Another Dreaded Template Help Thread

[tymbow]

Some suggestions please. Paladin, mostly PvE.

Currently:

Human
100 Strength
100 Dexterity
30 Intelligence
100 Anatomy
100 Chivalry
100 Focus
120 Mace Fighting
100 Parrying
100 Resisting Spells
100 Tactics

The question is what to do with this? Should I drop Chivalry to 80 and put 20 points into either Anatomy or Tactics? What about dropping Parrying or maybe Resisting Spells for Bushido? What about dropping Parrying or maybe Resisting Spells for Healing? Any other suggestions?

 

[Trinsie]

120 Mace Fighting
120 Bushido
120 Parry
100 Tactics
100 Anatomy
90 Healing
70 Chivalry



That is what I would do. Others will come in and tell you to drop stuff and add necromancy and spirit speak though.

 

[aarons6]

what do you like to play?
you set on mace fighting or even set on warrior?
what is pve to you? dungeons? champs? peerless?

 

[tymbow]

what do you like to play?
you set on mace fighting or even set on warrior?
what is pve to you? dungeons? champs? peerless?

PvE is a bit of everything to me really. Not so set on macing - never made one before so it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[Farsight]

120 Mace Fighting
120 Bushido
120 Parry
100 Tactics
100 Anatomy
90 Healing
70 Chivalry
That is what I would do. Others will come in and tell you to drop stuff and add necromancy and spirit speak though.

^ That.

But necromancy and spirit speak in place of anatomy and healing works as well.

I prefer the non-necromancer.

 

[Kdog7777]

Yeah i agree with Trinsie as well. You dont need a ton of chiv for it to be effective, and focus is a waste of skill points anymore, imho.

Only thing i will add is some people like resist, personally I dont have it on my warrior, but i use plenty of pots & orange petals. If you want to keep resist then I guess I'd just drop focus for bushido, but others may have different opinions. That said I still think what Trinsie said is your best bet, resist is nice, but not utterly necessary.

 

[tymbow]

That said I still think what Trinsie said is your best bet, resist is nice, but not utterly necessary.

Yeah I've been in two minds about it as well. In practice I've found it only seems effective against low and medium level mobbies anyway and they are not much risk. The only spells of real risk are poison, blood oath and paralyse and I find you fail to resist these against higher level mobbies most of the time anyway.

 

[Connor_Graham]

Some suggestions please. Paladin, mostly PvE.

Currently:

Human
100 Strength
100 Dexterity
30 Intelligence
100 Anatomy
100 Chivalry
100 Focus
120 Mace Fighting
100 Parrying
100 Resisting Spells
100 Tactics

The question is what to do with this? Should I drop Chivalry to 80 and put 20 points into either Anatomy or Tactics?

If you're going to put points into anything, it should be Tactics. Tactics gives a higher damage increase per point than Anatomy. Almost double in fact. Chiv really doesn't need to be higher than 75 for it to be effective with very few failures.

What about dropping Parrying or maybe Resisting Spells for Bushido?

Drop Focus and add Bushido. Focus is a waste of points.

What about dropping Parrying or maybe Resisting Spells for Healing? Any other suggestions?

You have 3 options you can go with as I see it. Standard Chiv Warrior, Sampire, or Wammy. Here are some templates to try out:

Standard-

120 Wep
100 Tactics
120 Bushido
120 Parry
100 Healing
70 Chiv
90 Anatomy

Carry a trapped box & orange petals and you're set. You can use a 1 handed weapon and also carry whatever pots you want and only lose 5% parry chance.

Sampire-

120 Wep
120 Bushido
120 Parry
95 Tactics
100 Necro
100 Resist (or Anatomy or Spirit Speak)
65 Chiv

Wammy-

120 Wep
120 Bushido
120 Parry
95 Tactics
100 Necro
100 Spirit Speak
65 Chiv

 

[tymbow]

Thanks for the help, this is what I've decided for now:

100 Strength
100 Dexterity
30 Intelligence
100 Anatomy
120 Bushido
70 Chivalry
90 Healing
120 Mace Fighting
120 Parrying
100 Tactics

 

[Connor_Graham]

You're better off switching the Anatomy and Healing points around to 90 Anat and 100 Healing. At GM Healing you have a 100% chance to cure level 6 poison and the difference in the damage increase from 10 less Anat won't even be noticed.