Hey

friend of mine wanna roll a friar and honestly i m not a specialist. He just starting daoc and he wanted something easy to solo as a melee for xp so we thought about friar.

i have some basic knowledge on friar but i need advices. i know friars are 90% solo most of the time, sometime in good small man if they have reputation, barely never in full grp.

so here are my questions after dealing with Nixian builder :


- 39 staff 45 enhancement 23 parry 16 heal seems an honest spec

- 39 staff 48 enhancement 15 parry 16 heal is the second choice i thought about for him

indeed, the loss of 8 parry is important (4% less effectivness in parrying) but getting the 24% cold resist might be nice for solo/small man vs elds and rm's DD's in addition to the 24% fire resist and the last self combat speed buff.

what you think ? any better idea ? what about RA ? after reading a bit i noticed ip2 purge 1 static 1 was usually the must have

If he is a real friend, maybe try to convince him not to play friar

It could be fun (vs low stealthers in df), but on the other hand he ll prolly gets totally frustrated when he hits 50, gets sced and so on after several months and get to know he wont be taken in any grp (except dragon raid maybe).

as i told you, he plan to solo OR small man. what is your proposition : roll another reaver ?

All solo players need loads of money to be able to compete... for charges and top sc ed gear...

Easiest way to get money are the high end pve raids, which are done with pala, reaver, theu, cleric + 2nd reaver or merc.

Sure, pala and merc can solo, too...

It's no easy decision - if your friend is really full of passion, he may play friar, as at least it got selfbuffs and isnt too hard to sc (i guess). And he could solo farm dias in df for money.

Imho Uthgard isnt very balanced concerning solo pvp - viper3 is just op, hybrid rangers do heavy bow damage + high melee damage + pd3... well...

edit:
if he wants to raise a farm toon (see above) infil would be my choice for solo play

he will definitly go friar, now maybe we could go back to the topic and talk about the best spec/RA

Spec discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=19734

Ra:
IP/Purge as most solo players... static tempest...

Other than that.. aug dex, mabye aug quick (use a weapon speed calculater)

Mastery of Pain and Mastery of Parrying...

There are some options...

One friars is always welcome on 16 man DR and merc are banned

thx, but i m still not decided yet concerning the spec. question is about 45 vs 48 enhancement for resists. will this give my friend a better love for his friar in SMALL MAN ?

- 39 staff 45 enhancement 23 parry 16 heal

- 39 staff 48 enhancement 15 parry 16 heal

which one is best for small man ?

more heal ? less parry ? more staff ?

Autarch wrote:more heal ? less parry ? more staff ?

More heal and less parry but then again parry is great for soloing. Same goes for the templates it's gonna be pain to get a good friar template for both solo and groups. But i hope you work it out

first of all a friar counts jack of all trades for alb setup

friar can spec dirent specs but msot fo teh time all nearly same styles spells

for a basic friar setup you need

7 rej for cure desiease posien

29 staff for any time taunt(for pve) mediocre damge style

38 ench (for yellow buffs)

these are basic friar spec tree with these spec you can do alright for pve and for soloing

and for solo rvr you need to get at least 45 ench for red self bufs(beter abs dex/qui endu reduction and spec af) to survive more

and try to get at least 37+ staf(not a specifc 34 39 or 44) keep in mind your defens penetarion incrses after your total skill value passes 55(total skil so 44 staf with rr1 friar ) couse game sees your atack as a red monster atack for pve issues

on paarry part for solo you can spec 16 to 25 with moparry 4 to cap it with 45 ench bufs

for rej it is usefull to heal fster after one fight couse when soloing you have to heal your self faster before another oen inc you.

for group spec ther is 2 difrent paths

1 for healing other for dps

for healing most specs 29 staf 34 rej 48 ench rst pary
for dps they drop rej to 15 or 25 and incrse their staf acordingly

for realm abilites you can chooce wihc way ou going
for solo you need ip2 dex2-3 toughnes 3-4 purge(i generaly hate purge so when i am solo spec id efinitly not take it) mo parry 2-4 mopain 2-4 and lw2 with sere 1 static is useful for rupting casters and nothing else..or mabe to get in close range for rangers

for group you definitly need det 5 purge 1 sere 3 lw1(2 is beter) group isnta 1-2 and dex 2-3

still it is up to you to decide whihc spec you can go

you can eve try going for 50 staf 38 ench 18 parry rest rej with ip 2 reflex 3 with slowest staff:) to solo out stlthers(nowadays they dont got af charge buf so they take nice damge:)

Do yourself a favor and not make a friar. Anything rr3+ with shield spec will just block/parry everything you've got.

(no trolling intended)