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Topic: Melee toon?

Cryme Title: iMUD Posts: 4,753 Registered: Jan 24, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,704 User ID: 629,547	Subject: Melee toon?
	So what's the best race/weapon choice for a melee toon these days, and reasons why? In all of your not so humble opinions, anyway... Preemptive thanks! -----signature----- thisismysignatureandnoyoucanthaveitgetyourown
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Mrbrulaii Posts: 428 Registered: Nov 9, '10 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 428 User ID: 1,406,432	Subject: Melee toon?
	Cryme posted: So what's the best race/weapon choice for a melee toon these days, and reasons why? In all of your not so humble opinions, anyway... Preemptive thanks! Empyrean / Undead 100 strength/coord/quick Specialized Two-Handed Combat, Melee Defense, Assess Creature (lense; aug your endurance) or Life Magic (vulns; aug your focus), and Arcane Lore (free racial) Why? Cus it's awesome. -----signature----- "Yeah man I loved pking on MT, I was such a little noob irl and ig." - FreestyleDT
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LaceTP Posts: 4,102 Registered: Jul 23, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,097 User ID: 1,157,896	Subject: Melee toon?
	Mrbrulaii posted: Cryme posted: So what's the best race/weapon choice for a melee toon these days, and reasons why? In all of your not so humble opinions, anyway... Preemptive thanks! Empyrean / Undead 100 strength/coord/quick Specialized Two-Handed Combat, Melee Defense, Assess Creature (lense; aug your endurance) or Life Magic (vulns; aug your focus), and Arcane Lore (free racial) Why? Cus it's awesome. Go with this template if you want an extremely mainstream boring punch yourself in the face kind of template. -----signature----- DT - Eveil DT - Foxwind I'm a Carebear, sup. Clan officer for Gabs Clan(Pirates of Dereth) Since the begining Lace-the-Pacebringer - 275(Sword/Life spec) ---- Djinn the Angel of Death - 275(War/MagicD)-Retired account-
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Mrbrulaii Posts: 428 Registered: Nov 9, '10 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 428 User ID: 1,406,432	Subject: Melee toon?
	LaceTP posted: Mrbrulaii posted: Cryme posted: So what's the best race/weapon choice for a melee toon these days, and reasons why? In all of your not so humble opinions, anyway... Preemptive thanks! Empyrean / Undead 100 strength/coord/quick Specialized Two-Handed Combat, Melee Defense, Assess Creature (lense; aug your endurance) or Life Magic (vulns; aug your focus), and Arcane Lore (free racial) Why? Cus it's awesome. Go with this template if you want an extremely awesome ass-kicking pat yourself on the back kind of template. Your spell-check doesn't seem to be working right Lace...Not to worry, I fixed it for you. ~Bru -----signature----- "Yeah man I loved pking on MT, I was such a little noob irl and ig." - FreestyleDT
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gyes Posts: 3,154 Registered: May 1, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,118 User ID: 93,149	Subject: Melee toon?
	I don't like my 2H character. You absolutely need to brass every weapon or you will die grizzly deaths a lot in the highest level hunting grounds. Also, combat is like being a mage who can only cast ring spells. Mine is spec alchemy, which makes all the problems even worse, as far as I'm concerned. Also, just having assess critter for a lens is inadequate at high levels. You need to be able to vuln stuff. It's either spec Life or spec Alchemy. Having gone down both tracks, I much much much prefer spec life. You will get resisted more, but you won't have to deal with the ridiculously short range of grenades, not to mention the appalling cost. 1MMD buys you about 25 critters' worth of imping/vulning. -----signature----- The Rebirth of Gyes Monarch, Paladins of Asheron, SC http://www.paladinsofasheron.com
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Cryme Title: iMUD Posts: 4,753 Registered: Jan 24, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,704 User ID: 629,547	Subject: Melee toon?
	When I go melee, I'm going to want to hide behind a shield. I think I'm going to go sword... it's always had a good variety of quest weapons and damage to choose from in the past, so I'm just going to assume that is still the case today. Also, I've never actually played a sword, I've only ever played dagger, UA, and staff toons so far. Still uncertain about race. I tried to make an undead archer, but having smoke blow in my face every time I ran forward was driving me crazy... and the whole empyrean floating above the ground thing was kind of weird to look at as well. I still like spec arcane lore on a melee toon, however, so I might just have to tough it out with one of these two... -----signature----- thisismysignatureandnoyoucanthaveitgetyourown
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voltaro Posts: ???? Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 0	Subject: Melee toon?
	gyes posted: I don't like my 2H character. You absolutely need to brass every weapon or you will die grizzly deaths a lot in the highest level hunting grounds. Also, combat is like being a mage who can only cast ring spells. Mine is spec alchemy, which makes all the problems even worse, as far as I'm concerned. Also, just having assess critter for a lens is inadequate at high levels. You need to be able to vuln stuff. It's either spec Life or spec Alchemy. Having gone down both tracks, I much much much prefer spec life. You will get resisted more, but you won't have to deal with the ridiculously short range of grenades, not to mention the appalling cost. 1MMD buys you about 25 critters' worth of imping/vulning. Hi Gyes, Thanks for running all of the fun quests lately. I kind of disagree about the lense not being enough. Imp + rended weapons work great. I think if a meele has to imp and vuln everything then switch to weapon to finish the attack, they might as well be a mage at that point since they are already casting more spells then a mage needs to. Just my opinion which does not apply to dust or burning sand golems by the way =) -----signature-----
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Cryme Title: iMUD Posts: 4,753 Registered: Jan 24, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,704 User ID: 629,547	Subject: Melee toon?
	Yeah, the more I think about the lens', the more I'm leaning towards Aluvian. Any idea when Tumeroks are going to be an option? -----signature----- thisismysignatureandnoyoucanthaveitgetyourown
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gyes Posts: 3,154 Registered: May 1, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,118 User ID: 93,149	Subject: Melee toon?
	Tumeroks are supposed to come out in the next big patch, which is either this month or November. Have you considered axe? It's cheaper than sword and has all 7 damage types (pierce = paradox axe). Plus it's fun wielding a hammer bigger than your head. Voltaro, glad you're enjoying the quests. The problem with not being able to vuln is that there are many highest level monsters that are more akin to Dust/Burning Sands Golems than anything else. Imp/Vuln/AR weapon usually outkills those monsters 5x faster than using a regular rending weapon. The other thing to consider is that you need protects. Unless you want to go no-buff, then you are either going to have to take life magic or alchemy. The credit cost for specing assess creature is only 2 credits less than specing either of those two skills, so I think you're better off specing one of those skills because those 2 extra credits get you a whole lot more versatility. And yes, you could go Aluvian and get assess creature for free... or you could go Empyrean or Undead and get a more useful skill free. -----signature----- The Rebirth of Gyes Monarch, Paladins of Asheron, SC http://www.paladinsofasheron.com
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Cryme Title: iMUD Posts: 4,753 Registered: Jan 24, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,704 User ID: 629,547	Subject: Melee toon?
	gyes posted: Have you considered axe? It's cheaper than sword and has all 7 damage types (pierce = paradox axe). Plus it's fun wielding a hammer bigger than your head. I have, but having been gone so long, I'm not really aware of how it's damage compares to swords, and I just assumed swords had the best damage, and most available weapon choices since that seems to always be the case. I'm leveling my mage first because they're my favorite, but I will definitely consider axe more before I roll out my melee. gyes posted: or you could go Empyrean or Undead and get a more useful skill free. Yeah, I just wish I didn't hate the looks of both character models so much. I'm having this issue with my mage... rerolling my gharu mage as empyrean because the appeal of free lore was just too much. I just really hate the big tall floating guy. I went emp because I hate the big tall floating guy slightly less than the corpse with the burning head. I wish one of the two races with access to the specialized arcane lore racial was normal, but I couldn't turn my back on the free skill credits. -----signature----- thisismysignatureandnoyoucanthaveitgetyourown
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