amen brother, amen!
Would keeping the 13 real skill points instead of going to jewelry make much difference in the mastery spell effects? Be worth not having GM Resist?
Got MR6 on his suit and he'd have 120 Focus or GM Meditation.Real bards don't use jewelry....unless its got tons of MR on it
Hmmm... Maybe I'll take the lumps involved in not having Resist. This and his Scrapper's Compendium's 25% SDI adding up would be nice.
I'm just curious what benefit you think you would gain from GM resist that can't already be countered by using 1 of the bard skills?
Main thing is I find being Paralyzed and getting ripped on annoying. That SDI boost could make up for that nicely. I'll take them all to 120 via RoT and see how it goes, I can always bring them back down later if I find I truly have to have Resist.
I've currently gotten Music to 120 and the others just shy of 110 or better with my current training monster requiring 144 barding. Dang things run around in that swarm of monsters at the Bog of Desolation which makes it interesting.
yes.
Cheez tactic but if you throw taming on and take a CU and A boat and park it by Yamadon Point NW of the Wolf House and provo the Yamadon onto the CU you get the gain easy and your CU maxes healing pretty quick healing the poison. Just invis the Cu when you succeed and repeat.I've currently gotten Music to 120 and the others just shy of 110 or better with my current training monster requiring 144 barding. Dang things run around in that swarm of monsters at the Bog of Desolation which makes it interesting.
Corgul has a 160 barding difficulty and you have a 20% chance of Discord succeeding with 120 skill and an exceptional instrument per the Stratics barding calculator, with 115 Barding skills that chance drops to 5%, with 110 barding skills your chance is 0%. Real skill or jewelry is said to work the same other than for the barding masteries which require real skill. You'd want to go 94 real skill with +26 from jewelry.
Given the pita training is becoming with the monsters you have to play tag with, particularly needing two at a time for Provo, jewelry is tempting to say the least.
25 1/2 hours to legendary on Provo. Thank the gods for RoT!
Modded skill = real for everything that doesn't use a mastery - the success chance/effectiveness at 120 modded is the same as real skill. Masteries require real skill for peak effectiveness/lowest mana cost for maintaining the mastery (bard, taming, parry.)
When you say 120/120 real - do you mean both taming and lore? Does Animal Lore affect the mana upkeep for the Taming mastery, such as when running Consume Damage?
Yes. I believe so, but haven't confirmed that it doesn't - I know Taming affects it since I ran out of mana with my Atl tamer @ 90 taming/115ish Lore (where my LS tamer with 116/120 did not.) I've actually been meaning to test how it works w/out Lore, but haven't yet thought of a way to do so w/out eliminating my control chance, since I wanted to do it in battle.
Get discorded and it raises just fine.
It is and it isn't. Modded skill has no effect on the masteries, but it does for your chance to parry - if you activate Heighten Senses, Shield Bash, or Bodyguard at the bare minimum for a mastery (90), their effectiveness will be drastically reduced, and the mana upkeep for Heighten Senses will eat through your mana like it's a fat kid at the Cheesecake Factory.
Bushido.
