Bloodwinter Clan

A minstrel template is tough, especially if not using MP gear and going for never-gonna-happen gear like demon blood ring. But here is a first shot that is pretty good all round without being too exotic.

Because I don't want to farm or do darkspire runs over and over to prove my manhood, I'm cheap. The two darkspire armor items I found on a consignment merchant for 500gp apiece. This is as inexpensive as getting 99% armor and getting it SC'd. The Darkspire sword is the Infil sword, but it only differs from the non-infil sword by +3 slash vs +4 slash, otherwise identical. A real bargain at 400g in housing. Buy it and laugh at the people doing darkspire over and over for the perfect sword. The only item you need to farm here rather than buy in housing is the damn Darkspire Dex cloak. And there are 4 99% crafted SC'd items.

Assumptions:
Melee & Body resists are the most important
Resists slightly more important than maxed stats
Every +20 hits is like 1% resists across the board. (I wish this had capped +hits)
Don't need + instruments because 50 specced, but do need capped +stealth

I don't use the SC prog everyone else uses, I've got a Excel doc I used at work for this, so I'll have to emulate the familiar format.

Stats:
Strength 80/81
Constitution 95/90
Dexterity 92/93
Charisma 69/75 with sword, 87/82 with Instruments
Quickness 22
Hits 255/239

Resists:
Body 27%
Cold 24%
Heat 26% with sword, 22% with Instrument
Energy 19%
Matter 11%
Spirit 21%
Crush 27%
Thrust 23%
Slash 25%

Slash +9
Stealth +11
Instruments 0

Bonuses:
5% Spell duration bonus
1% Melee Speed
15 AF
6 Str cap
18 Con cap
15 dex cap
39 hits cap
6 quick cap

Chest: 99% player crafted: 9% Cold, 7% Energy, 5% Thrust, 7% Slash
Arms: 99% player crafted: 16 Dex, 22 Char, 7% Cold, 7% Slash
Head: 99% player crafted: 25 Charisma, 7 crush, 5 slash, 3 Stealth
Legs: Malificent Darkspire Ringed Leggings: 24 Con, 56 HP, +3 all melee, 1% melee speed, +8 con cap, +24 hp cap
Hands: Sun Dweller's Gauntlets: 12 Str, 12 Con, 5% Body, 5% Matter, +3 all weapon Skills
*** Note you can sub PC crafted for the boots pretty easy.
Feet: Maleficent Darkspire Ringed Boots: 21 Con, 7 Spirit, 7 Crush, 7 thrust, +7 Con cap, 1 Fatigue
Shield: 99% player crafted: 22 Str, 22 Char, 7 crush, 5 thrust
Melee: Maleficent Darkspire Dire Sword: 18 Str, 18 Qui, +3 All weapon skills, +6 Str cap, +6 Qui cap, +x critical strike\
Instrument: Maleficent Darkspire Drum/Lute: 18 Charisma, 6 Body, 6 Heat, 5% spell duration, 10 AF, +7 Charisma cap


Neck: Choker of Dispute - 6% Body, 6% heat, 6% energy, 6% matter, 6% spirit
Cloak: Maleficent Darkspire Adroit Cloak -18 dex, 44 hits, 6% crush, 6% slash, 6 AF, +6 dex cap
Jewel: Jewel of the dead priestess: 15 Str, 15 Dex, 40 hits, 6% crush, 6% slash
*** Note, you can easily sub in ancient roman coin here and tweak one stat on the 99% chest SC
Belt: Belt of Etheric Mist: 13 Str, 13 Dex, 4 Stealth,
Ring: Spellbound Indigo Ring: 19 con, 15 Dex, 32 HP, +6 Dex cap
Ring: Spellbound Indigo Ring: 19 con, 15 Dex, 32 HP, +6 Dex cap
Bracer: Veiled Bracer of Eyes: 51 hits, 8% body, 8% cold, 8% Spirit
Bracer: Bracer of the Stealthy: 4 Qui, 8% Body, 10% heat, 4 Stealth

your going to wtfpwned with 11% matter resist you need it drop spirit mines at 10 only sm's use it

and try and bring up energry

do you plan on running solo on him alot? or more grouping?



if grouping drop drop the + stealth for other things needed like resist




p.s. +11 inst helps with pets and how how lvl / well you can control em without em breaking charm

Thanks Xark.

Well, something has to give unless I use more exotic stuff, and I want to RVR now dammit! (well, actually Monday when I ding 50)

OK, here's a variant. Heat resists sacrificed. Chanter stun and DD will hurt, other than that heat isn't as important for an alb.

Stats:
Strength 80/81
Constitution 95/90
Dexterity 92/93
Charisma 69/75 with sword, 87/82 with Instruments
Quickness 18
Hits 255/239

Resists:
Body 24%
Cold 24%
Heat 6% with sword, 12% with Instrument
Energy 19%
Matter 21%
Spirit 21%
Crush 25%
Thrust 23%
Slash 25%

Slash +9
Stealth +11
Instruments 0

Bonuses:
5% Spell duration bonus
1% Melee Speed
15 AF
6 Str cap
18 Con cap
15 dex cap
39 hits cap
6 quick cap

**Chest: 99% player crafted:5% body, 9% Cold, 7% Energy, 7% Slash
Arms: 99% player crafted: 16 Dex, 22 Char, 7% Cold, 7% Slash
Head: 99% player crafted: 25 Charisma, 7 crush, 5 slash, 3 Stealth
Legs: Malificent Darkspire Ringed Leggings: 24 Con, 56 HP, +3 all melee, 1% melee speed, +8 con cap, +24 hp cap
Hands: Sun Dweller's Gauntlets: 12 Str, 12 Con, 5% Body, 5% Matter, +3 all weapon Skills
Feet: Maleficent Darkspire Ringed Boots: 21 Con, 7 Spirit, 7 Crush, 7 thrust, +7 Con cap, 1 Fatigue
**Shield: 99% player crafted: 16 Str, 22 Char, 5 crush, 4 Stealth
Melee: Maleficent Darkspire Dire Sword: 18 Str, 18 Qui, +3 All weapon skills, +6 Str cap, +6 Qui cap, +x critical strike\
Instrument: Maleficent Darkspire Drum/Lute: 18 Charisma, 6 Body, 6 Heat, 5% spell duration, 10 AF, +7 Charisma cap

Neck: Choker of Dispute - 6% Body, 6% heat, 6% energy, 6% matter, 6% spirit
Cloak: Maleficent Darkspire Adroit Cloak -18 dex, 44 hits, 6% crush, 6% slash, 6 AF, +6 dex cap
Jewel: Jewel of the dead priestess: 15 Str, 15 Dex, 40 hits, 6% crush, 6% slash
stat on the 99% chest SC
Belt: Belt of Etheric Mist: 13 Str, 13 Dex, 4 Stealth,
Ring: Spellbound Indigo Ring: 19 con, 15 Dex, 32 HP, +6 Dex cap
Ring: Spellbound Indigo Ring: 19 con, 15 Dex, 32 HP, +6 Dex cap
Bracer: Veiled Bracer of Eyes: 51 hits, 8% body, 8% cold, 8% Spirit
**Bracer: Bracer of the Strong: 6 Str, 10% Matter, 10% thrust

I'm far too lazy to actually write it up or check any of this, but my suggestions:

1) Swap out the choker of dispute w/ the Ancient Copper Necklace. It has 40% resists, and the choker only has 30%.

2) Check the CM in housing for RoG's w/ +stealth. I know on Merlin, I got RoG items with good util and +7-8 of a skill. Not sure if those came from ToA or not, but your belt in particular seems really low utility.

3) Get an SC calc, I think there is a link in another thread to download one. The nice thing about the calcs are that they show the items utility, and you can find low utility items to swap out.

The other REALLY nice thing about the SC calc is they show the actual SC gem names, and a complete material list to do all the SC.

I can'use an SC calc unless I can find one that runs on a *nix box. I do all this at work, at home I have far more important things to do. And at work our Windows machines are scanned for unauthorized software. So MSExcel will have to do it. And I like being able to have 5 templates side by side to compare.

I tried the ancient copper neclace, too many overlapping resists with resists already on my non-SC pieces. The chokers plus is it doesn't overcap me on anything wasting utility. Plus, I found the choker at a merchant for 200g. Now I don't have to do that damn quest 8 times like on zuse.

yea i hate making temps

I can'use an SC calc unless I can find one that runs on a *nix box. I do all this at work, at home I have far more important things to do.

So in other words, if you expect me to do your SCing you expect me to spend my time doing it [/quote]

heh 99 temps are easy with DS =P

my armsman has this for stats and he doesnt use mp armor.

Stats

Str: 101 Int: 0 Hits: 408
Con: 101 Pie: 0 Power: 0
Dex: 0 Cha: 0
Qui: 104 Emp: 0

Resists

Body: 26 Energy: 6 Crush: 28
Cold: 21 Matter: 22 (5) Thrust: 25 (2)
Heat: 21 Spirit: 16 Slash: 28 (3)

Skills

10 Crush

10 Thrust

10 Polearm

10 Two Handed

10 Slash

Focus

Cap Increases

25 Qui

168 Hits

25 Str

25 Con

Other Bonuses

46 AF Bonus

3 Melee Speed Bonus

nice

you know you want it xark!

i don't care mines nice everything is semi-decent i dont want to pve anymore

Thanks for the Info Josh. I found this template posted on the Vault for Classic and besides one piece its easy to get. I havent examined it too wel but it had some decent feedback. Its geared more towards thrust but should be tweakable. Can give you some ideas on other pieces to use.

http://vnboards.ign.com/Albion_Rogue_Pr ... 0080469/?3

Stats taken from the stat screen on a RR5.x saracen with 10 in con, dex and cha at creation:

Str: 144
Con: 137
Dex: 188
Qui: 145
Cha: 190

AF: 640
HP: 1327
WS: 914
WD: 1633

Resists (these include saracen racial resists):
Thrust: 27
Crush: 26
Slash: 27
Heat: 31
Cold: 24
Matter: 24
Energy: 25
Spirit: 22
Body: 25

Skills (11 from SCing, and 4 from RR):
Stealth: 15
Thrust: 15
Inst: 15

Items:

Neck: Ancient Copper Necklace
Crush 10%
Thrust 10%
Body 10%
Spirit 10%

Cem: Gem of Spirit Abhorrent (Farmers in Lyonesse)
Body 7%
Matter 7%
Heat 7%
Energy 7%

Ring: Shattered and Reforged ring (two of these, these come from SI somewhere, cant remember where)
Inst 3
Cha 16
Hits 44
Thrust 7%

Bracer: Charismatic Bracer (SI quest)
Cha 4
Inst 3
Cold 10%
Spirit 10%

Bracer: Bracer of the Stealthy (SI quest)
Qui 4
Stealth 4
Heat 10%
Body 8%

Scurceol's Belt (Ogre's Might quest, PITA to get)
Str 7
Con 7
Energy 10%
Matter 10%

Cape of Corsucating Harmony (lvl 41 or 43 epic quest reward)
Str 13
Dex 13
Cha 15
Energy 8%

Chest
Matter 9%
Slash 9%
Cha 25
Inst 2

Arms
Con 13
Qui 19
Hits 60
Dex 22

Head
Hits 52
Cold 7%
Slash 9%
Thrust 3

Legs
Stealth 3
Con 19
Slash 7%
Crush 9%

Hands
Qui 19
Heat 9%
Con 16
Str 16

Feet
Stealth 4
Crush 7%
Cold 7%
Con 19

Weapon
Thrust 4
Qui 16
Dex 19
Str 19

Shield
Thrust 4
Dex 19
Str 19
Qui 16

Most, the author of that was posting his own stats. The stats on the suit you posted are:
74 Str
74 Con
73 Dex
74 Qui
60 Cha
Hits 156


Throw the Ogre's might belt out, never gonna happen on this server.

Also, if you go with that and you are specced 50 instruments (like you should be), I don't know I see the value of +Instruments unless you want to try to charm red pets for farming. Better to take those 11 points and put them into +hits imo

ya Im gong to take most of the + Instruments out on it, but some of those items are usefull in templaets as they have good imbue.