I’d keep one handed maces since new shields have 3 slots (6 total slots versus 5 from 2 handed maces and you get the nice Block “bonus”).
If you’re talking about higher content, you better give up on blocking things, the monsters will penetrate your block easily unless you have lots of CON and high stared blue gems in your shield + the right stats on top of it (i.e. block+CON).
While block seems pretty nice in PVE normally, it gets totally useless fast if you advance into ET.
The current monsters in ET can negate most of your block rate with their level and high DEX.
To overcome the block penetration of the level 330 monsters in ET, you need at least more than 141 block, which is the equivalent of ~90 CON.
However, the highest block penetration goes well above this, you’d have to bring more than 190 block to the table to even have a slight chance on blocking them(which is equivalent to over 150 CON).
Imo evasion is a much more reliable stat for Krivis because of Aukuras which decreases the enemies accuracy by a lot.
Without any investment into DEX,thanks to level 15+ Aukuras you have at least a 10% chance to evade an attack, which can be raised easily to over 25% (you just need an Archer with Swift Step, A Chronomacer with Haste or an Oracle with Forecast in your party).
Well, it’s 2 matk gems vs 3 block gems.
I just noticed that the 2H-maces from HG may not be in the game, so I guess I can’t go for them right now…
They are, but for some reason are hard to find complete on the market… try searching for the recipe.
I mean the ones from hunting ground cubes, mentioned in this thread: https://forum.treeofsavior.com/t/2handed-maces-from-hg-cubes/371355
Oh, my bad… i’ve seem some recipes on the market, but yeah, the hg are the ones that drop as undentified, right? My mistake. Sorry
Two things:
- read the word “bonus”;
- ET is not major game content (this “krivis 3, lightining wizard” build is not, as of now, a ET build).
I just wanted to state that the block in the shield might or might not be a reason to go for the shield.
For me, the main reason would be the CON bonus of Lionhead/Emengard Shield paired with the mdef boost.
But, at the same time, it’s not bad to have a twohanded mace, especially since you get higher base stat boni on it and more slots compared to weapon&shield.
The shield also has no use for magic-based builds in term of slots that provide you with magic attack.
I think I’ll try it at the new cap on my PalaKrivis to see if it works better than going shield, while keeping a shield for the switch just in case.
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Well that’s a shame if Krivis3 builds are unusable for et. Guess I’ll have to wait and see if Krivis is better post-rework and keep this character for saalus for now
Why? Krivis3 is pretty good for ET. You bring Aukuras and Divine Stigma as support and pretty solid damage with Zaibas+Storm Calling.
I overreacted there, but I wondered if I missed some really important circle for ET
If you want to be a DPS cleric to run ET, then make sure your team has another cleric that can at least resurrect.
If you plan on being the only cleric on your team, then you could go priest 2 for that empty circle. or Priest 1> Miko. Very simple. ET is quite easy if your team is heavily geared.
To be honest, I’m a new-ish player and have never done ET, even if I’ve made a few characters. Maybe I shouldn’t even think about ET before I join a guild, what do I know. Is there a good thread on this forum for newbie ET help?
The point was to be more of a hybrid support, rather than the full dps builds with sadhu3 I see, and I wonder how they are treated in pve.
I already picked Miko-Paladin for filler. Maybe I should make another cleric with Priest3 for parties which need res/revive? I mostly went for Krivis since it’s my favorite cleric class.
There is a video guide here: [Guide] Earth Tower (ET) video guides - Journey to the Top
Just bring another cleric with priest2 (revive & resurrect) if you are worried about deaths.
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C1>Krivis3>Paladin3>Taoist2
Sounds like my type of build. But I wonder only going cleric 1 seems like a bad idea.
how about
C2>Krivis2>Paladin3>Taoist2
Would you lose too much damage only going Krivis 2?
and why u want paladin so bad? if u want pala only for 2h weapon just pic only c1 still we dont know how pala will work with new daino 
It was was the resistance debuff plus the barrier.
2h would be physical. I was thinking more like a lightning caster. If C2 is too important the maybe losing Kriv 3 might be the trade off.
i prefer tao for krivis but its your choice 
C1>Krivis3>Paladin3>Taoist2
I does end with Tao.
My dilemma is the the
C1>Kriv 3>Pally3>Tao or
C2>Kriv2>Pally3>Tao