Morning Tim & John.

Syphon monk?¿?¿ So u make it caster?

And yes i wake up when the sun is up cuz i carry my sister to school

This post was edited by wenzor on Oct 10 2008 02:45am

I don't know what my builds are called anymore
This one I will name Herbert
He will have a dagger, str syphon robe, int syphon charm and heal in acc all stats to int.

Going to lose out on dex and some str and vita however my healing power will increase dramaticaly and syhpon will be 23%. He should chain > 14 and the added defence combined with much more healing potency may well slip him up a gear or two especialy in the fifties.

Int will be too low though even then to give the crushing reduction in damage of which it is capable and still I will suffer from robes rather than heavy plate so nothing miraculous will occur. Curious to see how he preforms and wether he will have killing power to get the job done. Generaly with this sort of thing high int and high str are a prerequisite for the build to function to any degree and go forwards rather than backwards, to then make it sexy you need to sort out the dex on top of that so the kill rate increases dramaticaly.
Reducing damage received to 0's is possible with heavy armour but on a Monk i am yet to prevent them battering for at the very least 100 per blow. That said the well is a walk in the park no matter how strong: poor mob is fighting a char with health over 10 thousand easily, unless you lose the balance for then healing will not deal with the damage and killing takes too long: it is necessary to run. He has no worries with wells.

not a complete charecter then, but the syphon will be handy on the Guardian. Tried a little on wave 9 last time we did guild catas and being solo front row reaped me stacks of mana . Need the club to balance the charm still, keeping an eye out will find something.

So whit mana syphon u absorb dmg in mana, or the dmg transformate into life?

i have a % chance to absorb some of the mana spent attacking me
front line wave 9 that is one hell of a lot of mana

just a whisker off sumping that back, the trick is not absorbing it, the trick is doing so in a fashion that you replenish more mana than the damage they inflict.
managed that on my sammy a couple of times in practice and it is stupendous, self sustaining. could not do so and make him a decent killer though, Guardian does not need to kill

edit: btw i was just having a check this morning, won't be online till later on tonight rly.
will do an mq then though

This post was edited by wigwam on Oct 10 2008 04:29am

In this way is mana syphon > mana skin?? cuz in fact (if i understood right) is the same, isnt it?

MQ in a few hours before class

GL!

+ % Mana Skin Gives a % chance that a portion of the melee damage received may be absorbed into your mana pool, instead of receiving full damage.
i have not tested mana skin
absorbed into your mana pool not from your mana pool is what is says, could therefore be very nice. differs to syphon though as you can see and somewhat ambiguous as beng absorbed into your mana pool could simply mean that your mana is depeleted not your health.
all things can be made to work well if you balance them up correctly
syphon is mostly hopeless as you need a lot of hits and to recieve tiny ammounts of dmg from them to gain any benefit, so I love it

GL Adam with your mq!

This post was edited by wigwam on Oct 10 2008 05:59am

morning tim

Good Morning peeps.

Sorry about last night Adam, g/f needed attention. I hope you pass today.