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Mindcrime
04-15-2007, 02:24 AM
Hi guys, i'm new at the board but have read it for a couple of months.
I'm running Harbinger lvl.48 for a week and i'm having pretty fun time with him thus far. Right now i'm at mid-Orient/Epic and not having any problems dealing with mobs.
OK i would first present my skill and attribute allocations and then ask the questions, shall i:

Attributes:

Health:3750
Manna:830
Strenght:603
Inteligence:Around 100-120
Dexterity:257

Skills:

http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Harbinger&master1=3&master2=9&m1=32-6-1-8-6-6-6-0-6-0-1-0-6-0-0-6-0-0-6-6-0&m2=32-0-0-0-10-8-0-6-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0

At my next lelvel i consider maxing Tarnce of empathy, but i'm stuck at what should i do next:confused:
Any sugestions?

Also i have read the manual and the boards, but since English is not my mother tongue i'm a little confused about some of the explanations about skills namely:

1.What does it mean by Attack damage converted to health. if it is let say 10% does this mean that 10% of my avarage/dps is stolen from mobs and converted to my health?
2.What in h*ll is the diference between damage resistance/reflected/absorption?

Thanks in advance to all that answer and sorry for any grammar errors if there are any.

Happy Happy first post to me :clap:

mihk3l
04-15-2007, 03:48 AM
Remove ALL points from ToE and put them to ToW.

Your next step should be maxing ToW then Temporal Flux.From there it doesn't matter if you get Phantom Strike and start pumping Dreamstealer or if you get Distort Reality and start adding points info Temporal Rift both are good crowd controllers, I'd go for Temporal Rift 1st.

Attack damage converted to health, well let's say your dps is 2k and your weapon has 10% attack damage converted to health and you inflict 2k damage to a mob this means you also heal yourself by 200hp your damage won't get decreased.

Damage resistance means you recive X% amount of less damage from ALL damage types.
Damage reflected doesn't mean you take less damage but if you have 17% damage reflected item that means when you get hit by 1k damage then then attacker suffers 170 damage.
Damage absorbtion is the same damage resistance, I think.

Mindcrime
04-15-2007, 10:26 AM
OK i relocated all points from ToE to ToW.
I'm now past Chang'an but having serious trouble with dragonian and tigerman sorceress. Funny thing is i can take up to ten melle dragonians without problem, but even one sorcer could make it nightmare:( . Maybe it's like that because of gear, but i have four legendaries allready and consider them good. Anyway i would try to fight my way to the Jade palace and if i can't i would consider relocating skills.

mihk3l
04-15-2007, 11:14 AM
Well try upping your reistances then :)

Mindcrime
04-15-2007, 12:15 PM
Saddly i can't use relic and charms with legendary items.
My only problem appears to be cold and pierse damage with 0 resistance.
I should probablly remove some of the damage boosting relics from my eqipment since everything dies with three maximum four hits.

mihk3l
04-15-2007, 03:40 PM
Piercing res 0 is very bad get it up somehow asap because otherwise you get slaughtered by archers(happened to me).

Infares
04-15-2007, 03:47 PM
Damage resistance means you recive X% amount of less damage from ALL damage types.
Damage absorbtion is the same damage resistance, I think.

Just a little clarification on these lines: Damage Resistance works like any other resistance but just on physical (strength) damage on weapons and skills expressed as "Damage". This type of damage is also reduced by armor absorption.

Damage Absorption is the one that works on every damage type, whereas Damage Resistance is the one that only applies to physical damage from melee and bows, and skills like Distort Reality and Eruption (although both of those do other types of damage too).