since DFO source is a “meh” source, someone with DNF knowledge/experience (or thief experience) want to give me the rundown on Thief/Necro skills I should be pumpin points in?
I played a necro during pts and I found that the awakening was pretty bad. You first charge up some orb which did like around 500 a tick, then you do an explosion, which hit over 1000, then the last explosion does 15k. It’s not great when you stack it up to other awakenings, plus you can still be hurt during the whole time and it’s a pretty long animation. On brigand boss, the hounds and boss were smacking me since they had SA. I can imagine if you fought someone like Bwanga who can smack out of hitstun, can deal a lot of damage to you and probably stun you out of it.
I find dark nail and dark soul a must to max. Those are low level skills and deal good damage. Plus they are pretty much the most mana efficient thing the necro has. Soul Lure is also good. Nicholas is a must. I decided to max his web since it makes dealing dark damage easier. Black wave is good for utility and does decent damage, but I was just playing around with it. You can get by with 1 point, but I maxed it because the damage was decent. It’s also dangerous in pvp. On the orders to Nick though, I left it at 1. You get buffs to Nick if you max it, but since I was short on points, I only took 1 so I can change his stance. You’ll probably have more points than I had in the pts so don’t be afraid to put points into it. If you’re gonna pvp also keep in mind molting is like phase shift, so snag 1 point in that (i believe more points effects cd though). Flying squirrel is in the kunoichi tree I believe and it does fire damage. It’s good in pve builds since it’s mana efficient and does good fire damage. I was testing this out because it relies on magic attack and a lot of enemies are resistant to dark in Aphelia so I gave this a try. It’s also decent mobility. Your most damaging attacks probably are in Vallacre. I expect most necros to be pumping points into his skills, but be warned, in pve this thing murders your mp in about 3 rooms.
bah i dont get off till 5… hopefully i can make 35 asap
Able to download the patch currently, via DFOCP, though the servers aren’t up yet. Two hour download for me, so I would recommend people start it now so you don’t have to wait later.
thanks. I’ll see what i’m working with once the game is up and running again. How do they fair in PvP? I don’t mind trying to make a hybrid of both if I can.
EDIT: Also, where those Japanese thief soundpacks at?
Don’t forget to post screen shots. I’m going to leave the update to run over night when I get home.
I pvped to vagabond 5 in the pts and it seems like they are decent enough. You do a lot of tick damage using stuff like deadman’s grudge and black web. Dark soul is probably the most important and used skill for a necro because it allows her to camp it and if they are hit by it, they would get into hitstun and knockdown on the last explosion. You can control it’s speed so you can make it move really slow. Nicholas is really good. I usually set him to aggressive so he will be on top of them a lot. I also had him spamming zombies because they can grab players and you can go to town on them while they are grabbed (I had 1 point in zombie). Having Nick close to them is important because then he can use black wave to lock them in place for big damage. Black wave would hold them in place and you literally can throw the whole kitchen sink at them during this duration. Vallacre is quite slow but you can use his z attack to cover your approach and help yourself move around. His cube skills also have good SA so you can use it to beat out some moves.
One huge downside of necros is that if the other person want to, they can curb stomp Nicholas if they want too. I had an asura I was fighting just ghost orb him into oblivion whenever he saw him. Plus they can use Nicholas as grabbing material to buy themselves some i-frames if they need it. Killing Nicholas is really bad for you because you lose a lot of utility such as zombies, black wave and web. Nicholas is also a good distraction to keep them busy so having him gone would make your life a little harder. I tried to play the Necro as more of a zoning class and I was doing very well with her, though I believe the Necro does do very well against a rogue. Both classes have good mobility moves.
Hey guys. Looking to get into this. What’s OP at the moment?
If you just get broken ass gear, you can roll your face on the keyboard and kill anything.
I am on DFOSource alot but I am basically there hanging out sometimes trolling.
Most ppl there dont even play the game.
I am updating DFO now.
Awesome. Looking forward to it.
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Oh, what a surprise! Didn’t see this one coming.
yea I got it updated and saw a loading screen. That is about it lol.
Gonna be thief Rogue now. I always do damn magic classes so I gonna switch it up and go Rogue.
I get to 70 on my F Mech in a Casual manner. My nen I will build back up when I got time.
I had low expectations that itll go through by 6pm. So I was taking time hittin the weights.
Some of my characters didn’t receive a lethe. After a couple relogs, some characters received them, but not all.
I screwed up an open the mail with the weps on the wrong character wanted my necro to get the 12+ not the rogue.
Bah! Should be on tonite.
For those central time make sure your logged on at 7 for the event 8 for those eastern
i was struck with worry because we have ex skills and i was hoping i didnt screw up my build so i found a decent thread about the ex skills and tp.this thread is really helpful check it out. the guy breaks down the total tp you get when your maxed with is 23 tp and he shows you how much tp is needed active and passive skills.
http://www.dfosource.com/forum/korea/66215-[guide]-ex-skills-discussion.html
btw i made a necro today so far i havent found any decent builds so i just plan to stick with other characters and do some back tracking and finish up on old quest for sp. other than that see you guys on.
Redownloading this, I forgot about it and it’s been a while apparently…so much new stuff.
Any dedicated SRK area or does everyone just go wherever?
There’s no real area, just do whatever. If you’re on some people are willing to help if you need it. If you want to be in the guild or just need help you can talk to me in game. ign: Kikoken.