MY opinion of toons while watching culti

i got bored, and decided to watch toons and how they performed while in culti mode. obviously other opinions are more than welcome, i'm just pointing out what i see. i will be using toons that can use the free charms, and will also be setting the culti time to 3 hours. i will also tell you how many farmable items i picked up in that time, since you may wanna know that (obviously that number will change depending on how many doing culti's in same area. this info should be able to give you an idea of how long you can run higher lvl toons. i also did not use area of effect attacks. 1 last thing i never made the culti area any bigger than i absolutely HAD to to keep culti running.

this is not a slam on culti system, I HAVE already submitted my tickets for its improval. this is me deciding to analyize which toons work best despite the obvious weaknesses of the culti program (legal macro). i will edit this as i test more toons.

i will rank them the way i decide to like them when i finish.

1st toon i tested was a lvl 29 venomancer

PROS:
-obviously it has a tank
-doesn't have to use alot of healing while in human form
-doesn't run around much, atks mobs or picks up drops pretty quickly
-half way through the 3 hours i had 56 oils
- they have a ranged atk, which lets u atk before the runners

CONS:
-macro stalled on me twice while veno was in fox form, if i hadn't stopped and restarted culti veno would have died ( didn't stall while in human form)
-skills stalled on manual atk while i had it set up with just manual atk and pet healling to see if its worth conserving mana (its not)
-defend doesn't work propperly while in culti, sometimes pet attacks a mob to hell and gone from you while your being atk'd by the mob you atk'd
-whether you have pet set up to defend/ auto pet won't always atk same mob as veno
-pet still has to be fed
-sometimes pet doesn't atk (on auto setting) right away, it finishes walking back from last atk.
-no matter how you set up pet you run through mana quick, not as fast as a seeker or cleric though so there's a +
-has never made it the entire 3 hours even with +2 minister gear with citrine and garnet shards in them. once the mana runs out, no more pet healin. no more pet, hp runs out faster. and best hit i got in manual atk mode was 126 or so.

i dont really like the veno as a culti farmer
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Next toon is a lvl 49 archer
PROS:
-high dps
-if set up right, you can get more than 51% of damage done before reawakened "runner" who shows up after you started your culti (their saving you arrows) you get the drop
-good idea to repair bow, cause you have more than 50% hp left to use on charm so throw the poison arrow or serrated arrow in and manual atk and use that sucker up.
-in the end i was farming in an area i've never seen anyone farm except to finish quests, (less than 3% drop rate on both items received) at the end of 3 hours 12 leather AND 17 strong glue.
-not so much tendency to get stuck in terrain, when you can shoot through it.
- when skills get stuck in manual atk its ok, still dealing lots of damage.
- never had an archer culti stall to death
- moderate use of mana and hp charms

CONS:
-point blank atks are lower than at range, runners will steal those (usually about half to 3/4)
-lots of lost drops (other farmers cultis pick up
-lots of aimless running in circles atk'g nothing and picking up nothing
-(for me) larger culti areas were needed where the mob groups migrate. cleared an area, because mobs respawned outside my culti area, and ported back to town while set at 60m to start.

i like archers for culti farming
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next a lvl 49 seeker (runner)
PROS:
-high dps
-better range or speed than other runners (barby, sin, bm).
-still maintains high dps when skill bar in culti sticks in manual atk.
-hi def so hp charm lasts a while
-when you run out of mana you can still culti till hp runs out.
-gathered 27 leather in a 3 hour period of time (again ended with mobs with less than 3% drop rate so i would be undisturbed farming)

CONS:
-culti skill bar hesitates in the middle of battles, making skills take longer to fire.
-runs through mana like a ***** ape
-once in a while the skill bar stalls, but not as often as veno or barby

i like seekers, but not as much as archers for culti farming

23june14

ok i can only run so many accounts at a time without getting into trouble even with three computers. my luck i'd get caught and get banned if i ran 6 accounts on 3 computers. so i'm going to start another 2 farming and maybe play my cleric gl guys. i'll edit this later to add cleric and barby watching.