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Shinobi build - barbarian or highlander? and stats distribution

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#1

Just started the game 2 days ago, been reading a bit here and there but different areas/guides different ideas, so have a few questions:

  1. is highlander better than barbarian if my end stage is to be a shinobi?
    At first i tot of going barbarian but i was reading a review from someone who went sw -> sw c2 -> bar - > bar c2 -> corsair -> corsiar c2 -> shinobi and he stated this build not good and bar is not useful later on.

so now i am thinking highlander -> highlander c2 -> corsair -> drop -> shinobi.

  1. am currently a peltasta (before i found the guild on shinobi build … i was reading Cathexis guide…and it seems peltasta is must have for swordie so went there) … now peltasta does not seems to fit so well for a shinobi?

Don’t get me wrong, i think Cathexis did an awesome job with the guide (in fact i am still reading it now in terms of his review of each skill shd max or not), but the end stage is a different build in the guide (seems those more tanky one) so am wondering if for Shinobi should be something different?

should i restart or should i continue with:
build 1: sw -> peltasta (current state) -> highlander -> highlander -> corsair -> drop -> shinobi
(skipping swordsman c2)

or
build 2:
sw -> peltasta (current state) -> highlander -> highlander -> sw c2 -> corsair - -> shinobi
(skipping drop)

build 3:
sw -> peltasta (current state) -> highlander -> highlander -> sw c2 -> corsair - -> drop -> shinobi (by then 8th rank)

but by then …is actually the 8th rank when i reach shinobi… i dunno if thats a waste?
or should i drop sword man c2 and go for build 1 above?

  1. lastly…stats:
    was thinking of str 1 : 4 dex …but some says dex falls off in end game…anything i should look out for…in dex, e.g. by 150 dex i should stop adding dex? or just continue all the way?
#2

STR all the way and use high accuracy glove instead. Personally I would bump some stats points into DEX, but when i found out how extremely useful with single stats high accuracy glove can replaced stats distribution like DEX 1:1:1 Critical/Accuracy/Evasion ratio. (Opinion-build, but I wouldn’t pump so many stats into DEX).

Plus, there are quite a few items that provide decent-high critical rate, accuracy, and evasion in-game already, so you are more likely get more benefits by stacking out STR alone in the earliest level.

I would get Shinobi as soon as possible to get all those power-tool skills like clone for grinding against bosses. Oh yeah, Highlander and Barbarian have the same power-tool, so the rest is really based on your play-style.

#3

Shinobi’s bunshin is based on dex (I read that clone hp is based on character’s dex), so I guess I can’t do str all the way unless I am not using that skill.

in terms of build…u are right that I probably wanna do shinobi asap … so I think I will go with this:
sw -> peltasta -> highlander -> highlander c2 -> corsair -> drop -> shinobi.

missing out on sw c2…so my bash wont be as strong and other swords man skill wont be available when I use bunshin, but I guess I will go with kunai & etc.
will try out…I guess on the worst case…post shinobi …make swordsman c2…hahaa but I doubt so ^^|||