pure barb, every race
or
pure warlock, every race

barb is better early on and stays good
warlock warms up at level 6

both have temp hp, movement speed and good aoe + single target

cheesy, sleazy, quick and easy

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2017 at 2:03pm:

At first, I thought this was your personal motto. Then I realized these are probably dwarf names from your favorite Snow White porno. Hence, on topic.

Pure Monk seems to me like it's pretty strong most of the way through1-20 but it's been a while since I did one of those lives

r3 isn't bad,
at r4 I started failing

you're probably right
an r1 zerg is most efficient for PLs but...

R1 is easier than elite once you get some points in the CON tree.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Mar 6^th, 2017 at 12:43am:

Long before that, actually.  Running R1 as a caster means topping up spell points using the lost souls and never worrying how long away the next shrine is.

But the con tree does seem to be the best.  I had 5 points in caster and did a re-think comparing the 1 DC (the +1 stat bumped me to an even number) and 6 measly USP I got vs the hp in the con tree and happily respecced.

spathic wrote on Mar 6^th, 2017 at 8:31pm:

To slow and inefficient..
Useless til bb.

Although i think its to soon to talk about this.
Maybe they screw us over with how to get racial hearts.
I fear the silence they are using for this update.
Usually wed get important stuff up to discussion on official threads, but this bshit nope.
We expect it to be same as regular hearts, but you never know with devs in this game

Frank wrote on Mar 6^th, 2017 at 6:59pm:


This.

The old cliché rings true in Reaper: Your DPS is 0 when you're dead.

Grim Barricade early and often. Especially in the low levels, when even the best tricked out toon can be OHKO'd by a Niac's Cold Ray from a champ or Reaper.

spathic wrote on Mar 6^th, 2017 at 8:31pm:



You are kind of right...sort of.  I rolled up a DG but instead of leveling to 14 I stopped at 1Wiz/1FVS and started doing R1S lvl 2s and went from there. I'm @ 1Wiz/17FVS now and about 4k from my 10th point.

It was realllllly slow going trying to melee in the lower levels feeling my way through and getting used to Reaper at my own pace.  I felt like smashing my face with a brick would have been time better spent.  The scaling of Champ abilities + Reaper Slow effects + mediocre melee was frustrating to say the least.

However, Khyber turned out tho have a robust low heroic @ lvl Reaper scene from level 2 to about level 13 or so then petered out.  During that time I healed party after party and gained RXP quickly.

I prefer to solo almost exclusively and rarely put up lfms.  If something looks good with players I am a least a little familiar with I'll join time permitting. 

Not everyone enjoys healing.  However, spamming spell, spell, wand, scroll etc to keep multiple part members alive was about as fun as spamming caster dps spells.  Except you get 5 more targets that you can attack with positive energy that arn't trying to kill you.

I am planning 1 more FVS and 2 Cleric lives with 1 more DG and 2 more Morninglord on my main.

My main alt is 20 Drow Lock with 3 of each relevant caster PLs + 3PDK, 3ML, 2BF.

Gonna ETR then RTR to Dragonborn Lock @ lunch today to get some Reaper XP on this toon and have something I can fuck shit up with while keeping an eye on lfm for groups my FVS can join. 

1Barb/1Arti/18Lock seems pretty GD keen but gonna do a pure Lock with this Dragonborn and goto 30 for the EPLs.

I like to start at lv 2 capped. Warlock. Enough AP for chain and some pact damage. With racial PL now, pushing the focus a bit back to heroic xp instead of reaper xp, probably it's wise to start at lv 3 capped, to start harbor with the foot on the door: 2d6 eldritch blast + 3d6 pact + chain (lv 3 gives you 12 AP, enough for 3 pact damage and chain).

At 5 or 6 respec to cone, 12 AP for cone rest max pact damage.

At 12 respec for aura, with all the good stuff in ES + rest in TS.

Pure because you get more damage at low lvs, staunch at 6, displacement at 7, tentacles at 10, dd at 11, 3 seconds aura at 12 (+2 saves debuff) circle at 13 (right in time for GH and amrath). Then thrall at 15, wail at 16 (wheloon and vale), and Spirit at 18 for 3d6 more light proc and float, and Finger at 19.

Some people prefer the runnig speed, but I think delaying all that stuff 1 lv is not worth getting 10% running speed, and delaying 2 is not worth the boosts + 10% running speed. Those APs for boost are costly too, at low lvs. And at mid lv the action boost bonus to speed with consume is decent.

If you are playing R3-5, I value more getting the spells earlier and having more damage than running faster (for example at lv 18 you're doing 4d6 less light/evil if you splash 2: 10d6 instead of 14d6).

I liked acid more, because it's will based, and too much resistance to fire. Also, thrall has a high DC at heroics, it's very useful to use on carnages or plagues as a defense button. Didn't find hurl as useful as I was excepting.

Of course if you just want to get racial PLs fast it's best to splash barb and play R1 at bb range, but I don't see the point in capping racial PLs in 90 days then having nothing to do (or having to farm rxp because you barely got any).

Lelouch wrote on Mar 19^th, 2017 at 2:32am:


Can't multiclass bard monk due to alignment restriction.

hydra wrote on Mar 19^th, 2017 at 3:36pm:


Didnt mean a multi, but specificaly bard something swa builds and monk something wraps builds
focusing on cc. One of those 2 builds.
Sorry if it came out incorrectly written, language barrier.

Buddy has been running over 100 AC on his monk and he rarely gets hit.
When he does its very easy to heal him, but even he starts getting overwhelmed when you enter one-shotting territory.

For that reason the Sorc-Nukage, distance, casting-speed, and SP pool makes it amazeballs.

In high reaper charms are invaluable for initiating fights. The mobs clump nicely around one mob and you can land your stuff with impunity.