pure str: bow, glavie or blade?

Fat_Smurf · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:06 pm

wich one should I make?, my char is lvl 16 right now, just point into fire, no other skill... i plan to sp farm for a bit at bandit, wich build should I made?

I've already made a spear nuker wich is now lvl43, and for what i've seen blader are the harder to fight, glaver are a piece of cake with good ghostwalk skill and skill chaining, Blader have the shield that can messup your chain and let them time to get to you, and kd/stab is deadly. Bowmen usually piss me too, cause they have huge range and can oneshot crit me.

could you give me an advice for those reason:

1- Easier to grind

2- Best Trader

3- Best Thief

4- Best Hunter

5- Best cape fighter

6- Best GW player

oh and I dont want the usual ''Glave' fo da leet *****'' answer, please elaborate, and stick to the build you know

Miletus · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 105

Ok i would probably go pure str/str heavy blader just cuz u cant die cuz of the shield and hp and block and KD

but since there are new skills coming archers are gunna own i would suggest a str heavy fire archer just cuz archers are getting Knockback,Stun and a new skill :p

my build currently is a 90/40 balance going for a 88/42, why go hybrid?

since archers are getting stun and knockback, archer will require less hp

MORE INT = MORE DMG, there no point of saving your life with stun or knockback if u cant kill for shit

archers will get antidevil 40 crit with the 5th book? that would be crazy!
assuming since the book 1,2,3 go up by 5 crit increase each time

1- easy to grind to dont have to run to the monsters to atk cuz ur ranged

2- easy trader cuz u can atk the thief when they pop up from behind the range!

3- well thiefing in groups ur in the back like the nukers execpt u have more hp!

4- same as thief

5- probably ok right now, but will rock with the new skills

6- just like thiefing or hunter in groups

on the server eldorado more than 1/2 of the ppl hunting are archers lol maybe they heard about the new skills lol

archers rock lol

Sanjou · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:33 pm

Fat_Smurf wrote:

wich one should I make?, my char is lvl 16 right now, just point into fire, no other skill... i plan to sp farm for a bit at bandit, wich build should I made?

I've already made a spear nuker wich is now lvl43, and for what i've seen blader are the harder to fight, glaver are a piece of cake with good ghostwalk skill and skill chaining, Blader have the shield that can messup your chain and let them time to get to you, and kd/stab is deadly. Bowmen usually piss me too, cause they have huge range and can oneshot crit me.

could you give me an advice for those reason:

1- Easier to grind

2- Best Trader

3- Best Thief

4- Best Hunter

5- Best cape fighter

6- Best GW player

1. PvE = Archer

2. Trader = depends on too many variables...though, I would say Blader, because they're hard to kill.

3. Thief = ...can't really say......comes down to gear

4. Hunter = ...same as with Thief

5. Cape fighter = Well, one thing I don't get when someone says "what's best?" is this: best for what?

* Glaive ...most hp in game, can kill...but can also be killed
* Blade ...hell to kill, though unlikely to kill (really comes down to gear)
* Bow ....right now they're at a disadvantage

6. GW = I've heard Archers excel in GW......so I guess I'll go with Archers lol <.<;

Fat_Smurf · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:39 pm

thx I might go blader or archer dunno yet

where could I find info about the skill update

Sanjou · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:33 pm

http://www.silkroadtavern.com/forums/in ... opic=30162

that's tavern though....tried the search for it on these forums but couldn't find it >.<

Rainigul · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 4490 **Location:**

Fat_Smurf wrote:

wich one should I make?, my char is lvl 16 right now, just point into fire, no other skill... i plan to sp farm for a bit at bandit, wich build should I made?

I've already made a spear nuker wich is now lvl43, and for what i've seen blader are the harder to fight, glaver are a piece of cake with good ghostwalk skill and skill chaining, Blader have the shield that can messup your chain and let them time to get to you, and kd/stab is deadly. Bowmen usually piss me too, cause they have huge range and can oneshot crit me.

could you give me an advice for those reason:

1- Easier to grind
Bow - Range and awesomeness.
Glaive - Good speed, but you must run to enemy to kill it.
Blade - From levels 1-25 they level fastest. After that, slowest.

2- Best Trader
Bow - Able to kill your thiefs without having your caravan stop/turn around.
Glaive - Kills thiefs fast, saving a bit of time.
Blade - Kills thiefs medium speed, but can handle a multistar on it's own SUPERBLY. Able to tank every thief in a 5*, including double spawns (Most of the time anyways). Able to kill all (well, most) player thiefs that try to kill you.

3- Best Thief
Blade - Best thief. They are able to kill all traders and hunters, and have the hp to tank all the thiefs they spawn.
Glaive - Good thief, kills caravans fast and able to kill traders fast, not as good as blade.
Archer - Not the best thief. Can generally only handle some ints and lower levels.

4- Best Hunter
Bow - Best Hunter. Most hunters are int players because they have to handle masses of thiefs at once. Archers can kill many many thiefs from a distance, and very quickly. Able to kill lower level player thiefs with ease, and some int chars at their level or higher.
Blade - Able to use their AOE attacks to kill thiefs. Able to kill player thiefs with ease (though can take a while).
Glaive - Able to throw glaive to kill initial thiefs, ghost spear is GREAT if all the thiefs go for you, you can 1-hit 5 thiefs at once! Able to kill lower level player thiefs with ease, and alot of player thiefs their level.

5- Best cape fighter
Glaive - Able to solo most capers who come out, and can use ghost spear to kill other capers around them, powerful crits let you show off to the noobs.
Bow - Kills lower levels with ease, Anti-devil lets you show off to noobs, Berserker arrow lets you kill noobs en-masse as well. Able to kill most capers who come out.
Blade - Though best in general pvp, they don't shine too much in cape. They're able to kill lower levels easily, but they have low damage in the first place, so some lower levels they can't kill (When they run). Less chance of a crit, and when you use combos, the crits won't be that high. Not good for showing off to noobs, although heaven and ascention chain are the coolest moves ever to noobs.

6- Best GW player
Bow - Able to provide support with high crits, ranged damage and potential freezing/frostbiting (Assuming you use ice). Other guildies don't have to worry about you dying because you have great hp. Berserker arrow helps you hit multiple targets.
Glaive - Able to tank with loads of hp, uses ghost spear to hit multiple targets. Crits help alot.
Blade - Don't shine in guild wars. Able to tank GODLY damage, I've seen bladers just run around being nuked and critted, and just continuing to run around. Practicly impossible to kill in GW because there are people who support them kill. Definately the best tanker, very cool, but still not the best.

oh and I dont want the usual ''Glave' fo da leet *****'' answer, please elaborate, and stick to the build you know

Bow - I love bow. The best trader and hunter, grinds really fast, best in guild wars. Have showy moves, and I think it's soooooo cool when they're charging an attack, and their getting hit, and they are shaken, but they continue to charge the attack. I hope you know what I mean, I think bows are badass. They can also show off to noobs well in cape wars.
Blade - Blade is totally badass. They are potentially the best in EVERYTHING, the only thing that stops them from being the best in everything is damage. They grind extremely slow, but will ALWAYS be best in 1v1. When I was low level, I was so impressed by how cool blades looked and shield too (I love 7D shield) and when they wear garments it looks cool. Knockdown, stabdown, and combos look awesome. They are the best in soloing, but in groups, archer and glaive generally work better.
Glaive - Overused. They can show off to noobs pretty well, but their moves aren't that flashy. I love how ghost spear looks though. They're average in everything. If blade didn't exist, this would generally dominate. They are good grinding speed, but they are only the best in cape wars.

Overall, I'd choose bow (Though so many people say it su cks, it's just not true dude! I tanked a lv 34 with sos, lv 32 with som, and lv 36 with +5 weapon all on my own (And my alt is only lv 29!)) The lack of defence makes them worse than blade in 1v1, and the lack of attack (And hp) makes them worse than glaive in 1v1.
I kinda made them seem alittle worse, but they can kill lower levels with GREAT ease. Great trader and hunter, but if their is your style, I'd choose blade.
If you can't decide, then chose glaive I guess, I refer to them as the "hybrid" of strength builds.

Fat_Smurf · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:33 am

thx for the advice

I think I'll go archer ^^ was thinking about fire and light tree

somehting like
80 pacheon
80 fire
70 light
60 ice (or 60 heurksal for passive)

or for 90 cap

90pacheon
90fire
90light
30 heurksal
(if we get skill update with the cap

, if they remove ice immune with the skill update I might go ice as imbue :s dunno yet

cause bow combo with ice imbue = knockback + freeze= massive ownage

IguanaRampage · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 2483 **Location:** Changing

I choose glaive lol

Overused build, but truely, it is very good...at PvE, PvP, and it tanks pretty well.

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