sage or demon and why help please

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Furries - Dreamweaver
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12-11-2009, 09:13 PM
Endgame

so your approching lvl 89...

you have maxed all ur tiger from skills and you have a big choice ahead of you.

sage or demon...

to view the differences you can compare the demon and sage skills here

http://www.ecatomb.net/pwi/skillpwi.php

Myself and most pure tiger barbs choose to go demon, becuase it will give us what we have been l acking for the past 89 lvls.. DD power. well if you choose demon. congrats. you choose the one i can help you with.

Demon skills

demon skills are NOT cheap. neither is ur tt90 gear. so i highly recomand eyeing out of skillbooks and gear before you hit 89.

what skill books to choose?

as a tiger barb you will have a bunch of skillbooks to choose from but picking them out isnt alwasy the easiest.

skillbooks are seprated into 3 sections

the lvl 89 books (1 mill spirit and coin to learn)
Note: this does not include price of buying the book
True From
besital rage
Flesh ream
Alacrity of the beast
beast kings inspriation
Shapeshifting Intensity
Feral regenration

First and formost you get your True Form skillbook
for reason unknown to me this is also one the the cheapest skillbooks out there. and on average ranges from 50-250k. If you see the book in auction house for more than that. i recommend waiting fro the price to drop
this skillboks will computle elemiate your true from damage reduction. and will elt u do full damage in tiger form

Beast kings inspiration is another EXTREMELY useful skillbook. however unlike True form its is not remotely cheap. And to be honest, if you ever wish to obtain this book ur pretty much stuck paying w/e the person asks for becuase they only show up for sale once or twice a month. so if u see it.. buy it

shapeshifting intensity is another great skillbook and unless u pay close attention to the site u will miss why.
while the book only says it gives +2% crit, it will also bring youor def boost in tiger form from 60% to 80%.

Besital rage is your 3rd important lvl 89 skillbook
this will change the chi gain per hit from 5 to 8 for the 15 second duration.
it also doubles the magic damage reduction from 2k to 4k if use when under 50% health for 10 seconds
by 89 u will likely have over 10k hp and that extra 2k magc abord will be quite noticeable
but more importantly. the demon version will allow you to gain 3 spark in the amout of hits it previously took you to get 2 sparks.

Flesh ream. This one im not too sure about. the skill damage over time doubles making it roughly equal to the damage per tick of lvl 10 sunder but now able to used every 2.5 seconds. and stacking that damage espically after a devour will well be a nice damage increase. and while im sure that being able to spam ream more often on bosses will increase hate im not sure exactly how much more hate it gives than lvl 10. the main problem here is lack of chi. with sunder devour and now demon spark eating up alot of chi i have found enough to really use on ream.
Update: it seems that Demon Ream still isnt enough to hold aggro from DD's using triple Spark, and until this is changed i see no point in Getting this skill as it doesn't allow to to do more than you could with lvl 10 ream

alacrity of beast.
this cuts down cooldown by 1 second and increased damage. its nice but not that great of an improvement over lvl 10.

feral regeneration
sadly this was 1 skill sage gets all the glory for. while sage will increase ur mana regen by 10 every second. somthing extremly useful. demon just adds 10 more hp per second. at your lvl if you do end up meditation over using pots its ganna be for mana no health. while while i would was as sage this is great. but demon dont really worry about it unless u got cash with nothing to spend it on

the lvl 92 books

Devour
This skill is totally awsome as well as an huge damage increase to the skill itself,
the defense reduction is increased by 5 seconds to a total of 15. which means you need to cast it a lot less saving you a bunch of chi to keep the debuff always active.
this is MUST get.

Axe and Hammer Mastery
this will increase your physical damage by 15% more to 75% from the 60% of lvl 10
and it also gives 2% more crit. always a plus. get this when u can afford it

Posion Fang
this will increase your wood based damage from 30% to 50% a 20% increase. you will certainly notice this especially vs those bm who use alter marrow physical and earth based mobs


Note: fully buffed in true form with demon axe mastery, true form and poison fang (I'm ignoring titans for the moment as its a lvl 99 book)
a demon barb will do +125% (75+50)damage than with over a lvl 88 barb with +40% (60+30-50)

Surf Impact
this adds about 600 more base damage, and a 25% chance to freeze for 4 seconds.
using this skill myself the 25% freeze certainly isn't very reliable, but i was astonished to noticed that the damage increase is Highly noticeable, while this may not be a top priority i definitely recommend it.

Roar
the last 92 skill i will be covering i am not 100% sure about.
Demon roar gives u a 10 second Bramble that returns 100% of physical damage taken during that time.
that in and of itself is awesome but this skill WILL override a veno's bramble.
now having obtained this skill i can say a great deal more about its use. While this skill can get cumbersome with a veno in the sqaud having to recast bramble after each use of roar. its benifits far outweigh this inconvenience. The 100% reflect while it dot not work in PK mode will is extremly useful in Duel, Dragon temple, TW and other pk instances. I cannot keep track of the number of times i have been attck by a APS sin and was able to survive and kill them becuase of this skill. i have also noticed that the reflect damage is dependant on thier defense. while while it works wonders on sins, Blademasters are much more difficult. Still this skill is a much get.




and the lvl 99 books
Sunder
this skill is reason enough excluding all other skill to go demon. as well have changing the heal over time to a 4k instant heal
Demon Sunder makes Ever attack critical for 5 seconds, (including the Sunder itself)
those 5 seconds are enough time to pull off a surf impact or an Armageddon,
this skill also allows u to keep aggro much better when aoeing during times such as FC or Delta
You likely wont find a seller for this skill So plan on either buying pages of fate or doing cube for a long time, 30 pages of fate for 1/4 a chance to get this skill


Strength of Titains
Another very important skill book, this will increase ur damage buff from 30 to 40% as well as give a 5% increase to the squad crit ratio for 1 min.
although as a pure tiger you wont be spamming this skill for the crit buff and likely wont notice it much anyways. The extra 10% damage is Certainly noticeable even with the large range of damage that axes have
this book costs about 9-12 mill

Frighten
the demon version of this skill add a 20% chance to stun the targets for 3 seconds
While this is very nice addition, 25% is hardly reliable and the slow effect and p attack debuff are not increased in duration or percent. I definitely recommend getting this skill. but Sunder and titans are a higher priority. However this skill is also much cheaper than the previous two, costing around only 3 mill

Armageddon:
Truth be told. i haven't even learned lvl 1 Armageddon. so i really have no authority to make any comment on the matter

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Last edited by Furries - Dreamweaver; 06-30-2011 at 05:47 AM. Reason: updated for skills i have now tested