Hi all,What me up seeker mp?dex?str?vit?

Most people are still trying to work that out themselves, Give it time and i'm sure we'll find a good build (I'm looking into it as we speak)

EDIT: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1005482

From what i have seen it kinda looks like a standard sword bm build. 5 Str, 3 Dex and 2 Vit per every 2 levels. But you might want to stat 3/2 str/dex until more people figure things out.

Well i'm going 3 str 2 dex at the moment, adding in a level of vit once in a while. Right now i'm level 14 with 10 vit total LOL.. It seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. So either 3/1/1 str/dex/vit Or 3/2 str dex works fine Gives me a good accuracy and the ability to use my weapons easily enough.. Just depends on how accurate or durable you wanna be.

+1 shinga

I've been doing 7str 3dex per 2 lvls.

$hadow$layer - Heavens Tear wrote: »

ok so my seekers lvl 61, best build is doing 3str/1vit/1dex then the next lvl 3str/2dex
this works great and if u just do 3str/2dex every lvl ull fail at hp for TT and FF and so on

Really ?

There are plenty of BMs out there who swear by the 3str/2dex set up well into their 90s and I don't hear them complaining about lacking hp in TT or whatever. Fact is... unless you're a Barb or planning to be primary tank... HP should never take priority over damage output in pve.

Hexalot - Dreamweaver wrote: »

There are plenty of BMs out there who swear by the 3str/2dex set up well into their 90s and I don't hear them complaining about lacking hp in TT or whatever. Fact is... unless you're a Barb or planning to be primary tank... HP should never take priority over damage output in pve.

i've statted 30 vit so far on my level-29 seeker, and i've pretty much decided i'm capping it there. i'd say that vit early on helped me enormously. (then again, i'm pretty unfamiliar with melee classes in general; learning how to cope with taking hits is a new thing in my gaming... anyway, the vit gives me a very handy buffer.)

BUT, now that i've capped that off, i can't decide what to do with one extra stat point per level. i had been thinking all str for better damage --- but just recently i've noticed staggering strike missing a lot. more than i could swear it did just after i got it. (what good's northern sky if i can't trigger the nuke because it bloody well misses? twice in a row on a single mob? i kill no faster than a barb when that happens!) so, should i go 3/2 and pretend to be a sword BM with fancier graphics, or... is it crazy to start going 5/5, at least for a while?

Hexalot - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Fair enough as yes... you always have the option of restating later.

I've gone the 3str/2dex route up to my present level giving me an hp pool of roughly 3,500 which means that nearly all Seekers I've met in BH's have me beat in HP (nearly all of them approach or are at the 4k hp level). But somehow I don't seem to be any less squishy than them and typically end up doing the tanking on bosses anyway due to consistently taking aggro from my superior damage output (gotta love claws + cyclone heel b:laugh ).

But to each their own.

seekers arent really a tanking class, they're more of a Heavy armor damage dealer.

But:

the builds depend on your aptitude for a heavy armor class. If you're not used to it, statting vit would be a good idea. If you're more accustom to fighting in HA then little or no stat for vit works.


The most appropriate ranges so far is (at end game) 153-160 dex, 5-25 vit, and STR as a dump stat. A good goal is to try to hit your max dex and vit before 60 that way you can focus on str heavily. It may make you a tad less damaging, but you're crit rate and HP will be welcome blessings.


The EASIEST (in my opinion) way to build a seeker would be to do 5 str on odd levels and 5 dex on even ones until your cap is met, which is exactly how I built my bm.

However your stat distribution may be the least of your concerns, getting appropriated gear such as an arcane hat, light wrists, boots, and possibly mdef belt and necky would be choices you need to consider. MP is in VERY short supply and you may need to work out a way of developing a minimum of 2k mp somehow. However, dont DONT stat mag! Also being that Seeker's skills are almost primarily long ranged, developing a mdef level equal to your pdef level will be a challenge, because of the lack of marrows that we dont posess.

LenieClarke - Heavens Tear wrote: »

i've statted 30 vit so far on my level-29 seeker, and i've pretty much decided i'm capping it there. i'd say that vit early on helped me enormously. (then again, i'm pretty unfamiliar with melee classes in general; learning how to cope with taking hits is a new thing in my gaming... anyway, the vit gives me a very handy buffer.)

BUT, now that i've capped that off, i can't decide what to do with one extra stat point per level. i had been thinking all str for better damage --- but just recently i've noticed staggering strike missing a lot. more than i could swear it did just after i got it. (what good's northern sky if i can't trigger the nuke because it bloody well misses? twice in a row on a single mob? i kill no faster than a barb when that happens!) so, should i go 3/2 and pretend to be a sword BM with fancier graphics, or... is it crazy to start going 5/5, at least for a while?

Wow... to have 30 vit on a level 29 Seeker means that you've been putting a point in vitality for virtually every level. Ouch on your damage output (str) and accuracy (dex). b:sad.

I'm just not that familiar with the seeker build to tell you what to aim for to be fair but I know that as a BM with those stats, I would try to aim for (or at least get close to) 105 strength by level 35 and 70 for dex. That brings you back as close as possible to the 3/2 ratio while still having the nice hp pool you started off with.

been looking at all the seekers that ive squaded with atm. At least from what i saw personally its (surprisingly) evened out between VIT builds, STR builds, and DEX builds.... I honestly thought they would mainly be STR base and maybe dex base as a runner up.