I'm slowly but surely approaching a grade on my gladdie, only 2 lvls to go and had a thought.. currently he's in BW heavy which gives +3 str -1 con -2 dex and got tatoos at +4str +4dex -8 con.. total it would put me at +7str +2 dex -9 con but he's still managing fairly nice ^^
now my thought was since i have +6 tsu*sls and wont afford a decent a grade dual for quite some time the tsu*sls will have to carry me a long time through a grade my aim was set towards an armor... considering i have focus SA i was thinking of going for atk speed armor Tallum heavy.. but it affects my stats slightly different from BW.. it would put me somewhere at +6 str +4 dex -10 con but increases my atk speed by 8% and then some with the extra dex.. is that tradeoff worth it? would tallum heavy be a good choice with +4 str +4 dex -8 con tatoos and focus duals? ^^ any other thoughts of diff armors and tatoo combinations are welcome too, just keep it within heavy armor classes =) and no altering of weaps.. i can't afford that yet :P
If you want to be a chunck of HP = Dark Crystal Heavy
If you want to be resistent against a variety of things = Majestic Heavy
If you want to be the pure glascannon Glad = Tallum Heavy
Personally I wouldn't hang so much on DEX increase...I'm biased towards +DEX -CON for anything but a dagger, that's true, but still, you give in a lot of HP for a small increase.
well when i added the +4 dex -4 con i lost like.. uhh.. 300 hp's and figured it was only half a nuke no matter what i did anyway, lol, i have absolutely no way of being able to get my hands on the epic jewelries so i'll hang onto my BO ^^ but yeah -4 con was half a nuke total of -9 con was comparable to 1 nuke of a random mage, lol
No real need for Epic Jewelry for 99% of the players out there.
300hp is not that much indeed, but also know you lost stun resist, I play a Hawkeye, and the +4 DEX never really helped me much, so I got rid of it and I feel much better now.
But ofcourse you can say "yeah thanks for the story, but it's about me here, not your FOTM archer"
We have 2 glads in our clan, one is a pure glascannon style, another more HP build, but lets his TSS crit so hard, sometimes it makes my HE blush.
They both are very good gladiators, but they are completely different, the only thing they share is their skills, the dual sword set-up and their hunger for intense damage.
nah, an input is an input and aslong as its constructive its good, lol. Yeah the stunrates are somewhat frustrating but i can manage with it... would be nice if lionheart got reloaded as fast as warcry though lol
Kami, I use Tallum Heavy on my WS all the time. I feel it's a great set for the bonuses. I now use BW Heavy Set, but only because it is +6, and I have had issues trying to +6 my Tallum. pm me in game sometime and we can talk more.
BTW, I also feel that +4 dex > +4 str for the tats. The bonus to attack speed, run speed and crit rate are more in favor of high damage than the lost con will bring HP for.
BTW, I also feel that +4 dex > +4 str for the tats. The bonus to attack speed, run speed and crit rate are more in favor of high damage than the lost con will bring HP for.
I've wondering about this. It just seems that the increase to crit hit rate and swing rate is so low that it doesn't really make a difference, but maybe it does. When you can get a +focus weapon that adds +80 crit hit rate, does the +4 dex from a tatoo really matter?
I seem to have noticed a difference, yes, but i keep it for the runspeed also. I often party with a WL who 3boxes with 2 healer/buffers, lol so healing oneself and pulling the trains can get straining on her. So i keep the runspeed to gather the train up, pull 'em right next to her let her voke 'em off me and swing along a couple times before i start spamming my buster or rage aoeskills.
On a sidenote i did notice the swing speed increased too, which was kinda nice :)