Runemasters! Some questions!

[Marcus75]

Played this game quite some time now and wanted to try out a spellcaster. As it's my first spellcaster I got some questions.

The info first. I got a lvl16 fully specced darkness runemaster. I aim for the 47DARK/26SUPP template.

1. Staffs. Should I use those with PIETY instead of those with +10 to DARK/SUPP/RC? What are the diffrence in damage output? And wich does mostly get resisted?

2. I was thinking going with darkness to level20 and then use the points achieved after that in suppression. This is because I plan to test my Runie in Thidranki (BG). Since it's now 48 hours since I've slept I can't figure out what my stats will be when hitting lvl24. Help please, too tired to think at the moment.

3. How do you darkness runemasters solo monsters, wich spells do you use?

4. It seems to be a bit low on magical cloth armour. Any ideas?

5. Same as above but for staffs. Is it worth using a NPC bought staff that cons orange/red before sticking with the one you got on your level11 epic?

6. How useful are the debuffs when soloing?/When grouping against reds and purps?

7. How well do the darkness runemaster solo mobs at 25+?

8. All the advice for my apperance in the battlegrounds is appreciated.

 

[old.Emma]

1. at lvl 24 you`ll have 20 darkness and 13 supp, so you`ll have you self only bladeturn and also the first suppress vision spell very usefull against archers and casters.

2.darkness is a very good spec for pure nuke`s. at lvl 50 darkness nukes are more powerful than runecarving, where as runecarving has the very high dmg bolts. 2 shot most yellow cons.

3.in groups debuff spells are pretty useless to be honest, the only really usefull one is the str debuff which when used on casters in RvR can often act like a root, sometimes making them encumbered.

4.the dmg add you get from speccing darkness stacks with skalds dmg add, so you`ll be welcome in most groups and for high lvl hunts when taking mobs 10-20 lvls higher than you, the dmg adds can often do more dmg than you weapons.

5. stick with store bought staffs until around lvl 22 where you can get the njessi staff of pure thaught. once you hit around lvl 24 head to darkness falls and farm enough seals to get yourself a new staff.

6.armour wise i would stick with using your epic armour. when it turns green replace that part with a piece of crafted armour. if you can get a full set of crafted armour even better, at lvl 24 when you start farming for seals in df, try collect enough to buy a full set of af34-36 cloth from there. that cloth will last until atleast lvl 38-40.

hope that info helps and good luck with the darkness spec, there are very few darkness runie`s around.

ohh yeah one more thing.. because the darkness spec often has a cold debuff included with the nukes you`ll do very nice dmg in rvr

 

[Marcus75]

Emma:

Thanks for the info! Great stuff!

One question stills pops up tho:

I was under the impression that the darkness damage buff(and the shamans), made the skald battlesong half as effective. Anyone know if this is true?


Any other pointers from someone else perhaps?

 

[old.Emma]

Not a 100% sure on that tbh, im an rc runie, i was only going by what i have read for the darkness stuff but even still the darkness dmg add is on par with the skalds so it would still be 50% more dmg with it.

 

[old.Wagn]

Originally posted by Marcus75
Played this game quite some time now and wanted to try out a spellcaster. As it's my first spellcaster I got some questions.

The info first. I got a lvl16 fully specced darkness runemaster. I aim for the 47DARK/26SUPP template.

1. Staffs. Should I use those with PIETY instead of those with +10 to DARK/SUPP/RC? What are the diffrence in damage output? And wich does mostly get resisted?

The +10 bonus is not skill bonus, but focus bonus. It makes the spells more mana efficient. A spell in a spell line you have no focus whatsoever in cost 125%(?) of the delve mana value, while if it's level is under your focus level it only costs 80%. So I'd say focus is the most important. Keep your focus level over the highest spell you use often.

3. How do you darkness runemasters solo monsters, wich spells do you use?

4*nuke and yellow mobs are dead. Very simple.

4. It seems to be a bit low on magical cloth armour. Any ideas?

There are lots and lots. Check http://l9c.mad-troll.com/Library/it....classes LIKE |*Rm*|)AND(itm.type=|A:Cloth|)) for more info on where to find it.

5. Same as above but for staffs. Is it worth using a NPC bought staff that cons orange/red before sticking with the one you got on your level11 epic?

Just use the one with the best focus. Epic staves are usually nice for a few levels though.

6. How useful are the debuffs when soloing?/When grouping against reds and purps?

The stat debuffs are pretty much useless.

7. How well do the darkness runemaster solo mobs at 25+?

Very well. I believe RC RMs are better solo, but darkness has all the power you need for decent soloing. As with almost every other caster the only limit is your mana.

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