NON-APS Sage BM build.

Abstractive - Archosaur wrote: »

Hello everyone, I would like to discuss yet another endgame build, this time for the Blademaster. I chose Sage because it is a strict non-APS build. I'd love feedback on what could be changed and what not.

Keep in mind that this BM reached 100k+ physical defense by having Buddha's Guard on. Also, I gave this build a fair amount of dex, since with the minimum required dex for gear (55), his accuracy would be somewhere near 800, making it impossible to successfully land a hit on any dex-based class.


http://pwcalc.com/b08111d951db141b

Enjoy. And last but not least feedback from the BM veterans would be much appreciated.

Your elemental defense is just way too low....Even with sage magic marrow, you would get 1 shot by any psychic, mystic, cleric, wiz or veno with half decent damage.

In my own personal experience, building a sage BM that is non-aps (Nahktuul was sage bm before the aps craze), is all about balance and survivability.

What I find most interesting about this build is that you seemed to almost go out of your way not to use any int gear at all. That's something even I wouldn't do (I just wouldn't, y'know, partake of the 4/5aps ****). And yet, the rank 9... o.o is this designed as an experiment in PVP? Because r9 is overkill for PVE...

HeavensRage - Raging Tide wrote: »

Physical necklace es best never loose eehuahuehua

Really wt a tard put a elemental cube neck for god sakeb:bye

And why not a nirvana robe to get more magic defense and well 5 more attacks lvls???? IJS

One sage Bm to another:

Well, personally It is nice to hear that you really don't care about interval what so ever, which does brings back memories of how the game us to be. Unfortunately, some here are right, the to put into what you are looking for in gear is to me WOW. I can see you owning against normal mobs but Bosses like Snakefist in Warsong as well as the mobs on the way there, you are going to get owned with not having much in helping you take a hit. Trust me aps does help in keeping yourself alive when you need to use your sage spark to get you out of a tough situation. Just with BP and sage spark, I pretty much am my own cleric and don't need to rely on a charm (which is rare for me to have).

Looking at your gear and how it is sharded, personally, it seems more for a TW than for anything else, but you will still have a tough time against the AA toons when hitting you, so hopefully you see them first before they see you.

kepi117 wrote: »

lol you realize that necklace unrefined costs over 1.5 _billion_, right?

yes, cause ALL that gear isn't expensive. >_> THAT is the problem. >_>

anyways.

what id suggest instead of the Str tome would be a Vit tome and stat out the dex, might lower crit, but it raises hp and raises mag def and phys def at the same time.

it really doesn't do much but then again without altering the gear, it doesn't do much anyways.
oh, and it does lower evasion and accuracy, but really with this build Accuracy isn't really top priority anyways.

against r8-below gear, you'd be absolutely right, but against a r9 of equal gear magic, he'd be fairly squishy considering Axes make it pure dmg not dps, so considering they'd be pure 2def gems too and also maxing their phys def, he'd be hitting pretty low and taking huge hits 3sparked while doing a fairly small amount of damage in return. his build is made specificly for increasing defence, but his defence is solely in phys and the mag def he gets is purely from the def/attack lvl gear. To be honest, his gear right now reminds me of more of a magic/light armor build rather then a Heavy armor build.

Allynna_ - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Would think the elemental Necklace would be better than the Phys one. You loose maybe 2% Pdef buffed, but gain over 8% unbuffed.

Also I would think 87 defense levels and 69% Mdef is far from squishy vs magic.

4k mdef is just simply too low. no matter how much def levels you have.

and if I am not mistaken, def level feeds off the base def you have. So in this case, he will benefit from p. def....but m. def is just piddly. A level 80 archer has about the same as his bm would have.

He did it for sage bell more than anything I'm certain.

With that being said, I'm no expert in BM-eese. I'm only married to one. But even so, I think that even my level 8x mystic could probably hurt this guy with the low m.def. And with my wizzie that's not even rank 8, it'll be a one-hit. And...my psychic...b:bye

Why the pdef necklace?