What's the point of getting 2 imbues?

Temptation · Post by **Temptation** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:57 am

I see people with two imbues while farming or something. Why?

PimpC · Post by **PimpC** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:58 am

EDIT NVM

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:58 am

dunno
i have 2 imbues

it just looks qt.

5m0k3 · Post by **5m0k3** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:59 am

ice is nice sometimes if your fighting red or orange mobs and lightning lets you do the most dmg with parry reduces but for pvp its fire because of pills but pve is lightning ice ... fire is just burn in pve which doesnt help too much

Lightning is also good for its splash dmg not alot at lower levels but at 65+ its about 300 dmg i believe just on splash

Temptation · Post by **Temptation** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:02 am

So...one is for pve and one is for pvp? Really makes no sense to me.

5m0k3 · Post by **5m0k3** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:06 am

Imbue really all depends in which type of fighting you are... Ice is a deffensive type imbue fire is offensive and lightning is just something gms had to do ..i guess hybrid lol... soo if you dont wanna think about how your gonna grind go fire if you wanna be strategic in where you start attaking and luring mobs freezing em and taking on a larger stronger mob go ice if you wanna do both go lightning since lightning has splash

cool2fool · Post by **cool2fool** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:10 am

what's the point of not getting more than 1 imbue anyway????

Drew_Benton · Post by **Drew_Benton** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:01 am

cool2fool wrote:what's the point of not getting more than 1 imbue anyway????

It costs extra SP is the only real reason.

It's better to level up faster with the one imbue that your main skill tree is using and get a 2nd one later on. I.e. if you are 0 gapping an Int up, you will only get the Lit tree and use lit imbue, although eventually you'll get fire imbue and fire tree.

cool2fool · Post by **cool2fool** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:08 am

all skill is good to have...

cometfall · Post by **cometfall** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:31 am

im a nuker, i have 3 imbues

1st reason is "target specific"
ice for red mobs or when mobbed by orange/red giant/champs
light for high-hp single giant, strong mobs
fire when you feel like it

2nd reason is "anti-boredom"
light when you get tired of hearing the ice imbue sound
fire when you get tired of hearing the light imbue sound also
ice when you get tired of hearing the fire imbue sound too

3rd reason is "old school pvp (ice)"
for people who just emptied their pills / or has none / or forgot
for people who just don't get cold immunity

4th reason is "funny screens"
ice imbue when fighting giants, real nice freezing poses for fun

5th reason is "trade runs"
in Athens, i noticed Anthony_HOP (famous for being an all-day hunter escort) using ice imbue as a trade caravan (very many ox's) nuker escort, i tried runs with each imbue. ICE is the best for trade runs against NPC thieves, try it yourself so you'll know why. (Lv5 ice mastery + book1 Lv1 ice imbue is so cheap to curst anyway)

timtam · Post by **timtam** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:43 am

I got the lightning imbue a while ago cause I thought you could fuse imbues lol.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:41 am

Fire imbue = best damage for nuking.
Lightning imbue = best aggro for hunting trade runs.
Cold imbue = best disable for PvP or very difficult PvE situations.

Only one really needs to be maxed, and that's fire. If you want to use lightning for a little extra aggro power when hunting for multistars, it doesn't need to be maxed, but you do need enough damage to steal the initial aggro, which varies with NPC thief's level. I use basic level 1 ice imbue against anything that is not ice-immune that I am afraid will kill me; red giants, sometimes champion thieves, ice thieves when I'm not immune, players that can kill me. Ice imbue is also great support for someone else in PvP, as you slow or cancel their opponent's attacks without your friend having to waste time on frost nova.

Vandango · Post by **Vandango** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:47 pm

timtam wrote:I got the lightning imbue a while ago cause I thought you could fuse imbues lol.

haha i thought that too when i was a nub to SRO

We Were All Noobs Once

AlterEgos · Post by **AlterEgos** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:17 pm

Mabye getting one for fighting and owning mobs fast ?

another for PVP ?

---Rev--- · Post by **---Rev---** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:15 pm

I prefer to go fire ice mainly because lightning always gets me into trouble

especially at higher lvls.
Plus i have ice so when imunity is fixed i can switch to ice blader and own in pvp :wink:

purified · Post by **purified** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:31 pm

I use lightning imbue for grinding, it has a special area of effect. Fire for PvP and killing uniques

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:03 pm

Personally I use fire all the way around. The burn can do damage so that if a mob just has a little health left you can move to the next and let the burn finish it off (Or your wolf if you have one.).

EllisD · Post by **EllisD** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:30 pm

purified wrote:I use lightning imbue for grinding, it has a special area of effect. Fire for PvP and killing uniques

Me too