3 builds I tried

At level 55 I used some extra coins I had from merchanting to do some build tests.

b:sad Light Armor

I leveled from 1 to 55 with this build, and I'm glad I did. Most of the mobs were physical damage and I think I died less often because of it. The high-end base majic attack was around 1500 and the physical defense was over 1k. Majic defense was more than 1800. The majic damage was not the best, but I never had problems with stealing agro from my pet until I used frost scarab with ironwood. Because of the extra hit rate and physical attack on this build and the lower majic attack, my sword melee dps outdid my level 9 vemonous scarab. Majic defense was aweful. Mana ran low fast. Most mobs past 55 have ranged majic attacks, so I decided to try pure int arcane build.

Did fine against wb, bm, veno in pvp. Most notibly bm's
Archers, clerics, and mages > veno LA from my personal experience



b:surrender Pure Dex LA

Dont laugh. It was an experiment, and the results were surprising!
The whole idea of an archer with a nix seemed awesome.
Base physical attack with the bow was much higher than LA majic, and my critical was 13% with the +1% ranked II ring. The defense stats were the same with the majic defense decreased from having 0 int. Regular hits were doing 900-1000+ damage per hit with 2.5k criticals now and then. When I did hit a critical, I stole agro from my pet every time. Average dps seemed to be equivalent to casting two venomous scarabs in the time it takes to do one in LA build. Mana was never a problem.

Unfortunately, I had like 50 majic attack. That meant healing my pet was reduced to 1/3 the effectiveness, and I had to put my bow on hot key to use any healing/buff skills. It single handedly destroyed my ability to solo bosses. The base range of the bow sucked! And AOE attacks were out of the picture... not to mention, the wood passive meant nothing and the venomancers do not get the +40% fire and +60% attack passives that the archer gets.

Decent against wb (because of amazing evasion, I just used bare handed majic attacks), great against veno, mage (and I suspect cleric). I did better against archer than LA build, but still sux. I killed an archer same level 1v1 because he missed me twice at the start.



b:victory Pure Intelligence Arcane

First thing I noticed was that mob/boss majic ranged and aoe attacks were LOL! piece of cake. Physical defense went down to about half (500+). I dont ever get hit by physical attack mobs, so I cant say that it affected me much. High-end base majic attack was over 1800. This time venomous was doing more dps than melee. I stole agro from my same level magmite with lvl 3 bash every single time. I countered that by learning how to pull/keep agro on 2-4 mobs at a time and spamming noxious and heal. Pet healing was +100/cast compared to LA, so Krixxix was now real easy to solo. Mana went up ALOT, and the regen is noticably better.

Did fine against wb, bm, veno, mage, cleric in pvp. Archers own me no problem.


I decided to stick with the arcane build. I actually feel safer with it knowing most ranged attacks from mobs dont do much, and physical melee mobs cant usually get to me. The majic damage >> LA. Healing my pet is less of a chore. I just miss my criticals