Concussion

[Flaming]

The serpents hauberk is the best chest armor in the game. 2 damage resistance, 8 critical, lots of block... It's a big all arounder! Perfect for everyone.

EDIT

Oh yeah, ninjas are the optimal build for concussion. The defensive build is good for taunt...

Try some more builds.

[carrot00]

What I think I did wrong is that I sticked with IF 1

[Flaming]

Yes you did...

Increased fortitude gives you free health points every level.

Increased fortitude is generally considered to be the most overpowered and unbalanced skill (next to hard hit at the other side of the usefulness spectrum).

You should save your skills points a few levels earlier just for the increased fortitude.

Increased fortitude is not applied retroactively. That means that the sooner that you get the skill, the more useful it is and the better off you are.

The skill effectively eliminates the usefulness of putting level up points into 5 health.

It is that useful. It's even essential for most builds.

To be blunt Carrot00, your build is a massive failure for neglecting the power of increased fortitude.

[carrot00]

Yeah, I just realized that while playing. Was trying to rush concussion and forgot about my survivability.

Maybe I'll focus on evasion instead. What do you think?

[Flaming]

The most evasion that you should get is 4 skill levels.

The reason is that you have a default 80% success rate when fleeing from a battle.

Every level of evasion adds 5%.

5 * 4 = 20 + 80 = 100

You could get more just so baddies don't initatate the encounter... Maybe you should get it because you are EXTREMELY VULNERABLE! It may help in hit and run tactics. Try it, I have no experience with it.

[carrot00]

Where did you get this "The reason is that you have a default 80% success rate when fleeing from a battle."? Is there a page wherein I can read and learn those?

[Flaming]

Scroll down a bit to second post.

http://andorstrail.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1498

It's were I found it.

[rijackson741]

To be blunt Carrot00, your build is a massive failure for neglecting the power of increased fortitude.

Well, that's overstating it for sure. The next available level where he could get IF2 is 36, in which case he has lost 16HP compared to getting it at level 20. 16HP is not a deal breaker. Some people never get more than IF1, and concentrate on getting other things. High HP is certainly useful, but it's not the only way to create a powerful build.

[Duke]

I'm gonna quote my buddy Fiernaq here, because I think he makes a great statement about evasion. I found this in another thread, but you can find many topics on this with a search.

3 points in Evasion makes it so the only way monsters can attack you first is if they move to the square you are on. Since monsters cannot move diagonally, if you are standing at a diagonal then they cannot attack first (unless they move twice). However, swarming monsters are more likely to make their way towards you and attempt to move onto the square you are on than standard monsters. 3 points also boosts your chance to flee from 80% to 95%.

A 4th point in Evasion will simply increase your chance to flee from 95% to 100% which can be useful but is, in my eyes at least, not as important as the first 3 points in Evasion.

[carrot00]

Ok so I'm gonna get 3 evasion after I get concussion.

The question is, does everyone recommend to put points to IF at level 36?
I'm thinking of going crit + evasion in the future.