Ha! Good luck with that. I'm probably too late to find anything decent still on the MP (was busy reading every page in that thread), but it sounds exciting. I just hope my casting doesn't suck with this new update, because I have a hard enough time as it is. We'll see.

Agreed. I'm finishing a rogue climb at the moment, my casting is now slow enough that I switched to hybrid melee gear with him. It seems to be going better, which is a shame.

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I've heard nothing but good things about hybrid characters, but I've come to love casting so much I don't think I'll ever give it a try, much less be able to afford the gear required. :/

It's less about the gear and more the build. The basic build is to stat int the whole way while equipping an ee weapon and an ee heal. This is the only way I cata now, even when I'm casting while playing solo.

Specialized hybrid gear is expensive, but not absolutely necessary.

This post was edited by Edball on Dec 14 2009 02:44pm

I see.
However, going strictly Intelligence just seems to me like it would be worse than doing the typical Dexterity/Strength build.
I've only done one or two melee climbs though, so I don't really know much about that area.

Not really. You take less damage from casters, which helps. Plus the ability to heal yourself stretches out the chains before needing to regen.

You then make up the stats from gear, either str/str armor/charm or ee/str, depending on what you like or have.

I don't have much like for pure melee, this tends to make it bearable for me.

It also makes for the most flexible cata character, I find. I can put on a heavy ee armor and tank, hm gear and heal, stat gear and dmg or caster gear and solo. It isn't quite as good as a purely focused specialty character in a party, but it isn't far behind.

This post was edited by Edball on Dec 14 2009 04:00pm

That actually sounds pretty cool. Once I'm content with my feeder to Monk caster setup I MIGHT work on a hybrid setup just to see what they can do.

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Huzzah!

Sexy! I still haven't brought myself to make a new character JUST for skills. :/

Oh man! I'm not really sure how big this update will affect my casting, but I'm kinda nervous! Your thoughts?