Quick Combat Questions

Alaskar

Rub on person 7 times and then fling it at the person. Takes like 8 seconds and once thrown the thrower must not do anything or else it will fail.

Payne

What damage do the metal knuckles artefact boost for monks. Im thinking all physical damage. Also what skills does it effect.

Cynlael

As it says right in the help artefacts offensive file:

Metal Knuckles: (increases damage: maul, punch, jbp, hfp, hkp, ucp, & spp)
   Copper Knuckles: 400  credits  +15% (+10% for Metamorphosis maul)
   Brass Knuckles:  800  credits  +25% (+15% for Metamorphosis maul)
   Spiked Knuckles: 1600 credits  +35% (+20% for Metamorphosis maul)

Valus

Which class is the least upkeep?

Antonius

@Valus: Monk or Blademaster. They just need to get armour. No weapons - monk generally doesn't use any, the Blademaster sword is acquired through what seems to be a pretty short quest once you know what you're doing, no commodities for any of their abilities, etc. They just have the standard expenses for elixirs/tonics and salves/balms, herbs/minerals, and inks for tattoos that everybody else has.

Isaiah

In terms of combat i would say Druid cause they never do it.

Melodie

Would also say priest is very very low maintenance as well. Just needs armour, can feed themselves, with healing you can use less cures, etc. Pauper priest used to be a very common thing.

Borran

Isaiah said:

In terms of combat i would say Druid cause they never do it.

Ever since Carmain left and the Carmain wannabes gave up trying to compensate with arties to join real combat classes. 

Antonius

@Melodie: Priest also "needs" to get a shield, unless you have the credits to spend on a Shield of Absorption. That's not a major issue, though, considering that shields are pretty light on commodities required, don't take much time to forge, and are generally much easier to get usable stats in. One of the primary problems with Priest is that they can wear the third best armour in the game, which means it requires both more commodities and more time to forge per suit. Factor in that they're also one of the aligned classes, and the ease of acquiring armour starts to drop pretty rapidly as the price of doing so increases.

Druid and Sylvan probably only require armour too, having thought about it some more, so should be added to my previous list. Priest, Apostate, and Alchemist seem like they'd also be pretty light on upkeep, since they only require armour and shield; weapons are provided by their class abilities (rather than needing to buy forged ones) and they don't seem to require any extra commodities to use their abilities. Occultist loses out primarily due to the large time costs that seem to be involved in keeping tarot stocked.

Borran

This is why Horkval exists.. for poor people. 

Hasar

Magi pretty cheap too. Doesn't require armor. (Cast diamondskin + stoneskin) Or weapons, just have to cast staff. Pretty good upgrade to bashing dps as well, from what I have gathered as a general sense.

Geishard

How important are venoms for Blademasters? I'm assuming that because Envenom is not supplied in the TwoArts skill, it isn't.

Martel

Geishard said:

How important are venoms for Blademasters? I'm assuming that because Envenom is not supplied in the TwoArts skill, it isn't.

We don't use them at all.

Sena

Blademaster swords can't be envenomed, so not important at all. If you do want to use venoms, you'd need to learn weaponry and throw daggers or axes.

Antonius

@Hasar: Magi's cheap in terms of equipment, since you don't have to buy any at all really. I wasn't sure on the time (or gold, if you just want to buy them) investment required for keeping a stock of crystals, though, so didn't want to include it.

Saeva

Keeping crystals is easy so long as you're not a rogue. If you're rogue it's fairly costly.

Cooper

@Payne It shows you right in the help file what monk knuckles are good for and what they do

Valus

Do Monks need high endurance for their skills?

Valus

nevermind.

Mizik

What are faster, daggers or hand axes?

Sena

Daggers are faster. Axes still have good speed though, and much higher damage and accuracy.

Mizik

Actually, judging by the Merentesh stock, since handaxes got bumped 10 speed across the board...

Proprietor: Merentesh.

--------(Item)------(Description)------------------------------(Stock)--(Price)

        dagger17999 an obsidian dagger                             50     100gp

                    Dmg:  69;  To-hit: 153;  Spd: 199

Proprietor: Merentesh.

--------(Item)------(Description)------------------------------(Stock)--(Price)

       handaxe18707 a throwing axe                                 50     200gp

                    Dmg:  91;  To-hit: 180;  Spd: 199

Looks like handaxes are the superior choice. The only con is that handaxes can only be thrown.

Sena

I forgot the speed was buffed, it looks like daggers are only good for melee now.

Klendathu

For a bard, what minimum stats should the rapier be? Is a Soulpiercer required for viable PvP, or will an Eagle's Scream do the job just as well?

Mithridates

Better off going forged.  

Dalran

a 70/150/231 works perfect. I'd like higher to-hit just because mounted serpents and jesters I'll miss once in a blue moon though.

Valus

I'm wondering on whats best kind of stats for leather armor.

Trey

44+ cutting is 'exceptional', higher is pretty rare but I've gotten as high as 64 once.

Atalkez

@Trey‌ what is a top of the line ringmail stat?

Trey

http://tinyurl.com/forgingstuff - @Atalkez

Ignore the second and third sheets, those are WPIPASPM (work potentially in progress at some point maybe)