Quick SB questions...

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Danamyr

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I have a Shadow Blade who is currently Lvl 15. She is my first ever stealther in any realm, so it's a bit of a learning process at the moment.

Before I rolled I had a quick look about and decided that I'd like her to be a Shadow Zerker. So, her stats are presently:

Axe: 15
LA: 14
Envenom: 3

I am auto-training stealth.

I'd eventually like her to end up with 50 Axe and 50 LA, with whatever else in the most important stats, which neatly brings me to my questions ;)

1. How high should I auto-train stealth? I'd like to play her in BG1, and if I do, will my stealth be good enough at that point? I appreciate other stealthers may own me in this area, but as long as it's good enough so I am not visible to them from miles away I'll be happy ;)

2. Should I bother with envenom at all, or just save up all my points and put into stealth when I ding Lvl 24?

TIA :)
 
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domin8or

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stealth: 38 ( with autotrain it will go to 50..I think )
axe: 39
laxe: 39
cs: 39
envenom: 18

:confused:
 
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old.anubis

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well if you wanna extreme shadowzerk, make smth like
axe 50
la 44 (dont need more imo, youre not a zerk)
stealth 35-36 (can even lower it, will be like a bait for infils)
venom rest (27-29)

you can auto till 24, then bump stealth, then at 40 lvl respec out of stealth and auto till 48. this trick will give you 43 points
 
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Zill

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Originally posted by Danamyr
I have a Shadow Blade who is currently Lvl 15. She is my first ever stealther in any realm, so it's a bit of a learning process at the moment.

Before I rolled I had a quick look about and decided that I'd like her to be a Shadow Zerker. So, her stats are presently:

Axe: 15
LA: 14
Envenom: 3

I am auto-training stealth.

I'd eventually like her to end up with 50 Axe and 50 LA, with whatever else in the most important stats, which neatly brings me to my questions ;)

1. How high should I auto-train stealth? I'd like to play her in BG1, and if I do, will my stealth be good enough at that point? I appreciate other stealthers may own me in this area, but as long as it's good enough so I am not visible to them from miles away I'll be happy ;)

2. Should I bother with envenom at all, or just save up all my points and put into stealth when I ding Lvl 24?

TIA :)

1. Personally I advise you auto-train stealth to as higher level as possible. BG is only a temporary fight zone and if you're in for the long haul you might want to set your sights further ahead. If you do continue to auto-train, then your stealth will be poor for BG. Though I'm sure you could find ways to compensate for this.

2. I think nowadays having anymore than 35 or 36 base stealth is a waste as you can easily take stealth to 50 with items and rr. (mine is currently 33 base + 16). Envenom is useful for a SZ but again with items, SC etc. you won't ever have to take this past lvl 35.

I would suggest after lvl 24 you continue to auto-train stealth and place your points in either maximising your weapon skills or raising your envenom level if you intend to solo more than group.
 
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Randalff

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44 axe
44LA
36 Stealth
36 Evenom

only works if u autotrain stealth till lvl 48
 
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Danamyr

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One other quick question - if I do decide to continue to auto-train stealth, and still go BG1, will I be able to sneek up on any casters without being seen?

I appreciate other stealthers or stealth based classes will see me, but is Stealth at Lvl 5 or 6 good enough to get me close enough to casters to kill them?
 
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old.Xarr

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I'm a five-spec shadowblade and I autotrained stealth to level 48. I ended up with:

39 left axe
39 axe
34 crit strike
34 stealth
33 envenom

Works for me.
 
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old.Xarr

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Originally posted by Danamyr
One other quick question - if I do decide to continue to auto-train stealth, and still go BG1, will I be able to sneek up on any casters without being seen?

I appreciate other stealthers or stealth based classes will see me, but is Stealth at Lvl 5 or 6 good enough to get me close enough to casters to kill them?

With autotrained stealth in BG1 you will have stealth 5 and +5 from magical items. With 10 stealth versus a level 24 character it is possible to sneak up on him, but pretty difficult if the guy is very aware. I managed fine in BG1 with auto-trained stealth.
 
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Onedda

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i been messing with some specs.
atm i was thinking of this spec

stealth = 36
envenom = 27
crit strik = 50
left axe = 44 (thinnking of LA to help incase CS fails).


back to my point would that spec i chose be any good ???
im also auto training stealth to 48.

info much appreciated thanks...

lvl 32 atm with
axe = 32
cs = 32
stealth = auto
envenom = 10
 
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old.Xarr

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Originally posted by Impoopy
i been messing with some specs.
atm i was thinking of this spec

stealth = 36
envenom = 27
crit strik = 50
left axe = 44 (thinnking of LA to help incase CS fails).

This spec won't work very well. Without points in weapon spec (sword or axe) your crit strike and left axe damage will be fuck-all. :]
 
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Danamyr

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If you put the points assigned to LA in your suggested spec into Sword instead then that would work...I think you'd then be a Soul Blade spec SB...I think :)
 
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Onedda

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ok xarr thanks for ur info like i said much appreciated.

with a bit of messing, what would u think about this.

stealth = 35
CS= 39
LA = 44
sword = 39

rest in envenom

p.s i know alot of peeps say get decent envenom but i aint bothered about that tbh.
 
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old.Xarr

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Originally posted by Impoopy
ok xarr thanks for ur info like i said much appreciated.

with a bit of messing, what would u think about this.

stealth = 35
CS= 39
LA = 44
sword = 39

rest in envenom

p.s i know alot of peeps say get decent envenom but i aint bothered about that tbh.

that spec would work. :)
 
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Runolaz

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Originally posted by old.anubis
well if you wanna extreme shadowzerk, make smth like
axe 50
la 44 (dont need more imo, youre not a zerk)
stealth 35-36 (can even lower it, will be like a bait for infils)
venom rest (27-29)

you can auto till 24, then bump stealth, then at 40 lvl respec out of stealth and auto till 48. this trick will give you 43 points

As a SZ IMHO your gimped if don't have the lvl 47 debuff. I hade 50Axe/44LA on Runolas and compared to 46Axe/44LA + lvl 47 debuff it sucked.

I think the best overall SZ base-spec is 46Axe/44La/33ST/33EN/10CS
If you autotrain (I lvled as CB :eek7: and did not), dump those points where you like them. At RR6 if you get a respec-stone you could respec to 31-32ST/31EN and dump the point into Axe. If you did autotraining for 43 points, then you can make 46Axe/44LA/31ST/31EN/21CS or at RR6. If you did full auto to lvl 48, then 50Axe/44LA/31EN/31ST/12CS is duable :) , but I think I'd go for 21CS.

Even with my BSII (11CS)I do like 300-600 on a mage. For Tanks I use Snowsqual most of the time.
 

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