full dex build ftw!

I suggest you either go with vit/hybrid until you get blood paint, then restat back to pure; or fork over a lot of money/time for pots/powders. But yes, I'm a 37 vit cap hybrid (simply because didn't want to spend 5 gold more for the next stepup stone) and I kick ****, more than I ever did as a vitb:cool

Hmm...guess I just be a fail then. Also I had like 20 points in magb:surrenderI DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS USELESS! STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THATb:angry

Camerlengo - Dreamweaver wrote: »

My Sin has 40 vit, and I don't regret a single point. In bh 39 just the other day I survived a splody mob that a higher level sin didn't, just because I have a vit build

You survived because of your VIT and he died because he sucked.

I'm pure dex b:cute
I like being suicidal but if I do get the kill, its sure going to be fast!
Plus the fact that I get lucky sometimes and things don't land hits
Obviously not the build for you fishies that want to tank bosses around your level b:chuckle

I am pure dex. I haven't had much trouble with the HP recently, since I just got Bracers of Blood Moon. Also, with BHs, it's not like I grind a lot on my own, so my HP losses would be minimal to begin with.

On my 73 Sin, I have 40 vit., 75 Str, and 302 Dex.

Along with gear and shards, I have almost 3,100 HP. It's a nice amount of HP at my level (and for a Sin), considering that I've seen same level BM's with less (though it's not the norm). Oh, and I have no real refines to speak off.

I also have a 21% crit rate, and 2068 - 2702 damage (I did have more, but I finally opted for crit gear over damage gear).

Having said all that to paint the scenario, I'll tell you this much: I LOVE THE HP! With a barb buff, I come to over 3,8k.

But... I will not build more vit over the 40 I already have.

Reason for this is, at lower levels you also have a lower crit rate. And let's face it... it's our crit rate that makes us fast killers... not the standard damage, which is just a little over the fist BM's damage.

Thus, at higher levels we kill quickly enough that we don't really need that much vit from a PvE standpoint... especially with Bloodpaint. At lower levels, we don't... so the HP helps substantially.

Add to it some interval gear, like the Bracers of Bloodmoon (DQ lvl LA Arms), and the Rank IV lvl 60 Chest (which you won't have at 60 unless you shop rep tags out the butt at the Auction House), and you'll find that a lot of times you actually HEAL when you attack / grind normal mobs, as opposed to lose health.

So at a lower level, vit is certainly beneficial until crit rate increases, as you level up.

(Quick sidenote: some will argue that the BM's 1.43 attack, vs. our 1.25 compensates for that damage difference, but the point is... 99% of BM's will be HA until the opt for LA / HA set bonuses with TT99 gear, thus requiring about 150 more points of str at the same level, for their gear... which is 7% crit we DO have over BMs).

Pure dex build is awesome as you level and your crit rates grows with it. Our evasion will compensate for melee mobs, and Focused Mind helps soooo much in all circumstances, it's not even funny.

Throw into the formula the ability to build chi at ninja speed, and you become a veritable spark-*****, who, with a high lvl Wolf Emblem, can 2-3 shot most any mob your level (and higher) through sparked+ wolf emblemed crits.

At a lower level, Vit is certainly a very helpful plus... 40 points of vit is only a -2% in crit rate, if it were allocated to dex; but it's a sizeable chunk of extra (and much needed, early on) HP, as well as a sizeable chunk of normal damage (which, as we've seen, is not what makes us formidable PvE'rs and PvP'rs - it's our crit rate). Naturally you can compensate all this with gear.

And because at most levels, until you squad up with a proper tanker barb (or one that is higher level than you), you'll be drawing aggro a lot - that extra HP from a few more points of vit can make the difference between you dying before you can pull off a Shadow Escape, or before the Barb takes aggro back.

-TangLung