How effective is Close Wounds as a main Source of Healing? How much Mana do you recomend? How much LMC, & Mana Regen is needed?
This would be on a PvM template with no Resist. Would have Vampiric Embrace in place, & would be used on a ranged Character. No mediation or focus either.
Since PvM, you can get away with no resist pretty easily. That said, depending on what you like to fight. Archery is more difficult to get away with than a dexxer though.
The key thing is you are not using healing so you do not need 140 dexterity for the bandage timer.
You do need weapons that will swing at the max rate AFTER taking into account what your dex will be. If you run parry, have at least 80 dexterity so you don't take a penalty hit on your defense.
So something like 80 dex, 70 int, 105 str. You can easily add +dex/stamina items to assist you along with LMC, and +MI.
All of those things combined with meditation (yes, it helps a lot), will make it a pretty good template.
As far as ranged character, that you mention you will do...I have never done that with using
only close wounds on a ranged attack character but the mana leech is half of what it used to be. So, make sure you use bows with descent SSI and 40 mana leech or higher. Probably stamina leech too so you can save some mana.
With ranged characters since no parry, you do not need to worry about the penalty, but you will have to
use the
swing speed calculator on stratics to make sure you are doing things at capped speed.
Have around 100 mana and you should be okay. More the merrier.