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9,400 credits alchemist or apostate
Whenever the name of my suicided character opens up I'm leaning towards making an alchemist. I was also thinking about blademaster but I'm reading they suck at bashing and raids and I don't see myself trolling for too much PvP, I want to play in Mhaldor and I don't want to be a monk, so alchemist or maybe apostate seems like the best choice right now.
So imagine you had 9,400 credits and a lesson pack and were going to make an alchemist or apostate. You want to do a bit of everything. Which race and artifacts would you choose and why?
I'm imagining that if alchemists have some kind of travel ability then I won't need wings, and if I choose atavian as a race and do constitution spec and try to kill mainly through afflictions, I don't need a flight ring or damage-dealing artifacts and can focus more on defense and utility.
So imagine you had 9,400 credits and a lesson pack and were going to make an alchemist or apostate. You want to do a bit of everything. Which race and artifacts would you choose and why?
I'm imagining that if alchemists have some kind of travel ability then I won't need wings, and if I choose atavian as a race and do constitution spec and try to kill mainly through afflictions, I don't need a flight ring or damage-dealing artifacts and can focus more on defense and utility.
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Apostate has massive utility, defense, afflictions, and is strong both in groups and solo.
No one knows what alch does so there won't be much info on that.
Are there exits from the inferno that can help decrease the need for eagle's wings? I think one of the games had that.
People do know what alch does by now, though. Alch has some good group utility in rezzing/formulation/displace + strong melee with other afflicters. Apostate is generally better in groups though, simply because beckon, soulspears, blackwind, and afflicting power that combos even better with groups because of more flexibility.
For bashing, alchemist is going to be slightly better because of nice tankiness + crit bonus, I believe, but I'm no expert on bashing. The problem with both these classes is they want to be nimble for pvp and quick-witted for pve, but it's not a dealbreaker.
Neither class needs any offensive arties, so I'd just get wings and then a bunch of defensive stuff.
Also, what is nimble and quick witted?
Edit: There's also shaman/jester but I tend to lag when I'm in Taiwan and shaman combat sounds very fast. I figure I might get away with a slower class.
Mhaldor-available classes: monk, runewarden, infernal, blademaster, serpent, monk, alchemist, apostate, jester, shaman, bard, mage.
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Are you planning to get dragon out of the way right away? With 9400 credits Id maybe consider bashing to dragon as another class. But that's just me! Then I'd switch and buy my main artes when I get to 99.
The current record for the youngest dragon is about three weeks. Sounds short, but they usually spend 10+ hours most days bashing to get it done that quick.
Without artefacts, runewarden or infernal (they each have advantages, neither is strictly superior) are the best available to Mhaldor, bard is second, the rest are significantly worse and all pretty close to each other.
With artefacts, bard is significantly better than knights (except in defence, but with harmonics bards are pretty strong there too), and serpent and jester become extremely strong as well (though serpent will be a lot weaker defensively); serpent and jester beat knights in offence, but knights have far better defence. The rest of the classes can't compare at all (even dragon loses to those stronger classes, except in defence), and are still pretty close to equal.