Some newbie Rogue questions

nibenay78

Hi all.

I've been thinking to make a rogue and while I'm fine with not being the top-uber-dps machine, I'd rather not invest time in a char that comes out WAY below usefulness for a PvE group of friends I play with. So I have a few questions I've not found or was open to interpretation.

1) Deflect severity severity states "this is the amount of damage you avoid", and for rogue it says 25 (%). However it seems to me you TAKE 25%, hence avoid 75?

2) Power - Skillful infiltrator - increases your deflect severity with 3%. So it should stack up to getting 78% less dmg. Has anyone tested/confirmed this?

3) Charisma - companion advantage bonus - After reading through some threads it seems to me that this is the % of a companion's stats you GAIN while having that companion. Is this correct?

4) as above, must said companion be "alive" or simply enough to have it "summoned"?

5) what does a good high level companion confir if you have ~20cha (10% bonus). Is this bonus enough to warrant to care for getting it?

6) What kind of bonus does one get? stat boost (str, dex..)? hp boost? other stats? (power/defence/deflection/def sev)?

7) it seems the STR dps build is the best. As i stated above I'm fine with not being top notch DPS, but then i want the lost "power" back in other ways such as survivability etc. Is a halfling str 14 - dex 24 -cha 24 saboteur/scoundrel fine or will such a build be vastly worse for PvE than the STR/Horc/executioner?

8) since deflection give diminishing returns, what deflection-% can i expect having at lvl 60 from gear? I assume %- from stats and feats simply stack on top of gear-%?

9) any other comments are very appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

nibenay78

over 300 views, and nobody can answer some easy questions?

erwerman1

quite complicated my friend for a **** like me and most of us here. The best advice i can give you is to have fun and experiment, this is an action rpg so a lot of stuff is determined by your WASD control skill and the ability do dodge incoming attacks with various skills.

nibenay78

While some of the questions are somewhat number-crunchy, some of them also just required people to have leveled to 60 in order to give a reasonable answer.

Of course, as you say, the player behind matters too.