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Bokor C1, SPR Build is way better than I had imagined

Bokor C1 SPR build.

I finally got around to testing a SPR build. Here are my findings, after already having tried STR, Int, and DEX builds.

Lets just say, SPR makes zombies rip stuff apart fast. Read on to see how and why.

I went Cleric->Krivis->Bokor all circle one, and going Sadhu next

Oh and I am currently only level 74.

SPR Build skills

Zalciai - Your crit attack gets hugely boosted from SPR build, as does the enemies crit resist, which even with my low innate crit rate of 11, when I Zalciai targets I crit a lot, because I reduce their crit resist by so much it is a net gain/buff to my crit rate against them. Also applies to zombies - touch on that later.

Hexing - The Magic defense reduction scales very well with SPR, not as good as other skills but instead of having say -15 or so to targets magic def, it is -56 or so. A noticable difference. Which helps with a SPR build having less Mag Attack than a full INT. This is useful for obvious reasons.

Effigy - Best bonus of this is the debuff from Hexing and having the ginormous SP pool to actually spam it when you want/need to. The damage isn’t as good as full INT but it is much better than all other builds. It only falls short a bit from INT, by 150 or so. Which is noticable, but the SP to keep casting is much more noticable :smiley:

Deprotected Zone - This is a skill that many people, myself included have seen as kind of useless/not really essential. Thats because it scales directly off of SPR. So the more tested/popular STR/DEX/INT builds won’t see any really gain from it. But with high SPR , the amount of defense removed is well over 100, and with upgrades you can make it last longer than its cooldown. With my character only **having like 15 or so str, I hit for like 1 - 7 **with my attacks against things. But, i pop down the Deprotected zone and bam I am hitting for 250 and higher as more stacks build. Toss on a Zalciai and I am now hitting for near 300 and getting crits of over 600. And this is against things well over my level, in the Royal Masoleum. It is really quite amazing, I did not think the SPR build would yield any such results.

Tet Mamak La - This skill is directly correlated to physical damages/protections even though it says poison. If you didn’t know Tet Mamak La will cause damage to any enemies around it until the Zombies get close enough for it to go away. Why that is useful Zombies are slow, and easy to leave behind, So when fighting you can use Deprotected Zone and then Tet Mamak La, and now you and the skull are double hitting for a combined total of well over 500 or 600. The skull attacks slightly faster than the Mace in hand. The damage output is fast and good.

Zombies - Obviously zombies benefit from SPR. The higher the SPR the longer they last in general. Which allows you to have overlapping ā€œfamiliesā€ of summoned zombies. So the zombies live much longer than the 52 second zombify cool down, you can summon more zombies while the others are still alive. That is what I mean by different ā€œfamiliesā€. Ideally you get as many as you can, 9 in my case, per circle. But even with just one zombie you are able to do the Tet Mamak La combo. Zombies gain the benefit of both Zalciai and Deprotected Zone, watch as your horde of 1-20+ zombies tears through the enemies with vicious speed and deadliness. They bite for hundreds and crit quite often for over 400.

Zaibas - No real huge benefit other than Hexing boosting damage. And having tons of SP and SP gain to always cast whenever you want.

Aukuras- The SPR doesn’t effect it, I don’t notice anything that does really. But I bring it up because when used with your zombies it greatly reduces the amount of hp they lose naturally from their debuff. Also, lower accuracy for enemies MAY be effected by SPR, but this is only a guess, I can not prove it.

Safety Zone - I max this, because it is way more useful to me then having more points in cure. 12 hits blocked is amazing, especially in conjunction with my army of body blocking aggro generators.

So with testing the SPR build for a Cleric->Krivis->Bokor , I was pleasantly surprised. It yielded far better results than I had from STR or INT or DEX. Those were good but INT was lacking sustain outside of pots and resting, while STR was just effective and boring, and honestly didn’t clear rooms as fast as the SPR or INT build. The DEX build I tried was interesting as well, but really it was quite like a STR build over all. Just with more exciting number colors.

After Thoughts
This build takes a different play style, it assumes more of a debuffer role, which is oddly enough really fun. It could be difficult in pvp but then again, you can just Hex and spam cast Effigy while running in circles laughing. Also, I have not yet tried pvp because it doesn’t seem to be enabled , the Team battle thing i mean. But with Deprotected Zone and Zalciai, you don’t really need anything else to be able to play like a STR or DEX build. Yet you can also have long lasting zombies, and a skull to munch on people. The zombies are really lack luster with all other builds when compared to SPR, solely because Deprotected Zone and Zalciai turn them into the raving wild killing machines they should be. While the other builds don’t really benefit the zombies or the buffs/debuffs as well. As far as Cleric C1 , Krivis C1 and Bokor C1 are concerned. I think pending on how Sadhu skills work, I may stay with a good high amount of SPR for a while. I would post vids, but the ones I recorded in game can’t be opened by anything I have so I deleted them.

Hope this helped in some way. Hopefully will be getting Sadhu after the maintenance is over in a bit.

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IMHO , with ur current build Sadhu will be useless,
bokor c2 would be much better with SPR build

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it’s very unique play style.

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Interesting info. My first character was cleric>krivisC2>bokor. Was planning on going circle2 bokor then druid, but I made a new character when i found out effigy was broken. Did they fix it yet?

I’m not sure what you mean, I don’t think Effigy is broken. Just more so, sometimes Hexing doesn’t hit stuff it seems, even though you are right in front of them. But when I see hexing on someone and Effigy it definitely works, although the 3rd hit damage seems iffy sometimes.

Thanks for posting those videos. That’s exactly what I was talking about with Tet Mamak La, just dropping them lol, but with deprotected zone they hit even harder, and they also seem to scale with STR.

Bokor C2 would probably be better with SPR build for sure. But the whole reason I went cleric is for Sadhu lol, Bokor just seemed like a fun addition along the way. I doubt high SPR build will benefit Sadhu like it does the Cleric/Krivis/Bokor I am atm.

God only 2 more class levels, it is taking so long lol.

I will probably go Sadhu C2 for Posession. So I can hold stuff inside the Deprotected zone for my zombies to eat. That sounds satisfying. But then again Monk with high SPR Deprotected Zone is probably just crazy stupid damage.

It may do more than 2 type of damage at once
here some test

after several test it do

  1. poison damage
  2. physical damage this damage got a bonus from your weapon and target armor property bonus thing can be critical also (may) never miss.
    too bad blessing do not increase it’s damage.

Nope, it’s still broken. With 2 maintenances left, I doubt it’ll be given priority to be fixed before CBT is over.

Nothing from your character raises the damage that Tet Mamak La does other than your level (No stats or gears).

Effigy’s bonus damage on 3rd hit doesn’t work. That’s the broken part.

Sadhu SPR build can work perfectly with this bad boy right here. The hard part is getting it.

Nice information btw. I’m currently a Krivis2-Sadhu2 but I’d love to test out Bokor-Sadhu, since I can hardly stay in Oob more than 3s if there’re too many mobs around, Possession is good but the channeling part is a huge weakness, not to mention 2s cast animation. I’m thinking that the zombies can become distraction for the main body while in Oob, my only concern is that there seem to be too many problems with Bokor that people keep talking about. But I may try out this build after getting my main to Druid. :smiley:

So, thanks to this post, i went back on my bokor and went mostly spirit and some dex with crit rate gems/items

I was mostly all int before, but my magic does almost the same damage and my basic attacks are 10x stronger now especialy with zalcai. Divine stigma and deprotected zone makes it even better, but hard to keep all the buffs up, and i have alot more sp. I like it this way better. Still disappointed effigy is still broken.

Havent tested the zombies too much with this build yet, but about to

edit Well. maybe the zombies will be good at 2nd circle, but they are stupid and slow right now. They ignore enemies right in front of their face and go after tree roots and stuff that are far away. Hope they get better AI soon or something. I kill the enemies way before the zombies even do anything. they start going after an enemy then change their mind halfway through and go after something else, but they are so slow they dont make it to either one. Dissapointed with zombies, at least at circle 1

LOL Yea the Zombie AI can’t be good no matter what the build. But when they stay away from me I just toss out Tet Mamak La’s like in the videos above.

I am now finally Sadhu, and really, the SPR build seems to work good because it buffs Zalciai so much, and Zalciai boosts OoB damagae way more than high INT, or STR of course. I tested as much as I could but I accidentally bought skill reset scrolls with my last iCoins. So time to farm up some more I suppose lol. I settled on a SPR/DEX build. SPR being almost 2:1 ratio compared to DEX. And of course, some in to CON because staying alive is always cool.

Oh and of course, logically, Hexing increases OoB damage as well. So the SPR helps to increase that debuff for more damage.

The playstyle becomes even more entertaining because of the duality of Main Body and Astral Body.

I like to Hex things while I’m OoB, and then spam Effigy while I continuously astral strike them with my Astral Form. The zombies do act as a distraction sometimes, they are good at making sure the things you aren’t currently hitting stay busy. If you let the aggro build up.

I do wish that Effigy did its boosted damage on 3rd hit, but that will be fixed so only good news in that department. It is still nice though.

Once they spruce up Zombie’s AI and AT LEAST, give them the common sense to assist their master instead of meandering off, foraging for tree crystal roots to gnaw on. I mean, I did bring these guys to life, I would assume my magic is strong enough to make them want to protect me at all costs.

Wow, that mace is exactly what I would need. Will be my main objective once the game goes live lol. Unless Chronomancer turns out to be even more fun. But I don’t think anything will be the pure joy of Floating Amidst my Zombie army while my spirit form is whoopin’ up on fools.

Once I get more Class Levels, I will probably make a post regarding the findings of a SPR/DEX Sadhu.

I have a pure zombie SPR build for testing purposes(no hexing/effigy) and you’re extremely overselling it.

With an SPR build, your Zaibas, effigy/hexing does not deal enough damage so sometimes you need to cast two Zaibas just to kill one enemy and this does not help when zombify and your zombies have cooldowns and duration.

Zombies are extremely unreliable with their bad AI. They also kill mobs a lot slower than your zaibas so you will be forced to just use zaibas just to finish a mob faster for the sake of zombify.

I also don’t believe how you could possibly have overlapping zombies when you can’t deal significant damage because of low int and only 2 damage skills with one being half-broken. As what I said above, zombies have bad ai and deal damage based on the mob. Having high SPR does not mean they will kill faster, just mean they will last longer. The circle of Zombify is so small it is common for monsters to attack your roaming zombies which will put them outside that circle so you will not produce any zombies. The only way I could reliably spawn 9 zombies(max for C1) is to use the Tet Malak trick plus safety zone and even then life as a pure SPR Bokor is not that easy. Tet Malak on the circle will work but that leaves you prone to attacks with mobs targeting you instead of your zombies.

Deprotected zone does indeed scale with SPR and you will deal considerable damage with it but 1.) that circle is so small, you will only affect 1-2 mobs at most, 3 if you’re lucky. 2.) you have no str 3.) zombie bad ai 4.) zombies rely on ganging up to kill mobs faster even with De zone. 5.) it only affects P.Def not M.Def.

ā€œnear 300 and getting crits of over 600ā€

Zaical is critical attack and not critical chance. It decreases critical resistance but in no way a no dex build can reliably crit unless you have extremely rare equipment. Zombies does crit but not so much and have the same problem as deprotected zone. it only affects a few mobs and even worse that as a low Con build, you will have to risk yourself just to kill a few enemies. I have the best equip on my level and in no way I get 600 on crit. Zombies would usually do 300+ but not reach 600.

And finally, there are no maps in this game on your level where you can just sit and relax and let your zombies do the killing. They are too few for that and mob density is lacking.

Having a high SPR is for you to reap the benefits of Bwa Kayiman which is C2 not C1.

A pure SPR Bokor C1 is tedious especially on how you use it. In every mob encounter, you will have to cast, deprotect, zaical, safety zone and zombify which means you will be dragged down in every mob encounter. The best way to do it is to use zaibas, effigy/hexing,tet Mamak la and only using zombify to spawn zombies and other skills if there’s good mob density which on your level, is rare.

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:smile_cat: Full SPR Bokor here.

I’ve almost hit C3 and I’ve changed stat build many times till stopped on this. At this level Zaibas starts to fall off regardless of your INT or weapon - unless you went Krivis C2 for splash attribute - and running around spamming Zaibas to kill 2-3 mobs is waay more tedious. I guess Hexing mobs one by one is out of the question too, isn’t it?

Damballa does have good (or rather I would say bad but whatever) skill bonus damage but Bwa Kayiman is your most reliable mobbing tool till you hit rank 6 (maybe even 7). This one move is your bread and butter and it literally rips through hordes of mobs. The problem is that INT is useless to boost its pretty mediocre damage and going STR is unwise at least.

And yes, crits on lv 125 are 300-400 with zombies auto-attack and Bwa Kayiman is up to 1200+ on a mobs weak to strike. No DEX.
EDIT: It appears that Bwa Kayiman does not have ā€˜strike’ property or it does not properly applied. I deal the same damage to mobs with different armor types. To think that I noticed it ony now :sweat:

Anyway here is short example. Do you think that C1 Zaibas would give you results even close to this? I doubt.

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How much SPR do I need? I’m gonna reset in awhile, I need some advice ;-; Do I just put all my skill points to SPR?