Venomancer build - help me to choose

siasio89 wrote: »

1. Some ppl claim that balance (light armor style?) is the best but I think everything can t be good. The balance Light Armour can offer is handy at early levels. This is because you don't have good armour (shards, refines, molds...which are pointless to get at early levels since you level up fast). Also Light Armour is quite a cheap build to maintain you can find good pieces of armour at low prices and the molds (legendary armour) that you'll probably want after levels60+ are pretty cheap. However, as you get closer to endgame (lvl80+ lvl90+) Light Armour starts becoming inferior to the other armours and builds. With shards and refines Arcane Armour (which is low on physical defence) manage to get a really good amount of physical defence and HP for you (almost equal to LA phys.def). On the same way Heavy Armour with high refined rings/necklaces/belts can get a considerable amount of magical defence (which heavy armour lacks). So you end up being weak on both magical and physical defence. Heavy Armour is a hard build to start with your venomancer and so it's recommended that you start with LA and restat your points at lvl 80 or 90. You can follow whatever build you wish. Personally I went Light Armour with my second Venomancer and if I ever get her to lvl80+ I will restat to be able to wear Heavy Armour.

2. Some ppl claim that I should use fox form and human form - explain me why? You should use both forms to get the best out of your Venomancer. The class was designed to be played with both forms. You can choose one (human or fox) but you'll miss out half of the potential of a venomancer. Both skill trees have different attacks and debuffs that you simply can't ignore. A human venomancer shouldn't ignore Amplify Damage or Purge (just an example) and a fox venomancer shouldn't ignore Iroonwood Scarab or Lucky Scarab (just an example-the skills I mentioned I really useful throughout the game).

3. Some ppl claim that i should use only fox form - why?This is just wrong. You can focus on one of the skill trees but don't ignore the other completely.

4. Some ppl claim magic armor is the best or heavy or light- i'm asking why? I can t find good explanation.There is no best build (except if we are talking about endgame I suppose). Luckily Venomancers can work with all the builds/armours mentioned above and do great throughout the whole game.This is because they can use both magic and melee and fox form gives a nice bonus on physical defence and accuracy. It depends on what you like to play as. Arcane Armour will let venomancers have higher attack, Light Armour will give them better survivability, Heavy Armour will even make the venomancer work as tank sometimes.It really depends on playstyle, I can't help much here. For example, if you like staying back and casting deadly attacks you'll most likely want to go Arcane Armour/high magic attack. If you like being in the frontlines and rushing in the mobs you'll most likely want to go Light Armour/Heavy Armour.


Please, help me to find a good game style with venomancer, I'm a newbie and I can't predict game after lvl 90
Why should I make tank veno if there's a better class for it.

Hope that ppl with experienced venos will ansver my questions.

siasio89 wrote: »

Thank you for your response but still i have a problem. I have choosen heavy armor becouse i want to tank some bosses and want to fully get advantage of fox form but I don t know where put the points after each lvl.
Right now i am lvl 15 and i have: 10 vit, mag 15, str 52, dex 14. Please some formula how the points should be distributed after each lvl.

Mayfly - Dreamweaver wrote: »

at your level, a pure arcane has the best chance of doing it.