Rei's kinda-ok guide for Heavy/Robe Fox.

Heh, sorry I didn't answer sooner.PC was at the doctors for a week ^-^;

@LhRag; No worries.

@Bigall; sorry, I only meant that this heavy build in particular, heavy hybrid combination of mage and melee uses magic weapons. I understand that there's heavy (melee) venomancers out there (I've even picked up the level general summer hammers and killed a bit for fun with them) but the build specified in this guide is different to those

@Casario; You haven't screwed your character at all, sage and demon on venomancers both have perks on all different builds actually, just some more than others. However you will tend to see far more demon light and mage venos than sage. Sage is perfect for this build in particular, but demon hasn't completly lost out. In fact, the only two other 89+ heavy hybrid on HT i've met in game are both demons, who chose demon cultivation for this build.

One chose demon for pve, the other chose demon for pvp which is interesting
For starters, the extra Pdef you get from foxform actually only gives you -1% dmg reduction (or +1k pdef), so no big loss at all. You'll lose out on the extra accuracy from fox form, extra dmg boost from melee mastery and wood mastery, but you'll have the extra insane constant speed, and far more critical damage at least. Demon heavy venomancer is still very deadly.

@Sazanami; I was level 80 when I switched over, it's possible to build this from level 1 but I don't recommend it. It's quite difficult and levelling can take a while (you'll be quite weak in damage) and you might have to restat a few times (expensive). I currently have more magic since I needed 267 to use the next magic weapon, requiem blade (lvl 89). To be able to wear the 90TT heavy armour I have to restat at 90, taking some points from dex and putting them into str.

The amount between str and magic will fluctuate alot, since you dont just upgrade to the next available weapon, with this build you need to make sure your weapon and armour bonuses are all credible for your build; you might stick with the same weapon for more than 10 levels. Also remember that all of a heavy veno's EQs add on to their total STR, DEX, VIT and MAG. And no, my base vit is actually 3, when you restat one of your attributes more than what you have, your attribute will then be 3, even though you first start off with 5.

@Tearvalerin; Obsessed said she was done with the forums lol. And I did give the guide an upgrade but only the first page. I'm still going to rewrite/update the rest of it when I can get around to it with more accurate figures/facts. I was only LA for about 10 levels but I didn't find much flexibility, stats were only ever just enough for armour+weapon.

I just switched because I was using light/arcane fox/mage and to switch it between heavy/arcane seemed far more logical to me. My HP comment was more or less reffering to: yes, a HA veno's base HP pool is low, but you don't switch to this build if you're going to be cheap, it's expected that you'd be refining to make up for it, otherwise you're pretty much a sitting duck
(I'll just throw in here that it's also expected that they'd refine their weapon as otherwise we'd have a very low attack also.)

You're LA friend has more base vit than obsessed though? Last I heard Obsessed had around 50 base, unless you're comparing their light armour refines to Obsessed in arcane gear?

I didn't think you'd be able to spare so much into magic as a light armour, hence thinking that HA/light would have a minor difference. Again, I was comparing it at around level 70-80s. 90s+ go nuts >_>

I'm still yet to go into the 89/99FB. Just after I hit 89 my pc decided to crash, couldn't even turn it on. I only just got it back now but I've lost everything on here, re-downloading perfect world now -_-;

I cant get on to check exactly, since I hit 89 before I crashed and lost everything, i'm now able to use my requiem+5 however I don't know what figures exactly i'd be pulling off with it.

With my yaksa+3 the previous level I think I was doing around 1.5-2.3k damage on regular mobs, constant damage with just a few rare misses. I'll let you know once I can get back on PWI though o;

Nice Gwendolynne xD

Kittennice, I think I owe you some stats lol

(I thought i'd just post my different stats since I was going to when I hit 90 anyway x_o)

Heavy fox=


Heavy fox, sage spark=


Mage armour=


These are all fully buffed xD