Thiking of making a fist BM.

losstarot wrote: »

Read the guides and have a few basic questions: how expensive are they and how fast do they go through pots, how well can they grind/level, how well are they in parties, and how do they perform in PvE (since I don't care much for PvP)?

In the beginning levels, you will rip through pots. after you get sutra, its a breeze. all you need is draw blood and sutra. Generally, they take on mobs one by one, their dps in insane so kill rate is pretty nice. it gets pretty repetitive, as far as grinding because all you do is cyclone for attack speed buff and then normal and then sutra. in parties, they make good secondaries because of the spell interrupt kick. thats my limited knowledge about these guys

For early levels, I only changed to fist when the damage was greater than the FB19 weapon. I crafted a bunch of fists, and had two made that had double adds of +phys attack. That was the only thing that made it useful to go fists, otherwise it would be lower damage than other weapon types. So start searching AH as early as you can for either multiple phys attack adds, or some -interval.

I didn't bother using Cyclone much, it adds a bit, but the short duration of it and low amount of attack rate bonus isn't really worth it early on. You'll be using most of your SP to boost phys marrow, bell, mastery, sutra, etc. Shadowless was left at 1, only used for interrupt before auto-attack. Most of the time, you'll only need to use sutra every couple of mobs. And mana pot drops will be enough to take care of your mana needs.

Once you hit lvl 60, it gets easier with mold fists. They are cheap to get, and their proc will make grinding free. If you get -interval wrists, it will make for very quick killing.

If you plan on AoE or Rebirth, boosting your axe AoE's will be needed as well. If you just want fists, you'll likely be focusing on air and water mobs for grinding. The extra xp boost helps, and these mobs are usually spread out, making fists the best weapon for killing them.

0 vit works fine, I haven't had any issues yet, and I'm working on lvl 92 right now. As long as you only need to Sutra heal every couple of mobs, there won't be an issue with what your vit is; it's about being able to heal the damage taken cheaply. Physical attack only mobs are great, and you can physical marrow them and get that much more damage reduction.

considering that fist dps is = or > than an equvalant level archer if you can do what chu has stated ya its rediculous i suggest getting glacial spike as well for when HF is in cooldown and you have 2 sparks

past level 60 just dont spark on bosses unless you want aggro....