Noob question about terms

[masteraj88]

what is passive skills and buffs??

I want to be a nuker and ive been reading alot of guides about it but theres terminology i have to get through lol.

im guessing buffs a defensive and you get them at a specific level

and passive or bonuses you get a specific level??

[AvengedSevenfold]

once you begin playing the game and lvling up your skill points, there are 2 sections:
- Weapon
- Force

Force is your passive and you choose fire, cold, or lightning as your main imbue. but buffs are another skill you get when you lvl the mastery of the skill. buffs are speed, defense, magical attack increase, physical attack increase, and so on, as well as shields. those are buffs.

and the "weapon" section of your skills are the active ones, hope this answers your questions. if i made any mistakes, someone correct me please, thanks

[Ace_c]

since i didnt understand what he said... ill put it a different way..

passive... a skill that when uped becomes a normal part of the charcter.. each skill weapon and emblu has a passive skill.. look at urs all the way at the bottom of the skills list.. IE.. sprear.. passive skill is HP increase.. so by adding and uping that attribute u add HP to ur charcter.. simple as that..

buff, power up... its a skill that was uped that needs to be activated to increase damage resistance, increase magical damage.. after a set ammount of time it will go away.. IE.. cold.. soft guard of ice.. when activated it increases defencive skills depending on how much its uped.. also for light there is a physical or magical damage increase...

so passive stays there always, buff or power up needs to be activated to work, scrolls are a different animal that do what they say... and rarely are as good as they say

[Zod]

Or put it this way lol. INT Nukers are really low on health so you wanna get a lot of STR on your armor and HP increases... or if you want you can get the Heuksal and that increases HP. Nukers need an Imbue either Lightning or Fire (I recommend fire because it's stronger) and then you need buffs!!! There are a lot of buffs to get but i'm sure you have seen all them you need. Ice is recommended so you don't get hit by physical attacks as hard.. as well as cold armor which is a passive. As long as you have a lot of good weaoons and armor you will be fine as a nuker. Well yea if you have any problems just let me know and I will let you know what to do with everything. I will help ya because I really messed up. And I HIGHLY advise you to just get any character to lvl 16 with a 9 lvl gap and head to bandit camp and farm until you get about 150k-200k skill points so you will have a fully farmed character and you will find being a nuker very impressive!!! Well cya around.

[numbless]

passive skills are skills that you dont need to activate and they dont use your mp, they just are [like when your masteries are lvl 10 you get that passive skill that is in the end of your skill list, like +hp(heuksal) or +atk. rating(bow)] they just boost your stats forever.

buffs are skills that increase your def or atk in eighter magical or physical (like frost guard (phy.def) or flame body (phy.atk). some buffs even encrease moving speed (like ghost walk). buffs dont last forever which makes them different from passive skills, they last a certain time.

so yeah passive skills are skills that boost your stats forever (without you needing to activate them) and buff boost your stats for a certain time and when that time is up they "deactivate" and you have to "activate" them again

well thats about it i think, this is the best i could come up with in the morning

[masteraj88]

thanks guys very helpful =]