70 Magery or 100 Magery for a Warrior template?

Hmm...well I'll consider a music build in the future, but I'd rather it be on a new character than to rework the current one, because I'm enjoying it right now and I'd rather play what I enjoy and what's fun to me. I can solo hunt low-mid game on it, maybe even some tougher targets if I'm feeling brave, and still go dungeon diving with friends/guildies who are playing more specialized builds and support them (safely swinging alongside a guildies Dragon, for instance). And Battle Mine and do events. That would give me plenty to do for one character.

Man, I forgot how slow Tactics gets after you hit the 90s. I've gone from 95 to just 95.3 after two straight hours of grinding on Gazers, Earth Elementals and Gargoyles, using a Quarter Staff. Unless these mobs are just bad for training Tactics after 90, at this rate I'll be lucky to GM it by Sunday.

And maybe it's just because I'm Young, but I haven't seen any thieves around Occlo. People just sit opposite of the bank on their horses, completely safe and sound.

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Late to the party but here's my 2 cents: You say you hate musicianship but I guarantee you'll love provocation. Being able to walk into a room and make two monsters fight each other is fucking badass. C'mon. Lol. It's kinda the only way to viably farm as a dexer unfortunately.

How much AR does a suit of Barbed Studded give? I know Barbed Leather is 31, and I'm interested in it because, while Barbed does take a hit to Meditation, it doesn't completely kill it like bone/metal armor does. I would still retain a degree of passive mana regen from my Meditation in a full suit of Studded, 50% I believe. And since I only have 50 Int as opposed to 80, or whatever a specialized Mage would have, I don't need it quite as badly.

I'd be willing to take the middle ground in this case, to be a special snowflake if nothing else.

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It's definitely the Quarter Staff. And that's what I've been using to train. Tactics just tends to lag behind weapon skills, it seems.

It's a slow grind, but it is rising, 95.9. I'll get there.

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For +20/Power, I actually wanted some of those (or +25/Vanq) without Slayers. Just plain Tactics and Power/Vanq. If Slayers cost that much with good modifiers then I'll settle for the cheaper end on those weapons.

In fact, now that I know those weapons will cost a bloody fortune (thank you for warning me about that!), I've amended that thread to just be looking for +25/Vanq Warhammers without slayers. Hopefully that shouldn't run more than 5-10k at most. I'll look into slayers once I can call myself Diamond Jim.

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+25/Vanq is only 2k? Way cheaper than I was expecting. But I have a little over 100k banked now, so I can afford a couple, and wouldn't be terribly angry if I lost them to a PK. I tend to travel light on dungeon romps:

Weapon
Armor
Food
100 Bandages
3-5 of each potion
20 of each reagent

That's about all I need for a typical adventure into Shame or Deceit. I wouldn't lose sleep over a PK getting this now and then.

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Yeah, forgot about that. I carry an ID wand if I'm fighting something that can drop significant magic items. Still, 8-10k for a +25/Vanq, I'd be willing to pay.

I finally figured out how to set up my hotkeys, so I've got one to auto-equip my chosen weapon (after casting a spell), and I have hotkeys set for bandaging and for drinking potions (auto unequips/re-equips), all on my number bar, and I have my desired spells set to the F# keys.

Still tinkering with Razor to figure out how to hotkey Recall so that it auto-targets a designated rune to save time.

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Awesome. Thank you.

Other than buying the stuff I need now, I'm pretty much set.

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I wouldn't want to make that mistake if I eventually made a "pure" dexxer. Won't have to worry about it on this toon.

Regarding the +AR cloak/robes, do you know how long they've been borked and when/if they will ever be fixed?

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