I am not asking for the toughest build or the one with the highest Damage. I want to know what builds you guys and girls have had the most fun with. I am looking for inspiration for my own character.
Fun Character Builds
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Charmer 4 Lyfe. It's the class I've played the longest as of today and I have such an easy time utilizing its potential. I've never had to worry about balance issues in regards to team either. Quin compliments you perfectly as a Charmer (Especially if you get him to level 5) and you make a good buffer for your more offensive companions and give consistent resolve heal. There's also a lot of things that up your Sexiness so it's pretty decently supported as far as equipment for that goes imo. Need more Light wears so that the Stylish! perk can be more useful tho.
Plus the idea of making my enemies horny as hell and then waltzing off is still a funny thing to imagine. You bother to get them hot and bothered only to just walk away instead of taking your prize? Wow you must be some type of ass. xP
Plus the idea of making my enemies horny as hell and then waltzing off is still a funny thing to imagine. You bother to get them hot and bothered only to just walk away instead of taking your prize? Wow you must be some type of ass. xP
Probably the most fun build I've used is (unexpectedly) my White Mage which I built along early Final Fantasy lines for fun. Sacrifice about half your power slots for bow skills and leave the remaining ones for heals/buffs, obviously use a bow and you get a hybrid class that's pretty fun and is actually pretty handy when fighting enemies that fly or have melee counters. Sure, you lose effectiveness with magic because there aren't any bows with the Catalyst tag but it's not meant to be an optimal build anyways.
For my Warrior I went a different way due to a mental roleplaying hook, so I have their Strength and Presence maxed out and everything else eventually gets a point allocated, so you end up with someone who hits like an avalanche when they connect and is great for improving companions, then I gave them a Paladin-esque feel by dropping Charge Weapon and Smite Evil into their skillset. One Recharge Slot gets Power Wave and the other rotates between Warcry, Kiaijutsu and Blessing depending on what I feel like I need.
The rest of my Champions are mostly straight builds. Thieves inflict status effects and then hit hard with the Twist the Knife perk and are dodge-happy, my Charmer focuses on Resolve damage (including jacking up Spellpower to boost Soul Arrow's effectiveness) and my Black Mage was built around the use of Mirror Magic so when she's not slinging Grease-Fireball she's generally using some combo of magic-type attacks she's swiped from enemies.
For my Warrior I went a different way due to a mental roleplaying hook, so I have their Strength and Presence maxed out and everything else eventually gets a point allocated, so you end up with someone who hits like an avalanche when they connect and is great for improving companions, then I gave them a Paladin-esque feel by dropping Charge Weapon and Smite Evil into their skillset. One Recharge Slot gets Power Wave and the other rotates between Warcry, Kiaijutsu and Blessing depending on what I feel like I need.
The rest of my Champions are mostly straight builds. Thieves inflict status effects and then hit hard with the Twist the Knife perk and are dodge-happy, my Charmer focuses on Resolve damage (including jacking up Spellpower to boost Soul Arrow's effectiveness) and my Black Mage was built around the use of Mirror Magic so when she's not slinging Grease-Fireball she's generally using some combo of magic-type attacks she's swiped from enemies.
The catalyst tag can actually be a disadvantage on some items like the WarScythe. The only thing it does is make the bonuses like crit and accuracy apply to spell casts too so with the scythe you get -10 accuracy which can be pretty crippling and +15 crit which is useless if you can't hit in the first place. +-spellpower and +-spell penetration is applied even if the item doesn't have the catalyst tag.
But to get on point with the topic my fun build was a white mage with heal song of storms group heal and a summon. Another that was fun but kinda useless was a "lustzerker' where I took abilities like amazon strike tackle and so on that do both lust and normal damage and just roleplayed a horny barbarian.
Edit: Another fun for me but not that great gameplay wise and you would have to save edit for this one is "archmage" so black mage with magic missile shatter counterspell and mirror image which I love as an idea but is {in my opinion} probably the worst encounter power in the game.
Edit: Another fun for me but not that great gameplay wise and you would have to save edit for this one is "archmage" so black mage with magic missile shatter counterspell and mirror image which I love as an idea but is {in my opinion} probably the worst encounter power in the game.
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I have 3 character idea's I have in my head but I don't know how effective they will be.
There is the Paladin who uses the Gladius and a shield, She would use a mix of Presence, Toughness, Strength and Agility. She would mostly be using a mix of warrior and Cleric skills.
There is the Cultist who would use the Girthy Rod, She would have a mix of Presence, Cunning, Agility and Willpower. She would be a mix of Charmer and Black Mage so she can have a mix of tease and magic damage.
And my Final character is the Bard who uses a Bow or the Aphrodisiac Whip and Rosebloom shield. She would be a mix of Presence, Cunning, Agility and Strength. She is a mix of Rogue and Charmer.
I don't know who to play first haha.
There is the Paladin who uses the Gladius and a shield, She would use a mix of Presence, Toughness, Strength and Agility. She would mostly be using a mix of warrior and Cleric skills.
There is the Cultist who would use the Girthy Rod, She would have a mix of Presence, Cunning, Agility and Willpower. She would be a mix of Charmer and Black Mage so she can have a mix of tease and magic damage.
And my Final character is the Bard who uses a Bow or the Aphrodisiac Whip and Rosebloom shield. She would be a mix of Presence, Cunning, Agility and Strength. She is a mix of Rogue and Charmer.
I don't know who to play first haha.
I think all three of those builds can do just fine. Errr, as long as you don't mind the last potentially needing her companions to carry her breasts after the Rosebloom Shield does its thing a few times.
Haha I think you are thinking about the Hornet Ring, which ups the crit but each crit makes your boobs bigger. the shield makes all your tease damage into pheromone damage
Yes always beware of the ring of infinite backpain.
Though we now have harps as offhand catalysts for the proper bard feel. And the new dress too.
Doing a support Charmer instead of the usual lust nuke is actually fun too and works well with a Bard as concept.
Though we now have harps as offhand catalysts for the proper bard feel. And the new dress too.
Doing a support Charmer instead of the usual lust nuke is actually fun too and works well with a Bard as concept.
I actually just found out about the new items today in my Paladin play through. I am now pretty interested in a true bard character.
Same paladin build with the Gladius and the shield that makes you manlier every time you block damage from a crit.
But at this point i guess he's more of a mystic knight cause he's busting out power wave and shatter whenever he can. The mirror stance really lets me mix it up whenever i want tbh
But at this point i guess he's more of a mystic knight cause he's busting out power wave and shatter whenever he can. The mirror stance really lets me mix it up whenever i want tbh
I've been trying to work with a big wolfy ninja... mostly thief and archery skills and using thrown weapons to make sure I can take advantage of all the skills
When I have the option to mold my character's playstyle into whatever I want, I normally opt for a Jack-of-all-Trades character. Because of this, I devised a build that is similar to the Arcanist class in FFXIV - The idea behind it is you'll constantly be doing two things at once, dealing formidable damage through your summon while healing, buffing or debuffing as needed. It's been close to a year since I came up with that build, and Blessing has been nerfed (1 turn cooldown to 3 turns.... ouch) so you can't just constantly cast it back to back, but it doesn't make or break the build..you just have to use it more wisely to get the most out of it, like before Brint's Cleave. The only weakness I can see with the build is that you have no way to deal with Resolve damage, which can only be remedied by replacing Heal with either Soothing Song or Bolstering Dance, which is too great of a loss.
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Just made a Support Charmer/black mage, My strat atm is to blind and frighten my Opponants with Radient Beauty, Summon a creature (Kiyoko atm) then buff my team with Bols dance and Storm Song on my Melee companion (usually Brint/Brienna) works pretty well and if I need to I can tease attack an opponent who is more susceptible to such attacks.