puresoul build?

[Lefty88]

so i've been browsing for hours and looking at lots of soul builds and I started wondering. all these builds use all 3 souls and only tap into like 30% of the possibilities. why not make a 2 soul build which gets some of the better things unlocked? or even a pure soul build which goes all the way to 51 points spent?

well I started looking at the various souls and decided against the pure soul build (44 to 51 is a LOT of points) and after a while even thought that the 44 spell is kindof a leap (next highest is 38). and I realize that the lvl cap will be higher in the future which will, Im guessing, allow for at least 1 full soul with the other 2 at at least half.

but given that thats a few major patches or updates down the road, what do ya'll think? keep the char well rounded or capitalize on one commodity?


anyways, here's a healer specc'd cleric I have been toying with (been using almost primarily warden specc'd in the beta, though i did try a sham/dru/just build which was fun):
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10...cuGk.E0thzsobz

[Skryth]

Actually, this happens to be my planned end-game melee Cleric build.

Chloromancer looks like a class that benefits greatly from going almost pure with.

[Foofmonger]

I'm intending to go with a puresoul Warlock build.

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0zvqs.eeRAkqqek.Vp0x

The warlock 51 point ability looks amazing, and I think will make such a build very viable. Also, the 44 point AoE Fear will be very nice as well.

[JamieK]

This will be my build for the whole game.

I am not sure if anything major for the builds will change for when the game goes LIVE, so it is subject to change.

[Znick]

I don't think you can go "pure". The game gives you a message "You can't put any more points in that soul until you level".

I believe you're forced to go at least two souls, or you can't use all your points.

Z

[Lefty88]

i did notice that Z, but honestly, whats the point of having the 51 spell if its not possible to get it? and from my varoius re-speccing of my cleric, i saw that 18 or 19 was the max I could put in at lvl 20, but i didn't keep track of the max per level. coupling that with the fact that in some levels they give you 2 points instead of 1 (again didn't keep track of when) i imagine that there will be a level when its possible to put in more than your current char level. maybe not till 50, but i'd wager a bet that it's possible since they included the 51 spell.

unless thats just leaving the door open for future expansions... hmm....

[Varlak]

Many of us complain about.

Actualy probably very few class are viable going for the 51th point (you just have to give too much to get only a few more root skill and you must use every single ability of your tree and lets face it. Some of these aren't that great).

I can see a few healer build for raids beeing viable, (a 51th warden and a 51th sentinel will be bether to a raid force then 2x player playing the hybrid version of sent+warden 32/32 souls point). For grouping going hybrid sent+warden give simply so much more then going for a pure build.

A pure necro build might be ok for PvE grouping and maybe raid content dealingg low AoE damage will be viable. But for soloing/PvPing I fear that you will have to invest a lot of point in either cloro and/or Warlock.


As I see it 51th build will probably be more of a raiding thing. I can realy see the use of a 51th warlord in a raid since everything he will do will benefite greatly to the whole raid force. But in solo and single group content I fear that you will have to go the hybrid root to cover the weakness of your primary soul.

Edit: souls point rule cap for a single soul is your curent level (so at lvl 20 you can have 20point spent) and you gain 1soul pts every level + about every 3 level.

[Lefty88]

2 things to note:

1, as of lvl 26 I couldn't add more than 26 points into one soul.

2, I do remember from a ten-ton-hammer interview about guild points being available for spending at certain points as a guild levels up. u get 2 points for each milestone, one for combat related stuff (kinda vague there) and one for non-combat stuff, aka crafting, which is what that portion of the interview was about. sooooo, that combat related point may go towards increasing a soul tree past it's owner's level maybe? anyone in a guild during beta that can confirm any of this?

and are they called guilds? noob question of the day here lol, but I grew up with clans in L2, and have had player orginizations called everything from corporations (shout out to EVE) to legions, and lots in between... officially its "guild" right?