Full Int not too good?

[Tengotengo]

I had my mage all screwed up for a long time, then went half-str paladin, then to full-int, half-dex, and now I'm back to paladin again. The damage output I had with full-int was nice, but at the time I couldn't get a good group to get through VL without getting smeared. I switched to dex because I had 2 good sets, cyber and sentinel, sitting around. I found that it was all right, damage-wise, but I was too fragile to use the talon set effectively and out of range for spells with the shotgun or blaster. Since switching to the recommended STR number to boost, I have been totally happy with her performance at 55. She's wearing Sewer Queen cowl and robes, and either lowmans bracer/some random wand, SQ staff, or the purple blast staff for farming or room clearing. I haven't set her up for warior armor, and I don't know if I will; as I play like a bomber, dropping everything and circling around on the cooldown, I like the ability to take a LOT of hits and regen almost all of it before I circle back. At something like 24h/30m, all I need is a strategic retreat. the 130 armor doesn't hurt either.

Having said that, I'm usually the one who gets killed when hitting those mob clusters in swill pitz, catacombs, etc. I either run as point, close to it, or I'm glued to a bear to finish combos. She's tough, but not bear in FF tough. (although I have a helm that she can wear...)

[PLaCiD]

I had my mage all screwed up for a long time, then went half-str paladin, then to full-int, half-dex, and now I'm back to paladin again. The damage output I had with full-int was nice, but at the time I couldn't get a good group to get through VL without getting smeared. I switched to dex because I had 2 good sets, cyber and sentinel, sitting around. I found that it was all right, damage-wise, but I was too fragile to use the talon set effectively and out of range for spells with the shotgun or blaster. Since switching to the recommended STR number to boost, I have been totally happy with her performance at 55. She's wearing Sewer Queen cowl and robes, and either lowmans bracer/some random wand, SQ staff, or the purple blast staff for farming or room clearing. I haven't set her up for warior armor, and I don't know if I will; as I play like a bomber, dropping everything and circling around on the cooldown, I like the ability to take a LOT of hits and regen almost all of it before I circle back. At something like 24h/30m, all I need is a strategic retreat. the 130 armor doesn't hurt either.

Having said that, I'm usually the one who gets killed when hitting those mob clusters in swill pitz, catacombs, etc. I either run as point, close to it, or I'm glued to a bear to finish combos. She's tough, but not bear in FF tough. (although I have a helm that she can wear...)

A little bit off topic but I done a Swill Pitz run last night with an awesome tank ... he just mass pulled all the clusters and came back with them all and we were dropping about 30-40 mobs in about 5 seconds. Then we just moved on to the next section where he done the same again.

[RedRyder]

A little bit off topic but I done a Swill Pitz run last night with an awesome tank ... he just mass pulled all the clusters and came back with them all and we were dropping about 30-40 mobs in about 5 seconds. Then we just moved on to the next section where he done the same again.

mustve been a big map if there were that many mobs (groups of baddies not the single baddies themselves. and there isnt a set place in any map with that many baddies in one spot lol, no ones becon is that powerful