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− | * AoEMod grants even single target skills additional targets | + | * AoEMod from Inner Fire grants even single target skills additional targets. |
+ | * One of the few sources of the rare Attack status. | ||
* Flurry 3 and Speed 3 make this class one of the best (if not the best) at repeat attacks. | * Flurry 3 and Speed 3 make this class one of the best (if not the best) at repeat attacks. | ||
* Air magic allows access to the guided mod, making repeat attacks more powerful | * Air magic allows access to the guided mod, making repeat attacks more powerful | ||
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− | * | + | * +Air Magic (Zephyric Messenger torso especially) Allow for more powerful items with Guided |
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− | * | + | * One of the only souls to offer high Heavy Weapons + Marksmanship |
+ | * Offers lots of innate Knockdown abilities | ||
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− | * | + | * Hearth Magician - Offers Earth magic (so you can add Titanic to weapons for knockdown) and a bit of medical |
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− | * | + | * Only soul that can max shields unmodified |
+ | * Offers a small bit of innate medicine skill so you don't need to dual-soul just for healing | ||
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− | * | + | * [[Dark Magician]] - Will only offer 0.1/level boost for Dark Magic |
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− | * | + | * Only soul that can max Dark Magic |
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+ | * [[Pegasus]] - Helps shore up energy reserves | ||
* Spyguard - Thematically fun and provides a lot of bonuses to RP rolls | * Spyguard - Thematically fun and provides a lot of bonuses to RP rolls | ||
* Kraken - Duelist -needs- good equipment, and Kraken's Technical boosts it. Also, AoE Swift Swords. | * Kraken - Duelist -needs- good equipment, and Kraken's Technical boosts it. Also, AoE Swift Swords. | ||
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− | * | + | * Focus on Knockdowns to keep pushing your opponent back |
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− | * | + | * '''Zweihander''': Heavy Weapon with knockdown possibility |
+ | * '''Snare''': Requires Traps and Locks charka or secondary, but provides Knockdown and can be modded to inflict damage | ||
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− | * | + | * Adding Titanic to weapons gives them 100/3/1 knockdown |
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− | * | + | * '''Toughened/Reinforced/Defensive''' - DamageResist helps lessen some of the damage you take while tanking |
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− | * | + | * Max Water and Earth Magic mean you can put Pure and Titanic on everything |
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+ | "Priest is a heavy buffing class." | ||
+ | "It's a durability/support class." | ||
+ | "It can do some tanking if you need it to." | ||
+ | would pair it with hearth magician herself. | ||
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− | * | + | * Buff/Support class |
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− | * | + | * Lacks any innate magic profs |
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| '''Secondaries''' || | | '''Secondaries''' || | ||
− | * | + | * High-Magic soul (e.g. Winter Witch, Army Mage, ) lets you equip and mod an elemental |
+ | * Machine Priest offers no-loadout pets. | ||
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− | * | + | * Elementals |
+ | * Mercenaries also benefit from your Leadership | ||
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=[[Treasure Hunter]]= | =[[Treasure Hunter]]= | ||
+ | AoE? | ||
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* Kirin (Cover) | * Kirin (Cover) | ||
* Basilisk (2 weak actives) | * Basilisk (2 weak actives) | ||
+ | * Pegasus (You won't use the extra energy) | ||
+ | * Two-Tailed Kitsune (Useless outside RP!) | ||
+ | * Gryphon (Neither of the skills are very useful, decent stealth skill provides decent escape chance) | ||
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=[[Winter Witch]]= | =[[Winter Witch]]= | ||
+ | DoT-heavy and debuffing soul | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:55, 19 November 2014
Every soul is a good soul. But some are better than others at doing their job. This is an attempt at systematically classifying every combat soul, and contains some tips for proper optimization. Some general Do's and Don'ts for optimization:
- DO take complementary secondary souls. For instance A 'squishy' (low HP, low defense) soul can benefit from a secondary soul that lets it use better armor, or offers some medicine proficiency to let you heal.
- DON'T overlap proficiencies when you dual-soul. Since you get half the ability of the secondary soul at a given level, redundant proficiencies are wasted.
Contents
- 1 Aranian
- 2 Army Magician
- 3 Bard
- 4 Berserker
- 5 Cannoneer
- 6 Champion of Light
- 7 Crusader
- 8 Dark Knight
- 9 Dark Magician
- 10 Duelist
- 11 EarthShaker
- 12 Fighter
- 13 Golem Crafter
- 14 Gunslinger
- 15 Hearth Magician
- 16 Journeyman
- 17 Lightning Caller
- 18 Machine Priest
- 19 Mage Adept
- 20 Monk
- 21 Ninja
- 22 Pirate
- 23 Priest
- 24 Rogue
- 25 Samurai
- 26 Scholar
- 27 Shrouded Assassin
- 28 Standard Bearer
- 29 Street Fighter
- 30 Trauma Mage
- 31 Treasure Hunter
- 32 Windrunner
- 33 Winter Witch
Aranian
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Army Magician
Building souls for Army Magician is very simple: avoid high fire/air magic overlaps and focus on shoring up the extreme weaknesses of this DPS centric soul. Cover makes you take damage for allies--avoid it!
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Short Bow for attack and accuracy passive boost |
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= 83 base damage over 4 rounds
= Light weapon, provides 20 defense and 10 accuracy buff |
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Bard
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Berserker
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Cannoneer
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Champion of Light
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Crusader
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Dark Knight
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Dark Magician
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Duelist
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EarthShaker
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Fighter
The name 'fighter' is a bit of a misnomer, as this soul excels at providing defense and cover more than inflicting damage. Make sure to add damageresist to better soak up enemy damage.
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Golem Crafter
The Golem Crafter has two flavors: offensive and defensive. When you get the Golem Crafter soul, you will have to complete the 'A Golem Maker Introduction' webmission to gain access to the Basic Offensive and Defensive Golems.
At Level 30 GC, you can do the 'Advanced Golem Models' mission to gain an Advanced golem, but you can only choose ONE advanced model and will never be able to have the other type.
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Gunslinger
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Hearth Magician
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Journeyman
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Lightning Caller
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Machine Priest
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Mage Adept
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Mods: Titanic and/or Pure, Flammable, Venomous, Creator inspired.
Mods: Enhanced line, Resistive line, pure, titanic
Mods: Heavy line, Venomous, Creator inspired. |
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= Best for builds running support and elementals, though the energy cost is heavy it can proc off of elementals.
= Let's be honest, this ded is nuts on anything with a HP bar.
= Cover or healing minion. If you already have an elemental, Fire -> go with healing, Water -> go with cover is a safe bet. 'Free' minions are insane. |
= You do not want to cover for everyone. That will get you killed. |
Monk
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Ninja
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Pirate
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Priest
"Priest is a heavy buffing class." "It's a durability/support class." "It can do some tanking if you need it to." would pair it with hearth magician herself.
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Rogue
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Samurai
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Scholar
A buff/debuff class, good at supporting and strengthening summons and party members.
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Standard Bearer
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Street Fighter
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Trauma Mage
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Treasure Hunter
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Windrunner
Windrunner is a very specialized class. As a light weapons class, it never runs into cooldown issues. As of such, avoid picking classes that have many active skills to deal damage as they will not fit into a strong light weapons rotation. It has a niche role providing defense debuffs with guided longbow and hand crossbow that no other class can provide.
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Optimal:
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Winter Witch
DoT-heavy and debuffing soul
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