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I carry two: broadsword with DI, HML, HSL, HLA, hit spell that I use to beat down Neira.
Then I have a radiant scimitar with DI, HML, HSL, Hit Area, and something else I can't remember. WHen she's summoned anything reasonably large I swap to this weapon and WW till it's dead, then swap back to the AI weapon.
Then I have a radiant scimitar with DI, HML, HSL, Hit Area, and something else I can't remember. WHen she's summoned anything reasonably large I swap to this weapon and WW till it's dead, then swap back to the AI weapon.
Well I assume your build has more mana then mine. I have 76 mana. It's a 68 HML spear with 40di but 92 seems to be about the average hit unless it's critical from perfection. Depending on leech and rng I might 4 or 5 AI and then LS a few til mana gets back then AI.
I think I have about the same amount of mana. With honor and enemy of one I can pretty much keep up a steady pace of back to back AI specials but sure sometimes I miss a few. I had used bladed staffs before but then went back to longswords as I like the ability to chug refresh pots when my stamina gets low.
Also while on the subject of Niera I got a nice 10ssi / 15 HCI brace the other week in her corpse
Also while on the subject of Niera I got a nice 10ssi / 15 HCI brace the other week in her corpse
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It's funny, I have been so reluctant to go with swords because I have so much time and resources into building an arsenal of fencing weapons. But it pains me to admit I think swords is the better weapon skill for a sampire. Oh well, guess i'll get to work crafting weapons.
Tuan, whats your build now and what are you going to? Been reading about the various paladin builds just curious what you are running and why you are going that route? thanks
Current: (including skills on jewelry)
120 swords, tact, anat, chiv
100 parry, necro,
90 resisit.
I will occasionally swap out either parry or resist for bush. Either way, I basically never parry, since I roll with a shield.
Without necro, I can just take resist to 120 (useful against the really high end casters/necros), and run less skills on jewelry.
I choose to go without bushido, because I don't really see that it helps. Most things have slayer, so slayer + EoO is good enough for damage output.
I am not quite as good as a Sammy at damage avoidance, but it's not really that much an issue. Plus, I find that the 1000 imbue points from a 1h weapon + shield works better for me than 600 from a 2h weapon.
Before reforge, this was not the case, I would say, because there was really only DCI that's really useful to put on a shield.
My shield gives me: 10 SSI, 25DI, 4 stam, 2 dex. If I wanted to keep trying, I know I can roll 10 ssi, 30 di, and 5 HCI (done it on TC)... then I imbue with 15 DCI.
This way I can either not put DI on jewelry, or I can put there, and whetstone off weapons.
I've been planning to make a new suit of armor that is part metal, part studded, part woodland, that I refine to have 75 phy and 75 fire but just been too lazy.
120 swords, tact, anat, chiv
100 parry, necro,
90 resisit.
I will occasionally swap out either parry or resist for bush. Either way, I basically never parry, since I roll with a shield.
Without necro, I can just take resist to 120 (useful against the really high end casters/necros), and run less skills on jewelry.
I choose to go without bushido, because I don't really see that it helps. Most things have slayer, so slayer + EoO is good enough for damage output.
I am not quite as good as a Sammy at damage avoidance, but it's not really that much an issue. Plus, I find that the 1000 imbue points from a 1h weapon + shield works better for me than 600 from a 2h weapon.
Before reforge, this was not the case, I would say, because there was really only DCI that's really useful to put on a shield.
My shield gives me: 10 SSI, 25DI, 4 stam, 2 dex. If I wanted to keep trying, I know I can roll 10 ssi, 30 di, and 5 HCI (done it on TC)... then I imbue with 15 DCI.
This way I can either not put DI on jewelry, or I can put there, and whetstone off weapons.
I've been planning to make a new suit of armor that is part metal, part studded, part woodland, that I refine to have 75 phy and 75 fire but just been too lazy.
I have an old Pally Macer, with 120 Macing/120 Tact/GM Anat/GM Healing/GM Focus/80 Chiv/GM Resist. He has 4/6 Casting for rapid healing with Chivalry.
While he works pretty well 1v1 against certain bosses, he doesn't quite have the sheer offensive power that a Sampire has because he doesn't have 300 Skillpoints for Special Mana Reduction, and i have to take time out of my offense to cast heals (which for a Sampire, their offense is their healing). He's also not near as good as a Sampire for taking on multiple opponents, since it's just too much incoming damage and potential interrupts to heal through.
However, he does shine over a Sampire against something like Exodus. Between being able to rapidly heal myself or a partner with bandages and Close Wounds, he does very well against Exodus, and could potentially do even better if i tweaked his template some to add in Parry.
Why Woodland? Woodland provides absolutely no Stamina Protection or Innate LMC. All it provides is the ability to be enhanced with HCI/DCI, but Reforging can do that, as can looted Artifact quality pieces.
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Because that HCI/DCI or DI from heartwood enhance is a "free" property. I don't need 55 LMC when I fight things with a slayer, I average about 190 damage per hit, so with 100 LMC I'll average a leech of 28, which is more than the mana cost of the AI, at 50 LMC. In my testing I found that 5x studded + glasses (which have no stam protection), and 3x studded + 1 metal + 1 leather + glasses seems to protect stamina the same. Therefore, the heartland enhance is more or less a totally free property.
Granted, I'd rather have a legendary metal piece with 9 properties, but nice legendaries for mages are easy, relatively, to come by compared to for a warrior.
Granted, I'd rather have a legendary metal piece with 9 properties, but nice legendaries for mages are easy, relatively, to come by compared to for a warrior.