Betweeen the QQ's, whines and the normal disorder..

[PaqMan]

.. I have a small question about my little thane template i am still struggling with..

So while you all wait for servers to come up i'd hope to get a little help .)

I try to aim for a balanced template with little of everything...

Below is the outline as it looks now:

Stats
Str: 97 Int: 0 Hits: 320
Con: 86 Pie: 75 Power: 0
Dex: 86 Cha: 0
Qui: 37 Emp: 0

Resists
Body: 22 Energy: 20 Crush: 27
Cold: 27 Matter: 21 (5) Thrust: 26 (2)
Heat: 27 Spirit: 4 Slash: 26 (3)

Skills
11 Hammer
11 Shield
4 Parry

Cap Increases
10 Dex
5 Qui
120 Hits
15 Str
10 Con

Other Bonuses
9 Style Damage Bonus
4 Spell Range Bonus
4 Spell Damage Bonus
5 Fatigue
5 Melee Speed Bonus
7 Melee Damage Bonus
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Now the questions..

1. Resists.. I've allways wanted to max resists, now i can't it seems and i wonder what resists I could live without if any(most resists is on jewelry).

I also havent really undestood if resists just cut's off the efficiency of an attack(hit, spell, debuf) with a certain % or if I have a resists maxed I also have an increased chance of resisting the attack totally(as in totally resist a DoT for example).

Trick question.. As i don't rvr alot but still enjoy the moments i do, is it that much important to have resists on 26+ or would 20+ be enough(not from a 'leet' point of view offcos)?

2. As you can see i have 5 meleespeed bonus and 37 qui which is rougly half of what I can get. Would that even out as if i had +75qui/0 meleespeed or +0 qui/10+ meleeespeed? which is most 'valuable to have' of qui/meleespeed?

(I checked the nisrv site speed calc, but note sure i do it right, specially about putting in qui, buffed, sc'd or not..)

Any comments and suggestions are most welcome.

 

[Klonk]

1. Template looks good to me, the two resists you normally can disregard as a mid (for rvr purposes) are Spirit and Matter, none of these will be vital to have.

Trick-question Answer: from a not-leet point of view, I would say 20+ is fine

As for other things in your template to possibly down-prioritize (to give room for more needed things); do you need 75 piety as a Thane? And do you need the +11 to weaponspecs? I am a Thane noob, so I am just curious. Maybe you do need the +11 due to low WS to begin with at lvl 50, but what about the 75 piety?

2. I would go for 10% melee haste, and screw quickness. Or at least try to get melee haste as high as possible...

Good luck with your template, I know making thane templates is teh hard.. btw, what artifacts do you plan on using?

 

[PaqMan]

1. Template looks good to me, the two resists you normally can disregard as a mid (for rvr purposes) are Spirit and Matter, none of these will be vital to have.

Thanks, nice to hear.

Trick-question Answer: from a not-leet point of view, I would say 20+ is fine

Then I might be able to make this work .)

As for other things in your template to possibly down-prioritize (to give room for more needed things); do you need 75 piety as a Thane? And do you need the +11 to weaponspecs? I am a Thane noob, so I am just curious. Maybe you do need the +11 due to low WS to begin with at lvl 50, but what about the 75 piety?

Well.. As thanes do have a lil less WS the zap's are there to even things out as i see it. pie DO give some nice bonus and make my bolts feel some ,-) and the +11 is also there for the same reason. I don't really know how much +9 does compared to +11 though.. i'm closing up to RR4 now so that will be another +4 to count in..

2. I would go for 10% melee haste, and screw quickness. Or at least try to get melee haste as high as possible...

Okie.. Will try find items with +melee. I am a troll though so my qui is pretty low .)

Good luck with your template, I know making thane templates is teh hard.. btw, what artifacts do you plan on using?

Thank you. I won't stopp until Im satisfied.

In this template I use GoV, Malice, scalars, CB and Ogli belt(yea.. levelling pain..), 1 ML drop and some ToA quest items.

I am however working on a near arti-less template to if I decide levelling artis will take to much time and I change my mind... Or find a better solution... ,-)