Fade or Fire Blast for my Trapsin?

[Anelka]

Fade or Fire Blast for my Trapsin?

hi, my trapsin is now 77 and i was in the top 10 yesterday. Until no i got my LS, DS, SW maxed out, and last syn on lvl 15. Now i need some opinions about the rest of my build. I got Fade on 1 and Fire Blast on 1.

Where to go now? Because of my untwinked equ, i got bad res.

With Fade maxed und +skills i could get about 70 res all and 30 % damage reduction. But then i would be lightning only. That wouldnt be thaaat problem, i hope to get the party for playin to the 90s. For imunes i got Mind blast for stunning, and my merc now.

Or

Do i Go 20 into Fire Blast to get about 3000 fire damage for imunes and higher chance to get killed. Therefor i will HAVE to MAX Fireblast, otherwise the damage wont be that effective.

What do you think? My main skills will be maxed fast, i still got rada and izual quest ...

 

[stephan]

If you can get a level 30 fade when maxed, you can get a level 11 fade right now. Is the difference in res between a level 11 and 30 fade (about 15 res all I guess) really worth 19 skill points?

 

[Anelka]

Hm i got to think of that. I didnt mention that i will loose the +1 (or +2) all skills items for the +3 traps items.

So think i can have later:
+3 traps amu / or +2 assa skills (+1 i have)
+2 assa skills helm (+1 i have)
+6 traps in claws (+2 traps and +2 skills i have, question if i will change +2 all skills in +3 traps)
+2 skills in armor (+1 i have)
maybe in rings and belt later on …

+5 Skills, +2 traps i have for now. i forget about the fact, that fade wont be that high that my traps.
i can have +7 or +5 if i change the claw with assa skills.

So i better have to decide, if +7 assa skills and +6 traps/ +5 and +9.

lvl 20 fade: +68 all res and 27 % damage reduction

or

lvl 20 fire blast: 3226 - 3833 dmg

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i see its really complicated for myself ^^

hm, or i will boost fire blast to 20. and the rest into fade after that.

i got 25 skills left until 99. ^^ hm. so i just have to let the syn at 15, and go on with fire blast until lvl 94.

 

[stephan]

You can shop +3 shadow claws (and +3 trap as well) from Anya in NM and Hell. Use them on switch.

 

[Anelka]

sounds good. my first trapsin, so …

 

[Anelka]

+3 traps circlet, or +2 assa skills better … - btw, ist combination possible? ^^

 

[muzzz]

If you're looking into fade, have you considered Hell countess runs to fashion yourself a treachery? IIRC, you only get the %DR from the skills base level, not +skills. In other words, a maxed fade with +7 would only give 8% res, 6% curse reduction and 5% DR over treachery's level 15 fade.

Personally I wouldn't spend 20 skillpoins for that. But of course it also depends on what you're getting from your armor slot.

 

[stephan]

If you're looking into fade, have you considered Hell countess runs to fashion yourself a treachery? IIRC, you only get the %DR from the skills base level, not +skills.

This is not true. All properties of fade are boosted by +skills.

 

[Ava]

The PDR is 1% times the actual active skill level (capped at 50%). But still, the only real benefit that maxing Fade gives is an added 1%PDR per level. Now, as you're a trapsin and shouldn't get hit that often, I wouldn't bother putting more than one point in it.

 

[Ava]

+3 traps circlet, or +2 assa skills better … - btw, ist combination possible? ^^

You mean a claw with +3 traps and +2 assa skills? No. +3 Traps can only spawn on magical items (+2 assa skills can also spawn on rares) and because both are prefixes, you can't get them both on the same magical item.

 

[Anelka]

ok thank u. i made my decission and fire blast is pure lvl 10 now …

 

[humblegar]

Hey Anelka, maybe you could write down what skills you plan to have at, say 85 (hard points)?

Mine is lvl 20 atm, and its only my second trapsin. Hoping to have some time to level her next week.

 

[Darkflight]

My trapsin didn't have a single point in Fade. Her skill build was:

20 LS,DS,SW,CBS,FB
1 Claw Mastery, Weapon Block, Cloak of Shadows, Pshycic Hammer

I got Fade from a claw on switch wich gave +2 shadow skills, +3 Fade. I cast Fade at level 16 with that and a +3 shadow skills on switch. You shouldn't need more than that. A +x Fade claw should relatively easily be shopped.