I must post as a yang to Felix's yin.
Concentrate is pretty awesome and just as much of a utility as Phoenix. However, just like Phoenix it's fairly useless until level 21. At levels 1-10 I used it as a tack-on to warrior elixers to save me a penny. At 11-20, I did pretty much the same thing, except I started paying more attention to Conc and getting used to using it.
At 21-22 (that's where it is now), I now use it whenever I have the chance. Depending on the size of your use inventory, you can actually train on Concentrate and Ciderfor quite a long time. I expanded 4 times quite a while ago, and I have enough space to train on Conc/Cider for around 90 minutes. Wherever you are, the Mushroom shrine is easy to access so it's easy to repot. I would still keep a stack of Warrior Elixers on you for emergency though.
It's especially nice at bosses like Anego and Pap for increasing your kill speed by quite a bit, not to mention the cheaper arrows. I even use it at bosses like HT right before I apple just for that. I've actually gotten to the point where I'm very very rarely using Warrior Elixers, so I tend to think of it as a permanent 8-10 attack upgrade. I do suggest stopping at 22 for Phoenix though. (or stopping Phoenix at 21 for Conc)
Really though, they're both very nice skills to have and I don't think there's really a "wrong" choice. Just choose what you think you'd see yourself using more.
As for DP and Hamstring, I agree that they're both useless. I might do Hamstring before DP but I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. All the things that you'd really want to have 60 less speed are immune to it. It really blows since Mage's slow works on it. I wish that at the bare minimum Hamstring (and Blind) worked at half efficiency on bosses so I'd care about it. Anything that's not a boss just dies before it's able to move anyway >.<
P.S. Oh btw Felix, I tried training at Skeles with my level 9 Phoenix, it's actually pretty nice once you get used to it. I get hit a bit more, but stuff dies faster. It's pretty cool to watch him KB a mob. Next level he can do over 10k <3. Oh, and I found a way to stand at Anego that both doesn't kill you and allows Phoenix to attack. I'll send an SS of where I stood later.
Concentrate is pretty awesome and just as much of a utility as Phoenix. However, just like Phoenix it's fairly useless until level 21. At levels 1-10 I used it as a tack-on to warrior elixers to save me a penny. At 11-20, I did pretty much the same thing, except I started paying more attention to Conc and getting used to using it.
At 21-22 (that's where it is now), I now use it whenever I have the chance. Depending on the size of your use inventory, you can actually train on Concentrate and Ciderfor quite a long time. I expanded 4 times quite a while ago, and I have enough space to train on Conc/Cider for around 90 minutes. Wherever you are, the Mushroom shrine is easy to access so it's easy to repot. I would still keep a stack of Warrior Elixers on you for emergency though.
It's especially nice at bosses like Anego and Pap for increasing your kill speed by quite a bit, not to mention the cheaper arrows. I even use it at bosses like HT right before I apple just for that. I've actually gotten to the point where I'm very very rarely using Warrior Elixers, so I tend to think of it as a permanent 8-10 attack upgrade. I do suggest stopping at 22 for Phoenix though. (or stopping Phoenix at 21 for Conc)
Really though, they're both very nice skills to have and I don't think there's really a "wrong" choice. Just choose what you think you'd see yourself using more.
As for DP and Hamstring, I agree that they're both useless. I might do Hamstring before DP but I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. All the things that you'd really want to have 60 less speed are immune to it. It really blows since Mage's slow works on it. I wish that at the bare minimum Hamstring (and Blind) worked at half efficiency on bosses so I'd care about it. Anything that's not a boss just dies before it's able to move anyway >.<
P.S. Oh btw Felix, I tried training at Skeles with my level 9 Phoenix, it's actually pretty nice once you get used to it. I get hit a bit more, but stuff dies faster. It's pretty cool to watch him KB a mob. Next level he can do over 10k <3. Oh, and I found a way to stand at Anego that both doesn't kill you and allows Phoenix to attack. I'll send an SS of where I stood later.