Advice for character builds?

• cheese758 wrote on 2011-02-03 04:05
  Alright, so I have 2 characters: a human and a elf
  
  The builds I'm thinking of for each are as follows:
  1) Human: melee and magic
  2) Elf: Range and alchemy
  
  My reasoning:
  Humans can combine melee and mage for effectively and now that fusion bolt is out, the need for the "spamable" ice spear has decreased (not needed?)
  Elfs are obviously good for range but with alch, I think barrier spikes would help at high ranks and golem would be good when range can't be used (albey blue?). They're also both clay alchemy :D
  
  I would appreciate some general advice e.g. whether these are good builds, which stats to train, etc.
  
  So far my plan looks like this:
  Human (dustin 2h maxed upgrades, and dual glads,normal thunder wand): (animal taming to c just so i can do g8) wm r1,crit r1, smash r1, assult slash (to rank where the distance will never be too great after a smash), carpentry r1, 2 bolts to high rank, thunder to high rank, (might get FB and get to good rank), refine (i put last because none of the stats above raise dex)
  Has pally and demi
  
  Elf (llb 3 red upgrades, cylinder): (animal taming to c) wm r1, refine r1, crit r1, magnum r1, (range current B might go to 9 for CS), barrier spikes r5, golem r9, clay alch and alch mastery r9, life drain?
  Has falcon
  
  My play habits are: work for 2 weeks on each character, an rebirth every 3 weeks on each (make its so its almost like 2 weeks instead of 3 for rb)
  
  So some general question that would help me greatly are as follows:
  1) Which two bolts should I rank for fusion?
  2) earthquake cylinder for elf? (no neg of life drain?)
  3) Crash shot worth it? (will high rank magnum splash work similar?)
  4) any other good alchemy to be paired with range?
  5) good builds in general?
  6) good choice of progression? (not too high ap)
  
  THANKS FOR THE HELP!! :D any advice would be appreciated!
• skeboe11 wrote on 2011-02-03 05:00
  1. for fusion use firebolt and lightning bolt becasue at high ranks you can i hit mutiple enemies with impressive dam.
  2. yes use earthquake cylinder. i use it on my elf he's a full alchemist
  3. id say get crash shot when u have a ton of ap to spare.........need alot of dex for it 2 be great
  4. pair flame burst with with range. think of it like this "no time to set up spike muti enemies aggro u what do u do? get behind your shield and spam flame burst."
  5. hey great build thats how my human is built and good idea with elf but id suggest u rank frozen blast instead of life drain u can freeze an enemy and spam mag shot
  
  o and p.s. u dnt need rk 1 wm its a waist of ap for an elf..... u know we have no str. :D
• cheese758 wrote on 2011-02-03 21:57
  Thx skeboe u pretty much answered all my questions! thx for the alch and bolt suggestions, they're reasonable and I will probably eventually get fire and frozen blast up. I'm probably still gona get wm to r1 cuz i dont wana regret it latter and -cp is soo expensive >.<
• skeboe11 wrote on 2011-02-03 22:38
  no problem :D