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Stoneskin effects

Class and Rank Cleric
#1

My SPR is 130 plus and I just got to class 5. I chose priest 3 so that I’d be able to pick Chaplain as my class 6. Anyway, i have maxed my stoneskin right after I became Priest3 and used it on a lv107 map (fedimian suburbs) before I log out just to try the effects. I dont know why but it doesnt seem to work effectively. I lured a monster and used the buff but my character has been hit 100% of the time that the buff is active. Is my SPR still too low for this? Am I missing something or what? Is it nerfed? feels like it didnt work at all. Any insights on this, fellow priests?

Monster I tested it is necroventer and cockatrice.

Please bear with me. This is my first character. Haha! Anyway, thanks in advance.
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#3

Stone skin lets you block w/o block rate. It may be the case that you’re being hit by magic attacks. Those are 100% unblockable.

#4

No, thats not right. Stone Skin rise your block rate, so you can block with a better rate.

@Parzy

As said above, you cant block magic atacks. I dont remember the monster you mentioned, but the skill works just fine. 130 SPR are not that great, but its good and you will block nice with a shield.

#5

Okay, have tried it on Royal Masoleum 5f now. Blocked a lot of normal hits but some monsters still can hit me 100% of the time with normal attacks. I dont know why. I just need some clarification on this. I’m pretty sure those attacks that hit me are normal attacks.

#6

Some monster’s normal attacks count as magic. So they hit through your stone skin.

For example, cockatrice’s fire breath is a 3 hit attack they can use frequently that counts as magic. Pretty much everything necoventer does is also magic.

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#7

That cleared everything up then. Theres this monster too in RM 5f that hits me all the time but it looks like its just swinging its arms at me. Now I know. Thanks!! :slight_smile:

#8

Some very few bosses (like the necroventer) only deal magical attack regardless of their animation (yeah you’d imagine that giant boulder he throws is physical, but it’s not).

Hallowventers and cockatrices are also both magical dmg dealers.

I believe you’re talking about Madakia. Yes, it’s also a magic dmg dealer.

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#9

Noted on that! Thanks. I hope theres an indicator or some sort of way to know if the monster is a magic dmg dealer or physical (in game or database wise) asides from casting ss and letting the monster hit you.

Per searching the three magic type monsters mentioned above, all I saw are stats, drops, and locations.

Anyway, thanks again. :slight_smile:

#10

Is it really worth it a lot to add in SPR for stoneskin even if its like 25 SPR or something?

#11

What do you mean 25SPR?

I think it depends on what you are building. Also, there are other priest skills that benefit from SPR too like mass heal, monstrance, aspersion dmg and etc. :slight_smile:

#12

Like if you wanted to balance out your stats with STR, DEX, SPR, CON

#13

25 SPR is too low. Stone skin will eventually become worse and worse as you level up to the point it won’t be worth using anymore.

It really depends on what you’re building. For me, I like to pop my stone skin and be COMPLETELY invulnerable to physical damage. But you can also aim for something like 50% block chance, just to mitigate damage while it is on.

It also depends if you’re planning to use a shield or not, and if you will have considerable CON (to buff shield block) or not.

I honestly can’t tell you how much block chance to expect per point in SPR. But a build with 1/4th of points going into SPR should have a decent, but not very high, amount of block (probably 80% ish as soon as you get stone skin, falling off to maybe 40% ish as you level, but that’s just a wild guess).

#14

Agree with TPAM, also IMO, You should not balance your stats with a Priest. Dex has very minimal advantages on a Priest esp when youre leaning more on the side of support. The three most useful stats as a priest are SPR, CON, and INT.

Well that’s just my opinion and I have read a lot of things about priest builds that says so too. We’ll never know a perfectly stable build until later on. There are still a lot of updates, fixes, and changes in the future since the game is still on its early stages but so far, those three stats are the best stats to invest into as a Priest. :slight_smile:

#15

you can block without a shield with stoneskin

#16

Yeah I also wanted to clear this up. SS lvl 5 gives me an additional 900+ blockrate while shields only give +1 or +2 blockrate in their item description. I don’t think that blockrate is significant compared to the hundreds given by Stoneskin so you’d do fine without a shield. Is this correct? I’ve tested my ss without a shield and it still works like the usual. No significant increases etc.

#17

My Priest is a Monk. :slight_smile:

#18

I’ve read somewhere that the block rate described on shields is actually a multiplier to your block stat. So a shield with block rate 2 multiplies your block by 2 (not exactly sure how it doubles and if stone skin bonus is included).

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#19

Ohh :sweat: If you’re gonna go chap+monk then I think SPR is still a good build to invest for aspergillum and SS. But I dunno, I’m not that sure. I’ve only focused on the support oriented builds since I started my char. Try to find some priest 3 monk builds in the thread and maybe you can discuss the stat distribution with them. Sorry if I’m not much help! :frowning:

#20

Will search more about this bro. Thanks for the tip! :smiley:
But most of the shields have 1 block rate so basically if the equation is legit. Most shields doesn’t add a thing since blockrate x Shield blockrate.

#21

Yes, but cuz you get Block from the skill. If you have a shield you’ll Block more, if you have a shield with Block rate 2 then you’ll Block even more.