LordRaviel 0 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 (edited) Background I started a Ranged Dryad yesterday due to my skill preferences the defensive skills took a back seat to other skills. At level 30 my Skills are as follows: 2 - Capricious Hunter Focus 30 3 - Enhanced Perception 5 5 - Bargaining 11 8 - Tactics Lore 30 12 - Concentration 1 18 - Nature Weaver Focus 9 25 - Ranged Weapons 1 And my plan was to take 35 - Combat Reflexes 50 - Armor Lore 65 - Constitution A few levels ago I decided to use my bargaining with some money from my seraphim to put together an All CAs + suit that was capable of getting me to about level 20-25 (1 Rune) on both Ancient Bark and Sinister Predator, then I would switch back to my other equips. This is the same Buff Boosting tactic I used on my 116 Seraphim's Battle Stance. Having done this I found that nothing could inflict any noticeable damage upon me so I removed my armor all together and just allowed my relics and Ancient bark to provide my armor and I was fine, even went and took down the Carnach at 26 standing still with no armor on. The Idea The idea is this, I don't take the 3 Defensive skills at 35 50 and 65, and instead take: 35 - Nature Weaver Lore 50 - Combat Discipline 65 - Something (Maybe Dual Wield for some variety and in anticipation of INT affecting weapon based combat art damage with staffs equipped, on consoles) I am going to get to 35 and take a look at the effect of Nature Weaver Lore on the Physical/Poison armor and HP regen from Ancient Bark, if I like what I see I will start again and take Invigorate over Effortless for Bark's gold mod, and try it into the higher levels. Since I play on Ps3 I can equip 6 relics at once (up to 3 of one type) that means I can keep 2 Magic, 2 Fire and 2 Ice on at all time to cover the armor types Ancient Bark doesn't. I also hope to use the large and varied armor bonus from a Chestplate of Time to supplement. Possible Problems - the ones I have foreseen at least. No armor lore means I will suffer in terms of movement by equipping anything that is a higher level than me, all my armor will be bargained except for a Chestplate of Time so I can avoid that problem somewhat. No armor lore could result in significant Regeneration penalties from armor. My 116 seraphim took armor lore at 3 so I don't know how this will work out. More Info Armor (at 29) - 2273 Physical - 1051 Magic - 261 Fire - 205 Poison - 500 Ice - 256 CA Mods Ancient Bark Rugged -> Divert - > Effortless Ravaged Impact Perforate -> Breach -> Darting Assault Reload -> Throwback -> Rotate Sinister Predator Eagle Eye - Marked Shot -> Hunting Focus Any comments or suggestions would be nice, especially form those more experienced with Dryads in the higher difficulties. Edited July 16, 2009 by LordRaviel Link to comment
LordRaviel 0 Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Started again and took a slightly different skill order, which annoyingly is different again from how I would do it if I were to start over. Got to 15 and all is going well so far. I will try to make 50 if it stil working I may begin to write up a guide an add to it as I progress towards Niob. Link to comment
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