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Tankiest/ best bashing class
What is the tankiest class? I am a retiree from Aetolia and will have about 3,000 credits. I really like to bash and i'd really apreciate any advice.
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@Sena would he be better off with a sip ring and critical pendant before a level one or two weapon?
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edit: Of course, if S&B or 2h weapons is viable, you would only need one lvl 2 weapon, and would thus be able to afford a crit pendant.
I like SnB with an SoA, SoA saves lives.
Lvl 2 weapon 800c, Lvl 1 sip 500, Lvl 1 crit 200c, SoA 800c = 2300c
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I found sword and shield excellent as far as being tanky with decent speed to it. You can use a buckler to pick up the pace slightly if you want to clear faster and use tower if you wanna go in areas that might just be a little out of reach - especially if you gebu/gebo your tower.
As I leveled I found 2H faster at clearing as my critical rate has gotten higher since things just explode. Both specs worked fantastic but if you're looking for raw I don't wanna die potential I think sword and shield with a Shield of Absorption would be great.
Both specs have their pros and cons and both work really well.
I know you're from Aetolia, so forget everything you know about priest there. They're a lot faster here, produce more damage, have the ability for increased endurance generation, have a lot of resistances using things like earth shield, you can pair them with a paladin for even more benefits. The only downside is it is a factional class, unless you trans your skills and go rogue, but even then you're still somewhat restricted on what you can hunt.
If you're not wanting to deal with factional headaches then going runewarden would be the best idea. They are as fast and damage producing as let's say the Zealots of Aetolia.
Also echoing Jeslyn, priest with a couple of key artefacts (shield, artefact mace, sip ring, maybe a crit pendant) is some ridiculously awesome bashing. Maybe not quite as good as runewarden, but not exactly a far cry from it either. Sylvan's another. Both of those, of course, require certain citizenships/roguehood, so knight might be the best for versatility.
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You only need Trans Weaponmastery and Runelore up to Berkana to optimize hunting. Chivalry is all utility and PvP stuff (other than Weathering, which is its first ability), and Runeblades are strictly PvP. If you have any intention of participating in PVP, you should go strength build, because STR is critical for knight attacks like Disembowel, but if you're just interested in bashing exclusively, strength doesn't help that much, so you could go CON build and become invincible.
I don't really own artefacts, so can't comment as much there. I don't personally feel that S&B is boosted greatly by artefact swords, though. They -help- but I don't see much bang for the buck, as opposed to 2H where fighting a forged weapon and fighting a Dreadblade is a completely different game.
The crits are a little less spectacular than 2H or SnB, maybe, but you get the SoA, and when you start getting more crits, you still smash through stuff at no more than a 2s balance if you go with a forged rapier.
Crit rate isn't dependent on class (aside from Alchemist - I don't think any other class has a reliable source of crit bonus) and it's ultimately just a multiplier on your DPS, regardless of how you arrive at that DPS (whether it be large attacks or multi-hit attacks or whatever).
If the DPS of one attack is twice as high as the DPS of another attack before crits, it'll be twice as high as the DPS of the other attack after crits.
Alchemist is also beast mode. Petrifying has to be one of the biggest damage reductions in the game at the cost of an extremely slow movement speed. There is a critical bonus, as well as sip bonus that is easy to keep up. Hunting benefits from diadem, collar, sash. The downside to alchemist is the best bashing is as quick witted and combat requires nimble, but the hunting as nimble is really good anyway. Slower, bigger hit attacks, but a diadem definitely shaves a lot of time off.
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I haven't tried Bard bashing, mainly because the class's flavour is kind of off putting. Maybe I'll find a way to make it work some day.