cd2 spearazon yay!

[Sjafi]

Stats are the biggest question for me right now. I have two routes I can take. One is going 110 str, 95 dex for the requirements of lances/war forks. With this I can concentrate on lots of hp and hp is always good. The second route, which I seem to like more right now is lowest dex possible for my weapon, 250+ str for maximum damage and to wear any armor I so choose, although the max in cd2 is ornate armor. With this, my HP will be lower but I will have lots more damage, more possible defence and because of my high damage, leech more. I think this would be the way to go!

As for skills, I'm maxing fend, penetrate, decoy, high critical strike, no d/a/e. I haven't figured out what other skills to go with but I will figure that out when the time comes. Any suggestions?

edit: I was checking out the calculator and I figure I can either dump the rest of my points in innersight so my chances of hitting is almost certain, or I could try maxing impale for the hell of it. The damage is something like 770% at lvl 20! That could be a fun skill taking on single mobs. Especially with high strength, who cares if the attack is slow, I use fend for groups.

[Omikron8]

classic eh?

stick with lances/war forks

you have no charms in classic so you need to get all or most of your stats from base investment

impale is sloooooow even with a war fork and lots of IAS and it quickly breaks your weapon

if you want fend avoid d/a/e completely

high defense is not necessary because your defense won't even exist when you are running around, and you will be doing lots of maneuvering unless you want to get constantly surrounded

i would avoid the decoy and invest instead in charged + light strike

[Sjafi]

any reason to avoid decoy? I think it would be invaluable as I don't have any dodging, my defence won't be that great and I won't have a valk...Besides, would a charged/lightning strike even be useful with just one synergy invested?

[newerest]

Fend is bugged, so if you dodge or block an attack, you'll still go through the animation of fending, but no attack will ever do damage.

Also, impale is so slow that you could probably do the same damage (if not more) using Jab.

[Omikron8]

yes CS + LS together would be good enough

use it to weaken a crowd before fending

i think he knows about fend bug

[Sjafi]

yes CS + LS together would be good enough

use it to weaken a crowd before fending

i think he knows about fend bug

Yes I know about the bug which is why I am not going for d/a/e. I also decided not to go into the lightning skills because I already have a javazon using them and I see no point to use them with a spear when you benefit more from jav/shield. Bad blizzard for making them useless for a spearie :( I think if fend got just one synergy, it would be much better and maybe some people would go for fendazons. Especially if you could use d/a/e with them! I'd love to have a valk by my side.

Then again, I might have to go with some lightning because of physical immunes, if I want to deal with them.