Battlemage for PvM?

[donjn]

I am thinking of changing my Paladin into something more fun.

Does anyone ever run a Battlemage type character? By Battlemage I mean someone who has classic skills for far and up close combat. Here is an example:

Magery
Eval Int
Meditation
Tactics
Anatomy
Swordsmanship
Parry

This character could clearly hold his own from distance or up close. What are the disadvantages? My idea is to soften them up from far away then come in and finish them off up close.

Here is my current Paladin:

Swordsmanship
Tactics
Resist Spells
Anatomy
Parrying
Focus
Chivalry

My only issue is that I have a "Valor" suit of armor that will be useless now because it has no LRC.

Please no Sampire talk. I already have one in the works

Thanks

 

[Mirt]

Mana will be an issue as will be healing. The suit will cost a fortune your losing a weapon mod with spell channeling and will need to run protection which will lower your swing speed. Your also going to find that at only GM your not going to be hitting as much as you want or casting your upper tier spells as reliably as is nice.

 

[donjn]

The real issue is, I am trying to combine 5 characters into 4. Maybe it is an OCD thing...I want a treasure hunter really badly. And I would love it if my Necro or mage could do it. But I cant manage 5 characters. Actually I wont. Four is enough..

Markus the Paladin
Swordsmanship 97
Tactics 89
Resist Spells 86
Anatomy 83
Parrying 76
Healing 54
Chivalry 89
Focus 96

Jareth the Necrofencer
Necromancy 88
Spirit Speak 87
Meditation 88
Fencing 77
Anatomy 68
Tactics 62
Magery 55


Almidar the Mage
Meditation 100
Magery 90
Eval 93
Inscription 72
Resist Spells 85
Imbuing 85


Lothgar the Crafter
Blacksmithing 88
Lumberjacking 67
Arms Lore 34
Carpentry 55
Tailoring 78
Tinkering 86


Bentic the Treasure Hunter
Mining 91
Cartography 65
Lockpicking 60
Mysticism 86
Magery 73
Meditation 70

Stone
Peacemaking 85
Provocation 85
Musicianship 88

 

[Mirt]

See that’s the rub there are so many skills that to be really effective you need to pick one thing and do that. Anything else requires to many tradeoffs in already cramped templates. I recommend using a mystic mage for a t-mapper or a bard it works out well and with peace and provo you can have most of the monsters do the fighting for you. Other then that the mage warrior is pretty much dead. It’s better to pick which one you like best and go with that.

 

[donjn]

Mysticism confuses me, especially with Magery combined templates. To Focus or not to Focus? should you have Focus AND Imbuing? Is Meditation good for both Magery AND Mysticism?

 

[Mirt]

Mysticism confuses me, especially with Magery combined templates. To Focus or not to Focus? should you have Focus AND Imbuing? Is Meditation good for both Magery AND Mysticism?

You only need one or the other focus or imbuing. You need focus or imbuing to have any damage with your spells with focus doing better because it provides some mana regen if you can fit both on your temp its great but in this case you probably couldn't of course its not that important as your going to cast RC and then use the magery for travel and some additional healing. You could really drop the mage part altogether for a t-mapper.

 

[donjn]

Yes but what about Tele and Invis? And having to depend on charged Runebooks for travel seems like a pain to me.

If I keep Meditation I wont need Focus, then I can have Inbuing and then immediately unravel the treasure!

Hmm, maybe I had the answer all along...Whatcha think?

 

[LordDrago]

Yes but what about Tele and Invis? And having to depend on charged Runebooks for travel seems like a pain to me.

If I keep Meditation I wont need Focus, then I can have Inbuing and then immediately unravel the treasure!

Hmm, maybe I had the answer all along...Whatcha think?

You still need to be at a soulforge to unravel, and to unravel well, you want ot be at 120 and be at the queens forge.

I have 120/120 mysticism/focus, and the RC really rocks (no pun intended).

you might want to try a mystic thrower for more fun.

 

[Mirt]

Yes but what about Tele and Invis? And having to depend on charged Runebooks for travel seems like a pain to me.

If I keep Meditation I wont need Focus, then I can have Inbuing and then immediately unravel the treasure!

Hmm, maybe I had the answer all along...Whatcha think?

Imbuing is hard to train but it is viable. Also you can drop eval and use other things for damage if you go the bard route. Its a good route and your right if your willing to work up the imbuing that would work.

 

[donjn]

Think I'm gonna go this route on my Treasure Hunter

Mining
Cartography
Lockpicking
Mysticism
Magery
Meditation
Imbuing

Just hope I am not mana starved but Meditation will help.

 

[goldenpower]

Imbuing is for crafting only. it's stupid to have on any type of PvP or PvM combat character.

 

[Mirt]

Think I'm gonna go this route on my Treasure Hunter

Mining
Cartography
Lockpicking
Mysticism
Magery
Meditation
Imbuing

Just hope I am not mana starved but Meditation will help.

Well if you go with focus instead that will help your mana regen.

 

[donjn]

Yes I am going to swap out Imbuing for Focus. I will put Imbuing on my crafter. Also I will decode all my maps and then stone Cart for Eval Int when I go into battle.

Thanks for the help guys..

 

[Mirt]

Your welcome you will find that the eval helps.