2010-12-28, 10:06 AM
Jormungandr Wrote:[COLOR="Teal"]Okay. I don't think I can get sp resets...I currently have enough to distribute points into 3rd job as I wish, I'm pretty sure 163 is allocated in 2nd/1st job. So max shadow partner, flash jump, and dark flare. Any reason for lvl 10 shield mastery? I remember it was crap pre patch, did they change it? If anything I could just drop some dark flare or something for it. Then again if I don't max dark flare I really have like 17 points left with no where to go anyway lol.Dark Flare has a cooldown, maxed = skill duration = cooldown, so you don't have a cooldown. Check Fiel's skill tables for it! Only max lvl has no cooldown!
So for 4th job max BS, then go to meso mastery? What would be ideal after? MW? And no venom/taunt/lol ambush.[/COLOR]
Shield Mastery works now for ALL wdef and mdef (not only shield def anymore), and also doubles wdef / mdef buffs!!! It's very useful, in party with a DK with Iron Will, I have a total of 2800 wdef now, you really notice it!
If you have the NX, 2nd job resets aren't that expensive, so I would buy those 3 (tnx Nexon for not giving you a free SP reset...)
About 4th job: You can get Bstep to 21 (4 hits) and max Meso Mastery then, since it's only 10 SP's and the damage of Meso Explosion at bosses is THAT good (Note: all Lionheart Castle mobs are Boss flagged), and upgrades ALL your other meso skills aswell, I would max it after Bstep lvl21.
Veneni Wrote:This is what I'm doing/planning to do:If you like Shield Mastery on your Paladin, you also like it on your Shad, you won't have the 8000+ wdef, but still around 2000 wdef, so it's nice I guess (remember with meso guard, you half all damage also! and with meso mastery maxed, you only take 40% of the total damage!).
2th job
- all max except
- steal 11
3th job (in this order):
- 1 MG, ME
- BoT max
- SP max
- FJ max
- max meso explosion & pickpocket
- max shield mastery
- max shakra
- level 11 assaulter
- max meso guard
- max dark flare
Explain: Shield mastery is amazing on my paladin, so I hope it will also be kinda helpfull for bandits. Shakra seems like a good endgame skill to save pots (and trips to town to repot) combined with shadow shifter and shield mastery. Assaulter I only use for transportation, don't care about the stun or damage, that gets's replaced by BS in 4th job anyways?
4th job
- 1 SS, 1 assassinate (fo fun ;D), 1 BS
- 1 smokescreen
- max BS
- lv 10 taunt
- max meso mastery
- max taunt
- max SS
- max assassinate
- ???
Explain: I dunno there's something with taunt that makes me wanne have it, it seems so useful
Any good? =^/
And not maxing Assaulter? I don't know if you use Chakra a lot, but Chakra is only useful if you have lot's of HP (like me, I'm a blood Shad with 7500 HP without HB) since you can only use Chakra when you HP is below 50%.
Assaulter itself is an amazing skill, especially in combination with flash jump. It also ignores all wdef, it's very useful at bosses. I would rather max Assaulter then Chakra.
In my own build, I maxed Steal, and left BoT at lvl1, since I was already 4th job, and don't need BoT anymore for training. With leaving BoT at lvl 1, I could max everything else, but again, I'm already 4th job...
About the rest of the build, with Lionheart Castle coming, I would leave taunt at lvl0, it's not that useful anymore, since it doesn't work on bosses.
Also Assassinate full Charge + Shadow Partner = Amazing 1 hit damage (like 2 million damage at normal builds till 6 million when you have a LOT of potential equips, per 8 seconds charge). I would max it before Shadow Shifter. Also: Assassinate lvl1 doesn't get the bonus damage (250% on SPartner hit), you ONLY get that with 8 seconds charge (read: near maxed Assassinate).