Stupid question on Sampires and LRC

[GalenKnighthawke]

Do you Sampires run around with LRC, or do you carry necro reagents? If so, not even Sampires are invulnerable, so when you die is it a major inconvenience to run back and get more reagents?

-Galen's player

 

[Lynk]

i keep about 30 of each vamp reg in stacks of 5 regs per pile. i'll usually honor myself to get corpse. Never had any problems.

 

[Gellor]

I wouldn't run lrc. A solid samp suit is a challenge to build as it is without throwing in lrc.

Especially given that as a sampire you are only going to cast vamp embrace and even then rarely.

If I were going into a situation where I might die, I'd take a set of arcane boots or the like. Otherwise, I leave the regs and necro boost in the bank

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

*smacks head*

Of course.

Reading these 2 replies I am reminded of an important fact that I keep forgetting.

The traditional "Sampire" template is less about Necromancer spells than it is about the Vampire form.

That's how you can get away with 30 of each reg; and/or turning form at the bank and not worrying about it; and little or no LRC. The actual spells you cast aren't all that numerous.

In this template, Necromancy is less a spell-casting skill than it is a power boost for your warrior skills.

Thank you both.

-Galen's player

 

[Gellor]

Some sampire templates swap anat, magic resist, and spirit speak. They toss spirit speak to treat the template more necro. In which case yes regs/lrc become a requirement.

But the spirit speak sampire is kind of a rare bird due to the mana requirements... very hard to get high hp, max weapon swing speed(stam), AND have a reasonable mana pool.

On my sampire, I only swap anat and magic resist. And in the 18 hours I've used him, I think I've died once and had to get back into vamp form.

 

[Ender]

The hell kind of sampire doesn't just use arcane boots and carry an extra gem or two?

 

[Vaneca]

@ Gellor

Whats the actual damage malus when you swap ana for resist?
Assuming you do pvm with that char, what sort of monsters are you killing usually?

I´m just wondering if the Life Leech would still be "enough" when trading anatomy for resist. For like soloing Paroxysmus or things like that =)

 

[Ender]

Well really there's absolutely no reason to use resist instead of anat when fighting Paroxysmus <_<



But really, most of your damage is from tactics.

 

[Gellor]

@ Gellor

Whats the actual damage malus when you swap ana for resist?
Assuming you do pvm with that char, what sort of monsters are you killing usually?

I am mostly trying to set my sampire up for champ spawns or the like but lately I have been concentrating on getting a feel for it vs "top end" champ critters like dragons, demons, etc.

During my demonic spawn practice, I have been playing with demons(also to get silver) When I had 100 anat on my template, I was doing right around 41 on average. When I swapped over to 100 resist, I was doing 35 on average. This was just using EOO and about 100% total DI on my suit/weapon. No demon slayer. While I was only doing two monsters at a time, I felt I was killing them in the same number of hits but slightly less time because I wasn't paralyzed

The gain of resist for me was when I went to an actual demonic spawn and was able to advance it into mid second level spawn with no issues. I think the resist helped out a TON. OTOH, I haven't tried the same spawn without resist. But, I didn't have much problem due to curses, paralyze, or mana drain. I think the mana drain would be a killer at a spawn when you have desperate need of a whirlwind for health