Archer/Mage Template - what do you think?

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I've been thinking on how best to better my archer/mage. mostly I just
wander the countryside with this peep, buying bods, and every now and then
go beat up on harpies in the dungeon.

STR 59 (lowering str)
DEX 56 (raising dex)
INT 127
(I am allowed up to 240)

skills:
Anatomy 53.4
Archery 90.6 (110)
Eval Int 84.5
Focus 100.0
Magery 70.5
Meditation 98.4
Poisoning 50.0 (I cast poison alot)
Resisting Spells 50.0
Tactics 59.8

I am mostly a PVM character player... also, what would be the best leather
armor I could wear now? is it studded or plain leather? I have a barbed
runic kit ive been wanting to make some armor with. any recommendations on
which leather to use?
currently I have resists wise:
physical 68
fire 42
cold 39
poison 44
energy 28
luck 394
with barbed leather armor, also wearing runic clothing

Thanks everyone
Paul

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Ice wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:54:42 -0500, "Paul - Catskills"
> <rasputin01@*removethis*adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> >I've been thinking on how best to better my archer/mage. mostly I just
> >wander the countryside with this peep, buying bods, and every now and then
> >go beat up on harpies in the dungeon.
> >
> >STR 59 (lowering str)
> >DEX 56 (raising dex)
> >INT 127
> >(I am allowed up to 240)
> >

Here it depends on what you do more. When you are fighting, do you prefer
to cast spells or shoot arrows? Either way, you really could use more
strength than that. You only have 78 hp where you are now...you could get
by with that low if you had some nice hp bonus armor, but I'd suggest at
least 70 STR (preferrably more).

> >skills:
> >Anatomy 53.4
> >Archery 90.6 (110)
> >Eval Int 84.5
> >Focus 100.0
> >Magery 70.5
> >Meditation 98.4
> >Poisoning 50.0 (I cast poison alot)
> >Resisting Spells 50.0
> >Tactics 59.8
> >
> >I am mostly a PVM character player... also, what would be the best leather
> >armor I could wear now? is it studded or plain leather? I have a barbed
> >runic kit ive been wanting to make some armor with. any recommendations on
> >which leather to use?

Plain leather, hands down. Studded makes you lose either med ability or a
property (for mage armor), and the only benefit is 1 more point of energy
resist. And when making tunics and leggings you are going to fail a good
amount of the time. I'd never waste a runic charge on studded armor,
especially not a barbed one .

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>
> I would bring the str to 100, int 100, and the balance to dex.
> Get a bow with faster speed to help make up the difference in dex.
> (I found a bow with 40% increased "swing speed" for my Archer/Mage).
> Dump the Poisoning 50.0 and put it into something useful, like EI,
> Med, Magery, and Tactics. Having 110 Archery will do you NO good
> without Tactics, because you will never hit anything, and when you
> do, it will do very little damage.

Never hit anything? Tactics has nothing to do with how often you hit. Fair
point about the damage, though. Agree with dropping the poison, too.
Personally, I'd put those points into tactics. 50 poisoning gets you to
what, normal poison when you use In Nox? Just use poison fields instead .

>
> Look for the new Samurai armor. Almost all of it is "Mage armor".
> If your going to use your Barbed sewing kit, try Barbed Samurai
> leather. I got a set that gave my character 70 in each resist field
> with a Barbed kit. I could not get the same from the "old" armor.
> For some reason the Samurai armor is coming out with better stats.
> (For me anyway).
>

Heh, look at the new artifacts coming from Tokuno. LMC is king, especially
for hybrid templates. Makes me wish I had time to acquire them 🙁.

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