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[quote="CAPPILIO"]Hi Everyone, Was just looking for some opinions on which direction to take my character as far as build. Im not a hard-core player, I have played soma since Esoma days but sporadically to say the least. its literally took me since server start to now to reach level 81. So go me! Anyway i know nothing about the detail of the mechanics in any detail i probably should. But i need help on continuing the game my character has the following statistics, i have been using bow/axe and also doing int, switching between them as and when i felt like it, the numbers are: Level:81 STR: 123 Dex 96 Int: 97 Bow Skill:194 Club Skill:160 I have messed up in the past not hunting the correct mobs etc but i would like to make the character the best i can moving forward. Iv been getting opinions form different people, they all seem to conflict, I know there isn't probably one perfect answer. I was on the route of doing pure STR moving forward with axe and then smash as much INT as i could., I have been flowing that for the last two levels, thinking the gap between me dex and str was already too large. But then iv been told it might be a good idea to go pure bow. So basically lost at the moment and was hoping for a bigger pool of opinions to source from! cheers [/quote]

[quote="WOLF10"]hmm difficult choices... Moving forward with axe/ str will become a problem at 171 str when u need to move to boars.. not essential, but u gona need proly 120 + dex to hunt these efficiently..likewise moving onto trolls u gona be needing 140+ dex for those... to hunt them efficiently.. Id get ur bow out and go full robin-hood for a long while, b4 going onto axe. Proly other varying opinions for various reasons.[/quote]

[quote="DEIMOS"]Only my own minimal experience of hsoma but From what I've seen, and lining up with your stats bow is too far gone, pure bow needs from level 1 Pure axe and int remaining is doable, no it wont compare side by side with the newest chars with healed int and pure axe etc from the off but as I see it, Int would be your form of attack so get that high enough that you're satisfied with damage output Str side is purely defense damage limitation So if your char ended up even 20str lower you would use a few extra pots, play savvy with a mage and you wont be standing still long enough or tanking people for it to count for much All the new mage tank builds have lower DeX than you anyway, a solid acc set will bypass the mob DeX hunting for a while until 200 str[/quote]

[quote="DEIMOS"]Or better yet and contrary to most people 'needing' the perfect char you obviously sont take the game too seriously (congrats) Keep the fun alive and just play whatever you enjoy the most[/quote]

[quote="BRAVEN"][quote="DEIMOS"]Or better yet and contrary to most people 'needing' the perfect char you obviously sont take the game too seriously (congrats) Keep the fun alive and just play whatever you enjoy the most[/quote] this .. having fun in what you do is most important also important what kind of player you are going to be ... if you want to be competitive in pvp your gonna need more dex to be able to hit certain people with bow ... if you just wanna quest and pve you need bit of dex but not as much as you would in pvp[/quote]

[quote="CAPPILIO"][quote="BRAVEN"][quote="DEIMOS"]Or better yet and contrary to most people 'needing' the perfect char you obviously sont take the game too seriously (congrats) Keep the fun alive and just play whatever you enjoy the most[/quote] this .. having fun in what you do is most important also important what kind of player you are going to be ... if you want to be competitive in pvp your gonna need more dex to be able to hit certain people with bow ... if you just wanna quest and pve you need bit of dex but not as much as you would in pvp[/quote] Iv never really cared about being the best, Iv always just played out the love for the game regardless. tbh it would just be nice to go to wow and do some actual damage i think i stopped partaking in any events in about 2001 lol[/quote]

[quote="DEIMOS"]If you want to hurt folk especially wow just go for int :)[/quote]

[quote="FOXTRCK"]Hey Cap... So there's two things to think about - in my opinion. How you want to level and then how you want to play at end game. For me, I don't know if I would play much if/when I capped so how I level and as a by product farm items is much more important to me. If you're happy training INT then do what Demios says. And there's now plenty of older proc items around that are worth using instead of none. That and blue pods are cheap are the upgraded items. Whether they are good for PVP/WOW I don't know. Hope that helps.[/quote]

[quote="BRAINSTORM"]just go INT like everyone else on hsoma lol get 100 dex then just str/int like everyone else :P[/quote]

[quote="RAZOR"]For comparison I am pure bow (almost, started sword to 50 skill at raps) and have 113 dex and 110 str at the moment. I have another char that did too much axe, like yourself, for a dex build so I am now making him into pure str/int char. I think your best bet would be to do axe and int, maybe cap int first and see what that leaves you. If you can hack doing int that is... I am like you, level 92 have played since 2013, very sporadically, I come back for the double exp events etc.[/quote]