What makes twinking a caster "great"

[kjs86z2]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

wholeheartedly agree. Druid may take #1 spot though because of manastone + elder spiritist greaves + fungi + fungi staff combintion. infinite mana / HP like a shaman but better

except once you're done leveling you cant do shit

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

except once you're done leveling you cant do shit

thats true but that ride up to 60 will be a breeze. port back to WC and manastone / ES greaves if youre on kunark or velious. charm is OP.

and then you hit 60 and your best feat is taking 30 mins to solo an ice burrower

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

thats true but that ride up to 60 will be a breeze. port back to WC and manastone / ES greaves if youre on kunark or velious. charm is OP.

and then you hit 60 and your best feat is taking 30 mins to solo an ice burrower

I can solo an Ice Burrower in an hour on my Shaman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsvt1xfuqY

[Wakanda]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"worth it to twink" in this order:

enc, necro, druid, shaman

rest is garbage waste of time / plat

I felt more of an advantage twinking my Wizard than my Necromancer. Having a huge mana pool really helped with the AFK play-style. IE. Unload huge mana pool to gain half a level, go AFK for twenty minutes with dark elf hide on, come back to full mana bar, gain half a level in a matter of minutes, and then go AFK for 20 minutes again. I remember leveling my Wizard while working on a lot of outdoor projects. Leveled pretty fast for being AFK 95% of the time.

Also my mana pool was so high I could kill Treants in SK for like 20 minutes straight before having to take a break for mana. Feel like if I wasn't twinked I would have found myself having to regularly meditate after each kill while surrounding players grow increasingly antsy that I'm not able to keep up with the camp etc.

[Duik]

Ain't nobody (who isn't insane to begin with) ever gonna watch an hour of you strangling ya worm.

[kjs86z2]

Originally Posted by Duik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ain't nobody (who isn't insane to begin with) ever gonna watch an hour of you strangling ya worm.

snortled and chortled

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

snortled and chortled

I thought a shaman would be faster.

My ranger took 90 minutes, that was without exploiting 2hander bonus and a whole bunch of other inefficiencies.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Duik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ain't nobody (who isn't insane to begin with) ever gonna watch an hour of you strangling ya worm.

You'd be suprised!

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I thought a shaman would be faster.

My ranger took 90 minutes, that was without exploiting 2hander bonus and a whole bunch of other inefficiencies.

There might be faster methods. The method I used in the video was basically having my pet do all the damage. I just ran away and casted low level slows on the Burrower to keep it aggroed on me. Did Canni/Torpor whenever I got the chance and was far enough away. The doggo just slowly ate it's butt to death.

[Goregasmic]

Had an ICB and SCHWs laying around, nothing crazy and put it on a cleric twink along with a whole bunch of basic mana/hp gear. I'm only level 6 and I don't think it will last a long time without a fungi but I've been mowing down even cons and yellows with no downtime. Very useful when you're "in between" leveling spots. My only expectation was to breeze through the first 12 levels or so and start grouping in unrest or whatever so that works.

Mobs at low level have barely any attack so AC is mostly wasted and sta/wis/int returns will often be beaten by hp/mana gear until your 40s in general (every piece comparison is a case by case basis obviously). 400hp/mana at level 1 will help a ton but at level 40, not so much, still better than nothing, most of that junk is easily farmed.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Had an ICB and SCHWs laying around, nothing crazy and put it on a cleric twink along with a whole bunch of basic mana/hp gear. I'm only level 6 and I don't think it will last a long time without a fungi but I've been mowing down even cons and yellows with no downtime.

Throw in a Velium Crystal Staff and you can solo like a melee twink (with undead nukes) until your 40's [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(At that point, the staff proc becomes meaningless and you have to rely on nukes for damage, so you're more like a tanky Wizard.)

Having twinked two Clerics (and then gotten them into the 50's), I'm not sure I could enjoy soloing a Cleric untwinked.