Knuckles

Makes sense as you wouldn't be able to pay them....I'd desert too

Man things take forever to be researched. Still plugging away..almost to the point where I can build a palace. Just hope no one raids me, got one slinger for defense

Anchorage

For those unable to set up a colony on Gamma because it said it was full, keep trying Took a look at their purging of inactive accounts and it's fairly aggressive. I tried about 5 hours after 1st attempt and got in. Big thank you to masteff for the care package. I hope to be quarrying Marble at some point today.

Just set up an account on Gamma Dark Knuckles world:Phasios XX:XX Marble

It's true a pure trapper is a mass killer but the OP stated he's making a hybrid. His DE will use PM and Attack. So Concentration and Attack Rating are important. Making the most uber toon may not be important to him. Just a DE that is survivable and fun to play. If it was a pure trapper then my advice would be very different. A hybrid can and will work all the way to Niob. He can use PM to do moderate damage and make a leech field of sorts, while Attack takes care of the ones that make it thru the PM's. Could he just pump PM and forget about Attack. Sure he could, but that's not what he wants to do and thus my advice was tailored to that.

Schot...servers just went thru their daily reset....I can log on fine.

BC is just like Sword Lore, Axe Lore etc. If you're melee going with weapon/shield than you'll want something that increases attack speed and attack rating. All my melee toons have a weapon skill. When building a non-melee toon then the weapon skill isn't needed. Remember all melee Combat Arts don't automatically hit every time. Increasing Attack Rating goes a long way to insuring you hit often, with or without using the CA.

Daytona Beach

as big as

Nantucket

When I say +PM , Only if you are using it. Look for + xx on equip where xx is the CA you're using. If using several Combat Arts then equipping with "+ to all Combat Arts" is good too. In fact these are great early in the game when regens on Combat Arts are still high. If you decide to use split. Keep it low until you're comfortable on how it works. Having high split with a long regen on PM can make for a hectic battle. All split creatures will appear right next to you. Good Luck on your DE and let us know how it progresses

Oversocketing is basically considered an exploit. It it involves changing the Minimum Requirement on equipment to something else. For example. You didn't take Blade Combat but find Cordell's Dagger. You want to use it but it has a min Blade Combat requirement. Let's just say it has a min req of 6 BC. What we need to do is find a ring that has a higher min req of something you do have. Basicially every DE has Weapon Lore. Find a ring that has a min req of at least 7 WL or higher. (this assumes you meet the WL reg). Socket that ring into the Cordell's Dagger. The Blade Combat min req will disappear and be replaced with a min WL req. You can now equip the blade. On attributes: Going all phys regen is fine. Can't go wrong there. But keep in mind traps benefit from Dex. It will increase their damage. On equip, one thing to keep an eye out for is RSM (regenerate special move). Equip with RSM can dramatically lower your regen on all Combat Arts/traps. It's typically the mod I look for most. After that, + to PM (if that's the trap/ca I'm using), then LL, crit, split if I'm using.

Trade - you either love it or hate it. If you take it, it requires a heavy investment of points (you want it at least your level and preferably higher). Getting J'Dahn's Helm helps a lot. Even with high trade, you'll spend a lot of time at the merchants looking for the right gear. That said, through high Trading you can find gear tailor made for your toon and usually better than any set or unique. I hesitate calling DW a must have skill. It's more a question of playing style. Any melee toon can do just as well with sword/shield as with DW'ing. I did mention Cobra It's great against the bigger monsters out there. If you use with PM, you need to be careful. Cobra will stun and then PM will cover up it's health circle. It makes it hard to see and sometimes you won't even know you're lagging till it's too late. So if you're prone to lag, have a slow connection and/or in a busy server use PM+Cobra with caution. Even Adrenaline isn't necessary. None of my DE's use it. Again it's just my preference. I usually use PM and Test. Both require a lot of runes. Thus I rarely have enough to spread around to pump Adren to a decent level and instead rely on Armor + Parry and/or Agility

To start of with your skill selection and time picked seems good to me. Some notes/thoughts on Combat Arts/traps first Poison Mist - big time killer. Damage starts off low but really kicks after it's level 15-20 (especially using Testosterone) Testosterone - Great Poison Buff Adrenaline - Great Defensive Buff especially for melee toons Confusion - It can be handy in certain situations for tough monsters like Dragons and Big Spiders. Use/level sparingly. Not a big fan of it since it doesn't damage and if only one enemy in sight it won't attack others. If I want to confuse/stun, I use Cobra, it has a better duration and need less runes invested to keep it effective Attack (or MH or HH) all good melee Combat Arts Soul Catcher - Not a big fan of this one either. Basically Life Leech in a CA. I recommend saving the runes and finding LL gear/ Also The souls are slow and you end up waiting for them to return to you to get LL. Mongoose - I wouldn't invest more than one rune into this. Only good for shortcuts (I.e. jumping over rivers) Thoughts on skills Blade Combat isn't necessary. There are good set/unique Blades that require Blade Lore but it's too easy to find good non-req Blades and/or oversocket the Blades that need this skill. I would take Agility if you don't take Blade Combat. You want something to increase your Attack Rating. Thoughts on playing Since you want to use both PM and Attack equally, I'm assuming that PM will be more of a support CA. It will Leech and do moderate damage while Attack takes care of the rest. If this is true then you can consider not using Ballistics and select something else. You won't be pumping it the same as if it was your primary attack. I would try to keep both Attack and PM lvls low and instead increase Test as much as you can. It's just about impossible to have Test's regeneration longer than it's duration. Only increase PM/Attack when regens are low. Been on the look out for gear that had poison damage modifiers. Test will be even more effective. Well that's the basics....just let me know if I missed something or you have any other questions:)

Odd, West Virginia

Hi and Welcome to the forums... I have played DE's extensively, Playing a hybrid can be a lot of fun and also can be very challenging. And not to step on anyone else's post but if you could tell me what Combat Arts you'd like to use and of those which will be your primary attack. Also which type of weapon you think you'll be using most and I can tell you how I would build it. I don't want to disagree with anyone but taking Concentration on a Hybrid build that late is a big mistake. The melee part will be severely handicapped until level 50 and the only way around it is to make a combo and lug a ton of concentration pots around. If it is going to be a Pure Trapper then of course Concentration isn't necessary. The hardest part of a hybrid is when you select skills. Will you use melee and traps equally? Will you be primarily traps or melee? Some traps take awhile to really shine. Poison Mist is a great example. Early on it's just a support CA used more for leech and some damage. But by level 50 it's killing everything on it's own and melee isn't even needed. On my PM trappers I usually never swing a weapon after level 30. But feel free to experiment. And don't just follow a guide exactly just because someone said so.There's no one correct way to build any type of toon but plenty of ways that it can go wrong. Just let me know and I'll help as much as possible and hopefully you'll build a character that's fun to play

Was wondering where those little thingys were and just found them lol...so much for my powers of observation...was exactly what I meant. Off to look for little sparklies edit: Figured out what I was doing wrong...all those things always had sparklies. prob was since there are sooo many threads per forum, I never have looked at everything so there were always new posts in every forum and sparklies in each thingy (love the tech speak) just marked everything as read and now I can see the light err...see no sparklies

Oh once I'm in one of the main forums I'm all set I was looking more at the home page. Other than looking at post dates (or clicking new posts)I have no idea if there's new posts on main page

Oxford

I guess I'm too used to the SIF where I have a visual indication that there's new posts in a particular forum. And never saw that 'new posts' in the toolbar. Wonder what else I've missed

Just wondering if there is a way to highlight forums/sub-forums that have new and/or unread posts since my last visit. I find that I miss a few here and there and end up posting in them days later. I almost missed Ari's Birthday thread I try and remember to look at the date/time posted but like I said I often miss a couple threads

I loved the 1st few books then one came out that basically had nothing to do with Richard and Kahlan until the very end. Can't remember which book it was but guessing 4th or 5th one. Was really disappointed and stopped reading the series after that one. But it will very interesting to see how they adapt story line

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