Genies for Seekers

kitsurii
kitsurii Posts: 1 Arc User
edited March 2011 in Seeker
I was wondering if anyone could help me out with my genie. I'm a seeker and haven't the slightest clue on what to do with mine.
Any/all advice would be helpful! I haven't played in a year, so refresh my memory with even the basics. Please and thank you!
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  • Astaeria - Heavens Tear
    Astaeria - Heavens Tear Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    First of all, I would get a zeal for obvious reasons. You can pull with it's starter skill earthflame.

    Just so you know, most of this is purely educated guessing on my part, what makes sense to me, and/or experience with the skill, but I hope it helps to some degree.

    Aside from that, seekers don't have their own healing skill, so you should definitely get one. I would suggest tree of protection. At level 10, it increases your max hp by 30% for 5 seconds. It recovers like.. 20% of your hp every 3 seconds for 6 seconds if I remember correctly. Plus, depending on where you put your str and dex points on your genie, it heals more or it heals for longer and ups your max hp more. So ToP is especially good for a class that will have a lot of HP like seekers would.

    Holy Path isn't really "necessary" as seekers have a speed boost. If you have a good genie though, you could probably justify using one of the slots for it. Another speed up isn't really a bad thing, and of course the cooldown of our speed boost is a bit long to be practical imo when you're trying to catch up in instances if you fell behind for whatever reason or if you're trying to get away from something.

    Tangling Mire would be a good one too. It reduces the movement speed and physical defense of mobs within a certain radius.

    Relentless Courage. It increases attack speed, channeling speed, and I think movement speed for a short time.

    I don't know if people ever bother with a skill called "Alpha Male" on the genie. It's a skill that turns aggro on you according to the description. I feel like this might only be useful at lower levels though to protect the squishies. lol. At higher levels, having aggro is more difficult, and I can see this becoming useless.

    A lot of people have the skill absolute domain, and it comes in handy quite frequently, so I would definitely suggest you get it. It makes the squad within a certain range immune to damage for a certain amount of time.

    So that's 7 skills if you include the starting skill for pulling, so if you have a really good genie, you could technically have up to 8 skills. Those genies are really, really expensive though. Chances are you're going to have to pick and choose which skills you want. I'd suggest trying them out and seeing how they work for you.

    Tree of Protection is a must imo. Absolute Domain is also very important. As for the others, that's up to you.

    I'd encourage you to take a look at the skill descriptions for everything else too though just in case there's something I didn't pick up on.
  • Etsuna - Heavens Tear
    Etsuna - Heavens Tear Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Balance seems like a good skill for a seeker too. Basically, it absorbs damage and makes you immune to stuns for a period of time. The reason I suggest this is mostly for the stun immunity part of it.

    ...that skill is only accessible to BMs...
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  • Astaeria - Heavens Tear
    Astaeria - Heavens Tear Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    ...that skill is only accessible to BMs...

    Really? b:shocked My bad, I'll edit that out. lmao. I've never used it before (obviously), and my seeker is still low-ish level, so I wasn't even thinking about genies yet until I read this page. b:chuckle I was just quickly looking over descriptions to see what I thought. I didn't think to check the class requirement.
  • OMarvelous - Sanctuary
    OMarvelous - Sanctuary Posts: 339 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Nice tips Astaeria, I know that I use AM on my barb and it has saved alot of people from being layed out. :)

    Don't think I'd put it on my Seeker genie though. :)
  • Astaeria - Heavens Tear
    Astaeria - Heavens Tear Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Nice tips Astaeria, I know that I use AM on my barb and it has saved alot of people from being layed out. :)

    Don't think I'd put it on my Seeker genie though. :)

    Thank you. b:thanks

    I'd rather have barbs tanking anyway, so I personally wouldn't put it on my seeker's genie either tbh. b:chuckle I was just throwing it out there as an option.
  • Haden - Dreamweaver
    Haden - Dreamweaver Posts: 376 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I originally had some good ideas for some good devilish uses of negative self-inflicting genie skills. Regrettably however, you arent able to seperate the positive and negative status' from eachother, and a lot of them are class specific b:sad


    Um A heal spell like TOP, an Anti stun like badge of courage If you're courageous, Bramble rage, and/or inflame are fun. Inflame's "confuse" stat is an aoe stun. While not reliable, still could be fun to see.


    Cloud erruption if you're having trouble with chi, cloud erruption, and if you have MP issues (you will) trying out Dampen Magic curse might give you a bit of bite.


    Evil ward might be a good skill, if you're primary target is sins and BM's in mass pvp... but again, any grinning seeker would be waiting for a negative status with a letcherous grin.
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  • Kitsurie - Dreamweaver
    Kitsurie - Dreamweaver Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I got an Infliction genie when I went to the Watcher. Is this okay for my Seeker self? Or should I change it?
  • LenieClarke - Heavens Tear
    LenieClarke - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,275 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I got an Infliction genie when I went to the Watcher. Is this okay for my Seeker self? Or should I change it?

    it doesn't really much matter which of the genies you get for free; in the long run you'll go through no end of them anyway.

    in the long run, you want a zeal for its pulling skill. but when you're first starting out, whichever genie you get will still work fine as an XP dump and for putting basic skills on --- your infliction will run second wind (accessible before tree of protection) and tangling mire perfectly well.
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  • joshuahng1
    joshuahng1 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    top
    occult ice
    fortify
    holy path
    cloud eruption
    ab domain
  • Lupinlove - Archosaur
    Lupinlove - Archosaur Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    kitsurii wrote: »
    i Was Wondering If Anyone Could Help Me Out With My Genie. I'm A Seeker And Haven't The Slightest Clue On What To Do With Mine.
    Any/all Advice Would Be Helpful! I Haven't Played In A Year, So Refresh My Memory With Even The Basics. Please And Thank You!


    How Do I Find Chi Stones
  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    joshuahng1 wrote: »
    top
    occult ice
    fortify
    holy path
    cloud eruption
    ab domain
    and what level genie and lucky points does all that require? >.>

    How Do I Find Chi Stones
    look around the genie NPCs, there are usually catshops that sell stones
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  • QuakeX - Lost City
    QuakeX - Lost City Posts: 52 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    i think that is a 7x/100 genie, not hard to get.