best buff of the year

and the winner is BTB
i honestly think BTB does more for my fast lvling than any other buff in game
opinions?

I've grown really fond of decrease weight, personally.

clan luck

Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squat to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?

I vote for Chant of Victory (effects: HP +20%, restores the HP added, Speed -20%, Accuracy +4, P.Def. +20%, P.Atk. +10%, M.Atk. +20%, Atk. Spd. +20%, Critical +20%, Critical Damage +20%, M.Def. +20%, Casting Spd. +20%, Debuff Resistance +20%).

[EDIT:Stupid typo :)]

Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?

herbs
not to mention you can pull an extra mob or 2 without instantly reaching for the bsoe

honestly vr is the best buff but i think something as simple as BTB is under rated

Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?

herbs



They drop with or without BtB on.

not to mention you can pull an extra mob or 2 without instantly reaching for the bsoe

I can do it still. I just aggro them with my golem (sacrificing it), stun some others, then proceed to kill the remainder, drinking QHPs as required.

honestly vr is the best buff but i think something as simple as BTB is under rated

I'd rather think about it as overrated; as is the "Health" SA.

I'ved liked BtB/BtS a lot more since I am usually hunting in herb areas when I'm on my own, and now often in a duo with a higher-level BH too. x)

I have definitely taken them off the 'buffs to skimp on if in doubt' list. :p

PS: Herbs restore more when you have BtB/BtS on. I can take pictures of this if anyone doubts it.

PS: Herbs restore more when you have BtB/BtS on. I can take pictures of this if anyone doubts it.

Yes, it's a percentage of your max mp you get back. So it makes sense to carry a conversion weapon when you're duoing with somebody as a recharger and herbs drop in that area. Nothing beats the feeling when you're low on mp, but have bts6 and a conversion weapon and then find a superior herb. 6000mp have been restored, now THAT'S a nice system message :)

COV

Although personally the only buff that I dont have while hunting atm that I would really like is decreased weight. Two set of armor, two weapon, spirit ore and nerfed Con = 1 prophet that cant carry much of anything else.

I really enjoy when I pick up a Sup MP Herb xD

Clan Luck ( not really a buff )

If you want a straight up buff then yea CoV > all

Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?

Not to mention, if you BtS your opponent, mana drain sucks more MP per cast.

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Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?


Not to mention, if you BtS your opponent, mana drain sucks more MP per cast.

i wrote a post about that

i have screenshots of herbs healing me for 10088 hp, keep in mind im -7 con and my se only heals for 400 +the dot effect
mobs hit me for up to 1600 damage (melee attack not magic crit) and i average about 1.2k damage per mob
at my usual reasonable hp of about 8.5k hp a lesser hp herb heals for about 1.2k and a greater hp herb heals for about 2.5k so you cant honestly say thats not effective for pve :P

i have screenshots of herbs healing me for 10088 hp, keep in mind im -7 con and my se only heals for 400 +the dot effect
mobs hit me for up to 1600 damage (melee attack not magic crit) and i average about 1.2k damage per mob
at my usual reasonable hp of about 8.5k hp a lesser hp herb heals for about 1.2k and a greater hp herb heals for about 2.5k so you cant honestly say thats not effective for pve :P

It is effective, just not much in comparison. The 10k HP healing herb would heal all of your HP (... and all of your golem or pet, if you had one out), no matter how much it is.

Frankly, I'd take +15% P.Atk (Might 3) over +30% HP (BtB 6) any day. For emergencies, I already have a lot of different HP pots with me.

Frankly, I'd take +15% P.Atk (Might 3) over +30% HP (BtB 6) any day. For emergencies, I already have a lot of different HP pots with me.

thats true you could just use pots
but put it this way if they invented a blunt with mizer SA thats prolly what i'd use :P

mmmmmm

I really like resist shock.... and decrease weight

infact if there was 1 buff I wish I had, it is decrease weight, that would solve so many of my problems

Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?

herbs
not to mention you can pull an extra mob or 2 without instantly reaching for the bsoe

honestly vr is the best buff but i think something as simple as BTB is under rated



I think you spend more on bsoe from mobs in one day than I spend on shots for an entire week. Since you have a boxed recharger you might want to grab a low level EE/bish and things would be cheaper. Unless you just don't want to share.

infact if there was 1 buff I wish I had, it is decrease weight, that would solve so many of my problems

Yep, it is an absolutely awesome buff - I really notice having to go to the field without it when my prophet and EE aren't duoed, and I still don't have to carry ores yet. ><

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Last I checked, Bless the Body doesn't do squad to your regeneration or kill rate. How does it help you level faster, then?



herbs
not to mention you can pull an extra mob or 2 without instantly reaching for the bsoe

honestly vr is the best buff but i think something as simple as BTB is under rated



I think you spend more on bsoe from mobs in one day than I spend on shots for an entire week. Since you have a boxed recharger you might want to grab a low level EE/bish and things would be cheaper. Unless you just don't want to share.

i bet i spend more adena in shots in 1 hour than you spend in a week :P
i havnt actually bsoed in pve in about 10 lvls (weird lag thingy) but it is good to have the extra hp buffer so i can feel more secure in my mob agroing

hero valor =O

...so wierd to ppl saying decrease weight is nice =P That buff used to be a joke back in c1.

I personally enjoyed kiss of eva very much this year.

I could of swear I posted. **** GM's I swear!

Best buff, haste or VR.

I guess Haste, VR makes bishops worthless. But haste makes my BD so uber in atk speed. add to it zerk and DoFury. :D

and haste means I don't have to spend my AA on GSAP's.

COV is by far the best buff out there by far, u do alot more damage, u take less damage, the only problem is you loose 20 run speed but if your in an archer party you kill the mobs before they get to you anyway.

I dunno what the people who are talking about decrease weight are on, honestly. I would rather have COV and do more damage per shot than to take more shots and waste more money than needed.

I dunno what the people who are talking about decrease weight are on, honestly. I would rather have COV and do more damage per shot than to take more shots and waste more money than needed.

try reading "best buff of the year" as "underated buffs" and you might understand the point of this post

for all melee the best buff is vr
for all mages the best buff is emp
i honestly wouldnt call prophecies buffs since its not really a buff but like 5 stacked on top of each other

It's obvious that CoV is the most powerful all around buff.

However, Decrease Weight IS underrated - at current, I can still be at full runspeed (don't need to be able to regenerate during quick PvP after all - different in sieges, then the numbers change a bit) at almost 80% weight.

That's a hell of a lot of extra GCP potions - especially on a dwarf.

try reading "best buff of the year" as "underated buffs" and you might understand the point of this post

then why ask for "best buff of the year" when u mean "best underated buff of the year". I took the question of the post as litteral, hence what i said.

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try reading "best buff of the year" as "underated buffs" and you might understand the point of this post




then why ask for "best buff of the year" when u mean "best underated buff of the year". I took the question of the post as litteral, hence what i said.

everyone else seemed to get it so i assumed my point was made
do you honestly think ppl would chose decrease weight over cov or even emp/vr?

everyone else seemed to get it so i assumed my point was made
do you honestly think ppl would chose decrease weight over cov or even emp/vr?

Everyone?

I don't try to second-guess your (or anyone else's) intentions. I take what you write is exactly what you mean. And the best buff of the year (2006) is still CoV (introduced at the beginning of the year 2006 in C4).