ViolentR

Well TG is not the choice your looking for because if you read the guides most of them suggest you have either gear already or gear and niob bargin access. In later levels you could kill quickly. Another thing is you want to be hands on and a fast leveler. The only thing that comes to mind is the character you stated you have already played which is the VD Dryad. Which you could play solo and kill things pretty easy besides using VD. You could make a ice or fire elf but not a fast leveler. The only other suggestion I could think of that could be fast later on but also a bargin/EP character would be a BFG Seraphim. Since you already have a high level character you could prebuy alot of the BFG runes along with the few others needed. BFG gets boring but you could mow down anything like a machine gun. Do you mind telling us what makes you unhapy with the VD Dryad, Astral SW and the DW Queen of Blades? One is a really fast leveler with easy niob access for bargin skills, can kill bosses with ease, can solo at any time, the second one is a great orc cave runner (item finder) and the third is a straight up brawler. Well nothing has really made me unhappy, both dryad and sw have a lot of deaths making it hard to level and the seraphim just levels too slow for me, I also have the unable to trade message so to me its almost like its all in vain and starting over before I get further attached would be best.

After playing threw the game on a few toons its become painfully obvious that I need a change, I played the V.D. Dryad to 135, I Played the astral lord SW to 75, and I have a DW queen of blades seraphim at 50. I think im ready to make a change in the way I play, so I wanna get imput from the people that have helped me the most. So what im after is a character that has no problems going it alone, if I have to get my hands dirty, I wanna be able to do it and do it quick, Casting is my perfered choice, but im open to anything, I'd love a fast leveler, perferably one that doesnt need the help of a high level bargainer. (Remaking account XD) My original thoughts were a temple guardian, (and its something id love to try) I Seen a few guides for TG in the forums but they seem like it would be hard as a first choice. Maybe a character that can later supply my others with set items would be nice also. Once again, Thanks for everything.

Yeah im socketing with a 135 Dryad, so everything is higher, and Thanks, ill take that all into consideration, ive gotta find some new weapons, I joined a gold game and couldnt hit hard enough. Thanks.

I guess the best answer relates back to your Combat Art regeneration times. +All Skills does the lion's share of the work reducing your regen times, so as long as you have them under control, you can remove some. Maybe. Remember that a lot of your skills determine your efficency in combat, wereas experience per kill does nothing for your kill speed or survivability. You will never find Life Leech % on jewelery, console or PC. It is found only on: Polearms, 2H swords, shurikens, set bonuses (ie. your Revelation set) and Legendary weapons... just so you know, it's not the best mod to use unless you are fighting high-end bosses (Platinum onward) because it leeches a % of the enemies' health. If your toon is hurting for damage, it is pretty good at bosses in the lower difficulties as well, but not stellar. Okay, so as far as that goes, I can continue on with either, what mods would you recommend if you were doing the build? I feel like ive got the times on my skills under control (and I have a few pieces of jewely that are RpH (1.3s-1.7s) and once I find the right item if I need to ill use them). I have a few +to physical damage% and things like that, I know +crits are always good, but what else?

Im Running the Queen of blades seraphim build, with only one minor change ( I left out bargaining to gain the skills like toughness and everything earlier, and I may not add it back.) Anyways, I Have her using 2 Huntress of light swords, both of which are filled with experience per kill %, in total from everything I have 66% experience per kill on all equipment. I Also have a few set pieces on that I have place +all skills in, which brings my total of all skills to.... +75, and a extra +15 to Defensive skills. So my question is, now that im gaining new set pieces with higher sockets and more defense, at what point do I drop off adding +skills and start with say +experience per kill or battle stance runes (6% Damage mitigation, +6 to battle stance)? I have read about the Life Leech % being placed on Seraphims... I see by completing the Revelation of the Seraphim set, I can gain 1%, can I find these on rings and things also, and what percent is good enough to survive? Im playing on the Ps3, (as I dont know if the rings are on the console) and I have been farming the guardians since 25 (bronze and silver). Im 40 now, and doing well at leveling still, But it could always be better XD. Thanks

That booster slot strategy does not work for console. I tried having +24 to Levin Array on one weapon set, and when it was cast at that high level, it had regen time about 20 seconds. Switching to low-level Levin Array setup (regen time ~5 seconds) did not change the regeneration time of the highly-cast Array... sad times. For buffs, it works beautifully; I haven't needed to read a rune into a buff in a loooooooooooooong time. I usually keep 2-4 pieces of armour as well as a weapon set for pre-casting my buff(s). This I refer to as a buff suit, and needs some balancing between boosting the buff levels, and some +Combat Art skills/allskills to help raise the levels of the Focus as well. Ok, sounds good, I just redid my buff weapons and made them +25 (Each) all combat skills, so I should be okay for awhile to come yet. Thanks.

okay thanks. Now at least I know keeping all those low level items with high sockets wouldnt go to waste XD.

Raising the Combat Art level by socketing, has 1/2 the regen penalty of reading runes. so at lower levels when regens are an issue you can raise Combat Arts slightly without killing your regens, and if you do raise the regens too far, you can always remove the runes from the sockets. you can't unread a rune. +all Combat Art rings and ammys are good for this too. you can always take them off. Ok so say now I've got 2 swords with +12 battle stance each, so 24 total, id take the penalty of. 12 full runes? Precasting was also mentioned(?), my initial thought was you could cast the buff with one set and swap to the other set for whatever reasons without losing the benefits of a higher buff, but I assume I'm wrong

After looking threw the queen of blades build I seen a link to making the best booster slot items. (although the link "does not exist") Mentioned before was socketing +battle stance rings and runes into weapons and armor, other than the obvious, how does this work? Wouldnt it still raise the - combat arts times, I havent done much research into this at all, but I just placed a +10 to all combat arts in a weapon, and instead of keeping my cast times steady or increased by a small margain, it almost doubled them, wouldnt putting runes in do the same thing? Thanks.

Yeah I learned this the hard way, but its alright now, im just going to keep the files and use them as a offline setup, as I play alone mostly, so now harm no foul I guess, next time ill remember tho. Thanks.

So I decided it was a good idea to play around with my character save file (Bad idea looking back) And I copied it directly from one account to another, and upon doing so I got the error message that says it cant be used to gain trophies or climb the leaderboards, which was fine, I just had some simple experimenting to do and after awhile I decided enough was enough and I removed the file from the 2nd account putting back the original one (as I had it saved on a flash drive) upon doing so I got back on both accounts (couch co-op) and attempted to trade and recieved an error message saying. "The hero you asked to trade is not allowed to trade with others" So im not entirely sure on how I got the message, I had both accounts (the same file running) but two seperate characters, and I traded an item from one to the other, which at the time worked, and now its giving me this message. (Bad idea number 500 so far this post alone XD ) So I guess my questions are, Have I messed things up permanently? Is there a way to reverse this? I Dont know about having an entirely seperate person trade me, im preparing to do this now, but what would it hurt for people not to be able to trade me? (other than missing out on potentially life changing items XD) Thanks for the help.

Thanks everyone, I had a bit of an issue with my saved game file, so ill give this a shot and see if it still allows me to get trophies XD.

I decided today I was going to try and get the remainder of the trophies I need for the platinum one, I found the map for all the temples trophy threw the sacred wiki. Is there another map that I could use to find : Secret Halls Of Ascaron (Ascaron Fan) Visit all 42 Towns (City Guide) That will only leave me with the hidden trophy for the 200 miles on mount, 20%,40% of the side quests, and 50% of the map explored, and 100 epitahs. If you have any help on those ill take it too, thanks.

So what your suggesting is stick to the caster (cause after all that is what I made her for) and instead of dual wield, take tactics lore (Just hit 35 and had already put it on before I even looked). So past 35 im looking like this. Tactics lore Toughness Damage lore ? Or am I missing something?

Ok I must have misread what was said, I couldn't see my skill choices, so I can get tactics lore without sword weapons (Thus the confusion)? Then thats how I will go about it, I dont guess ill need concentration for the fact that, I can't spare the slot, and whats a bit of extra damage in comparison to living longer? But I could also cancel one or the other buffs if needed, Thanks for the advice, ill get back to it right away then.

Thanks, ok so what she is. She isnt a BeeEffGee seraphim, because I would lose the bonuses from sword/shield, im using Radiant pillar and flaring nova mainly, with Archangels wrath for some tougher enemies (Though I know somewhere down the line I will have to compromise in order to defeat most bosses). I was considering going with the exalted warrior focus as a way to compensate for the lack of "heavy hitter skills" im missing now, So if I do that, id need to use one of the three for that, and then maybe sword weapons + dual wield... so heres how I see it now. Celestial Magic Lore - 12 Reverend Technology Lore - 31 Celestial Magic Focus - 10 Reverend Technology Focus - 31 Armor Lore - 5 Warding Energy Lore - 1 Constitution - 1 Sword Weapons Dual Wield Exalted Warrior Focus or Tactics Lore (Also with tactics lore shouldn't it help give me mod points into all aspects + exalted warrior? or am I reading into it wrong?) If I Went this route, I want to get to Dual Wield asap. So I would take EWF or TL last. In my original Grand Scheme of things I only wanted dual wield for Double Bonuses from weapons, I.e. - 2 officers sabers socketed with +all skills and experience per kill. But if Im reading correctly, the next logical step is to make the two swords functional. (Which only makes sense) Something else, If I Take Exalted Warrior I Would need the buff Correct? (Battle Stance I think) Making me need the Concentration skill also. (Which at this point seems impossible, maybe if I hadn't taken Warding Energy Lore we would be in a different situation) Also this build is on the PS3. Dont know if that helps any or not. P.s. - Ancient magic is not available (I Checked before I even posted XD)

So heres what I stand now, normally on my characters if dual wield is unlocked without extra points in, I tend to place a point in, But with the new Seraphim ive created (level 30, caster) I would need to put 5 into another aspect to unlock it... (swords probably) So my question is on a caster seraphim would the use of two skill slots be better used in other places? Ill list my skills and levels to give you an idea where I stand now. She also has +80 to all skills in her gear, so if some look low, thats why. Celestial Magic Lore - 10 Reverend Technology Lore - 30 Celestial Magic Focus - 10 Reverend Technology Focus - 30 Armor Lore - 5 Warding Energy Lore - 1 Constitution - 1 And as of yet, she still has 3 more choices. I Have bargainer/Enhanced Perception Characters, Although if I am left with an Extra Skill Slot after all is said and done, I will more than likely throw in Enhanced Perception as the last one. She does decent damage, and takes little to no damage in return. I haven't quite decided on Concentration yet either, although I don't see myself needing a second (or third) buff anytime soon, the - to regen times would be a great aspect to add. Thanks in advance for all insight and help.

I Sent you a PM with them, and ill add it to the page also.

PSN - Sat1r3 level 132 Shopper Dryad (dark) level 75 Astral lord Shadow Warrior (Light) Im on freqeuently, willing to help. Feel free to add me.

I have two level 35 shrunken yellow insect heads, (Lowest level I could get them to drop) For trade. Im looking for a Shoulders of time piece (dryad set) any level from 20-135. (need it for completing a trophy XD ) Or A Officers Sabre. (any level going on a caster) Message me here or ingame. PSN - Sat1r3

You got it, Pontiac! er... I mean ViolentR... If you do a bunch of levels, then you even "should" shop out a new adventuring suit.... My Viperish Disease suit I concentrate on having as much +experience. per kill, at least 55% visibility range (the entire mini-map), as much potion effects as possible, and (if Viperish Disease in Niob) Spell Intensity (about 100% or so). Some evasion, and/or Combat Art blocking/reflecting is nice if you like to stop and fight when the floods come. Otherwise, just keep moving, since it's pretty easy to die if you get a lot of little red buggers on your butt. Alright, I Found something else interesting too, I had a spare officers saber, so im using it with +34 to all skills for a boost, anyways, as I got my survival bonus up I went back to platinum (to farm for a little while for sets) when I did (I normally kill the monsters in the swamp, as they group closer and seem to give more experience... my opinion) I noticed they were giving more base then niob... as I got to looking they were higher in level than niob, but as I used a mentor pot. I found the xp was capped lower than niob. Not that its a big deal, I just found it strange. So ill make an extra gear set, + experience per kill, Visibility range, and intensity. Thanks again.

O, ViolentR, I know what you're talking about! Into Niob at 85-ish, but those little red scorpions got me a couple of times trying to Viperish Disease the desert! I was OK at about 105-ish. I shopped out experience. per kill set and with about +90% I got 2 levels an hour in the desert. Mentor potions going only when I anticipate a flood. Level 105 - 120 in 2 sittings (3 or 4-hour playsessions). You really do need a complete seperate set of armour for Viperish Disease to gain levels from your normal armour set (for grinding thru Ancaria). Ok, so what I need to do is make a new armor set that includes +to experience? and keep my others back for when I play threw?

After level 100 you will see at gradual but noticeable slow in XP. the monsters in the Wasteland should be about 28 levels above you. if your character died and you lost your survival bonus they will decrease in level a ton. on console I was on Niob by level 105 always. if you aren't on Niob then I highly recommend you finish the plat campaign. Unfortunately the only way from here to raise your xp is by having 4-5 on a server at a time, or socketing +XP into your gear. Yeah I made it into niob at 85, only bad part about it was I couldnt survive there till 100 (so yes I did die, but at the time they were still... 23 levels above me). The dryad is a voodoo dryad on ps3 using V.D. So 4-5 players is outta the question, I guess my only options are stick with it or leave her alone. Shes a shopper and already has been buying +10-11 all skills rings/ammy so I should be alright should I choose to stop. Thanks

I'm running a 128 dryad in Niob currently, and when I first got her there the experience was amazing. Now that Ive been there for I'd say 30-40 levels my experience has dropped drastically. (between 8-10k to 2-6k) I know as I level the monsters in turn will gain a level to the cap but at this point its sooo slow to attempt to gain 1 just so they move up and stay giving the same experience. Is there a way to raise the cap drastically? I.e. - finishing the campaign Or am I stuck with the gap I have currently. At 128 the monsters are 138. I'm trying to refrain from changing all my gear to experience per kill %, although I haven't entirely ruled out the idea. Thanks.

Do any of the quests give set items as rewards? I only ask because ive yet to recieve the trophy for wearing a full set (Fashion Victim) I thought if I had to find a complete set, The Dryad set of time, would probably be best. Thanks