Background:
First off I am a LVL 37 nuker, 7 SP gap (gonna leave it at 8 when I LVL) with Fire/Ice as nukes (more on that later). This character has gone through many changes. Originally starting as a 1:1 spear, then bow and now nuker. Resucitation potions were used to get this character from spear to bow to nuker. The decision was made to switch from spear -> bow when spear user kept dying against low LVL monsters. If I'm losing to such a low LVL monster now (yeohas and black robbers) there is no hope later on. So I went to a ranged attack weapon thinking, "if I can keep my distance I won't die with the bow". WRONG, same deal. I simply could not deal damage fast enough to thwart large mobs. Finally I wound up with nukes.
Part of the problem was lightning imbue with its AOE pulling in too many monsters. So after some consideration I switched to fire which deals more damage and does not have the large AOE problem of lightning imbue.
For this nuker to survive I considered using a spear/glavie as weapon for the huge damage possibility. A huge obstacle was this character is wearing garment. I did not want to change skins so instead I opted for the added protection of a sword/shield combo. The garment works well now for the added magical, the shield protection makes it viable. A 1:1 needs it desperately.
This is the characters stats thus far,
From here on out all stat points will go to INT which will result in about a 2:1 hybrid. This character has only +1INT buff and a few STR. In time I will invest in +INT for garment and accessories to up the hybrids magical attack power.
I have invested a lot of SP into buffs and absolutely nothing into weapon skills. This allows the character to keep up in spite not being pure or anything close to it. Here are my skills,
Weapons:
As you can (sorta) tell nothing is invested in weapon skills just the buffs, passive. heuskal will shortly be at 3 cheolsum force (sp?). The added AR, HP and Shield is vital to survival, you need everything you can get.
Magic:
Again much SP has been invested in buffing up protection and damage. I am unsure whether or not physical damage buff actually helps a nuker any, if not I will simply reallocate skills to a protection buff. Here are my magic skills,
The MP boost and protection is very necessary. Still unsure whether or not physical damge increase is (any advice?). I will continue maxing out parry ratio, magic damage increase and protection. I'm thinking physical damage does nothing and should be spent on other buffs, no problem. The SP will soon be reinvested into fire shield skills for abnormal and magic protect.
Nukes:
The nukes used are fire/ice. Fire/ice nukes are used for their fast reload time. Some have suggested using fire/light and Lion in between for the gap recharge time against more difficult monsters (giants, high lvl champions, etc). I used Fire/Light for a while but again the problems are dragging in too many monster and the annoying recharge time. Why use Lion when I could use a more powerful and monster slowing ice and have no recharge time in between the two (and only have to lvl2 attacks). Using Fire/Ice one never has to wait its just rapid fire non-stop and the added benefit of frostbite/freeze is huge for a hybrid. It is also nice having only 2 attacks to spend SP on. No weapon attacks or other magical attacks to spend on that leaves room for buffs -- a must have for a hybrid.
I suspect once this character gets to a higher LVL it will be effective at PVP, overcoming the "lucky" limitation other nukers have. The huge HP advantage a hybrid has coupled with the added luck of a successful block will (in time) make this build a winner in PVP.
So there you have it. This character no longer dies. I recently completed the leuguks jewels quest with ease where as before I was dead in mobs of 3, now I barely get touched. Once I farm 5-10k SP and bring masteries levels closer to character lvl and begin putting more points into INT, this character will be extremely successful.[/b]
