So I went with a con/int/spr Chaplain, am I still viable for endgame?

[castillnu]

I don’t know if I’m understanding what you mean, could you please elaborate? Zalciai gives Critical Attack, not Critical Rate.

The debuff portion reduces critical resistance by 80% of your spr and it can bring it to negative so whatever crit resistance down you give is essentially +crit rate to anyone hitting that enemy.

[whiningwillow]

Oooh, you’re right! I totally forgot about that! There was something there I was forgetting to account for, thank you for elaborating. A very good point!

[ZaceD]

SPR Build:
Aspergillum (lvl 15 Aspersion): 678 base damage + 366 SPR = 1,044 + 477 Blessing = 1,521 damage
Aspergillum (lvl 15 Aspersion) w/ 100% Attribute: 678 base damage x2 = 1,356 base damage + 366 SPR = 1,722 + 477 Blessing = 2,199 damage

Doesn’t it work like:
Aspergillum (lvl 15 Aspersion): (678 base damage + 366 SPR) = 1,044 + 477 Blessing = 1,521 damage
Aspergillum (lvl 15 Aspersion) w/ 100% Attribute: (678 base damage + 366 SPR) * 2 = 2088 + 477 Blessing = 2,565 damage

Where SPR is added directly to the base damage because they are parenthesis-ed; different to how EternalDream defined T1 modifiers referring to percentage modifiers?

[thekingbalam]

Considering it all, I’m gonna reroll and build a pure int chaplain/druid. With the new blessing buff considered, is there a new working build with this in mind? Because 15 blessing and 15 aspersion really takes up a lot skill points from my current build. I’d like to see a workable skill build for balancing dps with relative support to get me by on dungeon runs. Or am I just requesting the impossible?

[whiningwillow]

From what I have seen of the damage in-game comparing it all and accounting for the individual factors, it doesn’t appear that the SPR does get doubled with the enhance attribute at 100%. It looks like just the base damage of the skill and Magic Attack are factored in. That may have been something that was changed at some point.

I’d love to see more people test it in-game to be sure, though! I tried it on my SPR Chaplain and my INT Chaplain by taking off all my gear and only casting Aspergillum and that seemed to be how things broke down.

-edit- strokes chin thoughtfully You know, the more I think about it, the more I think that unless they did change the way the formula works the current value of it not multiplying the SPR may be a bug. I’m going to investigate this further.

I’m also going to test it by just plain casting Aspersion (something I didn’t do before) and see if that makes any difference. It may be messed up somewhere in the Aspergillum’s code for the formula.

[Moonspring]

Its a bit annoying to test since you would need +SPR equipment or free points/stats reset.

Its possible you missed SPR’s inclusion in the Aspersio tooltip tho.
The damage as displayed by the tooltip already includes the bonus from SPR.

If nothing else, I’ve confirmed that Aspersion and Aspergillums damage is exactly the same. (with 98 SPR and 59% attribute)

[Randy]

Ta-da:

Chaplain Math - Intelligence vs Spirit (mainly Priest Math)

Hello again, I really like numbers, so lets look at those SPR/INT Numbers and how they influence our builds. We also will look into how the world would look like with the kTOS Blessing changes. NOTE: All comparisons between SPR/INT assume you have 0 of the other stat, so the 4 Int, 8 Spr base values are only part of the calclulation of the corresponding stat All calculations assume you're Class Rank 7 I'm using comma as decimal mark Let's start with the basics: 1 INT = +1 min mag…

YES, Spr wins here; but int has its perks as well.

Int is obvi better for ~magical~ classes, if you ever pick one.

So if you pick Druid like that adorb girl over there, you get more from int, because it increases your matk and, well, you’ll deal more damage. I know, I know, there is spr in the build as well, so in the end we won’t destroy ■■■■; but hey Blessing kinda scales off of it, right?

So we have nice Spr for Blessing & Stone Skin and some int for style. They complement each other. Perfect.

At the end of the day… as a Chaplain,

go Spr if you want to “help your teammates from behind” and you better stay on that path forever because you don’t deal damage anyway so might as well be the king of no-damage.

Int is okay if you pick offensive classes at later ranks. Who would judge, right? I mean c’mon Priest 3 is only useful for Resu and Revive, and that’s coming from someone who mains a Priest 3 as well.

[Cakester]

In other words int is futureproof while going spr means you have to stick with stronger auto attacks in exchange for a less damage potential for future magic cleric classes.

[adrenloh]

Hi, I am currently a 1CON:2INT lvl200 Chaplain.
I would said a INT focused Chaplain not only viable, and it is with full potential build for future R7 & R8 cleric class.

Sometimes we need to think wider, after Chaplian, what is your next build. Most of the Chap players will go for Plague Doc, and some choosed Druid even a Kaballist. You will take note all these following are high Matk classes, (now R8 is out, Inqusitor 7 Taoist both of them seems added a lot of Matk skill) therefore a INT focused build Chap it just on a right path.

Nothing wrong on INT/SPR build. Both have their potential and things they are good with. It depends what kind of build you looking for?

For a better damage output, and better healing >>INT Build
For a better supporter, buffer >>SPR Build (SPR benefited Deprotected Zone, Stone Skin and Blessing as the new changes of update).

[Starcaster]

I was wondering if C2>P3>Chap>D2 would be viable after Rank 8 comes out.