, what armor is he wearing? (AsG)

[Methais]

What do you do when you're not being hit for 20.28% less damage though?

[drumpel]

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 20

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 13



that's certainly a choice. i assume you rely heavily on spellups from other people, and/or spell up bottles?

Also, what armor is he wearing? (AsG)

Yeah, character choice based on his backstory for his limited spells. He has access to the invoker if need, but I can provide most spells from a couple of characters if I don't feel like begging from strangers.

Right now his total redux is reduced by 25% for knowing 33 spells. I cobbled together an excel sheet a while back for the redux formula, but I must not have saved it and I'm too lazy to redo it again. If I were to take his spell ranks up to 58, for example (getting spell 425 for some extra AS), at level 70 his known spell penalty to his redux would increase from 25% to 35%. This would drop his redux down more so in the range 16-17% when he's wearing all his enhancives.

Now, is that roughly 3-4% drop in redux worth it for an extra 25 AS? Not right now. After leveling his AS is 387, hits 402 when his ensorcell triggers and he doesn't have any issues hitting things he hunts. But, maybe sometime down the road I may just say screw it and invest in spell 425. Were I to get to level 100 and have 58 spells known, his redux penalty would be 27%...which is just about where he is now. I'll just have to wait and see if those extra 25 AS points are needed or not when I get there.

He's wearing AsG 12 (brig) that is 10 CER crit and damage padded. Plus the 5 CER he gets from 520 active that puts his crit padding at exceptional level. He's certainly over trained for brig in regards to action penalty, but the current 28% spell hindrance is a bit of a pain. Thankfully that's remedied by using armored casting. I wouldn't mind eventually getting him into chain armor, but that's something to look into closer to cap.

What do you do when you're not being hit for 20.28% less damage though?

I keep kicking the crap out things that pure wizards and even most, if not all warmages, would have to retreat from and run home to mommy as soon as they get caught in offensive or take a solid hit from a maneuver. With 200+ health, damage padding, crit padding and redux - I'm a well trained wannabe rogue that knows too many spells, can't hide, can't ambush, doesn't get weapon/shield skills to use and has a very limited CMAN pool to pick from!

[drumpel]

Level 71

>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       176
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         7

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       123
  Remaining Stamina Points:   123
          Stamina Recovery:    34        36

 Physical Damage Reduction: 17.70%

Decked out in enhancives:

>heal
You seem to be in one piece.

                             Base  Enhanced
     Maximum Health Points:   176       202
   Remaining Health Points:   176
           Health Recovery:     7         8
  You are feeling pretty good.

     Maximum Spirit Points:    10        10
   Remaining Spirit Points:    10

    Maximum Stamina Points:   119       133
  Remaining Stamina Points:   123
          Stamina Recovery:    37        39

 Physical Damage Reduction: 20.52%