Sylvan + Tsol'aa traits

Lothien

Hello!

I'm just returning, so I'm a bit flummoxed on what traits to choose. This is what I had before:

Racial:   Forest Walker
Level 20: Quick-witted            
Level 30: Master harvester        
Level 40: Marksman                
Level 50: Receptive body          
Level 60: Master contemplator     
Level 70: Blissful ignorance      
Level 80: Lethal Ink              
Level 90: Meticulous Care     

I'm looking to probably remove Lethal Ink -- losing speed on shield and tree seems bad. Marksman was there because I have a ranger's bow.

Cynlael

The sip is not a noticeable amount. It's not an extra 5% of your total hp that's sipped, if it were then it'd be both OP, and always the better one to take.

Basically it just comes down to: If you want more damage, take int. If you want more health, take con. Both bonuses are fairly minimal at 99, especially in Viridian (unless you're con spec'd already, then the int would be a decent boost)

Sarathai

Are you looking at primarily combat, bashing, or a mixture of both?

Lothien

Sarathai said:

Are you looking at primarily combat, bashing, or a mixture of both?

Good question. Could I have both possibilities? I'd like to do both (i.e. I don't want to exclude myself from either one)

Cynlael

Racial:   Forest Walker
Level 20: Quick-witted             

Level 30: Meticulous Care          

Level 40: Master Harvester            

Level 50: Brilliance               

Level 60: Master contemplator      

Level 70: Blissful ignorance       

Level 80: Lucky                    

Level 90: Marksman 

Basically what you already have.

Drop brilliance for robust if you want more health, I imagine you wouldn't need it since Sylvan gives you enough of an hp bonus + tankiness. Lethal ink's not really necessary for a Sylvan.

Lothien

Thanks for the input! Good to know I'm on the right track. My final question is basically the usefulness of extra health sip versus one more intelligence. It's 5% sip versus 200ish HP or ?? more damage. Basically it's just that one trait I'm not so sure of. I kind of want to keep sip because of the loss of the concoctions bonus. 

Sip is more globally useful, but if intelligence adds enough more damage, maybe it's effective to kill a thing rather than sipping more. And maybe the difference is negligible and I'm obsessing for no reason!

Sena

Con is pretty much always better than the sip bonus. Against denizens (and PvP attacks that don't scale with max health), +1 con will increase your health sip by more than 5% anyways. Against most PvP attacks, the sip bonus will give a slightly better sip:damage ratio (because it doesn't increase your sip as much, but doesn't increase the damage you take either), but the extra health from con usually makes up for that.

The only time the sip bonus is better is against attacks that are almost purely based on max health (like kai choke, disembowel, backstab against high max health), where +1 con hurts you, and it would actually be beneficial to have -1 con instead.

Seth

To be honest I would also drop Marksman unless it is more of an RP flavor. Sylvan has grove lightning which is the better LoS.