Different Templates

[Khoga]

Hey Everyone,

I currently run a sampire with the following build...

91 parry
99 necro
110 bushido
100 tactics
100 resist
120 swords
80 chivalry

mana 101
str 150
stam 180

The above stats are with pots. My jewelry is 15/15 20 EP 22 DI and no 5th imbue. I originally built him to be an AI spammer with chugging, but after having talked with others I hear a lot of people going more of the following.

120 Mace
120 Parry
120 Bushido
100 Resist
90 Tactics
71 Chivalry
99 Necro

Running jewelry with no EP and str/dex on both and not worrying about chugging. They primarily use LS and counterstrike for dmg. Can someone give me a list of pros and cons of these 2 builds as I have only ever tried it one way.

 

[Klapauc]

Unsure about the templates, that may depend how you fight and what. Personally i would raise tactics and reduce parry on both.

About counter attack, to me it seems it has a rather long cast recovery and you cannot immediatly cast a consecrate after toggling it. Always messes up my rythm of doing things, never liked it because of that.

Damage wise, ai beats the counter attack + ls combo by a large margin, but you would need tactics and anatomy for it to work very well.

50 ep is equal in imbuing intensity to +14 stat. 50 ep give you 60 additional stat points. 0 ep gives +40 or 42 on a human , adding +14 stat makes +54 .
So you win 6 stat points here that you can use for mana.
Best solution is probably making 2 pairs of jewelry, ec makes switching them easy.