Nine Swords

Just wondering how everyone is liking their builds thus far. I have been been working on Hammers & Blood atm and am liking the heal potential of Blood so far. In Ql2 gear I was able to keep a full group healed all the way through Polaris (Usually you want QL3 gearish). I haven't delved much into the damage side of Blood, but looking at the charts it seems Blades has more synergies atm. The main thing I am liking is having two impairments and three Aoe's when combining the two for general questing.

Just curious what sorts of builds folks are playing with atm.

I am going blades/blood but I am the oppisite from you, I have not explored the healing side much beyond my blood sheild, but would like to start working on it, I love to heal. any suggestion would be welcome

Blades and blood focus a lot on afflicts both. Hammers and blood is also what I started on. It's a bit clunky at first but once you get in the PBAoE barriers and some more of the DD consumers it's a vicious combo

my only complaint with blood is i wish the books looked a little cooler lol but I am having fun with it all the same. I may have try hammars they look cool.

Wait till you see the ones from Polaris and Hell. both are pretty wicked looking

For quite a while I was thinking of starting off with Blood / Fists for healing, but Zurai mentioned I should try AR with Blood. Have to say AR healing is rather nice. It's a little sad though considering I can spam a single attack and kill basically anything without ever dropping below 90% health, it just takes forever. Still, can't wait to get into some more group runs.

Fall wrote:For quite a while I was thinking of starting off with Blood / Fists for healing, but Zurai mentioned I should try AR with Blood. Have to say AR healing is rather nice. It's a little sad though considering I can spam a single attack and kill basically anything without ever dropping below 90% health, it just takes forever. Still, can't wait to get into some more group runs.

I can second that too. too many times have I taken credit for Greyknight's healing while playing blood.

Fists + Pistols for me.....Cause I like fists and pistols the HoTs fists have keep me alive and deal out a good bit of damage and then pistols for when I cant be in range. Might change Pistols to Ele tho

Hammer/shotgun here with a focus on weaken, protection buffs and some crit power rating. I'm happy with it so far, wouldn't mind doing some extra damage though. (Currently running tanking gear.)

Tried Blades/blood in the beta weekends, the kind of standard afflict/penetrate build. Pretty nasty once you get all your afflicts running.

Aralon wrote:Fists + Pistols for me.....Cause I like fists and pistols the HoTs fists have keep me alive and deal out a good bit of damage and then pistols for when I cant be in range. Might change Pistols to Ele tho

I went with Fists + Chaos because I like combat up close, but range is nice when hindered or when I want to pin someone/something down and reach them. I thought about picking up pistols, AR or Ele, not sure which I'll go with at first. I noticed that Ele has a lot more range than pistols and AR too I think. I'll finish my Executioner deck and get the outfit and see from there