I'm now a Samurai!

I'll be using swords, and stat robes till MQ armor which will be a 200+EE Plate.

How should I stat myself?

I also have a stat robe for MQ if I choose, but generally it offers me less value per life bar since I never get to group

Suggestions?

If you get on discord you'll find plenty of groups looking to climb.

I'd do 10 vita on Samurai and the rest in dex if I were you.

He's using swords, so no dex

I would suggest 10-30 pts into vitality, and then the rest into strength. I personally don't use EE armors and go 100vit, but using EE armors at 55+ you will need less vit, so I would aim for around 75ish.

I'll be using swords wouldn't strength be preferable?

Maybe I'll try more vit and using stat robes this time and see if I like it better.

My problem becomes for groups I have to climb at work and in free moments I rarely just get a chance to set down and climb all the way . So I try to avoid inconveniencing most established groups who can't deal with my sporadic climbing.

basically you get used to statting more vit and using stat armors when you hit monk, using ee padded robes is significantly worse than using ee plates.
I wouldnt be surprised if you prefer the ee armor option until you're basically forced onto the mass vit + stat armor route, i also generally used ee armors until i did like 10 monk climbs, after that i sold ee armors except the MQ and just stat a bit more vitality.


Some people prefer ee robes, but personally i'm not a fan

GZ on the pass, go upto 3 keys and remember MQ is at 73 for samurai, increases by +2 per unlocked class (if you rerolled that char to barb, you'd only need to go to 71)

I wouldn't suggest using a robe for this route. With armors they get the benefit of increasing defense when you stat vitality (vitality increases your physical defense, which robes have none of :P). If you want to go stat, it is much better to get a chain/plate that is level 55 with stats. I would still suggest to use the EE plate, but up to you

I've got a few stat plates already, maybe I'll try increased vit stat robes/stat plate at MQ then next climb I'll use EE plate if I don't pass haha!

Got to try new things to keep it fresh. Thank you all for suggestions!

Good chance I'll wind up preferring the EE plate route as big suggested, but I want to try something different.

Yeah my bad.

Just looked at the ee armor. Not the swords. Str and vita