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Most likely we never noticed because they never actualy coded it such that minions can actualy do deep wounds.

I prefer 4 skels because I have found in all games with pet classes that 3 minions is about 2.5x as powerful as 2 and 4 minions is about 1.5x more powerful then 3. So while the blades and sheilds make up some of the loss the very simple fact is there is a HUGE power in numbers.

sorry I didnt see your post some reason I skipped right past it. How many points would I need to dedicate for that extra buff and how much magic damage does it add? I dont know actualy but others who have run high level inkies swear by the buffs magic damage boost and crit chance boost. I only am taking it realy because I want to try and get at least enough all channeles damage mitigation to cut damage by 3 fold in late game. with thoughness and this buff going I might be able to get 40% and thus would only need anouther 27% from items... but then I read cloth like armor doesnt seem to get very good dm bonuses....

By far the best shopper in the game is a doggie as hes the only one who can shop for doggues and he seems to do a rfather good job shopping fpor everyone else. Hes also dang easy to level up. Oh if you dont like dual weild go 2 handed staff and get nn lore as well as gru and you will have a inex sub that realy beats the ever loving bleep out of bosses what with the heavy magic boost of the gru buff and the crit boost AND the crit boost of nn lore and damahge boost of cm nn lore and gru buff all together. Plus nothing says evil fun like freeing someone in place and shooting evil lightning at them while wearing a bathrobe of pure evi;lness with evil runes of evil.

Ah thats the entire point of gru focus the buff gives me the defense in the form of damage mitigation. At 100 buff level it will give me 20% damage mitigation and a ton of magic damage increase and crit percentage. Oh and the only other def skills are combat reflex and spell resist enither of wich I should ever need. I use dual weild simply because it will make my spells more potent with 2 staves and with a 1 point skill I can cram alot more into my other skills. Right now im only running with dopple and reverse buffs running as im not 75th level yet. Personaly I realy like the source warden doggie for my shopper and my inkie for my runs with twigs while wearing a bathrobe of evil sort of.. mood.

An interesting build I am trying out is.. Astute Supremacy lore Astute Supremacy focus grusome ex armor lore cd toughness concentration const with room aplenty for bargaining if I chose and nn focus. Tho in my build as I already have a doggie shopper im going dual weild and nn focus. See the buff from gru modded mystic eradicate inure more then makes up for no nn lore and realy the nn buff isnt all that hewlful vs bosses wheras grus buff sure is. Oh one good solid reason for dual weild on this build is 2 realy good magic staves. Heck im even thinking about just using nn spells unmodded.

I did alot better then I expected thats for sure.;/

Of the two id pick blue. But id love to see it purple.

I like to run around with a very long regen ember grid combo.. around 40 s in fact. You find a rythm that works for you as you draw a mass of mobs and then let em BURN,,, On spears... early on id give it a fairly short regen and increase it slowly as you get more jabs as each jab is a second apart anyway.

I REALY like using demonic blow with a 2 handed hammer.. reminds me of my dwarf with his huge hammer;/ I would suggest vehmence poisoning and life leech. Oh and hafted is I think the funner of the weapons for a sw.

You will find your own confort zone with each art/spell. I find for example with the temple guardian I like my area attack spells to have a 40 second regen as it takes about that long to round up anouther mass of critters. But for my high elf using tempest I want it around 6-7 seconds as any longer then that gets icky. Anouther example is fireball. You often want something like that to get to a very short under 1 second regen so you can spam em.

My point is some weapon based arts are such that if you mod them right or put enough runes into them you dont need a weapon skill to use them and you dont need tactics. This means they can be used by both caster and weapon users.

If you want a shadow warrior smith eper the best way and only way I would do it is an astraql lord inviso build. This also gives you the ability to pilfir boss loot without a fight;/ Mind you as I made a smith shopper temple guard and a ep dryad I didnt need a smith ep shadow warrior...

One thing to note with all the hybrid combat arts they eiother have a chance the target cant evade or they have a built in boost to chance to hit or they dont use a chance to hit at all.. I believe spec hand has a built in boost to chance to hit.

Maybe go at this the other way. Which arts DONT work as a spell caster vs which dont work as a weapon user.