which skills to rank

• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-07 21:45
  now that im rank 1 wm now should i rank i heard refining will be the best can anyone give me a list of skills that i should rank in order ty
• MrpewX2 wrote on 2010-11-07 21:49
  R1Crit for tasty damage lol
• Ailyene wrote on 2010-11-07 22:22
  Crit and refining for sure. Don't rank any +dex skills before refining so you can keep your dex as low as possible.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 12:31
  yeah working on refining atm and i thought about range after is that good enough?
• Username wrote on 2010-11-08 12:54
  Well, finish up refining to 1 as soon as you can; Its hard if your dex is too high.
  So don't rank Range; or rank it minimally; but every some odd dex gives % to your success; and Refining is one of the life skills where you
  NEED fails.
  Once Refining is done; make sure you want to be melee or range. Since your WM is R1; that shows you have some melee prowless; if its use with ranged weapons the damage is low; taken as barehanded damage. I recommend ranking crit when you can; if its rankable and you have ap; do it.
  Otherwise get some Combat Mastery and Smash for insurance and to backup the melee.
  Smash so you can kill faster with the combo [Smash+Windmill(Repeat till Dead] Smash Mill.
  I recommend doing Range after those; just so if you dont like range; you can go back into Melee.
  Also it takes some time to get AR (Especially Page 8)
  Until you have AR; Magnum shot spam isnt advised; as i find AR as a buffer that helps keep the enemy away if you know your magnum wont load in time.
  But if you do; also i advise eventually getting Crash shot and Defiantly get Barrier spikes as a defensive measure; and barrier spikes would have to be Rank 5+ to be useful.
  
  So; i recommend getting in more Melee Combat to have somthing to fall back onto incase ranged in the future does not work out for you.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 20:48
  but people told me i should do range only for the dex im still melee and im planning to stay that way any soon
• Richard wrote on 2010-11-08 21:05

  Quote from jhonson95;208710:

  but people told me i should do range only for the dex im still melee and im planning to stay that way any soon

  
  
  That's true. The 50 DEX from ranged attack is great, but you really only need DEX if you plan on using low balance swords. The most common low balance swords are fully upgraded broadswords, so you may want to look into them. You can even hold off on refining and DEX skills all together and stick with upgraded gladii for a little while longer. This way, you can rank combat mastery and smash to help improve your your melee.
  
  +1 on all the comments that say critical hit! Rank it to 1 ASAP.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 21:44
  yeah crit is already rank 4 ill keep on ranking and isnt combat mastery bad for cp or something? should i rank it to 1 or stop in somewhere D:
  and yeah i am thinking about broads glads are just too expansive to upgrade
• Richard wrote on 2010-11-08 21:45
  You already ranked WM to 1. You don't need to worry too much about CP.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 21:52

  Quote from Richard;208750:

  You already ranked WM to 1. You don't need to worry too much about CP.

  
  
  so dex wont help in higher dmg too? i mean if i upgrade 2 glads ill do the same dmg as high defence?
• Richard wrote on 2010-11-08 21:56
  DEX won't help any with melee damage. All it does is raise ranged damage and help with balance.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 21:59
  what about min/max damage? D:
• Richard wrote on 2010-11-08 22:01
  STR raises min/max of melee, and DEX raises min max of ranged. They don't benefit each other, except for DEX providing balance.
• jhonson95 wrote on 2010-11-08 22:03
  and what aboutttttt refining should i do it now or when ever i want because what if ill do it in lvl 1k+ and then my dex will be supa high
• Richard wrote on 2010-11-08 22:07
  Do refining before you start any other DEX raising skills. You can hold off on it now if you want to rank combat mastery and smash.