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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Solid Builds

« on: April 05, 2012, 12:46:14 pm »

The yumi is a terrible bow. It is awful. Avoid it at all costs unless you are dead-set on using it. It has terribly slow projectile speed, When i see people using it I get all filled with glee since I can wait for them to fire THEN dodge since they fly so slowly at me. Make's me feel like I'm in the matrix.
also: I wouldn't split prof too heavily. with 50 wpf in a melee is enough to be able to hit people and retaliate. You don't need 92 and to sacrifice that much archery wpf. Archery wpf is really really important. I personally sacrifice none and carry melee with 1 wpf (since I have good attack timings, etc)

NEVER SACRIFICE ATHLETICS FOR IRONFLESH. This should be a rule I should write down somewhere. Your second build has 0 ath but 4 if. No.

Your first build would be fine for dedicated archery, although I think these few are the best current archery dedicated builds, I should have them on front page. I've been slacking. They are all variations of the same thing. speed/power trade offs.

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Updated OP

Thanks for the great feedback, it really helps. But how do you feel about arrows? I'm really afraid of the rep cost if i use the wrong arrows.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Solid Builds

« on: April 05, 2012, 01:00:59 am »

What do you guys think of this pure archer build?
I don't really know about the IF/ATH dispersion, kinda clueless there.
Going Rus bow if that matters.
And what about arrows? Is double tatar going to give me a huge rep cost? Double bodkin? Bodkin/Normal Arrows?

Sorry bout the many questions, just want to be sure

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Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

    Strength: 21
    Agility: 18
    Hit points: 64

    Skills to attributes: 8

    Ironflesh: 4
    Power Strike: 0
    Shield: 0
    Athletics: 6
    Riding: 0
    Horse Archery: 0
    Power Draw: 7
    Power Throw: 0
    Weapon Master: 6

    One Handed: 1
    Two Handed: 1
    Polearm: 1
    Archery: 156
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

or archer/1h with Yumi:

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Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

    Strength: 18
    Agility: 21
    Hit points: 61

    Skills to attributes: 8

    Ironflesh: 4
    Power Strike: 6
    Shield: 0
    Athletics: 0
    Riding: 0
    Horse Archery: 0
    Power Draw: 6
    Power Throw: 0
    Weapon Master: 7

    One Handed: 92
    Two Handed: 1
    Polearm: 1
    Archery: 150
    Crossbow: 1
    Throwing: 1

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Announcements / Re: Latest version download

« on: April 03, 2012, 11:41:28 am »

Is it surposed to take like 5 hours to install it? The download is fine, but holy hell that takes a long time. Is it just me?

EDIT: NVM, the AV i have slowed it down i guess.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Retire 31?

« on: April 08, 2011, 05:46:39 pm »

"You can reset by "retiring." You can retire at level 15 or later with two different results.

If you retire and are level 15 to 30, then you will keep all gear and gold, and be reset to level 1 again. This is good if you change your mind on how to build your character, or if you make a mistake.

If you retire at level 31 to 35 (It is not advisable to play higher then 31, as it takes as long to reach 31 as it did to go from 1 to 30, and that time keeps doubling the further you go), then it is a "better" reset. Retiring at level 31+ you keep all current gold and weapons like usual, but you also get to improve a weapon by "heirlooming it" as mentioned in the stickied guide at the top of this forum (Note, in order to "improve" and heirloom the weapon, you need to be able to use it already, so if you do not have any powerdraw, you can not heirloom a bow, etc). In addition to this added bonus, you will also recieve a permanent comulative 10% bonus to all XP gained per tick.

So if you retire at 31+ you become a "generation 2" character, and get 1,100 xp per base tick, instead of the normal 1,000. If you get to be Gen 11 that means you now have 2,000 xp per tick, so on so forth.

I hope that answered all of your questions.

In short: Retire at 15+ if you made a mistake or changed your mind, and retire at level 31 if you want to level up faster for future generations and want a better weapon/horse/ammo etc.

Feel free to ask anything else, and please enjoy the game!"

Copied this of Tears of Destinys answer from another thread.